# Goddamn old people and AOL! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 14, 2001, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-old-people-and-aol/76165 "2001-08-14T07:00:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2001, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-old-people-and-aol/76165/1 "2001-08-14T07:00:39Z")
Ok, so on AOL’s starting screen they have a picture of Joan Collins. In her younger days she was a pretty attractive woman but those days have passed. Now she’s had plastic surgery so many times I think she’s rather scary looking. And damn it every time I close a window in AOL I’m greeted by her plastic looking smiling face. I’ll have nightmares now. What ever happened to aging gracefully? I don’t have a problem with people looking their best and leading active healthy lives. But when you’re 65 you need to stop trying to look as sexy as you were when you were 25. That goes for guys to. Some of you gals might think Connery is handsome but if he took off his shirt you’d see spots and little man boobs. Marc ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2001, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-old-people-and-aol/76165/2 "2001-08-14T14:15:45Z")
I dunno. Clint Eastwood is pushing 70, yet his bare ass looked pretty fine in _Space Cowboys_, as did that of Tommy Lee Jones. I’d do either one of them in a New York second, and take my Texas time 😃 . I will admit that James Garner and Donald Sutherland were far, far, less attractive in the buff. True, it would be disconcerting to see a woman in her 60s dress like Britney Spears, but I don’t think one should automatically say that being older makes you unsexy. After all, barring accidents or disease, we will all some day be old people, and I, for one, would hate to have automatic retirement from from sexual flirtation. I am reminded of the French courtesan Nino De L’Enclos, who seduced men well into her 70s, or Michael Douglas, who knocked up and married a woman 30 years his junior. And if a man works out consistently, he need not have man-boobs. There are plenty of older men with great physiques, like Ed Corney, Frank Zane, or Bill Pearl, all bodybuilders over 50. ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2001, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-old-people-and-aol/76165/3 "2001-08-14T14:21:42Z")
::Mental image I just got:: Clint Eastwood, naked, bent over a barrel. “Go ahead. Make my day.” ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2001, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-old-people-and-aol/76165/4 "2001-08-14T14:44:27Z")
Have you seen Joan Rivers lately? She’s doing a commercial for disposable kitchenware (Gladware?) and she is positively scary. Her face is way too smooth for someone her age. Her eyes are pulled way up, almost slanted, but not Asian-looking, just really weird-looking. The IMDB lists her birth year as 1933, which makes her 68, but I think she’s probably a few years older. ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2001, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-old-people-and-aol/76165/5 "2001-08-14T15:07:24Z")
> [@](#): > > Have you seen Joan Rivers lately? > She’s doing a commercial for disposable kitchenware (Gladware?) and she is positively scary. Her face is way too smooth for someone her age. Her eyes are pulled way up, almost slanted, but not Asian-looking, just really weird-looking. Well, duh! She’s had more work done than the Sistine Chapel and is not nearly as well preserved. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2001, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-old-people-and-aol/76165/6 "2001-08-14T15:52:32Z")
Actually, when you compare her looks with her personality-she’s a beauty queen. I HATE Joan Rivers! ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2001, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-old-people-and-aol/76165/7 "2001-08-14T16:58:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by goboy \* > \*\*I dunno. Clint Eastwood is pushing 70, yet his bare ass looked pretty fine in _Space Cowboys_, as did that of Tommy Lee Jones. \*\* You really think they didn’t use an ass double? > [@](#): > > \*\* > And if a man works out consistently, he need not have man-boobs. There are plenty of older men with great physiques, like Ed Corney, Frank Zane, or Bill Pearl, all bodybuilders over 50. \*\* Connery is in his 70’s and requires a stunt double to do his running for him. Marc ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2001, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-old-people-and-aol/76165/8 "2001-08-14T17:21:31Z")
> [@](#): > > You really think they didn’t use an ass double? Did you see the movie? Clint and company walk in and drop trou with no cutaways, no closeups, just a full body shot. They did not use doubles. ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2001, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-old-people-and-aol/76165/9 "2001-08-14T19:42:25Z")
