Wear wristwatch? Use e-mail? Not for Class of '14

ap ^ | Aug 17 | DINESH RAMDE

[JoeProBono]

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- For students entering college this fall, e-mail is too slow, phones have never had cords and the computers they played with as kids are now in museums.

The Class of 2014 thinks of Clint Eastwood more as a sensitive director than as Dirty Harry urging punks to "go ahead, make my day." Few incoming freshmen know how to write in cursive or have ever worn a wristwatch....

[wilco200]

That list is mostly lame.

Here’s my non-pretentious version (for just changes over the past 40 years)

#1: Let your kids sit in the way back of a station wagon and w/o seat belts
#2: Riding a bike without a helmet
#3: Pay phones
#4: Leaving a bar smelling like smoke
#5: Watching a TV show when it originally airs
#6: No Internet
#7: No Home Depot
#8: Having to buy 12 sucky songs just to get one good one
#9: Smoking wherever you want
#10: Eating whatever you want

[KarlInOhio]

There’s something wrong with my new cell phone....there’s no dial tone.

You have to click the handle a few times and ask for Mabel to make the connection for you.

[BulletBobCo]

And how to kill time at the pub while waiting for the techs to put your printouts in your bin.

You went to Coleman College too?

[beaversmom]

I’m not one of these people that has my cell phone permanently attached to my body. I just have a cheapie Tracfone. Occasionally, while using it, I find myself listening for a dial tone. I’m very “latest technology” challenged.

[JoeProBono]

[ßuddaßudd]

A wristwatch?
Not wearing one enables me . ∞ .

[cicero2k]

On this one:

“31. The first computer they probably touched was an Apple II; it is now in a museum. “

I disagree. It was probably a Mac variant.

This list would make my 26-31 YO kids feel old, let alone me.

[JoeProBono]

[MozarkDawg]

Nice!

This is my favorite of my bunch:

When I saw it at the Warner Bros. store more than twenty years ago, I had to have it -- it has "me" written all over it, those little cracks around Wile E's head!

[JoeProBono]

[a fool in paradise]

"Never be able to own a house."

Dah! Vill be new "smartgrowth" use of real estate, comrade.

[Roccus]

Through the 70s and 80s I didn’t wear a wrist watch for safety reasons, but I carried a covered pocket watch. When my job changed, I went back to, and continue to wear a wrist watch.

Someone (Malcolm X?) once said that a man who didn’t wear a watch was willing to waste the most valuable thing he had.....time.

[Snickering Hound]

74. They’ve always been able to blast off with the Sci-Fi Channel.

It's been changed to "SyFy" which is copywritable and can't be derisivily called "Sciffy".

[a fool in paradise]

I bought my most recent wristwatch (with hour, minutes, seconds hands) new on ebay for $1.

[KarlInOhio]

Boris and Natasha? They don't even remember Mikhail Gorbachev except as the failed leader of a superpower turned into an international busybody, kind of like Jimmy Carter.

(Left power at the end of 1991, which was around the middle of when the college class of 2014 was being born. Excuse me while I go somewhere to feel old.)

[Excellence]

I ran one of those!

[a fool in paradise]

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have now been around for 26 years (they date back to 1984).

[a fool in paradise]

No cellphone. No pager.

[MozarkDawg]

#1: Let your kids sit in the way back of a station wagon and w/o seat belts

Oh man, it's been more than thirty years! The trips to the public pool in summer, holding your towel out the back window until Mom had a cow and rolled the window up!

[a fool in paradise]

Does a boxer really need to know what time it is in the ring?