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So, thanks to Ed cone. I learned here that I'm "officially" Gen X, despite my oldest brother's contentions that I don't deserve to be in his generation. (I always thought if it was good enough for Gregor Mendel, then it should have been good enough for him.) Though my place on the cusp is pretty evident from the identifiers.

You're a Gen Xer if ...

_ You were born between 1965 and roughly 1977. - Check, 1974. Interesting though that baby boomers got 19 years and we got 12. Is there anything those folks won't hoard for themselves?

_ You or your peers were ever called "slackers." - Dude, of course. Which Lebowski quote do you want?

_ You were coming of age when the Challenger Space shuttle exploded. - I'm not sure, in fact, what the hell does it mean to "come of age"? Was I supposed to have a hit single?

_ One of your first favorite movies was "Star Wars" or "E.T." - I get a little bit of old school credit - saw Star Wars in 1977-8. (Being three I hope you'll forgive my being imprecise.) Does this mean my brothers had to go nearly ten years to enjoy a movie? That explains a lot.

_ You wore parachute pants. - Admittedly, my older brother's parachute pants, but I wore those mothers.

_ Grunge was more than dirt to you. - If it weren't in article that quotes Rep. Patrick McHenry that would be the most cliched thing here. But, alas, they do quote the oldest thirty year-old in North Carolina.

_ George H.W. Bush or Bill Clinton was the first president you voted for or against (if you voted). - I guess they just assume those that could didn't vote in 1984. Slackers!

_ Kurt Cobain's suicide was a defining event for you or your friends. - Not sure about this "defining" me, but perhaps I came of age then. After all, it freed me from Grunge.

_ You've used floppy computer discs but consider them "old school." - If we're talking about the floppy floppy disks, then you bet. Some guy in Ed's comments refers to playing Pong in reference to their being a baby-boomer - a really immature baby boomer.

_ You cut your musical teeth on Madonna, Duran Duran and The Cure. Would I frikkin' admit to any of this if I did?

_ You like the sound of "40 is the new 30." - I like the sound of 30, period. And luckily, since I forget my age has as often as not, I hear 30 a lot.

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You're a Gen Yer if ...

_ You're a young adult born roughly 1978 or after. - No but by association I have more than a few friends in this category.

_ Remote-control TVs, microwaves and telephones with keypads are a given to you. - "Telephones with keypads"? Oh, there talking about non-rotary phones. guess keypads were a given.

_ You vividly remember the World Trade Center attacks, but barely recall the fall of the Berlin Wall. - I'm supposed to come of age with the Challenger, but some other twelve year-old barely noticed the fall of communism? And who doesn't remember 9/11 better than what happened in a Jesus Jones song?

_ You consider '80s music to be oldies. - I consider it to be mostly crap, does that count?

_ Your Starbucks habit started before you got out of school. - Okay, lost a little Y-credibility there. Though, had I not been seeing someone in college, I might well have discovered coffee shops earlier.

_ You think it's silly to buy music on CDs. - Again, they delve in generalizations.

_ You have a cell phone but no land line. - Yup, that is something silly.

_ Your school loans and credit card debt total far more than your first year's salary. - And thanks for the reminder.

_ People have called you and your peers spoiled or "entitled." - Has any generation in American history not been labeled "entitled". We may be the first with a plausible argument that's not the case, but we've certainly been labeled it.

_ You are logged onto your computer 24 hours a day and think nothing of it. - that's just boring.

_ You chuckle when you see a "Vote for Pedro" T-shirt. - Maybe I'm just immature, but "Your mother went to college!"