Generation X

[Joseph McCollum]

On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 14:20:58 -0400 Mark_Mandel at DRAGONSYS.COM writes:
>RonButters at AOL.COM writes:
>
>>>>
>GENERATION X is the one that follows GENERATION Y and precedes
>GENERATION Z.
>After that there will either come the end of the world or we will
>start all over again with GENERATION A ("A" stood for for "Adam" the
first time
>around--typical of God, who is a man, Eve was acronymically ignored).
>Nobody knows for sure which way it will go, death or rebirth, but at
this
>writing things look pretty grim.
><<<
>
Before its appearance was actually confirmed, Pluto was called "Planet
X."  As in algebra, X is an unknown until it takes a value.  "Baby
Boomer" immediately precedes  "Generation X."  (Was it not called the
"Me" generation at some point?)  Anyway, the earliest I remember seeing
the expression  was in USA Today a few years ago -- I think around the
mid-1980's -- I want to say that they had said mid-1940's to mid-1960's
was the "Baby boomer generation," the mid-1960's to mid-1980's was
"Generation X," and I want to say that they called the generation about
to begin "Generation 13."  I want to say that generations were supposed
to be about 20 years long (which would put Generation 1 at the American
Revolution), but it's possible that they were more like 30 years long
(which would put Generation 1 at the Mayflower).