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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm 52, and have no idea what "air cards" are, either.

At any rate, what makes me feel old is putting numbers of years in context with respect to pop culture. For example, music popular in the year 2000 was popular 23 years ago, right? I graduated high school in 1989, and the music from 23 years before that would have been from  the 60s -- which I would have considered ancient. Yet 2000 feels like yesterday. I have the same thoughts about fashion, often -- how totally "out" something from 1979 would have been in '89, yet I'm probably wearing things from way more than 10 years ago and looking ridiculous and just not aware of it. [/quote]
My daughter pointed out the song "1985" by Bowling for Soup, which is about a middle aged woman (who takes Prozac, has a CPA husband, and two kids) being stuck in the 80s due to being in denial of time passing by/settling down before living out her ideal life, was released in 2004. 19 years ago. Today's equivalent would be a song about a middle aged woman being stuck in the year 2004. Made me feel really old. [/quote]

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