mabster said:
Yeah, I was hoping for extension properties too:

public static TimeSpan Minutes[this int i]
{
   get { return new TimeSpan(0, i, 0); }
}

public static DateTime Ago[this TimeSpan ts]
{
   get { return DateTime.Now.Subtract(ts); }
}

So then I could do:

DateTime d = 20.Minutes.Ago;

No ugly parentheses!
Hah.  Reminds me of a query I saw recently.  At my new job, we communicate alot with an ancient DB2 system; someone posted a query like:

Select * from abc.defg
where dt = ? - 180 days

I was like, what? Awesome.

Then someone showed me that TOP 10 is now FETCH FIRST 10 ROWS ONLY.  And the awe was gone.

Don't get me started.