1093: Forget

2012-08-10T16:29:23Z

MrFlibble: Changed Chernobyl from 1996 to 1986

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| number = 1093
| date = August 10, 2012
| title = Forget
| image = Forget.png
| titletext = 'Baby Got Back' turned 20 this year. My favorite nostalgia show is VH1's 'I Love The Inexorable March of Time Toward the Grave That Awaits Us All.'
| explanation =
The median age in {{w|USA}} is about 35 years. This means that anything that happened longer ago than that (less the first five or six years of one's life, where they're too young to remember cultural events) will be remembered by a minority of people. For example, here in 2012, the majority of Americans are too young to remember the 1970s.

Title Text - This is in reference to the vastly over-saturated programming on VH1 dedicated to the history of the TV universe.

'''2015 The Falkand Islands War''' This is in reference to the brief outbreak of hostilities between the UK and Argentina over a small patch of rock off the shore of Argentina claimed by both but controlled by the UK. Even to this date (2012) tensions remain high over the ownership of these islands, and while a majority of people alive weren't alive to remember it ''first hand'', it nevertheless remains present in the collective psyche of both nations.

'''2018 New Coke''' References a public relations blunder that the Coca Cola corporation undertook in attempting to reformulate its cola recipe, naming it {{w|New Coke}}. The public backlash so shook the company that even to this date, the reinstated original recipe is referred to as Coke Classic.

'''2020 Chernobyl''' Refers to the 1986 meltdown of a nuclear power plant in the Ukranian SSR (then a part of the Soviet Union.)

'''2023 The Berlin Wall''' Refers specifically to the tearing down of a soviet-erected barrier through the city of Berlin, up to then divided into soviet-controlled east and western-controlled west portions. With the gradual wane of the Soviet Union, and specifically the reunification of Germany in 1989, the wall was torn down by people on both sides of the division.

'''2024 HammerTime''' Refers to a refrain in MC Hammer's 1990 hit song {{w|U Can't Touch This}}; [[Randall Munroe]] makes reference to this song elsewhere in his comics, too (specifically {{xkcd|108}} and {{xkcd|210}}.)

'''2025 The Soviet Union''' Refers to the cold-war adversary of the United States, emerging after the end of World War I and only collapsing in 1991.

'''2026 The LA Riots''' Refers to the massive riots occuring at the release of the verdict acquitting the officers accused of the Rodney King beatings in 1992.

'''2027 Lorena Bobbit''' Refers to the woman who emasculated her husband in 1993.

'''2045 Trying to say Eyjafjallajökull''' Is a reference to a volcano in Iceland that erupted from 20 March 2010 through 23 May 2010. The eruption threw volcanic ash several kilometres up in the atmosphere which led to air travel disruption in northwest Europe for six days from 15th to 21st of April. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyjafjallaj%C3%B6kull#2010_eruptions Source Wikipedia]
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