30 Years Difference

[poopy pants]

You'll appreciate this Brad.


30 Years Difference

1974: Long hair
2004: Longing for hair

1974: KEG
2004: EKG

1974: Acid rock
2004: Acid reflux

1974: Moving to California because it's cool
2004: Moving to California because it's warm

1974: Trying to look like Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor
2004: Trying NOT to look like Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor

1974: Seeds and stems
2004: Roughage

1974: Hoping for a BMW
2004: Hoping for a BM

1974: The Grateful Dead
2004: Dr. Kevorkian

1974: Going to a new, hip joint
2004: Receiving a new hip joint

1974: Rolling Stones
2004: Kidney Stones

1974: Being called to the principal's office
2004: Calling the principal's office

1974: Disco
2004: Costco

1974: Parents begging you to get your hair cut
2004: Children begging you to get their heads shaved

1974: Passing the drivers' test
2004: Passing the vision test

Just in case you weren't feeling too old today, this will certainly
change things. Each year the staff at BeloitCollege 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 1985. 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 the year 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.

McDonald's never came in Styrofoam containers.

They don't have a clue how to use a typewriter.

[Kaiser]

I saw that before. Man, does that make you feel OLD.

[ninja]

Born in 1985.
Only had cable for three years.
Only had a remote for living room tv for 7.
Remembers watching Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show.
I didn't watch Dallas, but I do remember "Falcon Crest" and watching the house burn.
Where's the beef was a Wendy's commercial I believe.
Jaws scared the shit out of me.
My 8th grade teacher used a typewriter. Never, ever used a computer.

[gruckiii]

The funny thing is it makes me feel old (as in none of them are true for me) and I'm only 6 years older than them [img]redface.gif[/img]

[russ]

1974: Hoping for a BMW
2004: Hoping for a BM

Accomplished both.

[poopy pants]

Originally posted by russ:

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1974: Hoping for a BMW
2004: Hoping for a BM

Accomplished both. [/quote]someone only managed a volvo and got roids in the process

[Q.]

Originally posted by Tony Soprano:
You'll appreciate this Brad.

I STILL have hair and I remember rotary dial phones very well! I remember when there were only about 4 channels on TV and it was black&white! I remember the day JFK was shot... I was in Dallas. I remember when looking through the National Geographic was how young boys got their kicks, if you know what I mean! I don't have a freakin CLUE how we occupied ourselves before the Internet!!!

[russ]

Originally posted by Q.:
I remember when looking through the National Geographic was how young boys got their kicks, if you know what I mean!

Nothing feeds a young boy's imagination like a naked New Guinean tribeswoman [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[Q.]

Originally posted by russ:

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Originally posted by Q.:
I remember when looking through the National Geographic was how young boys got their kicks, if you know what I mean!

Nothing feeds a young boy's imagination like a naked New Guinean tribeswoman [img]tongue.gif[/img] [/quote]Sweeeeeeet!!! Hey, when that's the best you can do,...? Nowdays, it's ALLLLLLLL out there for the browsin!

[russ]

Originally posted by Q.:

quote:

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Originally posted by russ:

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Originally posted by Q.:
I remember when looking through the National Geographic was how young boys got their kicks, if you know what I mean!

Nothing feeds a young boy's imagination like a naked New Guinean tribeswoman [img]tongue.gif[/img] [/quote]Sweeeeeeet!!! Hey, when that's the best you can do,...? Nowdays, it's ALLLLLLLL out there for the browsin! [/quote]Exactly. Now you can go to www.nakednewguineantribeswomen .com and see all the skin that you want [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[I. Kay]

Well I'm certainly not as old as... ahem... some people on the forum, but I'm not as young as those freshmen.

Things that are interesting for my generation (born in 1977):

-We are of the last generation who will remember not having the internet, CD's or having first-person shooter games at home, and nobody you knew had a cell phone.

-We will be the last to have seen a time when most star baseball players played on one team their whole careers; spoiled, arrogant, greedy and violent were terms to describe a handful of professional athletes... not most of them.

-We will be the last to remember when 99% of the time, "seeing a movie" meant actually going to the theater, not "waiting for it to come out on video".

-We will be the last to remember, first hand, what the phrase "the pages were stuck together" actually means.

I know you older guys remember stuff before that, but it's interesting to see how my generation grew up in a pretty big transitional phase for American as far as technology and economics.