The other day while moderating “Today in History,” the newsroom’s longest-running game show, I asked a question that had to do with something that occurred on that date in 1982.

I don’t remember what the question was, but that’s not the point here. The point is, cops reporter AnneMarie Knepper happened to make the comment that she wasn’t even alive in 1982.

I don’t know why that struck me as so funny, especially because I figured out a long time ago that AnneMarie was quite a bit younger than yours truly, but it did.

Then sports editor Les Gehrett offered that he was in middle school in 1982, Sunday editor Mike Henneke was in high school, and city editor Karen Petersen was just starting elementary school.

“Well, on this date in 1982, I’m sure I was busy drinking beer somewhere,” I said, noting that I was attending, in a manner of speaking, OSU at the time.

Later, just for the heck of it, I did a little age analysis of the 20 people who bring you the news each day.

The oldest: editor Hasso Hering, 66.

The youngest: my kid Bob, 21, who works part-time for Les in the sports department and is himself a student at OSU (honor roll last term btw, as was his sister Pam). Bob and Hasso are appropriate bookends,  sharing as they do many of the same political leanings.

Average age: 43.

Median age: 42.

So based on all that, at the middle of the age distribution is the 43-year-old Henneke.

As for me, as noted a day or two ago here, I am 46, making me both older than average (sort of hard to take, but whatever) and above the median. Oh well. Getting older beats the alternative.