> >
> > I get freaked enough by kids that:
> >
> > Don't remember who Glenn Helder, John Jensen and Eddie McGoldrick were.
> >
> > Have never heard of Doctor Who. Not even when shown images of Tom Baker.
> >
> > Never saw Knightmare (Challenge TV reruns don't count).
> >
> > and, most importantly...
> >
> > Who are the same age as me and have full England caps.
> >
> > Never mind that kids born this millennium or in the gap year are capable of speech.
> >
> > Excuse me while I go and have a nervous breakdown.
> >
> > Zarniwoop
>
> I must be a kid, because I don't know any of those people. However:
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> I freak when I realize that most kids don't remember Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Jane Powell or Frankie Laine.
>
> They never heard of Sam Spade, the Shadow, the Crime Doctor, Fibber McGee, or Amos and Andy.
>
> They see Walter Cronkite on TV and say, "Walter who?"
>
> They never rode in a Studebaker, a Hudson, a Packard, a Crosley or a DeSoto, and wouldn't know how to drive one.
>
> They can't remember when there were no green left turn arrows, or Interstates.
>
> They are too young to remember when telephones had a cord, the numbers were in a circle or the operator said, "Number please."
>
> They never thought of "going to Europe" as a long, long boat ride or NY to LA as two weeks in a car.
>
> They don't remember when you couldn't find Mexican food in every little town.
>
> They don't know about ration stamps, Green Stamps or a 3 cent stamp on a letter.
>
> They never though of a "pocket full of money" as something that would jingle, and 60 miles per hour as breakneck speed.
>
> But they are fortunate to have no memory of "colored sections," working all day for a dollar, and bringing in a bucket of coal before dark.
>
> They look at a picture of air pollution in Pittsburgh in the late '40's and don't believe it's the same town they saw last summer. And that's good.
>
> Thank goodness they can't remember when the river had no fish in it and smelled so bad you couldn't sit on the bank.
> Howard

I think it crazy when kids don't remember the old NES or Atari. That's just crazy!

I'm a kid myself. Although I've heard of a few people you mentioned, I wouldn't know a thing about the other stuff. I'm kinda thankful, but the stories to my grandchildren (when I have them; if I have them) will be a little dull. I can see it now, me sittin in a rockin chair with little Timmy in my lap saying "Yep, when I was a youngster I remember when everyday cars could only go 90 mph. And the gas prices were only 1.40 a gallon! And when we watched Sitcoms, they were on this machine called a television." Geez, think how far technology will go when I get that age. Something to think about that's for sure. G'day!

Wedge "man, I'm gettin old! lol!" Antilles