# I'm 10,000 days old today!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-10-000-days-old-today/375579>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 7, 2006, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-10-000-days-old-today/375579 "2006-10-07T02:47:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2006, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-10-000-days-old-today/375579/21 "2006-10-07T14:32:15Z")

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[QUOTE=swampbear]  
I’m 19,063 days old  
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Got ya beat by about 430 days. I’m nearly twice the OP.

And, you whippersnappers…Get…OFF… **MY…_LAWN!_**

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**Author:** ![Fragster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ec9cab/32.png) [@Fragster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fragster)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2006, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-10-000-days-old-today/375579/22 "2006-10-07T14:37:28Z")

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Sorry, **Kythereia**. I’m 6484 days old! 🆒

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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:** [October 7, 2006, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-10-000-days-old-today/375579/23 "2006-10-07T14:56:23Z")

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Sorry, OP, I’ve got you beat by 7538 days. Now where’s my Geritol?

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**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2006, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-10-000-days-old-today/375579/24 "2006-10-07T15:00:20Z")

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According to the calculator, I turned 17, 000 days old back on August 9.

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**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2006, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-10-000-days-old-today/375579/25 "2006-10-07T15:28:36Z")

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My 10,000th day was in mid-1995. I actually had a party. Just about everyone I invited was completely baffled as to why I would make the effort to celebrate something so seemingly trivial, but we all had a good time anyway.

Congratulations. I hear 15,000 is pretty cool, too.

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**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2006, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-10-000-days-old-today/375579/26 "2006-10-07T20:05:24Z")

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I’m 14,560. I’ll be 14,611 in a month and change. I’ll be 15,000 on Dec. 21, 2007. Woohoo! I should pencil that in. These half-ten-thousands should be celebrated properly.

So, the average human lives about 30,000 days. Hmmm. I’m not sure if that sounds long or short.

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**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2006, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-10-000-days-old-today/375579/27 "2006-10-07T21:02:40Z")

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I’m 6677 days old. Hah! One of the coolest numbers in the thread.

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**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2006, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-10-000-days-old-today/375579/28 "2006-10-07T21:06:39Z")

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I’m the second oldest reporting in so far, **swampbear** has me beat.

18907 days, 17 hours, 40 minutes, and 21 seconds

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**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2006, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-10-000-days-old-today/375579/29 "2006-10-07T21:09:24Z")

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That means I have four days less than three years to go, to hit the **20000** day mark!

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**Author:** ![Waenara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@Waenara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waenara)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2006, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-10-000-days-old-today/375579/30 "2006-10-07T21:30:07Z")

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I’m 40 days older than the OP. Today I’m 10,041 days old, but they posted yesterday.

I won’t reach 15,000 days until Tuesday, May 5, 2020.  
Also, apparently I will be 15 Martian years old on June 27, 2007 and 1 Saturnian (sp?) year old on September 12, 2008. Despite advances in medical technology, I doubt I’ll make it to my first Plutonian birthday on April 20, 2227.

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**Author:** ![Hirundo82](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/919ad9/32.png) [@Hirundo82](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hirundo82)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2006, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-10-000-days-old-today/375579/31 "2006-10-08T01:45:14Z")

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I am 8766 days old today. Which just happens to be 24 years even.

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**Author:** ![Freudian\_Push\_Up\_Bra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/edb3f5/32.png) [@Freudian\_Push\_Up\_Bra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Push_Up_Bra)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2006, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-10-000-days-old-today/375579/32 "2006-10-08T01:56:02Z")

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Sorry **Fragster** - 6369 days old!

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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2006, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-10-000-days-old-today/375579/33 "2006-10-08T02:10:58Z")

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10,772 days… almost 1539 mondays, and I **still** haven’t gotten the hang of them.

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**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2006, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-10-000-days-old-today/375579/34 "2006-10-08T02:12:01Z")

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I’m 11,959 days, 15 hours, and 36 (soon to be 37) minutes old.

But, hey–who’s counting?

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**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2006, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-10-000-days-old-today/375579/35 "2006-10-08T03:26:24Z")

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[QUOTE=Baker]  
I’m the second oldest reporting in so far, **swampbear** has me beat.

18907 days, 17 hours, 40 minutes, and 21 seconds  
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You’re third. See my post above.

Darn it.

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**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2006, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-10-000-days-old-today/375579/36 "2006-10-08T03:29:25Z")

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[QUOTE=Rysdad]  
You’re third. See my post above.

Darn it.  
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Um, make that fourth…so far. (See **LouisB’s** post, too.)

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**Author:** ![Nancarrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c37758/32.png) [@Nancarrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nancarrow)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2006, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-10-000-days-old-today/375579/37 "2006-10-08T12:23:18Z")

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[QUOTE=Antigen]  
9487 days old!

And I’ve done nothing with my liiiife!! (sobbing)  
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If you’re like me, you’ll do nothing with your life for the next 555 days too. ☹

Today is the first day of the rest of our lives! 🙂

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**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-10-000-days-old-today/375579/38 "2006-10-10T02:25:15Z")

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[QUOTE=LouisB]  
24,302 days here. 66 years, 6 months, 12 days. I sure wish I had saved $1,000.00 a day the way my mother said I should.  
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$1,000.00/day? Man, I don’t want to know what kind of habits you’ve got.

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**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-10-000-days-old-today/375579/39 "2006-10-10T06:18:25Z")

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I just tell everyone I was born yesterday. That happens to make the calculations for this thread much easier.

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**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2006, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-10-000-days-old-today/375579/40 "2006-10-10T09:57:48Z")

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[QUOTE=Hal Briston]  
Wow…I know I’m more than 10 years older than the OP, and I have no problem with that. Yet, I use this and find out that I’m _4,122 days_ older, and I feel so fricking old all of a sudden.  
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Hey, us 14K-dayers gotta stick together! C’mere, **Oakminster**

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