# Oh, my God, I'm twenty today **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 18, 2006, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-im-twenty-today/365055 "2006-07-18T19:24:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-im-twenty-today/365055/21 "2006-07-18T22:14:59Z")
Happy Birthday, **Kythereia**! I baked up somethin’ [twee](http://img458.imageshack.us/img458/7272/cat20with20cake20copyuh8.jpg) for ye. Previews to make sure I coded properly. Previews again to make sure it linked to the correct picture this time. Previews one more time to make sure the damn thing doesn’t have “penis” written all over it, like [this one](http://img47.imageshack.us/img47/3426/477213869m2mftd5.jpg). I’ve made _that_ mistake before. Okay. I think we’re safe. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-im-twenty-today/365055/22 "2006-07-18T22:21:59Z")
[QUOTE=Bear\_Nenno] Congrats! I’m not having a Birthday this year. I’ve already decided. [/QUOTE] So, we just canceling July 29th all together this year? 😃 Happy Birthday **Kythereia** , now go fetch me my teeth so’s I can smile at ya! ---
**Author:** ![Electrical\_Storm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ac8455/32.png) [@Electrical\_Storm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electrical_Storm)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-im-twenty-today/365055/23 "2006-07-18T22:27:47Z")
[QUOTE=Anne Neville] I’m 31. Get off my lawn, or I’ll beat you with my cane! 😉 \ [/QUOTE] I’m pushing 35. Get off my lawn and turn down that racket! Don’t make me- zzzzzzzz…(Channeling Abe Simpson) Happy 20th! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-im-twenty-today/365055/24 "2006-07-18T22:34:01Z")
::runs nekkid through thread:: ---
**Author:** ![Clockwork\_And\_Candy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b782af/32.png) [@Clockwork\_And\_Candy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clockwork_And_Candy)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-im-twenty-today/365055/25 "2006-07-18T22:43:16Z")
Happy Birthday, **Kythereia**! Twenty’s really not that old. Like, at all. But, I know how you feel-- I’m turning eighteen soon and I start panicking at the mere thought of it. We’re just being silly. I hope. … Oh, hell. Now I can’t stop thinking about it. There are only 161 days until I turn eighteen. WTF-- where did the time go? My life is _over_. Might as well just bury me now.I don’t want to be all gross an’ old! Great. Now I’m hyperventilating. Fan-freakin’-tastic. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-im-twenty-today/365055/26 "2006-07-18T22:47:41Z")
[QUOTE=Clockwork And Candy] Happy Birthday, **Kythereia**! Twenty’s really not that old. Like, at all. But, I know how you feel-- I’m turning eighteen soon and I start panicking at the mere thought of it. We’re just being silly. I hope. … Oh, hell. Now I can’t stop thinking about it. There are only 161 days until I turn eighteen. WTF-- where did the time go? My life is _over_. Might as well just bury me now.I don’t want to be all gross an’ old! Great. Now I’m hyperventilating. Fan-freakin’-tastic. [/QUOTE] You’re 17? Brat, don’t make me fly out there to PA and beat you…old and gross indeed…unless you’re into that sort of thing in which case I’ll fly out to PA and NOT beat you. HAH! Kids these days… (you actually sound like my BF, he’s 25 and whining that he’s too old…of course in gay terms I’m over the hill now but ah well) ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-im-twenty-today/365055/27 "2006-07-18T22:57:55Z")
[QUOTE=Clockwork And Candy] Might as well just bury me now.I don’t want to be all gross an’ old! Great. Now I’m hyperventilating. Fan-freakin’-tastic.[/SIZE] [/QUOTE] At least I don’t have to worry about getting gross- I’ve been gross my whole life. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-im-twenty-today/365055/28 "2006-07-18T23:13:06Z")
Don’t worry, things just keep getting better. Happy Birthday. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-im-twenty-today/365055/29 "2006-07-19T00:32:07Z")
Happy Birthday! Stay 100 miles away from Nevada for the next year, trust me. ---
