OT. I am feeling old.

[scotts]

Well there was a thread earlier that made me feel old. Then I started e-mail Tim Edwards and found out he is 19. I graduated high school before he was born. I remembered something about college freshman and what they don't know. I finally found it.
1. They have no meaningful recollection of the Regan era and probably did not know that he had ever been shot.
2. There has only been one pope (I remember whan there were 3 like in the span of 2 months)
3. They were only 11 when the soviet union broke up
4. Tianamen square means nothing to them.
5. Bottle caps have always been screw off and plastic.
6. Atari Predates them. So do vinyl albums.
7. The expression "you sound like a broken record" means nothing to them.
8. They have never owned a record player.
9. They have probably not played Pac man and have never heard of pong.
10. They may have never heard of an 8 track tape
11. They have always had an answering machine.
12. Most have never seen a TV with only 13 channels, nor have they seen a black and white TV.
13. They have always had cable TV
14. They don't know about the commercial "Help I've fallen and I can't get up."
15. They have always had VCRs but they have not idea what BETA was.
16. They cannot fathom not having a remote control.
There is more, but gotta run.
Scott

 

[michelle13]

I just turned 24 on Saturday and my mom gave me my old atari as a gag gift!

 

[reefnut]

Man a 19 I barely had enough money for beer...

 

[reefnut]

What am I talking about... 29 and still barely have enough money for beer
Remember Atari (sp?) best games ever...

 

[slick]

I'm 25 and can remember most if not all of that stuff. And somedays I feel old.

 

[nm reef]

Well thanks!!!! Makes me feel older than dirt!! I remember living in a small Arizona town where the highway ends and there were no asphalt roads...I remember the day they paved the main road into town! I remember when the Beatles first played on Ed Sullivan...I remember crying the day one of my uncles left for Vietnam...I remember the day sitting in school when they announced the president had been shot...and thru a cloud of smoke I remember the late 60's and purple haze 70's. But I'm still young at heart...old age is a state of mind where i refuse to travel!!!!
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Ka is the wheel that moves the world...and the man or woman that rages against it will be crushed under its rim.
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[lesa]

lol

 

[sammystingray]

I'm 28, and I remember actually having to get up to change through the 13 channels.....our area had "preview" which was kind of like a pre-cable....one channel that started at eight O-clock, but my dad was happy he could finally see

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in movies at home......they used to make us go to bed., Regan was the prez as I grew up, and Nancy started "just say no". The nukes were reflected in a lot of the punk music I listened to then....anyone remember when Regan got that glass smashed upside his head? I got to see the entire computer age being born and developed pretty much, and I believe I was born at a perfect time to see technology go insane, but yet also saw what it was like before. I remember my friend getting an apple computer, the first person I ever knew with a computer, and he would type out programs for like two hours just to make a stick figure man do a little dance....he ended up as a computer programmer years later from what I hear. I remember all the kids wearing little alligators on their shirts, and weaving two pairs of shoe laces together to make a checkerboard. You sucked if you didn't have a handled comb sticking out of your back pocket. I can remember when kids played outside, and built forts, and a stick became a sword for hours of imagination.....I remember the day MTV started, but no I didn't catch the first song "video killed the radio star".....I do remember a lot of twisted sister and quiet riot though.....not only could your parents knock you around when you were bad....the folks at school could beat you with a wooden paddle too.

 

[lesleybird]

Hey....I'm 4 years older than you are! So quit your crying and enjoy your life. Lesley

 

[kelly]

NM Reef,
I'll say "you must be older than dirt". Do you remember the 50s at all? I can remember when the small town I lived in got it's first colored television.
Howdy Doody is a fading memory, I know I watched it as a kid, and still remember part of the theme song, but a distant memory at best.
It's tough growing old, but the mind is still around 20. The 6 pack (like I ever had one) changed in to a keg. (actually I lost 33# in the past 6 months)
Hair is growing where it shouldn't, bones creak, etc. The memory is going, and alzheimers is starting to sound better. Every morning you wake up you have a new wife, a new car, and new house. just kidding...
Life begins at 50!!! When I was young that sounded old, well being old is a state of mind, and I guess a fact too.
I feel like the energizer bunny 1/2 a century old, and still going and going and going.

 

[nm reef]

Kelly...good to see you here..been a while since I last saw you post. I barely remember the 50's...late 50's at that...moms still got my Howdy Doody lunch box from 1st grade!
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Ka is the wheel that moves the world...and the man or woman that rages against it will be crushed under its rim.
NMREEF pics

 

[overanalyzer]

I started out feeling old buy some of you guys made me feel better.
When I used to teach I tried to explain to students what life was like before Cable .... as a matter of fact we only have cable now so I can have my cable modem!
I remember the very first day of MTV - going to the one kid who's folks had enough money to pay for cable.
I remember push-ups being a dime from the ice cream man
I remember sitting up front on my folks lap while driving .....
I remember riding a bike with no helmet
I remember the nuns beating the holy hell out of us at school - and beingto terrified to tell the parents
I remember nuclear war preparedness drills - so we could huddle under our desks while being turned to dust .....Hell Broncofish is like 5 years younger and I am fairly certain he did not have to do the nuclear war drills .....
Hell I'm surprised I'm alive. My 32 birthdya is approaching soon (the 6th of July) and I keep feeling old.
Can anyone tell me - do you ever have a job you LOVe and that can support your family?? I just keep going back to that scene with Kevin Spacey in American Beauty - where he talks about his firebird and the cool high school job ......

