Generational Confusion: Are You Gen X, Gen Y or Z?

Are you like me and get Generations X, Y and Z confused?  And, who are these millennials who are so bearded, pierced, hair-colored and inked?

I know for a fact Baby Boomers and the Greatest Generation, but what about the others?

Maybe this will help:

BABY BOOMERS:  Born 1946-1964   That's me.

GEN X:  Born 1965-1981

GEN Y:  (AKA, The Millennials)  1982-2000

GEN Z:  (AKA The Centennials-hadn't heard this one) 2001 to present.

So, What Are You?  --CootBoomer

I Must Be Getting Old

From the August 24th Chicago Tribune.

This year's incoming freshman class in college (we don't even want to think of the incoming high school freshmen) were mostly born around 1993. And there are many so-called cultural touchstones that they would not be old enough to remember. Every year, Wisconsin's Beloit College releases their Mindset List.

Here are some of the items on this year's list:

** Andre the Giant, River Phoenix, Frank Zappa and Arthur Ashe have always been dead.

** Ferris Bueller and Sloane Peterson could be their parents.

** There have always been at least two women on the US Supreme Court, and women have always commanded US Navy ships.

** "Don't touch that dial!"...What dial?

** Refer to LBJ and they might think you're talking about LeBron James.

** O.J. Simpson has always been looking for the killers of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman.

** John Wayne Bobbitt has always slept with one eye open.

** McDonald's coffee has always had a warning not to spill it in your lap.

** "PC" has come to mean personal computer, not political correctness.

For full list go to chicagotribune.com/mindset.

We're Not Too Old, They're Too Young. --Cooter