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md
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How old am I?
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Jul 13 19:04 UTC 1994 |
Remmers' item about the seventies got me to thinking. (He and I
are very close contemporaries, so the following lists apply to
him as well as to me.)
I am younger than... I am older than...
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the Industrial Revolution the Atomic Age
Nylon Velcro
communist Russia communist China
Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra
ballpoint pens felt tip pens
Eliot's The Waste Land Auden's Age of Anxiety
Carnegie Hall Lincoln Center
Girl Crazy Oklahoma!
ragtime rock 'n' roll
the Treaty of Versaille NATO
television transistors
Still alive when I was born:
Bud Abbott
Lionel, John and Ethel Barrymore
Humphrey Bogart
Charlie Chaplin
Winston Churchill
Lou Costello
T.S. Eliot
Manuel de Falla
Robert Frost
Oliver Hardy
Adolf Hitler
Herbert Hoover
Charles Ives
Al Jolson
Vassily Kandinsky
Stan Laurel
Henri Matisse
Piet Mondrian
Ezra Pound
Sergei Prokofiev
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Arnold Schoenberg
Jean Sibelius
Josef Stalin
Igor Stravinsky
Ralph Vaughan Williams
The entire cast of Gone with the Wind
The entire cast of The Wizard of Oz, including Toto
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rcurl
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response 1 of 9:
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Jul 13 19:36 UTC 1994 |
Was that done "off the top of your head"?
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md
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response 2 of 9:
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Jul 13 19:44 UTC 1994 |
[Some of it was initially. Then I opened up the NYPL Desk Reference
to check a date...]
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scg
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response 3 of 9:
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Jul 13 20:51 UTC 1994 |
I am younger than:
Microwave ovens
early computers
casette (sp?) players
color TV
NATO
transistors
felt pens
rock 'n' roll
Cruise Control
etc.
I am older than:
CD players
home VCRs (I think)
personal computers being widespread
Hmm... There must be more that I'm older than.
Still alive when I was born:
Elvis (for another month or so, I think)
Charlie Chaplan
Again, there must be more that I'm not thinking of.
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srw
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response 4 of 9:
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Jul 14 06:12 UTC 1994 |
I am younger than the Normandy Invasion, but older than VE day
(and therefore of course also VJ day). This makes me too old to
be a baby boomer. (but not by much)
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rcurl
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response 5 of 9:
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Jul 14 06:24 UTC 1994 |
I'm older than yesterday, but younger than tomorrow.
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aruba
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response 6 of 9:
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Jul 14 13:06 UTC 1994 |
I am younger than the start of the Vietnam War, but older than the fall
of Saigon. I am younger than the the first spacewalk, but older than
the first moonwalk. I am younger than "Yesterday", but older than
"Hey Jude."
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pegasus
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response 7 of 9:
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Aug 8 03:55 UTC 1994 |
I'm as old as tongue, and slightly older than my teeth -- Kris Kringle
from Miracle on 34th Street.
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orwell
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response 8 of 9:
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Sep 21 05:07 UTC 1995 |
I am yunger than this item.
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aruba
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response 9 of 9:
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Oct 3 03:08 UTC 1995 |
Hmmm... I kinda doubt that.
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