Your words might follow you around for a long time, and take on all sorts of levels of irony as they do.
Pete Townsend, born in 1945, turns 65 today.
In 1965 he wrote the words to the song ‘My Generation’ which includes the line: ‘I hope I die before I get old’.
Even more confusingly Wikipedia suggests that Townsend meant the word ‘old’ to mean ‘rich’.
Now he’s both.
Chances are your ironically haunting phrases won’t earn you truckloads of money.
None of mine have. They just haunt me instead.
I have one or two about living in the country that my wife is too sweet to remind me about.
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We won’t be fooled again!
Similarly, Paul McCartney found out the answer to his question, “Will you still need me… when I’m 64?” “No, I’ll just take £16.5 million.”