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{{quote|'''Flash:''' So, Jeeves, do you come with the place or does "Master Bruce" rent you for parties?<br />
'''Alfred:''' I've been in service here since [[Batman|the master]] was in diapers.<br />
'''Flash:''' Now there's an image.|''[[Justice League (Animationanimation)|Justice League]]''}}
 
[[Describe Topic Here|I was describing tropes here while you were in kindergarten]].
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== [[Film]] ==
* "I made my bones while you were dating cheerleaders!" snarls Moe Greene in [[The Godfather (Film)|The Godfather]].
* Stryker says this to Senator Kelly (or who he thinks is Kelly) in ''[[X 2X2: X -Men United (Film)|X 2 X Men United]]''.
** Beast says something to similar to Wolverine in ''[[X -Men: theThe Last Stand (Film)|X Men the Last Stand]]''. And, of course, he's wrong.
* In ''[[Star Trek Generations]]'', Kirk says this about Picard's grandfather being in diapers. The problem that many fans noticed was the context of the line was why he should enjoy a form of retirement, which directly contradicts scenes both before and after this, within the very movie.
** And in one TNG episode, Scotty angrily remarks to Geordi that he was repairing warp drives when LaForge's great-grandfather was in diapers.
** In the TNG episode "Unification Part 2", Picard describes Spock's dealings with the Romulans as "cowboy diplomacy" and tells him that the Federation won't tolerate it. Spock retorts that he was involved with such cowboy diplomacy before Picard was even born.
** In the ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' episode "Message in a Bottle," ''Voyager''&nbsp;'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:
{{quote| '''Teasle:''' ''Look, goddamn it! That's Art Galt, boy; me and him were friends when your mama was still'' wipin' your '''nose!!'''}}
* A variation, but with upbringing instead of age, is done in ''[[Battlefield Earth (Filmfilm)|Battlefield Earth]]''.
{{quote| "While you were still learning how to ''[[Large Ham|spell your name]]'', I was being trained ''[[Chewing the Scenery|to conquer galaxies]]''!"}}
* 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?]]''
{{quote| '''Vernon T. Waldrip:''' I can't switch sides in the middle of a campaign. Especially to work for a man who lacks moral fiber.<br />
'''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! }}
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{{quote| But before and before, and ever so long before<br />
And such contrivances were used }}
* In ''[[Northanger Abbey (Literature)|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 (Literature)|Anne's House of Dreams]]'', Miss Cornelia uses this to crush an obnoxious minister.
* In the [[Star Trek Deep Space Nine Relaunch]], the Ferengi politician Kain has the following retort when criticized by a colleague: "You watch it, boy. I was cheating Yridians when your mother was too young to chew food".
* In the ''[[Warrior Cats]]'' series, Mudclaw is told to show more respect to his dying leader, Tallstar, because Tallstar was leader when Mudclaw was a kit mewling in the nursery.
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== [[Live Action Television]] ==
* Subverted in ''[[Just Shoot Me]]''. Nina tries to do this with Adrian, but Nina names a specific year, and Adrian says she wasn't even born then. Nina instantly breaks down.
* On ''[[MamasMama's Family]]'', Mama says to Iola "I was making booties before you had feet!"
* Artie in ''[[Warehouse 13]]'' "Like I don't know how to [[MacGyvering|improvise an electromagnet]]. I was doing this when [[MacGyver]] was still trapped in his crib!"
* During the ''[[Celebrity Deathmatch]]'' between Ozzy Osbourne and Rob Zombie, Ozzy threatened Rob not to mess with him, saying "I was worshipping the devil when you were still in black leather diapers."
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* One of [[Grumpy Old Man|Cranky Kong]]'s quotes in [[Donkey Kong Country]] is "Last time I saw you, you were in diapers!"
* ''[[Mass Effect 2 (Video Game)|Mass Effect 2]]'': During Grunt's loyalty mission, if Gatagog Uvenk gets too uppity with the Shaman, the Shaman will remind him that "I was a warrior before your mother was born!"
** Later done in ''[[Mass Effect 3 (Video Game)|Mass Effect 3]]'' with Javik, resident [[Last of His Kind]] former [[Precursors|Precursor]] [[Human Popsicle|Popsicle]], who is fond of mentioning what the dominant species of the current cycle were like in his time: humans lived in caves, hanar were like minnows in the ocean, yahg were small and salarians spent ate flies and often licked their own eyes.
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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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 (Animation)|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:
{{quote| '''Original Bully:''' Isn't nose-twisting a little old? My granny taught me that when I was still in diapers!<br />
'''New Bully:''' Oh, just this morning then? }}
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