**Author:** ![633squadron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/ee59a6/32.png) [@633squadron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/633squadron)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-im-twenty-today/365055/30 "2006-07-19T00:38:23Z")
[QUOTE=Kythereia] I’m not a teen anymore! Where did those years _go_ [/QUOTE] Excellent question, and of course for that reason it has no answer. You’ll ask it many many many times in the future, I hope. Human life is like that. As far as I can tell, getting older gets harder and harder all the time, but given the alternative, I’ll accept what I can get! 😃 I do observe that having children seems to make people really much much older than their chronological age. I used to think that this was because of the stress. I’m beginning to think, though, that you get “old” when you start believing you have all the answers. Since this is a natural outgrowth of parenting, I suspect that you get “old” when you forget to be a “human” or an “adult” and stay all the time as a “parent”. You have been warned. ---
**Author:** ![Alive\_At\_Both\_Ends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Alive\_At\_Both\_Ends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alive_At_Both_Ends)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-im-twenty-today/365055/31 "2006-07-19T00:40:25Z")
This sort of thing depresses me. Twenty and you think you’re OLD? I turned 47 two days ago. It occurs to me that in three years’ time I’ll be fifty. Fifty! Do I feel fifty, or anything near it? Noooooooooo! ---
**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:** [July 19, 2006, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-im-twenty-today/365055/32 "2006-07-19T01:23:57Z")
Happy birthday, **Kyth**! 🙂 Welcome to your twenties. You are now in the prime discretionary-income demographic, and everyone and their brother will be trying to [del]scam you[/del] sell you stuff. Has anyone tried to sell you a credit card yet? Beware. Also, watch out for banks, bills, and Things You Have To Pay. On the other hand, you’re still young and good-looking, so you can party for at least another ten years. 😃 In celebration, would you like some home-made orange-pineapple-ginger ice-cream? ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-im-twenty-today/365055/33 "2006-07-19T01:50:11Z")
Fark, at twenty I was still wanting to be older. Anyway, it does get better. I hated being a teenager. Your twenties are fine. Thirties are even better. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-im-twenty-today/365055/34 "2006-07-19T02:17:21Z")
Happy 20th!! I spent the night of my 20th birthday hiding in my girlfriend’s mother’s house with my girlfriend, because that’s one place the police didn’t know to look for me. Seems SOMEONE spray-painted “Happy 20th MBG” in red paint on the big boulder in front of village hall. Hope yours is slightly less eventful. 😉 On the other hand, that “fugitive from the law” sex was pretty memorable. PS: It wasn’t me. ---
**Author:** ![DaveRaver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daveraver/32/1078_2.png) [@DaveRaver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveRaver)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-im-twenty-today/365055/35 "2006-07-19T02:35:45Z")
Oh to live on sugar mountain, with the barkers and the colored balloons. You can’t be 20 on sugar mountain. Though you’re thinking that you’re leaving there too soon, you’re leaving there too soon. (Neil Young) ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-im-twenty-today/365055/36 "2006-07-19T02:48:38Z")
Today is my birthday. Yay us. (except since I’m old and you’re young, your “yays” are louder) ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-im-twenty-today/365055/37 "2006-07-19T02:49:51Z")
Happy Birthday, **Kyth**! Sorry that you’re over the hill now… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-im-twenty-today/365055/38 "2006-07-19T03:18:28Z")
Happy Birthday! How about a Kith from Kyth[/lisp]? Ha! Get it! It’s funny! 😉 Anyways, welcome to adulthood - it’s a lot of the same actually. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-im-twenty-today/365055/39 "2006-07-19T05:47:30Z")
Happy birthday! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-im-twenty-today/365055/40 "2006-07-19T12:53:26Z")
Hah! I’ll just laugh that you’re a full fifteen _days_ older than I am. And I won’t at all contemplate that _oh god 20 is a grown up age and I’m not living with my parents and not even in school and have a job and am paying rent and doing my own grocery shopping and all that and I don’t want to get old!_ _ahem_ Happy birthday, by the way. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-im-twenty-today/365055.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-im-twenty-today/365055.md?page=3)