# I'm not getting smater. Just older, dammit!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-getting-smater-just-older-dammit/588409
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [July 9, 2011, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-getting-smater-just-older-dammit/588409 "2011-07-09T14:26:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2011, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-getting-smater-just-older-dammit/588409/1 "2011-07-09T14:26:34Z")
Playing trivia with a younger (25ish) group of friends at the bar the other night.
The MC was throwing out some ridiculously easy questions out there. I was absolutely amazed that none of the friends in my group were getting them!
Then, I finally realized that most of the questions I was getting that they weren’t, had to do with events that happened before they were even born. :smack:
Oh well, at least I got to see what it feels like to be the “smart” one for once. 😃
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### Author:  [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2011, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-getting-smater-just-older-dammit/588409/2 "2011-07-09T14:43:21Z")
> [@Shakes](#):
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> I’m not getting smater. Just older, dammit!
Hehe “smater”
Homer: I’m S-M-R-T SMART!
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### Author:  [@Bloodless\_Turnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bloodless_Turnip)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2011, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-getting-smater-just-older-dammit/588409/3 "2011-07-09T14:44:08Z")
🙂 Take what you can get.
The original Trivial Pursuit game was a tough one, for my generation. My parents had less problems with it because many questions happened in their lifetimes.
I notice that I do best on science questions.
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### Author:  [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2011, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-getting-smater-just-older-dammit/588409/4 "2011-07-09T15:07:07Z")
> [@USCDiver](#):
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> Hehe “smater”
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> Homer: I’m S-M-R-T SMART!
LOL!!
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### Author:  [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2011, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-getting-smater-just-older-dammit/588409/5 "2011-07-09T17:16:41Z")
> [@USCDiver](#):
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> Hehe “smater”
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> Homer: I’m S-M-R-T SMART!
Don’t be such a smateypants.
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### Author:  [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2011, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-getting-smater-just-older-dammit/588409/6 "2011-07-10T04:25:26Z")
> [@Shakes](#):
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> LOL!!
And here, I was gonna say " ‘R’ you?"
😃
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### Author:  [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2011, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-getting-smater-just-older-dammit/588409/7 "2011-07-10T04:31:41Z")
I occasionally play TP with some old people. Just wait until you call 30 year-old music “new”. Then you\*\* know\*\* you’re old.
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### Author:  [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2011, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-getting-smater-just-older-dammit/588409/8 "2011-07-10T08:57:31Z")
I hate to tell you, but, if fact you’re probably losing ground in the smarts dept.
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2011, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-getting-smater-just-older-dammit/588409/9 "2011-07-10T14:56:27Z")
> [@BrassyPhrase](#):
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> And here, I was gonna say " ‘R’ you?"
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> 😃
Arrrrr, Smatey!
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### Author:  [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2011, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-getting-smater-just-older-dammit/588409/10 "2011-07-10T15:03:18Z")
Just because I knew MacGyver’s first name was Angus…does not makes me old. it makes me trivial!
That it started in 1982, THAT makes me feel old.