# 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:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2001, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-old-people-and-aol/76165/21 "2001-08-16T03:02:37Z")
Martha Stewart just turned 60. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2001, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-old-people-and-aol/76165/22 "2001-08-16T11:51:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dijon Warlock \* > \*\*Martha Stewart just turned 60. \*\* [Cynic Mode] If she’e telling the public she’s 60, I bet she’s more like 65. [/Cynic Mode] ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2001, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-old-people-and-aol/76165/23 "2001-08-16T23:11:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kinsey \* > \*\* > [Cynic Mode] > If she’e telling the public she’s 60, I bet she’s more like 65. > [/Cynic Mode] \*\* [Impressed Mode] Maybe, but she doesn’t look a day over 50 to me. [/Impressed Mode] ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2001, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-old-people-and-aol/76165/24 "2001-08-16T23:17:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kinsey \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Dijon Warlock \* > > \*\*Martha Stewart just turned 60. \*\* > > [Cynic Mode] > If she’e telling the public she’s 60, I bet she’s more like 65. > [/Cynic Mode] \*\* I know someone who went to Barnard with her. She’s 60, fair and square. ---
**Author:** ![Booker57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Booker57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Booker57)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2001, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-old-people-and-aol/76165/25 "2001-08-16T23:37:47Z")
Susan Olson (Cindy Brady) just turned Fourty. Now I feel old. ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-old-people-and-aol/76165/26 "2001-08-17T04:12:21Z")
> [@](#): > > Susan Olson (Cindy Brady) just turned forty. > Now I feel old. Tell me about it, she and I are the same age. I turn 40 on Saturday (8/18). At least I beat Carousel and Lastday by 10 years, but I still haven’t renewed! ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-old-people-and-aol/76165/27 "2001-08-17T13:17:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Booker57 \* > \*\*Susan Olson (Cindy Brady) just turned Fourty. > > Now I feel old. \*\* Bullshit. She can’t be a day over 12. 😉 _:: Where’s my Geritol? Who moved my walker? Ehh? Speak up sonny, I can’t hear you! ::_ ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-old-people-and-aol/76165/28 "2001-08-17T13:27:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Diane \* > \*\*As long as you’re too old to run fast, you’re my type of guy! \*\* Hey, remember…“A gentleman will walk but never run”. At least that’s what I tell Mrs Chance when she brings up the whole ‘jogging’ debate again and again! ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-old-people-and-aol/76165/29 "2001-08-17T15:25:40Z")
This thread reminds me of an old joke . . . > [@](#): > > _Originally told by Sophie Tucker_ > > I will never forget it, you know. It was on the occasion of Ernie’s eightieth birthday. He rang me up and said, “Soph! Soph! I just married myself a twenty-year-old girl. What do you think of that?” I said to him, “Ernie, when I am eighty, I shall marry me a twenty-year-old boy. And let me tell you something Ernie: twenty goes into eighty a helluva lot more than eighty goes into twenty!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2002, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-old-people-and-aol/76165/30 "2002-10-05T11:04:01Z")
Considering the content of her book _The Life and Hard Times of Heidi Abromowitz,_ I wonder if Ms. Rivers–who has also suffered the loss of her husband (suicide :() --was engaging in some kind of youthful fantasy by creating this character… ---
**Author:** ![belladonna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@belladonna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/belladonna)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2002, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-old-people-and-aol/76165/31 "2002-10-05T11:51:36Z")
Thread from the Dead! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2002, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-old-people-and-aol/76165/32 "2002-10-05T12:05:17Z")
> [@](#): > > As far as older women I would ravish: Suzanne Pleshette! Rowrr! ---
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2002, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-old-people-and-aol/76165/33 "2002-10-05T23:32:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kinsey \* > **Her eyes are pulled way up, almost slanted, but not Asian-looking, just really weird-looking.** Yes. She is turning into the Bride of Wildenstein. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2002, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-old-people-and-aol/76165/34 "2002-10-07T04:23:02Z")
Woman 20 years my senior whom I’d do in a heartbeat: [Kaori Momoi](http://www.sankei.co.jp/mov/int/97/0626momoi.html) ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2002, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-old-people-and-aol/76165/35 "2002-10-07T04:44:14Z")
I think the OP had a legitimate beef. I personally see no problem with people continuing to consider themselves and others sexy in their old age. However, they shouldn’t be trying to be sexy in the same way as they did when they were 20! An older person is sexy in a different way, a less flashy way, you might say. Less sequin-and-navel, perhaps. ---
**Author:** ![Forbin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5e9695/32.png) [@Forbin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Forbin)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2002, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-old-people-and-aol/76165/36 "2002-10-07T05:20:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Abe Babe \* > \*\*As far as older women I would ravish: > \*\* Sophia Loren ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2002, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-old-people-and-aol/76165/37 "2002-10-07T13:45:59Z")
Come now. My husband is an older man - I have been asked if he’s my father. Nobody tell Dave about this thread, mkay? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2002, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-old-people-and-aol/76165/38 "2002-10-07T13:56:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kinsey \* > \*\* > > [Cynic Mode] > If she’e telling the public she’s 60, I bet she’s more like 65. > [/Cynic Mode] \*\* Yes, but she put a stop on 50… Oh, here’s a new slogan: “My own personal New York State Thruway is stopped up, man!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamn-old-people-and-aol/76165.md?page=1)