# Age and other horrors **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 25, 2015, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-and-other-horrors/723412 "2015-06-25T00:30:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-and-other-horrors/723412/41 "2015-08-23T18:32:41Z")
You know, it could be worse. 2017 will be the 30th anniversary of [Jaws: The Revenge](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093300/). ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-and-other-horrors/723412/42 "2015-08-23T18:50:53Z")
> [@Isamu](#): > > Aging sucks, yes. The big shock for me recently is looking in the mirror and seeing someone who looks like “that old guy”. It’s not me! ☹ Another shock: when a hot young chick who’s serving you in a store calls you “dear”, and it’s not for the reasons you would like. It’s because you remind her of her grandfather. ---
**Author:** ![Fleetwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fleetwood/32/271_2.png) [@Fleetwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fleetwood)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-and-other-horrors/723412/43 "2015-08-23T22:09:42Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > \*\*\*18th Century is/was 1700-1799. \*\*\*From 12/31/1799 to today is ~215.7 years. As long as he’s over ~108 yo today, he’s in. Not sure where you got 160 from. > > I’m pretty sure he meant the 19th century, 1800-1899. From 12/31/1899 to today is ~115.7 years. And those of us older than ~58 can say they were born closer to then than now. I’m not there yet, but I’m getting close. Nope. 1701-1800, hence, Eighteenth Century. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-and-other-horrors/723412/44 "2015-08-23T22:15:35Z")
> [@Fleetwood](#): > > Nope. 1701-1800, hence, Eighteenth Century. OK. Doesn’t alter the point that the turns of the Centuries were about 114-115 & 214-215 years ago. Not 320 years ago which would support that guy’s contention about needing to be 160 to have one’s birth be halfway back to then. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-and-other-horrors/723412/45 "2015-08-23T22:29:21Z")
There’s an area in my town where there used to be a 7-11. It eventually got sold off and turned into a “Kwik E-Mart” (Individually owned convenience store) Then it got turned into an Italian restaurant, until finally, many years later, the building was tore down only to have rebuilt in it’s place… A 7-11. It’s the circle of life man. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-and-other-horrors/723412/46 "2015-08-24T00:06:02Z")
I was born closer to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand than today. But not by much. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-and-other-horrors/723412/47 "2015-08-24T01:06:53Z")
People younger than me are old enough to be elected POTUS. That really screws with my head. Why are we allowing these whippersnappers that kind of responsibility? Will the Secret Service taser me if I ask the president to get off my lawn? I mean, _I_ still feel like a kid. So something is very wrong here. No, really, this a problem for me. I don’t really trust people who are younger than me, and that is getting more and more impractical for every passing year. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-and-other-horrors/723412/48 "2015-08-24T04:43:46Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > OK. > > Doesn’t alter the point that the turns of the Centuries were about 114-115 & 214-215 years ago. Not 320 years ago which would support that guy’s contention about needing to be 160 to have one’s birth be halfway back to then. Yeah, my math was a bit off. I was thinking 60-some years to 1899, then add 100. Realized it later, too lazy to post a correction. There are enough pedants on here to correct things for me. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-and-other-horrors/723412/49 "2015-08-24T12:40:56Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > When I was 15, I saw _Jaws_ in the theater. > > Just a few years later, I was walking through Target, I think, and the horrifying JAWS: THE 30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION jumped out from behind a pillar and like to scared me to death. > > And today, I took my 15yo to _Jaws: The 40th Anniversary Showing_. > > Dear ghod, does it ever stop haunting you? Not until it swims up and bites you in the ass. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-and-other-horrors/723412/50 "2015-08-24T12:47:02Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > My high school foundation has a memorial page for each graduating class member who checked out. My class page is getting rather long. My high school class has a FaceBook page. For a few months last year, it felt like a new person joined every week. ☹ It was pretty depressing for a while. > [@wolfpup](#): > > Another shock: when a hot young chick who’s serving you in a store calls you “dear”, and it’s not for the reasons you would like. It’s because you remind her of her grandfather. Right up there with the young cute guy calling you ma’am. And you realizing that you’re his mom’s age. (And by “you”, I mean “me”.) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-and-other-horrors/723412/51 "2015-08-24T13:28:22Z")
I’ve said it before , but here’s what sealed the deal for me: I see some college-aged hottie yakking with a woman obviously her Mom. And the first thought that popped into my head was “Damn, Mom’s hot. I oughta …” Followed a few seconds later by “Hey, wait a minute. What about daughter?” ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-and-other-horrors/723412/52 "2015-08-24T17:29:14Z")
> [@Whatever4](#): > > I never saw Jaws, but I did see Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation. I wasn’t even in school then. President Kennedy - I was in Freshman (high school) English, sitting next to one of the rich kids who had a transistor radio, so the two of us knew he was dead before the rest of the class. > > My little dog is the last. I’ve always assumed I’d outlive any dog I had; but I can’t be sure of that now. > > I’ve taken to wearing long sleeves year 'round because the sight of my crepey skin scares me. > > It’s all downhill from here. Mum took me to see the local Coronation parade. I was a month old. I don’t remember it - I think I may not have been paying attention. 😃 I just think of myself as 21 with \*mumble \*years of on-the-job experience. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-and-other-horrors/723412/53 "2015-08-24T17:42:21Z")
Saw this on a marquee outside a dentist’s office recently: I’m not OLD, I’m 25, plus shipping and handling! ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-and-other-horrors/723412/54 "2015-08-24T19:31:03Z")
> [@Dr.Strangelove](#): > > Did you learn how to program on a Jacquard loom :)? A Jacquard loom had a higher clock speed than the machine I learned on. And more system software also. As for seeing a few cycles, for many people of it is not on the IEEE Xplore electronic library it does not exist. So I’m the obnoxious person who tells people they should reference papers from 30 years ago, or worse, stand up in conferences and tell a bright young author that his idea got implemented 30 years ago and didn’t work then either. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-and-other-horrors/723412/55 "2015-08-24T21:29:51Z")
I turned 60 today. To mark the occasion, Mr. Ko and I plan to eat pizza and watch MST3K (The Screaming Skull). Life is good. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sangahyando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-and-other-horrors/723412/56 "2015-08-24T21:49:19Z")
I was born closer to the famed eruption of Krakatoa, than to today. I find the thought rather pleasing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-and-other-horrors/723412.md?page=2)