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"Will you just buy a newspaper?"

"I don't need a newspaper. I'm going to say 1985."

"No way, it can't be any later than 1973. Look at the can."

"I see the can, but -"

"Then you see the logo style. That's totally an early seventies steel can. Just buy a paper so we can figure out when we are."

"Look, the phone has a Southwestern Bell logo. That means it's AFTER the breakup of AT&T. Therefore, we are sometime in the mid-eighties."

"But soft drink companies had already switched to aluminum cans. How do you explain that?"

"I don't know, but -"

"You mean you can't!"

"Call it an anomaly, alright? Or maybe we're in Georgia. They kept using steel cans long after the rest of the U.S. went to aluminum."

"Really?"

"No, not really, I just said that to make you shut up."

"Are you going to buy a paper?"

"Yes, fine, I'll buy a newspaper. Give me ten bucks."