# In the Year 2525

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-year-2525/914916>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 10, 2020, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-year-2525/914916 "2020-07-10T05:50:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![PoppaSan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/poppasan/32/189_2.png) [@PoppaSan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoppaSan)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2020, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-year-2525/914916/1 "2020-07-10T05:50:22Z")

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Listening to the song the other day, I realized we are currently closer in time to that year than we are to Columbus’ first two voyages to the Caribbean and all of the history that preceded it.

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**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2020, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-year-2525/914916/2 "2020-07-10T17:01:18Z")

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I liked Futurama’s version of the song:

[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LE1drY3A418](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LE1drY3A418)

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**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-year-2525/914916/3 "2020-07-13T15:34:51Z")

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I really like the song of the original kind, I dont hear it enough

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**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2020, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-year-2525/914916/4 "2020-07-14T05:24:13Z")

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> [@WildBlueYonder](#):
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> I really like the song of the original kind, I dont hear it enough&nbsp;

[It’s all over YouTube.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKQfxi8V5FA) You can listen to your heart’s content.

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**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2020, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-year-2525/914916/5 "2020-07-14T06:20:55Z")

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That song always creeped me out.

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**Author:** ![PoppaSan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/poppasan/32/189_2.png) [@PoppaSan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoppaSan)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-year-2525/914916/6 "2020-07-15T19:43:16Z")

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I’ve gotten into one hit wonders of the 60’s playlists on Youtube and it is always there.

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**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-year-2525/914916/7 "2020-07-15T21:06:27Z")

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Along similar lines as the OP, I realized a few years ago that the song “Old Time Rock and Roll” is itself now about twice as old as the music Bob Seger was reminiscing about was at the time it was released.

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**Author:** ![PoppaSan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/poppasan/32/189_2.png) [@PoppaSan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoppaSan)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-year-2525/914916/8 "2020-07-15T21:19:21Z")

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My kids think the events in [we didn’t start the fire](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDPnsTRAvIM) happened about halfway back to the dinosaurs just a little after the pharaohs and glaciers.