A blow to age verification?

Zombies are going to need Age Verification too?

I thought Zombies were in charge of the Verification?

Think you are worried too much. Spend a little time getting to know who you are interested in. You seem intelligent and are literate, you will pick up on someone who is not an adult.

Some clues

If they dont Remember the Iranian Hostage Crisis or MTV, they are under 35.

If they dont remember the first Shuttle Disaster or Cassete Tapes, they are under 30.

If they dont remember the Second Shuttle Disaster or Life before the Internet, they are jailbait.

Or get them on voice chat. If you hear an echo , it means they are in Mom's basement. Bonus points if you hear Mom yelling at them to come up and take out the garbage.

Yeah If they are in Mom's basement you know they are over 30.

I failed to make note of the "test question verification" route! *smacks head as if in a commercial sheepishly chastising self because "I coulda had a V8* Incidentally, to put myself into the historical timeline, I just miss your suggested cutoff for the Iranian hostage situation, and actually have only the very foggiest remembrance of it--and probably wouldn't had Grandma not religiously watched the evening news. However, I DO remember quite vividly the death of Elvis (mother worshiped the ground he walked on and took to her bed that day--I kid you not). Just for fun, to expand on what Colette had to say, here are some more possible clues to consider as warning signs.

* AV cannot remember the "mullet" as being anything but ironic

* AV asks, "What's a Ronald Reagan?" when prompted

* AV thinks "LOL" has always been a "word" in the English language

* AV's response to witty reference to "East Berlin" is "WTF??"

* AV reminisces about wearing "Pull-Ups" brand disposable training pants--and NOT in the context of some diaper fetish scene.

"Colette and others...thank you for injecting some humor into my afternoon!" said Shad, sheepishly noting that, again, he is guilty of taking himself to seriously.

Some other potential clues -

If they don't remember that stereos used to involve needles.

If they have never been to a Howard Johnson's

If their parents had a SUV instead of a Minivan it means they are under 20

If their parents had a Minivan instead of a Station Wagon it means they are under 30.

Anyone who doesn't remember that the remote control used to be the youngest kid in the room is under 30.

So is Anyone who doesn't remember life with 5 channels

So is anyone that doesn't know wire hangers and TVs go together.


If they know who Mylie Cyrus is but not Debbie Gibson.

If they cant remember when Michael Jackson looked normal.

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The real problem comes in when dating people who claim to be 18-25 since they will only know what a teen would know.

So stick to dating those over 30. More interesting anyhow.

Well, I remember Reagan as President. And being shot.

I remember Jimmy Carter too! And Gilda Radner on Saturday Night Live- when it used to be funny!

I remember Pong! And Pac man.

I remember when Cartoons were fun and on every Saturday morning till Noon, when Soul Train came on.

I remember the gas rationing. And Mr. Bill!! Oooh Noooooooo!!!

I remember someone thought it was a good idea to give The Bay City Rollers a Saturday morning show!

I remember watching KISS, in "The Phantom of the Park", and their appearance on the Sid & Marty Kroft halloween special with Witchypoo.

I remember my parents taking me to the movies to see "Grease".

How's that for age verification?

Three words:

Donny and Marie...

ZOMG!! I used to watch their show!! My sister had the dolls!

FWIW: Marie Osmond is still HAWT!!!

I know what an 8-track is.

I know what a record album is.

I remember a Sesame Street without Elmo. (These are now rated as unsuitable for children. Eh?!)

I owned four Sesame Street albums on vinyl.

I remember Electric Company.

I know what cassette tapes are.

The first computer my family owned was a Tandy 80 and the next was a Commodore 64.

I know what Beta tapes are.

I know what floppy disks are.

I remember when Gorbachev and Regan met in Iceland.

I remember there was once a U.S.S.R.

I know where the US is on a map...

ll this crap about age verification makes me wonder if we completely forgot where we are coming from...
Ten tousand of years B.C, where did the kids slept when their parents where.... uhm... you know?

Gods, ya'll are nothing but a bunch of wet-behind-the-ears greenhorns.

* I remember Howdy Doody and Sky King

* I remember when Clint Eastwood was Rowdy Yates on Rawhide

* I remember Raymond Burr when his character could walk

* I remember being too young to watch Outer Limits because my mother was sure it would scar my psyche

* I remember when the Beatles first appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show

* I watched Star Trek when it was a new series on NBC

I can't remember what happened last week though....

Yikes! I know all those things, too!

So Beebo is definitely old enough, plus shes a cute butch gal.

Tod and Skel and Raudf are old enough too,

And Mari is old enough but shes a kid ... only in SL does that make sense

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Heck you all should be verified based on posts alone- its a more reliable system than the one LL is pimping.

