# Heh. So this is 40.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-so-this-is-40/440951
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [March 11, 2008, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-so-this-is-40/440951 "2008-03-11T12:45:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2008, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-so-this-is-40/440951/1 "2008-03-11T12:45:36Z")
Now what?
And I was even still awake to ring out the last breath of my thirties. I think I was expecting something more fulfilling. Confetti maybe?
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### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2008, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-so-this-is-40/440951/2 "2008-03-11T12:46:50Z")
Happy b-day, **faith**!
I hit 40 a month ago, and have come to a conclusion: Nothing changed.
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### Author:  [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2008, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-so-this-is-40/440951/3 "2008-03-11T12:50:21Z")
You know, technically you can say you’re in the last year of your thirties. Not that it makes much difference. 🙂
Happy birthday.
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### Author:  [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2008, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-so-this-is-40/440951/4 "2008-03-11T12:54:57Z")
Congrats! Forty is a nice age.
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### Author:  [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2008, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-so-this-is-40/440951/5 "2008-03-11T12:55:37Z")
Happy birthday!
I’m 43 now. I think. I kinda stopped paying attention. It’s too bizarre a concept. What year is it again?
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### Author:  [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2008, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-so-this-is-40/440951/6 "2008-03-11T13:01:35Z")
Congratulations!
I guess…
… And you can **keep** on saying “yeah, I’m closer to 30 than I am to 20…” 😃
Works for me…
And geroffmylawn!!! (turning 45 later this year)
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2008, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-so-this-is-40/440951/7 "2008-03-11T13:02:58Z")
Not much.
20s: Awareness of flora called grass.
30s: Awareness than collection of grass constitutes a lawn.
40s: Awareness that lawns can be subject to ownership.
50s: Awareness that you do, in fact, own such a lawn.
60s: Awareness that anyone on your lawn is trespassing.
70s: Awareness that trespassers are little sonsabitches.
80s: Awareness that you really could care less and just want someone to come mow the damn thing.
90s: Awareness you just want someone to mow it, but for really, really cheap.
Your time to become indignant about your verdant fiefdom is aways away, **faithfool**. For now, just enjoy the wisdom that accompanies your vast experiences.
Oh… and Happy Birthday.
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### Author:  [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2008, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-so-this-is-40/440951/8 "2008-03-11T13:05:51Z")
Thank y’all! Any words of wisdom on what _to_ or _not to_ do in celebration that won’t harm me in my now doddering old age? I’d like to think I’m going to party (I’d like to _think_ that), but the brand new shiny cane I’ve ordered hasn’t come in yet and otherwise, I won’t have anything to shake! I need advice. Do I hoist my pants up under my boobs now or does that take place at 50? How about drool? Or shouting mumbling obscenities?
Okay, scratch that last one. I’ve been doing it forever anyway. 😛
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### Author:  [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2008, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-so-this-is-40/440951/9 "2008-03-11T13:10:20Z")
Welcome aboard. I’ve been in the 40s club for 6 months now. Nothing changed, except my friends mocked me more than normal.
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### Author:  [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2008, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-so-this-is-40/440951/10 "2008-03-11T13:11:11Z")
Happy Birthday!
🙂
…29, did you say?
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2008, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-so-this-is-40/440951/11 "2008-03-11T13:26:02Z")
If you don’t yet have reading glasses, you will soon.
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### Author:  [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2008, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-so-this-is-40/440951/12 "2008-03-11T13:31:25Z")
Mocking? Check! Glasses? Check! Hangin’ with good company here? Double check! I must be doing alright after all. Whadaya say, Geritol cocktails at my place around 6:00ish? Then we can watch **The Golden Girls** and turn the heat WAY up. After a nap, I’m sure we can all find something exciting to do.
So, howzabout a couple of rousing games of Bridge?
[QUOTE=The Mad Hermit]
Happy Birthday!
🙂
…29, did you say?
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SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! My First One True Doper Love ™ has returned to the nest! Now I honestly have something to be happy about!!
\< does creaky over-the-hill Snoopy dance \>
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### Author:  [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2008, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-so-this-is-40/440951/13 "2008-03-11T13:35:37Z")
Wishing you a good day, a good year and a great life! 🙂
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### Author:  [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2008, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-so-this-is-40/440951/14 "2008-03-11T13:46:11Z")
[QUOTE=Leaffan]
If you don’t yet have reading glasses, you will soon.
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Or not, Mom’s long-distance glasses didn’t start bothering her until her 60s. I was counting on that when I went Lasik.
I hope the “underoos at the boobs” thing isn’t required yet. Looks damn uncomfortable. My Gramps doesn’t wear his belt under his armpits yet and he’s 93. Well, it’s under his armpits, what it’s not is directly under them. Grandma (94) goes commando half the time.
Should I geroff your lawn now, Oh Thou Who Art Two Days Older Than Me?
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### Author:  [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2008, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-so-this-is-40/440951/15 "2008-03-11T13:59:38Z")
Nah **Nava** , you can stay. I always aim for benevolence (at least in my dried up old heart) for the young whippersnappers of the next generation. \< sniff \> So since that’s the case, I’ll share a bit of turf with ya.
And Commando Grannies? That would be like the coolest band name ever. Not to mention, I bet your Grandma really is the bomb.
[QUOTE=Khadaji]
Wishing you a good day, a good year and a great life! 🙂
[/QUOTE]
You’re so sweet. Thanks.
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### Author:  [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2008, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-so-this-is-40/440951/16 "2008-03-11T16:27:23Z")
Awww. I got flowers! My favorite even… daisies!! They smell so nice and it’s such a wonderful surprise because I haven’t been given any in _years_.
Maybe my old foggy-ness doesn’t kick in until tomorrow after all. 🙂
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2008, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-so-this-is-40/440951/17 "2008-03-11T16:47:48Z")
40? Puppy!
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### Author:  [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2008, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-so-this-is-40/440951/18 "2008-03-11T16:48:29Z")
Happy Birthday !
I’ll be joining the 40 club on the 27th.
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### Author:  [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2008, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-so-this-is-40/440951/19 "2008-03-11T17:28:35Z")
Well we’ve certainly got a good crew of those past our prime. 😉 We should all get together and do something extreme… power knitting or shuffle board bungee jumping?
Happy Big Day on the 27th **labtrash**!!
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### Author:  [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2008, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-so-this-is-40/440951/20 "2008-03-11T22:17:27Z")
Congratulations: You are now 18, with 22 years of experience.
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