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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 that years
incoming freshmen.
Here is the list from this year:
The people who are starting college this fall across the nation were born in 1984. They have no meaningful recollection of the Reagan Era and probably did not know he had ever been shot.
They were prepubescent when the First Persian Gulf War was waged.
Black Monday 1987 is as significant to them as the Great Depression.
There has been only one Pope.
They were 9 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 first space shuttle disaster.
Tianamen Square means nothing to them.
Their lifetime has always included AIDS.
Bottle caps have always been screw off and plastic.
Atari predates them, as do vinyl albums. The expression you sound like a broken record means nothing to them. They have never owned a record player.
They have likely never played Pac Man and have never heard of the Pong video game.
They may have never heard of an 8 track. The Compact Disc was introduced just before they were born.
As far as they know, stamps have always cost about 33 or 34 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 has always been VCRs, but they have no idea what BETA is.
They cannot fathom not having a remote control.
Walkmen were introduced by Sony two years before they were born.
Roller-skating has always meant inline for them.
Jay Leno has always been on 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.
They never took a swim and thought about Jaws.
The Vietnam War is as ancient history to them as W.W.I, W.W.II and the Civil War.
They have no idea that Americans were ever held hostage in Iran.
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, de plane."
They do not care who shot J.R. and have no idea who J.R. is.
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 musical groups.
McDonalds never came in Styrofoam containers.
There has always been MTV.
They don't have a clue how to use a typewriter.
Do you feel old yet?
"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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marc
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They will go further than any of us could ever imagine.
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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We have always had a computer. The internet is not a new idea, and we have never used one of those card punching machines (damned if I know what it is but my dad alwyas said he used one  ).
Btw I do have a record player!! McDonalds came in Styrofoam?? how aweful and very enviormentally unfriendly!!! Atari rocks! With the frog hopping game across the street, it is soo awesome. My friend had an Atari. MTV *bleck* some thing I wish we didn't have. Oh wells gots to go
Peace and Trees
~Andy
Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?
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tim...of usa
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GGGGGRRRRR now i do feel 40 thanks
lol
peace
tim...of USA
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Sort of in limbo, I suppose. Like everything else about me! 
I'm too young to remember the civil liberties riots of the 60s, Martin Luther King, the assassination of the Kennedies, the (important) moon landings (watched some movies about all that hoo-hah though; The Right Stuff and Apollo 13. They were great!), and the oil crisis of the 70s too actually.
I don't really remember John Lennon getting shot or Elvis dying (though some claim he just went home! ), though I suppose I might have, if my memory from my early years had been better. Nor Simon and Garfunkel splitting up.
Of course, many/most of those things happened on the "wrong" continent and thus wasn't neccessarily as "big" here as over there. I'm just lacking stuff to bring up that happened here that had any lasting effect outside the borders of my own silly little country!
Oh, and by the way, I found THIS http://www.nettavisen.no/servlets/page?section=1706&item=264868 to be kind of amusing too by the way. Another thing they didn't have way back when, hehehe.
Hugs 4 you, David!
-L
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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you feel 40, i'm 34 and i feel 40+. hehehehe
Brian
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
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Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?
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tim...of usa
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this post has made me really think about for far we have come in our technoligy.
but as i reflect not a heck of a lot has changed in the important stuff, like how one person helping another still cant be mesured in K's Meg or Gigs.....GRIN
hugs youngins
peace
tim...of USA
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yeah the important stuff never changes in life. Doesn't matter how far into the future or into the past you travel the shit that truly matters always will remain the same. The only diffrence will be the setting in which you do it. Oh well back to my art paper sigh.... This was a good break though. I knew I was in trouble when the paper I was reading was beginning to glow and the letters began swimming around the page.
Peace and Trees
~Andy
Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?
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ohmigod, does all this make me feel wicked old.
Also as a 70's kid, I remember things like the Three Mile Island incident, and being too young at the time to understand that while it was dangerous, it didn't affect me so far away, at least not directly.
