# How old are you? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 9, 2013, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/646641 "2013-01-09T16:52:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Rich\_Mann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@Rich\_Mann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rich_Mann)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/646641/61 "2013-01-10T08:31:01Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > If the numerals in the number of my age were reversed, the new number would be exactly half my age two years ago. You’re 52 (a year older than me). What do I win? ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/646641/62 "2013-01-10T08:50:18Z")
Sweet Sixteen. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/646641/63 "2013-01-10T08:54:25Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > Sweet Sixteen. Girls are sweet sixteen. Guys only turn sweet sixteen in Turkish prisons or Penn State youth programs. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/646641/64 "2013-01-10T12:12:06Z")
> [@bldysabba](#): > > There are some 90 year old dopers though are there not? **Klondike** and some others? **KlondikeGeoff** is 85. ---
**Author:** ![DrumBum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e79b87/32.png) [@DrumBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrumBum)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/646641/65 "2013-01-10T13:44:50Z")
I am 52, but as Jimmy Buffett sang “I’m growing older but not up.”, 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![ChickaPicosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b19c9b/32.png) [@ChickaPicosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChickaPicosa)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/646641/66 "2013-01-11T01:50:57Z")
Currently 28. I’ll be 29 on Sept 11th. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/646641/67 "2013-01-11T01:56:20Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > Sweet Sixteen. Um… > [@Oakminster](#): > > Girls are sweet sixteen. Guys only turn sweet sixteen in Turkish prisons or Penn State youth programs. What he said. ---
**Author:** ![Michael63129](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@Michael63129](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael63129)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/646641/68 "2013-01-11T02:01:02Z")
27, for a few more months. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/646641/69 "2013-01-11T02:27:48Z")
> [@Rich\_Mann](#): > > I’ve turned 19 every year for 33 years, now. I refuse to grow up\* and it’s working! My son has more gray hair than I do. > > \*[singing]_I’m a toys-or-else kid…_[/singing] heh, you’re 19 with 33 years experience! ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/646641/70 "2013-01-11T02:40:45Z")
1. The worlds most perfect number. (for now) -D/a ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/646641/71 "2013-01-11T02:41:35Z")
I am 29 but only until March, so this poll will be outdated in 3 months! ---
**Author:** ![Indyellen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/indyellen/32/4176_2.png) [@Indyellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indyellen)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/646641/72 "2013-01-11T02:45:40Z")
1. I’m not old, either. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/646641/73 "2013-01-11T02:55:38Z")
> [@JSexton](#): > > I’m 37, I’m not _old_. (I’ve been waiting since high school to be able to say that.) > > I’m a little surprised at where the peak of the curve is. I quoted that all day on my last birthday (which was also Election Day, so I threw in a bit about how “strange women lying in ponds distributing swords” might not be such a bad form of government after all!) ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/646641/74 "2013-01-11T02:59:06Z")
63 ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/646641/75 "2013-01-11T03:03:51Z")
I am still 29. In about six years, I will have been 29 for longer than I was younger than 29. ---
**Author:** ![SeldomSeen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@SeldomSeen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeldomSeen)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/646641/76 "2013-01-11T05:20:16Z")
52, and getting older every day. And yeah, I’m suspicious about those 90’s…tthought we’d pretty much establishedbthat **KlondikeGeoff** was the elderdoper around here. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/646641/77 "2013-01-11T05:45:58Z")
I bet they are really only in their mid-to-late 70s and just addled enough that they have no idea what their age is, so “I must be over 90, I’ll put that.” ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/646641/78 "2013-01-11T05:49:42Z")
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