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1974: Long hair
2004: Longing for hair
1974: KEG
2004: EKG
1974: Acid rock
2004: Acid reflux
1974: Moving to California because it's cool
2004: Moving to California because it's warm
1974: Trying to look like Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor
2004: Trying NOT to look like Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor
1974: Seeds and stems
2004: Roughage
1974: Hoping for a BMW
2004: Hoping for a BM
1974: Going to a new, hip joint
2004: Receiving a new hip joint
1974: Rolling Stones
2004: Kidney Stones
1974: Being called into the principal's office
2004: Calling the principal's office
1974: Screw the system
2004: Upgrade the system
1974: Disco
2004: Costco
1974: Parents begging you to get your hair cut
2004: Children begging you to get their heads shaved
1974: Passing the drivers' test
2004: Passing the vision test
1974: Whatever
2004: Depends
The people who are starting college this fall across the nation were born in 1986.
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
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I am a generation older than the writer of this text.
When I was growing up, there was no space program. Sputnik rocked our world in 1957.
I don't know anyone who had an answering machine in the 50s. There were no cell phones and every house had just one phone. It was in the kitchen or the hall and there was no such thing as privacy for teens when we were on the phone.
Cable TV was unknown. When I was a little boy, no one even had TV. By the late 50s, we had antennas on the top of our house or "rabbit ears" on top of the TV. All TV was black and white and the picture was usually lousy. So were the TV programs now I look back on them.
There was no McDonalds. The first I ever saw was in 1969. At that time all employees had to be boys.
ImOnMyWayUp
01-04-2005, 9:57pm
AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!! That makes me feel old LOL
Kristian
01-04-2005, 11:49pm
That seems funny :p
mama twain
01-05-2005, 12:35am
Wowsers cool post Roger.. I'm only 19 and that made me feel old..I loved watching Mork and Mindy, and having my Mom make popcorn for us on Saturday nights in the giant popcorn maker, the one where you poured the kernels into the machine and waited for them to pop... oh my, those were the days.
I had totally forgotten about McDonalds serving food in the styrofoam containers..I remember getting Big Macs in them :P
GorToma
01-05-2005, 4:47am
:great:
FinnFreak
01-05-2005, 5:34am
:biglaugh:
...I can remember watching a B&W TV in Finland... :shocked: - with only 2 channels to choose from..!
John - :p
Tut-tut, the youth these days don't even know they are born..... :funny:
Some things are better now, some worse......I remember just 3 TV channels, and one of those switched off in the afternoon. And man, no remote controls!!! The first one we had had a cable going from the so called "remote" to the video!!!
I feel sorry for people who don't know who JR was........ and to not know the greatest question in human history: "Who shot JR?"!!!
Paul:)
ka-ching
01-05-2005, 12:09pm
LOL!!!
Thanks for posting :)
Twain Fan 97
01-05-2005, 2:07pm
Hey Roger,
That was alot of fun to read! :D It really does make me feel old to think of all that. :uhh:
Yeah I remember Mork & Mindy.... and does anyone remember The Dukes of Hazzard? :shocked: I hear they are making that one into a movie soon. But anyway... I digress. :p
I remember a time when cd's didn't exist and all of our music was on cassette tapes or vinyl records. :p And when you bought a "single" it was on a little 45 record with a "B-side" song.
I do remember the Space Shuttle Challenger blowing up back in 1986. I was in college at the time.
And yes these damn remotes. :uhh: You know what's so funny? I will spend five minutes searching for the remote instead of just hitting the button on the tv to change the channel. :funny:
And does anyone remember before Shania & Britney, and even before Madonna... there was this cool group back in 1979/1980/1981 called Blondie? :D And they had this amazing female lead singer named Debbi Harry. They sang songs like "Heart of Glass", & "Call Me". :D I think 80's music still rocks!
