OBOY!....did I date myself today!!!!!

unknown99, BSN, RN · Feb 12, 2006

This is non nursing related, but, a couple of years ago, I was substitute instructing for a college literature course at our local community college. We were comparing how some song lyrics are like poetry. I brought up Bob Dylan, and the 19 year old in the front asks "Who is Bob Dylan?"!!!!

Now, that makes me feel old!!!

TazziRN, RN · Feb 12, 2006

This is non nursing related, but, a couple of years ago, I was substitute instructing for a college literature course at our local community college. We were comparing how some song lyrics are like poetry. I brought up Bob Dylan, and the 19 year old in the front asks "Who is Bob Dylan?"!!!!
Now, that makes me feel old!!!

When Mulan first came out my kids watched it over and over and over and over and......you get the picture. I finally realized the guy singing the lead sounded familiar and at the end asked Son to let the credits play. I said "That WAS Donny Osmond!!"

Both kids whipped their heads around and said "Who????"

ZASHAGALKA, RN · Feb 12, 2006

(This is an older one, the newer ones are too political.)

BELOIT COLLEGE's Mindset of a teenage freshmen 2001 (Those graduating now under the 5 yr plan)

HERE IS THIS YEAR'S LIST:

THE PEOPLE WHO ARE (Graduating) COLLEGE ACROSS THE NATION WERE BORN IN 1982:

THEY HAVE NO MEANINGFUL RECOLLECTION OF THE REAGAN ERA AND PROBABLY DID NOT KNOW HE HAD EVER BEEN SHOT.

THEY WERE PREPUBESCENT WHEN THE First PERSIAN GULF WAR WAS WAGED.

BLACK MONDAY 1987 IS AS SIGNIFICANT TO THEM AS THE GREAT DEPRESSION.

THEY WERE 11 WHEN THE SOVIET UNION BROKE APART AND DO NOT REMEMBER THE COLD WAR.

THEY HAVE NEVER FEARED A NUCLEAR WAR.

THEY ARE TOO YOUNG TO REMEMBER Challenger BLOWING UP.

TIANAMEN SQUARE MEANS NOTHING TO THEM.

THEY WERE IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WHEN THE BERLIN WALL FELL, AND HAVE NO REAL MEMORY OF AN 'EAST' OR 'WEST' GERMANY.

THEIR LIFETIME HAS ALWAYS INCLUDED AIDS.

BOTTLE CAPS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN SCREW OFF AND PLASTIC.

COLA CAN LIDS HAVE ALWAYS HAD OPENERS THAT DIDN'T DETACH.

ATARI PREDATES THEM, AS DO VINYL ALBUMS.

THE statement "YOU SOUND LIKE A BROKEN RECORD" MEANS NOTHING TO THEM.

THEY HAVE NEVER OWNED A RECORD PLAYER.

THEY HAVE LIKELY NEVER PLAYED PAC MAN AND HAVE NEVER HEARD OF PONG.

THEY MAY HAVE NEVER HEARD OF AN 8 TRACK.

THE COMPACT DISC WAS INTRODUCED WHEN THE WERE 1 YEAR OLD.

THEY HAVE ALWAYS HAD AN ANSWERING MACHINE

MOST HAVE NEVER SEEN A TV SET WITH ONLY 13 CHANNELS NOR A BLACK/WHITE TV.

THEY HAVE ALWAYS HAD CABLE.

THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN VCRs, BUT THEY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT BETA IS.

THEY CANNOT FATHOM NOT HAVING A REMOTE CONTROL.

THEY WERE BORN THE YEAR THAT WALKMEN WERE INTRODUCED BY SONY.

ROLLER-SKATING HAS ALWAYS MEANT INLINE FOR THEM.

JAY LENO HAS ALWAYS BEEN ON THE TONIGHT SHOW.

THEY HAVE NO IDEA WHEN OR WHY JORDACHE JEANS WERE COOL.

POPCORN HAS ALWAYS BEEN COOKED IN THE MICROWAVE.

THEY HAVE NEVER SEEN LARRY BIRD PLAY.

THEY NEVER TOOK A SWIM AND THOUGHT ABOUT JAWS.

