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{{quote|'''Flash:''' So, Jeeves, do you come with the place or does "Master Bruce" rent you for parties?
'''Alfred:''' I've been in service here since [[Batman|the master]] was in diapers.
'''Flash:''' Now there's an image.|''[[Justice League (animation)|Justice League]]''}}
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Compare [[When I Was Your Age]], [[Years Too Early]].
Contrast [[Glory Days]].
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** In the ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' episode "Message in a Bottle," ''Voyager'' 's EMH tells the ''Prometheus'''s EMH Mark II that "I was saving ''Voyager'' from annihilation when you were only a gleam in your programmer's eye!"
* Sheriff Teasle does this to illustrate why he's so determined to find and kill ''[[Rambo]]'' after the latter had accidentally caused his asshole deputy's death:
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* A variation, but with upbringing instead of age, is done in ''[[Battlefield Earth (film)|Battlefield Earth]]''.
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* In ''[[Blue Thunder]]'', Braddock says he's was in the police force when new recruit Lymangood was "watching cartoons" and "eating a fudgesical".
* A variant of this occurs in [[Point Break]] with Gary Busey telling Keanu Reeves " I was takin' shrapnel in Khe Sanh when you were crappin' in your hands and rubbin' it on your face!"
* From ''[[O Brother, Where Art Thou?]]''
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'''Pappy O'Daniel:''' Moral fiber? Why, you little pasty-face sumbitch. I invented moral fiber! Pappy O'Daniel was displaying rectitude and high-mindedness when that egghead you work for was still messing his drawers! }}
* One elf in ''[[The Santa Clause (film series)|The Santa Clause]]'' dislikes [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|being mistaken for a kid]]. "I have pointy shoes that are older than you."
== [[Literature]] ==
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* In ''[[Neuromancer]]'', the Finn wearily observes "I gotta pair a ''shoes'' older than you."
* In ''[[The Candy Shop War]],'' Nate tells Mr. Stott that {{spoiler|Belinda White}} has claimed that Hanaver Mills is her ancestor. Mr. Stott's response? " {{spoiler|Belinda White}} has been using magic since Hanaver Mills was in diapers."
* ''[http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_junkandhow.htm The Junk and the Dhow]'' by [[Rudyard Kipling]], as a friendly reminder to his compatriots that being kings of the sea currently [[
* In ''[[Northanger Abbey]]'', Catherine is surprised to discover that her love interest Henry Tilney shares her enjoyment of Gothic novels. He cheerfully replies that given how much older he is, he's almost certainly read lots ''more'' of them than she has.
* In ''[[Anne of Green Gables|Anne's House of Dreams]]'', Miss Cornelia uses this to crush an obnoxious minister.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]'':
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* [[The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog|Captain Rescue]] took offense at being called an 'oldtimer' by Sonic in the episode 'Over The Hill Hero', retorting that he had been saving mobius from bad guys since Sonic was a 'hedgehoglet'.
* In one episode of ''[[Cow and Chicken]]'', a new school bully starts picking on the kids that the previous bully picked on. The after the new bully twists the noses of two kids, the original bully tells him:
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'''New Bully:''' Oh, just this morning then? }}
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