30 years ...

[Betty Boop]

One of my girlfriends from many years ago sent this to me ... It has circulated for a bit now but I haven't seen it here. And we graduated in 1974 and yes, I realize A LOT of you weren't even born yet ...

30 Years makes a difference


1973: Long hair
2003: Longing for hair


1973: KEG
2003: EKG


1973: Acid rock
2003: Acid reflux


1973: Moving to California because it's cool
2003: Moving to California because it's warm


1973: Trying to look like Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor

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



1973: Hoping for a BMW
2003: Hoping for a BM


1973: The Grateful Dead
2003: Dr. Kevorkian


1973: Going to a new, hip joint
2003: Receiving a new hip joint


1973: Rolling Stones
2003: Kidney Stones


1973: Being called into the principal's office
2003: Calling the principal's office


1973: Screw the system
2003: Upgrade the system


1973: Disco
2003: Costco


1973: Parents begging you to get your hair cut
2003: Children begging you to get their heads shaved


1973: Passing the drivers' test
2003: Passing the vision test


1973: 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 mind set 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 1985. 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 on your list. Notice the larger type, that's for those of you who have trouble reading.

[USMC5831]

Sad thing is that I am not much older then them but I remember most of these things. maybe I was just brought up on Old shows and stuff.

[Betty Boop]

Nothing sad, there Chris - They were great shows and great times to be a part of! I wouldn't want to be a youngster today. I had too much fun - in spite of Civil Rights, Hippies, Viet Nam, Women's Movement and all - to ever want to have grown up in another period of time. I bet that Snowden would say the same of her period of "coming of age" a generation before me!

[USMC5831]

Ok now you are talking a bit before my time all I can recelect of those times was what I learned in school when I was paying attention.

[Betty Boop]

Gee, never thought of myself as "history" - but then when I was in school, I remember American History ending with World War II! We know in fact that even in 1974 - Korea had happened and Viet Nam was over (we were the first graduating class in our school - opened in 1966 - to know that we would not lose anyone in that war) and since then Panama, Grenada, Gulf War I, Afghanistan, and now Iraq. Amazing what has happened in American History in the last 30 years, isn't it?

[USMC5831]

Yes it is amazing. it seems time flies and I have noticed teh older I get the faster it seems to go. Seemed as though i would never of graduated high school and now that is going on four years it only seems like yesterday. I know 30 years from now I will be reflecting on all the changes and what has happened. history is made everyday.

[JaiSteele]

They don't know who Mork was or where he was from.

Who?