Age is just a number. Mine is FUCK YOU.

[bitchgoddessdm]

I've officially gotten old. It's not that a certain age was reached, or that I started getting arthritis or whatever. It's because (at work) I find myself increasingly surrounded by young people who, when I make a reference to certain things in my past, have no idea what the fuck I'm talking about

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[xnightvixenx]

Yep, I know exactly how you feel with all of that..it truly does make you feel old...and hell I had wonder woman underoos...and a dukes of Hazzard night gown..fuck yeah!

[reddheart]

Wonder Woman Underoos were EPIC. And sometimes didn't look so much like underwear, when I think about it. The top especially just made me think of any other tank top.

[miss_adventure]

I had Wonder Woman Underoos too. If they made them in grown-up sizes, I'd have several pairs. Yep.

[xnightvixenx]

I would too!

Killjoy moment up ahead.

[finubala]

I can relate to this entry, even though I am 7 years younger than my husband.

7 years doesn't sound like a lot until you consider things such as: At the age when I was seeing my first rated-R movie, he was in the Army at the time. The point in time when I was experiencing my first romantic relationship that often involved kissing & groping, he was in the Army at the time. When I was losing my virginity, he was in the Army at the time. Actually, that seven year period (1980-87) seems to be when I experienced damned near every adolescent young-adult situation, often for the very first time, and he was off being in the Army, feeling jaded over rated-R movies, divorcing his high school sweetheart/first wife, and probably fantasizing about (with bouts of occasionally having) lots of sex with European women.

So the phrase "I was in the Army at the time" has become our shorthand that symbolizes any experience I would have that would be the very thing that he had already become firmly entrenched in years before. In short, a killjoy

[nrsegrrrl]

I'm 42, and single again. I'm dating two 33 year olds. I mostly don't feel the age difference until we are comparing adolescent exploits. Such as, "when I was 15, I stage dove at a Dead Kennedys show in 1984." The response goes something like this, "I was 6." Oy!

[uncle_zeo]

I share in this all the time. I teach students in a lab at a university and I often make monty python references and well only 1 out of 40 get it. or other references. I had an exam with a student yesterday in my office in which I asked the following:

Answer me these questions 3

What is your name?
What be your quest?
What is the velocity of an air laden swallow.

[bitchgoddessdm]

What do you mean? African or European?

[hellsphreak]

Damn, you beat me to it... I love, love this, uncle_zeo!

[bitchgoddessdm]

Oooo and I hate to be a Movie-Quote-Douche, but it's "unladen swallow". As in, a swallow carrying nothing. Which would be quite different from one carrying nesting materials or food or the Oscar it should have received for that most-brilliant of movies.

Sorry. I'm a douche. *hangs head in shame*

[quaero_verum]

I'm a 44-yr-old undergraduate student, and believe me, I run into this all the time with my classmates. It's quite frustrating. At the same time, I have no idea what *they* are talking about either, so I suppose it's mutual.

Just for the record, I know what Underoos are.
;-)