Okay that's Ted's 2 cents. :funny:
~Lisa~
01-05-2005, 10:44pm
Yeah I remember Mork & Mindy.... and does anyone remember The Dukes of Hazzard? :shocked: And does anyone remember before Shania & Britney, and even before Madonna... there was this cool group back in 1979/1980/1981 called Blondie? :D And they had this amazing female lead singer named Debbi Harry. They sang songs like "Heart of Glass", & "Call Me". :D
Yep, I remember Mork & Mindy too...I used to watch the reruns of it here when they were on :funny: And The Dukes Of Hazzard...I used to watch it every sunday with my grandma...:funny:
And Blondie! :D They were an awesome band! :D I used to listen to them, and I still do a little bit...
Oh man, now I feel old ... :funny:
Well, it is all a matter of perspective. I notice that my kids who are in their late twenties get all nostalgic about 80s music and talk about that era as if it were a long time ago. But my perspective is much longer. To me the last twenty years still feel recent. So Debbie Harry is recent. To me the Everly Brothers and Roy Orbison are my yesterdays. The Challenger disaster is recent to me. The Kennedy assassination is old. I guess if my old dad were still alive he would consider Buddy Holly recent and Glenn Miller a long time ago.
mama twain
01-05-2005, 11:05pm
I loved Dukes of Hazzard..Every Sunday morning my Mom would wake me up early so I could watch it. :funny: Those were the days..I also really enjoyed Golden Girls..LOL and Mamma's Family. oh my. Does anyone remember the show--Hallelujah-- It was on Saturday nights when I was little..That was also one of my faves. :)
I still watch The Dukes of Hazzard!
And The Golden Girls rule!
Paul:)
Big Swede
01-06-2005, 9:20am
Well, it is all a matter of perspective. I notice that my kids who are in their late twenties get all nostalgic about 80s music and talk about that era as if it were a long time ago. But my perspective is much longer. To me the last twenty years still feel recent. So Debbie Harry is recent. To me the Everly Brothers and Roy Orbison are my yesterdays. The Challenger disaster is recent to me. The Kennedy assassination is old. I guess if my old dad were still alive he would consider Buddy Holly recent and Glenn Miller a long time ago.
Itīs quite interesting to see how all people kinda get stuck in time when they grow older, :p I can sometimes for example see an ad for a car and think: Hmm thatīs a fair price for a car from 1995, itīs almost new, and then I come to think of it,OMG! that car is ten years old! :eek:
It was almost brand new when I got my license and started to buy cars for real :p Somehow we get stuck in different parts of life...
get all nostalgic about 80s musicAaaaahhhh, those were the days..... *sigh*
:p
Aaaaahhhh, those were the days..... *sigh*
:p
LOL!! I thought for a moment you were referring to Mary Hopkins hit "Those were the days..." but you were referring to 80s music and Hopkins' song was a hit in 1968.
Well here is my 2p or 2 cents worth.
I was born in Montrose Angus in Scotland back in 1949. As a pre school child I remember the post war rations and hardships, I used to bath in the Kitchen Sink as our flat above the Tavern my Parents ran had no bathroom. There was not TV, only Radio.
There was no traffic lights, no yellow lines, no paid parking spaces and hardly any cars, which is just as well as Scotlands road system was a mess back then. Polio was the major medical buzz word only to be followed by Typhoid when it hit the NE of Scotand in the early 60's. My Dad moved us all to Australia where we still had no TV only Radio. We got our first Car, still no parking fines, but I remember the Suez Crisis and the Cold War, the A and H bomb tests. I remember the French getting involved is some place called Vietnam, though I had no idea where that was..
I rember the Sputnik, and Telstar, the first Trans Atlantic LIVE TV link on the BBC for I was back in Scotland and we had our first TV before moving to Australia I saw the Queen's corenation in Shaky black and white.
I remember the the Cuban Crisis, the World held it's breath as East and West got very close to using there missiles and bombers for real. The day Kennedy was shot, 78 rmp records and the launch in 1957 of the new fangled 45 rpm 'microgroove' singles and 12 inch Long Play records - a major advance at the time. I remember the launch of 'Stereo' and marvelling at it, just as I was in 1968 to marvel at the first public demo's of 625 line UHF colour TV.
