Jaybee, a pinochle player from out west, sent this one...

The Silent generation ~ People born before 1940.

The Baby Boomers ~ People born between 1940 and 1959.

Generation X ~ People born between 1960 and 1979.

Generation Y ~ People born between 1980 and 1995.

Why do we call the last one generation Y? I did not know, but a caricaturist explains it eloquently below...

Learned something new, I did!
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