Posted on 08/28/2004 4:23:24 PM PDT by UB355
The Beloit College Mindset List, Class Of 2008 Posted: Aug. 27, 2004
1. Most students entering college this fall were born in 1986.
2. Desi Arnaz, Orson Welles, Roy Orbison, Ted Bundy, Ayatollah Khomeini and Cary Grant have always been dead.
3. "Heeeere's Johnny!" is a scary greeting from Jack Nicholson in the movie "The Shining," not a warm welcome from Ed McMahon on "The Tonight Show."
4. The Energizer bunny has always been going, and going, and going.
5. Large fine-print ads for prescription drugs have always appeared in magazines.
6. Photographs have always been processed in an hour or less.
7. They never got a chance to drink 7-Up Gold, Crystal Pepsi or Apple Slice.
8. Baby Jessica McClure, the Texas toddler rescued from a well in 1987, could be a classmate.
9. Parents may have been reading "The Bourne Supremacy" or "It" as they rocked them in their cradles.
10. Alan Greenspan has always been setting the nation's financial direction.
11. The U.S. has always been a Prozac nation.
12. They have always enjoyed the comfort of pleather.
13. Harry has always known Sally.
14. They never saw Roseanne Roseannadanna live on "Saturday Night Live."
15. There has always been a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
16. They never ate a McSub at McD's.
17. There has always been a Comedy Channel.
18. Bill and Ted have always been on an excellent adventure.
19. They were never tempted by smokeless cigarettes.
20. Robert Downey Jr. has always been in trouble.
21. Martha Stewart has always been cooking up something with someone.
22. They have always been comfortable with gay characters on television.
23. Mike Tyson has always been a contender.
24. The government has always been proposing we go to Mars, and it has always been deemed too expensive.
25. There have never been any Playboy Clubs.
26. There have always been night games at Wrigley Field.
27. Rogaine has always been available for the follicularly challenged.
28. They never saw USA Today or the Christian Science Monitor as a TV news program.
29. Computers have always suffered from viruses.
30. We have always been mapping the human genome.
31. Politicians have always used rock music for theme songs.
32. Network television has always struggled to keep up with cable.
33. Chicago's O'Hare has always been the most delay-plagued airport in the U.S.
34. Ivan Boesky has never sold stock.
35. Toll-free 800 phone numbers have always spelled out catchy phrases.
36. Bethlehem has never been a place of peace at Christmas.
37. Episcopal women bishops have always threatened the foundation of the Anglican Church.
38. Svelte Oprah Winfrey has always dominated afternoon television; who was Phil Donahue anyway?
39. They never flew on People Express.
40. AZT has always been used to treat AIDS.
41. The international community has always been installing or removing the leader of Haiti.
42. Oliver North has always been a talk-show host and news commentator.
43. They have suffered through airport security systems since they were in strollers.
44. They have done most of their search for the right college online.
45. Aspirin has always been used to reduce the risk of a heart attack.
46. They were spared the TV ads for Zamfir and his panpipes.
47. Cuba's Fidel Castro has always been an aging politician in a suit.
48. There have always been non-stop flights around the world without refueling.
49. Cher hasn't aged a day.
50. M.A.S.H. was a game: Mansion, Apartment, Shelter, House.
Source: Beloit College
This again?
Ted Bundy was executed in 1989.
These aren't even life/culural events.
What a boring waste of paper.
Yep, it's almost September
Kids today don't know that "quarter after", "Half past", and "quarter till" are all times.
Some of these are so off the mark that I pity the students of Beloit College.
They have never seen a caboose on a train.
They have been gone that long ?
Paul McCartney was is a group BEFORE "Wings."
Carbon paper.
Golly whillickers, they also missed:
Pet rocks.
B&W Only TV.
Actual TV programs with plots and scripts.
Fins on cars.
When "I Love Lucy" was a first run show.
The Carol Burnette Show.
Laugh-In.
John Glenn's first space flight.
The Mercury space capsules.
The Gemini space capsules.
The Apollo space capsules.
The "real" moon walk.
Moon rocks.
Moonies.
Hippies.
Love children.
Love-ins.
The Love Boat.
Shall I stop?
Too funny!!
Good points.
Their list in the past has been pretty good. This years was disappointing though. #3, Carson was on The Tonight Show into the 90's.#19 I don't think anyone was ever tempted by smokeless cigarettes, as they were never sold (maybe in a test market)#41 We have always been imposing or deposing a Hatiian leader, the place has never been stable and probably won't be
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