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How Would You Like to Feel Really, Really Old?

The webcomic XKCD shows just how long it will take for anything embarrassing you do today to be forgotten by the country. Prepare yourself for 35 years of shame:

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Update: John Tabin reminds me about the alternate-text that appears on the original when you hover your mouse over the comic:

'Baby Got Back' turned 20 this year. My favorite nostalgia show is VH1's 'I Love The Inexorable March of Time Toward the Grave That Awaits Us All.'

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David Frum

David Frum is a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Daily Beast and a CNN contributor. He is the author of eight books, including most recently the e-book WHY ROMNEY LOST and his first novel Patriots, published in April 2012.

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