# How old are you? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 2, 2011, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122 "2011-06-02T20:33:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Full_Metal_Lotus)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/141 "2011-06-09T17:08:43Z")
Turned fifty in Feb. Next time this poll comes up, I am goinna have to jump from one bar in the graph to the next. With my hip acting up, and my legs going its all kind of intimidating, pretty big jump for an old guy like me… just a sec, they’re back… “HEY YOU KIDS! GET OFF’N MY LAWN!” Darn neighbourhood, being over took by hippies, Back when I was a boy, we RESPECTED people’s lawns, dammit, not like these hippy kids today. I oughta call the cops… mutter mutter… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Dord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3be4f8/32.png) [@The\_Dord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Dord)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/142 "2011-06-09T20:35:05Z")
1. As they say, “First time caller, long time listener”. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/143 "2011-06-11T04:56:35Z")
> [@Johanna](#): > > Now that was impressive. **Zeldar** , YOU tha MAN. 🆒 > (I searched your name in the “what’s your gender” threads to be able to write this post.) > > It makes sense that it got the most voters. Not everybody has an opinion on fashions or cilantro or whatever. But age is, after all, something that _everyone_ here has. I meant to thank you for the kind words yesterday! I’m impressed that you did that research, too. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/144 "2011-09-02T21:25:03Z")
This thread seemed to fizzle before it made it to 600 votes. Maybe a bump will get it going again. I forget just where I saw it within the past few days or weeks, but somebody mentioned being in their 80’s (maybe older) in some other thread. May have been the one about which president was in office when you were born. Ring a bell, anybody? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/145 "2011-09-02T21:30:51Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > This thread seemed to fizzle before it made it to 600 votes. Maybe a bump will get it going again. > > I forget just where I saw it within the past few days or weeks, but somebody mentioned being in their 80’s (maybe older) in some other thread. May have been the one about which president was in office when you were born. > > Ring a bell, anybody? Probably **Klondike Geoff**. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/146 "2011-09-02T21:51:58Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Probably **Klondike Geoff**. Nope. I already knew about him. This was somebody whose username I wasn’t familiar with. I may go looking for the thread. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/147 "2011-09-02T22:18:41Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Nope. I already knew about him. This was somebody whose username I wasn’t familiar with. I may go looking for the thread. Here’s what I found: [This post:](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14168295&postcount=45) > [@JoThrive](#): > > Calvin Coolidge. I was born in 1926. One I already knew about: [this one:](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14168839&postcount=63) > [@Daylate](#): > > Boy, that was a no-brainer. His excellency Herbert Hoover still had two years to go when I entered this vale of tears. And one that might be joking. [This one:](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14167700&postcount=6) > [@Laggard](#): > > Yes. Taft ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/148 "2011-09-02T23:18:43Z")
In less than one year I shall turn 36. So eat that, buffy-slayers! You will learn by the rules I teach you! And I will grow smaller and smaller with every bite you take. So start eating, bitches! I am not a dummy, I just want this rotten corpse taken from the planet and put to some good chow. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/149 "2011-09-03T00:29:59Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > This thread seemed to fizzle before it made it to 600 votes. Maybe a bump will get it going again. > > I forget just where I saw it within the past few days or weeks, but somebody mentioned being in their 80’s (maybe older) in some other thread. May have been the one about which president was in office when you were born. > > Ring a bell, anybody? Was it [this one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14167344&postcount=49), in response to one of my posts? ---
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/150 "2011-09-03T00:46:30Z")
I’m 47. ---
**Author:** ![Fatwater\_Fewl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4491bb/32.png) [@Fatwater\_Fewl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fatwater_Fewl)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/151 "2011-09-03T03:05:30Z")
45 in a month and a bit. Hair turned gray long ago, but as for the rest of me (including inside my head) things don’t look much different than they did 30 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/152 "2011-09-03T04:12:22Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Was it [this one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14167344&postcount=49), in response to one of my posts? That’s for sure another one! Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![fifty-six](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@fifty-six](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fifty-six)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/153 "2011-09-03T04:37:18Z")
1. I feel so much younger. ---
**Author:** ![VitrolicBump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a587f6/32.png) [@VitrolicBump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VitrolicBump)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/154 "2011-09-03T06:44:51Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > I’m 30 so far. Me too…I’m turning soon! Turning into what, I don’t know…Mouldy cheese, a bat, the crazy cat lady. Any of these is a big possibility. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/155 "2011-09-03T08:18:46Z")
I’m fucking forty, fucking pissed and fucking flatulent. 😃 What’s your problem now? ---
**Author:** ![Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crown_Prince_of_Irony)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/156 "2011-09-03T08:26:29Z")
39, turning 40 in December. ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/157 "2011-09-03T13:06:22Z")
The calendar says I’ll be 50 on Nov 24th, but in reality I’m going on 12. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/158 "2011-09-03T14:35:45Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Nope. I already knew about him. This was somebody whose username I wasn’t familiar with. I may go looking for the thread. I believe there is a female Doper who is older than him by a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/159 "2011-09-03T14:42:46Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I believe there is a female Doper who is older than him by a bit. Did you happen to see [this earlier post?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14213809&postcount=147) I’ve been thinking about bumping that old thread I started about “Old Timers Speak Up” or whatever it was. Maybe the Over-60 crowd would respond, maybe not. ---
**Author:** ![keeganst94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a6a055/32.png) [@keeganst94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/keeganst94)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/160 "2011-09-03T15:21:17Z")
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