Most students entering college this fall were born in 1984.

1. A Southerner has always been President of the United States.

2. Richard Burton, Ricky Nelson and Truman Capote have always been dead.

3. South Africa's official policy of apartheid has not existed during their lifetime.

4. Cars have always had eye-level rear stop lights, CD players, and air bags.

5. We have always been able to choose our long distance carriers.

6. Weather reports have always been available 24-hours a day on television.

7. The "evil empire" has moved from Moscow to a setting in some distant galaxy.

8. "Big Brother" is merely a television show.

9. Cyberspace has always existed.

10. Bruce Springsteen's new hit, Born in the USA, could have been played to celebrate their
birth.

11. Barbie has always had a job.

12. Telephone bills have always been totally incomprehensible.

13. Prom dresses have always come in basic black.

14. A "Hair Band" is some sort of fashion accessory.

15. George Foreman has always been a barbecue grill salesman

16. Afghanistan has always been a front page story.

17. There has always been an heir to the heir to the British throne.

18. They have no recollection of Connie Chung or Geraldo Rivera as serious journalists.

19. Peter Jennings, Dan Rather, and Tom Brokaw have always anchored the evening news.

20. China has always been a market-based reforming regime.

21. The United States has always been trying to put nuclear waste in Nevada.

22. The U.S. and the Soviets have always been partners in space.

23. Mrs. Fields' cookies and Swatch watches have always been favorites.

24. Nicholas Cage, Daryll Hannah, Eddie Murphy, and John Malkovich made their first major film
impressions the year they were born.

25. The GM Saturn has always been on the road.

26. The "Fab Four" are not a male rock group, but four women enjoying "Sex and the City."

27. Fox has always been a television network choice.

28. Males do not carry a handkerchief in a back pocket.

29. This generation has never wanted to "be a Pepper too."

30. Ozzy's lifestyle has nothing to do with the Nelson family.

31. Women have always had tattoos.

32. Vanessa Williams and Madonna are aging singers.

33. Perrier has always come in flavors.

34. Cherry Coke has always come in cans.

35. A "hotline" is a consumer service rather than a phone used to avoid accidental nuclear war.

36. The drug "ecstasy" has always been around.

37. Genetic testing and DNA screening have always been available.

38. Electronic filing of federal income taxes has always been an option.

39. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has always been available to doctors.

40. Trivial Pursuit may have been played by their parents the night before they were born.

41. The U.S. has always maintained that it has a "clear right to use force against terrorism."

42. The drinking age has always been 21 throughout the country.

43. Women have always been members of the Jaycees.

44. The center of chic has shifted from Studio 54 to Liza's living room, live!



45. Julian Lennon had his only hit the year they were born.

46. Sylvan Learning Centers have always been an after-school option.

47. Hip-hop and rap have always been popular musical forms.

48. They grew up in minivans.

49. Scientists have always recognized the impact of acid rain.

50. The Coen Brothers have always been making films.

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You failed to mention... that to them.. Michael Jackson has always been white...

Sorry.. just had to add that.. I read a similar one a few weeks ago.. and it was the Michael Jackson fact that I found most hysterical.

Man, now I feel really old.

Me too..........when you actually go to class with them you know you are old

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Right Lilith. That's why I like night classes. Almost everyone is as old as me LOL

..........but the thing is , if you ask them where Australia is most will still say "isn't that in europe somewhere ?"
.........and if you ask them when the Boston Tea Party was they'll probably ask you "which episode of cheers was that"?

I don't mean to cause offence here guys but the american education system has alot to answer for.

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In response to the education system, I don't think it's really fair to generalize it or college students in that way, when there are many of us out there who have high GPA's and have always taken pride in their education-and by that I mean going beyond what's taught in the classroom and having a desire to learn more. I am a knowledge junkie! It's very true that what's being taught is going downhill fast, but teachers and parents also need to motivate children to use the resources that are out there today to broaden their education and make learning fun. So many schools today are only teaching what is required to pass a high school graduation test, which I don't think is necessarily the way to go. While I am not offended and hope I don't offend by saying this, I am disappointed that we get labeled this way and are misrepresented to other nations. Yes, there are a lot of kids out there lacking a broad education, but don't let them represent the American youth as a whole.

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BlondeCurlGirl I applaud the hungry minds that strive to quench their thirst for knowledge despite the apathy that seems to have invaded your education system and hope that enough of them survive the schooling experience without becoming too jaded and disillusioned to hopefully do something about the system before the inadequacies become a real problem.
My biggest fear is that if enough uneducated people make it out into the community over there that, because of their lack of knowledge, will be suceptable to the twisted and inflamatory rhetoric of some warmongering megolomaniac with a good sales pitch who'll get them to vote him into office. Then with the resources of the most powerful country in the world behind him he'll push the whole world into armageddon.

Sorry , everyone , I'll get off me soapbox now and go and sit back in the corner where it's quiet.

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Lighten Up..................America is the Greatest and that's why Nations all over the world send their Children here to be educated. No one is Making fun of our Youth. It's light hearted Humor. I also don't need someone who lives in another part of the world telling me our Education system has alot to answer for...............just stay where your at and America will Live and Learn. (I'll take Democracy over Socialism anyday) (what happened to your gun?) I know mine is Nice and safe.

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It is only our national arrogance that makes us take offense to that... and not accept it as a wake-up call.

A couple of years ago, when that Japanese official said that Americans lacked work ethics, he took a lot of heat. For what? Telling the truth? The truth hurts sometimes. We need to take what is being said about us with a grain of salt and do what we can to correct it.

Quisath,
As a fellow Texan, I agree with you on a lot of things. But to say our education system is the best in the world is far from the truth. Let's look at the Koreans, the Germans, the Dutch... hell, even the Japanese - how does our Education System stack up compared to theirs?

Don't get me wrong, I have plenty of national pride -even more TEXAS pride... but I'll be among the first to admit we need improvement in a lot of different areas.

Education and work ethics are two of them.

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BTW Wombat,

I think you've posted some interesting stuff...




Hmmm... sounds somewhat reminiscent of "dubya" vs. Saddam...



Again, I want to emphasize that I "love" the U.S. and wouldn't want to leave, but I have to say that anyone who is willing to do the research will find that the best educated countries (in the realm of public education) are either Socialists or Communists. (i.e. Korea, Germany, etc...)

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