How old are you?

[Shirley Ujest]

I'm 44.

[Zeldar]

Originally Posted by Shirley Ujest

Who's the 90 year old?

According to this post:

03-03-2010, 08:16 PM
Daylate
Guest Join Date: Dec 1999

I'm the WINNER so far! See oldest vote on the poll!

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/...d.php?t=554352
How old are you?
03-02-2010, 04:55 PM
Giles

[gonzomax]

I will be 68 next month.

[Zeldar]

Originally Posted by Zeldar

And some other data gathering on older Dopers, as well as links to other similar threads, can be seen at

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/...d.php?t=555195
Old Folks: Stand and be counted
03-09-2010, 07:15 AM

To provide one more link to some year/age analysis (that I thought had been linked to directly in the "Old Folks" thread) here's

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/...d.php?t=555733
THIS IS THE DOPER YEAR/MONTH/DECADE OF BIRTH POLL (ignore all others)
03-13-2010, 11:24 AM
Sampiro
03-19-2010, 10:51 PM
Qin Shi Huangdi
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 303

==============================

From what I've been able to locate on Dopers' ages, I believe that

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/...d.php?t=554352
How old are you?
03-02-2010, 04:55 PM
Giles
Voters: 600

is most reliable and most nearly complete.

==============================

The goal for the current thread is to beat 600 voters!

[KneadToKnow]

I am 42 for another couple of months.

[Dr. Girlfriend]

35 for a couple more months...

[The Great Sun Jester]

Originally Posted by yola

I'm a 55 model.

I'm 43 (for a couple more weeks).

I am not a model. But I am for real, whatever that happens to ean from moment to moment.

[Siam Sam]

Originally Posted by Chessic Sense

Right. So like he said...old.


You old timers may be amused that this summer's hit dance, the Shuffle (Youtube), is basically a Charleston. You not-so-old timers may be amused that the other half of the dance is just a Running Man. You really-not-so-old timers will recognize it as a modern version of the Melbourne Shuffle.


I giggle at the thought of the young side of this poll dancing off against the "more experienced" side of it and getting crushed.

Ah, yes. The Charleston. I remember dancing that with Charles Lindbergh and Teddy Roosevelt when the Civil War ended. Remember it well, like it was just yesterday.

[PapSett]

50, until the 18th of this month.

Ugh.

[notfrommensa]

If you go by conception date, I am about to turn 51. As it is, I am 50 yrs, 2.9 months.

[the lone cashew]

You're only as old as you feel. And I feel like shit. I haven't gotten any smarter, and neither have my jokes improved. Too depressing to reveal my age at this time. So all I'll say is somewhere past the 40yr point.

[Jihi]

I'm 29.

19 when I joined.

[xkit0katx]

I'm 20, but I've been lurking on and off the board under various usernames since I was 13.

[BigT]

Originally Posted by xkit0katx

I'm 20, but I've been lurking on and off the board under various usernames since I was 13.

And you don't know enough not to admit this? Be prepared to have to list all of them to TubaDiva.

And, um, my birthday's in my profile if you really care.

[MoodIndigo1]

Originally Posted by rachelellogram

26. Sex life is getting better by the year, though, so I don't think I'm going to mind turning 30. 40 might be an issue

Your best decades are still ahead of you.

I'm 64. When I'm feeling good, it's just a number.

[Jaledin]

35 as of a few months ago. Fucking shit pig motherfuckers. I've lived on my own since I was 18, but never until now felt like a fucking adult motherfucker asshole piss on the cocksuckers. Want to find a real fucking job, stupid fucking can't finish damned good dissertation not enough books write it on my own publish as monographs fuckers can't get enough work fucking piano sucking assmouth get a car fuckers need my teeth fucking cleaned too.

Fuck you. 35.

[Inner Stickler]

I tried fucking piano once. The apartment had thin walls and we didn't want to wake the neighbors.

[Onomatopoeia]

I turned 50 six days ago.

So anyway, I'm on a plane from Dallas last night, after yet another interminable trip for work, and I'm sitting next to an older gentleman who's chatting up pretty much anyone who will acknowledge him. It's 1st class, so the cabin stewards are working non stop on the prior to take-off beverage, hot towel, in flight beverage, snack, meal, another beverage, and desert routine, so they have to engage the guy. The attendants are cordial enough, but I could tell they were actively attempting to inconspicuously avoid being regaled with yet another story of his life's exploits.

I learned that my seatmate was a physician, is retired, that he's had all 26 American Airlines chicken dishes, that his grand kids are the smartest, most wonderful people to ever have been born, that his wife recently had cataract surgery, and that his youngest daughter is probably going to marry someone he's not particularly fond of.

I guess you know where this is going. The guy was 57 years old. Just seven years older than I, yet he looked old enough to be my dad. I don't know what the heck that's about, but that one piece of information gave me kind of a jolt.

