一句话暴露年龄：Memories that will show your age丨Chitchat
It's time to go back to work or study after the Spring Festival break. Feeling excited? Or just exhausted?
Weirdly enough, the seven-day holiday seems to have passed quicker than we thought it would.
It's funny how a day can often seem endless, especially when you have nothing to do. But then a week, or year, passes by in a flash!
Sometimes you won't realize how old you've become, until some iconic symbol from the last century appears in your day-to-day life and you're the only around who recognizes it.
It can be awkward to admit how old you are, but it's a fact you just can't hide, no matter how hard you try, or refuse to acknowledge it!
Remember Clippy? That useless Microsoft Office "assistant", who was always randomly winking and interrupting at odd intervals to ask if we needed help with our writing?
First introduced in 1997 as an early form of intelligent user interface, it has since become a part of the collective memory of the very first digital natives.
Hi, I'm Clippy! I'm the browser assistant and my job is to help you navigate this page. Do you need assistance?
For the post-90s generation, how about "broadcast exercises"?
These required students to promptly gather on a patch of open ground when they heard the sound of music and practice bending and stretching for 10 minutes, twice a day.
第二套全国中小学生广播体操，雏鹰起飞，现在开始
Now starts, the second national broadcast exercises for the middle school students.
If that's not old enough for you, how about the comic strip Saint Seiya, or Knights of the Zodiac, which was serialized from 1985 to 1990.
Young Saints! Carry on my soul and defeat this great evil!
For those of a younger generation, the costume drama Princess Pearl, or Huan Zhu Ge Ge, was a daily must-watch over the long, boring summer holidays.
皇上！你还记得当年大明湖畔的夏雨荷吗？
Your Majesty, do you still remember Xia Yuhe standing by the bank of Daming Lake?
Then there's the brain-washing advertising slogans for Hao Di shampoo.
好迪，大家好，才是真的好。
Good for all needs, the real good. Hao Di
All of these memories are of times gone by, and can easily reveal your age.
But it's time for full disclosure! It's time for old memories!
Tell us the most memorable quotes, slogans and catchphrase from your youth or childhood in the comments below, and we'll bet we can use them to guess your real age!
- Chitchat topic -
What's the memory that reveals your age?
Share your ideas and stories with us, and we'll publish some of the best next Monday.
Editor: Jiao Jie
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