25+ Years difference
1976: Long hair
2002: Longing for hair
1976: The perfect high
2002: The perfect high yield mutual fund
1976: KEG
2002: EKG
1976: Acid rock
2002: Acid reflux
1976: Moving to California because it's cool
2002: Moving to California because it's warm
1976: Trying to look like Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor
2002: Trying NOT to look like Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor
1976: Seeds and stems
2002: Roughage
1976: Killer weed
2002: Weed killer
1976: Hoping for a BMW
2002: Hoping for a BM
1976: Going to a new, hip joint
2002: Receiving a new hip joint
1976: Rolling Stones
2002: Kidney Stones
1976: Being called into the principal's office
2002: Calling the principal's office
1976: Screw the system
2002: Upgrade the system
1976: Disco
2002: Costco
1976: Parents begging you to get your hair cut
2002: Children begging you to get their heads shaved
1976: Passing the drivers' test
2002: Passing the vision test
Just in case you weren't feeling too old today, this will certainly change things.
Each year the staff at Beloit College inWisconsin 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 1983.
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.
Do you feel old yet?
Pass this on to the other old fogies in your life.
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1976: Long hair
2002: Longing for hair
1976: The perfect high
2002: The perfect high yield mutual fund
1976: KEG
2002: EKG
1976: Acid rock
2002: Acid reflux
1976: Moving to California because it's cool
2002: Moving to California because it's warm
1976: Trying to look like Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor
2002: Trying NOT to look like Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor
1976: Seeds and stems
2002: Roughage
1976: Killer weed
2002: Weed killer
1976: Hoping for a BMW
2002: Hoping for a BM
1976: Going to a new, hip joint
2002: Receiving a new hip joint
1976: Rolling Stones
2002: Kidney Stones
1976: Being called into the principal's office
2002: Calling the principal's office
1976: Screw the system
2002: Upgrade the system
1976: Disco
2002: Costco
1976: Parents begging you to get your hair cut
2002: Children begging you to get their heads shaved
1976: Passing the drivers' test
2002: Passing the vision test
Just in case you weren't feeling too old today, this will certainly change things.
Each year the staff at Beloit College inWisconsin 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 1983.
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.
Do you feel old yet?
Pass this on to the other old fogies in your life.
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