I’ve been wondering about the demographics of this board off and on; while there are plenty of Dopers in their thirties and forties, and a cluster of us right around fifty, it seemingly thins out after that. But I know we’ve got a few sexagenarians in our midst.
There was recently a thread celebrating DesertGeezer’s 61st birthday, and LouisB mentioned in a current IMHO thread that his first job was bagging groceries for 50¢ an hour back in 1954; it’s a safe bet he’s over 60 too. IIRC, Zoe has also mentioned being of that age.
So, who else do we have who will admit to having spent 60 years on this planet?
Wow, I had no idea there were so many. Do we need to start a thread about the best ways to keep them goldurned whippersnappers off your lawn? “HEY YOU LITTLE BASTIDS! GET OFF MY LAWN!” Heh…
pestie, who only hopes he’s lucky enough to live that long…
It comes to mind that I tend to think of each and every poster on this board as in their early 30s, unless they say something to the contrary, or I have met them. I guess it’s because I like you all so much, you must be just like me.
I do the same thing as GingerOfTheNorth; unless I see something to change my impression, I think of dopers as either “about my age” (31) or “in high school.”
F’rinstance, throughout John Carter of Mars’s whole neighbor/beekeeping/mail-order bride/gold-sluicing boat fiasco (which was one of the most awesome stories I’ve ever read on this board), I was picturing him as maybe 35, and the neighbor as maybe 40 for some reason. Only reading this thread did I find out otherwise.
Oh, and RTFirefly looks and talks like Groucho in Duck Soup.