1975 vs 2005
#212586 - 09/12/05 08:32 AM
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1975 vs 2005
1975: Long hair
2005: Longing for hair
1975: KEG
2005: EKG
1975: Acid rock
2005: Acid reflux
1975: Moving to California because it's cool
2005: Moving to Arizona because it's warm
1975: Tryin to look like Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor
2005: Trying NOT to look like Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor
1975: Seeds and stems
2005: Roughage
1975: Hoping for a BMW
2005: Hoping for a BM
1975: Going to a new, hip joint
2005: Receiving a new! hip joint
1975: Rolling Stones
2005: Kidney Stones
1975: Being called into the principal's office
2005: Calling the principal's office
1975: Screw the system
2005: Upgrade the system
1975: Disco
2005: Costco
1975: Parents begging you to get your hair cut
2005: Children begging you to get their heads shaved
1975: Passing the drivers' test
2005: Passing the vision test
1975: Whatever
2005: Depends
Just in case you weren't feeling too old today, this ! will certainly change things.. Each year the staff at Beloit College 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 1987.
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.
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wow.. thats insane.
I cannot cannot cannot believe that people going to college were born in 1987. they seem and look like babies. Am I aging myself right now or what.
I went to umass this past weekend to visit (my undergrad alma mater) and I was shocked by how young these college kids look. 1987 
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I needed an intelligent laugh, today. Thanks.
Kate. 
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Whats even worse than that, Ashely, are those of us that never went right away to school and STAYED there the four- five years to graduate. I go to night class community college, so atleast I am by far not the oldest, but some kids are starting to enter my classes that seem soooo young! I know that used to be me, you don't know how young you were til you are older it seems.
My sister is 23 and went back to school and is staying in dorms! she is the oldest in the dorms and most of her classes... and she says that there is an obvoius maturity gap between them. The kids laugh at how old she is, and she still needs like two years (or was it semesters?) to finish and get a degree.
My ex BF is back in school, too, at 24 years old... he feels like he is walking through a highschool to get to his classes, he is by far the oldest in all of his classes. It might be better that way, now maybe he will actually do good in classes instead of partying at the Fraternity all the time. 
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-Sheri
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My mother, who's in her 50's, is just finishing up law school. Can you imagine what it must feel like for her? My mother is one determined and ambitious woman!
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If life hands you lemons, make lemonade!!
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Wow, way to go Mom!
That does show dedication, my ex's mom took like a class a semester since he was born, and finally just like a year or two ago got a degree. (she was in early- mid fifties)
Shows that if you really stick with something, it pays off!
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-Sheri
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Boy, I feel old now!! But it is so true! My husband went back to a public university for his master's degree 2 years ago at 36. Thank the Lord he was already a computer whiz or he'd have been lost just doing his homework----everything online! Even paying tuition!! Everyone in his classes say sir to him, and when we go to the library (yes, the whole family will go on the weekend sometimes...me and kids play on the internet while dad does his research ) and people look at us like we're 100 years old!
I just want to jerk 'em up and tell them to put some clothes on!!
This is too funny!
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That was great! My sister was born in 1987 and just started school so most of that applies to her...how funny  It even makes me feel a little old and I'm still fairly young (but I always feel old) 
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My brand new high school freshmen are the class of 2009, born in 1991! WHOA!
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Christine
Those who can do; those who want it done better teach.
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Hehe, this gave me a good laugh. My sister is entering university this year and was born in 87... I was born in 84. So, just a few things in defense of my generation...
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They have always had an answering machine.
They have always had cable.
They cannot fathom not having a remote control.
Popcorn has always been cooked in the microwave.
Unless, of course your parents were neo-hippies, as mine were. We didn't have cable, an answering machine, dishwasher or microwave until I was at least 10 or 11  We did buy a popcorn machine though when my dad practically burnt down our house making popcorn with oil on the stove... lol
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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".
They do not care who shot J. R. and have no idea who J. R. even is.
I think it was Marshall McLuhan who said that the future will be populated by the things of the present in the same way that the present is populated by the things of the past... I'm sure he wasn't talking about reruns and "old" movies but the same deal applies. All of these things are a feature of some part of my generation's collective consciousness. (For the record, Mork, of Mork & Mindy, was from and Ork and Kristin, Sue Ellen's sister, shot JR )
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McDonald's never came in Styrofoam containers.
Thank goodness! 
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They don't have a clue how to use a typewriter.
I own one
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My kids are being raised with no cable, no game stations, watching DVD's of Red Skelton, Bonanza, Andy Griffeth and the Waltons! The good things...whether movies, lifestyle, whatever,...are always worth sharing with future generations!!
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_I_ was the remote control for my Dad and sister for many years!
Here's another one: The rotary phone. The teen daughter of a friend of ours saw one recently and asked what it was and how it worked. OUCH!
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Wicked!
#213114 - 09/13/05 09:24 PM
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i just HAD to copy this and share it with everyone I knoew, it's very punny!!And, scary....true.
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I got a good laugh out of these, Shell. I shared them with my husband and we were both laughing; they're so true!!!
Especially this one:
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1975: Tryin to look like Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor
2005: Trying NOT to look like Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor
Thanks for sharing these.
Terri
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great thread. I am the eldest of 6 kids and my little brother was born in 1994, my youngest sister in 1991. TO say that we had different childhoods is an understatement.
They spend all their time with their Playstation and mobile phones.
(yes they both have them, mobile phones are very cheap to use here and you don't pay for incoming calls just for outgoing ones, Ireland has one of the highest mobile phones per head of population rates IN THE WORLD even my 90 year old Granny has one!)
Some things don't change though, my little brother's favourite TV show is "Home Improvement" you know the one with Tim the Toolman Taylor- well we just loved that when we were around his age and for him its unmissable now! Also my Mum still drops the youngest two off to hurling and football training, same as she did for us 20 years ago.
Even what we eat has changed so much, when I was growing up we had potatoes and meat and veg for dinner every day, then I showed my Mum how to make spaghetti bolognese and the rest is history- now they eat pasta at least two nights, curries, fajitas, stir fries, if they have a meat and potatoes dinner once a week its unusual!
We STILL don't have an answering machine at home though!
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What's hurling? It sounds like a sport that happens after a keg party.... 
I know some people born in 1987 (my cousin is one)... and some of them don't know who Kurt Cobain is. Or Eddie Vedder. I can't believe my music is "old music" already.
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