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The Mindset of the Incoming College Freshmen
Beloit College has come out with its annual Mindset List of what the incoming class (of 2013) has always known and has never known. "For these students, ... the Green Giant has always been Shrek, not the big guy picking vegetables. They have never used a card catalog to find a book. ... Tattoos have always been very chic and highly visible. ... Rap music has always been mainstream. ... Except for the present incumbent, the President has never inhaled. ... Amateur radio operators have never needed to know Morse code."
You must be new here...or wait, they must be new here. They're not new here yet, but will be new here soon, hence, news about being new here not yet but soon.
Not news new here? Not new.
"They have never used a card catalog to find a book"
What's a book?
Paper bricks the RIAA will throw at you when they catch you downloading music.
I find the concept of the reinvention of COBOL to be severely troubling. On the one hand, although Zombies are cool, they're still sufficiently dragged down by COBOL that the result would be terrible. On the other, a reinvention of COBOL could lead to the eventual development of time travel, fueled by the desire to go back and kill the nefarious project and/or creator in its infancy.
... and U2 sucks.
That has always been true.
... still - on the the bright side - at least we got fucked....
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I just always assumed every other boy had my mindset when I hit that age.
Girls! GIRLS! GIRLS!!!
Moved to http://soylentnews.org/. You are invited to join us too!
A PDF reader than can only display a single PDF file. It is immune to rm but is difficult to back up and doesn't have a search feature.
"you have died of dysentery"
As well as MS-DOS and the Apple II.
What is a "Britney Spears"?
I was a UM Freshman in 1992... We learned binary by drawing 8x8 grids, writing "256 | 128 | 64 | 32 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1" over them
I was a Mississippi State freshman in 1979, and we still could only fit "128 | 64 | 32 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1" above an 8x8 grid. I hope to God that your UM was Ole Miss!
Britney spears are devices to spear Britneys, duh!
'The European Union has always existed'.
My wife was teaching a first-year economics course last year, and in one lecture she displayed some OECD data from the last 40 years or so. A student put up his hand and asked "Why does it say *WEST* Germany?" :-)
Must be an Americanization of Brittany spears, which, of course, are French polearms.
-Peter
It's a weapon, +4 to music slaying, +2 to virgin slaying, +10 to eardrum slaying. Successful attack requires target to roll saving throw for will.
Well son, when a mommy and a USB WiFi stick love each other very much....