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John Byrne

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Posted: 01 January 2026 at 1:32pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply
Is it really possible that 1926 was 100 years ago?!?
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Michael Penn
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Posted: 01 January 2026 at 3:52pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply
In that vein, are we really nearing America's 250th birthday?!

I mean, I was a kid and the Civil War was a century ago!

What happened?!!
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John Byrne

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Posted: 01 January 2026 at 3:57pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply
When we arrived at the centennial of the First World War in 2014, I declared that could not be. Surly a war that was 100 years ago was the American Civil War!!!
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Vinny Valenti
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Posted: 01 January 2026 at 4:39pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply
I still remember when Bugs Bunny mentioned that the Civil War ended almost 90 years ago.
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John Byrne

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Posted: 01 January 2026 at 5:42pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply
WW2 ended five years before I was born, but my British relatives all talked about it constantly. Much of what they said entered my brain as false memory, and it took me years to grasp that, no, I had not experienced the Blitz first hand.

The fact that I walked to and from school past vacant lots that were bombsites didn’t exactly clarify things.

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Peter Martin
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Posted: 01 January 2026 at 6:24pm | IP Logged | 6 post reply
Yeah, you can make your head spin with these kind of temporal comparisons. Covid started 6 years ago. When I was born, the first moon landing was 6 years ago!
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Michael Penn
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Posted: 01 January 2026 at 6:34pm | IP Logged | 7 post reply
> the centennial of the First World War <

My paternal great-uncle fought in the Great War. And my own grandfather was only a couple of years too young. Whew!
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Vinny Valenti
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Posted: 01 January 2026 at 9:03pm | IP Logged | 8 post reply
"Covid started 6 years ago. When I was born, the first moon landing was 6 years ago!"

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I remember watching Bruno Kirby in CITY SLICKERS and DONNIE BRASCO, and then soon after that, being shocked to see him in GODFATHER II looking very much the same. Nowadays, it's not too surprising to see some actors today still looking very much how they looked in movies and shows from the mid-2000s. It's about a 20 year difference either way. But during the 90's, 20 years encompassed almost my entire lifetime at that point, so it felt much different.
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Craig Earl
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Posted: 02 January 2026 at 9:21am | IP Logged | 9 post reply
Live Aid was forty years ago (!), a day that is still so fresh in my memory.

Time to face it, troops. We're old.
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