IP: You're only as old as you... well, maybe not

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: "Judith Oppenheimer" <joppenheimer () icbtollfree com>
> To: <dave () farber net>
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> forwarded to me by my brother ...
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary M. Oppenheimer [mailto:GOPPENHEIMER/0002180241 () MCIMAIL COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 1:05 PM
> To: Gary M. Oppenheimer
> Subject: FW: You're only as old as you... well, maybe not
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> An updated version of an email you have probably seen before:
> Each year the staff at Beloit College in Wisconsin put 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.

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