# Another year gone by **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 26, 2016, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-year-gone-by/750226 "2016-03-26T08:51:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-year-gone-by/750226/1 "2016-03-26T08:51:34Z")
I’m 76 years old today and I still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up. I thought I had found a career path: I thought about becoming an Ancient Astronaut Theorist until I remembered that every lie I ever told caught up with me and tore me a new one. I’m just not a convincing liar. Maybe by next year I will have found something to work toward. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-year-gone-by/750226/2 "2016-03-26T08:53:49Z")
I know what you can be! You can be older than me. You’re good at that! Happy birthday, **LouisB** 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-year-gone-by/750226/3 "2016-03-26T10:46:20Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > I know what you can be! > > You can be older than me. You’re good at that! > > Happy birthday, **LouisB** 🙂 Thanks for the good idea; staying older than you will give me a reason to keep living. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-year-gone-by/750226/4 "2016-03-26T10:50:27Z")
Happy Birthday from a fellow Red Raider. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-year-gone-by/750226/5 "2016-03-26T10:59:23Z")
Happy Birthday Louis. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-year-gone-by/750226/6 "2016-03-26T11:05:45Z")
Happy Birthday Louis, glad you are still around. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-year-gone-by/750226/7 "2016-03-26T11:51:59Z")
Seventy six is a lot of trombones. Happy day! ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-year-gone-by/750226/8 "2016-03-26T13:38:55Z")
I’m a year older than you. Just follow me. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-year-gone-by/750226/9 "2016-03-26T14:33:06Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > I’m a year older than you. Just follow me. I didn’t know anyone was older than me—you lead, I’ll follow. Thanks to all for the good wishes. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-year-gone-by/750226/10 "2016-03-26T15:04:43Z")
> [@LouisB](#): > > I didn’t know anyone was older than me—you lead, I’ll follow. > . OK. When I was 76, I spent three weeks in Karakol, Kyrgyzstan, then sailed across the Black Sea from Ukraine to Georgia on the 3-day truck ferry. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-year-gone-by/750226/11 "2016-03-26T15:12:29Z")
Happy Birthday Louis! May heaven’s finest blessings shower down upon you! ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-year-gone-by/750226/12 "2016-03-26T15:32:18Z")
You have a great personality, so can you dance? [Cruise ship gentleman dance host.](http://www.cruiseshipjob.com/dancehost.htm) Have a great year! ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-year-gone-by/750226/13 "2016-03-26T15:56:50Z")
Happy Birthday, **LouisB**! When you figure out what you want to be when you grow up, please share. Me, I plan to never grow up. But I might rethink that. FYI, this day in history, 1953: Jonas Salk announced he had found the polio vaccine. ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-year-gone-by/750226/14 "2016-03-26T18:13:07Z")
I am closing in on 73 and I have the same questions. My mind comes up with ideas which my body shoots down in seconds. You follow ole 88 & I’ll follow you. ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-year-gone-by/750226/15 "2016-03-26T18:15:42Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > Happy Birthday, **LouisB** > > ::: snip ::: > > FYI, this day in history, 1953: Jonas Salk announced he had found the polio vaccine. I still remember standing there & taking the sugar cube. Funny the things I remember from back when I was about 10. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-year-gone-by/750226/16 "2016-03-26T18:33:19Z")
Happy Birthday! If it helps I’m 47 and I still don’t know either. Guess I’ll keep trundling along until I find out. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-year-gone-by/750226/17 "2016-03-26T19:08:37Z")
From [In which 5-year period were you born?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/poll.php?do=showresults&pollid=5103) you can see that there are some others in the same (or similar) boat as you, **LouisB** : 1926-1930 – Daylate 1936-1940 – Diver, Hari Seldon, jtur88, **LouisB** , MrsTime, Timetrvlr 1941-1945 – AuntiePam, Dereknocue67, Giles, movingfinger, panache45, Ruby Slippers, samclem, sunstone, Zeldar 1946-1950 – Alex from CB, Atomic Mama, bahimes, bb49, Becky2844, Chefguy, Clothahump, DummyGladHands, FatBaldGuy, – Floater, Hook, jasg, Mona Lott, OffByOne, OttoDaFe, Pai325, Rick Kitchen, Roderick Femm, SandyHook, Sangahyando, – Snnipe 70E, The Holdsworth Effect, TreacherousCretin, UncaStuart, usedtobe, Whatever4 This listing has picked up a few new responses since [this post.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19204035&postcount=72) **Happy Birthday!**! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-year-gone-by/750226/18 "2016-03-26T19:47:49Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > You have a great personality, so can you dance? [Cruise ship gentleman dance host.](http://www.cruiseshipjob.com/dancehost.htm) > > Have a great year! Sounds like a great job—except I have to use a cane to walk; I haven’t tried dancing in several years but I doubt a cane would be a help. But thanks just the same. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-year-gone-by/750226/19 "2016-03-26T19:52:47Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > OK. When I was 76, I spent three weeks in Karakol, Kyrgyzstan, then sailed across the Black Sea from Ukraine to Georgia on the 3-day truck ferry. I am completely stricken with awe or should I just say I am awestruck. You have set the bar too high for me; I can’t make the jump. But I wish I could. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-year-gone-by/750226/20 "2016-03-26T19:57:14Z")
You’re pretty good at Doping, and you’ve had a lot of practice. I suggest you just keep doing that. Wishing you a very happy birthday, **LouisB**. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-year-gone-by/750226.md?page=2)