Let's see if any of the 80's brats (said with a smile, guys) remember or have even heard of any of these things. (_8(p)
Gerald Ford as president.
Parachute Pants.
That annoying song about a guy named Micky.
Feathered Haircuts (yes, guilty as charged).
Punk Rock, and putting stripes in your hair for concerts.
Walking like and Egyptian.
Rubix Cubes (and the frustration and temptation to just switch stickers on the damned things) and all the variations of the same.
Hot Box Sneakers.
Folders before the invention of the Trapper Keeper (still have one of those from 9th grade, around this mess somewhere).
Reagan-omics.
Ferris Bueler.
Red Dawn.
The Gong Show.
Any movie starring Burt Reynolds back when he actually had hair growing on his head (more often than not with Dom DeLuise by his side).
Three's Company (another guilty pleasure).
Gremlins, when it was actually kinda scary.
The end of disco (or so we thought, the crafty little bugger just wont stay dead!).
Or when the Blues Brothers was just an act on Saturday Night Live.
If you can remember any, all, or just blurry bits of all that (hey man, I think there was something in the punch last night >hic!<) then you probably were born into the pop culture of the 70's, survived it and became a consumer oriented kid of the 80's. Congratulations, you are now old like me.....darnit.
It's not the wolf you see you should fear, but all the ones he howls with. Don't be afraid of the song, but don't piss off the choir.
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Hey Mickey! *Giggles...* As a child of the 50's and 60's (ye Gods...)(Ohmigod, I just said ye Gods...how old is that?)
On the other hand, there was "Two Tons of Fun" (yes, that WAS their name, gigantic black babes they were) singing "It's Raining Men". God, I loved that song. Reminds me of my first forays into gay bars.
I always swore that I would be far more tolerant of the music of teens when I was an adult than the adults were when I was a teen. I mean, my folks hated the Beatles. Well, they were Baptists, what can I tell you.
But then I was an adult in the 80's...and had to listen to "Hey Mickey".
And it seems to have been all down hill from there...
**Geezer sighs, muttering something about rap as he shuffles out of the room...**
"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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That is, like, sooo psychadelic....
"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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..."I'm mad about the boy" instead!
And smith - the guy's name was Rubik, hehe. But D'Artagnon got it wrong too so you're in good company. The guy was from Hungary I think, and a professor of mathematics or something like that. He made a flat thing too that could fold into a ton of different shapes and that was supposed to create three or four interlinked circles when completed if I remember correctly.
I never did figure that one out, but then again I was crap at pretty much all such things. Chess, noughts and crosses etc etc.
I had a classmate from fifth up to ninth grade. He was like tiny and blonde and very very shy. I never got to know him AT ALL, he almost didn't speak to anyone. He was SMART though. He beat me without even trying in five-in-a-row noughts and crosses, and when he won he just smiled cutely and almost apologized for winning, he wasn't gloaty about it at all. He always did extremely well in school up until maybe eigth grade or something like that. Seemed he got tired of being shy or something, he started hanging with the wrong kind of kids, skipped school, drank beer etc etc.
By ninth grade, he was like a total dropout, he was often missing. Too bad. I don't know what happened to him, he tried briefly to start highschool, but he was gone almost immediately. Never saw him again. I hope he cleaned up his act later in life, because he was a natural. He had genuine talent.
Oops, seems I'm digressing! Sorry for leading the topic off-track. Still, it happened in the 80s, so it's not entirely out-of-place I think, hehe.
Btw, smith. When you were two years old and learning to walk and stuff, I was just starting highschool. Jeeez. Time flies, huh?
-L
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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Oh, yeah...the time surely does fly away fast...
When I was graduating High School (in June 1970...), it's weird to think that half a world away, Man was 1 month old.
But it would have made my 20's and 30's soooo much more bearable, knowing he was there waiting for me. *Sighs*
Never mind. I have him now.
