If you want to feel *really* old, ask them what band Paul McCartney was
in before Wings.

Cynthia Fowler wrote:
>
> Now, John,, did you HAVE to remind me? My oldest child was born in 1982 and, you are right, she has no clue about any of the events or items you mentioned ! Even worse.....I was not young when she was born .... so I must be an old fogie!
>
> Cynthia Bridges-Fowler
> MIS Operations Analyst
> IMC Salt, Inc., a division of IMC Global
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> >>> John Johnson <[log in to unmask]> 08/10/00 12:39PM >>>
> Just in case you were feeling young today, this will certainly change
> things. Each year the staff at Beloit College in Wisconsin puts together a
> list to try to give the faculty a sense of the mindset of that year=92s
> incoming freshmen.
> Here is this year=92s list:
>
> The people who are starting college this fall across the nation were born i=
> n
> 1982.
> They have no meaningful recollection of the Reagan Era and probably did not
> know he had ever been shot.
> They were prepubescent when the Persian Gulf War was waged.
> Black Monday 1987 is as significant to them as the Great Depression.
> To them, there has been only one Pope.  They were 11 years old when the
> Soviet Union broke apart and do not remember the Cold War.
> They have never feared a nuclear war.  They are too young to remember the
> space shuttle blowing up.
> Tianamen Square means nothing to them.
> Their lifetime has always included AIDS.  Bottle caps have always been the
> kind you screw off and made out of plastic.
> Atari predates them, as do vinyl record albums.  Thus, the expression, you
> sound like a broken record means nothing to them.
> They have never owned a record player. (most of them have never seen record=
> s
> anyway)
> They have likely never played Pac-man and have never heard of Ping-Pong.
> They may have never heard of an 8- track. Compact Discs were introduced whe=
> n
> they were 1 year old.
> As far as they know, stamps have always cost about 33 cents.
> They have always had an answering machine.  Most have never seen a TV set
> with only 13 channels, nor have they seen a black-and-white TV.
> They have always had cable.
> There have always been VCRs, but they have no idea what BETA is.
> They cannot fathom not having a remote control.  They were born the year
> that Sony introduced the Walkmen.
> Roller-skating has always meant inline for them.
> Jay Leno has always been host of the Tonight Show.  They have no idea when
> or why Jordache jeans were cool.
> Popcorn has always been cooked in the microwave.
> They have never seen Larry Bird play basketball.  They never took a swim in
> the ocean and thought about Jaws.
> The Vietnam War is as ancient history to them as W.W.I, W.W.II and the Civi=
> l
> War.
> They have no idea that Americans were ever held hostage in Iran.
> They can=92t imagine what hard contact lenses are.
> They don=92t know who Mork was or where he was from.  They never heard:
> =93Where=92s the beef?=94, =93I=92d walked a mile for a Camel,=94 or =93DE =
> plane, DE
> plane!=94
> They don=92t care who shot J. R. - they have no idea who J. R. is anyway.
> The Titanic was found? They thought we always knew where it was.
> Michael Jackson has always been white.  Kansas, Chicago, Boston, America,
> and Alabama are places, not groups.
> McDonalds never came in Styrofoam containers.
> There has always been MTV.
> They don=92t have a clue how to use a typewriter.
>
> Do you feel old yet? pass this on to the other old fogies.
>
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