The Generation gap... (A ScreaminWeasel special)

[Homeless]

30 Years difference



1972: Long hair
2003: Longing for hair

1972: The perfect high
2003: The perfect high yield mutual fund

1972: KEG
2003: EKG

1972: Acid rock
2003: Acid reflux

1972: Moving to California because it's cool
2003: Moving to California because it's warm

1972: Growing pot
2003: Growing pot belly

1972: Trying to look like Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor
2003: Trying NOT to look like Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor

1972: Seeds and stems
2003: Roughage

1972: Killer weed
2003: Weed killer

1972: Hoping for a BMW
2003: Hoping for a BM

1972: The Grateful Dead
2003: Dr. Kevorkian

1972: Going to a new, hip joint
2003: Receiving a new hip joint

1972: Rolling Stones
2003: Kidney Stones

1972: Being called into the principal's office
2003: Calling the principal's office

1972: Screw the system
2003: Upgrade the system

1972: Disco
2003: Costco

1972: Parents begging you to get your hair cut
2003: Children begging you to get their heads shaved

1972: Passing the drivers' test
2003: Passing the vision test

1972: Whatever
2003: Depends

Just in case you weren't feeling too old today, this will certainly change things. Each year the staff at Beloit College in Wisconsin puts 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.

McDonald's never came in Styrofoam containers.

They don't have a clue how to use a typewriter.

Do you feel old yet? Pass this on to the other old fogies in your life.

Geez im old !

[slowkidz]

LOL....it must suck being old!!

j/k...im only about 3yrs away from that myself.....lol

[Canadian Seahawk]

thats funny as hell...............good thing I was born in 74 or maybe thats a bad thing

[fntsyrookie]

I can tell by some of those that I'm starting to creep up there a little bit.

[Dazedncnfz]

I can tell by some of those that I'm starting to creep up there a little bit.

alittle bit!...i was born in 75 and i know most of them ..dam you homey!

[Roseman]

I can tell by some of those that I'm starting to creep up there a little bit.

alittle bit!...i was born in 75 and i know most of them ..dam you homey!

I was born the same year as you Dazed and I remember most of those too. And what life was like before those things were invented. Like watching TV with the wired remote BOX that 14 channels and you had to flick the switch to go to the next 14.

Thank God those days are over!!!!

[awwchrist]

I was born in 74 as well...


anyone else getting grey hairs?

[CVhawk]

Man thats messed up.I just turned 32 last month now it feels like 42.LOL!How about turning the UHF dial to get the two stations that were on TV.How about watching Monday Night Footballs halftime show just to see highlites of the sunday games.Man those were the days!

[terpfan]

u old fogies!

[Homeless]

u old fogies!

Bleh ! you'll miss us when were dead terpteen !