It is that time of year (to feel old)

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**Ahtman**

For students starting college this year....

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The Mindset List for the Class of 2016

For this generation of entering college students, born in 1994, Kurt Cobain, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Richard Nixon and John Wayne Gacy have always been dead.

They should keep their eyes open for Justin Bieber or Dakota Fanning at freshman orientation.

They have always lived in cyberspace, addicted to a new generation of “electronic narcotics.”

The Biblical sources of terms such as “Forbidden Fruit,” “The writing on the wall,” “Good Samaritan,” and “The Promised Land” are unknown to most of them.

Michael Jackson’s family, not the Kennedys, constitutes “American Royalty.”

If they miss The Daily Show, they can always get their news on YouTube.

Their lives have been measured in the fundamental particles of life: bits, bytes, and bauds.

Robert De Niro is thought of as Greg Focker's long-suffering father-in-law, not as Vito Corleone or Jimmy Conway.

Bill Clinton is a senior statesman of whose presidency they have little knowledge.

They have never seen an airplane “ticket.”

On TV and in films, the ditzy dumb blonde female generally has been replaced by a couple of Dumb and Dumber males.

The paradox "too big to fail" has been, for their generation, what "we had to destroy the village in order to save it" was for their grandparents'.

For most of their lives, maintaining relations between the U.S. and the rest of the world has been a woman’s job in the State Department.

They can’t picture people actually carrying luggage through airports rather than rolling it.

There has always been football in Jacksonville but never in Los Angeles.

Having grown up with MP3s and iPods, they never listen to music on the car radio and really have no use for radio at all.

Since they've been born, the United States has measured progress by a 2 percent jump in unemployment and a 16 cent rise in the price of a first class postage stamp.

Benjamin Braddock, having given up both a career in plastics and a relationship with Mrs. Robinson, could be their grandfather.

Their folks have never gazed with pride on a new set of bound encyclopedias on the bookshelf.

The Green Bay Packers have always celebrated with the Lambeau Leap.

They have had to incessantly remind their parents not to refer to their CDs and DVDs as “tapes.”

Billy Graham is as familiar to them as Otto Graham was to their parents.

Before they purchase an assigned textbook, they will investigate whether it is available for rent or purchase as an e-book.

TheTwilight Zone involves vampires, not Rod Serling.

They have no recollection of when Arianna Huffington was a conservative.

They watch television everywhere but on a television.

Pulp Fiction’s meal of a "Royale with Cheese" and an “Amos and Andy milkshake” has little or no resonance with them.

Despite being preferred urban gathering places, two-thirds of the independent bookstores in the United States have closed for good during their lifetimes.

**nomsheep**

I do not understand half of these.

**Jihadin**

Dang....I'm old.....

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I hate you Ahtman

**whembly**

Now I know why I can't have a lengthy conversation with college kids...

Jeez, I swear to Buddha... please lemme be still speaking to my kidz at their age....

**Skycrawler**

I must be an oddball then...'scuse me while I play with my NES while listening to my Iron Maiden tapes...

**daedalus**

Yeah. That list just made some more hair fall out I think.

A lot of those I openly accepted though. I got excited when I could give up tapes for CDs and could ditch the radio altogether.

Anecdote: I always got excited reading through the encyclopedias as a child when I went to stay at my grandparents house. They were in the bookshelf in the guest room I stayed in, and I'd lie there in bed reading for hours past bedtime. Nowadays it's the Wikipedia effect, but I guess it's the same principle.

**Ensis Ferrae**

Damn, now I actually feel old (and I'm only 26).. Of course, I have noticed with new folks entering into the army that are under 23 really have very little in common with me... the "age" difference is actually apparent that close to me.. what with the way technology has gone, coupled with how I was raised.

**Asherian Command**

I was born a week before Bieber.
And I still know what the hell those things are.

