Younger Than Springtime Younger Than Springtime "Younger Than Springtime" is a show tune from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "South Pacific". It has been widely recorded as a jazz standard. The song is performed in the first act by Lieutenant Cable when he makes love to his adored Liat, to whom he was only recently introduced by her mother Bloody Mary. The song shows that love just happens and does not follow the rules of racial separation prevalent in the United States at that time. In the original Broadway show, the song was performed by William Tabbert whilst in the 1958 film,
72 Things Younger Than John McCain 72 Things Younger Than John McCain 72 Things Younger Than John McCain is a book by American blogger Joe Quint. The book lists items from popular culture that were invented after John McCain's birth in 1936, including nachos, Social Security, chocolate chip cookies, duct tape and ZIP codes. "72 Things Younger Than John McCain" also includes people who are younger than McCain, even though the reader might believe them to be older. Quint used the book to show how the age of a candidate was more relevant to their success as President of the United States than gender or race.