BORN BEFORE 1988? THEN YOU ARE OLD!

Every year Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin, publishes "The Mindset List" -- facts and figures about the incoming crop of freshmen so professors will be able to relate to their new students. Most of today's college freshmen were born in 1988 and...
· The Soviet Union has never existed and therefore is about as scary as the student union.
· They have known only two presidents.
· For most of their lives, major U.S. airlines have been bankrupt.
· Manuel Noriega has always been in jail in the United States.
· They have grown up getting lost in "big boxes."
· There has always been only one Germany.
· They have never heard anyone actually "ring it up" on a cash register.
· They are wireless, yet always connected.
· A stained blue dress is as famous to their generation as a third-rate burglary was to their parents'.
· A coffee has always taken longer to make than a milkshake.
· Smoking has never been permitted on U.S. airlines.
· Faux fur has always been a necessary element of style.
· They have never had to distinguish between the St. Louis Cardinals baseball and football teams.
· They grew up with and have outgrown faxing as a means of communication.
· "Google" has always been a verb.
· Text messaging is their e-mail.
· Mr. Rogers, not Walter Cronkite, has always been the most trusted man in America.
· Bar codes have always been on everything, from library cards and snail mail to retail items.
· Madden has always been a game, not a Super Bowl-winning coach.
· Carbon copies are oddities found in their grandparents' attics.
· Reality shows have always been on television.
· They have no idea why we needed to ask "...can we all get along?"
· Young women's fashions have never been concerned with where the waist is.
· They have rarely mailed anything using a stamp.
· Brides have always worn white for a first, second or third wedding.
· They have always been able to watch wars and revolutions live on television.
· Green tea has always been marketed for health purposes.
· Public school officials have always had the right to censor school newspapers.
· Michael Moore has always been showing up uninvited.
· Sara Lee has always made underwear.
· Bad behavior has always been getting captured on amateur videos.
· Disneyland has always been in Europe and Asia.
· They never saw Bernard Shaw on CNN.
· Beach volleyball has always been a recognized sport.
· Television stations have never concluded the broadcast day with the national anthem.
· Dolphin-free canned tuna has always been on sale.
· Disposable contact lenses have always been available.
· Ringo Starr has always been clean and sober.
· Professional athletes have always competed in the Olympics.