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#1 Mar 29 2010 at 9:37 AM Rating: Excellent
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The Beloit list.

Things the incoming college freshman class has grown up taking for granted. This year's list wasn't as much of a jolt as a few others I remember, but it's still pretty interesting.

Some items are clearly a matter of opinion, like #5: Michael Moore has always been angry and funny.

#13 “Off the hook” has never had anything to do with a telephone.

Smiley: frown

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#2 Mar 29 2010 at 9:46 AM Rating: Good
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#28 They never found a prize in a Coca-Cola “MagiCan.”

I actually had to Google "MagiCan".
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#3 Mar 29 2010 at 9:53 AM Rating: Excellent
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A few months ago, Nine Inch Nails' "Pretty Hate Machine" had its twenty year anniversary. There will be people voting in November whose parents didn't even know one another yet when that album came out.

Everything since then has been anti-climatic towards proving that I'm old.

Edited, Mar 29th 2010 10:55am by Jophiel
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#4 Mar 29 2010 at 9:55 AM Rating: Excellent
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Iamadam the Prohpet wrote:
#28 They never found a prize in a Coca-Cola “MagiCan.”

I actually had to Google "MagiCan".


I didn't remember that either.
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#5 Mar 29 2010 at 9:57 AM Rating: Good
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They’re always texting 1 n other.


I'm 20 and I stared at this for a solid minute before realizing what it meant...

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There will be people voting in November whose parents didn't even know one another yet when that album came out.


Don't worry. They voted for Obama, too.

Edited, Mar 29th 2010 11:58am by idiggory
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#6 Mar 29 2010 at 10:00 AM Rating: Good
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Fox has always been a major network.
I remember when having 12 channels of cable was a big deal.

Edited, Mar 29th 2010 1:01pm by Uglysasquatch
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#7 Mar 29 2010 at 10:05 AM Rating: Excellent
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Uglysasquatch, Mercenary Major wrote:
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Fox has always been a major network.
I remember when having 12 channels of cable was a big deal.



I remember not having cable.

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#8 Mar 29 2010 at 10:08 AM Rating: Good
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Samira wrote:
Uglysasquatch, Mercenary Major wrote:
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Fox has always been a major network.
I remember when having 12 channels of cable was a big deal.



I remember not having cable.


I can't imagine how parents would raise their children without cable (or the internet) nowadays.
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#9 Mar 29 2010 at 10:09 AM Rating: Good
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Samira wrote:
Uglysasquatch, Mercenary Major wrote:
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Fox has always been a major network.
I remember when having 12 channels of cable was a big deal.



I remember not having cable.

Nobby posting from your account?

I also remember when my dad bought a VHS player. My brother and I freaked we were so excited.
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#10 Mar 29 2010 at 10:13 AM Rating: Good
I remember when the highlight of my summer was a San Francisco Giants baseball game making ABC's late game on network TV. My dad let me stay up late for that and we would sit in the living room and watch the game together.

Last year I took him and my oldest son to a Twins game for Father's Day and we watched a Giants game live on my iPhone between innings.
#11 Mar 29 2010 at 10:22 AM Rating: Good
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I was reminded very specifically of my age a few weeks ago while at my parents house. My son had put his jeans on backwards and i mentioned Kris Kross. Neither my parents nor my younger brother had any idea what I was talking about.
#12 Mar 29 2010 at 10:30 AM Rating: Good
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Iamadam the Prohpet wrote:
Samira wrote:
Uglysasquatch, Mercenary Major wrote:
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Fox has always been a major network.
I remember when having 12 channels of cable was a big deal.



I remember not having cable.


I can't imagine how parents would raise their children without cable (or the internet) nowadays.
Lol. We had 3 network channels and pbs. Pbs only aired programming during certain hours and there was nothing at all worth watching - occasionally you might catch Mr. Rogers. Cartoons were only on tv on Saturday morning. On Sunday mornings we read the funnies in the newspaper.

I remember our first video player - and the big decision; go with Beta or VHS?

I remember our first microwave - what an invention!

I remember the electric can-opener, the electric knife and the electric blanket. Everyone had them. Now no one has them again.

Today's generation will have no concept of life before global warming, social networking, or laser-pointers.



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#13 Mar 29 2010 at 10:40 AM Rating: Good
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Lol. We had 3 network channels and pbs. Pbs only aired programming during certain hours and there was nothing at all worth watching - occasionally you might catch Mr. Rogers. Cartoons were only on tv on Saturday morning. On Sunday mornings we read the funnies in the newspaper.

I remember our first video player - and the big decision; go with Beta or VHS?

I remember our first microwave - what an invention!

I remember the electric can-opener, the electric knife and the electric blanket. Everyone had them. Now no one has them again.

Today's generation will have no concept of life before global warming, social networking, or laser-pointers.