Who could forget as a young 20 year old staying up all night to watch Man land on the Moon, or England winning the World Cup football, or Abba winning the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest back in 1974 with Waterloo, or the Carpenters singing just for BBC TV back in 1973. Early TV the "Billy Cotton" Band Show, the Black and White Minstrals, I Love Lucy, The Test Card, the "interlude" while the BBC moved the TV camera from studio to studio..
Who could forget the day Pounds Shillings and Pennies died and the UK went Decimal for the first time. The day the USA sent it's first troops to Vietnam, the day the UK was declaired bankrupt by the Intenational Bank and the Pound devalued 28%, the day the Queen launched the first North Sea Oil, my first Girl ;) My first 'mode' of transport - a Honda 50cc moped! My first car - a Ford Thames Van with column gear shift and vacuum wipers eeek they never worked.
Who could forget the Oil crisis and Fuel rationing in the UK back in the Early 70's or fuel prices going through the roof and the Winter of discontent with the miners strike and the 3 day week when only 33% of the UK was allowed electric power at any one time.
The day Winston Churchill died, the day Margret Thatcher took the UK to war with Argintina, the day the music died (oh that was a song sorry ;) ) my first discotheque show, my first radio show, my first love. The day I discovered Shania and the first time I visited Timmins.... Wow a long list but anyone my age who does not realise what a trip this life is must be blind.
And the wonderful thing about this all, at 55 life is still an uncharted book just waiting for me to make my mark. So happy new Year to all you young folk, go get 'em Tiger :)
Major inventions in my lifetime (so far and this is only the ones I can remember!)
Colour TV
Traffic lights
Stereo
FM Stereo
Communications and TV Satellite's in Geo earth orbit
Space Travel
Commercial Jet Aircraft
Supersonic commercial jet Aircraft
Mass Air Travel
Mass Car travel
The H Bomb
Cures for :
Measles
Mumps
Small Pox
Polio
Typhoid
Medical proceedures such as
Transplant Surgery
NMR Scanning (invented at Aberdeen University by the way)
Joint replacements
Grafting and implant surgery
Personal Computers
Personal hi fi systems
Casette Tapes
CD's
45 rpm and Microgroove LP records
8 track
Transistor Radio's
Micro Processors
Cell phones
Offshore Oil and Gas
Major advances in space science and exploration
The Pill
Hovercraft
Credit Cards
Gaming systems - Pong Space Invaders etc..
Alco Pops
Nuclear Power
The Internet
and best of all - YOU LOT, the millions of Shania Twain fans in every country of this small world of ours. CU in Timmins for Fan Convention number 3 August 2005! :D
Tom, I've got five years on you. I remember playing in bomb shelters as a kid in England. I remember ration books too.
You mention England winning the World Cup. That was the same day Kay and I got married. My dad was an old bulldog of an Englishman. He was in his glory that day!
There was no vaccination for mumps in those days. Parents with boys used to hope they would get the mumps before puberty. I got them when I was eight. I still remember the stiff neck - agonizing!
Any other old men like to reminisce? ;)
LOL!! I thought for a moment you were referring to Mary Hopkins hit "Those were the days..." but you were referring to 80s music and Hopkins' song was a hit in 1968.Those were the days my friend, I thought they'd never end :p
Those were the days my friend, I thought they'd never end :p
Then, the busy years went rushing by us
We lost our starry notions on the way...
Oh, my friend, we're older but no wiser
For in our hearts, the dreams are still the same
I feel old... mainly cause we didn't have a tv with remote control until 94... lol...
canoilers
01-09-2005, 10:10pm
Bieng that I was born in 1974 I could make a list. :p Thats great.
Twain Fan 97
01-10-2005, 3:39pm
Hey Sean, I could make a list too. :D But since I was born in 66, does that mean my list has to be longer than yours? :nervous: :p
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