Posted on 09/28/2004 2:57:44 PM PDT by rdb3
...OLD! And here's proof. Every year Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin publishes what it calls "The Mindset List"--fun facts and figures about the incoming crop of freshmen so professors will be able to relate to their new students.
So to better understand how the class of 2008 thinks, read this and feel your age:
1. Most students entering college this fall were born in 1986. 2. Desi Arnaz, Orson Welles, Roy Orbison, Ted Bundy, Ayatollah Khomeini, and Cary Grant have always been dead. 3. "Heeeere's Johnny!" is a scary greeting from Jack Nicholson, not a warm welcome from Ed McMahon. 4. The Energizer bunny has always been going and going and going. 5. Large fine-print ads for prescription drugs have always appeared in magazines. 6. Photographs have always been processed in an hour or less. 7. They never got a chance to drink 7-Up Gold, Crystal Pepsi, or Apple Slice. 8. Baby Jessica could be a classmate. 9. Parents may have been reading "The Bourne Supremacy" or "It" as they rocked them in their cradles. 10. Alan Greenspan has always been setting the nation's financial direction. 11. The U.S. has always been a Prozac nation. 12. They have always enjoyed the comfort of pleather. 13. Harry has always known Sally. 14. They never saw Roseanne Roseannadanna live on "Saturday Night Live." 15. There has always been a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 16. They never ate a McSub at McD's. 17. There has always been a Comedy Channel. 18. Bill and Ted have always been on an excellent adventure. 19. They were never tempted by smokeless cigarettes. 20. Robert Downey, Jr. has always been in trouble. 21. Martha Stewart has always been cooking up something with someone. 22. They have always been comfortable with gay characters on television. 23. Mike Tyson has always been a contender. 24. The government has always been proposing we go to Mars, and it has always been deemed too expensive. 25. There have never been any Playboy Clubs. 26. There have always been night games at Wrigley Field. 27. Rogaine has always been available for the follicularly challenged. 28. They never saw USA Today or the Christian Science Monitor as a TV news program. 29. Computers have always suffered from viruses. 30. We have always been mapping the human genome. 31. Politicians have always used rock music for theme songs. 32. Network television has always struggled to keep up with cable. 33. O'Hare has always been the most delay-plagued airport in the U.S. 34. Ivan Boesky has never sold stock. 35. Toll-free 800 phone numbers have always spelled out catchy phrases. 36. Bethlehem has never been a place of peace at Christmas. 37. Episcopal women bishops have always threatened the foundation of the Anglican Church. 38. Svelte Oprah has always dominated afternoon television; who was Phil Donahue anyway? 39. They never flew on People Express. 40. AZT has always been used to treat AIDS. 41. The international community has always been installing or removing the leader of Haiti. 42. Oliver North has always been a talk show host and news commentator. 43. They have suffered through airport security systems since they were in strollers. 44. They have done most of their search for the right college online. 45. Aspirin has always been used to reduce the risk of a heart attack. 46. They were spared the TV ads for Zamfir and his panpipes. 47. Castro has always been an aging politician in a suit. 48. There have always been non-stop flights around the world without refueling. 49. Cher hasn't aged a day. 50. M.A.S.H. was a game: Mansion, Apartment, Shelter, House.
We had the chocolate straws and strawberry!
Yes, I remember the strawberry ones, but only used the chocolate.
Same here - my husband and I are both '52s.
I was born in 1954. So the list is missing:
That Television has not always been in color.
That discs that contained music actually had holes in their centers. To be played on stereos.
Autombiles did not always have air bags. Seat belts or baby seats!
Jack.
Nor will they get to smoke in a bar in some places!!!!!!!!
Hey, me too. You do realize that we were born during the Truman administration. For the kids out there, that's Harry Truman, the guy in the powdered wig between Jefferson and Madison... ;-)
True! Nor in a restaurant after their nice trout meunière!
My sons are older than you, you puppy!
They have no idea what a piece of carbon paper is used for.
1945 here, kids. And boy do **I** feel old!!
1964,a telephone with a dial,that actually rang and a 6 party line.
I guess your memories of the 'Summer of Love" and the "Tet Offensive" are a bit shaky then.
So9
I was born in '77.
Thanks a lot.
I thought the Summer of Love was the summer that Jennifer Love Hewitt was the "it" girl, and I thought the Tet Offensive was when the boy who sat behind me in 7th grade would snap my training bra.
Today's disks full of music don't have holes in the middle?
Wow...
How times have changed.
Personal list.
Boy, you'll have to speak up. I was born in 33...1933 that is
No:
Bicycle helmets, seatbelts, gun laws, lawyers suing everybody, pools without high dives, camps without all day horseback rides through forests, "play dates", insurance manias, mercy.
born in 57. I must already be buried.
I'm a 1968 baby! Hooray! I was born when Johnson was in the White house, but Nixon was sworn in shortly after my 1st birthday.
As a precocious youngster in nyc in the mid to late 1970s, I was always intrigued by what was behind the tinted glass windows of the Playboy Club near FAO Schwatrz. Clearly, I think that the reality was much tamer than even my 8-year old mind could concoct.
I was a pretty 'hep' 8 year old, I suppose! :-)
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