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Just in case you weren't feeling too old today........
« on: January 30, 2012, 01:15:23 pm »
Just in case you weren't feeling too old 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 this year's incoming freshmen. Here's this year's list:

The people who are starting college this fall across the nation were born in 1992.


They are too young to remember the space shuttle blowing up.


Their lifetime has always included AIDS.


Bottle caps have always been screw off and plastic.

The CD was introduced 2 years before they were born.

They have always had an answering machine.

They have always had cable.

They cannot fathom not having a remote control..
Jay Leno has always been on the Tonight Show.


Popcorn has always been cooked in the microwave.

 



They never took a swim and thought about Jaws.

They can't imagine what hard contact lenses are.


They don't know who Mork was or where he was from.

They never heard: "Where's the Beef?", "I'd walk a mile for a Camel", or "de plane, Boss, de plane.."


They do not care who shot J. R. and have no idea who J. R. even is.

Mc Donald's never came in Styrofoam containers.


They don't have a clue how to use a typewriter.
(BTW.. Last company making typewriters closed  April, 2011)
Do you feel old yet? Pass this on to the other old fogies on your list. Notice the larger type, that's for those of you who have trouble reading..

So have a nice day!!!!! It is good to have friends who know about these things and are still alive and kicking!!!!


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Re: Just in case you weren't feeling too old today........
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2012, 01:59:27 pm »
You just made me feel really old.  Really, really old.  Thanks a lot.

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Re: Just in case you weren't feeling too old today........
« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2012, 05:22:45 pm »
me too lol thanks for that..
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Re: Just in case you weren't feeling too old today........
« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2012, 05:35:29 pm »
Hi Mr Mike. Thank you, I'm now in a deep depression.
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Re: Just in case you weren't feeling too old today........
« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2012, 09:39:21 pm »
great, now i have to take another pill......
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Re: Just in case you weren't feeling too old today........
« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2012, 09:48:43 pm »
nice im not old but i do remeber a few things

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Re: Just in case you weren't feeling too old today........
« Reply #6 on: January 30, 2012, 10:20:08 pm »
I recomember every damn one o' them things and a lot more and proud of it!

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Re: Just in case you weren't feeling too old today........
« Reply #7 on: January 30, 2012, 10:25:52 pm »
lol, this makes even me feel old!

I have a connect the dot game on my phone for my 5-year-old to play when he is bored and we are in line someplace. One of the photos it shows is of an "old" phone. One with a cord, and buttons you push. He didn't know what it was, we don't have a land line so no "real" phone in our house, and I asked all of my friends and no one had a phone with a cord. I had to take him to school with me to show him a corded phone.
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Re: Just in case you weren't feeling too old today........
« Reply #8 on: January 31, 2012, 01:04:39 am »
Wow, why were they still making typewriters up until 2011, who would still use one.???????????????  We just got the grandkids a Tiddly Winks game, they had never heard of it before.  We will be obsolete soon I guess.

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Re: Just in case you weren't feeling too old today........
« Reply #9 on: January 31, 2012, 06:27:14 am »
Thanks Mike, great to feel old today ;)
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Re: Just in case you weren't feeling too old today........
« Reply #10 on: January 31, 2012, 10:01:31 am »
That gives me cause to pause. I seldom think about those things but, I know that it is true.

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Re: Just in case you weren't feeling too old today........
« Reply #11 on: January 31, 2012, 01:27:34 pm »
I'm with GB on this one as I remember all of the items mentioned and I am sure glad that I am still alive and kicking. ( a young 80 year old)

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Re: Just in case you weren't feeling too old today........
« Reply #12 on: January 31, 2012, 06:47:12 pm »
what about an old 90 year old?????

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Re: Just in case you weren't feeling too old today........
« Reply #13 on: January 31, 2012, 11:46:04 pm »
I too feel old now.

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Re: Just in case you weren't feeling too old today........
« Reply #14 on: February 12, 2012, 09:26:11 am »
Anyone remember, Singin in the rain, Ben Hur, the Student Prince and The Robe. Then you are getting on. I can remember our first Posh family car as being a Ford V8 Custom, the one with the bullet in the front, saw one the other day in a Vintage car show, Ohhh that hurt. Iggy
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