One of my classmates told me last month that I’m a year younger than his mother.
Professor was talking to us about vaccinations and showed a picture of Jenny McCarthy. He asked the class what our first memory of her was. Most people either had no clue who she was or mentioned the antivax crap. I said I remembered her from Singled Out on MTV.
The styles of my childhood are now in fashion again on my college campus (seriously, I saw someone in parachute pants the other day).
I have privates in my National Guard unit who were born after I joined the Army. 6 years after I joined the Army. They look at me like I’m an alien when I tell them I have a piece of the Berlin Wall. Those that know what the Berlin Wall was. To them Desert Storm was about as remote as the Korean War was to me.
Heh, same for me, for the Canadian Primary Reserve. And I also have a chunk of the Berlin Wall. Maybe I should bring it to the unit, freak them out.
I had a moment last night: At the dinner table, I was making a lame joke about my son being a redhead (I can poke fun - he got it from me,) and reaching for a pun about Ginger on Gilligan’s Island. Crickets. Blank looks. The kids (ages 15 and 12) had never even heard of Gilligan’s Island. “Is that a band? A movie?”
Sigh…
Honestly, I thought that GI had run in syndication everywhere since the beginning of time.
Kids born after 9/11 are now starting high school
How so? High school here starts at 9th grade, age 14. That means this year’s freshmen were born in 1998.
And yeah, that makes me feel old. They don’t even remember Clinton being president, they barely remember 9/11. Justin Beiber is older than they are and Myley Cyrus has got to be almost 18. I remember when there was a web page devoted to when the Olson twins turned 18, but they must be well into their 20s now.
Funny, that came up with my 12 year old daughter this weekend. She had never heard of it.
Children who were conceived after their parents watched Titanic are now old enough to be tried as adults.
Back when I was a kid, in the 80s, the “oldies stations” all played music from the 50s and 60s. Music that old, nowadays, is from the 80s and 90s. Damnit, 90s music is still “contemporary”!
Another one that hit me personally, though probably doesn’t have broader relevance: A few months ago, I found myself with some camping supplies on my hands, and took them over to my old Boy Scout troop to donate them. Well, the current scoutmaster was one of my younger troopmates, and that was bad enough… But then I realized that when I was last a member, none of the current members had even been born.
Miley is 19. How about this:Weird Al is now working on his second generation having parodied not only Miley but her father; Billy Ray.
Not really. My daughter was born a couple of months after 9/11 and just started 6th grade (middle school around here.)
I went back to school at 25 and college at 26. On the first day of class in college this really young, attractive guy came into the room. I thought “Oooh, I hope that guy sits next to me…”
He was the professor.
The album that song is on was one of the first ones I bought with my own money at my first job, Mcdonalds.
Lucky 13:
Ditto my son (child # 4), who was born just about a month after that attack. 6th grade.
For me, the “old” feeling started when the birthdates on the backs of baseball cards started being later than mine, then later than any of my siblings. I’m keeping watch on the day that there’s no longer a single major league baseball player older than me. There but for the grace of Jamie Moyer go I.
Hey, what a coincidence! I drank beer and rode the Gravitron in 1991! (seriously, I did! Not legally though.)
It struck me when my wife and I had our son last year, that all of these things that I consider new and spiffy will be just as dated and old as what was cool in 1972 was to me when I was a boy, and that life when I was a boy will be about as mythical to him as when my father was a kid in the late 1940s and 1950s.
It also occurred to me that kids getting their drivers licenses this year are old enough to be my children, had I spawned any when I got out of college. That spooked me.
Wanna feel old…and like a loser?
Try walking in to a class and being mistaken for the professor.
I used to seriously lust after Diana Rigg, Mrs Peel in the Avengers.
She’s an old lady now.
For me it’s Presidents. So far, there hasn’t been a President younger than I am. Although at the moment, we’re talking about only two months. But in 2016, it could be Ryan, Jindal, O’Malley, Christie, or Rubio.
Really?
She’s also the football crazy little girl in Remember the Titans.
The first TV I watched had a fader switch and vacuum tubes and got three channels. I played the first Pac-man when it came out. I played Pong when it came out. I played text adventures on computers at least two years before the first affordable PC came out.