Topic: Personal note: Clinton & me are older
Started by: Ron Edwards
Started on: 9/4/2002
Board: Site Discussion
On 9/4/2002 at 1:22pm, Ron Edwards wrote:
Personal note: Clinton & me are older
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
On 9/4/2002 at 1:36pm, Balbinus wrote:
RE: Personal note: Clinton & me are older
Well happy birthday to you both.
Have a great day, hope you're both still gaming in another 38 years.
On 9/4/2002 at 2:04pm, Clinton R. Nixon wrote:
RE: Personal note: Clinton & me are older
And I'm 26. (And incidentally, my girlfriend's mother's birthday is today, too. Synchroncity is odd.)
On 9/4/2002 at 2:39pm, Ferry Bazelmans wrote:
RE: Personal note: Clinton & me are older
Congrats! :)
On 9/4/2002 at 2:46pm, Le Joueur wrote:
Another Thing You Beat Me to, Ron
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).
On 9/4/2002 at 2:48pm, GreatWolf wrote:
RE: Personal note: Clinton & me are older
Congratulations, guys!
Seth Ben-Ezra
On 9/4/2002 at 2:57pm, xiombarg wrote:
RE: Personal note: Clinton & me are older
Happy birthday, guys. Consider my recent purchases of Paladin, Donjon, and Trollbabe to be your birthday presents. ;-)
On 9/4/2002 at 3:16pm, Seth L. Blumberg wrote:
RE: Personal note: Clinton & me are older
Happy birthday.
Damn, Clinton, you're only 26? Make me feel old, why don't you.
On 9/4/2002 at 3:44pm, Jared A. Sorensen wrote:
RE: Personal note: Clinton & me are older
Both born today? What are the odds?
Quick, get Ken Hite to run a numeroligical study...
- J
On 9/4/2002 at 4:05pm, C. Edwards wrote:
RE: Personal note: Clinton & me are older
Happy Birthdays!
On 9/4/2002 at 6:49pm, Gordon C. Landis wrote:
Re: Another Thing You Beat Me to, Ron
Le Joueur wrote: 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
On 9/4/2002 at 7:36pm, Paul Czege wrote:
RE: Personal note: Clinton & me are older
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
On 9/4/2002 at 8:21pm, Le Joueur wrote:
Those Are the Numbers I was Given
Hey Gordon,
Paul Czege wrote:Gordon C. Landis wrote: ...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
On 9/4/2002 at 8:55pm, Ron Edwards wrote:
RE: Personal note: Clinton & me are older
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
On 9/4/2002 at 9:30pm, Adam wrote:
RE: Personal note: Clinton & me are older
Happy Birthday, gentlemen.... I mean, Ron and Clinton... ;-)
On 9/4/2002 at 10:00pm, wyrdlyng wrote:
RE: Personal note: Clinton & me are older
Happy Freakin Birthday(s)!
Umm, that's all I have.
On 9/5/2002 at 12:03am, Gordon C. Landis wrote:
RE: Personal note: Clinton & me are older
Ron Edwards wrote: 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.
Great Galloping Ghost, he's right! About . . . everything! Well, *these* things, anyway :-) But I'll let the everything comment stand since it's his birthday. Not that a "debate" was ever what I intended - questionably witty is apparently a widely applicable label.
Paul & Fang, PM me if you really care about Gen Boom/Bust/X/Y/2000 stuff, and Clinton, since it's also your birthday, you're right about everything too. As is your mom. If you were still a teenager, that would no doubt create some interesting paradoxes!
Gordon
On 9/5/2002 at 1:36am, greyorm wrote:
RE: Personal note: Clinton & me are older
Happy Birthday, you two!
I'd teasingly call you a couple of old farts, but as I just celebrated my 26th last week, and I have more kids than Ron and Clinton combined (any number is bigger than zero!), I think it might be hypocritical! ;D
On 9/5/2002 at 11:07am, Fabrice G. wrote:
RE: Personal note: Clinton & me are older
Hello oldies !!!
...well technically Clinton you're younger than me...but I welcome you in the "past the quarter of a century" very non-private club.
Fabrice.
On 9/5/2002 at 4:56pm, Blake Hutchins wrote:
RE: Personal note: Clinton & me are older
Hell, I'm older than both of you. Happy belated birthday, y'all.
Best,
Blake
On 9/6/2002 at 4:48am, greyorm wrote:
RE: Personal note: Clinton & me are older
Blake Hutchins wrote: Hell, I'm older than both of you.
Combined? ;D
-Rev. Raven
On 9/6/2002 at 6:59am, Eric J. wrote:
RE: Personal note: Clinton & me are older
You know... I'd donate a dollar, if I had one... Actaully, my birthday is on 9/11, so for a present, donate to one of thoes charities. I know you would anyway.
On 9/6/2002 at 1:11pm, Jason L Blair wrote:
RE: Personal note: Clinton & me are older
Happy belated birthday to yas.
Incidentally, I was actually in Chicago on Ron's birthday on my flight layover. And again on the day after during another flight layover.