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Date:         Sun, 10 Oct 1999 20:10:51 -0400
Reply-To:     Jim Cain <jcain@MINDSPRING.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jim Cain <jcain@MINDSPRING.COM>
Subject:      90's signs, Off Topic
Comments: cc: John Cain <johnc@terranova.net>,
          Leigh Evans <levans@mindspring.com>,
          Don&Janis REnnie <jtrennie@aol.com>
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> >23 SIGNS THAT YOU'VE HAD TOO MUCH OF THE 90's (From a friend--I think!) > >1. You just tried to enter your password on the microwave > >2. You now think of three espressos as "getting wasted." > >3. You haven't played solitaire with a real deck of >cards in years. > >4. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your >family of three. > >5. You call your son's beeper to let him know it's >time to eat. He emails you back from his bedroom, >"What's for dinner?" > >6. Your daughter sells Girl Scout Cookies via her web site. > >7. You chat several times a day with a stranger from >South Africa, but you haven't spoken with your next >door neighbor yet this year. > >8. You didn't give your valentine a card this year, >but you posted one for your e-mail buddies via a web >page. > >9. Your daughter just bought a CD of all the records >your college roommate used to play > >10. You check the ingredients on a can of chicken >noodle soup to see if it contains echinacea. > >11. You check your blow-dryer to see if it's Y2K >compliant. > >12. Your grandmother clogs up your e-mail inbox, >asking you to send her a JPEG file of your newborn so >she can create a screen saver > >13. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell >phone to see if anyone is home. > >14. Every commercial on television has a web-site >address at the bottom of the screen > >15. You buy a computer and a week later it is out of >date and now sells for half the price you paid. > >16. The concept of using real money, instead of credit >or debit, to make a purchase is foreign to you. > >17. Cleaning up the dining room means getting the fast >food bags out of the back seat of your car. > >18. Your reason for not staying in touch with family >is that they do not have e-mail addresses. > >19. You consider second-day air delivery painfully >slow. > >20. Your dining room table is now your flat filing >cabinet. > >21. Your idea of being organized is multiple-colored >Post-it notes > >22. You hear most of your jokes via e-mail instead of >in person. > >23. You're reading this.


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