# Ages **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 20, 2000, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ages/30058 "2000-08-20T16:13:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaz)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2000, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ages/30058/1 "2000-08-20T16:13:09Z")
I am really curious as to the ages of people here. From my expolrations of the board here, I gather that most people are middle-aged or so. If I’m wrong please correct me. I am a senior in HS. How many other HS aged people are posters here? Enlighten me, please. ---
**Author:** ![Whammo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2000, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ages/30058/2 "2000-08-20T16:19:38Z")
I’m like… way past middle age!!! In a couple of years I’ll be like… 30!! Damn… did you think people could live so long? ---
**Author:** ![tubagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b77776/32.png) [@tubagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tubagirl)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2000, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ages/30058/3 "2000-08-20T16:20:42Z")
There a few HS peeps in here. probly around 20 or so regs. I’m not, nutif your cool we dig ya’ ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2000, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ages/30058/4 "2000-08-20T16:31:58Z")
Whammo, you,re still a wet-behind-the-ears little whelp! Now hand this over-the-hill 33-year-old her tin ear horn, you whippersnapper, before I thwack you with my cane. Damn kids. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2000, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ages/30058/5 "2000-08-20T17:37:57Z")
I will be 27, ummmm…2 weeks from this coming Friday. ---
**Author:** ![orestes543](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b5e925/32.png) [@orestes543](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orestes543)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2000, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ages/30058/6 "2000-08-20T17:40:46Z")
Well, I’m 18. I guess I would be high-school aged since I just graduated in June. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![mega\_the\_roo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mega\_the\_roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mega_the_roo)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2000, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ages/30058/7 "2000-08-20T17:43:51Z")
I’m 19 for another four months. Spectacular. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2000, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ages/30058/8 "2000-08-20T17:45:49Z")
I guess I’m the current reigning old fart in this thread at 47. ---
**Author:** ![Whammo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2000, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ages/30058/9 "2000-08-20T17:48:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by beatle \* > \*\*I guess I’m the current reigning old fart in this thread at 47. \*\* **points and laughs** ---
**Author:** ![eyor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/58956e/32.png) [@eyor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eyor)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2000, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ages/30058/10 "2000-08-20T17:51:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Whammo \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by beatle \* > > \*\*I guess I’m the current reigning old fart in this thread at 47. \*\* > > **points and laughs** \*\* **joins in the pointing and the laughing** ---
**Author:** ![SSgtBaloo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@SSgtBaloo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSgtBaloo)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2000, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ages/30058/11 "2000-08-20T17:58:42Z")
Age and treachery win out over youth and reflexes every time. I’m 42 (as of June 22 this year). ~~Baloo ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2000, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ages/30058/12 "2000-08-20T18:00:35Z")
Gnats! When you’ve had half the fun I’ve had maybe I’ll pay you some notice. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2000, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ages/30058/13 "2000-08-20T18:02:45Z")
That wasn’t pointed at you, Baloo. ---
**Author:** ![SSgtBaloo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@SSgtBaloo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSgtBaloo)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2000, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ages/30058/14 "2000-08-20T18:21:46Z")
Notice my first reply to this thread. One advantage of age is that you’ve learned to pick up on subtle cues. No offense taken. Original meaning understood. Really, have you ever noticed that it’s the old guys who run wars and the young guys who fight in them? Keep that in mind next time you disrespect your elders. We can tolerate only so much annoyance from the cannon fodder. \<\\> ~~Baloo ---
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2000, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ages/30058/15 "2000-08-20T18:26:11Z")
I’m 18, and I just was freed from that mind-numbing, cave-like, hellish, homophobic, narrow-minded, KKK-populated, cretin-filled, illogical inner circle of deepest Hades. Er… I just graduated from high school. ---
**Author:** ![astrangefish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bbce88/32.png) [@astrangefish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astrangefish)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2000, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ages/30058/16 "2000-08-20T18:28:01Z")
24 and counting ---
**Author:** ![MysterEcks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@MysterEcks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysterEcks)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2000, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ages/30058/17 "2000-08-20T18:32:08Z")
I appear to be Third Banana in age for this thread at the moment–37 in less than two months. Before the kiddies chuckle, I wanna point out that they have two choices–they can get older, in which case future kiddies will think of _them_as old farts, or they can die young. Those are the only options you get, so choose wisely. ---
**Author:** ![cheezit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@cheezit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cheezit)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2000, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ages/30058/18 "2000-08-20T18:32:11Z")
beattle said: “I guess I’m the current reigning old fart in this thread at 47.” WRONG !!! I’m 51. Good grief, now I really feel old. Is there such a thing as an OLD whippersnapper? :D:D Point and laugh all you want. I can take it. ==runs of to hide in the closet, fearing the worst== ---
**Author:** ![billyt123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ba0ec/32.png) [@billyt123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billyt123)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2000, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ages/30058/19 "2000-08-20T18:33:04Z")
22 for about a month now… its all down hill from here ---
**Author:** ![Archer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@Archer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archer)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2000, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ages/30058/20 "2000-08-20T18:33:26Z")
Pass over the lap blanket and the rocker Beatle, I am 49. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ages/30058.md?page=2)