# ME:setup   YOU:punchline

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/me-setup-you-punchline/323449>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 26, 2005, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/me-setup-you-punchline/323449 "2005-09-26T05:35:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![SleepyDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@SleepyDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SleepyDuck)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/me-setup-you-punchline/323449/1 "2005-09-26T05:35:51Z")

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OK, I know that the disparity in age between Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones has been comedy fodder since they hooked up, but…

Just now flipping through the “news lite” sections of the Sunday paper, I learned that they share the same birthday (September 25)!

Surely there must be some Freudian/Electra Complex joke here, I just can’t figure out what it is. Any suggestions?

and for anyone still paying attention, Hilary Duff ceases to be jail bait on Wednesday

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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/me-setup-you-punchline/323449/2 "2005-09-26T05:41:26Z")

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> [@SleepyDuck](#):
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> OK, I know that the disparity in age between Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones has been comedy fodder since they hooked up, but…
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> Just now flipping through the “news lite” sections of the Sunday paper, I learned that they share the same birthday (September 25)!

Yeah, but that’s only if you switch his birth date to the Gregorian calendar.

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**Author:** ![SleepyDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@SleepyDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SleepyDuck)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/me-setup-you-punchline/323449/3 "2005-09-26T05:49:48Z")

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> [@Marley23](#):
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> Yeah, but that’s only if you switch his birth date to the Gregorian calendar.

I’m already LOL at that one. Thanx.

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**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/me-setup-you-punchline/323449/4 "2005-09-26T06:02:33Z")

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> [@SleepyDuck](#):
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> and for anyone still paying attention, Hilary Duff ceases to be jail bait on Wednesday

I think this is the greatest news of all.

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**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/me-setup-you-punchline/323449/5 "2005-09-26T06:04:15Z")

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Considering good ol’ Catherine can’t decide how old she is anyway, he probably isn’t _that_ much older in the first place. I think she’s had at least two different documents made public with differing birthdates.

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**Author:** ![SleepyDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@SleepyDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SleepyDuck)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/me-setup-you-punchline/323449/6 "2005-09-26T06:14:52Z")

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> [@Hung Mung](#):
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> I think she’s had at least two different documents made public with differing birthdates.

cite?