What happened 1-1-1989?

I noticed under "Forum - Today's Birthdays" six members aged 22 today 1-1-2011.
What happened 22 years ago? A sixtuplet? (btw is that the right word?)

They all appear to be spammers if you consider their names...

Originally Posted by borisb

They all appear to be spammers if you consider their names...

Well, let's give them a little black triangle for there birthday then.

Good idea!

I see 18 twenty two year olds as of 1-1-2011 on the calendar, out of a total of 32 birthdays on this date....and they all are spam.....but the accounts were started on different dates starting several months ago.
I'm surprised these made it as user names.....since it is obvious they are spam...the name and the links within their personal info make that abundantly clear!

Originally Posted by sjarrel

I A sixtuplet? (btw is that the right word?)

Just to respond to your question, sjarrel, the word is "sextuplet", which (as a singular) means one offspring from a single birth of 6 children. Crazy English language.

In my experience, people are uncomfortable with the term "sextuplet" because of its association with another English word which, as all right-thinking people know, must never be associated with babies.

By the way, according to Wikipedia, the only significant event on 1989 Jan 1 was the Montreal Protocol governing ozone-depleting chemicals going into effect. Though it does appear to be about 9 months after the debut of the "Fox Trot" comic strip, which is suspicious.

To my way of thinking, any word used on TV is ok anywhere so that leaves George Carlin's 7 words for people to be uncomfortable with.

Thanks alefor and chubulor for your clarifications. Maybe one day I'll be crazy enough to understand a bit more of the English language.

It reminds me of what Niels Bohr said about quantum mechanics: If it makes sense to you, you don't understand it.