Old Folks: Stand and be counted

As of Post #94 in Giles’s poll thread, here are the details I’ll be working into the summary data:




  #94       Today, 01:38 AM  
FairyChatMom        56
Czarcasm                Born in 1957. 
xtisme                  Born in 1960.
Tinkertoy           51
TreacherousCretin   59  
ThisSpaceForRent    50
SecTech             59 
Booker57                Same as Czarcasm
Gagundathar             born in 1950. But I don't look a day over 59, so there! 
Dolores Reborn      51 
Siam Sam                Let's just say well into my 50s. 
LIONsob             52 
AskNott             60
John Carter of Mars 67 
picunurse           63 


My intention is to post an updated summary at the top of the next page or after the thread has had no activity for three days, in case it doesn’t go to a new page.

**AuntiPam ** was the first to note that pore ol’ me is probably the oldest. I’m 82, until August, if I make that.

Still wondering who ended up in the 90s. Maybe a typo? Hate to lose my title as Geezer Emeritus of the Dope.

Best I can figure, somebody wanted to “win the thread” and probably killed the chance to be counted for real. I think you’re The Man! Thanks for chiming in.

As per the chart, I was born in 1960, but my 50th birthday is not until later this year.

Thanks for clarifying. I’m going to leave your name on the summary list as being born in 1960, but I’ll show you as 49.

I don’t “do” polls.

However I am still 60 until August … after that, I may re-consider the meaning of “old”.

an seanchai

I’m 54, and in the poll already.

For me, the math is always easy. Since my birthday is barely a week into the year, it’s pretty much always after my birthday during any given year. I just have to subtract birth year from current year and that’s my age. It is getting to be a rather larger number than I’m used to, somehow. :slight_smile:

55 for now, not in the poll.

Yeah red!
Yeah blue!
Yeah class
of 72!

I must be getting senile. Just found this one.

I’m 65 until July. I get my first social security check in April.

Body doesn’t work quite as good as it did a few years back, but I’m still in pretty good health.

I’m 51 born in 1958 already in the other poll.

53 here (birthday August 15, 1956). I just found these polls and I voted.

57 and a half, & I’m in the poll.

I see I’m in your summary data, but I also just voted in the poll Giles started. I’ll be 51 on August 30.

  1. I have stood to be counted in the other thread, can I sit down, now? :smiley:

Just turned 53, and voted in this poll…but I have no memory of voting in the “What year were you born” poll even though my name is on that list.
Sigh.

It’s not age, truly. Just working a lot of hours and dealing with a mom in a nursing home temporarily.

I can understand the confusion I may have helped to create. There are at least four threads dealing with ages that I know of going on currently. I have been monitoring all of them to collect all the names for Dopers over 49, either with stated ages or with years of birth. I have been posting comments and occasional lists of names in these four threads. (For a list of those threads, check my posts in Sampiro’s thread.)

I’m planning to post as complete a list as I can get – of Dopers over 49 – by the time this thread gets to 101 posts (next page) or when it has gone three days with no activity.

But to deal with your concerns, kittenblue, here’s the list or posters to this thread as of your post above. I hope the counts numbers as self-explanatory:

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Monstera deliciosa   49  1960

Freddy the Pig       50
Icarus               50
Sternvogel           50
freckafree           51 
Rico                 51 
Tinkertoy            51
Qadgop the Mercotan  52 
Satchmo              52
Equipoise            53 
BobLibDem            53 
CateAyo              53 
kittenblue           53
RJKUgly              54
legalsnugs           54 
koeeoaddi            54 
silenus              54 
Shodan               54 17

sinjin               55 
Fear Itself          55 
Caprese              55
blondebear           55 
twickster            55 
Crotalus             56
Cicero               56    
RTFirefly            56 
Archergal            57 
RealityChuck         57
LurkMeister          57 
kunilou              57 
Voyager              58
Colibri              58
NineToTheSky         58 15  32

seanchai             60                          
AskNott              60
Clothahump           61 
UncaStuart           62 
Fir na tine          63
picunurse            63
panache45            64 
Giles                64 
Ruby Slippers        64  9

samclem              65
AuntiePam            65
MemoryDump           65
gommsn               66 
John Carter of Mars  67
Zeldar               68  6  15
                         
Hari Seldon          73 
  
Klondike Geoff       82

                Total       50
 
Lanzy        Most folks over 50 hate polls. 
NinetyWt 
needscoffee  I'm only 37 in metric. 
DianaG       I'm apparently not considered old folks! You have no idea how my day has been made! 
runner pat   Save me a seat, I'll be there is a few weeks. 


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I’ll get links to the current threads on ages and post them here shortly.

I hope this clarifies what’s going on with the summary data so far.

This link to Sampiro’s thread has the ongoing threads dealing with Dopers’ ages and birth years where I have posted some forms of summary data.

Sadly, no two of those lists have the same names and data. I’m trying to consolidate all of that for a later posting here. This is the thread I started, so it seems the likely place to put the summary even if the names on the summary didn’t originate here.

As I have stated several times, my main concern in all these threads is to identify as best I can the Over 49 Dopers. I just know there are more of us than have shown up in these threads!

Bottom line: if you’re over 49 and have posted to any one of these threads saying such a thing, I have tried to get your name and age/birthyear (or both) into the ultimate summary. Stay tuned!

One more thing: I have validated the list above with the “Who Posted?” listing as of post #76 and the list is just for people posting in this thread.

Other lists that I have posted in the other threads have data from other sources.

Please let me know if this is still unclear.

My driver’s license says I can be counted in the 50 - 59 group until next September.

I’m also 56 (and in the poll).