The difference 50 years makes – 1960 – 2010

1960: Long hair
2010: Longing for hair

1960: KEG
2010: EKG

1960: Acid rock
2010: Acid reflux

1960: Moving to California because it’s  cool
2010: Moving to Arizona because it’s  warm

1960: Trying to look like Marlon Brando  or Liz Taylor
2010: Trying NOT to look like  Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor

1960: Seeds and  stems
2010: Roughage

1960: Hoping for a  BMW
2010: Hoping for a BM

1960: Going to a new, hip  joint
2010: Receiving a new hip joint

1960: Rolling Stones
2010: Kidney Stones

1960: Screw the  system
2010: Upgrade the system

1960: Disco
2010: Costco

1960: Parents begging you to get your  hair cut
2010: Children begging you to get their  heads shaved

1960: Passing the drivers’  test
2010: Passing the vision  test

1960: Whatever
2010: 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 mindset 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 1992.

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 2 years before 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.

Mc Donald’s never came in Styrofoam containers.