From kcds1@Juno.com Sat Nov 15 21:50:04 1997
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 20:23:33 -0500
From: THE BIG PIG <kcds1@Juno.com>
Newsgroups: alt.tasteless.jokes
Subject: Are You Feeling Old

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Received the following from Smart Lady of the House Janice via Smart Lady of
the House Kathleen of Cazenovia, New York:
Are You Feeling Old?
interesting!
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.
  * Cyndi Lauper, Boy George, the Pretenders, the Kinks, the Sex Pistols -
are all old music they have heard of, if they have heard of it at all.
  * They have no meaningful recollection of the Reagan era.
  * They were prepubescent when the Persian Gulf War was waged.
  * If they have heard the name "Oliver North," it was probably as a losing
Congressional candidate, or perhaps in some obscure survey history text's
reference, such as might be made to Huey Long or Teapot Dome.
  * Black Monday 1987 is as significant to them as the Great Depression.
  * Their world has always included AIDS.
  * Having not lived through 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.
  * 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 or 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.
(:)POOR INNOCENT GUY QUOTE OF THE DAY: "3 pr. Underwear--$6"--from President
Bill Clinton's 1986 income tax return, listing deductions on items donated
to the Salvation Army
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THE BIG PIG
(:)PIGS (Poor Innocent Guys Society)
Dedicated to Poor Innocent Guys (victims of the wiles of women)
and the SLOTHS (Smart Ladies of the House)
who put up with them