I have ugly ties older than you, Junior. ;-)
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.
LOL
Now YOU'RE talking about my childhood. My adders:
Once in a blue moon, Dad would sit me in his lap, and let me steer the Valiant down the street.
After Sunday dinner we would go sit on the Davenport in the parlor, or maybe we would go sit on the veranda.
When you picked up the phone, you might hear the neighbors talking.
LOL
My aunt used to bobbie-pin Kleenex to my head to go to church, because I didn't have a hat. :-)
I have ugly ties older than you, Junior. ;-)
My son and my daughters too! (Are older )
You beat me by just a few years!
1975, when does my medicare kick in ;-)
Another Youngun!
I'm old enough to know that the Shining was made in 1980.
Born in 1956 and still kicking rump! Bring it on, youngsters! :)
And those kids don't even know who Jack Deth is.
Every morning feels like a hangover...
My kids were born way before 1986
Now can some one please bring me my prune juice and fetch me my cane?
You are obviously a very deep thinker
8-)
By the way, I was already married by the time you were born!
Thank you, Tribune7:
Thank you very much.
Tim Thomerson has always been an underrated Character Actor.
Nor do they know who Peter Gunn is.
Jack.
We also played kickball in the street, slept out in the yard overnight, or walked or rode our bikes 3 or 4 miles to the pool where we spent the ENTIRE day.
Do you remember that stereo records were a new thing in the late 50s, early 60's? I had one that had the music on one side and the voices on the other.
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