Dose of reality.
jjsuetta
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Mon Jan 8 16:11:50 GMT 2001
Thanks Bill, your turn is coming
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin R" <KEReyn at gte.net>
To: "GM ECM mailing list" <gmecm at diy-efi.org>
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 10:06 PM
Subject: Dose of reality.
> OK, the no real EFI content other than I'm in my late 30's and a lot of
you
> are there or older and we all work on our EFI's.
> Anyway, this dose of reality came across my e-mail and I just had to share
> it with all of you.
>
> Kevin R
>
>
> THIS YEARS FRESHMAN
> Just in case you weren't feeling too old today, this
> will certainly change things.
> Each year the staff at Beloit College in Wisconsin put
> together a list to try to give the faculty a sense of
> the mindset of this year's incoming freshmen.
>
> Here is this year's list:
>
> *The people who are starting college this fall across
> the nation were born in 1982.
>
> *They have no meaningful recollection of the Reagan
> Era and probably did not know he had ever been shot.
>
> *They were prepubescent when the Persian Gulf War was
> waged.
>
> *They were 11 when the Soviet Union broke apart and do
> not remember the Cold War.
>
> *They have never feared a nuclear war.
>
> *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.
>
> *Atari predates them, as do vinyl albums. The
> statement you sound like a broken record means nothing
> to them.
>
> *They have never owned a record player.
>
> *They have likely never played Pac Man and have never
> heard of Ping-Pong.
>
> *They may have never heard of an 8 track. The Compact
> Disc was introduced when they were 1 year old.
>
> *They have always had an answering machine.
>
> *They have never seen a rotary-dial telephone.
>
> *Most have never seen a TV set with only 13 channels,
> nor have they seen a black-and-white TV.
>
> *They have always had cable.
>
> *There has always been VCRs, but hey have no idea what
> BETA is.
>
> *They cannot fathom not having a remote control.
>
> *They were born the year that Walkmen were introduced
> by Sony.
>
> *Roller-skating has always meant inline for them.
>
> *Jay Leno has always been on the Tonight Show.
>
> *They have no idea when or why Jordache jeans were
> cool.
>
> *Popcorn has always been cooked in the microwave.
>
> *They have never seen Larry Bird play.
>
> *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 walked a
> mile for a Camel", or "de plane, de plane".
>
> *They do not care who shot J.R. and have no idea who
> J.R. is.
>
> *Michael Jackson has always been white.
>
> *Kansas, Chicago, Boston, America, and Alabama are
> places, not groups.
>
> *McDonalds never came in Styrofoam containers.
>
> *They don't have a clue how to use a typewriter.
>
> Do you feel old yet? pass this on to the other old
> fogies in your life.
>
>
>
>
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