THE VIETNAM WAR IS AS ANCIENT HISTORY TO THEM AS WW1, WW II AND THE CIVIL WAR.

THEY HAVE NO IDEA THAT AMERICANS WERE EVER HELD HOSTAGE IN IRAN.

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, DE PLANE...

THEY DO NOT CARE WHO SHOT J. R. AND HAVE NO IDEA WHO J. R. IS

THE TITANIC WAS FOUND? THEY THOUGHT WE ALWAYS KNEW WHERE IT WAS.

MICHAEL JACKSON HAS ALWAYS BEEN WHITE.

KANSAS, CHICAGO, BOSTON, AMERICA, AND ALABAMA ARE PLACES, NOT GROUPS.

McDonald's NEVER CAME IN STYROFOAM CONTAINERS.

THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN MTV.

THEY DON'T HAVE A CLUE HOW TO USE A TYPEWRITER.

THERE HAS BEEN A COMPUTER IN THEIR HOUSES THROUGHOUT THEIR TEENS, AND THEY ENTERED COLLEGE FULLY IN THE INTERNET GENERATION.

~faith,

Timothy.

TazziRN, RN · Feb 12, 2006

Thank you, Timothy.......I no longer feel like a dinosaur..........

Nooooo, I feel like I'm from the Dawn of Evolution............ :lol2:

sanctuary, BSN, MSN, RN · Feb 12, 2006

OK, all you wise crones, have any of you sharpened needles?? Talk about dating myself!!! We had this instrument that Central Supply used to rinse out the bore of the needles, then ran the tip over a cotton ball. If it snagged, we put it in a grinder, and sharpened it. :rolleyes: True, I started in a state hospital that was a bit behind the times, but it was 42 years ago. Glass syringes?? Oh, yes. Glass med cups, sure, for liquids. Glass eye-wash cups (always blue, for some reason), and glass beakers, rubber catheters, and tube feedings prepared by mushing up whatever the regular diet was. Patients would be tube fed at meal times, gravity fed, sitting up, in the dining area if the unit had one. Still don't like pumping canned liquids all night. Patient can't lay flat to sleep, always have runny stools, and never smell normal food. Best they can hope for is a vanilla burp. Oh, well, some of the old stuff just seems better. But now that I'm thinking about the old days, anybody else get a half stripe when you were half through school? :nurse:

JustMe · Feb 12, 2006

Dear Sanctuary,

Yup--got my half stripe on my cap in the second year of my 2-year program. I didn't have to sharpen needles:eek: but I was around even before Ticlid--try Persantine! I learned to put together the manifold and transducer for a Swan the old fashioned way and it had to be flushed manually every hour! We also had to pre-fill syringes with iced saline (using sterile technique) to be injected for cardiac output. We didn't have feeding pumps either--still not sure I agree with that one. But you're only as old as your patients make you feel!