"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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When is the next part of Robin's story hitting digital ink? I've been thinking about maybe getting my feet wet on that one, but we're all in suspense, Uknowhatimean?
It's not the wolf you see you should fear, but all the ones he howls with. Don't be afraid of the song, but don't piss off the choir.
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Hiya...
I won't get to Robin before the summer...If you talk to timmy and he approves, why not YOU go next and I'll take the chapter after you? We could kind of switch places...unless Timmy has the order worked out somehow otherwise. I feel guilty holding up the show, too...
"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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Registered: January 1970
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The entire Star Wars Trilogy was made before I was born.....
A New Hope ~ 1977
Empire Strikes Back ~ 1980
Return of the Jedi ~ 1983
Darth Vader....The Ewoks....Jabba the Hutt....May the force be with you, young Skywalker !!
Young you think I am :):)
smith
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"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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Derek Stanley
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Registered: January 1970
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starting with my next birthday i am counting backwards. you guys can grow old. i am getting younger
Derek
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Derek Stanley
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Signing on-line with the old computer with a 300bps modem. No colors, no pretty pictures, no internet, just text. and everyone charged by the minute.
My first modem could be used in 300, 600, or 1200bps. you always used 300 because it was cheaper get online.
Why do i miss it all?
Derek
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tim...of usa
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try not, do, or do not try.
yoda
{{{{grin}}}}}
peace
tim...of USA
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You could change your name to merlin the Magician, then, derek. In one of the old King Arthur legends, Merlin aged backwards, which is how he knew all about the future...
He called it "Youthen-ing". Other people aged, Merlin youthened.
The books didn't cover it, but it might be worth a new story from one of our talented writers to explore the expolits of our hero Merlin as he became a teenager with all the knowledge of his long life...! Whoa...
"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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Rotary dial telephones.
Remote controls connected by a long cord.
Only three speeds on your bike.
Thunderbird wine. (Or Boone's Farm)
Double features at the theater (with a cartoon)
Playing cops and robbers (or cowboys and Indians) until bedtime.
Knowing every person on your block (and able to walk into any of their houses without knocking ((except for the mean old lady two houses down)) ).
Big red Tonka firetrucks.
Roller skates with metal wheels.
Daisy Rider rifle (shot only air).
Hugs, Charlie
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I have a really old rotary phone hooked up just to boost the ring signal of my touch-tone phone. It's a little weak, I don't always wake up from it if someone calls when I'm asleep (could be both good or bad, depending on how you look at it I suppose).
A childhood friend of mine from my first home town way up north had a VCR of that type from Philips with cassettes that you could turn over. It came with a wired remote if I remember correctly. Sometimes it didn't react when you pressed one of the buttons... He was probably the only boy in my class I spent time with regularly that I never 'did' anything with even once, hehe. Not that I didn't want to though, or anything. Just didn't dare to.
RED Tonka trucks? Well, firetrucks maybe, but the dumper trucks I played with in another boy's sandbox in their front yard were yellow! (Also first home town, by the time I moved, I was too old for sandboxes).
Metal wheel skates? Sounds like a great way to break an extremity or two.
What a great topic this has been! THANKS David! *hugs you* Thanks to everybody else (young and...not quite as young, hehe) who have shared in it!
-L
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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I had a hernia operation when I was like 4 and I must have looked so pitiful that my parents bought me a bunch of HUGE Tonka trucks...a dump truck, a backhoe, a bulldozer wheeeeee! But you know, they were plastic...weren't the old ones metal?
My favorite was my Big Wheels.......man, could I fly down the sidewalk (we lived in town then). I had like a million wrecks but it totally cool !
It's funny..I can still remember the mask they used to put me to sleep for that operation. It was a clown (I HATE clowns). I thought it was going to kill me as it closed in on my face. I can still see it..shudder !!!! I remember it looking like Pennywise, the monster clown in Stephen King's "IT". Well, great. Now I'll have a nightmare hahaha!
