In What Decade Were You Born??

[CO Liberal]

Poll question: In What Decade Were You Born??

An offshoot of the "which generation" poll:

[Floogeldy]

1. The (possibly) paranoid guy says, "Don't respond to this thread."

[CO Liberal]

2. No One Will Know Who You Are If You Only Vote

This can be totally anonymous if you wish. Only those who chose to identify themselves with a decade by psoting a reply will be identified, and it's totally voluntary.

(BTW, I was born in 1952.)

[Floogeldy]

5. People, characteristically, don't just vote

They also post their answers.

[Spider Jerusalem]

3. I don't think there'll be any five-and-under-year-olds.

Unless parents let their wee sproglets answer sitting in their laps, that is, in which case your poll's bell curve may have outliers.

[DemBones DemBones]

4. Young crowd tonight, Is DU getting younger overall? nt

[MuseRider]

6. 50's man

and I had hoped to not go back there but it seems we are careening backwards these days.

[CO Liberal]

7. Me, Too

I look for the return of segregated lunch counters - only this time they will be for "Christians" and "Heathens".

[MuseRider]

11. Please nooooooo.

I remember those and not understanding why it was needed. Gods it was awful.

[RevolutionaryActs]

8. 80's

'86 to be all exact and stuff. :)

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

9. theeee 80ssss

87

[Reverend_Smitty]

10. another child of the Reagan era...

best thing about it is...I have no real recollection of those years, and from what I've read I'm not missing much

Born in 1984 btw

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

12. My little brother was born in 1984.

He's not so little any more.

[Reverend_Smitty]

13. I'm not so little any more either...

I'll be turning 21 in March...I'm thinking the next 4 years will give me a lot of reasons to drink!

[tibbir]

14. The fifties

1951 to be precise. I remember when my mother was 49 and I thought she was older than God . Now I'm 53 - I don't feel old but the wrinkles and gray hair are saying otherwise.

[Tweed]

15. Is this so we can be branded?

[Spider Jerusalem]

16. "What do you do when you're branded, and you know you're a man?"

Sorry...theme to an old Chuck Connors show...popped into my head when I read your post title...(my brain makes odd connections...)

[njdemocrat106]

17. 1980s

Born in 1980. I faintly remember Reagan, but I do remember watching Poppy Bush's inaugaration in 2nd grade. We were told to pay close attention, because we would have to write something about it, but we didn't have to, which was good because at that age, I still didn't have much of an idea about what was going on.

[TOhioLiberal]

18. the 60's...

...peace, man!:hippie:

[Biased Liberal Media]

19. I would really hope that a child born in 2000 on up would not be posting

that would be like SUPER GENIUS...lol.

Plus I have a 2000 baby...I can't imagine it!

I was born in 1978.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

20. So.. how many votes do you think you'll get from the

0 to 5 year old crowd?

[Biased Liberal Media]

22. LOL!

great minds think alike!

[clovis29]

21. Is this an opinion poll?

[Peter Frank]

23. I'm proud to say that...

...I was born in May of '51. I remember Ike, Churchill, MacArthur & Howdy Doody (I actually had a Howdy Doody puppet). As a kid, I loved Lucy before the reruns.

I remember the vitality that JFK brought to Washington. I never before thought of the White House as a family place. When I learned that Kennedy was the first president born in the 20th century, I understood why.

I would have been far been more shaken by the Cuban missile crisis at age 11 in the fall of '62 if I hadn't already gone through countless drills when I was younger -- when I was told to sit under my desk in the event of a nuclear blast (knowing full well that if the A-bomb exploded close enough for me to see it, my desk wouldn't keep me from becoming instant nuclear toast.

I watched in black & white the many reruns of Oswald being shot, as well as the live coverage of JFK's funeral -- his casket lying in state in the Rotunda. At age 12 I was old enough to recognize the death of a younger era.

I saw news footage showing the impact that a group called the Beatles was making in Europe. I wished against hope that they would come to the U.S. When I saw them on the Ed Sullivan Show (which I watched religiously every Sunday) I was indescribably ecstatic. It was as if the Beatles had resurrected so many of the youthful hopes that died with Kennedy; while I thought of how brilliant it would be if JFK were in office now.

LBJ was the sympathetic front-runner in '64 (Goldwater didn't have a chance). But Johnson had no charisma whatsoever. He came across as a pedantic old fart.

...to be continued.