Personal note: Clinton & me are older

[Ron Edwards]

Yup, Clinton and I have the same birthday - today. I'm 38.

Makes you just look up at the starry sky and say, "H'm," doesn't it? At least it would if I were still living in California.

Best,
Ron

[Balbinus]

Well happy birthday to you both.

Have a great day, hope you're both still gaming in another 38 years.

[Clinton R. Nixon]

And I'm 26. (And incidentally, my girlfriend's mother's birthday is today, too. Synchroncity is odd.)

[Ferry Bazelmans]

Congrats! :)

[Le Joueur]

Congratulations!

Fang Langford

p. s. Who turns thirty-seven in October.  Hey!  That means Ron is a 'boomer and I still retain my title as 'The Elder Statesman of Generation X'  (which I keep on the wall right below my framed 'notice of promotion' to Executive Regional Director of the Devil's Advocacy Department at Large, for the Midwest).

[GreatWolf]

Congratulations, guys!

Seth Ben-Ezra

[xiombarg]

Happy birthday, guys. Consider my recent purchases of Paladin, Donjon, and Trollbabe to be your birthday presents. ;-)

[Seth L. Blumberg]

Happy birthday.

Damn, Clinton, you're only 26? Make me feel old, why don't you.

[Jared A. Sorensen]

Both born today? What are the odds?

Quick, get Ken Hite to run a numeroligical study...

- J

[C. Edwards]

Happy Birthdays!

[Gordon C. Landis]

Congratulations!

Fang Langford

p. s. Who turns thirty-seven in October.  Hey!  That means Ron is a 'boomer and I still retain my title as 'The Elder Statesman of Generation X'  (which I keep on the wall right below my framed 'notice of promotion' to Executive Regional Director of the Devil's Advocacy Department at Large, for the Midwest).

Hey, congrats from me as well - enjoy your birthdays!

Now I get to prove what a geek I am by lecturing Fang about generational labels . . . wait, I can provide quotes and links to do it for me!  Here we go:

"Douglas Coupland's [sic] 1991 bestseller Generation X:  Tales For An Accelerated Culture was dedicated to 'the generation born in the late 1950s and 1960s'"

That one's taken from this link.

And this link has some good info too.

As I turn 39 in December, I'm afraid that "Elder Statesman of Generation X" title is reassigned.  I've no delusions I'll get to keep it, though - I'm sure there's a 40-41 year old lurking about here someplace to snatch it from me, using the 1961 + definition.  And if we start allowing Mr. Copeland's vague "late 50's" into the equation, all bets are off . . .

Gordon

[Paul Czege]

Hey Gordon,

...was dedicated to 'the generation born in the late 1950s and 1960s'

Typically the Baby Boom generation is associated with the years between 1946 and 1964. The birth rate spiked after the end of WWII. Are you sure Coupland wasn't dedicating his book about Generation X to the prior generation?

Paul

[Le Joueur]

Hey Gordon,

...was dedicated to 'the generation born in the late 1950s and 1960s'

Typically the Baby Boom generation is associated with the years between 1946 and 1964. The birth rate spiked after the end of WWII. Are you sure Coupland wasn't dedicating his book about Generation X to the prior generation?

Paul, as well as both articles you link, cite the 46-64 number that I have found most common.  Likewise, few people our ages seem inclined to include themselves in "generation X."  As a Field Director of the local Devil's Advocacy Department, you have to understand it's my job to stretch labels right up to their breaking point.  Here, I feel I'm on pretty solid ground, virtually every American commercial press reference uses the 46-64 range for the 'boomers; I'm of 1965 making me clearly in 'that generation.'

Besides, why so much effort to defeat what was no more than a (questionably) witty afterward?

Fang Langford

[Ron Edwards]

Hey! Dame Logic is stopping her ears with horror. This is a "happy birthday" thread, not a debate about Gens and Xes.

Oh yeah, if you feel like giving a present, then donate a buck or two to the Forge.

Best,
Ron

[Adam]

Happy Birthday, gentlemen.... I mean, Ron and Clinton... ;-)