I’ve got shoes that old.
Crap!!
You might want to take that up with… well, every American government since the 16th Amendment, and more or less all the other governments in the world over roughly the same period.
And Adam Smith and Teddy Roosevelt.
Dude. 1970 was half a lifetime ago. Back when they mixed their dino squeezins with carburetors. But it’s still a rockin tune no matter when it was written.
I was going to tell you that you’re an idiot for thinking someone would remember an inauguration from when they were four… but then I remembered my elder sister doing that fake voting in elementary school when I was three. :smack: I’m nineteen now.
Incidentally, for the Canadian equivalent, I exercised my right to vote in the election a couple weeks ago, and I don’t really remember the time before Chrétien was Prime Minister. And really, I’ve only been truly attentive to the Canadian scene since Paul Martin came into power, so I mostly think in terms of minority governments. Then again, I’ve only lived up here for a couple years, so…
I’ve had the same boss at work for over 14 years. The start of the Clinton administration still seems like it was just yesterday to me.
Ed
Your looking at that comment in the wrong context, she is now entering cougarhood if she was not already there. Most of the girls that I have talked too , once they have past 25 seem to think in terms of Hudson, its game over man.
Declan
Sixteen years is not long enough for the statement to make sense.
All it shows is that she is at least around 20 years old… but that should be obvious by her appearance and job.
Did she think everyone thought she was a 13 year old news reporter?
The statement is stupid enough that I suspect she miscalculated the year of Clinton’s inauguration to be earlier than it was.
World War II is more distant temporally today than World War I was when I was a teenager. That’s the bit of perspective that makes mee feel old.
The period before World War I might as well be the Renaissance in terms of politics, culture, and the world system: The world has ended twice since 1910. (It ended in 1914, when Feudal Europe died, and in 1991, when the primacy of the nation-state died.)
(It took until 2001 for America to fully realize what 1991 meant. We focused on the death of the Soviet Union to the exclusion of noticing one of the things that killed it: The Taliban and similar, international groups with a vague ideology and no stable home base. Prior to 1991 the world system was capable of keeping such groups in check, both by force of arms and the restriction of the flow of information. It is not a coincidence that the world ended in 1991 when the Internet fully went public.)
Worried more about me diddling their kids than exploring THEIR linen.
You know what shows my age? When I see some young pretty girl and realize that the day she was born I had already been jacking off to Playboy for some time.
I’m thinking that might not be the best pickup line though: “Do you realise that when you were born I had been jacking off to Playboy for some years already? . . .”
When I was a lad, I went door to door with canisters collecting coins for the Adlai Stevenson campaign against Eisenhower. Thats how much of it was collected. You would ask them to put coins in the slot. Campaign financing has changed a bit since then.
'ere, now, you had coins? We were sent out to collect shells and shiny pebbles, and were darn lucky to get them, too!
I don’t think it’s that weird. I was eight years old when Clinton was elected and I just barely remember some Clinton-related stuff from back then (my earliest memory being, I think, “… while Bill Clinton plays the sax!” in the Animaniacs theme song).
Heck, my little sister was three years old when Clinton was elected. Anything pre-Bush seems like a hundred years ago to her.
The first presidential election I remember being aware of as a “current” event would have been the Ford/Carter election when I was in 5th grade.
Although not as advanced in age as some Dopers, I do recall JFK’s assassination and LBJ’s swearing-in. And I remember the 1964 election, Johnson vs. Goldwater. And I do remember Reagan as an actor. Sixteen years ago is a drop in the bucket to me.
Unless it’s an autographed copy, I think you are in the wrong thread. 
I have used “showing my age” as deprecation to my youth because so many of my friends are older than me.
Usually I’ll say something more like “I hate to date myself like this, but I have to admit I skipped eighth period in high school to see the remastered re-release of the original Star Wars in the movie theater.”