You Know You're Old/Young If ... 1

[Ashereng]

I have been reading various comments in the fora which seems to date the poster as "old" or "young" sometimes.

I though maybe there is sufficient interest to compile a list to help the old identify with the young, and the young to identify with the old.

If you are in between, I guess pick a side?

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[UcfSE]

Dittos - copied worksheets for the class to do.

You know you're old when you had to make your own dittos, none of the fancy Xerox mess, and they had to be made from animal skin or stone that you caught or quarried yourself, and you had to walk up hill both ways to get them.

 

[MadMango]

Dittos = pre-xerox copies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_duplicator

[green]"Art without engineering is dreaming; Engineering without art is calculating."[/green]
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[whyun]

There is a nice scene of students smelling the ditto sheets in Mr. Hands' classroom. (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)

 

[monkeydog]

Now you have to explain what "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" is!!!!

 

[ewh]

A glimpse of high school life in 1982. Funny and pretty accurate (for some).

 

[ewh]

You're definitely middle aged if you remember the music in Valley Girl.

 

[KENAT]

Here’s a good one that happened today and made me feel old anyway……

You know you’re old when the girl who sometimes works in your buildings deli that is the deli owners daughter and you assumed was 16-17 working during holidays/free periods etc turns out to be 21!

I always wondered why any sane man would let his teen daughter work around this many male engineers.

 

[Guest0527211403]

Because engineers use the worst pick up lines.

http://ifaq.wap.org/sex/engineeringlines.html

 

[MadMango]

ewh, there is no "middle age" in this debate, you must draw a line between "old" and "young". If you've seen the original release of Valley Girl, then that puts you in the old column. ;-)

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[ewh]

But it was only 23 years ago!

 

[kenvlach]

Old is remembering November 22, 1963.

 

[IRstuff]

sure, wasn't that when the guy from PT-109 died

TTFN

 

[monkeydog]

Real old is remembering the phrase "you won't have Richard Nixon to kick around anymore"

 

[sreid]

I once said to a girl on a date;

ME; I read that most people remember where they were when President Kennedy was shot.

SHE; I remember. I was home watching television.

ME; But it was a week day. Why weren't you in school?

SHE; I wasn't old enought to go to school.

 

[Ashereng]

HgTX,

Yup.


SomtingGuy,

Tippex? Okay.

sreid,

I loved that one.

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[IRstuff]

I'm disappointed; no one commented on PT-109

That was the one and only small vessel model I ever built. Everything else was tanks, large vessels, planes, and spacecraft ("Danger, Will Robinson!!)

Slightly mod to crystal radios -- You're REALLY old if you used a cat's whisker. I used a glass-body diode, so I don't qualify for that ;-)

TTFN

 

[FrenchCAD]

ah, this is what this "whiteout" is all about...just simple Tippex lol

I was lost as well with this thing

Cyril Guichard
Mechanical Engineer Consultant
France

 

[PSE]

Today I feel old, not having had a vacation yet this year. Hopefully when I return in a bit over a week, I will feel young again.

I can remember Woodstock. I wonder where that puts me?

Regards,

 

[Quantum50]

FrenchCAD: The Whiteout was liquid correction fluid. I'm assuming Tippex was the correction strips. I don't remember what the strips were called, maybe Tippex?!? I used them long before I ever saw whiteout. I remember writing a biology paper in high school and having a used pile of the strips next to the typewriter (manual, of course).

IRStuff: I remember how thrilled I was week to week watching the original episodes of Lost in Space. It was (is) no doubt lame but was the best TV had to offer until that strange new program came on called Star Trek. I still remember the TV ads leading up to the pilot episode. It was hard to tell what it was all about. (sigh) Those were magic times. ;-)

 

[ziggi]

Tippex is Whiteout! It's the same thing, just a different name.