# How old are you? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 27, 2004, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377 "2004-09-27T23:29:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Finnie\_the\_Pooh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@Finnie\_the\_Pooh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finnie_the_Pooh)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/181 "2004-09-30T03:14:19Z")
54.75, and slowly starting to come apart at the seams! ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/182 "2004-09-30T03:23:34Z")
18, 19 in December. ---
**Author:** ![Leonard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a6a055/32.png) [@Leonard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leonard)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/183 "2004-09-30T03:35:16Z")
1. Two more weeks until my 30’s. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/184 "2004-09-30T03:37:26Z")
Just turned 28 on Sept. 17. ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/185 "2004-09-30T03:53:59Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#): > > _sobs_ > > I’m 29. > > Today. :eek: Sorry this is one day late… **HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TELLMEI’MNOTCRAZY!!!** Approximate Phonetic Chinese Version of “Happy Birthday”: (thanks, Nathan!) “Guung juuk nay fook sow yuen teen tsai, hing hong nay sun sun fie lok. Leen leen doe yao gum yut, suuy doe yao gum jzew, guung hay nay! Guung hay nay!!!” Approximate English Translation of Above: “Congrats on this good day of fortune, where we can all gather together. Wishing you a very happy birthday. Every year, this wondrous day arrives; Always, this wondrous time comes. Congratulations! Congratulations!” ---
**Author:** ![Etherman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/958977/32.png) [@Etherman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Etherman)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/186 "2004-09-30T04:22:01Z")
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**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/187 "2004-09-30T13:32:57Z")
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**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/188 "2004-09-30T15:39:16Z")
1. I’ll be 20 this December. _sob_ Getting old and decrepit… ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/189 "2004-09-30T15:40:32Z")
> [@Flamsterette\_X](#): > > Sorry this is one day late… > > **HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TELLMEI’MNOTCRAZY!!!** > Approximate Phonetic Chinese Version of “Happy Birthday”: (thanks, Nathan!) > > “Guung juuk nay fook sow yuen teen tsai, hing hong nay sun sun fie lok. Leen leen doe yao gum yut, suuy doe yao gum jzew, guung hay nay! Guung hay nay!!!” > > Approximate English Translation of Above: > > “Congrats on this good day of fortune, where we can all gather together. Wishing you a very happy birthday. Every year, this wondrous day arrives; Always, this wondrous time comes. Congratulations! Congratulations!” Why, thank you 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/190 "2004-09-30T15:51:04Z")
> [@Antigen](#): > > Now, you know you can’t combine the early bird special with your senior’s discount, right? The heck I can’t! I’m not only an old fart, I’m a cheap bastard to boot! 😃 > [@Mockingbird](#): > > Pfft. > > You’re younger than the last guy I boinked, and at 58 he was pretty damn vital. > > _So there_. What’d ya do, yank his cane out from under him and boink him right there? Cut off his oxygen til he gave in? Get him high on Geritol then take advantage of him? You are _shameless_! I like that in a man. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SnakeSpirit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snakespirit/32/7271_2.png) [@SnakeSpirit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakeSpirit)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2004, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/191 "2004-10-02T23:40:41Z")
And FOUR PAGES of data! Do we have a statistician up to the task? I’ve seen some of you folks crunch numbers on posts and threads that makes my head spin. I’d do it, but I suck at it. Here’s our chance to see the ranges of age and heavy and light representation on the SDMB by age. Please?? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Blonde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blonde)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2004, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/192 "2004-10-02T23:43:45Z")
I turned 40 this year. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Kuizelemartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19b73/32.png) [@Kuizelemartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuizelemartz)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/193 "2004-10-03T00:35:10Z")
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**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/194 "2004-10-03T00:51:30Z")
Eeeks, gah! I actually have something in common with Shodan. :eek: I just turned 48. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/195 "2004-10-03T00:54:55Z")
Let’s see: foxymoron Lsura GomiBoy Susie Derkins The Composer gooti stpauler Sami41 [white guy trying to be cool] Shout out to all the other 31 year olds in the house! [/white guy trying to be cool] 😃 ---
**Author:** ![tsarina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@tsarina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tsarina)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/196 "2004-10-03T00:58:47Z")
I’m… umm… 22 years, 5 months, and 23 days old today. ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/197 "2004-10-03T01:42:18Z")
> [@SnakeSpirit](#): > > And FOUR PAGES of data! > > Do we have a statistician up to the task? > > I’ve seen some of you folks crunch numbers on posts and threads that makes my head spin. I’d do it, but I suck at it. > > Here’s our chance to see the ranges of age and heavy and light representation on the SDMB by age. > > Please?? 😃 OK. Through page 1 I get avg = 32.273 st dev = 10.939 My WAG is that this isn’t going to change much. As you can tell, I don’t have a lot to do on Saturday night. However, _As Time Goes By_ comes up soon and I’m leaving for now. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/198 "2004-10-03T01:43:38Z")
22 years, four months, 13 days (or something like that). ---
**Author:** ![The\_27th\_Evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ebca7d/32.png) [@The\_27th\_Evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_27th_Evil)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/199 "2004-10-03T01:49:41Z")
20 years and nearly 4 months. ---
**Author:** ![Cockatiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cockatiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cockatiel)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/200 "2004-10-03T01:51:33Z")
1. Man, I’m getting up there. Only four more years till the big two-oh. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377.md?page=11)