‘Fergie is a pop singer, not a princess’

And, I would add, Princess Diana has almost always been dead.

The annual (less than objective) Beloit College kids-these-days-don’t-know-what-you’re-talking-about Mindset List includes:

• The first computer they probably touched was an Apple II; it is now in a museum.
• Czechoslovakia has never existed.
• John McEnroe has never played professional tennis.
• Clint Eastwood is better known as a sensitive director than as Dirty Harry.
• Woody Allen, whose heart has wanted what it wanted, has always been with Soon-Yi Previn.
• Nirvana is on the classic oldies station.
• The dominance of television news by the three networks passed while they were still in their cribs.
• There have always been women priests in the Anglican Church.
• Beethoven has always been a dog.