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The Before Time

'The Before Time' is now used to reference the era proceeding the virus apocalypse of 2020.

While commonly believed to originate from Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, this is a classic Mandela Effect misperception of history. No video exists of any character in the film ever using that phrase.

Rather, South Park Season 4, episode 16 parodies Beyond Thunderdome, and is the true origin of the saying.
In The Before Time we had an actual society. Jobs, parties, sports, schools, and other public gatherings were once normal and common.
by 5PercentRainMan July 5, 2020
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Land Before Time Status

A series of impossibly bad events one after the other. Based on the popular movie, "The Land Before Time". In it, the young dinosaur Little Foot, is victim to a chain of horrible events like being attacked by a T-Rex, witnessing an earthquake, watching his mother die, being separated from his only family, going on the biggest journey of his life without adults or anyone to protect him and being attacked by that same T-Rex twice more.
Friend A: "Dude, I got pulled over for speeding today, then the cop arrested me for holding my friend's pot, then my girlfriend dumped me for missing our date while I was in jail."
Friend B: "Sorry man, that's Land Before Time Status."
by dinoSOAR? August 30, 2010
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Land Before Time (LBT)

A way to reference a girl or group of girls that look as if they just stepped out of the prehistoric age. This could mean they have the apperance of ethier a cave person or a dinosuar.
"Look at the herd that just walked into this party, they look straight out of the Land Before Time (LBT)."

"The tall lesbian over in the cornor is def LBT status."
by Planrapist March 20, 2010
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The Before Time

Phrase from Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, used by the children born after societal collapse in referring to the time before.

Also occurs in South Park's "Wacky Molestation Adventure," as a cultural reference to Mad Max, as the kids cause society to collapse in the episode after claiming that every adult in town molested them.
People were happy in the before time, the long long ago.
by ItsnotFROMsouthparkmoron August 1, 2017
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The Hand Before Time

The Hand Before Time is a sexual act where a woman with a little T-rex arm gives a man an old fashioned.
That homeless lady outside the liquor store used her little gimp arm to give Steve a The hand before time.
by Ron J. Livingston December 14, 2010
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The Before Time

A phrase referring to the age of mankind before the advent of the internet and/or before advanced data mining, search engines and online resources (especially Google, Wikipedia, etc.) made information widely available and convenient; i.e. when people had to do research manually via libraries, card-catalogs, paper books and reference materials such a Encylcopaedia.

Also jokingly referred to as "the before time, the long long ago" referencing the cultural memes of Star Wars and the 64th episode of South Park.
Well son, in "the before time", finding out answers to questions was a lot more difficult, it could take hours or even days to research topics and had to be done by physically going to a local library!
by triple butt October 23, 2010
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man before his time

Nikola tesla: He had ideas 100 years ago that are being "rediscovered' only now.
Nikola Tesla was a man before his time.
by Tupp November 9, 2013
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