Congratulations to those born from 1920 to 1979!

[methuss]

To all the kids who survived the 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's:

First we survived being born by mothers who smoked and/or drank alcohol while they were pregnant.  They took asprin, ate bleu-cheese dressing and tuna from a can.  They didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma we were put to sleep on our tummies in cribs covered in

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Risk-takers, etc

[blondibritecake]

With the exception of hitchhiking, all of this applies to me...wait, I did do that once when I ran away from home as a little girl. I have also been known to want to jump on an empty train car, but never got around to it.

This reminds me of something referred to as the "Obituary of Common Sense." I am sure that is somewhere on the Internet.

Hooray, I make the cut!

[donutato_kun]

That's cool.

I was born in 79.

And while I agree with a lot of the statements and find a lot of these facts interesting, I have to say on a sidenote that I get a little sick of this whole Tom Brokaw "Greatest Generation" thing. Maybe it's the whole former history major thing in me, but I cringe when I see things like this...

>>>These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, inventors, and problem solvers that ever existed.<... )

Re: Hooray, I make the cut!

[methuss]

Granted about previous generations. But that wasn't really the point I was trying to get across.

The point was that current generations have been regulated into "a bunch of mindless jerks who will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes." :-)

Yeah...

[donutato_kun]

... but they sure can text fast. You gotta give'em that. ;-)

Born in 1982

[white_rabbit_1]

But many of these things still apply to me. My mom was a smoker and smoked when she was pregnant with me and my sister. I was not underweight or deformed (though I am NOT condoning smoking while pregnant