Talk:891: Movie Ages

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This chart kinda breaks down when you meet someone who doesn't follow movies or has poor memory. Awkward moments happen. Davidy²²[talk] 10:06, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

Direct quote from transcript:
"The 2011 Guide to Making People Feel Old
-Using Movie Release Dates-"
The second clause is as important as the first. I don't follow movies too much, but it isn't hard to make me feel old ("Oh, you're a decade and a half already?" "Oh, you're two decades already?" "Oh, you're a quarter-century?", etc). --Quicksilver (talk) 20:39, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

You can still use this in the future. Just add n-2011 to each time on the chart. (Where n is the current year.) So for instance, in 2014, the 16 year old one becomes 19 year olds, and the year is "Just under a decade ago." 108.162.250.219 09:45, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

Wow, you hacked it! --Kronf (talk) 23:06, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
Lincoln

Although not intended to make anyone feel old, the Gettysburg address begins by noting that it is 87 years since the Declaration of Independence. (A score is 20, so "four score and seven" equals 87. In 1873, 1776 was 87 years ago.) 173.245.48.75 21:25, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

What about Men in Black? Final-year high-school students (in Australia, at the very least) were born after it came out. When I realized this, it blew me away. Date: 24 February 2015. 108.162.250.171 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

This comic was released half a decade ago. 141.101.80.29 17:48, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

Logical flaw in the title text: I was already a child prodigy in 2011 :P. Hppavilion1 (talk) 17:59, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Did you realize that this comic came out closer to Finding Nemo than the present day? --172.68.133.132 22:13, 26 March 2019 (UTC)