# Damn! Another birthday - any Doper older than me? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 23, 2010, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-another-birthday-any-doper-older-than-me/551218 "2010-08-23T22:14:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [August 24, 2010, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-another-birthday-any-doper-older-than-me/551218/21 "2010-08-24T03:04:58Z")
Well I’m _trying_ to catch up but you won’t stand still! I was thinking of posting a question and specifically asking you to chime in on it. Keep your eyes out for a Cafe Society thread with your name invoked in it, OK? ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-another-birthday-any-doper-older-than-me/551218/22 "2010-08-24T03:09:37Z")
My grandfather turned 87 in April. When I ask him how he is he says “I’m vertical, so I can’t complain.” congrats Klondike! ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-another-birthday-any-doper-older-than-me/551218/23 "2010-08-24T04:14:35Z")
Well think about it this way: on this birthday, you got about 1.2% older **KlondikeGeoff**. My last birthday I got nearly 2.4% older, and some of these whippersnappers around here will probably increase their age by as much as 6 or 7% this year. Sucks to be them, ha ha! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-another-birthday-any-doper-older-than-me/551218/24 "2010-08-24T04:23:20Z")
I’m going to step out of character and not try to be funny. Happy birthday, **KlondikeGeoff**. I’m glad to have you around. My dad would have turned 83 in October. ---
**Author:** ![Race\_Harley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Race\_Harley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Race_Harley)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-another-birthday-any-doper-older-than-me/551218/25 "2010-08-24T04:58:36Z")
Happy belated to you! I’m turning 46 in less than a month and I could hope to celebrate my 83rd. Best to you! ---
**Author:** ![toofs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@toofs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toofs)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-another-birthday-any-doper-older-than-me/551218/26 "2010-08-24T05:01:06Z")
Heck, I hope I am alive and spry at your age! Keep posting! ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-another-birthday-any-doper-older-than-me/551218/27 "2010-08-24T05:14:37Z")
I remember reading your post about climbing a mountain for your 80th birthday ( [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=432618&highlight=birthday](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=432618&highlight=birthday) ) when I first signed up here and thinking “Damn, I’d have trouble doing that now and I’m only 44.” Wishing you a belated happy birthday, **KlondikeGeoff** and looking forward to celebrating many more on the Dope with you. BTW…you share a birthday with my late grandfather…he would have been 104. ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-another-birthday-any-doper-older-than-me/551218/28 "2010-08-24T05:18:06Z")
Happy Birthdayyyyyyy! Here’s to you posting when you get into triple digits. ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-another-birthday-any-doper-older-than-me/551218/29 "2010-08-24T05:34:15Z")
My 68th is becoming visible on the horizon. All the best wishes to you, Geoff. You’re a credit to codgerhood. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-another-birthday-any-doper-older-than-me/551218/30 "2010-08-24T05:47:38Z")
My dad turns 79 this year. Thank goodness, he is in pretty good health, and remains active. He and my mother just took my niece (his granddaughter) to Paris for her 16th birthday. I only hope that all the elderly people I know, including you, continue in good health. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-another-birthday-any-doper-older-than-me/551218/31 "2010-08-24T06:03:59Z")
Sorry, love, you’re still the oldest. Will it make you feel better if I manage to trick my grandmother into posting? It will take a while, mind you, as right now we happen to be 1200km apart… Congratulations, by the way 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-another-birthday-any-doper-older-than-me/551218/32 "2010-08-24T06:23:05Z")
> [@KlondikeGeoff](#): > > Well, I urned 83 on 8/10. You’ve got me beat by a couple years, but the same birthday. If you can make it to 100, I’ll try to make it to 62. Happy birthday. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Seventh\_Deadly\_Finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6bbea6/32.png) [@The\_Seventh\_Deadly\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Seventh_Deadly_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-another-birthday-any-doper-older-than-me/551218/33 "2010-08-24T08:04:55Z")
I don’t know what your politics are like, KG, but at my favorite pinko hangout, [Daily Kos](http://www.dailykos.com), there’s a user with the handle [Charlotte Lucas](http://www.dailykos.com/user/Charlotte_Lucas) who’s become a site favorite with series of memoirish posts about WWII, the Great Depression, and the like. She’s in her 90s, I believe. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-another-birthday-any-doper-older-than-me/551218/34 "2010-08-24T08:07:14Z")
Happy birthday! I’m not older than you . . . but in 8 days I’ll have Medicare. This is the only time I’m actually looking forward to another birthday. Now I’ll be able to afford two knee surgeries and two cataract surgeries . . . and someday, an aortal valve replacement. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-another-birthday-any-doper-older-than-me/551218/35 "2010-08-24T08:10:40Z")
Happy Birthday and live long and prosper. I’m only 70. I don’t know what I want to be when I grow up. Can you advise me? ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-another-birthday-any-doper-older-than-me/551218/36 "2010-08-24T09:29:30Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > My grandfather turned 87 in April. When I ask him how he is he says “I’m vertical, so I can’t complain.” > > congrats Klondike! Hell, my father turns 89 this year- you trying to make me feel old? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-another-birthday-any-doper-older-than-me/551218/37 "2010-08-24T09:42:19Z")
When you get to be that old, you can’t count on it being only a fart. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-another-birthday-any-doper-older-than-me/551218/38 "2010-08-24T18:23:48Z")
> [@NinetyWt](#): > > Hmm. I checked the spreadsheet and … closest to you is Ignatz, born in 1939. Sorry about that. > > Happy Birthday though !! Nonsense; I was born in 1937. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-another-birthday-any-doper-older-than-me/551218/39 "2010-08-24T18:31:59Z")
I was created in 1943. I guess I am a yoot. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-another-birthday-any-doper-older-than-me/551218/40 "2010-08-24T18:37:06Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > > [@NinetyWt](#): > > > > Hmm. I checked the spreadsheet and … closest to you is Ignatz, born in 1939. Sorry about that. > > > > Happy Birthday though !! > > Nonsense; I was born in 1937. [http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1937.html](http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1937.html) It was not a very good year. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-another-birthday-any-doper-older-than-me/551218.md?page=1)