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Re: Age average
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Date: 
Fri, 12 Nov 1999 04:21:15 GMT
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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.

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 Roller



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(...) How'd you work THAT trick? Gerald Ford was a child in the 1920s, I think. (25 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.people)

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