[2205] in Humor
HUMOR: It's a perspective
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sharalee M. Field)
Thu Dec 11 09:40:06 1997
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 09:35:10 -0500
To: humor@MIT.EDU, mowu@MIT.EDU, mgshea@aol.com, wheger@wbc-architects.com,
Kris_Kelly@notes.pw.com, jbran18610@aol.com, dunbar@MIT.EDU,
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Maryellen Fitzgibbon <mfitzgib@fas.harvard.edu>
From: "Sharalee M. Field" <sharalee_field@harvard.edu>
>From: "Gingras, Jack (GEAE)" <jack.gingras@ae.ge.com>
>Subject: It's a perspective
>Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 06:50:34 -0500
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>
>Good morning,
> Thought I'd start the day off thinking how young I feel.
>
>> Are you feeling old? If not, consider this:
>>
>> - The people who are starting college this fall across the nation
>> were born in 1980.
>>
>> - The Iranian hostage crisis occurred before they were conceived.
>>
>> - They have no memory of a time before M-TV.
>>
>> - "New Wave" is their PARENTS' musical generation; the Beatles
>> are their GRANDPARENTS'.
>>
>> - Cyndi Lauper, Boy George, the Pretenders, the Kinks, the Sex
>> Pistols
>> are all old musicians they _may_ have heard of.
>>
>> - They have no meaningful recollection of the Reagan era.
>>
>> - They were prepubescent when the Persian Gulf War was waged.
>>
>> - Black Monday 1987 is as significant to them as the Great
>> Depression.
>>
>> - Their world has always included AIDS.
>>
>> - Having not endured the Disco Scare, they can romanticize the 1970s.
>>
>> - They see "Family Ties" as something middle aged ladies watch.
>>
>> - They watched "Star Wars" years ago, when they were kids -- on
>> video.
>>
>> - Atari predates them, as do vinyl albums and cassette audiotapes;
>> they
>> may have heard of an 8-track, but probably never actually seen (or
>> heard) one.
>>
>> - From their earliest years, a camera was something you used once
>> and threw away.
>>
>> - As far as they know, stamps have always cost about 32 cents.
>>
>> - The oil crisis is history of which they probably know nothing --
>> and why anyone WOULDN'T buy a Suburban is beyond them.
>>
>> - Most of them have probably never seen a real nun, even if they
>> went to Catholic schools.
>>
>Jack
>x Jack Gingras
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>
>
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