On the front page of todays USA TODAY:

AMW · **Joined:** 26 Sep 2006 **Posts:** 4543

A "cover story" about baby boomers!

Quote:

Boomer divide: Generation gap spans 19 years

Call it a generation gap within the same generation.

The Baby Boom stretched over 19 calendar years, from 1946 through 1964 — enough time for the first and last Boomers to have lived through drastically different experiences.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/201 ... 3_CV_N.htm

For those keeping score at home, this is the one trillionth pointless "cover story" about baby boomers that the USA TODAY has published since 1982.

Judge WAN · 01 Aug 2005

Only one trillion? I would have pegged USA Today for at least a googleplex or three.

Bully · **Joined:** 21 Jun 2007 **Posts:** 13750

They still print USA Today?

Judge WAN · 01 Aug 2005

Only today. Never yesterday. Or tomorrow.

Only today.

Professor Plum · 10 Oct 2006

AMW wrote:

For those keeping score at home, this is the one trillionth pointless "cover story" about baby boomers that the USA TODAY has published since 1982.

I thought the same thing when I saw it. News alert: some members of a particular generation older than others!!!!

Worthy of a 2-column article in the middle of the Life section at best, but never underestimate the Boomers' capacity to be fascinated by themselves.

James C. Taylor · 16 Aug 2004

I am counted (IMO erroneously) as part of the Baby Boom generation. I have known about this separation for years. The people who grew up watching Howdy Doody had a significantly different life than most of the people who grew up watching Captain Kangaroo (there was some overlap). There is a name for my slice of the Baby Boomer generation now called Generation Jones.

Wikipedia, about demographics, wrote:

Baby Boomer cohort #1 (born from 1946 to 1953)

Memorable events: assassinations of JFK, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, political unrest, walk on the moon, Vietnam War, anti-war protests, social experimentation, sexual freedom, civil rights movement, environmental movement, women's movement, protests and riots, experimentation with various intoxicating recreational substances
Key characteristics: experimental, individualism, free spirited, social cause oriented

Boomer cohort #2 - "Generation Jones," born 1954-1965

Memorable events: Watergate, Nixon resigns, the cold war, the oil embargo, raging inflation, Disco, gasoline shortages
Key characteristics: less optimistic, pragmatic, general cynicism

Darin · 14 Aug 2004

AMW wrote:

A "cover story" about baby boomers!

Quote:

Boomer divide: Generation gap spans 19 years

Call it a generation gap within the same generation.

The Baby Boom stretched over 19 calendar years, from 1946 through 1964 — enough time for the first and last Boomers to have lived through drastically different experiences.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/201 ... 3_CV_N.htm

For those keeping score at home, this is the one trillionth pointless "cover story" about baby boomers that the USA TODAY has published since 1982.

They know who their audience is. The Baby Boomers are notoriously self-absorbed, after all.

Steve · 21 Oct 2004

They do call themselves the Greatest Generation, which I always found unbelievably pompous.

Jeff · 05 Oct 2006

Steve wrote:

They do call themselves the Greatest Generation, which I always found unbelievably pompous.

No they don't!

That's what we, and the baby boomers, call the WW2 generation.

Marcus · 27 Nov 2004

Hey! I'm at the end of Generation Jones!

Marcus · 27 Nov 2004

Bully wrote:

They still print USA Today?

I think just to give them away at hotels.

Brotoro · 12 Apr 2008

James C. Taylor wrote:

I am counted (IMO erroneously) as part of the Baby Boom generation. I have known about this separation for years. The people who grew up watching Howdy Doody had a significantly different life than most of the people who grew up watching Captain Kangaroo (there was some overlap). There is a name for my slice of the Baby Boomer generation now called Generation Jones.

Wikipedia, about demographics, wrote:

Baby Boomer cohort #1 (born from 1946 to 1953)

Memorable events: assassinations of JFK, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, political unrest, walk on the moon, Vietnam War, anti-war protests, social experimentation, sexual freedom, civil rights movement, environmental movement, women's movement, protests and riots, experimentation with various intoxicating recreational substances
Key characteristics: experimental, individualism, free spirited, social cause oriented

Boomer cohort #2 - "Generation Jones," born 1954-1965

Memorable events: Watergate, Nixon resigns, the cold war, the oil embargo, raging inflation, Disco, gasoline shortages
Key characteristics: less optimistic, pragmatic, general cynicism

Well... I'm in cohort #2, and I remember all of the 'memorable events' they list for cohort #1. Why don't they have any of their own?

Steve · 21 Oct 2004

Jeff wrote:

Steve wrote:

They do call themselves the Greatest Generation, which I always found unbelievably pompous.

No they don't!

That's what we, and the baby boomers, call the WW2 generation.

Screw them!

Pope Krysak · 11 Dec 2006

Why is it "Generation Jones"?

That meddlin kid · 26 Mar 2007

I recently saw an article about library outreach to senior citizens. It noted that the early Boomers are about to start retiring and becoming seniors, but if you want to attract them you DO NOT want to hold events that say anything about senior citizens, age, etc. They REALLY don't want to be reminded of the fact that they are, indeed, becoming older instead of remaining forever young.

RobertSwanderson · 01 Jan 2007

The greatest generation was born this week in 1960. It's a proven fact.

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