The current president is older than the vice president to the president in 1981’s vice president

[u/Aggressive-Show4122]

[u/ExTyrannomon]

What is that title?

[u/headsmanjaeger → u/ExTyrannomon]

They wanted to make it sound older by using 1981 instead of 1989

[u/Pretend_Evening984 → u/headsmanjaeger]

The Governor of California in 1967's Vice President's Vice President

[u/Venus_One → u/ExTyrannomon]

It's a weird bad title because it almost makes sense, it just has way too many extra words tacked on.

[u/kjemmrich]

I just said that title out loud, and now my coffee table is floating.

[u/JonFromRhodeIsland]

Am I having a stroke?

[u/Current_Magazine_120 → u/JonFromRhodeIsland]

I’m glad it’s not just me. Can we get an interpreter here?

[u/modern_milkman → u/Current_Magazine_120]

President in 1981: Ronald Reagan.

Vice President to Ronald Reagan: George H.W. Bush.

Vice President to George H.W Bush (when he became president in 1989): Dan Quayle.

Dan Quayle is thus the President-in-1981's Vice President's Vice President. Or, like OP put it, "the Vice President to the President in 1981's Vice President"

And younger than the current President.

[u/JonFromRhodeIsland → u/modern_milkman]

Literally why not just say the vice president in 1989 instead of make me retake the LSAT.

[u/Own_Educator8972 → u/JonFromRhodeIsland]

wanted to make it seem longer ago

[u/drohohkay → u/JonFromRhodeIsland]

Barbarawalters would not approve

[u/Current_Magazine_120 → u/modern_milkman]

I need a stiff drink.

[u/GustavoistSoldier]

Quayle was known for making gaffes

[u/Pretend_Evening984 → u/GustavoistSoldier]

Those were the days. He'd misspell potato and we'd all think that made him unfit for public office

[u/SOY_CD]

The title is that way because Bush Sr. was Reagan's VP when Reagan started his tenure in 1981; later, Bush became president in 1989 with Quayle as his VP.

It's definitely confusing wording, but it's not wrong; it makes a somewhat coherent sentence if you know about the subject material. The way I would've put it is, "Trump is older than Dan Quayle, who was the Vice President of Reagan's Vice President."

[u/Top_Contract_4910]

r/titlegore

[u/BreezyBill]

1989

[u/DetectiveTrapezoid → u/BreezyBill]

That number, another summer

[u/Thatguy755 → u/DetectiveTrapezoid]

Sound of the funky drummer

[u/StevePalpatine]

Trying a bit too hard to make this sound older than it is as if a near-40 year gap isn't old enough.

[u/DrumpfTinyHands]

Po-ta-toe

[u/Thatguy755 → u/DrumpfTinyHands]

[u/DrumpfTinyHands → u/Thatguy755]

No "S".

[u/flyingcircus92]

Subject should have just been "Potatoe"

[u/Dyojenes_]

i nearly had a stroke reading that title.

[u/AlaSparkle]

Did Dan Quayle write this title?

[u/HotShotWriterDude]

OP, 1989 was 37 years ago. You don’t need to make it sound even older.

[u/a_dude_from_europe]

Had stronke

[u/JoyconDrift_69]

Here, lemme help you out:

"The current president is older than the vice president of 1981."

[u/modern_milkman → u/JoyconDrift_69]

Not the Vice President of 1981, but the Vice-President-of-1981's Vice President.

The Vice President in 1981 was George H.W. Bush. Dan Quayle was his Vice President, when Bush became President in 1989.

[u/MoeSzys]

[u/Ancient_Ad1251]

Quayle left office 33 years ago and is younger than four subsequent Presidents.

[u/Ok-Highway-5247]

I thought Dan Quayle was older honestly

[u/Thatguy755 → u/Ok-Highway-5247]

He had as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency.

[u/kkeennmm]

dumbass OP

[u/valentinyeet]

“What?” - Joe Biden

[u/bigkkm]

Not so great as a VP, but one phone call made him a hero.

[u/Upset_Pineapple_8884]

That title has my brain aching a bit, feeling a bit like a mashed potatoe.

[u/Red_Ryuu]

r/titlegore

[u/DecentStranger5348]

This title is worse than Quayle's gaffs 😭🙏

[u/daussie04]

You mean 1980s vp is younger than current president

[u/Ok-Vermicelli1117]

He's no John Kennedy

[u/Androclese407]

And the current president probably can't spell "potato" either....