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What a diference 30 years makes!
* 1972: Long hair
* 2007: Longing for hair
* 1972: KEG
* 2007: EKG
* 1972: Acid rock
* 2007: Acid reflux
* 1972: Moving to California because it's cool
* 2007: Moving to California because it's warm
* 1972: Growing pot
* 2007: Growing pot belly
* 1972: Trying to look like Marlon Brando or Elizabeth Taylor
* 2007: Trying NOT to look like Marlon Brando or Elizabeth Taylor
* 1972: Seeds and stems
* 2007: Roughage
* 1972: Popping pills; smoking joints
* 2007: Popping joints
* 1972: Killer Weed
* 2007: Weed killer
* 1972: Hoping for a BMW
* 2007: Hoping for a BM
* 1972: The Grateful Dead
* 2007: Dr. Kevorkian
* 1972: Going to a new, hip joint
* 2007: Receiving a new hip joint
* 1972: Rolling Stones
* 2007: Kidney Stones
* 1972: Being called into the principal's office
* 2007: Calling the principal's office
* 1972: Parents begging kids to get a haircut
* 2007: Kids begging parents to let them shave their head
* 1972: Taking acid
* 2007: Taking antacid
* 1972: Passing the driver's test
* 2007: Passing the vision test
* 1972: Whatever
* 2007: Depends
Just in case you weren't feeling too old already, 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 incoming freshman. Here's this year's list:
* The people who are starting college this fall across the nation were born in 1989.
* 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 5 years before 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.
* Michael Jackson has always been white.
* McDonald's food never came in Styrofoam containers.
* They don't have a clue how to use a typewriter.
* 1972: Long hair
* 2007: Longing for hair
* 1972: KEG
* 2007: EKG
* 1972: Acid rock
* 2007: Acid reflux
* 1972: Moving to California because it's cool
* 2007: Moving to California because it's warm
* 1972: Growing pot
* 2007: Growing pot belly
* 1972: Trying to look like Marlon Brando or Elizabeth Taylor
* 2007: Trying NOT to look like Marlon Brando or Elizabeth Taylor
* 1972: Seeds and stems
* 2007: Roughage
* 1972: Popping pills; smoking joints
* 2007: Popping joints
* 1972: Killer Weed
* 2007: Weed killer
* 1972: Hoping for a BMW
* 2007: Hoping for a BM
* 1972: The Grateful Dead
* 2007: Dr. Kevorkian
* 1972: Going to a new, hip joint
* 2007: Receiving a new hip joint
* 1972: Rolling Stones
* 2007: Kidney Stones
* 1972: Being called into the principal's office
* 2007: Calling the principal's office
* 1972: Parents begging kids to get a haircut
* 2007: Kids begging parents to let them shave their head
* 1972: Taking acid
* 2007: Taking antacid
* 1972: Passing the driver's test
* 2007: Passing the vision test
* 1972: Whatever
* 2007: Depends
Just in case you weren't feeling too old already, 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 incoming freshman. Here's this year's list:
* The people who are starting college this fall across the nation were born in 1989.
* 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 5 years before 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.
* Michael Jackson has always been white.
* McDonald's food never came in Styrofoam containers.
* They don't have a clue how to use a typewriter.
