Came across this and thought we need a little humor during out frequent breaks from studying......we need MORE breaks than the youngens.....you know what I mean
Just in case you weren't feeling too old today, this will certainly change things.
The people who are starting college this fall across the nation were born in 1987 . They are too young to remember the space shuttle blowing up.
Their lifetime has always included AIDS.
The CD was introduced the year they were born.
They have always had an answering machine
They have always had cable.
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 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".
McDonald's never came in Styrofoam containers.
They don't have a clue how to use a typewriter
Save the earth. It's the only planet with chocolate
Does anyone remember doing drills in case of a nuclear bomb, in school? I remember in elementary school, the alarms going off and we had 3 seconds to huddle under our desks. The teacher would clock us. We would listen to talk about if the Russians were going to start nuclear war from parents, etc.
Speaking of which, I have to wonder, how would a child huddling under her desk be protected if a nuclear bomb went off?
Speaking of ducking under desks.....one thing they have now that they didn't have when I was a kid was "Columbine drills". My kids actually have drills at school on how to hide if someone goes nuts with a gun at school. So sad.
Oh...to add....my daughter cannot believe I didn't have a cell phone when I was a kid!
Ok I know I'm old when I remember only 4 channels on TV. I needed this laugh for today. Really we need a laugh everyday just to make it through pre-nursing school.
I do! I do! And remember when the Flag would come up and the Star Spangled Banner would play at midnight...then the screen turned to snow? I remember having to walk into the family room and turn off the "white noise" after my dad had fallen asleep in the La-Z-Boy.
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Where were you when John Lennon was killed? I was inside my bedroom watching a little portable television and ran outside to tell my BF who was fixing our car radio. He had just repaired it and it was the first news he heard.
My husband remembers that his family was the first on the block to have a television. The screen was really small and came with a large magnifying glass hooked in front to enlarge the screen. His Dad turned the set facing outside the big picture window and the neighbors brought their lawn chairs and all watched! :)
My mom used to invite the mailman in for a cup of coffee and sure enough he had time and would sit at our kitchen table for 5 minutes and talk with her.
Remember when it was thought that to watch tv in the dark was bad for your eyes? So we all had to get little tv lamps! We had a black and white television for the longest time and when we got color it was great but still so many shows were in B&W. I like the way televisions looked way back then. They were nice sets like in a box and had legs and the picture tube was back there and there was always room between the picture tube and the glass in the front and then dead bugs would collect between. LOL! I remember having to adjust those rabbit ears so many times! haha
I was in 3rd grade and we still hadn't landed on the moon and a girl in my class wrote that she wanted to be the first man on the moon and everyone laughed and the teacher said well all the astronauts have been men. Then right after Neil Armstrong landed on the moon.
I remember my Uncle took my cousin to Altamont to see the Rolling Stones and my mother told me the Hells Angels killed a guy. The Beatles played a free concert in the park in San Francisco. It used to bother me to watch tv and see the police beating the hippies and I felt scared and kept asking my parents why were the police hitting them like that when they weren't doing anything. We used to drive thru Golden Gate park and see all the hippies there. Everyone would flash everyone else the peace sign :chuckle: And we were all "feeling groovey"
My husband was a member of a socialist group in Berkeley and thought that a revolution was going to take place any day and before the riots they would all decide to place some girls in some place where they knew the police were going to want them to move and they would not so they would get hit and the tv cameras would be there. (so that's what happened!)
My parents voted for Nixon the first time and didn't the second time because he said he would end the war and he didn't. When our prisoners came home I remember one guy getting down on his knees and kiss the ground. I remember how skinny they all were. And I don't even have to mention the name of the war because you all know what I"m talking about.
And I remember when Reagan was elected we all thought he had his finger on "the button!"
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JFK was shot the month before I was born so I don't remember that, but I do remember Viet Nam. I also remember when the Cougar was a sports car (my Dad had a '68 3 speed w/a Boss 302 engine). Lol I remember, when she was younger, showing my daughter the low rise bell bottom Levi's I wore in high school and she said, "Mom...ewwwww!!!! How wierd!" What does she wear now?! I remember when color TV's went on the market and a PC was unheard of...and teenagers didn't have cell phones, either. I also remember when the postage stamp went from 5 to 8 cents! Jeez, where have the years gone....?
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Guess I didn't read very well til now (sorry, its' still early here!), I'm not a "pre-nursing" student, but I enjoyed the thread.
JFK was shot the month before I was born so I don't remember that, but I do remember Viet Nam. I also remember when the Cougar was a sports car (my Dad had a '68 3 speed w/a Boss 302 engine). Lol I remember, when she was younger, showing my daughter the low rise bell bottom Levi's I wore in high school and she said, "Mom...ewwwww!!!! How wierd!" What does she wear now?! I remember when color TV's went on the market and a PC was unheard of...and teenagers didn't have cell phones, either. I also remember when the postage stamp went from 5 to 8 cents! Jeez, where have the years gone....?