[Johanna]

I know just what you mean. It's weird to have spent the first half of my life being told I looked older than I was, only to spend the second half being told I look younger than I am. It's like I've been stuck in a holding pattern in my 30s all this time regardless of my actual age. Now I meet people who are my age, or even a year younger, and look like they should be my parents. I don't know what has kept my hair from going gray, for one thing. But I don't dye it and it stays dark.

A conversation that gets repeated every time I meet somebody:
Me: (showing picture) This is my grandson. Isn't he awesome?
Them: No way! You're not old enough to have a grandchild!
Me: Believe it.

[purplehorseshoe]

I waited till today to vote because <stealth brag? kinda?> today is my birthday. Unfortunately, that means that at a newly-minted 31 years of age ... I fell into the next bracket up in the poll than I did yesterday. Pbbth.

Incidentally, tomorrow's "South Park" is about getting old and milestone birthdays.

I look older in some photos taken of me at 15 than I do in some photos of myself now. Mostly: I SUCKED at applying makeup at that age, and now, I just don't bother. That fresh-faced look must work for me, I guess.

[BMalion]

Originally Posted by purplehorseshoe

I waited till today to vote because <stealth brag? kinda?> today is my birthday. ...

Many Happy Returns!

[pbbth]

Originally Posted by purplehorseshoe

I waited till today to vote because <stealth brag? kinda?> today is my birthday. Unfortunately, that means that at a newly-minted 31 years of age ... I fell into the next bracket up in the poll than I did yesterday. Pbbth.

I don't know what this has to do with me, but happy birthday just the same!

[RTFirefly]

Looks like the median Doper is about 39 years and 10 months old.

I'm 57, but I doubt I look like I'm old enough to be Onomatopoeia's dad. People are surprised to find out I'm over 50.

[Craneop2]

I'm 61 and the oldest in the SDMB poker group. They make sure to remind me every now and then. They throw a pot or two to the old guy out of pity sometimes.

[Lukeinva]

47 ish... old enough to know better and young enough not to care.

[Gleena]

I am old enough this year to know the meaning the life, the universe and everything.

So 42.

Really, I'm in the best shape of my life, in school, my kid's heading towards college, my husband is awesome and my life is really very amazing.

I just wish this had started at 22, so I'd have more time to enjoy it!

[Qin Shi Huangdi]

I am fourteen years of age.

[EvilTOJ]

Originally Posted by jabiru

57 here.

Someone's checked the 91 - 100 box. Wow.

Looks like they voted in Giles' poll from last year too. Alright, which one of you clowns is it?

[kenner116]

26, lurking since I was 15 or so.

[Rigamarole]

What a delightfully normal distribution - although you picked extremely odd age brackets, since it virtually drops off at 60+. That should have been a single category, with finer gradations in the age ranges below it.

[The Great Sun Jester]

Originally Posted by Jaledin

35 as of a few months ago. Fucking shit pig motherfuckers. I've lived on my own since I was 18, but never until now felt like a fucking adult motherfucker asshole piss on the cocksuckers. Want to find a real fucking job, stupid fucking can't finish damned good dissertation not enough books write it on my own publish as monographs fuckers can't get enough work fucking piano sucking assmouth get a car fuckers need my teeth fucking cleaned too.

We've switched Jaledin's favorite decaf brand with Starbucks High Output Megacaf Ultracondensed Espresso. Let's see if he notices...

[Anaamika]

Originally Posted by purplehorseshoe

I waited till today to vote because <stealth brag? kinda?> today is my birthday. Unfortunately, that means that at a newly-minted 31 years of age ... I fell into the next bracket up in the poll than I did yesterday. Pbbth.

Incidentally, tomorrow's "South Park" is about getting old and milestone birthdays.

I look older in some photos taken of me at 15 than I do in some photos of myself now. Mostly: I SUCKED at applying makeup at that age, and now, I just don't bother. That fresh-faced look must work for me, I guess.

Happy Birthday!

[Scumpup]

Originally Posted by Jaledin
35 as of a few months ago. Fucking shit pig motherfuckers. I've lived on my own since I was 18, but never until now felt like a fucking adult motherfucker asshole piss on the cocksuckers. Want to find a real fucking job, stupid fucking can't finish damned good dissertation not enough books write it on my own publish as monographs fuckers can't get enough work fucking piano sucking assmouth get a car fuckers need my teeth fucking cleaned too.

This post is a thing of transcendant beauty and I humbly bow before its awesomeness.

[Farmer Jane]

Twenty-six.

[Czarcasm]

Fifty three.

[melodyharmonius]

I'm 41. The greatest reward? Looking younger than I did at 31.

[Rigamarole]

Originally Posted by Scumpup

This post is a thing of transcendant beauty and I humbly bow before its awesomeness.

I don't get it.

[Peanuthead]

61

[Zeldar]

Here's a comparison with the results from the poll Giles posted a year or so ago:

                             http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=610944
                             View Poll Results: What age range do you fall into? 

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=554352
View Poll Results: How old are you?  

