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Floridaboiler
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 Posted: 01/26/03 - 08:18 Post subject: WHAT A DIFFERENCE A YEAR MAKES.....30 YEARS?
What a difference 30 years makes....
1972: Long hair
2002: Longing for hair
1972: The perfect high
2002: The perfect high yield mutual fund
1972: KEG
2002: EKG
1972: Acid rock
2002: Acid reflux
1972: Moving to California because it's cool
2002: Moving to California because it's warm
1972: Growing pot
2002: Growing pot belly
1972: Trying to look like Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor
2002: Trying NOT to look like Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor
1972: Seeds and stems
2002: Roughage
1972: Popping pills, smoking joints
2002: Popping joints
1972: Killer weed
2002: Weed killer
1972: Hoping for a BMW
2002: Hoping for a BM
1972: The Grateful Dead
2002: Dr. Kevorkian
1972: Going to a new, hip joint
2002: Receiving a new hip joint
1972: Rolling Stones
2002: Kidney Stones
1972: Being called into the principal's office
2002: Calling the principal's office
1972: Screw the system
2002: Upgrade the system
1972: Disco
2002: Costco
1972: Parents begging you to get your hair cut
2002: Children begging you to get their heads shaved
1972: Taking acid
2002: Taking antacid
1972: Passing the drivers' test
2002: Passing the vision test
1972: Whatever
2002: 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 1983. 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.
Michael Jackson has always been white.
McDonald's never came in Styrofoam containers.
They don't have a clue how to use a typewriter.
Do you feel old yet? Pass this on to the other old fogies in your life.
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Cappy
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Posted: 01/26/03 - 08:25 Post subject:
 yeah I feel old. Although your are 2 months older than me Eric. 
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Earlyrunnr
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Posted: 01/26/03 - 08:43 Post subject:
My kids have never known not to recycle (I remember empyting the garbage 3 times a day at times in the old days), nor have they ever seen a record or turntable.
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purple hayes
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Posted: 01/26/03 - 09:30 Post subject:
| Earlyrunnr wrote: | | nor have they ever seen a record or turntable. |
Turntables are back in style now. Can't go to a rave and not see them.
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Cappy
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Posted: 01/26/03 - 09:42 Post subject:
My first PC had a 20 meg hard drive, and at the time, that was a lot.
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purple hayes
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Posted: 01/26/03 - 10:05 Post subject:
My first PC didn't even have a hard drive.  Or any storage medium for that matter. I had to upgrade to a cassette drive if I wanted to save anything. 
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camelia bedelia
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Posted: 01/26/03 - 10:19 Post subject: Re: WHAT A DIFFERENCE A YEAR MAKES.....30 YEARS?
| Floridaboiler wrote: |
Jay Leno has always been on the Tonight Show. |
This is the one that always gets me. It can't have been that long.
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airehead
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Posted: 01/26/03 - 12:11 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: | | My first PC didn't even have a hard drive. Or any storage medium for that matter. I had to upgrade to a cassette drive if I wanted to save anything. |
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Cappy
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Posted: 01/26/03 - 12:16 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: | | My first PC didn't even have a hard drive. Or any storage medium for that matter. I had to upgrade to a cassette drive if I wanted to save anything. |
That is how our Commodore 64 was. We also had it hooked up to a regular TV.
Side note. QVC (my former employer and where they broadcast from) bought Commodore's old corporate headquarters, when they went bankrupt
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copteacher
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Posted: 01/26/03 - 18:02 Post subject:
Greg didn't we have a real little TI computer with like 4k memory and it used a tape recorder to save stuff.
Also we beat the crap out of that C64 with our virtual track meets remember them. That computer was well made!
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flarunner
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Posted: 01/27/03 - 21:02 Post subject:
1972-72: There was no Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
2002-03: The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are Super Bowl Champions!
Yep, gonna milk this for all it's worth. Which, to this community, is a whole big bunch.
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