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Guess I didn't read very well til now (sorry, its' still early here!), I'm not a "pre-nursing" student, but I enjoyed the thread.
Oh my gosh - this thread is cracking me up I don't remember JFK or much of the war - my earliest 'recollection' was wearing those stupid bell bottom jeans - now I wear bootcut Also, courduroy. I do remember watching the news when Reagan was elected. I remember having rabbit ears on the TV and only a hand full of channels - and also being the remote control for the parents I remember when we got cable for the first time - that was amazing! I thought we were really something when we got a disc player - not a DVD - one of those great big disks that you put in this player that would show movies.
Most of my memories are of the 80's - big hair, neon socks, Boy George and George Michael. I really get a kick out of watching the I Love the ___ on VH1 - they show different decades and watching some of those old commercials are great - like "Ancient Chinese Secret, eh?" Remember that? Yes, I remember when McDonalds came in styrofoam and soda came in glass bottles. Wow!
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I remember my brother and I eating baby ASA and Flinstone vitamins like they were candy.
And I can remember the only liquid medicine that actually tasted "okay" was creomulsion cough syrup. Remember with the boy & girl on th' label?
My grandparents had a black & white TV color screen adapter. It was a colored transparent screen you put over the TV picture frame that was colored blue on the top portion, red in the middle and green on the bottom...lol
This is not specific to any particular time period but I also remember thinking as a child (usually when my parents were watching the news); why are grownups so lazy and boring (nevermind they worked all day, took care of us and the home, etc.). I remember thinking, "Man, if I was a grownup and had my own car and all, I'd just go to Six Flags or the beach any and all the time."
My brother's theory is that grownup's fatigue is an accumulation of all the hours of sleep lost from fighting taking naps as a child...lol
Y'all ever watch any of the old movies? I remember as a kid seeing Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" and it scaring the crap out of me - to the point I'm still a little bit phobic of them (birds). I saw it not too long ago and it was sooooo cheesy. Another movie I saw that I thought was totally cool when I saw it in the theaters was "Flash Gordon." Y'all remember that movie? I saw it not long ago and the special effects were soooo dippy...lol
I remember my brother and I eating baby ASA and Flinstone vitamins like they were candy.
And I can remember the only liquid medicine that actually tasted "okay" was creomulsion cough syrup. Remember with the boy & girl on th' label?
My grandparents had a black & white TV color screen adapter. It was a colored transparent screen you put over the TV picture frame that was colored blue on the top portion, red in the middle and green on the bottom...lol
This is not specific to any particular time period but I also remember thinking as a child (usually when my parents were watching the news); why are grownups so lazy and boring (nevermind they worked all day, took care of us and the home, etc.). I remember thinking, "Man, if I was a grownup and had my own car and all, I'd just go to Six Flags or the beach any and all the time."
My brother's theory is that grownup's fatigue is an accumulation of all the hours of sleep lost from fighting taking naps as a child...lol
Y'all ever watch any of the old movies? I remember as a kid seeing Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" and it scaring the crap out of me - to the point I'm still a little bit phobic of them (birds). I saw it not too long ago and it was sooooo cheesy. Another movie I saw that I thought was totally cool when I saw it in the theaters was "Flash Gordon." Y'all remember that movie? I saw it not long ago and the special effects were soooo dippy...lol
I also love Hitchcock movies....how about Agatha Christie....Murder on the Orient Express, Miss Marple and the old guy?????
Yes, I also remember watching "old" movies with my mother and her explaining them to me. Remember The Birds, Psycho, Madame X, Splendor in the Grass, Dr. Zhivago, and of course, Gone With the Wind. One of my earliest memories is my mom taking me to see The Sound of Music when it came out.
Remember when there were telephone party lines - sometimes you would pick up your unportable rotary dial phone and there may be a conversation already going on?
All gas stations were full service.
People smoked while shopping in the grocery store and there were ash bins at the end of each aisle.
Remember when there were telephone party lines - sometimes you would pick up your unportable rotary dial phone and there may be a conversation already going on?
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Kids didn't wear seatbelts.
I grew up in New York City so no, party lines were long gone by my time.
NOBODY wore seatbelts! Ralph Nader hadn't made a stink about them yet. Remember laying in the back window of those big old 1940-something Oldsmobiles and Buicks?
And ladies wore hats and white gloves when going into town.
Also, courduroy. I do remember watching the news when Reagan was elected. I remember having rabbit ears on the TV and only a hand full of channels - and also being the remote control for the parents 
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wasnt back to the future the year 2013 i cant remember
haha flying cars