# Any Dopers here my age (15)?? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 7, 2004, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-here-my-age-15/278526 "2004-12-07T12:48:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-here-my-age-15/278526/41 "2004-12-10T17:56:36Z")
> [@Blalron](#): > > I haven’t been 15 since the Clinton Administration. I’m an old foggey. I haven’t been 15 since the _Carter_ Administration :eek: ---
**Author:** ![PsychoBabble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@PsychoBabble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PsychoBabble)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-here-my-age-15/278526/42 "2004-12-10T18:54:39Z")
> [@glee](#): > > Look here young Vool! > > I assume you probably: > > - don’t remember using phones by rotating the dial and releasing it > - don’t like Elvis or the Beatles (I may just be wrong on this one!) I’m only 23 and I remember dialing phones using the dial and releasing it, maybe my parents were just really slow with getting new technology. And I happen to love the Beatles and Elvis is ok too. ---
**Author:** ![Earthworm\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@Earthworm\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthworm_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-here-my-age-15/278526/43 "2004-12-10T19:50:49Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > (sigh) > > [Shame, in link form](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=224544) _:: points, laughs ::_ Poor Giraffe. Coulda been worse though. Just trust me on that 😉 ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-here-my-age-15/278526/44 "2004-12-10T21:58:43Z")
[QUOTE=Larry Borgia] > [@](#): > > Originally Posted by **Blalron** > > > [@](#): > > > > I haven’t been 15 since the Clinton Administration. I’m an old foggey. > > I haven’t been 15 since the Carter Administration :eek: Umm, Nixon was plotting out his strategy against likely Democratic nominee George McGovern (including some ill-advised shenanigans involving the Watergate Hotel, I believe) right around the time I was 15. Fear not. The composition of the board extends quite far in each direction. There may be Dopers on board who can recall that Roosevelt guy unseating Mr. Hoover back when _they_ were 15. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-here-my-age-15/278526/45 "2004-12-10T23:15:05Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > (sigh) > > [Shame, in link form](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=224544) This is my second time reading that thread and I laughed just as hard this time as the last. **Hot Buttered Toast** ’s reveal and casual smackdown of you has to be one of my most favorite moments on this board. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2004, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-here-my-age-15/278526/46 "2004-12-11T02:12:34Z")
Ronald Reagan was President when I was 15, but I was present at live performances by Richard Nixon (in '72 or '73) and Gerald Ford ('75). ---
**Author:** ![flamingbananas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f4b2a3/32.png) [@flamingbananas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flamingbananas)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2004, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-here-my-age-15/278526/47 "2004-12-11T02:23:52Z")
> [@](#): > > -don’t remember a time before Clinton was president Nope. > [@](#): > > -don’t remember the Soviet Union at all Nope. > [@](#): > > -have never used a record player, except perhaps as an oddity HA. I have a record player and I use it frequently. > [@](#): > > -don’t remember a time before The Internet There was a time before The Internet? > [@](#): > > -don’t think the music I like is cool (no, wait, I forgot, even the people in _my_ generation don’t think the music I like is cool) I hate almost all current music. I only like (with a few exceptions) 1980- > [@](#): > > -never paid a quarter to play a video game Never liked arcades much. > [@](#): > > -don’t remember when _Batman_ or _Terminator 2_ or _Wayne’s World_ or _Jurassic Park_ were released I do! In fact I went and saw Jurassic Park when it was released. > [@](#): > > -speaking of which, you probably don’t remember a time before computer-generated special effects Nope! > [@](#): > > -absolutely positively think of me (31) as a grownup. Not a young adult. Not a cool young grownup who’s fun to hang around with. But a grownup. “Mr. TheVool”, you might call me if we met Yep. > [@](#): > > -are sick of people like me going on in shock about things like this Nah, it’s not bad. I still can’t imagine life without an internet. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2004, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-here-my-age-15/278526/48 "2004-12-11T02:40:49Z")
“Until you can compete with a bristle cone pine, you are neither young, old, or alive.” And, to not make this post a complete waste, I’ll be 17 in January. Huzzah! ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Side_of_the_Floyd)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2004, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-here-my-age-15/278526/49 "2004-12-11T05:55:31Z")
[steps meekly to the microphone] I’m fifteen. [lowers microphone and sits back down] ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2004, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-here-my-age-15/278526/50 "2004-12-11T07:23:49Z")
I’m fifteen in my heart. Then again, sometimes I’m two, sometimes I’m eight, and sometimes I’m ninety-one. Eighteen in real life, any age you like where it counts. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-here-my-age-15/278526.md?page=2)