We've done this before, but...

[G-Man]

The date of the first BBC radio broadcast is closer in time to the release of What's Going On, Blue and Tapestry than the release dates of those albums are to us now.

[Jah Womble]

I remember my disappointment at returning to the UK from the USA just before the moon landing in 1969. The build-up - as one might imagine - was far greater across the pond.

The point being that this, of course, is now closer to the end of WWI than it is to today.

[ad hoc]

If I was the age I am now on the day I was actually born, I would have been born just before the start of the Mexican Revolution and the trial of Dr Crippen (and just after the Ottoman Empire put down the Albanian revolt)

[Sean of the Shed]

Some time next year I will reach the point when my DoB becomes closer to the end of WW1 than the present day.

[Hot Pepsi]

I passed that point in 2009. Never gave it any thought.

[Giggler]

In a similar kind of spirit, this just happened to me.

I've no idea why the algorithm chose to show it to me, but something just popped up on my Instagram of Sting playing an acoustic guitar on a tourbus as it sped along the road. It reminded me of a Family Guy joke which included him singing Brand New Day, so I looked on Wikipedia to see when the song came out. The album came out exactly 21 years and 51 weeks ago, next week in 1999. He was 46 when it was released. I'm 41 on my next birthday.

[gjw100]

That I was born in 1960, just 15 years after the end of WWII often gives me pause for thought. It's perhaps no surprise that our 60's childhood, from the toys we had, the games we played and the TV/films we watched was so coloured by such relatively recent history.

[jwdd27]

For the completists:

Elvis Presley
Alive: 42 years 243 days
Dead: 44 years 34 days

John Lennon
Alive: 40 years 60 days
Dead: 40 years 282 days

(So, yes, it’s been the case since early Feb.)

You could also add

Kurt Cobain
Alive: 27 years 44 days
Dead: 27 years 168 days

Who "joined the club" in Mid May

[Crystal Staples]

No thread like this is complete without the median number one single. In the UK it's Boom! Shake the Room - DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, which had 694 number1s before it, and 694 since.

[Sits]

The Stooges’ I Wanna Be Your Dog is closer to the Russian Revolution than it is to today.

[Sam]

I remember my disappointment at returning to the UK from the USA just before the moon landing in 1969. The build-up - as one might imagine - was far greater across the pond.

The point being that this, of course, is now closer to the end of WWI than it is to today.

By my very rough mental calculations we've got just over a 14-year wait until the 1969 moon landings will be closer to the Wright brothers' first flight at Kitty Hawk than they will be to the modern day. Fourteen years isn't exactly next week, it's true, but when it happens it'll be one more thing I use to wonder at how quickly we as a species went from fumbling about desperately trying to stay airborne for more than a few seconds at a time to landing on the moon and then coming back. And, of course, there's a non-zero chance that a few years after that we might reach a point in time where the most recent crewed moon landing will be closer to Kitty Hawk than to 'now'.

[Sits]

Sam funnily enough I'd been wondering about that one.

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

Just to say that the witticisms around the mention of YouPorn on the previous page of this thread gave me the loudest LOL of anything I've read this week. A wonderful concentration of first-rate one-liners in quick succession, well done everyone.