# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/61 "2004-09-28T03:39:38Z")
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**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:** [September 28, 2004, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/62 "2004-09-28T03:43:00Z")
Okay, okay. I’ve only told one other person, **Guinistasia,** because she guessed I was five. Time to give up the ghost, come clean, take the top. 57 ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/63 "2004-09-28T03:44:44Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > 1. Holy hell. Are you serious? How old is that picture of you in the other thread? I would have thought you were 25 at the oldest. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/64 "2004-09-28T03:45:45Z")
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**Author:** ![Wearia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Wearia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wearia)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/65 "2004-09-28T04:04:31Z")
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**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/66 "2004-09-28T04:05:29Z")
1. Until Friday. Where’s the ‘shuffling-along-on-a-walker’ smilie when you need one? ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/67 "2004-09-28T04:32:57Z")
Just turned 19 in June 🆒 im a youngin ---
**Author:** ![SandyHook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@SandyHook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandyHook)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/68 "2004-09-28T04:39:52Z")
> [@](#): > > **Bippy** wrote: > > 35, just one more year before I can date a girl half my age Big deal. I can now date women that are too young for my son. 57 ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/69 "2004-09-28T04:40:35Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > Holy hell. Are you serious? How old is that picture of you in the other thread? I would have thought you were 25 at the oldest. That picture was taken about 5 minutes before I posted it. The bright flash washes out the minor lines. They’re there; I rarely get carded, and SOP around here is to check anyone who looks “30 or under.” Ah well. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/70 "2004-09-28T04:47:13Z")
Me, I’m thirty-three. Thirty-four is breathing down my neck, though. ---
**Author:** ![Atticus\_Finch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Atticus\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atticus_Finch)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/71 "2004-09-28T05:02:53Z")
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**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/72 "2004-09-28T05:05:37Z")
27, I’ll be 48 in june. ---
**Author:** ![sunstone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunstone/32/3372_2.png) [@sunstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunstone)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/73 "2004-09-28T05:18:59Z")
61 by the calendar, but I’m able to shift back to 10 at random moments (like when I see a neat bug), or up to 70 after a long hard hike. ---
**Author:** ![Teelo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@Teelo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teelo)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/74 "2004-09-28T05:23:31Z")
> [@NinjaChick](#): > > 1. YoungDopers unite! > > Three years until I can buy alcohol…three years… Don’t go all the way to Britain. Alberta, Canada allows us 18 year olds to buy all we want. BTW, i’m 18. ---
**Author:** ![ageless6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@ageless6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ageless6)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/75 "2004-09-28T05:26:56Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > Me, I’m thirty-three. Thirty-four is breathing down my neck, though. Wear really tight collars and 34 can never get to you. Me? I’m 39. Oh,alright,65. They’re both such close numbers(on a cosmic scale)that it hardly matters. ---
**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:** [September 28, 2004, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/76 "2004-09-28T05:29:24Z")
> [@SandyHook](#): > > Big deal. I can now date women that are too young for my son. > > 57 As George Burns said to the starlet, “I’d give anything to be ten years younger. I’d ask your grandmother for a date.” ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/77 "2004-09-28T05:31:57Z")
You want that in cat or dog years? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/78 "2004-09-28T05:46:16Z")
22, but I get mistaken for older fairly often. Then I start talking. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/79 "2004-09-28T05:46:52Z")
41 (how the _heck_ did that happen?) We have an 81-year-old Doper? ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377/80 "2004-09-28T06:03:27Z")
20, although I think most of the teenagers who posted in this thread are more mature than I am. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/266377.md?page=5)