 

[kelly]

NM Reef,
I am alway lurking in the background... Most of the posts are answered by the knowledgable people on the board, so I see no sense in repeating what they have said.
I try to visit around twice a day and see what is new. Just too many other things going on right now to spend all day here. Maybe things will slow down a little, so I have time to post some more. Time to go for the daily 3 mile walk (us old folks need to stay in shape) before it gets to warm. It is supposed to make it to 90 today.
Best wishes

 

[leigh]

Interesting, I remember all of those and I'm 24, but hey, I only got cable a few months ago. You know, when I think back I think my parents were too young to even understand what was going on during the cuban missile crisis, the generation that really blows my mind is my grandparents generation. Being born during WWI, fighting during WWII, having to send their kids to school every day not knowing if someone was going to push a big red button, watching their siblings and children go off to Korea and Vietnam, and now watching all the cr*p going on--watching their grandchildren, in many cases, going off to wars in countries they haven't seen...or perhaps saw from an airbase nearly 60 years ago...having watched the car/train/plane become viable modes of transportation, watching man walk on the moon and 2 space shuttles explode,...seeing presidents shot, impeached, and one killed, having gone from fireside chats to live news briefings...to have lived through all that seems to me phenomenal.

 

[reefnut]

Originally posted by overanalyzer
Can anyone tell me - do you ever have a job you LOVe and that can support your family??
I don't think these two things go together... I keep threatening to quite my job and go work at the LFS but I'll never be so lucky... I would even settle for a job at Wal-Mart greeting people if it paid enough .

 

[plum70rt]

Whoaaa, Howdy Doody lunchbox!! if it an original one its worth a lot , I just sold a Flying Nun lunch box for 700.00,
It was my wifes,
can buy alot of Reef goodies with that,
So Im pretty old too I guess, I remember some of those things too, No remotes, Pong, playing outside all the time,
Joined the PD in 1986, was 21, 86 to 97, was a tough time then in NY, but I loved it and would do it all again, seen and done most things people only see on TV and in movies, approaching 40 ,
Im still like a big kid playing with toys only more $$$

 

[bigeyedfish]

I'm 24 as well and remember almost all of that stuff. Remember playing my friends atari and the day my parents bought me nintendo, remember not having cable, remember Ronald Reagan in office, remember watching the challenger explode (now two shuttles gone
I am now dating a girl only two years younger than me, she has no clue about anything from the 80's, cant relate to Bon Jovi, Poison, ALF, Saved by the Bell. All they know is

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, Playstation and OsamaBL.
Although it is cool to say I'm a child of the 70's (1979 B Day)

 

[scotts]

Well here is some more
17. Roller skating has always meant inline for them.
18. The tonight show has always been with Jay Leno.
19. They have no idea when or why Jordache jeans were cool.
20. They have never seen Larry Bird play basketball and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a football player.
21. They don't know who Mork was or where he was from.
22. They never heard "Where's the Beef?", "I'd walk a mile for a camel" or "de plane, de plane"
23. There has always been MTV
24. We have always been able to choose our long distance carrier.
25. Weather reports have always been available 24 hours a day on television.
26. George Forman has always been a barbacue grill salesman.
27. Peter Jennings, Dan Rathar and Tom Brokaw have always anchored the news
28. Fox has always been a television network.
29. Vanessa Williams and Madonna are aging singers.
30. Trivial Pursuit may have been played the night before they were born.
And to show how old I am. I remember when MTV actually played music videos.
Scott

 

[scotts]

Well I am the ripe old age of 37, soon to be 38. This list comes from a college that they publish for the professors. They call it their "Mindset List". To quote from their list "is distributing the Mindset List to it's faculty and staff as an indicator of the many ways in which entering 17 and 18 year-olds see the workd differently from their professors, coaches and mentors."
You say that you are 25. Well the people who are now entering college are 18 and even though they are only 7 years younger than you, they may not remember any of this stuff.
I guess what made me think of this was I e-mailed Tim Edwards and found out he is only 19.
I keep forgetting how old I am. I was talking to the wife the other day and we were talking about somebody, she said they were about 40 and I said "Hey I thought she was closer to our age" Then I had to think about it.
Also what made me think of this was over the weekend we were cleaning out the garage. My 8 year old daughter walked over to the record player and asked "What is this?"
I remember when computers fist came out. Green screen monitors. Now I have watched my daughter use the computer before she is 2 years old.
Scott

 

[broncofish]

Originally posted by overanalyzer
I remember the nuns beating the holy hell out of us at school - and beingto terrified to tell the parents
I remember nuclear war preparedness drills - so we could huddle under our desks while being turned to dust .....Hell Broncofish is like 5 years younger and I am fairly certain he did not have to do the nuclear war drills .....

Dude as I recal I was on the beating end of the nun stick way more often than you...then again I was a terror, dude I was just telling the story about that one nun(she tought 5th grade can't remember her name) she was like 60 when I went through, and she had that paddle with holes drilled in it for better movement.
Here is something interesting, in 1999 they asked 5,000 H.S. seniors to name the most important invention since 1900. THey got the usual, cars, plane, internet(surprisingly nobody said protein skimmer). They asked 5,000 65+ seniors, and they almost 100% said THE REFRIGERATOR....makes you think about what is important, and what is a luxury.