Today's College Freshmen - The Class of 2008

[Drewpy]

Gotta go... time to take my Geritol and work some Grecian into my gray hair!
Thanks Don!

 

[Turtle Gal]

WOW!!! When did my Shell turn gray? HE HE HE. Turtle gal

 

[DandyDon]

They have no meaningful recollection of the Reagan Era and probably did not know he had ever been shot. (I remember the experience of the Kennedy assassination.)

How many remember Regan as an actor?

They were 7 when the Soviet Union broke apart and do not remember the Cold War.

Children often draw crude picutres of their fears. I remember in elementary school drawing Atomic Bomb Clouds.

The statement "You sound like a broken record" means nothing to them.

I still catch myself using the term GROOVY, and do I get strange looks.

They have always had an answering machine.

As the oldest child, I was usually the one designated to answer the one phone in the house, taking messages for my father's cattle business, and - dreamed of the future when I heard we would have cordless phones that could be used in any room.

They never heard: "Where's the beef?", "I'd walk a mile for a Camel," or "De plane, de plane!"

I guess those are mostly U.S. terms. Now that I've not had TV in my home since 1988, I often feel un-clued when people talk about recent TV shows or commercials.

don
:satanlook

 

[Walter]

I actually dived in the Soviet Union and I know of at least one other board member who has.

 

[UWSojourner]

Wow ... with all this geriatric talk around here, we better start discussing

1. Dangers of underwater napping
2. How to obtain bifocal masks
3. Expanding p-valve into a full P&BM-valve
4. Suggested article - "Memory - How not to forget you're underwater"
5. Frustration of someone diving 3 kicks-per-minute in a 35-kicks-per-minute zone.
6. Suggested new product - Integrated false teeth/scuba mouthpiece
7. Waterproof pill dispensers
8. Diving in this world, and the next
9. DIR article ... "A Second Wing: Streamlining your comb-over for maximum efficiency"
10. Relative merits of a senior rate on fill cards.

 

[Snowbear]

Wow ... with all this geriatric talk around here, we better start discussing...

Now that's just cruel!

 

[UWSojourner]

Now that's just cruel!

No ... really ... where can I get a bifocal mask? :frown2:

 

[Snowbear]

No ... really ... where can I get a bifocal mask?

Can you get those stick-on deals? Old guys at work use them on their safety glasses.
Can't help you with the P&BM valve though.

 

[Walter]

"Old guys at work use them"

I used to like you.

 

[pt40fathoms]

How many remember Regan as an actor?

Yeah, but the monkey was the real talent. :54:

Children often draw crude picutres of their fears. I remember in elementary school drawing Atomic Bomb Clouds.

I remember those pictures, my mom was so understanding though. She would help me by pointing out that when a body is burned really really fast, like from a close Atomic Bomb, they would just be skeletons. (joke, did not really happen)

I still catch myself using the term GROOVY, and do I get strange looks.

LOL took me a long time to replace "Groovy" with "Cool", only to find out I'm still wrong.

As the oldest child, I was usually the one designated to answer the one phone in the house, taking messages for my father's cattle business, and - dreamed of the future when I heard we would have cordless phones that could be used in any room.

We were *not* allowed to answer or use the phone in our house. Plain Black Rotary Phone of PAIN! A telephone is not a toy, and children are just not allowed, PERIOD.

Boy, now that would be one item I would not try to prevent from coming back. Think of the peace and tranquility in the house.