With a tip of the hat to Beth:

You might be an AC dinosaur if:

* You
spent one of your "very special" birthdays editing
packets.

* You can name over ten unsuccessful national
vice-presidential candidates simply because you remember when they
were running.

* That sudden flash that came
over you in the middle of a tight game wasn't a burst
of knowledge, if you get my drift.

* You run
a bonus on surgical procedures or chronic illnesses
because you've personally experienced at least half of
them.

* Your niece or nephew plays for an opposing
team.

* You call John Nam "The Kid".

* A teammate
has parents who are younger than you.

* A
teammate gets mistaken for YOUR kid. (Note: This actually
happened to me once.)

* Trash teammates all look at
you expectantly when a question about silent movies
comes up.

* You carefully plan your henna jobs
for just before out-of-town tournaments.

* You
just can't get over the fact that Danny Elfman is a
film-score composer now.

* You're very good at ACF
current-events questions. 

* People giggle behind your
back when you correctly distinguish between the
Permian and Cretaceous extinctions.

* In order to
miss class for a tournament, you have to ask
permission of a tenured associate professor who's younger
than you.

And, of course, the big
one:

** You have bridgework and obvious crow's feet, but
CBI won't let you be your team's responsible adult.

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