The Mindset List (http://www2.nbc17.com/news/2012/aug/21/beloit-colleges-mindset-list-class-2016-ar-2535971/)
QuoteEvery year, Beloit College in Beloit, Wis., releases its Mindset List to give a snapshot of how the incoming freshmen class views the world. The list for the Class of 2016:
Most students entering college for the first time this fall were born in 1994. For these students, Kurt Cobain, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Richard Nixon and John Wayne Gacy have always been dead.
Excerpts (and many more at the link)
QuoteRobert De Niro is thought of as Greg Focker's long-suffering father-in-law, not as Vito Corleone or Jimmy Conway.
QuoteThey have never seen an airplane "ticket."
QuoteFor 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.
QuoteThere has always been football in Jacksonville but never in Los Angeles.
QuoteBenjamin Braddock, having given up both a career in plastics and a relationship with Mrs. Robinson, could be their grandfather.
QuoteTheir folks have never gazed with pride on a new set of bound encyclopedias on the bookshelf.
QuoteThe Real World has always "stopped being polite and started getting real" on MTV.
QuoteThere has always been a Santa Clause.
QuoteThe Twilight Zone involves vampires, not Rod Serling.
QuoteThey have no recollection of when Arianna Huffington was a conservative.
QuotePulp Fiction's meal of a "royale with cheese" and an "Amos and Andy milkshake" has little or no resonance with them.
QuoteLou Gehrig's record for most consecutive baseball games played has never stood in their lifetimes.
QuoteRobert De Niro is thought of as Greg Focker's long-suffering father-in-law, not as Vito Corleone or Jimmy Conway.
Travis 8) ...was most influenced by Taxi Driver in my youth ;)
Gotta say that there were only about three of those that mattered to me either.
Call it the spirit of youth, I guess...
To kids today, the Vietnam War is like was WWII was to me. My parents were alive during it, there are movies about it, and there are old war vets around.
LMAO! Not exactly the thread that I wanted named after me 8)
Careful, Steelie. You never know WHAT the inmates here may come up with next! :-)
^You said it, brother.
At least I can empathize, if not totally relate.
Man, I feel old, and I'm not that old.
Quote from: Toonces on August 23, 2012, 09:48:57 PM
Man, I feel old, and I'm not that old.
Most days my body feels my age plus 5-10 years, but my mind....in my mind I'm 30 years younger without all the drama and with more experience. I hope I never feel old mentally. Gaming helps 8) And co-eds with amazing racks out by the pool 8) 8) 8) That REALLY helps!
Inside every sixty year old man is an eighteen year older.
And every day they ask, "What happened?"