December 2011
13 posts
The Life and Times of Tammy Martins
More emailed tales of woe.
Me born 1980 My cuz born in 1993 now 18 years old ! Was about 15 at the time when he asked if I had any old high school drumline videos ( he was at the time part of his high school drumline ) He wanted to see the difference between now and then . He asked me if I had any ? I said ” yes ” I handed him a VCR cassette and he proceeded towards the...
The Life and Times of Meghann Davis
Received a brilliant email from reader Meg Davis, who has a lot of stuff that’s making her feel old. She is 28 years old. Hear her worrying tale of premature ageing.
I stumbled onto your site today via the Buzzfeed link someone posted on Facebook, suddenly all these random facts occurred to me that I though I would share with you, do with them what you wish. The year I was born 1983:...
One Saturday Morning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atHUYWL1eIU
Yep. that was in 1997. Fourteen years ago.
Old Music
In a fifth grade class we were discussing the musical heritage of Macon, GA. I was referring to Otis Redding, Little Richard and the Allman Brothers. A students said, “I love Oldies…like Friday Night Eighties on Star 94!” To compound the pain of this incident;The student in question is now a Junior in college.
God I'm old...
The Karate Kid is 50. FIFTY!!!!!!!
Muppet Christmas Carol
Muppet Christmas Carol will be 20 next year. That means that people born after this film came out are old enough to have children that are old enough to tell you that their parents weren’t born when this film came out.
The Princess Bride
Someone ended a sentence the other day with “… and I mean it!” and I followed up with “Anybody want a peanut?” in a really low gravelly voice. After several seconds of awkward silence I said that it was from the Princess Bride. More awkward silence. “You know… the movie.” Then one of the twenty-somethings around me said, “Oh yeah, I think...
damn i've felt old for almost 2 decades
the summer after i worked at a summer camp as a junior counciler where one of the kids tune to me seriously and asked “whats a record player that was 1996 15 years ago.
that was the first time i ever felt old
glee not so gleeful
OMG when Lea Michelle’s character on Glee referred to “ONE” by U2 as “classic rock” and I remember when that was just released as a single- yeah, I FELT OLD. I thought classic rock was Zeppelin and The Who and Aerosmith…
I didn't know that Paul McCartney was in a band...
I overheard this over THIRTY YEARS ago, in a RECORD store. Now its, “Wings?” Paul McCartney was in a band?”
Pluto’s not been a planet for five years.
SPACE FACT TWO
Columbia disintegrated on re-entry over 8 years ago. There are people who can drive up here, who were half their current age when that happened.
Submitted by Christopher Thomas, again.