Posted on 06/07/2004 1:31:59 PM PDT by Cinnamon Girl
That's funny...I think I will have to record a new answering machine message tonight.:)
Thanks for the ping. I was 8 when Reagan was elected and this thread brings back so many memories!
I put the "bumper" stickers on the body.
My last car (a Ford Aspire) only had a fairly narrow strip of metal on the back, what with windows, tail-lights, lift handle, license plate depression, etc.
My current car (a PT Cruiser) has all the room in the world for magnetic stickers.
But where is the metal for it to stick? These things are covered in plastic and fiberglass, and separated from serious metal by a gap of air.
http://www.georgewbushstore.com/cgi-bin/SoftCart.exe/scstore/600-6004.htm?L+scstore+dgai3597+1086734974
I really like mine. I got them for me, my daughter and grandchildren.
The body of the car is not.
Plenty of room.
This is all too typical of people who seek to lift themselves up by putting others down.
So I thought I would toggle a site that might give better credence to what you said:
Stephen's Generation X Site - Who ARE Generation X?
To quote:
"Just like most Boomers weren't pot-smoking hippies, most Gen-Xers aren't "slackers". Most are decent, pragmatic, creative, strongly independent, self-reliant, and hard-working. We have a surprisingly good work ethic - including a strong sense of company loyalty, as long as it's reciprocal - and we want to get ahead, even though we aren't as concerned with the trappings of "success" as earlier generations were. However, we're very concerned with financial and emotional security. We're hopeful that the future will be good to us, but we're also shockingly realistic and honest about the struggles we're going to face in a rapidly changing world of diminishing resources, an elderly society, and a culture dominated by, and designed for, "Baby Boomers"
I thank you very much....
That was what I always thought, based on reading "Generation X" by Douglas Coupland--the book that supposedly named us (at least by media accounts, but what do they know?). Sort of a unknown generation, like an 'X' in algebra--"Solve for X! They don't know what they are doing!"
But there is another book, the Fourth Turning by Strauss and Howe that I think talks about us being the 10th generation since the founding of the US. I read a bit of that then a pretty butterfly took my attention and I forgot about it (till just now).
Oh look, a plane ...
Oh wait, they call us the "13th Generation" not the tenth generation.
Damn butterflies ...
We're around the same age. I never really considered myself a boomer, but not quite Gen X either. The Reagan generation is a perfect description. My first vote at 18 was for Ronaldus Maximus and I've voted straight conservative ever since. It probably helped that one of my earliest memorys was of my mom walking me downtown to republican headquarters to get my sister & me Goldwater baloons and buttons. LOL.
Great article, CG. I am also a later "Boomer", born in the late 50's and inbetween the two generations...in HS in the 70's. Went to college in 76 and my roomate kept telling me about this guy running for President named Jimmy Carter.
Since my parents NEVER shared their political opinions with me I was left to fend for myself. When asked how he voted my dad would always reply, "You mean for the dumb Democrats or the rotten Republicans?" So my first vote was cast for Carter (I've repented here several times since I came her 4 years ago, LOL). But to make things worse, I campaigned for him in '80. and was so distressed he lost to Reagan.
Needless to say, I got married, grew up (in that order) and voted for Ronald Reagan in 1984. I am proud I got to vote for him at least once and rectify my terrible mistake of the previous election. :)
I have great hopes for the "Gen-Xers" (I like Gen-Reagan better!) My daughter just turned 18 and will vote in her first election. Thankfully she has common sense.
BUMP
a tweener?
hehehe.
moodyskeptic. that anything like a disappointed realist?
I guess that fits me, the Disco Generation, LOL. But my teeth were first cut on the Beatles. We are the kids from "That 70's Show", though I've never seen it.
My daughter first voted in 2000. She went to all the freep gore rallies with me. What an experience for her.
We used to take our kids to pro-life rallies when they wer little and I took them to the rallies after the 2000 election. I hope one of them has inherited a little activist blood for their own children some day. :)
I forgot to add that I grew up in Maryland, about 20 minutes from Washington, DC. I can't tell you how many times I've seen stuff on here about the DC freeps knowing if I still lived there, I'd have been down there, too.
This seems to be the breakdown of the Generations that have set foot on American soil
Arthurian 1433-1460
Humanist 1461-1482
Picaresque 1512-1540
Elizabethan 1541-1565
Sentimental 1566-1587
Puritan (Righteous)1588-1614
Cavalier 1615-1647
Glorious 1648-1673
Enlightenment 1647-1700
Awakening 1701-1723
Liberty 1724-1741
Republican 1742-1766
Compromise 1767-1791
Transcendental 1792-1821
Gilded 1822-1842
Progressive 1843-1859.
Missionary 1860-1882
Lost 1883-1900
G.I. (WWII, Greatest) 1901-1927.
Silent 1928-1945
Baby Boomers (Me, Worst) 1946-1964
Generation X (Baby Busters, Reagan) 1965-1981
Generation Y (Echo Boom, Millennial) 1982-1996
Generation Z (Cyber, New Adaptive) 1997-2025?
I've heard that we are the 13th before but I only count 10 going back to the founding of America,
The only way we could be 13th if we break the late Baby Boomers off into Generation Jones and the early WWII off into the Flappers and maybe split the large time period Transcendentals.
But if you do that you can do that with most generations and we would end up being the 20-26th
Then again, Some of the founding fathers (i.e. Ben Franklin Born 1706) were of the Awakening Generation, So if you count back to them we are the 13th generation if not we are the 10th.
Great! Thanks for the site. Since I have that stupid painted-plastic bumper, the normal stickers destroy it. My MD Gov sticker destroyed it last year and took me a week to get it all off - complete w/razor-blade smudges! On a car that was only a year old!
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