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rotciv KOTHRT · Prince Joined: 20 Feb 2006 Posts: 1482 Location: USA

Subject: Aging
Just in case you weren't feeling too old today, this will certainly change things. The people who are starting college this fall across the nation were born in 1987. They are too young to remember the space shuttle blowing up. Their lifetime has always included AIDS. The CD was introduced the year they were born. They have always had an answering machine They have always had cable. 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 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". McDonald's never came in Styrofoam containers. They don't have a clue how to use a typewriter. Do you feel old yet? (Sorry) 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.

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mohrorless · Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 5:30 pm Post subject:

One problem, if the kids starting college this year were all born in 1987, they would all be 20, it more likely that his list is 2 years old and the kids starting college this year were born in 1989! Yikes, feeling even older now!
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Ironheart · Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 3:12 am Post subject:

OMG! I'd better stop buying green bananas from Bedford Iceland ...
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JONB · Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 3:32 am Post subject:

Don't stop buying, our local economy depends on exports!
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Quixote · Duke Joined: 06 Nov 2006 Posts: 355 Location: Aaaargh!

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Actually, when Quixote was slung into the World as a minor consequence if WW2 - a very vague time in ancient history for most of todays college kids - Ireland was one of Europe's poor nations - and together with western civilization - trying to come to terms with the biggest upset in its history. Rationing was still in force, cities that seem to have been there forever - in Germany, France, Britain and elsewhere were flattened by bombs - Hiroshima and Nagashaki in the East mosy notably nuked. Now Ireland is becoming a Top Country and we won't even bigin a list of all the things that would become 'essential'. Vinyl Long Plays, Television, Airplane Travel would be a start and computers, the size of a small house, rare monsters with a dubious future. FWIW Confused

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Sir Papa Smurph · Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 7:44 am Post subject:

KWSN Im Not Dead · Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 12:39 pm Post subject:

That was very depressing...

I feel like Dennis now... (modified slightly)

"old women"
-- "man"
"man sorry, who lives in that Castle?"
-- "im 32 im not old"
"do you remember tape decks?"
-- "yes, yes i do"
"then you are OLD!!"
-- "right, i'll do you for that!"

ok that did not turn out as good as it sounded in my head...i wont do that again...unless it is actually good, or i am really drunk.
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mohrorless · Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 1:35 pm Post subject:

WHo are you calling old!
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Ironheart · Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 5:07 pm Post subject:

Visions of very ancient relics dancing through my head ... like the circular UHF antenna ... the hand-cranked adding machine ... the slide-rule ... Vinyl 45's ... rotary telephones ... that old VW commercial where the girl pulls up and asks for a dollar's worth of gas and the gas station attendant (remember them) asks if she really thinks she's gonna need all that much and she looks back and says, "You're right, just give me a gallon" ... cigarette vending machines ... Dick Clark ... Wolfman Jack ... and grade school instructions "Duck and cover" ...

Think I might just need a nap ...
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Tenebra · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 12:39 am Post subject:

I stil have a number of VHS tapes... and an old VCR (which is not working btw). I remember Vinyl's, have a lot of them still. I grew up without cell phones, and the internet.
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mohrorless · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 5:15 am Post subject:

I can amaze my children (and did so over the weekend) by telling them that when I was their age, we did not have:

VCRs - if you missed a show, to bad. No watching a movie at home.
Microwaves - if you wanted to heat up some food, you used the stove/oven
PCs - if you need to look something up, you had to go to the library and do the research

There were a few more that I can't remember right now, but it shocked them and I think they look at me now like I am some sort of a caveman that is dressed up now.
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Tenebra · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 5:27 am Post subject:

Right you are John!
I do remember those times!

It's odd that I feel so old yet so young!
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mohrorless · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 5:30 am Post subject:

Today I feel like the truck was finally able to navigate the stairs in my house and nail me while I was sleeping.
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JONB · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 5:52 am Post subject:

Ok who'd have thought it 30 years ago we'd be sitting here.................

I still have (and use) a 78rpm turntable, a telephone with a dial, and a stuffed toy mascott from the 1966 football (soccer) World Cup named World Cup Willy!

And we lived in a shoe box!
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mohrorless · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 7:18 am Post subject:

JONB · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 7:53 am Post subject:

Haven't slept with him for many a year........
The wife objected to having another lion in the bed (ehem ehem!!)

Any German blood in you Sir Mohrorless?
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mohrorless · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 8:20 am Post subject:

JONB · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 8:30 am Post subject:

OK I'll make sure not to make any gratuitous World Cup references.

We won you know!
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mohrorless · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 9:14 am Post subject:

JONB · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 9:18 am Post subject:

Neither do I. So that's an end to it! Very Happy

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