LOL...I have to respond to this too!! 8 Tracks: I still possess them but have no player. I keep them in their original 1970's turn table holder. I loved to play with the buttons with the cartridge in the player and go back and forth between tracks. I have records and a player but need to fix the later, as there is one bad part in it. I was way past Sesame Street age before Elmo even existed but I liked to pretend I was Super Grover by wearing a cape and jumping off the dining room table. No Sesame Street album, but I did have a PTL club record set with Tammy Faye acting as a pig and or an alligator. I watched the Electric Company religiously. I remember when there were no real music stores in town much less a lot of cassettes to be had, yet I did have a reel-to-reel a friend of my mother's gave me when I was still little. The first computer we owned was a VIC 20. I know what Beta is but never had the player. I remember being 9 1/2 years old and my father talking about this wonderous new invention called the "floppy disk" and thinking it sounded like a miracle (the VIC 20 had two "drives" one for cartridges like an Atari the other was a special cassette player that used regular audio tapes to record data to. I remember Yuri Andropov, and even Viktor Chernyenko as USSR's leaders. I not only remember the USSR but the Eastern Bloc and being taught we were to hate them. And, I know where most countries are on the globe, although new ones pop up all the time and others change names.

Other things to add: I remember...

Most foodstuffs now in plastic came in glass bottles

Ads introducing 2 liter plastic soda bottles as a novel idea

Taking pop bottles back to the store for the deposit

Reagan being shot

The happy day my town gained a fifth TV station

Cable boxes with switch-like push buttons

Praying in public school before we went to lunch

The first time I saw gasoline below a dollar a gallon

When gas stations still sold Ethyl, and Leaded gas was called "Regular."

Seeing The Empire Strikes Back at the drive in, with people dressed up like characters at the drive-in to entertain the kids before the show started.

Chicken McNuggets were a novelty

KFC was still Kentucky Fried Chicken, and they had hot rolls, not biscuits.

K Shadrack should be forums age verified too.

This isn't so hard. Dang Lindens always having to do things the hard way.

I sorta remember The BiCentennial

I watched the Challenger blow up in High School

I thought Al Gore was cute when he was running for VP

I remember my dad being smugly satisfied he bought VHS instead of Beta

My first car was a Plymouth Reliant K

I watched "The Young Ones" on MTV

I was in the World Trade Center an Hour befire the first bombing

I remember when the Yankees were a crappy team except for Don Mattingly

I remember watching the news reports when Sputnik was launched.

LOL at the new 'age verification' questions...

I remember the Soviets boycotting the Olympics...I believe that was the year the games were held in LA?

I was cutting class from HS the day the Challenger blew up - I was at the mall, watching it on a wall of TVs in the electronics dept.

I remember when Madonna was new on the music scene.

When I started driving, gasoline cost 35 cents per liter.

When the markets had that big downturn in October '88 I remember wondering how that would affect things at work, my first full-time job.

-Atashi

someone send Aristotle the link to this thread, everyone who posted so far should get exempted out of their crappy Age Verification process.

I'll bite.

The Kennedy-Nixon presidential election
Alan Shepard's first space flight
Tube TV's
Telephones with rotary dials
Telephones before rotary dials
The launching of Telstar

Not an easy question to answer. Considering the loud voice of American pietists, yes, access to the forums should somehow be limited. In principle, it is censorship and can lead us all down a lot of slippery slopes. Add to the principle that I also am considering the two main sources from which I learned foul language: 1) the school bus in early grade school; 2) Dad trying to fix the car and telling it what he thought of it when something went wrong (he stopped working on the cars himself and started taking them to the shop for repairs before I was 10).

Age verification would protect the Lindens' butts and ours to some extent. I know that age verification is a laugh, but I would rather smile and jump through that stupid hoop with a roll of the eyes than to have SL and its forums be either shut down or modified into something inane under a government push to mollify a rabid bunch of pietists who get their jollies off of denying people any fun. Consider Attorney General Ashcroft's draping of art in the Justice Dept. because that art showed a few dirty bits, or the stink a woman's nipple inadvertently becoming a part of the cast of the Super Bowl's halftime show.

An anecdote to from personal experience comes to mind. Soon after my hometown got its first Abercrombie and Fitch, a concerned mother visited the store and saw the catalogue. She suddenly became a crusader for decency, giving the store a lot of bad press, in trying to force them at least locally to pull the catalogue as pornography. Same mommy sees "wurdy durds" on the screen in this forum is going to raise a big stink. At the very least it is going to mean bad press for the AEVIL SECOND LIFE, at worst....well, its an election year and we all know that there are plenty of politicians who like to capitalize on stamping out AEVIL.

You know, often I wonder if people become truly outraged by things like you described, or is it something else?

Maybe they know they are SUPPOSED to get outraged and act accordingly.

Or Maybe they just want something to be outraged about.