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The LA Fox Developer Newsletter
October 1997
A Little CIS Humor (Or Is It?)...
Are You Feeling Old?
From:
Curtis J. Hertwig, 70511,143
[Ed. Note: In case you missed it on CompuServe’s Fox User Forum, this post started an avalanche. And it kinda puts things in perspective. <g>J

If not, consider this:

The people who are starting college this fall across the nation
were born in 1980.
1.
The Iranian hostage crisis occurred before they were con
ceived.
2.
They have no memory of a time before MTV
3.
“New Wave” is their PARENTS musical generation.
4.
Cyndi Lauper, Boy George, the Pretenders, the Kinks, and
the Sex Pistols are all old music they have heard of, if they have
heard of it at all.
5.
They have no meaningful recollection of the Reagan era.
6.
They were prepubescent when the Persian Gulf War was
waged.
7.
If they have heard the name “Oliver North,” it was probably
as a losing Congressional candidate, or perhaps in some
obscure survey history text’s reference, such as might be made
to Huey Long or Teapot Dome.
8.
Black Monday 1987 is as significant to them as the Great
Depression.
9.
Their world has always included AIDS.
10.
Having not lived through the Disco Scare, they can romanti
cize the 1970s.
11.
They see “Family Ties” as something middle-aged ladies
watch.
12. They watched “Star Wars” years ago, when they were kids on video.
13.
Atari predates them, as do vinyl albums and cassette audio
tapes.
14.
From their earliest years, a camera was something you
used once and threw away.
15.
As far as they know, stamps have always cost about 32
cents.
16. The oil crisis is history of which they probably know nothing and why anyone WOULDN’T buy a Suburban is beyond
them.
17.
Most of them have probably never seen a real nun, even if
they went to Catholic schools.

So, my superannuated friends, why don’t we all get together and feel obsolete over some Gentol Tea?

-cjh at 14:12 on 03-Oct-97 in Fox User/Gang cjhertwig@compuserve.com
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