Too Two Grand

Today, Thursday May 14 2009, marks two thousand days since MACh1gAAn has beaten THE Ohio State University in football.

Two thousand days. Perspective:

That's enough time for a poplar seed to grow into a 30-foot tree, enough time for the Cavaliers to win 316 games (including playoffs), and enough time for 12 season finales of "Survivor" (counting next Sunday night's).

When Michigan last beat Ohio State, Barack Obama was a state senator, YouTube was more than a year away from being born.

Emmitt Smith was still doing his thing (albeit not as well) in the League, Terrelle Pryor was two years away from his driver’s license, the Curse of the Bambino was haunting the Red Sox and the Expos were still playing in Montreal.

The Burj Dubai, now easily the world’s tallest building (and growing), was nothing more than a blueprint, Martha Stewart still had a clean record and Saddam Hussein was not only still alive, but still on the loose. There was no Facebook, YouTube or Ubuntu and Evan Williams of Twitter was still preoccupied with a little project called Blogger.

Marlon Brando, Ronald Reagan, Rick James, Rodney Dangerfield, Hunter S. Thompson, Rosa Parks and Richard Pryor were all still gracing the earth and swine flu sounded like a punchline for a fat joke.

According to folks, this billboard has been put up in the Detroit area for today only.

which is only fair, since this one is up year round: