"You must be older than Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus to drink in this establishment."

Cop Killer

"You must be older than Body Count to drink in this establishment."

"You must be older than... wow, Dateline NBC to drink in this establishment."

"You must be older than Human Touch and Lucky Town to drink in this establishment."

"Oldsters is old"

Atrios gets in on my schtick.

Obviously the big takeaway is holy crap I'm old (I was born 9 years after Please Please Me, but still), but I think there's a broader point about us olds not getting just how distant stuff is for The Kids Today. More than that, I also think there was a kind of continuity between people born, roughly, from the beginning of WWII until about 1993. The discontinuity here is the internet, a society transforming technology change.

Internet, sure, although I don't really think Compuserve and Prodigy were a hard break, and the disjunctive forms of the 'Net didn't really come around until the late 90s.  

And anyway, I don't agree with Atrios's thesis.  This shit just feels way closer because no one wants to admit they're as old as ... well, let's not get into precise figures.  Nirvana just doesn't feel 21 to me, because we don't want it to.

What are you, the black Zorro?

"You must be older than White Men Can't Jump to drink in this establishment."

It does admittedly look pretty classy with Swedish subtitles.  

Not this time

"You must be older than 'You're Never Gonna Get It' to drink in this establishment."

Okay, technically that's the subtitle and the real title was "My Loving."  I don't think anyone knew it by that name, though.  

"You must be older than Basic Instinct to drink in this establishment."

Has always been

"You must be older than 'Constant Craving' to drink in this establishment."

... and happy birthday, Chris, Catherine, and Amy!

"You must have been born before the vote that ended apartheid to drink in this establishment."

... kind of a busy day, this one.  Mostly music---and there's one more coming.  

"You must be older than No Doubt to drink in this establishment."

La Sexorcisto

"You must be older than that White Zombie album, the first one anyone heard about, to drink in this establishment."

"You must be older than Juliana Hatfield's career to drink in this establishment."

My shirt's so sexy it hurts

"You must be older than Right Said Fred to drink in this establishment."

"You must be older than Leroy Jenkins Live! to drink in this establishment."

No, no---not that one.  This one.

(Hey, they can't all be gobsmackers.  I hadn't heard of the real guy, either.)

The spice must flow

"You must be older than real-time strategy video games to drink in this establishment."

Okay, read the second link; the genre had some small number of earlier progenitors.  But the sequel to Dune was the first best example of the now-familiar genre of games where players build power plants, weapons manufacturers, and military units in an effort to clear the board of all their enemies, the faster the better.  Command and Conquer was the next step forward I remember, the Warcraft series (and its Starcraft cousin) was titanic among the gamer set, the later high-res version of Dune quite popular as well, and many other franchises such as Star Wars added their own obvious knock-offs.  

Which isn't to say much of it mattered, of course.  But an awful lot of computer-screen hours were wasted in front of these things; probably millions.  Which is all the more impressive when one recalls the target audience was presumably capable of using those computers to find porn.  

... and happy birthday, Ned!

Too yout's

"You must be older than My Cousin Vinny to drink in this establishment."

Sometimes I feel like I don't have a partner

"You must be older than 'Under the Bridge' to drink in this establishment."

Killer b-side, too:

Pelican Brief

"You must be older than The Pelican Brief to drink in this establishment."

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Menachem Begin

"You must have drawn breath at the same time as Menachem Begin to drink in this establishment."

I am a male model, not a male prostitute

"You must have been born before the end of Get a Life to drink in this establishment."

"Happy 21st birthday, kids born on the day of the Michaelangelo virus!"

Lawnmower Man

"You must be older than Lawnmower Man to drink in this establishment."

Sweep the leg, Johnny!

Brilliant Reader Kevin[fn1] writes in to relay the following post of someone else on the Internet shamelessly
biting my style:

Wanna feel old? Ralph Macchio is now the same age that Pat Morita was in the first ‘Karate Kid’

That does seem rather in keeping, no?
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fn1:  "Brilliant Reader X" formulation is, of course, the invention of Joe Posnanski.

As I want you to be

"You must be older than 'Come As You Are' to drink in this establishment."

I actually didn't know about the Killing Joke lawsuit; it does seem they had a point.