# average age **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 29, 2000, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-age/16127 "2000-03-29T07:44:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2000, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-age/16127/121 "2000-03-30T17:39:00Z")
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**Author:** ![Flinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e79b87/32.png) [@Flinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flinx)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2000, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-age/16127/122 "2000-03-30T17:51:00Z")
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**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2000, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-age/16127/123 "2000-03-31T06:17:00Z")
I’m 30, which puts me just below average. Typical. 🙂 I’m a Leo, BTW. * * * You say “cheesy” like that’s a **BAD** thing. ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2000, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-age/16127/124 "2000-03-31T06:47:00Z")
24 and a Scorpio. * * * Winner, SDMB’s Biggest FEMALE Chat Addict (Happy, Jophiel?) “Only two things that’ll soothe my soul - cold beer and remote control.” ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2000, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-age/16127/125 "2000-03-30T19:32:00Z")
34 – 1965 was a very good year. ---
**Author:** ![Amazingrace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8edcca/32.png) [@Amazingrace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazingrace)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2000, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-age/16127/126 "2000-03-30T19:56:00Z")
I guess that makes me the baby here, at 14, 15 in April. They say I was born 35 though 🙂 Grace ```auto Doing my part to bring down the average ``` ---
**Author:** ![SuperNerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@SuperNerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperNerd)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2000, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-age/16127/127 "2000-03-30T20:03:00Z")
I feel I should drag the average up a bit … turned 48 in January ---
**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2000, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-age/16127/128 "2000-03-30T20:04:00Z")
Since this seems to be the page for it (Ultress, GirlBySea), I’ll chime in with 44, too. And I still think I’m much too young to feel this old. ---
**Author:** ![Flyhalf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ea5d25/32.png) [@Flyhalf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flyhalf)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2000, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-age/16127/129 "2000-03-30T20:38:00Z")
30 going on 60. * * * When you know that your time is close at hand Maybe then you’ll begin to understand Life down here is just a strange illusion ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2000, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-age/16127/130 "2000-03-30T20:52:00Z")
I’m 26 (27 in July–I’m a cancer, and not just on the face of the SDMB :D) * * * “I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy [The Kat House](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/home.htm) [Join the FSH Muscular Dystrophy Webring](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/fshwebring.htm) ---
**Author:** ![DarkDragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@DarkDragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkDragon)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2000, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-age/16127/131 "2000-03-30T20:55:00Z")
22, 23 in december * * * “I am so smart, s-m-r-t!” ---
**Author:** ![Linney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/58956e/32.png) [@Linney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linney)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2000, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-age/16127/132 "2000-03-30T21:20:00Z")
a very old-acting 22 * * * “If we submit everything to reason, our religion will have no mysterious or supernatural element. If we offend the principles of reason, our religion will be absurd and ridiculous.” Blaise Pascal ---
**Author:** ![OgreFade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@OgreFade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OgreFade)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2000, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-age/16127/133 "2000-03-30T21:51:00Z")
19 and stupid ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2000, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-age/16127/134 "2000-03-30T21:56:00Z")
Still holding at 31. 14!? Wow, I’m impressed, My 13 reads occasionally(I censor, and suggests posts sometimes, but he never comes here on his own) 112 posters at 3569.-Makes doing the math easy. Another Leo checking in. * * * What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. -Sigmund Freud- ---
**Author:** ![MadPoet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8c91f0/32.png) [@MadPoet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPoet)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2000, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-age/16127/135 "2000-03-31T01:55:00Z")
23, Virgo on the Leo cusp. * * * [http://www.madpoet.com](http://www.madpoet.com) “I never meant to hurt you,” you said, And buried yourself in lies instead. Next time I would rather be slain, Than forced to bear your mercy again. ---
**Author:** ![SouthernXYL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@SouthernXYL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SouthernXYL)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2000, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-age/16127/136 "2000-03-31T02:06:00Z")
39 Libra ---
**Author:** ![OgreFade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@OgreFade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OgreFade)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2000, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-age/16127/137 "2000-03-31T03:11:00Z")
i’m a libra too… 🙂 I guess… wahoo… youngest junior i know in college ---
**Author:** ![ghoti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@ghoti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ghoti)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2000, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-age/16127/138 "2000-03-31T03:24:00Z")
30 cancer ---
**Author:** ![neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3ab097/32.png) [@neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neuro-trash_grrrl)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2000, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-age/16127/139 "2000-03-31T03:28:00Z")
22, and going through my fourth childhood and fifth midlife crisis simultaneously. * * * Heck is where you go when you don’t believe in Gosh. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2000, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-age/16127/140 "2000-03-31T05:22:00Z")
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