CLASSMATE MUSINGS

1966: Long hair
2016: Longing for hair
 
1966: KEG
2016: EKG
   
1966: Acid rock
2016: Acid reflux
   
1966: Moving to California because it's cool
2016: Moving to Arizona because it's warm
   
1966: Trying to look like Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor
2016: Trying NOT to look like Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor
   
1966: Seeds and stems
2016: Roughage
 
1966: Hoping for a BMW
2016: Hoping for a BM
   
1966: Going to a new, hip joint
2016: Receiving a new hip joint
   
1966: Rolling Stones
2016: Kidney Stones
   
1966: Screw the system
2016: Upgrade the system
   
1966: Disco
2016: Costco
   
1966: Parents begging you to get your hair cut
2016: Children begging you to get their heads shaved
 
1966: Passing the drivers' test
2016: Passing the vision test
   
1966: Whatever
2016: 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 1998.
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 7 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..

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, or a slide rule among engineers.

Do you feel old yet?