What this year's college freshmen believe.

[gsvol]

Beloit College Mindset List

 

[golfballs]

it's not what they believe. it's how things have existed while they've been alive

 

[joevol320]

this is nothing new. the only difference is that the whole world can read this. in the past any reports like this were hard to find

 

[IPorange]

I don't know any of the people who "have always been dead."

 

[gsvol]

it's not what they believe. it's how things have existed while they've been alive

Well they call it a 'midset list.'

Here is the one for those projected to graduate next spring.

I don't know any of the people who "have always been dead."

Reminds me of a Johnny Carson show where they answered weird advertizements and sent $75 for a kit 'guaranteed to get you in touch with dead relatives.'

They received back a lantern and a shovel.

 

[Oldvol75]

Back in the 70's a guy in Florida was selling, "Solar Powered Clothes Dryers"! He sold them for $75 also. When an order came in, he would send the person a clothes line and clothes pins!

 

[gsvol]

Back in the 70's a guy in Florida was selling, "Solar Powered Clothes Dryers"! He sold them for $75 also. When an order came in, he would send the person a clothes line and clothes pins!

Back about that same time one guy grossed $8 million selling 'kits guaranteed to kill roaches.'

He sent you two blocks of 2 by 4, one of which had an "X" printed on it. The instructions said "place roach on X, strike with other board."

(Bet you could clean up in NYC now with the bed bug problem.!)

Then there was the DJ in Dallas that instructed listeners to send in $20 to the station and promised nothing.

He collected $250,000 in short order, the station management paniced and consulted attorneys to see if they had violated any laws and were told they had not.

Anyway the staion donated the money to some charity and instructed listeners not to send any more money and received several irate calls from listeneres who claimed they didn't have time to send in their $20!!

Truth is stranger than fiction.

 

[BeecherVol]

Back in the 70's a guy in Florida was selling, "Solar Powered Clothes Dryers"! He sold them for $75 also. When an order came in, he would send the person a clothes line and clothes pins!

Ground breaking!

Did he get the rights reserved on that?

 

[gsvol]

Ground breaking!

Did he get the rights reserved on that?

I'm thinking of a breathing device that catches all our exhaled CO2 and pipes it into glass houses which we will call greenhouses and then we can grow lettuce and tomatoes, if we can just keep bacon from being outlawed and we can find the bread, that should translated to free BLTs for the people.

 

[CSpindizzy]

It's like the prank where someone says there is dihydrogen oxide (or something like that) in the water and has people calling in to complain about it being in the water supply. People call in complaining about some new chemical in the water killing them all only to find out what the dihydrogen oxide really is.