I remember when local broadcast channels would sign off for the night and play a test pattern until the programming started in the morning.

I remember having to go rent a VCR at the local Video Rental place to see the Videos we rented.

I remember the first time I left a fork in the microwave and how pissed my dad was that he didn't know if it would still work.
#14 Mar 29 2010 at 10:48 AM Rating: Good
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I remember having to go rent a VCR at the local Video Rental place to see the Videos we rented.


Smiley: laugh I remember this too, and renting videos from local shops before we got Blockbuster.
#15 Mar 29 2010 at 10:50 AM Rating: Good
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I can't remember a time when we didn't own a VCR... although I remember when getting a DVD player was a big deal.
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#16 Mar 29 2010 at 10:51 AM Rating: Excellent
My dad and I had "the talk" for the first time on the drive home from renting movies one night. I think I was like 9.
#17 Mar 29 2010 at 10:52 AM Rating: Excellent
Iamadam the Prohpet wrote:
I can't remember a time when we didn't own a VCR... although I remember when getting a DVD player was a big deal.

Pfft. Pup.

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#18 Mar 29 2010 at 10:59 AM Rating: Good
I was reminiscing to my wife the other day about how we used to make popcorn on the stove, with a skillet that had a hand crank to keep the kernels turning, then we got one of those automatic popcorn poppers and that was amazing.
#19 Mar 29 2010 at 11:01 AM Rating: Good
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Wint wrote:
I was reminiscing to my wife the other day about how we used to make popcorn on the stove, with a skillet that had a hand crank to keep the kernels turning, then we got one of those automatic popcorn poppers and that was amazing.


Wait... what?

I enjoy popping popcorn in a big pot, but I couldn't imagine popping it in a skillet.
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#20 Mar 29 2010 at 11:02 AM Rating: Good
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Wint wrote:
I was reminiscing to my wife the other day about how we used to make popcorn on the stove, with a skillet that had a hand crank to keep the kernels turning, then we got one of those automatic popcorn poppers and that was amazing.
Haha them air-poppers?

I still cook popcorn on the stove by just shaking the pan. Them Jiffy Pops never worked. Now there are Jiffy Pops for the microwave. They still don't work.

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#21 Mar 29 2010 at 11:07 AM Rating: Good
Iamadam the Prohpet wrote:
Wint wrote:
I was reminiscing to my wife the other day about how we used to make popcorn on the stove, with a skillet that had a hand crank to keep the kernels turning, then we got one of those automatic popcorn poppers and that was amazing.


Wait... what?

I enjoy popping popcorn in a big pot, but I couldn't imagine popping it in a skillet.


The way I recall it was some kind of attachment or perhaps a device only for popping popcorn. Similar to this but not so deep. Like cast iron or something.
#22 Mar 29 2010 at 11:09 AM Rating: Decent
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My childhood consisted of NBC and FOX for the only available channels.

My senior year in High School my family got Dial-up (14.4 i think).

Mind you I am only 29 currently, it was just the location I grew up in.
#23 Mar 29 2010 at 11:10 AM Rating: Good
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Wint wrote:
The way I recall it was some kind of attachment or perhaps a device only for popping popcorn. Similar to this but not so deep. Like cast iron or something.


Yeash. I don't know why you'd need a stirring contraption to get the kernels to the bottom. Why not just buy a big pot and shake it?
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#24 Mar 29 2010 at 11:34 AM Rating: Good
I remember getting blisters from my jelly shoes and sleeping on my water bed.

I remember playing ET and Montazuma's Revenge on the Atari.

I remember "writing games" for our Commodore 64.

My parents used to have an 8-track player, but I never actually listened to anything on it. I did use that record player, though. I remember listening to "Skip To My Lou" and dancing around the living room like a fool. Smiley: lol And I remember how this album cover used to scare the **** out of me. I've actually still got that at home.

I remember begging my parents for a Lester ventriloquist doll for some reason. I still have him. He's a little scary now.

I remember making my list out for Santa Claus, and all I wrote was "Omnibot 2000" over and over again. I was convinced he would do the dishes and clean my room for me.

I remember when Michael Jackson was black not a child molester cool. (I actually downloaded the "Thriller" video the other day to my iPod.)

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#28 They never found a prize in a Coca-Cola “MagiCan.”

I actually had to Google "MagiCan".


I didn't remember that either.


I remember that. The grocery stores were complaining because people would just start popping open the cans in the store looking for cash.
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#26 Mar 29 2010 at 11:49 AM Rating: Excellent
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Elinda wrote:
I remember our first microwave - what an invention!

When we got our first microwave, I put a piece of meat in there to reheat and set it for 20 minutes. Hey, it took about 45min to heat up a frozen TV dinner so 20 minutes in the new magic oven thingie made sense to me!
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