I'm not quite sure how it began. I think I was comparing newspaper articles with a co-worker. He pointed out his and I pointed out the only comparatively recent one that I knew of.
Frankly, I'd forgotten how long ago it was. (I'd also forgotten how the rest of "my" paragraph ran; I usually stopped at the words "pasty and intense." Let's just say it shifted his opinion of me slightly, and not necessarily for the worse.) Check out the date on that sucker -- July 14th, 1996! Not only did I forget the date of that article, but I'm over a year late for its 10th birthday! I should have baked it a urinal cake or something.
( Where is this all leading, exactly? )