Beloit List for the Class of 2014 Part Two of Three

26. Unless they found one in their grandparents’ closet, they have never seen a carousel of Kodachrome slides.

27. Computers have never lacked a CD-ROM disk drive.


28. They’ve never recognized that pointing to their wrists was a request for the time of day.


29. Reggie Jackson has always been enshrined in Cooperstown.


30. “Viewer Discretion” has always been an available warning on TV shows.


31. The first computer they probably touched was an Apple II; it is now in a museum.


32. Czechoslovakia has never existed.


33. Second-hand smoke has always been an official carcinogen.


34. “Assisted Living” has always been replacing nursing homes, while Hospice has always been an alternative to hospitals.


35. Once they got through security, going to the airport has always resembled going to the mall.


36. Adhesive strips have always been available in varying skin tones.


37. Whatever their parents may have thought about the year they were born, Queen Elizabeth declared it an “Annus Horribilis.”


38. Bud Selig has always been the Commissioner of Major League Baseball.


39. Pizza jockeys from Domino’s have never killed themselves to get your pizza there in under 30 minutes.


40. There have always been HIV positive athletes in the Olympics.


41. American companies have always done business in Vietnam.


42. Potato has always ended in an “e” in New Jersey per vice presidential edict.


43. Russians and Americans have always been living together in space.


44. The dominance of television news by the three networks passed while they were still in their cribs.


45. They have always had a chance to do community service with local and federal programs to earn money for college.


46. Nirvana is on the classic oldies station.


47. Children have always been trying to divorce their parents.


48. Someone has always gotten married in space.


49. While they were babbling in strollers, there was already a female Poet Laureate of the United States.


50. Toothpaste tubes have always stood up on their caps.