SillyLilly · Mar 26, 2006

(This is an older one, the newer ones are too political.)
BELOIT COLLEGE's Mindset of a teenage freshmen 2001 (Those graduating now under the 5 yr plan)
HERE IS THIS YEAR'S LIST:
THE PEOPLE WHO ARE (Graduating) COLLEGE ACROSS THE NATION WERE BORN IN 1982:
THEY HAVE NO MEANINGFUL RECOLLECTION OF THE REAGAN ERA AND PROBABLY DID NOT KNOW HE HAD EVER BEEN SHOT.
THEY WERE PREPUBESCENT WHEN THE First PERSIAN GULF WAR WAS WAGED.
BLACK MONDAY 1987 IS AS SIGNIFICANT TO THEM AS THE GREAT DEPRESSION.
THEY WERE 11 WHEN THE SOVIET UNION BROKE APART AND DO NOT REMEMBER THE COLD WAR.
THEY HAVE NEVER FEARED A NUCLEAR WAR.
THEY ARE TOO YOUNG TO REMEMBER Challenger BLOWING UP.
TIANAMEN SQUARE MEANS NOTHING TO THEM.
THEY WERE IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WHEN THE BERLIN WALL FELL, AND HAVE NO REAL MEMORY OF AN 'EAST' OR 'WEST' GERMANY.
THEIR LIFETIME HAS ALWAYS INCLUDED AIDS.
BOTTLE CAPS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN SCREW OFF AND PLASTIC.
COLA CAN LIDS HAVE ALWAYS HAD OPENERS THAT DIDN'T DETACH.
ATARI PREDATES THEM, AS DO VINYL ALBUMS.
THE statement "YOU SOUND LIKE A BROKEN RECORD" MEANS NOTHING TO THEM.
THEY HAVE NEVER OWNED A RECORD PLAYER.
THEY HAVE LIKELY NEVER PLAYED PAC MAN AND HAVE NEVER HEARD OF PONG.
THEY MAY HAVE NEVER HEARD OF AN 8 TRACK.
THE COMPACT DISC WAS INTRODUCED WHEN THE WERE 1 YEAR OLD.
THEY HAVE ALWAYS HAD AN ANSWERING MACHINE
MOST HAVE NEVER SEEN A TV SET WITH ONLY 13 CHANNELS NOR A BLACK/WHITE TV.
THEY HAVE ALWAYS HAD CABLE.
THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN VCRs, BUT THEY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT BETA IS.
THEY CANNOT FATHOM NOT HAVING A REMOTE CONTROL.
THEY WERE BORN THE YEAR THAT WALKMEN WERE INTRODUCED BY SONY.
ROLLER-SKATING HAS ALWAYS MEANT INLINE FOR THEM.
JAY LENO HAS ALWAYS BEEN ON THE TONIGHT SHOW.
THEY HAVE NO IDEA WHEN OR WHY JORDACHE JEANS WERE COOL.
POPCORN HAS ALWAYS BEEN COOKED IN THE MICROWAVE.
THEY HAVE NEVER SEEN LARRY BIRD PLAY.
THEY NEVER TOOK A SWIM AND THOUGHT ABOUT JAWS.
THE VIETNAM WAR IS AS ANCIENT HISTORY TO THEM AS WW1, WW II AND THE CIVIL WAR.
THEY HAVE NO IDEA THAT AMERICANS WERE EVER HELD HOSTAGE IN IRAN.
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, DE PLANE...
THEY DO NOT CARE WHO SHOT J. R. AND HAVE NO IDEA WHO J. R. IS
THE TITANIC WAS FOUND? THEY THOUGHT WE ALWAYS KNEW WHERE IT WAS.
MICHAEL JACKSON HAS ALWAYS BEEN WHITE.
KANSAS, CHICAGO, BOSTON, AMERICA, AND ALABAMA ARE PLACES, NOT GROUPS.
McDonald's NEVER CAME IN STYROFOAM CONTAINERS.
THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN MTV.
THEY DON'T HAVE A CLUE HOW TO USE A TYPEWRITER.
THERE HAS BEEN A COMPUTER IN THEIR HOUSES THROUGHOUT THEIR TEENS, AND THEY ENTERED COLLEGE FULLY IN THE INTERNET GENERATION.
~faith,
Timothy.

Ha, I was born in 1982 and dont have cable. But i learned about this stuff in my history classes hehe.... yet alot of it is true, including no clue about typewriters and alwasys knowing how to use a computer.

ZZTopRN, BSN, RN · Mar 26, 2006

P_RN

I love it! Ziplock bag and a telephone receiver. That is too funny, but it works, huh?

TazziRN, RN · Mar 26, 2006

"Ha, I was born in 1982.......i learned about this stuff in my history classes hehe....."

Gee thanks......I think I heard my bones creaking again...........

Duchess Deni · Mar 26, 2006

My fav. method of crushing is a small pair of jewlery pliers I bought no teeth in them I crush the pill still in the packedt and no mus/no fus (quiet too)

Home Health Columnist / Guide · Mar 26, 2006

Never tried the phone receiver but Ensure can, hemastat and heavysteel pull crusher all work.

Just got a mortar and pestal at Philadelphia Flower show so DS can crush his herbs when cooking.

AussieTina · Mar 26, 2006

Thank you, Timothy.......I no longer feel like a dinosaur..........
No but I do now :uhoh21:
I did the "de plane, de plane' thing with my 11 year old son today when he pointed out a jet flying over head and he just looked at me as if I was crazy
Tina