# Oldest poster? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 17, 2020, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-poster/915598 "2020-07-17T17:13:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![KlondikeGeoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3e96dc/32.png) [@KlondikeGeoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KlondikeGeoff)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-poster/915598/1 "2020-07-17T17:13:46Z")
I have been away for quite a while. As I will be 92 in two weeks, was wondering if i am now the oldest poster. Unlike a Poster Child. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-poster/915598/2 "2020-07-17T17:16:59Z")
[morbid] For the time being [/morbid] ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-poster/915598/3 "2020-07-17T17:28:11Z")
You’ve got the title so far as I know. Congratulations! Whoa, I just realized you’re as old as my grandmother. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-poster/915598/4 "2020-07-17T17:29:11Z")
I’ll throw out a preemptive ‘Happy Birthday’, **Geoff**. I gotta ask, how many of your 92 years on this blue marble has been ~~wasted~~ spent on these li’l Boards? Tripler There was another thread about that somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![KlondikeGeoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3e96dc/32.png) [@KlondikeGeoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KlondikeGeoff)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-poster/915598/5 "2020-07-17T18:38:48Z")
Thanks Dung, at least you did not great grandmother. ---
**Author:** ![KlondikeGeoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3e96dc/32.png) [@KlondikeGeoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KlondikeGeoff)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-poster/915598/6 "2020-07-17T18:43:29Z")
[quote=“Tripler, post:4, topic:915598”] I am very glad I have not kept track, that would be discouraging. It has been fun though. Geoff ] ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-poster/915598/7 "2020-07-17T18:46:02Z")
> [@Tripler](#): > > I gotta ask, how many of your 92 years on this blue marble has been ~~wasted~~ spent on these li’l Boards? > [@KlondikeGeoff](#): > > I am very glad I have not kept track, that would be discouraging. It has been fun though. But it’s still a smaller as a percentage than most people here! (I’m going on the halfway mark, myself.) ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-poster/915598/8 "2020-07-17T18:59:11Z")
Yay KlondikeGeoff! I was wondering if you were still participating, and OK and all that! In a digital world it’s easy to end up in virtual communities where the median age is less than 30. One thing I really appreciate about the SDMB is the input and insight of folks who remember the 50s and 40s and even 30s from firsthand recollections. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-poster/915598/9 "2020-07-17T20:02:11Z")
> [@KlondikeGeoff](#): > > I have been away for quite a while. It’s gotta be, what, about 8 months? Congratulations ! When I saw an oldest poster thread, I figured people would be discussing Farrah Fawcett. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-poster/915598/10 "2020-07-17T20:17:35Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > When I saw an oldest poster thread, I figured people would be discussing Farrah Fawcett. Not even close. > **[Top 10 Famous Pinup Girls (Posters)](https://www.toptenz.net/top-10-famous-pinups.php)** > > America’s entrance into World War II back in 1941 triggered the golden age of pinups, pictures of smiling women in a range of clothing-challenged situations. The racy photos adorned lonely servicemen’s lockers, the walls of barracks, and even the... Please try and keep calm **KlondikeGeoff** ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-poster/915598/11 "2020-07-17T20:39:41Z")
Geoff! Glad to see you’re still here! Both on the SDMB and in the Meat Space. Who’s the second oldest poster?? No one ever has Geoff beat. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-poster/915598/12 "2020-07-17T20:42:47Z")
Well hey there. Happy Birthday. ---
**Author:** ![KlondikeGeoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3e96dc/32.png) [@KlondikeGeoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KlondikeGeoff)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-poster/915598/13 "2020-07-17T20:42:51Z")
For sure, the '30s were no fun at all. I grew up during the Great Depression, and now looks like I’ll go out with this damned pandemic, which has not be a barrel of laughs so far. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-poster/915598/14 "2020-07-17T20:43:45Z")
I, and I am sure most of us, would love to hear more of your recollections. ---
**Author:** ![KlondikeGeoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3e96dc/32.png) [@KlondikeGeoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KlondikeGeoff)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-poster/915598/15 "2020-07-17T20:46:03Z")
Be careful what you wish for. Is there any limit to the length of a post. I could go on for thousands of words. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-poster/915598/16 "2020-07-17T20:52:39Z")
Welcome back! I’d been gone 2+ years, got back a couple weeks ago, and was worried that in the interim you’d gone to your reward. Glad to see that’s not yet. Keep on Truckin! My aged MIL turns 95 next month. Last week she tested positive for COVID but it was apparently a false positive. She’s another pre-war tank. You can do it! ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-poster/915598/17 "2020-07-17T21:15:37Z")
Eh, it don’t matter. I go on and on and on…and they ain’t kicked me off. I get pinched pretty hard on occasion. Spill them memories. I wanna hear 'em. First subject: tell us about your first date. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-poster/915598/18 "2020-07-17T21:58:29Z")
> [@KlondikeGeoff](#): > > now looks like I’ll go out with this damned pandemic I have good friends who have another good friend who is 94. The 94-year-old came down with covid-19. She was in a nursing home at the time because she’d had a bad fall and was waiting for her broken pelvis to knit. She’s back home; no longer ill with covid, and back on her feet. Some people in their 90’s are amazingly sturdy. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2020, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-poster/915598/19 "2020-07-18T01:39:59Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Geoff! Glad to see you’re still here! Both on the SDMB and in the Meat Space. > > Who’s the second oldest poster?? No one ever has Geoff beat. A few weeks ago **Hari Seldon** mentioned that he was in his early 80s, and I wondered then if he was the oldest Doper. Nope, Hang in there, **Hari** , you’ve got miles to go before you sleep. And stay safe, **Geoff**! ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2020, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-poster/915598/20 "2020-07-18T01:45:04Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > Some people in their 90’s are amazingly sturdy. You could argue that in order to get to your 90s you have to be sturdy. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-poster/915598.md?page=2)