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"They're singing 'Happy Birthday',
you just want to lay down and cry,
not just another birthday,
It's 30/90,
Why can't you stay 29,
Hell, you still feel like you're 22,
Turn thirty, 1990,
Bang! You're dead,
What can you do?"
Jon, tick, tick... BOOM!, "30/90"

"Me? I don't even know what my dream is, but it's all right. I've got time. I won't be turning 40 for another— *alarm clock goes off* Ugh... I just turned 40."
Jerry, The Hammer

"Don't take it personally — he's turning thirty."
Garak after Bashir mouths off to Quark, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ("Distant Voices")

"Three times already, I've come across it
I didn't give it any real thought
It hits all different this time around, though
When for the first time it sits at the front"
CrazyCod, "The Most Frightening Number (Stop The Clock)"

"I am now officially thirty years old. I reached out... grabbed one of the candles on the cake... and showed how I felt by pushing it into the cake a bit. Ah... how time flies..."

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