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[[A ghost flies over to a couple of people.]]
Ghost: ...ooOOOOOOOOooo... Tiiiime is passiiiing!
Person 1: Ugh. Timeghost.
Person 2: Huh?
Person 1: Here come the factoids.
[[The ghost flies around in little circles as it speaks. Person 1 turns away.]]
TG:
Forrest Gump
came out closer to the Vietnam War than to the present daaay.
P1: Go away!
TG: The average new grandparents are younger than Keanu Reeeeves!
P2: That can't be right...
[[The ghost is out of panel. Person 1 is plugging their ears.]]
TG: Today's new parents were ten when Eminem got big - DaAaaAaad MuuUuUuSic - They remember Simpsons Season 5 or 6 at the earliest.
P1: Argh!
P2: How long has it been doing this?
[[The ghost floats above them. They look up.]]
TG: The staaaaart of my haunting is now further away than your deaaaths!
P1: Will you sto--WHAT!?
{{Title text: 'Hello, Ghostbusters?' 'ooOOoooo people born years after that movie came out are having a second chiiiild right now ooOoooOoo'}}
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