Only in Thailand

Yesterday I was helping tutor English as part of our church's outreach program.  One girl came in with a bunch of tough worksheets that her teacher must have pulled off from some English website.  One of the worksheets had a list of thirty songs, which the student had to place accordingly into the past, present or future column (depending on the title of the song).  Most of the songs were pretty obvious, to me at least.  If the title had "will," it goes into the future column.  If it has a verb in the past form, it obviously goes into the past column, etc.

One song was rather tricky for this girl, however.  With confidence she placed it in the past column, but the song was definitely not referring to the past.  The title of this oldies favorite? "In the Year 2525."  You have to understand that a different calendar system is followed in Thailand, and here it's not the year 2009, but the year 2552.  So for her, this song was about something that happened 27 years ago, but the Westerners who wrote this song intended it to be about something more than five hundred years in the future.  Only in Thailand!