Wednesday, August 14, 2002

August 14, 2002

FEELING OLD: Classes start around these parts next week, and just in time, Beloit College has issued its annual "Mindset List", acquainting us with the cultural knowledge of the Class of 2005. Some examples:

• Recording TV programs on VCRs became legal the year they were born.
  
• There has always been Diet Coke.
  
• They were born the same year as the PC and the Mac.
  
• One earring on a man indicates that he is probably pretty conservative.
  
• They don't remember Janet Jackson when she was cute and chubby.
  
• Volkswagen beetles have always had engines in the front.
  
• Survivor is a TV show not a rock group.

THE BEST BAR NUNS: Historians, take note. Last night, the Sisters of South Euclid returned to their ancestral home for the first Show Tunes mass in the newly-remodeled convent. There was much drinking, singing and flirting with cute boys. In other words, not much has changed during our exile.