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mahatmakanejeeves

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1. Want to know what the new frosh have never experienced? Or have always known? Want to feel old?
Thu Jun 13, 2019, 10:04 AM
Jun 2019
Mindset List 2018
Want to know what the new frosh have never experienced? Or have always known? Want to feel old? It's that time of year again.
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• The words "veritas" and "horizon" have always been joined together to form Verizon.
• They will never fly TWA, Swissair or Sabena airlines.
• The Tower of Pisa has always had a prop to keep it leaning.
• There has never been an Enron.
• The Prius has always been on the road in the U.S.
• British retail sales have always been organized in metrics, except for beer, still sold by the imperial pint.
• They never used a spit bowl in a dentist’s office.
• They have never seen a cross-town World Series.
• There has always been a Survivor.
• "You've got mail" would sound as ancient to them as "number, please" would have sounded to their parents.
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