To all of us with our LBCs. Time stands still and a place of stability is
found with these machines. However the rest of the world moves (crawls,
foams at the mouth and staggers???)along leaving us in a world of our own.
Here is a depressing note I received last Fall. The situation is even worse
now.
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 that years incoming freshmen.
Here is this year's list:
1. The people who are starting college this fall across the
nation were born in 1982.
2. They have no meaningful recollection of the Reagan Era and
probably did not know he had ever been shot.
3. They were prepubescent when the Persian Gulf War was waged.
4. Black Monday 1987 is as significant to them as the Great
Depression.
5. There has been only one Pope.
6. They were 11 when the Soviet Union broke apart and do not
remember the Cold War.
7. They have never feared a nuclear war.
8. They are too young to remember the space shuttle blowing
up.
9. Tianamen Square means nothing to them.
10. Bottle caps have always been screw off and plastic.
11. Atari predates them, as do vinyl albums. The expression
"You sound like a broken record" means nothing to them.
12. They have likely never owned a record player.
13. They have likely never played Pac Man and have never heard
of Pong.
14. They may have never heard of an 8 track.
15. The Compact Disc was introduced when they were 1 year old.
16. As far as they know, stamps have always cost about 33
cents.
17. They have always had an answering machine.
18. Most have never seen a TV set with only 13 channels, nor
have they seen a black-and-white TV.
19. They have always had cable.
20. There has always been VCRs, but they have no idea what
BETA is.
21. They cannot fathom not having a remote control.
22. They were born the year that Walkman were introduced by
Sony.
23. Roller-skating has always meant inline for them.
24. Jay Leno has always been on the Tonight Show.
25. They have no idea when or why Jordache jeans were cool.
26. Popcorn has always been cooked in the microwave.
27. They have never seen Larry Bird play.
28. They never took a swim and thought about Jaws.
29. The Vietnam War is as ancient history to them as W.W.I,
W.W.II and the Civil War.
30. They have no idea that Americans were ever held hostage in
Iran.
31. They can't imagine what hard contact lenses are.
32. They don't know who Mork was or where he was from.
33. They never heard: "Where's the beef?", "I'd walk a mile
for a Camel", or "de plane, Boss, de plane."
34. They do not care who shot J. R. and have no idea who J. R.
is.
35. The Titanic was found? They thought we always knew where
it was.
36. Michael Jackson has always been white.
37. Kansas, Chicago, Boston, America, and Alabama are places,
not groups.
38. McDonalds never came in Styrofoam containers.
39. There has always been MTV.
40. They don't have a clue how to use a typewriter.
...Do you feel old yet? Pass this on to the other old fogies
you know.
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