13-19 years         6  1.00%   13-20     9  1.82%   +0.82%
20-29 years       136 22.67%   21-30   106 21.41%   -1.26%
30-39 years       150 25.00%   31-40   138 27.88%   +2.88%
40-49 years       159 26.50%   41-50   148 29.90%   +3.40%
50-59 years       110 18.33%   51-60    68 13.74%   -4.59% 
60-69 years        34  5.67%   61-70    23  4.65%   -1.02%
70-79 years         2  0.33%   71-80     2  0.40%   +0.07%
80-89 years         2  0.33%   81-90     0  0%      -0.33%
90 years and older  1  0.17%   91-100    1  0.20%   +0.03%

Voters:           600          Voters: 495          -105

Draw your own conclusions about what this means.

Note that this thread is only 105 voters short of that poll last year, and that last year poll had the most voters in any poll that I have been able to locate!

[Johanna]

Originally Posted by Zeldar

Here's a comparison with the results from the poll Giles posted a year or so ago:

                             http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=610944
                             View Poll Results: What age range do you fall into? 

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=554352
View Poll Results: How old are you?  

13-19 years         6  1.00%   13-20     9  1.82%   +0.82%
20-29 years       136 22.67%   21-30   106 21.41%   -1.26%
30-39 years       150 25.00%   31-40   138 27.88%   +2.88%
40-49 years       159 26.50%   41-50   148 29.90%   +3.40%
50-59 years       110 18.33%   51-60    68 13.74%   -4.59% 
60-69 years        34  5.67%   61-70    23  4.65%   -1.02%
70-79 years         2  0.33%   71-80     2  0.40%   +0.07%
80-89 years         2  0.33%   81-90     0  0%      -0.33%
90 years and older  1  0.17%   91-100    1  0.20%   +0.03%

Voters:           600          Voters: 495          -105

Draw your own conclusions about what this means.

Note that this thread is only 105 voters short of that poll last year, and that last year poll had the most voters in any poll that I have been able to locate!

Now that was impressive. Zeldar, YOU tha MAN.
(I searched your name in the "what's your gender" threads to be able to write this post.)

It makes sense that it got the most voters. Not everybody has an opinion on fashions or cilantro or whatever. But age is, after all, something that everyone here has.

[Full Metal Lotus]

Turned fifty in Feb. Next time this poll comes up, I am goinna have to jump from one bar in the graph to the next. With my hip acting up, and my legs going its all kind of intimidating, pretty big jump for an old guy like me.. just a sec, they're back... "HEY YOU KIDS! GET OFF'N MY LAWN!" Darn neighbourhood, being over took by hippies,
Back when I was a boy, we RESPECTED people's lawns, dammit, not like these hippy kids today. I oughta call the cops... mutter mutter...

[The Dord]

29.

As they say, "First time caller, long time listener".

[Zeldar]

Originally Posted by Johanna

Now that was impressive. Zeldar, YOU tha MAN.
(I searched your name in the "what's your gender" threads to be able to write this post.)

It makes sense that it got the most voters. Not everybody has an opinion on fashions or cilantro or whatever. But age is, after all, something that everyone here has.

I meant to thank you for the kind words yesterday! I'm impressed that you did that research, too.

[Zeldar]

This thread seemed to fizzle before it made it to 600 votes. Maybe a bump will get it going again.

I forget just where I saw it within the past few days or weeks, but somebody mentioned being in their 80's (maybe older) in some other thread. May have been the one about which president was in office when you were born.

Ring a bell, anybody?

[Chefguy]

Originally Posted by Zeldar

This thread seemed to fizzle before it made it to 600 votes. Maybe a bump will get it going again.

I forget just where I saw it within the past few days or weeks, but somebody mentioned being in their 80's (maybe older) in some other thread. May have been the one about which president was in office when you were born.

Ring a bell, anybody?

Probably Klondike Geoff.

[Zeldar]

Originally Posted by Chefguy

Probably Klondike Geoff.

Nope. I already knew about him. This was somebody whose username I wasn't familiar with. I may go looking for the thread.

[Zeldar]

Originally Posted by Zeldar

Nope. I already knew about him. This was somebody whose username I wasn't familiar with. I may go looking for the thread.

Here's what I found:

This post:

Originally Posted by JoThrive

Calvin Coolidge. I was born in 1926.

One I already knew about: this one:

Originally Posted by Daylate

Boy, that was a no-brainer. His excellency Herbert Hoover still had two years to go when I entered this vale of tears.

And one that might be joking. This one:

Originally Posted by Laggard

Yes. Taft

[Jaledin]

In less than one year I shall turn 36. So eat that, buffy-slayers! You will learn by the rules I teach you! And I will grow smaller and smaller with every bite you take.

So start eating, bitches! I am not a dummy, I just want this rotten corpse taken from the planet and put to some good chow.

[Siam Sam]

Originally Posted by Zeldar

This thread seemed to fizzle before it made it to 600 votes. Maybe a bump will get it going again.

I forget just where I saw it within the past few days or weeks, but somebody mentioned being in their 80's (maybe older) in some other thread. May have been the one about which president was in office when you were born.

Ring a bell, anybody?

Was it this one, in response to one of my posts?

[Taters]

I'm 47.