What Generation Are You?

[stephendare]

So what generation do you belong to?
Which generations did your parents belong to?

The "Lost Generation"
Flappers, Prohibition, Jazz
born between 1883 and 1900

G.I. Generation    
WW2, The Great Depression, The GI Bill
born between1901â€"1924

Silent Generation
Leave it To Beaver, Father Knows Best, Dr. Spock. Civil Rights
born between  1925â€"1942
   
Baby Boom Generation
The 60s.  Consciousness Revolution.  Protests
born between 1943â€"1960

13th Generation (a.k.a Generation X)
born between 1961â€"1981    
six influences that shaped Generation 13. These influences are as follows

    * Readily-accessible birth control
    * Legalization of abortion on demand
    * Increase in divorce
    * Increase in mothers in the work place
    * The Zero Population movement
    * "Devil-child films"

Millennial Generation
born between 1982â€"2001    They first arrived when “Babies on Board” signs appeared. Many spent their formative years during the Bush Administration and associated crises.

Homeland Generation
born between 2001â€"    
Comprises the children born in the mid-late 1990s with an ending point not defined yet.

[thelakelander]

Generation X.  Both of my parents are Baby Boomers.

Isn't this a topic for the break room?

[Downtown Dweller]

Gen X

[Jimmy]

Most sources I've read place the beginning of Generation X at 1965.

Baby Boomers are 1946 - 1964.  See the US Census.  http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/006105.html


But to answer your question... I'm a bicentennial baby.  Generation X, by way of the spirit of '76.

[Jimmy]

I think you're wrong.  But what does it really matter?  These are quite arbitrary and un-useful categories.  What do people born in 1961 really have in common with people born in 1981?  Nothing, other than perhaps a familial relationship as those born in 1961 could certainly be the parents of those born in 1981.

[JeffreyS]

Gen X
Parents are Boomers
Hope homelanders does not stick for my son. Maybe they could be the problem solvers or space explorers gen only time will tell.

[Jimmy]

Could be.  I've been mistaken before. 

[Ocklawaha]

You just don't get it guys... NOBODY who really caught my generation (Baby Boomers) can remember it anyway.


You Might Be A Hippie ...

...If Your hair contains a fully functional eco-system, or petrified remains of one.

...If You've ever put a flower is someone's hair, or elsewhere.

...If You carry Identification Cards for Canadian or Colombian Citizenship (Dio's Mio!)

...If Your child is named after a element, spirit or celestial object.

...If Your sister tells you about the concert you attended in Fresno, and you can't remember a single thing.

...If You believe fear of flashbacks was a govenment scare tactic planted in your mind.

...If Answering "what's your favorite Jefferson Airplane Song?" takes five minutes.

...If Breaking up with your old lady leaves you homeless, and she keeps the shopping cart.

...If You carry a picture of Timothy Leary or Ghandi in your wallet, or you can quote Buddah.

...If You've made love on a Passenger Train Depot Platform, Elevator, Waterfall, public beach, or front seat of a imported sports car.

...If You're at a funeral and you light a joint after the eulogy.

...If You don't object to being labeled a hippie, *(Wear it with PRIDE baby!).

...If There's people you consider family and you don't know their last name.

...If Half your furniture is bean bags and you believe cable rolls, plywood and cardboard are equal to Scan Design.

...If You're always getting pulled over and searched because you thought that *F--K the PIGS" bumper sticker was a Kosher statement.

...If Out of habit, you pass your cigarette to whoever’s sitting next to you.

...If You name you children Bud, Herb, and Mary-Jane.

...If You roll perfect cigarettes.

...If You own the Foxfire books or Last Whole Earth Catalog.

...If You carry a Tim Leary "Trip of the Month Card".

...If You're still waiting for those flashbacks.

...If People you never met before ask if you can get them some weed.

...If You think 'All You Need Is Love' was written by Ghandi.

...If You have at least one tee shirt and one album each of Joplin, Hendrix or Morrison.

...If You can fall asleep in the mud, under the rain, in a waterfall on a rock.

...If You trespass onto private property to pick flowers.

...If hey, what was I talking about?

...If those Damned flashbacks never come!

...If the unmade leap keeps whispering, "What if?"

...If you show em you won't expire, not till you burn up every passion not even when you die *(Hear: Jethro Tull's Passion Play).

....If your old lady calls you at work and asks you to pick up granola on the way home and you head for the daycare center.

....you can remember being at Woodstock, even though you were born in 1968.

....people ask to borrow your best clothes for costume parties.

....you're still really bummed out about Kent State, Lyndon Johnson, Nixon, the war, and the Beatles break-up.

Ocklawaha

[jbm32206]

Baby boomer

[Jimmy]

Stephen, you're over 35.  Did it make your blood boil? 

It didn't make mine boil.  But I'm under 35.  Whew!!!  (And I have much more in common with the "next generation" than I do with my own... which has been both a blessing and a curse!)

[Jimmy]

Boomers are retiring all around me.  It's about to be me and the kids.  This is great news in my world.  We get a lot done with our technogadgets and need for approval.  Mutual appreciation is awesome.

[Jimmy]

The law business - LOL!  Yes, I'm a lawyer.  But I'm a public policy/interest lawyer... there's a generation of "founders" out there who are about to slip out to greener/golden pastures.  GenXers never got the movement aspect of this work, so there's fewer of us than you would imagine.  We are bringing in a bumper crop of wide-eyed Obama-esque movement types who are going to do what their grandparents couldn't -- end poverty as we know it -- or so they sincerely believe.  They just might be on to something.

[Downtown Dweller]

Got this lawyer joke today and can only assume this was a YOUNG lawyer  ....

If you ever have to testify in court, you might wish you
were as sharp as this policeman. A defense attorney was trying to undermine his credibility during a felony trial:

Q:
"Officer -- did you see my client fleeing the scene?"

A: "No sir. But I subsequently observed a person matching the description of the offender, running
several blocks away."
 
Q: "Officer -- who provided this description?"

A: "The officer who responded to the scene."
 
Q: "A fellow officer provided the description of this
so-called offender. Do you trust your fellow officers?"

A: "Yes, sir. With my life."
 
Q: "With your life? Let me ask you this then officer.
Do you have a room where you change your clothes
in preparation for your daily duties?"
 
A: "Yes sir, we do!"
 
Q: "And do you have a locker in the room?"

A: "Yes sir, I do."

Q: "And do you have a lock on your locker?"
 
A: "Yes sir."

Q: "Now why is it, officer, if you trust your fellow
officers with your life, yet you find it necessary to
lock your locker in a room you share with these
same officers?"
 
A: "You see, sir -- we share the building with the
court complex, and sometimes lawyers have been
known to walk through that room."


The courtroom exploded with laughter,
and a prompt recess was called.

[chris]

Millenial here... although, I've always thought I was Gen Y..

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