I haven’t been 15 since the Carter Administration :eek:
I’m only 23 and I remember dialing phones using the dial and releasing it, maybe my parents were just really slow with getting new technology. And I happen to love the Beatles and Elvis is ok too.
:: points, laughs ::
Poor Giraffe. Coulda been worse though. Just trust me on that
[QUOTE=Larry Borgia]
Umm, Nixon was plotting out his strategy against likely Democratic nominee George McGovern (including some ill-advised shenanigans involving the Watergate Hotel, I believe) right around the time I was 15.
Fear not. The composition of the board extends quite far in each direction. There may be Dopers on board who can recall that Roosevelt guy unseating Mr. Hoover back when they were 15.

(sigh)
This is my second time reading that thread and I laughed just as hard this time as the last. Hot Buttered Toast’s reveal and casual smackdown of you has to be one of my most favorite moments on this board.
Ronald Reagan was President when I was 15, but I was present at live performances by Richard Nixon (in '72 or '73) and Gerald Ford ('75).
-don’t remember a time before Clinton was president
Nope.
-don’t remember the Soviet Union at all
Nope.
-have never used a record player, except perhaps as an oddity
HA. I have a record player and I use it frequently.
-don’t remember a time before The Internet
There was a time before The Internet?
-don’t think the music I like is cool (no, wait, I forgot, even the people in my generation don’t think the music I like is cool)
I hate almost all current music. I only like (with a few exceptions) 1980-
-never paid a quarter to play a video game
Never liked arcades much.
-don’t remember when Batman or Terminator 2 or Wayne’s World or Jurassic Park were released
I do! In fact I went and saw Jurassic Park when it was released.
-speaking of which, you probably don’t remember a time before computer-generated special effects
Nope!
-absolutely positively think of me (31) as a grownup. Not a young adult. Not a cool young grownup who’s fun to hang around with. But a grownup. “Mr. TheVool”, you might call me if we met
Yep.
-are sick of people like me going on in shock about things like this
Nah, it’s not bad. I still can’t imagine life without an internet. :dubious:
“Until you can compete with a bristle cone pine, you are neither young, old, or alive.”
And, to not make this post a complete waste, I’ll be 17 in January. Huzzah!
[steps meekly to the microphone]
I’m fifteen.
[lowers microphone and sits back down]
I’m fifteen in my heart.
Then again, sometimes I’m two, sometimes I’m eight, and sometimes I’m ninety-one.
Eighteen in real life, any age you like where it counts.