Dr. Seuss Knows a Thing or Two About Aging

If you've read the New Blogged Word for any length of time, you know I post a periodic Retirement Countdown entry once in a while. This doesn't really qualify, but it is fun.

A friend sent this to me recently and I just had to share it. In addition to the good doctor providing a clear assessment of the aging picture, here's a few more facts that may or may not help:

• The people who started college this past fall were born in 1990.
• They are too young to remember the space shuttle blowing up.
• Their lifetime has always included AIDS.
• The CD was introduced two years before they were born.
• They have always had an answering machine.
• They have always had cable.
• Jay Leno has always been on the Tonight Show (until recently.)
• Popcorn has always been microwaved.
• They never took a swim and thought about Jaws.
• 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."
• McDonald's never came in Styrofoam containers.
• They don't have a clue how to use a typewriter.

Damn kids.  :-)