# Happy birthday to me—this is the big one: seven-zero **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 31, 2014, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-to-me-this-is-the-big-one-seven-zero/685022 "2014-03-31T21:26:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2014, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-to-me-this-is-the-big-one-seven-zero/685022/21 "2014-04-01T06:26:03Z")
Happy birthday, kid. Let me tell youhow rough it was around here in the old days. Yeah; I’m 71. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2014, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-to-me-this-is-the-big-one-seven-zero/685022/22 "2014-04-01T06:35:23Z")
Happy Birthday, **Mr Quatro**! May you have many more! ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2014, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-to-me-this-is-the-big-one-seven-zero/685022/23 "2014-04-01T11:30:00Z")
So tell us… What presidents have you voted for? What are some things that are valuable now but were cheap when you were younger you wish you had not thrown away? When you were very young, did you know many people who were alive in the 1800’s? if so what was the oldest person you knew? What stories did they tell of the age before electricity, plumbing, and automobiles? ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2014, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-to-me-this-is-the-big-one-seven-zero/685022/24 "2014-04-01T12:34:37Z")
Happy birthday, ye Olde Pharte. Geroff my lawn! ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Quatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bc8723/32.png) [@Mr\_Quatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Quatro)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2014, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-to-me-this-is-the-big-one-seven-zero/685022/25 "2014-04-01T17:50:12Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#): > > So tell us… > > What presidents have you voted for? > > What are some things that are valuable now but were cheap when you were younger you wish you had not thrown away? > > When you were very young, did you know many people who were alive in the 1800’s? if so what was the oldest person you knew? What stories did they tell of the age before electricity, plumbing, and automobiles? President Lyndon B Johnson (now I wish I hadn’t) one inch square property of Alaska in every Quaker Oats box I had several of those My grandfather was alive then and I thought he was the richest man in the world because he had a lot of change from selling ice cream and tamales too on his table every night. He worked in the Fort Worth stockyards, but before that he was a chuck wagon cook. My grandfather on my fathers side worked for the MKT and Santa Fe railroad and told me stories like the man that was working for the railroad walking beside the tracks and saw a snake … so he bends down to pick up a stick to hit the snake with and wound up picking up another snake instead lol Thanks for asking and I had to take the school bus twenty miles to get to school in Waco, Texas too now that was hard to get up in the dark at least I didn’t have to ride a horse. ---
**Author:** ![Tethered\_Kite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@Tethered\_Kite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tethered_Kite)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-to-me-this-is-the-big-one-seven-zero/685022/26 "2014-04-03T19:44:53Z")
> [@Mr\_Quatro](#): > > Happy birthday to you too Tethered Kite … sorry your insurance went down, don’t have any accidents. > > Did anyone in your family ever tell you that March 31st use to be New Years eve in heck I don’t know what year, but whatever year it was they say that’s where April Fool came from when they changed the year change over to January. > > I already asked Cecil, but he’s busy 😃 No. I’ve never heard that story before. Suspect someone must be playing an April Fool’s Day joke on you (me)! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-to-me-this-is-the-big-one-seven-zero/685022/27 "2014-04-03T20:23:22Z")
> [@BrassyPhrase](#): > > You might want to put a comma or dash between the one and the seven. I thought, “He’s 170? What? Are they talking about dog years or something?” > > Happy Birthday anyway! And twenty more at least 🙂 I couldn’t help myself; I fixed it to say … the big one: seven-zero. Yar welcome. Oh and happy belated birthday! ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-to-me-this-is-the-big-one-seven-zero/685022/28 "2014-04-04T07:50:54Z")
Happy Birthday, **Mr Setenta**. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-to-me-this-is-the-big-one-seven-zero/685022/29 "2014-04-04T14:41:07Z")
Happy belated birthday wishes, ya old geezer! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Quatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bc8723/32.png) [@Mr\_Quatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Quatro)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-to-me-this-is-the-big-one-seven-zero/685022/30 "2014-04-04T15:14:03Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > I couldn’t help myself; I fixed it to say … the big one: seven-zero. > > Yar welcome. > > Oh and happy belated birthday! Thank you kindly Ellen … I even forgive you for closing my thread “A woman’s mind is a funny place … especially when she’s shopping for shoes” your doing a fine job … keep up the good work 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-to-me-this-is-the-big-one-seven-zero/685022.md?page=1)