Just For Laughs

[DreamTime]

1974 vs 2004

 1974: Long hair
 2004: Longing for hair
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 1974: KEG
 2004: EKG
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 1974: Acid rock
 2004: Acid reflux
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 1974: Moving to California because it's cool
 2004: Moving to California because it's warm
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 1974: Trying to look like Marlon Brando  or Liz Taylor
 2004: Trying NOT to look like Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor
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 1974: Seeds and stems
 2004: Roughage
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 1974: Hoping for a BMW
 2004: Hoping for a BM
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 1974: The Grateful Dead
 2004: Dr. Kavorkian
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 1974: Going to a new, hip joint
 2004: Receiving a new hip joint
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 1974: Rolling Stones
 2004: Kidney Stones
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 1974: Being called into the principal's office
 2004: Calling the principal's office
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 1974: Screw the system
 2004: Upgrade the system
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 1974: Disco
 2004: Costco
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 1974: Parents begging you to get your hair cut
  2004: Children begging you to get their heads shaved
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 1974: Passing the drivers' test
 2004: Passing the vision test
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 1974: Whatever
 2004: Depends
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 Just in case you weren't feeling too old today, this will certainly change things. Each year the staff at Beloit College in Wisconsin puts together a list to try to give the faculty a sense of the mindset of this year's incoming freshmen. Here's this year's list:
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The people who are starting college this fall across the nation were born in 1986. 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.
 
 The CD was introduced the year they were born.
 
They have always had an answering machine.
 
They have always had cable.
 
They cannot fathom not having a remote control.
 
Jay Leno has always been on the Tonight Show.
 
Popcorn has always been cooked in the microwave.
 
 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 walk a mile for a Camel", or "de plane, Boss, de plane".

They do not care who shot J. R. and have no idea who J. R. even is.
 
McDonald's never came in Styrofoam containers.
 
They don't have a clue how to use a typewriter.

 

[SilverInfinity]

That described me well.  I never got near a typewriter.

[Richard]

One thing that I can’t get over is that we are still using the QWERTY keyboard layout from ancient typewriters. They designed that layout to slow fast typist down so that they wouldn’t jam key arms together. Now that we are in a computer world, why are we still using and ancient keyboard layout that is designed to slow people down? Some things never do change. 

[SilverInfinity]

I don't know, but a teacher once told me they designed the Qwerty keyboard with the most commonly used alphabets of the English language in easy reach.

[Richard]

I never heard that before. On the first typewriters, some people were able to type so fast that they would jam the arms together that printed the letter on that paper. So they hard to figure out a way to slow typist down, so they wouldn’t jam the arms together. QWERYTY was the answer to the problem.

[SilverInfinity]

Well, here's a wiki entry I found for QWERTY:

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

For anyone interested.

[Richard]

I checked that site out and they explain it a little different than others but they point out that the QWERTY layout was to prevent the typebars from intertwining and becoming stuck.[/b]

[William]

    Zoinks.    Ok the first thing i was gonna do was joke  when i got to the end of the list....-- Whats a Typewriter?--    But you guys said it first.  Weird.   Why did we pick on the typewriter or was it because it was last on the list?

  enough with my prattle....  I Still have a genuine IBM typewriter.  It must weight 50-pounds.  Its just too heavy for me to carry out to the trash.

Please someone whisper what BM means?    Crap i just figued it out!  :shock:
 
  hehehehe

 Im gonna go outside now and find that yellow star,  I saw it last night.  Its bright and hangs down to the left of the moon.

[DreamTime]

Hey Hyperspace,

Why don't you just learn "touch-typing" and then you won't have a problem.:unibrow:

[Richard]

I already have enough stuff to learn. Touch typing is near the bottom of the list right now. ;)