Re: I've seen things you people wouldn't believe...

Nels E. Satterlund wrote:
> "David G. Bell" wrote:
> > It so happens that today is the 40th Anniversary of the Premiere of
> > 2001: A Space Odyssey
> >
> > And for other reasons I'd been reminded of Roy Batty's famous speech
in
> > Blade Runner.
> >
> > I think it's only a concidence that I was born about nine months after
> > Sputnik, but there is so much I've seen, and not just men walking on
the
> > Moon. The supersonic airliners have vanished, and the SR-71. I've seen
> > nuclear ballistic missiles on their launch pads, ready to go. Now it's
> > almost bigger news that a computer game might have been banned.
> >
> > But what are things that you've seen, which today's kids might not
> > believe?
>
>
> Kids with shotguns in their cars and carrying knives at school with
> out the school administration panicking.
>
> Milk run airline routes.  Seattle to Spokane to Billings to Great
> Falls to Chicago to Detroit and other points east. (I may not have the
> exact correct set of stops but I'm close)
>
> Party phone lines.
>
> Unrestricted (except by parental rules) 16 year old driving.
>
> U.S. under 21 drinking ages
>
> Black and white TV.
>
> Growing up without a computer.
>
> No internet

Heck ... Forgot not time shifting or recording of TV shows

This is one I had to explain to my kids already
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