You've got to be kidding

As a cold war warrior, this makes me feel really old.


By Michael Potemra
As if I didn’t already feel quite old — as someone who remembers an epoch known as “the 1990s,” in which America was at peace, prosperous, and happy — I happened to start watching a DVD of the 1966 Cold War spy thriller The Quiller Memorandum, starring George Segal and Alec Guinness. The DVD’s commentary track is narrated by a couple of NYU film historians . . . who start their commentary by painstakingly explaining that the “Cold War” was a struggle between Communism and capitalism, etc., etc.

Really? Is the reference already that obscure?
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/28 ... el-potemra

LOL,
Ever read that yearly article where they tell you what the current crop of college freshman have no memory about? Scary. For them the Berlin Wall tumbled before they were born.
They have never been in cars without electric windows.

I've seen that movie and for what its worth I really liked it.

I'd agree though that while I'm somewhat of a history fanatic, many others my age are simply oblivious to what went on prior to their own life span... and sometimes not even that far back.





Badger

Damn!!! Think how it feels to have been alive when Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Japanese.

I would guess it feels really old.


20 Ways This Year’s Freshmen Will Make You Feel Old

The have no idea what the phrase "Don't Touch That Dial!" means:



http://www.buzzfeed.com/gavon/20-ways-t ... ou-feel-ol

It akin to someone hurting your feelings. You allow it to happen. The same with age. No college freshman or any youngster is going to make me feel old. Either I do it or I simply do not feel old. Now the numbers and the time periods that I lived through tell another tale of which I need to be mindful. lol

Mention Berlin Wall. Hummm. I already left Germany and was in HS when they started construction of the berlin wall in 1961

My daughter was in Berlin for week this last Spring and I was having to explain the significance of everything regarding the wall. I sent her to Checkpoint Charlie and she visited the Checkpoint Charlie Museum there, as well as seeing part of the wall still standing for visitors. Berlin is her favorite European city, topping London, Paris, Rome, Brussels, Amsterdam and Zurich.

I enjoy some of the older movies and entertainers, often my nieces and nephew will pay me a visit when I'm in town and play a DVD that I have left in the player. I really enjoy the Little Rascals, Three Stooges, and Laural and Hardy (even tho that was well before my time) along with plenty of the TV series from the 1950's and 1960's that are black and white. More often than not they want to know what is wrong with the TV! Don't get me started on silent movies!