Graduation season is here. It's also time to realize that most of this year's high school graduates were born in late 2003 and early 2004, and their perspective of the world is just a tad different than anyone born in the 20th century. These incoming college freshmen have a curious perspective.
With that said, if you graduated high school this year...
...China has always been in space.
...privately funded spaceplanes have always been in orbit.
...Latvia has always been in the EU and NATO.
...Elon Musk has always run Tesla.
...same-sex marriages have always been legal in California and Massachusetts.
...Donald Trump has always been associated with a reality TV series.
...Barack Obama has always been a national figure.
...Facebook and 4Chan have always existed.
..."Friends," "Frasier," and "Sex & The City" has always been in repeats.
...Ken Jennings has always been associated with "Jeopardy!"
...Janet Jackson has always been associated with indecent exposure and "wardrobe malfunctions."
...Arnold Schwarzenegger has always been known as "The Governator."
...Howard Dean has always been associated with screaming.
...Kenan Thompson has always been on SNL.
...Craig Kilborn has never hosted a talk show.
...Casey Kasem has never hosted a radio show.
...you might be graduating with a set of sextuplets.
...LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony have always been in the NBA, and Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal have never been teammates.
...Marc-Andre Fleury, Patrice Bergeron, Brent Burns, and Dustin Brown have always been in the NHL.
...Tom Brady has always had multiple Super Bowl rings (and has always been in the NFL).
...you might run into David Letterman, Conan O'Brien, *and* Jon Stewart on a college campus visit (all had babies in Fall 2003).
...Warren Zevon, Johnny Cash, John Ritter, Gordon Jump, Robert Palmer, Donald O'Connor, Althea Gibson, Elia Kazan, Robert Kardashian, Timothy "Grizzly Man" Treadwell, Elliot Smith, Rod Roddy, Bobby Hatfield, Art Carney, Jonathan Brandis, Warren Spahn, Alan Bates, Uta Hagen, Ann Miller, Helmut Newton, Leonidas, Mercedes McCambridge, Paul Winfield, Peter Ustinov, Alistair Cooke, Pat Tillman, Estee Lauder, Tony Randall, Elvin Jones, Ronald Reagan, Ray Charles, Marlon Brando, Isabel Sanford, Francis Crick, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Rick James, Fay Wray, Julia Child, Elmer Bernstein, and Laura Branigan always been dead.
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