**Jihadin**

was born a week before Bieber

I'm going to leave that one alone

**cptbravo**

I'm only 20 and this made me feel so damn old already. :(

**daedalus**

cptbravo wrote:
I'm only 20 and this made me feel so damn old already. :(

How can you think you feel old when you don't remember the taste of Crystal Pepsi and New Coke?

**Ensis Ferrae**

daedalus wrote:
cptbravo wrote:
I'm only 20 and this made me feel so damn old already. :(

How can you think you feel old when you don't remember the taste of Crystal Pepsi and New Coke?

maybe he bought some off e-bay?

**Jihadin**

I remember when "Jolt" first came out

**cptbravo**

Ensis Ferrae wrote:
daedalus wrote:
cptbravo wrote:
I'm only 20 and this made me feel so damn old already. :(

How can you think you feel old when you don't remember the taste of Crystal Pepsi and New Coke?

maybe he bought some off e-bay?

I actually think i had one of those once, (can't remember which) it was a box sitting in a friends garage that had been there for years and years....
nasty as hell, but I got 5 bucks out of it

also:if you wake up everyday with a sore back and have a bad hip, you always feel old.

**Ensis Ferrae**

Hehe... something wonky is going on with the quotes today

**hotsauceman1**

Lies, im 20 and i use a car radio all the time.
And Being a prospective film student i Knew Who Robert De niro was.
And I wont see if a book is available for Ebook(despite having one) Because the Numbers change, and teachers assign reading through Pages.
AND I ALWAYS KNOWN WHAT THE TWILIGHT ZONE WAS!!!!
the television bit is true. I have the only HD tv in my room in the whole house. ITs background noise or aa bigger moniter for my comp.

**Mannahnin**

I don't have a consistently good radio station (for music) in range for my daily commute anymore. WBCN shut down a few years ago and WFNX just closed down too. :( I can listen to NPR and sports radio, but no more listening to alternative rock and being exposed to random new music, and no more calling in for contests and winning tickets to shows.

**Amaya**

Jihadin wrote:I remember when "Jolt" first came out

Jolt messed me up man. I was off the fething walls for a week.

Is it bad that I know who Otto Graham is?

**AduroT**

Is it bad that I dont know who either Graham is?

**Amaya**

Not really. One still holds an obscure NFL record and the other is a senile preacher who had some former pornstar work for him at one point. Well, pornstar might be the wrong word. Bonus points if you can guess who that was!

**Mannahnin**

I remember when Jessica Hahn had a spread in Playboy. And when she appeared in a music video with Sam Kenison.

**Frazzled**

daedalus wrote:
Yeah. That list just made some more hair fall out I think.

A lot of those I openly accepted though. I got excited when I could give up tapes for CDs and could ditch the radio altogether.

Anecdote: I always got excited reading through the encyclopedias as a child when I went to stay at my grandparents house. They were in the bookshelf in the guest room I stayed in, and I'd lie there in bed reading for hours past bedtime. Nowadays it's the Wikipedia effect, but I guess it's the same principle.

Frazzled, noticing Genghis Connie listening to music on her laptop (see I'm observant like that): What are you listening to.
GC: plays something vaguely disturbing, then strangely pulls up "we can dance"
Frazzled: cool. You don't listen to the radio at all do you?
GC: Nope. Youtube.
Frazzled: How do you get the songs? Is there a browser or something?
GC: Nope. I just find them.
Frazzled quietly runs aways to the safety of his wiener dogs. On the way he attempts to wrestle the Boy, but is swept aside easily.

**Gitkikka**

Jolt Cola and Screaming Yellow Zonkers - good for that middle-of-the-night run between Dallas and Austin.

**gorgon**

daedalus wrote:
cptbravo wrote:
I'm only 20 and this made me feel so damn old already. :(

How can you think you feel old when you don't remember the taste of Crystal Pepsi and New Coke?

**KalashnikovMarine**

I just started college this year after playing hookey for about five years. I have no idea what these kids in my freshman level classes are on about but they're weird as hell. I could make first contact with space aliens easier.