Oh for fucks sake Marc, age has nothing to do with being sexy. I know some pretty homely young people and some damn fine looking older people. I would do Sean Connery in a heartbeat, little man boobs and all! I’m 39 years old - which I still consider quite young. I have date men who are much younger and others who are much older, but all in all I tend to be attracted to men who are 10 to 20 years older than myself. Sexy has as many definitions as there are opinions. One look at Joan Rivers will show you that plastic surgery can go a little too far, but just as I have my nails done and style my hair, I may have some “work” done later in life. Why not? Does turning 60 or 70 or even 90 automatically mean you should lose pride in your looks? Hell, my **100 YEAR OLD GREAT GRANDMOTHER** insisted on wearing her makeup every day until her death! Another grandmother promised to haunt us if we buried her without her hair done. Both were beautiful women! ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2001, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-old-people-and-aol/76165/10 "2001-08-14T20:26:01Z")
Lemme see…47 - 39 = 8, which is less than “10 to 20.” Shit. ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2001, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-old-people-and-aol/76165/11 "2001-08-14T21:30:43Z")
There are always the exceptions to my rules. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Wildest\_Bill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Wildest\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wildest_Bill)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2001, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-old-people-and-aol/76165/12 "2001-08-14T21:44:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Scylla \* > \*\*::Mental image I just got:: > > Clint Eastwood, naked, bent over a barrel. > > “Go ahead. Make my day.” \*\* Too funny. Reminds of Eddie Murphy acting like what Mr. T would be like if he was gay. “Oh yea boy slow down you’ll come too fast.” That just cracked me up. Supposably Mr T didn’t think that was too funny. ---
**Author:** ![Abe\_Babe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ab097/32.png) [@Abe\_Babe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abe_Babe)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2001, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-old-people-and-aol/76165/13 "2001-08-14T22:02:12Z")
“little man boobs” Wasn’t that the Jody Foster movie about some precocious (sp?) little kid? As far as older women I would ravish: Tina Turner Susan Sarandon Our former (as of lunch today) receptionist at work (about 55) My wife (smilie) Oh, and **Diane** , I am 33, but I have the body of a 50 year old. Does that pass, the test? ---
**Author:** ![Tedster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@Tedster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tedster)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2001, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-old-people-and-aol/76165/14 "2001-08-14T22:40:50Z")
As the un-greatest generation reaches retirement age(s) we can expect to be inundated with all sorts of “old is beautiful” propaganda as only the baby boomers are capable of. “Never trust anyone under 60” will become the new mantra. “What if they gave a bingo and nobody came…” etc., ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-old-people-and-aol/76165/15 "2001-08-15T00:15:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by goboy \* > \*\*Well, duh! She’s had more work done than the Sistine Chapel and is not nearly as well preserved. \*\* Okay. This is going right into Matt’s Big Secret Book of Bitchy Quotes for Flamers. (Sorry, **goboy.** 😛 ) ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-old-people-and-aol/76165/16 "2001-08-15T03:24:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Oh, and Diane, I am 33, but I have the body of a 50 year old. Does that pass, the test? As long as you’re too old to run fast, you’re my type of guy! ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-old-people-and-aol/76165/17 "2001-08-15T15:42:14Z")
> [@](#): > > “Never trust anyone under 60” will become the new mantra. > > “What if they gave a bingo and nobody came…” etc., I want to hear more of these. If I’m going to grow old, I want a cool catch-phrase. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-old-people-and-aol/76165/18 "2001-08-15T22:17:36Z")
“Teeth? We don’ need no steenkin’ teeth!” “Diapers - not just for babies anymore.” “Let’s see **your** generation take over everything!” “Pension fund? What pension fund?” “If you can see over the steering wheel, you’re too dang young.” ---
**Author:** ![Tedster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@Tedster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tedster)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2001, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-old-people-and-aol/76165/19 "2001-08-16T00:24:35Z")
It probably won’t for much longer… "Turn on, (heating blanket) Tune in, (oldies 95.1 FM) drop out, (bridge club) “We’re the people your retirement community warned you about” ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2001, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-old-people-and-aol/76165/20 "2001-08-16T00:24:52Z")
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