JAMES MOORE
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> This is hysterical-
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their
> > >tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing
up;
> > >what with walking twenty-five miles
> > > to school every morning .. uphill BOTH ways .... through year
> > >'round blizzards.
> > >
> > > Carrying their younger siblings on their backs ... to their
> > >one-room schoolhouse, where they maintained a Straight-A average,
> > >despite their full-time, after-school job at the local textile
mill
> > >... where they worked for 35 cents an hour just to help keep their
> > >family from starving to death! And I remember promising myself that
when
> > >I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of
crap
> > >like that on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got
it!
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > But now that...
> > >
> > >
> > > I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look
> > >around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy! I
mean,
> > >compared to my childhood, you live in a Utopia!
> > >
> > > And I hate to say it but you kids today you don't know how good
> > >you've got it! I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The
Internet. If
> > >we wanted to know something, we had to go to the library and look
it up
> > >ourselves, in the card catalog!!
> > >
> > > There was no email! We had to actually write somebody a letter
> > >.... with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street
and
> > >put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there!
> > >
> > > There were no MP3's or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you
> > >had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself! Or
you
> > >had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd
usually
> > >talk over the beginning and messed it all up!
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > We didn't have fancy stuff like Call Waiting! If you were on
> > >the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's
it!
> > >And we didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either! When the phone
rang,
> > >you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your
> > >boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you
just
> > >didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
> > >
> > > We didn't have any fancy Sony Play station video games with
> > >high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games
like
> > >"Space Invaders" and "Asteroids" and the graphics sucked ! Your guy
was
> > >a little square!
> > >
> > > You actually had to use your imagination! And there were no
> > >multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen forever! And you
> > >could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and
faster
> > >and faster until you died! .... Just like LIFE!
> > >
> > > When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as
> > >stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy
or
> > >some old broad with a hat sat in front of you and you couldn't
see,
you
> > >were just screwed!
> > >
> > > Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like
> > >15 channels and there was no onscreen menu and no remote control!
You
> > >had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on!
You
> > >were out of luck when it came to channel surfing! You had to get
off
> > >your butt and walk over to the TV to change the channel and there
was
no
> > >Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday
Morning.
> > >Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for