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Derek Stanley
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i had a hernia operation just last summer. i was like four.....ty. no one gave me any tonkas 
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Aww poor derek If I had known you wnated a Tonka for your operation i woudl have bought you one 
Peace and Trees
~Andy
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It was in Woolwich (SE London), I think, in 1974. Some people travelled miles to see this strange new phenomenon from America where they served you food without a knife and fork.
Today, there are over 1,000 outlets in Britain and they claim to serve 2.5 million customers every day.
Once I won a prize in one of their promotions. I think it was called the "golden straw". When I opened mine there was a £5 note rolled inside. I left the restaurant with more money than when I came in!
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Hey smith, do you remember the Green Machine. It was like a Big Wheel, only instead of stearing by the front wheel you had these two shifter levers that came up betwen your thighs that had control rods leading under the seat to the T-bar on the back wheels. You could do mad wicked spin-outs with it, especially if you got up some speed. It was kinda in a layback position.
We moved back to the States from Puerto Rico when I was about 7 (My Pops was in the Navy, we moved a lot, different story) and the movers broke the fork off my Greenie. Life just wasn't the same after that. The thing was like my own personal sportscar. I was actually keeping up with bigger kids on their regular street bikes, but wasn't about to go anywhere fast on grass. Wheels couldn't handle it I guess. Lol.
It's not the wolf you see you should fear, but all the ones he howls with. Don't be afraid of the song, but don't piss off the choir.
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You realize of course, that giving the writers ideas like that does not entitle you to royalties. (_8(P)
not a bad idea though. Might have to dust off my old copies of A Once and Future King, L' Morte de Arthur, and Camelot to shake up the juice and see what shakes loose.
It's not the wolf you see you should fear, but all the ones he howls with. Don't be afraid of the song, but don't piss off the choir.
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And the metal wheels could be pulled apart and nailed to a one by four, instant skateboard (where do you think it got it's name???)
Yes, the Tonka trucks were metal, wasn't everything? If you came home after a day of play and did not have a new bruise or cut, Mom would get immediately suspicious that you were bothering somebody else's mom and not outside playing like you were supposed to be. I remember the only time we went into the house was to eat, the rest of the day was outside. And we learned real quick that if you stood under the window to pee on the side of the house then Mom couldn't see you, hehe.
Ahh, the sweet days of youth. Just yesterday, right David?
Hugs, Charlie
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Registered: January 1970
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I can recommend some books that are really good that tell Merlin's story. I got really interested in Merlin from Harry Potter. I wanted to know more about him....I watched Excalibur and then I found these books:
The Merlin Trilogy by Mary Stewart
The Crystal Cave
The Hollow Hills
The Last Enchantment
They show him as a man then as a wizard. Very good !!
smith
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All those books (both D'Art's and smith's) are on mybook-shelves. But one of the best of them all is Marion Zimmer Bradley's "The Mists of Avalon" which I find myself needing to read every couple of years, just out of shear pleasure.
"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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Ah yes, it WAS just yesterday...
No! Wait! I'm youthen-ing, remember?! So those days have yet to come...coming again...cool!
"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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oh Broken bones....how I hated them. Of course that doesn't explain why I had so many. I guess giving me a dare while I was on my Mongoose was a sure bet for a bruise or better. Word to the Wise, never, ever try to jump a seawall on your bike, even if you think you can stop in time to just land on top. Underwater rocks have no mercy.
It's not the wolf you see you should fear, but all the ones he howls with. Don't be afraid of the song, but don't piss off the choir.
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Geezer Memories...Youngsters, please chime in with what you don't know 
Hmmm, belonging to the early 70s, I'm not young yet not geezer either. 
Re: Geezer Memories... 
Hey David..... 
Here's some more.... 
WooHoo...Tonkas 
