# From the "Damn I'm Old" Dept--Mick Jagger to be a great-grandfather! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 24, 2013, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-damn-im-old-dept-mick-jagger-to-be-a-great-grandfather/669598 "2013-09-24T20:08:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-damn-im-old-dept-mick-jagger-to-be-a-great-grandfather/669598/1 "2013-09-24T20:08:10Z")
[Story here](http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/Music/2013/09/23/Mick-Jagger-to-be-a-great-grandfather-in-2014/UPI-68501379946660/) > [@](#): > > British rocker Mick Jagger will be a great-grandfather when his 21-year-old granddaughter Assisi gives birth next year, the New York Post reported. Time marches. ---
**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:** [September 24, 2013, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-damn-im-old-dept-mick-jagger-to-be-a-great-grandfather/669598/2 "2013-09-24T20:20:39Z")
My high school class of '63 just had its 50th reunion (I didn’t go). There were about 1,000 in my class, so I assume there were some great-grandparents. Time used to march; now it flies like a bat outta hell. ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-damn-im-old-dept-mick-jagger-to-be-a-great-grandfather/669598/3 "2013-09-24T20:29:30Z")
I keep expecting my daughter to inform me of impending great-grandmother-hood. My grandson is 20, so it probably won’t be all that long. His father had 2 kids by that age. I have a teenage granddaughter too, but she is reproductively very well protected. I’m in my mid-50s, which is considerably younger than Jagger IIRC. If I weren’t planning to die early I could probably make it to great-great-great-grandmaw :eek:. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-damn-im-old-dept-mick-jagger-to-be-a-great-grandfather/669598/4 "2013-09-24T21:43:57Z")
I love the bit of trivia that the average age of the Rolling Stones is greater than that of the US Supreme Court. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-damn-im-old-dept-mick-jagger-to-be-a-great-grandfather/669598/5 "2013-09-24T23:23:38Z")
The way the Stones hang in there, in another twenty years or so I expect to hear Mick will be a great-great-grandfather. We had five generation pictures taken, in my family, before my grandmother died last year. How old does it make you feel , I wonder, to realize your grandchild is a grandparent? ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-damn-im-old-dept-mick-jagger-to-be-a-great-grandfather/669598/6 "2013-09-25T10:29:23Z")
Wow. Jade is about my age, so I always think of her as a kid, you know, like me (I became a Stones fan when we were both about nine years old). Then, occasionally I’ll walk by a mirror and realize I’m NOT nine years old ;). And this OP made me realize that, if Jade is about to be a grandmother, then I could be a grandfather now as well – but that’s crazy, because I have one child, and he’s not yet 3 years old. So, this “Mick about to be a great-grandfather” thing is bizarre to me even more than for most people, because by chance 1. I knew everything about the Stones around 1979, but I haven’t been following their lives as closely since, so deep down my ideas about them are stuck in that time, and 2. I happened to have my first and only child at a much later age than Mick did. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-damn-im-old-dept-mick-jagger-to-be-a-great-grandfather/669598/7 "2013-09-25T16:59:31Z")
Just goes ta show ya - clean healthy living leads to a longer life! Remember that, kids!