I am a university faculty member and thought this was interesting. What do you guys and gals think?

Jason

Following is the list for the Class of 2008:
… Most students entering college this fall were born in 1986.
… Desi Arnaz, Orson Welles, Roy Orbison, Ted Bundy, Ayatollah Khomeini, and
Cary Grant have always been dead.
… "Heeeere's Johnny!" is a scary greeting from Jack Nicholson, not a warm
welcome from Ed McMahon.
… The Energizer bunny has always been going, and going, and going.
… Large fine-print ads for prescription drugs have always appeared in
magazines.
… Photographs have always been processed in an hour or less.
… They never got a chance to drink 7-Up Gold, Crystal Pepsi, or Apple Slice.
… Baby Jessica could be a classmate.
… Parents may have been reading The Bourne Supremacy or It as they rocked
them in their cradles.
… Alan Greenspan has always been setting the nation's financial direction.
… The United States has always been a Prozac nation.
… They have always enjoyed the comfort of pleather.
… Harry has always known Sally.
… They never saw Roseanne Roseannadanna live on Saturday Night Live.
… There has always been a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
… They never ate a McSub at McD's.
… There has always been a Comedy Channel.
… Bill and Ted have always been on an excellent adventure.
… They were never tempted by smokeless cigarettes.
… Robert Downey Jr. has always been in trouble.
… Martha Stewart has always been cooking up something with someone.
… They have always been comfortable with gay characters on television.
… Mike Tyson has always been a contender.
… The government has always been proposing we go to Mars, and the project
has always been deemed too expensive.
… There have never been any Playboy Clubs.
… There have always been night games at Wrigley Field.
… Rogaine has always been available for the follicularly challenged.
… They never saw USA Today or The Christian Science Monitor as a TV news
program.
… Computers have always suffered from viruses.
… Politicians have always used rock music for theme songs.
… Network television has always struggled to keep up with cable.
… O'Hare has always been the most delay-plagued airport in the United States.
… Ivan Boesky has never sold stock.
… Toll-free 800 telephone numbers have always spelled out catchy phrases.
… Bethlehem has never been a place of peace at Christmas.
… Allowing women to become bishops has always been a divisive issue in the
Episcopal Church.
… Svelte Oprah has always dominated afternoon television; who was Phil
Donahue anyway?
… They never flew on People Express.
… AZT has always been used to treat AIDS.
… The international community has always been installing or removing the
leader of Haiti.
… Oliver North has always been a talk-show host and news commentator.
… They have suffered through airport-security systems since they were in
strollers.
… They have done most of their search for the right college online.
… Aspirin has always been used to reduce the risk of a heart attack.
… They were spared the TV ads for Zamfir and his panpipes.
… Castro has always been an aging politician in a suit.
… There have always been nonstop flights around the world without refueling.
… Cher hasn't aged a day.
… M.A.S.H. was a game: Mansion, Apartment, Shelter, House.

Who's that? :confused: :confused:

I've had Crystal Pepsi, but I don't remember the other two. :confused:

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Jason, just make me feel ancient, why don't you?

if my ever fading memory serves me correctly, you posted a similar list last year (my how time flies!) and it made me feel old then.

now this list,and i feel even older!

stop, please stop, before it becomes evident that i am my father's generation!

What's even scarier is the thought that I am old enough to be their parent!!! Let alone remember all of the stuff on the list.

this reminds me of an "incident" at our last anniversary party (19 years). a good friend of ours remarked, quite off-handedly, "if you guys had a baby when you first got together, he'd be in college now."

we are speaking to this "friend" (would a true friend say such a thing?) again, but it took a while.

So...the class of 2008 was born during my sophomore/junior year of high school. I feel so old all of a sudden.

I'm with Allen...what is a McSub? I've never heard of that.

I had my 10-year high school reunion in '86, and I could say that.

Who's Ivan Boesky??? :mad: :confused:

Allen:

Come on. Ivan Boesky is the guy in cahoots with Michael Milliken in the Junk Bond scandal which broke in 87 - 89. Insider trading, etc.

I was in my single digits during that time. I have no idea who he is. At that time, I'd rather play outside than wonder who Ivan Boesky is or what he did.

in a nutshell - never heard of him.

[ September 01, 2004, 10:20 AM: Message edited by: Allen ]

Mmmmmm, 7Up Gold. I think that was the mid 80s but Crystal Pepsi was at least 90 or 91.

Octane?

Think about this...

Kids born in 1986 have never worried about M.A.D: mutual assured destruction.

They don't remember the Challenger disaster.

No cable? Not an option.

Cars have always had airbags.

Calculators have always been scientific calculators.

Cassette tapes are to this generation as 8-track-tapes were to Gen X.

And we inch inexorably towards the day where no child has ever known a losing Braves season.

When I was born, they were the Milwaukee Braves.

What the Hell is that??

Okay, I may be born in 1977, but some of the things some of you are talking about I've never heard of.

[ September 02, 2004, 06:46 AM: Message edited by: Allen ]

Allen, use your internet savvy! Google it! While you're at it, Google yourself!! It's fantabulous!!!!

I know I am, however, it is better to learn from people who are in the know. wink

Is this one of the things you know you know, or is this an unknowable thing that you don't know you don't know?

I was born in 1970 and I've never heard of People Express and I had no idea that USA Today was also a news program.

im just 28 and the baby Jessica thing makes me feel old. lol

Mutual Assured Destruction was one of the doctrines of the latter part of the Cold War. It referred to the mutuality of destruction in the event of an all-out nuclear war between the US and the USSR.

This particularly strikes me as my oldest son is now a freshman at Purdue. He was indeed born in 1986.
I would add to the list that they have never heard of Betamax, 8 track tapes, computer punch cards, party lines (i.e when more than one household shares a phone line, not those 900 numbers in the back of Men's Workout).

I give some lectures for some of the medical students here in West Lafayette. I realized last year that most of them weren't born when I graduate from medical school. I am forced to tell them that when I graduated from medical school, the entire field of molecular biology didn't exist. T-cells were counted by incubating a sample with sheep red blood cells.

Tempus fugit

Don't feel too bad - some of my friends are starting to become grandparents at age 40 - 45...

Rob

We have definitely heard of 8-track tapes, but most wouldn't be able to recognize one.

Along the same lines, I had to set up and teach some of my friends how to use a turntable this week. One of them got it for his birthday and wanted to put it in his dorm room but had no clue how it worked.