Nah, the clock has way fewer sockpuppets and flouncy journal deletions.

But the clock reports these things.

Did you skip over the part about the most corrupt bureaucracy on earth?

Silver lining, David. Silver lining.

I've forgotten what our AcaDeca topic was. I think something having to do with Amy Tan's books, but I misremember.

The other year, we didn't have a social science topic because the Super Quiz was the global economy, I think. I learned all sorts of things from Ac Dec.

I am not old enough to remember when it came out, but I am definitely old enough to remember when it was like 11:59:45 or some shit during the Reagan era. Not that it's a digital clock.

Oh, Christ, yes, I spent much of the '80s going, "Good god, what's that man going to do now? They've got nukes! We've got nukes! And he's got penile size issue that he's trying to solve with the military budget!"

I mean, doesn't it just cause MORE drama by making people freak out about the state of the world that it measures?

Oh yeah, you weren't really around for the Cold War... It was all about the drama, by its definition. MAD, nuclear winter, banging shoe fights...

Of course, in 10 more years, The Daily Show is going to be, like, News For Your Mom.

I'm so not ready to be uncool. Although I suspect I already am.

You're cool!

MAD, nuclear winter, banging shoe fights...

Hot kitchens, pop songs about nuclear war....

Dammit, our Academic Decathlon topic was the '80s.

::brain explodes::

This is as bad as having to explain WKRP to someone yesterday, when he thought we were talking about a real radio station.

I knew I was getting old when I discovered that I could no longer use The Breakfast Club as a shared cultural touchstone.

Sometimes these things slip when I'm teaching and it's always a sad OMG I'm old moment.

Luckily, teaching is also how I'm able defend all my current TV watching "because I have to relate to the young people."

OMG now I feel really old.

Your adolescence? His history class.

What is Mutually Assured Destruction but lots and lots of sturm und drang? Did anyone have any plans for how they'd win that one? It was mostly not about losing first.

Okay, I need to go look up this guy in India who moved to a small village and taught the villagers how to install and maintain their own solar energy equipment so they could power the village and bring in computers and networking to link themselves electronically to the wider world. And now they are spreading that training, making technologically self-sufficient (okay, they're not making the stuff from scratch, but you get the point) powered communities one at a time.

I just can't remember his name...

I just can't remember his name...

Jesus?