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Also, I’ve noticed myself yelling at the TV when something I don’t like happens. Which is pretty frequently, honestly, because something about the CBS lineup just frustrates the crap out of me. Sometimes I peel my ass off the couch and get away from the ol’ boob tube, but when I walk over to my window, I see some rotten whippersnappers standing on my lawn! “GET OFF, you rapscallions,” I yell! Oh, dear. I really am old.
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Yes, thank-you. I needed reminding.
I was born in sept. of 1997
I was born on the 6th of July 1997. So close…
May 1997. :c
Emma Watson became legal at 2008
Like any of us have a chance with her….
She DID become a hottie though!
wait, i’m 15.
and what was that?
26 is not old!
Same, and my thoughts exactly.
It is to a thirteen year old.
Didn’t you hear? 26 is the new 70.
People at the age of 14 aren’t grey haired seniors you know.
Yeah, I’m thinking *you* weren’t who the caption writer had in mind. More likely s/he had in mind those of us who have three decades or so on you. Don’t feel left out, though. Fourteen year olds make us “grey haired seniors” feel just as old, sonny. Now get off my lawn!!!
I think it’s more aimed at the people who were out of diapers and actually reading the books when they came out.
And I still am a teen, at least for a month.
No, the scary part is the according to the books Harry Potter will turn 30 this year!!!! 30! yes we are old, NOW PASS THE PRUNES!!!
. . . granted I’ve not read the books, but how can he be 11 in a book that came out in 1997 and 30 in 2010? Did the first few books flash back, or is your math just bad?
At the end, it goes like 10 or 15 years into the future.
Nineteen.
Harry was born in 1980 (or 81, been a while since I read the books). The first book being set in 1991 sounds about right to me.
And JKR is self-admittedly “Oh dear, maths” on things like this or the number of students at Hogwarts.
Or how to write a decent story, or how to not try to shill for more book sales with a line like “oh yes, Dumbledore was a homosexual.”
IF you think that JK is suck a horrible writer, why are you reading comments on something based on her work?
That doesn’t make me feel old; Harry Potter started for me in 2000, when I first heard of it. What makes me feel old is that Pokemon and Power Rangers are to college students today what M.A.S.K. and GoBots are to me.
oh my god…. M.A.S.K. I used to watch that. And He Man and She Ra… And Transformers and Thundercats… *sigh* I miss those days
Some, 25 or so years ago (31 now)
Worse yet, they would be 3rd Years at Hogwarts if they got their letters
I was born in -2010 thank you very much
Wait, are you saying you’re less than 7 months old, or 4020 years old? And either way, how are you typing that?
Oh dear, I was a teenager already when that came out!
This caption is a copy of the XKCD
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Equally scary… my nephew was born Sept. 10, 2001, literally twelve hours before the attacks on the world trade center. I spoke with him on the phone today.
(1) I have been officially old for a long time now
(2) I hate that artist’s rendition of Harry Potter
I knew I was old when I got an message on a dating site from someone who was born after the fall of the Berlin Wall (first historical event I can remember). It’s the Wind of Change all right…
i was 4 years old when that happened, but somehow i can´t remember it. the first historic thing i remember was the gulf war and the wars in yugoslavia.
when harry potter came out, i felt like i was too old for this childrens book.
Me too, though I’m a year older than you.
How wrong I was about HP.
Geeze…. or is that geezer? I was 26 or 27 when the Wall came down. I didn’t learn of HP till not long before the movies started coming out, but there was no way I EVER felt like I was “too old” for this children’s book. The number of historical, literary, mythological, religious, and political allusions (not to mention obscure things like alchemy) that woman makes is simply incredible! And yet the story still works for all those who don’t get any of them. Very cool.
My first “event” memory was the Challenger explosion (it was a space shuttle for all you fetuses) but I remember staying up to watch the Wall come down.
I was in fourth grade when the Challenger exploded (I was 9, a few months away from 10) – I remember my teacher coming back and she was upset.
It means those of us, who were old enough to read it when it came out. I was 7.. just old enough. It makes me feel old. Lol
This doesn’t make me feel old.
The fact that I can remember what it was like before litigation lawyers sucked all the fun out of the world…THAT makes me feel old.
well I was 5 when this book came out, I’m neither a teen nor old :/
I thought that the first book didn’t come out in the US until 1999. But 22 is so damn old I could be wrong.
Big clue; JK Rowling, and her original publisher Bloomsbury, are both British!
June 30, 1997 – I became legal drinking age (21). Whodathunkit? Hey, what the…YOU DAMN KIDS! GET OFF MY LAWN!!
So lets see… if Harry Potter was 11 in 1997, that would make his birth year 1986, one year and four days older than me. He would be turning 24 now. If he were a real person, I mean.
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Rowling started writing the book in 1991, so she took that year as the starting point of the book’s universe. Hence, Harry was 11 in 1991. Hence, in about 28 days, he’ll turn 30.
Yeah, sorry, shutting up now.
Love Harry , love my age ( 30 ) and will see the next movie when it comes out , but do tend to feel old in this teenages world
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i thought the first book was harry potter and the sorcerer’s stone.
i dunno.
The Americanized version of the book (the version that replaces “football” with “soccer”, and the like) was re-named “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” from the original British title “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone”.
What I want to know is “Why was it necessary to make those changes?” Did people feel that we (Americans) wouldn’t understand what was written for the rest of the world? Did they make changes to all of the books?
I think the title change was just for the first one , here in Australia we had the original title so it might be just America that had the change , giving u less credit than deserved .
They have all been Americanised (not “dumbed down”). They decided the first one would sell better because Sorcerer is a more commonly used word in the States than Philosopher. It was the only way Rowling was going to get them published in the States was to change the title of the first one. The others have liguistic switches such as football/soccer got/gotten etc. It just shows the development of the two languages after 200 years of very little contact.
JULY 31, so close!! at least me and Harry have the same birthday, xD
Wow, I was less than tow months off from turning 8 when the first book came out.
Just finished rereading the series last week and just finished watching the 4th movie tonight =)
Who else is excited for november to come around??
Wow… I feel really young.
holy crap that’s my friend’s birthday!!!!
I feel odd for noticing, but isn’t it “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”. That’s how I’ve always heard it… could always be that it was released with a different title.
my mom read me the books when I was 4, then I read them on my own when I was seven. Now that the whole series is out I’m reading them again
my book says the “Sorcerer’s stone” o.O
On a more serious note: why does Harry Potter look like Waldo in this artist’s rendition?
June 21, 1997! 8D yaaaaaaaaaaaayyyy. Imma teen!
Ouch! Yes, I really am old….54 years. But I LOVE the Harry Potter books, having read all of the at least 5 times each, more for some of them. And I read the first 3 out loud for my son twice each. Then when #4 came out, I had to get him his own copy since he was old enough to read it on his own. And got him his own copy of the rest of the books too. Just waiting for the last 2 movies.
July 15 1996! Good thing is Deathly Hallows part 2 is coming out on July 15!
is there a difference between the sorcerer’s stone and the philosopher’s stone? i read sorcerer’s stone and want to know if i’m missing something.
it’s just the name. publishers thought american kids wouldn’t know what a philosopher was when it was introduced to the US. so they changed it to sorcerer’s stone