on the lighter side...boy do I feel old

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<p>Excerpts from the Beloit College “Mindset List” for the Class of 2007, most of whom were born in 1985.</p>

<p>Liberace, Jackie Gleason, and Lee Marvin have always been dead.</p>

<p>They don’t remember when “cut and paste” involved scissors.</p>

<p>Heart-lung transplants have always been possible.</p>

<p>Wayne Gretzky never played for Edmonton.</p>

<p>Iran and Iraq have never been at war with each other.</p>

<p>They’re more familiar with Greg Gumbel than with Bryant Gumbel.</p>

<p>Voice mail has always been available.</p>

<p>“Whatever” is not part of a question</p>

<p>They have always had the right to burn the flag.</p>

<p>Bill Gates has always been worth at least a billion dollars.</p>

<p>The Starship Enterprise has always looked dated.</p>

<p>American Motors never existed.</p>

<p>Les Miserables has always been on stage.</p>

<p>Halogen lights have always been available at home.</p>

<p>Snowboarding has always been a popular winter pastime.</p>

<p>They do not remember “a kinder and gentler nation.”</p>

<p>They never saw the shuttle Challenger fly.</p>

<p>Airports have always had upscale shops and restaurants.</p>

<p>Black Americans have always been known as African-Americans.</p>

<p>Tom Landry never coached the Cowboys.</p>

<p>The Field of Dreams has always been drawing people to Iowa.</p>

<p>They never saw a Howard Johnson’s with 28 ice cream flavors.</p>

<p>Lyme disease has always been a concern in the woods.</p>

<p>They have always been challenged to distinguish between news and entertainment on cable TV</p>

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<p>I’ll add that “turn of the century” means 1999 to them!</p>

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<p>Dial phones are silly</p>

<p>And 5 tv channels is primitive</p>

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<p>whaddya mean that VCR’s didn’t exist? how did you tape The OC?</p>

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Damn you! Now I feel old!</p>

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<p>A TV with a dial you turned from 1-13 for VHF, and another dial for UHF (can’t remember how high those #'s went).</p>

<p>A car window never rolled down with a handle.</p>

<p>(Now I know how my parents felt, yuk.)</p>

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<p>I have an urge to say “who?” to half those questions. :wink:
Oh, and I did see Challenger fly as I was all of five days old at the time, but I doubt that counts.</p>

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<p>At least converse came back, as did bellbottoms…and retro-headsets are back, the REALLY big ones!!!</p>

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<p>This is from the the 2009 list, isn’t it? Kids generally born in 1987?</p>

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<p>“A car window never rolled down with a handle”</p>

<p>LOL–we’ve never had a car with windows that went down any other way!</p>

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<p>Garland:
I’ll second that. The way I see it, power windows are just an extra piece of equipment that can break down, and cost big $ to fix. Which explains why I drive a manual transmission car, too.</p>

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<p>great minds think alike, cgm! I posted this on the parents forum before I saw that you beat me to it! :)</p>

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<p>I gave a ride to a girl who didn’t know how to use the handles in my car to roll up the windows.</p>

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<p>Always had velcro in their lives.</p>

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<p>The NYTimes Metropolitan Diary had a cute true story about a parent who was using the Web with her 5-year-old. The mom started to talk about “when I was a little girl” and the child interrupted and said, “I know, the Internet was in black and white.”</p>

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<p>This is more of a list for people who live in caves than people born in 85.</p>

<p>Lets see, I was born in Aug. of 85 and almost all of these don’t hold true.</p>

<p>For instance, before I graduated from high school, the only TV we had was one with dials and we only got NBC, ABC, FOX, CBS WB, and sometimes UPN (it took so much tinfoil it wasn’t really worth it.)</p>

<p>My car has roll up windows, the huge boat of a buick my dad had until I was 14 had after-market seatbelts.</p>

<p>As long as you’re making a list though, no one knows how to drive a standard transmission, or they call it something else.</p>

<p>636</p>

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<p>No offense, THXP. but if you had roll up windows and a TV with an antenna needing tinfoil, with knobs and only 5 stations, I think it might be YOU who lived in a cave :smiley: (jk)</p>

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<p>Admittedly, I can’t drive standard but some of my earliest memories were watching Hockey Night in Canada on my parents black and white television in our basement apartment so I definately remember the Edmonton Oilers with Gretzky, Messier, Lowe, Fuhr, Coffey, Kurri and Anderson. As for cars handlebar windows, in my defense, my family took public transit to and from work until I was 12.</p>

<p>Know what makes me feel old though? Tuning into “classic” rock stations and hearing Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and the Stone Temple Pilots.</p>

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<p>Meh.</p>

<p>636</p>

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<p>Interstates always existed.</p>

<p>I still remember being in elementary school when one of the kids came back from visiting California and described something called “expressways” to us. We could not believe that cars would travel within a city on these wide roads at fast speeds with so little room between them. </p>

<p>I not only FEEL old, goshdarnit, I AM old!</p>