Born in 1984

I opened a book today to start reading it and I stopped at the second line when the author revealed himself to be born in 1984. I read out the line to BBC Radio Ulster's Gerry Anderson who was sitting at the desk behind me catching up on the Newsnight Steve Coogan versus the News of the World debate from Friday night past. When he had finished I showed him the sentence, and he implied, in an inner city Dublin voice, that in 1984 his rear end, that is the writer's rear end(n.b. this was much more colourfully described than rear end) was the size of a button.

Gerry's comment has stayed with me ever since this afternoon, and now I feel that when I do get to do this interview with this American best selling author, columnist, radio host and child of 1984 (ie 27 year old), I will have Gerry Anderson's faux Dublin accent and earthy description colouring my discussion.