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Feeling old yet?

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  • jon-nycJ Online
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    Remember Colombine?

    Those two kids would be turning 41 this year.

    "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
    -Cormac McCarthy

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      The Bourne Identity was released 20 years ago

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        The Bourne Identity was released 20 years ago

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        @89th said in Feeling old yet?:

        The Bourne Identity was released 20 years ago

        The book was written 42 years ago.

        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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          That movie marked a turning point for me. I expected to be able to at least tolerate it as a big budget popcorn movie, but the affectation of jerky camera movement to give the impression of super fast frantic action, made it unwatchable. First time I found a mainstream popcorn flick unwatchable. These days I'd find them unwatchable because a non-binary of color would be cast as the lead, but that's a different story.

          Education is extremely important.

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            Ferris Beuller (aka Matthew Broderick) is 60.

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              Ferris Beuller (aka Matthew Broderick) is 60.

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              @kluurs said in Feeling old yet?:

              Ferris Beuller (aka Matthew Broderick) is 60.

              Green Acres is 51.

              "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

              The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                @kluurs said in Feeling old yet?:

                Ferris Beuller (aka Matthew Broderick) is 60.

                Green Acres is 51.

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                @George-K said in Feeling old yet?:

                Green Acres is 51.

                Best sitcom ever

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                  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment

                  She died in 1996 at the age of 122. She had married 101 years prior to that (the husband died in 1942h, and her dad was born in 1837.

                  I randomly stumbled on this article. Thought it was relevant to this thread.

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                    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment

                    She died in 1996 at the age of 122. She had married 101 years prior to that (the husband died in 1942h, and her dad was born in 1837.

                    I randomly stumbled on this article. Thought it was relevant to this thread.

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                    @89th said in Feeling old yet?:

                    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment

                    She died in 1996 at the age of 122. She had married 101 years prior to that (the husband died in 1942h, and her dad was born in 1837.

                    I randomly stumbled on this article. Thought it was relevant to this thread.

                    When she was born, Ulysses S Grant was president. Mary Todd Lincoln was still in her 50s.

                    When she died, Clinton was in his second term.

                    That’s amazing.

                    "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
                    -Cormac McCarthy

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                      @George-K 's birthday is closer to the big bang than the birthdays of the rest of us are to GKs'. @Copper was already retired and played golf when the big bang happened.

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                        I remember this. I think it was @jon-nyc who brought it up, but at least until recently, the grandsons of John Adams(?) were still alive

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                          I remember this. I think it was @jon-nyc who brought it up, but at least until recently, the grandsons of John Adams(?) were still alive

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                          @taiwan_girl Thomas Boylston Adams, a descendant of Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams who was a corporate executive, a writer and administrator in the field of history and an opponent of the Vietnam War, died on Wednesday at his home in Lincoln, Mass. He was 86. Jun 9, 1997

                          Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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                          • taiwan_girlT taiwan_girl

                            I remember this. I think it was @jon-nyc who brought it up, but at least until recently, the grandsons of John Adams(?) were still alive

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                            @taiwan_girl it was the grandsons of John Tyler, who was president in the 1840s

                            "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
                            -Cormac McCarthy

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                              @taiwan_girl it was the grandsons of John Tyler, who was president in the 1840s

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                              @jon-nyc said in Feeling old yet?:

                              @taiwan_girl it was the grandsons of John Tyler, who was president in the 1840s

                              https://medium.com/the-biographical-historian/president-john-tyler-still-has-one-living-grandchild-seriously-24585a28b780

                              "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                              The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                                FWIW the Adams’ grandchildren lived about when you’d have expected them to.

                                Henry Adams, the historian famous for The Education of Henry Adams was the younger President Adams’ grandson and died in the 1920s or teens I think. He was publishing in the 1870s

                                "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
                                -Cormac McCarthy

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                                  Speaking of presidential issue, I was aware of a Theodore Roosevelt Vth or maybe VIth who worked at JPMorgan.

                                  "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
                                  -Cormac McCarthy

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                                    @Aqua-Letifer said in Forty-Five:

                                    Happy anniversary! You've been married longer than I've been alive, way to go! πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ˜

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