Wednesday, April 23, 2014

I'm Old

Lately I've kinda gone through a kind of nostalgia craze... well... let's feel old.
1. My page friends (the few that are still on my facebook) it's been over 10 years since we met
2. next year marks the 20 year anniversary of the movie toy story
3. if you were born in 1986 or later, we are now father past the dawn of the new millennium than your birthday was before it (in other words your total life to 1/1/2000 is shorter than your life from that day to now)
4. if toy story being 20 years old doesn't bother you, its sequel is 15 years old
5. the internet was commercialized and made fully available to us (as close to a birth as I can think of) 19 years ago
6. if you remember the tan m&m... you ate them 20 years ago, since then they've been replaced by the blue one
7. If Tommy Pickles was born the same year Rugrats came out, graduated high school at age 18, and was in a 4 year program to earn his bachelor's... he'd have gotten it last year
8. The DVD is now the same age VHS was when DVD's were first introduced (19 years)
9. oh but blu rays are so modern and current... they're already almost 8 years old
10. for my gamer friends, sega's last console was 15 years ago
11. the very first cell phone ever invented turned 30 this year
12. we were first introduced to Simon's condescending attitude on American Idol 12 years ago
13. back to video games, remember when the Nintendo 64 came out and completely blew our minds? if it were a person, it would be a legal adult this year at age 18
14. 20 years is a popular age on this list... Jim Carey had a ground breaking and "sssssssssmoking!" role as the mask 20 years ago.
15. The Batman Animated Series... one of my favorites... turns 22 years old this year.
16. Make two dots several inches apart on a piece of paper, draw a line connecting them. label the first one "Return of the Jedi 1983" label the other one, "New Star Wars Trilogy released, 2015" Now make another dot dead center of this line, label it "prequels start, episode I the phantom menace 1999" That's right, there were 16 years between Return of the Jedi and the Phantom Menace, and there is (currently) going to be 16 years between the phantom menace and the new trilogy
17. The creepiest of fast food mascots (even worse than a clown), the "Creepy King" as he came to be known, first tried to creep someone out enough to try the whopper 10 years ago
18. Before working for the insurance company, GEICO, our little lizard friend pleaded with people to stop calling him as they wanted "GEICO, not Gecko!" His first plea was 15 years ago.
19. After success with the gecko, the same ad agency had another well done ad campaign for GEICO about cavemen, the first of those ads appeared 10 years ago, this was popular as a commercial... not so much as a sitcom... which premiered 7 years ago, and was canceled after 6 episodes.
20. It's been 16 years since we've seen a new episode of Seinfeld
21. Reality TV is 20 years old
22. One of the (if not most) popular MMO's, World of Warcraft is 10 years old... the real time strategy game it is based on (oh how I wish Blizzard would give us another one) is 20 years old.
23. The mega company, Google, is 16 years old
24. Finally, if the Simpsons aged normally from where they were at the series debut, Homer would be 61 years old, Bart would be 35 years old, Lisa would be 33, and Maggie would be 26, to put that in perspective, Homer would be the same age as Liam Neeson and John Goodman, Bart is the same age as Rachel McAdams, Lisa is the same age as the new captain Kirk, Chris Pine, and baby Maggie would be just a couple years younger than Emma Stone.

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