Things Younger than John McCain

A friend sent me a list of "Things Younger than John McCain". It was:

Cheerios
Mount Rushmore
The state of Alaska
The state of Hawaii
McDonald's
The Polio Vaccine
Plutonium
The Chocolate Chip Cookie
The Golden Gate Bridge
LSD
Velcro
The Shopping Cart
The TV Dinner
Israel
Helvetica
FM Radio
Scrabble
The Area Code
Baskin Robbins
Nylon
The Cobb Salad
The Slinky
Spam
Keith Richards

McCain was born August 29, 1936. My father was born in 1927 so this doesn't seem that old to me. If I said how old is the Hula Hoop you'd think it's from the 50s, so is it that significant that McCain is older?

It's more interesting to me to think of this list as a list of things whose age you don't really think about. If I asked you to order them by age how would you do? I give you a hint, at least according to wikipedia one thing on the list is in fact older than John McCain, The Chocolate Chip Cookie.

Here it is ordered (all dates from Wikipedia).

The Chocolate Chip Cookie (invented 1933, published 1936, from the Toll House Inn of Whitman, MA,)
The Cobb Salad (1937)
Spam (1937)
The Golden Gate Bridge (completed 1937)
The Shopping Cart (1937 at a Piggly-Wiggly)
LSD (1938)
Scrabble (1938)
Nylon (1938)
McDonald's (1940)
Plutonium (1940)
Velcro (1941)
Cheerios (1941)
Mount Rushmore (1927-1941)
The Slinky (1943, it's the Official State Toy of Pennsylvania!)
Keith Richards (1943)
Baskin Robbins (1945)
FM Radio (1946)
The Area Code (1947)
Israel (1948)
The Polio Vaccine (tested 1952, announced 1955)
The TV Dinner (1953)
Helvetica (1957)
The state of Alaska (1959)
The state of Hawaii (1959)