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Subject: 
Re: Age average
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Date: 
Fri, 12 Nov 1999 04:04:45 GMT
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lpieniazek@novera.!spamcake!com
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Mr L F Braun wrote:

Ugh.  I'm 28.  I remember seeing Gerald Ford as a child.

How'd you work THAT trick? Gerald Ford was a child in the 1920s, I
think.

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Message has 4 Replies:
  Re: Age average
 
(...) Ok, let's try this: I guess he's using a new (to us) manner of speaking. It's like if I say "I'm Russian" and I mean "I was born in Russia". By saying "I'm 28", he's saying that he was born in 1928. :) (ok that was a bit of a stretch) Ben (...) (25 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.people)
  Re: Age average
 
(...) Smoke and mirrors, my good man, smoke and mirrors. Everything that might possibly be somewhat vague or like a vague thing could theoretically depend or correlate with obfuscatory discursive constructions and the performative utterances of (...) (25 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.people)
  Re: Age average
 
(...) The same trick that the people (like me) who that age guessing site claims are under 30 who remember watching the first moon landing... Larry, I'm sorry, you've been disillusioned by your godhood. History just didn't happen the way you think (...) (25 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.people)
  Re: Age average
 
Larry Pieniazek wrote: <382B91DD.D31CE2C8@v...er.net>... (...) I think he meant that as a child, *he* saw Gerald Ford (as an adult). --Tobias (...) (25 years ago, 13-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.people)

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