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What about us Johnson and Nixon babies?  What are we, toothless geezers with one foot in the grave?  :o

This happened to me several years ago.  I mentioned The Smiths, and this kid had never heard of them.

Who are The Smiths?
You know, the band Morrissey was in.
Morrissey was in a band?

Hello, sonny!
--Grandpa Max
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LOL...I've come across this before for instance people not realising Paul Weller was in the Style Council or The Jam, s'pose you take it for granted people would know this when you've grown up through it.

8)

Sir Col

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What about us Johnson and Nixon babies?  What are we, toothless geezers with one foot in the grave?  :o

This happened to me several years ago.  I mentioned The Smiths, and this kid had never heard of them.

Who are The Smiths?
You know, the band Morrissey was in.
Morrissey was in a band?

Hello, sonny!
--Grandpa Max
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LOL. It reminds me of people at my work. I have to tell them which sample was taken from what song previously and who originally sung what and they say I'm old . . . They'll hit 24 eventually.

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I can even remember when we had to walk across the room to change the channel on the tv.  I guess a lot of kids would keel over dead to have to do that.
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If you lived out in the country, you could get ten channels on a good day, four of them coming in snowy.  I remember the frustration of getting the rabbit ears antennae adjusted just right, only to find your body was grounding the signal.  I remember when the term "color TV" wasn't a redundancy.  I remember when only a few rich people in town had cable.  I remember when 64K was a lot of memory for a hard drive.  I remember when you had to got to the bank in the morning and wait for a teller.  I remember when soft drinks and condiments were packaged in glass.  I remember when you could buy two movie refreshments for under a buck.  I remember when a blue collar worker could buy a four bedroom house....and so on, and so on, and so on.

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There's a person at  work who is 23. One day during lunch I was talking  about music and  tv, etc of days past. Then I was talking   about VHF and UHF dials on the tv.

Her: "What's UHF?"
Me: "Get out of this room. Now!"
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Dials on a TV?  Why the heck would you need dials on a TV? LOL
You could say UHF stands for Ultra High Frequency and VHF stands for Very High Frequency, but no one would believe you.  A good way to approach the subject would be, "You've heard of Weird Al, right?  OK...."
I remember when remote control was a novelty.  My grandmother had it first, and it was like, "Coo-el, you can change the channel from all the way across the room!"
Remember going nuts trying to get the vertical hold steady? There was that little hoop antenna you'd wiggle around trying to get the UHF picture to stop going haywire.  There was a scene in "Fargo" in which the Steve Buscemi character is trying to get the TV picture clear in the cabin.  He presents a good portrayal of the frustration of broadcast signal!!  Seen it?

A while back one of the college girls at our station heard us talking about A Flock of Seagulls.  She says,
"A Flock of Seagulls, that would be a great name for a band!" Sigh.

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If you lived out in the country, you could get ten channels on a good day, four of them coming in snowy.  I remember the frustration of getting the rabbit ears antennae adjusted just right, only to find your body was grounding the signal.  I remember when the term "color TV" wasn't a redundancy.  I remember when only a few rich people in town had cable.  I remember when 64K was a lot of memory for a hard drive.  I remember when you had to got to the bank in the morning and wait for a teller.  I remember when soft drinks and condiments were packaged in glass.  I remember when you could buy two movie refreshments for under a buck.  I remember when a blue collar worker could buy a four bedroom house....and so on, and so on, and so on.
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I hear ya Smart!!!!   I also remember bell bottoms (the first time around, just barely tho.  lol).  I remember Gremlins (not the movie-the car).  :)

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all people born in the first half the 80s will be in their 20s by the end of the year
all people born in the last half the 80s will be at least 10th graders at the end of the year.
have a nice life  :)
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Yeah go ahead and rub it in kid.  

You won't be 19 forever you know.  I guess I'm a Gerald Ford baby, as I was born in 1975.  Though I have no memory of President Ford, and only the vaguest memory of Jimmy Carter in the very late 1970's.  Ronald Reagan was the first President I truly remember from the early 80's.  I'm currently 28, but I turn 29 in the summer.  I graduated high school in 1993.   In the summer of next year in 2005, I turn 30.  

I remember being 19 back in 1994 and half of 1995 like it was YESTERDAY.  Like it was yesterday.  I remember being a no good punk kid back in the 80's and early and mid 1990's and bragging about being young while everyone else was older.  WE'VE ALL BRAGGED about being young to people older then us when we were teenagers or in our very early 20's.  I did it, and it was so fun, but then I turned 25 in 2000 and the party was over.  

I have fond memories of growing up in the 80's and early-mid 90's.  I don't much care for the late 90's to present day....yuck....you Gen Y kids can have it.

Like I said, it won't last, just wait till you turn 24, then you will know what it is like when that punk kid born in 1992 or 1993 starts bragging to you about how young he is and how he dosen't remember the 90's and only has a hazy memory of the early 2000's.  It's what?  Only 4 years away for you?  

LOL, just wait till 2008 and 2009.  It's all downhill once you hit your mid 20's.    

 

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You won't be 19 forever you know.  I guess I'm a Gerald Ford baby, as I was born in 1975.  Though I have no memory of President Ford, and only the vaguest memory of Jimmy Carter in the very late 1970's.  Ronald Reagan was the first President I truly remember from the early 80's.  I'm currently 28, but I turn 29 in the summer.  I graduated high school in 1993.   In the summer of next year in 2005, I turn 30.  

LOL, just wait till 2008 and 2009.  It's all downhill once you hit your mid 20's.    
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Not for me.  As I approach my mid-30s, I find life gets better and better.  However, I had nothing remotely approaching a happy youth, and I was one of those late bloomers who looked like a teenager straight through his mid-20s.  Now that I actually look like I'm in my mid-20s ten years later, it's not so bad!  So, here it is, the beginning 2004.  You know, the ten years from 1993-2003 seemed to go by three times faster than the ten years from 1983-1993!! :o