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Old people, with their chest high pants and Werther candies, are always going off about the time before television, telephones and frontal nudity. It’s a charming way to pass an afternoon as you ship them to the home.

Of course, our time will come. We will bore our grandchildren with tales of a time before the Internet, before wifi connections and streaming video. Those were better times, we will tell them. If you needed to know the capital of Caleefornia, for instance, you waited until the library opened and you by God looked it up. Those were hard times, but good times, we will tell them. REO Speedwagon was on the transistor radio and all breasts were real.

Our grandkids will smile and nod and drive us with plasma powered air cars to the Google euthanasia center. Because by then, Google will run the whole damn show.

It’s hard to believe what Google has accomplished in ten years. This week marks their birthday and I think we should all get shitfaced drunk and start Googling each other like mad to celebrate.

Always remember, of course, to practice safe Google.

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