This was sent to me earlier and I still think it is right on. Enjoy
>Long ago and far away,
>In a land that time forgot,
>Before the days of Dylan,
>Or the dawn of Camelot.
>There lived a race of innocents,
>And they were you and me,
>Long ago and far away
>In the Land That Made Me Me.
>Oh, there was truth and goodness
>In that land where we were born,
>Where navels were for oranges,
>And Peyton Place was porn.
>For Ike was in the White House,
>And Hoss was on TV,
>And God was in His heaven
>In the Land That Made Me Me.
>
>We learned to gut a muffler,
>We washed our hair at dawn,
>We spread our crinolines to dry
>In circles on the lawn.
>
>And they could hear us coming
>All the way to Tennessee,
>All starched and sprayed and rumbling
>in the Land That Made Me Me.
>
>We longed for love and romance,
>And waited for the prince,
>And Eddie Fisher married Liz,
>And no one's seen him since.
>
>We danced to "Little Darlin'",
>And Sang to "Stagger Lee"
>And cried for Buddy Holly
>In the Land That Made Me Me.
>
>Only girls wore earrings then,
>And three was one too many,
>And only boys wore flat-top cuts,
>Except for Jean McKinney.
>
>And only in our wildest dreams
>Did we expect to see
>A boy named George, with Lipstick
>In the Land That Made Me Me.
>
>We fell for Frankie Avalon,
>Annette was oh, so nice,
>And when they made a movie,
>They never made it twice.
>
>We didn't have a Star Trek Five,
>Or Psycho Two and Three,
>Or Rockey-Rambo Twenty
>In the Land That Made Me Me.
>
>Miss Kitty had a heart of gold,
>And Chester had a limp,
>And Reagan was a Democrat
>Whose co-star was a chimp.
>
>We had a Mr Wizard,
>But not a Mr T,
>And Oprah couldn't talk, yet
>In the Land That Made Me Me.
>
>We had our share of heroes,
>We never thought they'd go,
>At least not Bobby Darin,
>Or Marilyn Monroe.
>
>For youth was still eternal,
>And life was yet to be,
>And Elvis was forever,
>In the Land That Made Me Me.
>
>We'd never seen the rock band
>That was Grateful to be Dead,
>And Airplanes weren't named Jefferson,
>And Zeppelins weren't Led.
>
>And Beatles lived in gardens then,
>And Monkees in a tree,
>Madonna was a virgin
>In the Land That Made Me Me.
>
>We'd never heard of Microwaves,
>Or telephones in cars,
>And babies might be bottle-fed,
>But they weren't grown in jars.
>
>And pumping iron got wrinkles out,
>And "gay" meant fancy-free,
>And dorms were never coed
>In the Land That Made Me Me.
>
>We hadn't seen enough of jets
>To talk about the lag,
>And microchips were what was left at
>The bottom of the bag.
>
>And Hardware was a box of nails,
>And bytes came from a flea,
>And rocket ships were fiction
>In the Land That Made Me Me.
>
>Buicks came with portholes,
>And side show came with freaks,
>And bathing suits came big enough
>To cover both your cheeks.
>And Coke came just in bottles,
>And skirts came to the knee,
>And Castro came to power
>In the Land That Made Me Me.
>We had no Crest with Fluoride,
>We had no Hill Street Blues,
>We all wore superstructure bras
>Designed by Howard Hughes.
>We had no patterned pantyhose
>Or Lipton herbal tea
>Or prime-time ads for condoms
>In the Land That Made Me Me.
>
>There were no golden arches,
>No Perriers to chill,
>And fish were not called Wanda,
>And cats were not called Bill.
>And middle-aged was thirty-five
>And old was forty-three,
>And ancient was our parents
>In the Land That Made Me Me.
>But all things have a season,
>Or so we've heard them say,
>And now instead of Maybelline
>We swear by Retin-A.
>And they send us invitations
>To join AARP,
>We've come a long way, baby,
>From the Land That Made Me Me.
>So now we face a brave new world
>In slightly larger jeans,
>And wonder why they're using
>Smaller print in magazines.
>
>And we tell our children's children
>of the way it used to be,
>Long ago, and far away
>In the Land That Made Me Me.
>--Author unknown