I didn't see that one coming.

Austin sits watching the TIME-LIFE The Last Thirty Years video on TV. Vanessa enters.

AUSTIN Hello, luv.

VANESSA Thirty years of political and social upheaval. The fall of the Berlin wall, a female Prime Minister of England, the abolishment of Apartheid, a fascinating tapestry of human strum und drang.

AUSTIN Yeah, I can't believe Liberace was gay. Women loved him, man. I didn't see that one coming.

Having been schooled by largely Irish Christian Brothers, my reaction to Irish gay marriage referendum: 'No' campaigners concede defeat is Austin-Powers-Man-Out-Of-Time astonishment. It only seems the other day that Clause 28 was a hot button issue over here.

Like Bill Gates said:

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten.