I'm gonna need a tag for this aren't I, goddammit

[cosmolinguist]

A Minnesotan friend read out to me a social media post that went something like "If you know any Minnesotans, you'll know that we take every opportunity to bring up Minnesota and Minnesotan things." The next sentence started something like, "If we manage to expel this ICE invasion..." but I don't remember properly because by the time I heard that much of this sentence I was already sitting up from where I'd been lounging on the couch, so when the sentence ended with "...you'll be hearing about it for the next twenty years."

"Twenty?!" I said. "We're still talking about the Halloween storm of 1991 and that's more than twenty years ago! I think people will be hearing about this for, more like two hundred years."

He scrolled down and chuckled, read out a comment that might not have been understandable because he was still laughing, but I knew what he was saying "This comment says, 'I remember the Halloween blizzard of 1991.' "

Speaking of October 1991, I was just thinking the other day we'll be hearing about the World Series of 1991, and 1987, at the very least every time it's another 5 or 10 years after those dates, for the very least as long as any of those players are still alive.

I said that I remembered hearing about, like, the 5-year-anniversary of that time there was a raccoon on the MPR building.

We are never gonna let you forget, you'll be hearing about this for ever. I guarantee it.

I can't wait (to be talking about this in the past tense).

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[jesse_the_k]

Past tense! Past tense! Past tense!

[redbird]

I'm sitting in Boston, where we still mark the anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord, in 1775. It's a state holiday, Patriots' Day (called that long before the 9/11 attacks), and the Boston Marathon is run on that day.

So yes, 200 years seems entirely plausible.

[otter]

You mean to tell me that everybody doesn't do that? I was still in Seattle in 1991. And I had already moved west when the tornado took out Apache Plaza and other parts of my neighborhood in the early 80s.
De-ICEing in January is the plan this year.