# I'm officially old **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 26, 2017, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-officially-old/787462 "2017-05-26T05:20:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2017, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-officially-old/787462/41 "2017-05-28T00:09:10Z")
> [@DummyGladHands](#): > > One of those plastic squeeze it coin purses we used to call pussy purses, usually with advertising on the back? Hee. But no, it has to have the clicky metal opener thingies: [Officially old? I had to add “vintage” to my image search to get what I needed. 😛](http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/Mzg5WDUwMA==/z/DwcAAOxyBvZTWIzE/$_3.JPG?set_id=2) ---
**Author:** ![trapezoidal\_jellyfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6f9a4e/32.png) [@trapezoidal\_jellyfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/trapezoidal_jellyfish)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2017, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-officially-old/787462/42 "2017-05-28T02:01:10Z")
Well, you have all put things in perspective for me. Apparently, I’m younger than I thought! ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2017, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-officially-old/787462/43 "2017-05-28T03:06:15Z")
> [@trapezoidal\_jellyfish](#): > > Well, you have all put things in perspective for me. Apparently, I’m younger than I thought! I’m more than willing to stay older than you if it helps you feel younger. ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2017, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-officially-old/787462/44 "2017-05-28T03:28:32Z")
Now, wait a minute. What was the slang you learned? I’m wondering if it’s something I’m too old not to know. But, then again, maybe it was something you wouldn’t want to repeat. > [@jaycat](#): > > When a friend’s kid told me, “I read about Woodstock in history class.” Yeah, I remember back when school tried to teach about relevant things. I can’t imagine what the lesson was. At any rate, reading seems like an odd way to have learned about that particular event. ---
**Author:** ![trapezoidal\_jellyfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6f9a4e/32.png) [@trapezoidal\_jellyfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/trapezoidal_jellyfish)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2017, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-officially-old/787462/45 "2017-05-28T05:13:39Z")
> [@digs](#): > > I’m more than willing to stay older than you if it helps you feel younger. Aw, thanks! I accept your offer. What do we do if I start to catch up? > [@Aquadementia](#): > > Now, wait a minute. What was the slang you learned? I’m wondering if it’s something I’m too old not to know. > But, then again, maybe it was something you wouldn’t want to repeat. I believe it was [“shipping.”](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shipping) ---
**Author:** ![steatopygia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steatopygia/32/3132_2.png) [@steatopygia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steatopygia)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2017, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-officially-old/787462/46 "2017-05-28T05:21:59Z")
> [@trapezoidal\_jellyfish](#): > > Aw, thanks! I accept your offer. What do we do if I start to catch up? > > I believe it was [“shipping.”](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shipping) Never heard of “shipping” and I am so old that I can guarantee that I will never have use for it. One of my favorite slang terms that was not in use when I was growing up is F-bomb. (I know it has been around for quite awhile now) That perfect phrase whose meaning is immediately apparent the first time you hear it. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2017, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-officially-old/787462/47 "2017-05-28T10:50:33Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > The movie _Star Wars_ is as old now as _Metropolis_ was when I was born. Led Zeppelin IV is as old now as … well, _older_ than swing music was when I was born. It’s so old that I can’t even find a proper reference for the 20’s. Any jazz bands I’ve heard of from that era made it to the 30s and sometimes even 40s, and tin pan alley/other turn of the century pop was still going but stretched back to the 1890s, and I’ve never heard of most of it. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2017, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-officially-old/787462/48 "2017-05-28T13:51:06Z")
I went to the Apple store to get help moving email from an old mac to a new Mac. And some of my emails were older than the technician who helped me. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2017, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-officially-old/787462/49 "2017-05-28T20:15:36Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > The people graduating high school this spring are the last class to start school before 2000. Actually, the last class to have been BORN before 2000. Not sure if that is an improvement or not … ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-officially-old/787462/50 "2017-05-29T11:43:45Z")
I was in a discussion about computers and we got to the point of going farther and farther back (“I remember Apple ][s” “I remember the TRS-80” “I \*built \*an Altair 8800.”). That brought us to mainframes which, of course, got some of the older people talking about punch cards. I said simply, “[Plugboards]([Plugboard - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plugboard)).” My first real job the place had an IBM 407 to do the payroll. I never had to change the plugs in the boards – that had probably been done twenty years before I got there – but I had to swap 'em out to do the various functions. Luckily nobody could top me by knowing ENIAC. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-officially-old/787462/51 "2017-05-29T12:51:13Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Beck: Where it’s at? (which came out 21 years ago) > I got 2 colonoscopies and a kidney stone I have coffee in my sinuses now. You owe me my deductible! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-officially-old/787462.md?page=2)