# Oldest/Youngest Doper **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 24, 2000, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-youngest-doper/13881 "2000-01-24T03:23:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Carl\_Berry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@Carl\_Berry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Berry)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2000, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-youngest-doper/13881/1 "2000-01-24T03:23:00Z")
I hearby claim the title of the oldest Doper (chronologicaly). Can anyone top 50? Also who is the youngest? It might be interesting to get our average age but,alas, probably not possible. * * * Zymurgist ---
**Author:** ![mega\_the\_roo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mega\_the\_roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mega_the_roo)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2000, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-youngest-doper/13881/2 "2000-01-24T03:40:00Z")
Well, I’m pretty sure I’m not the youngest, but just for the record, I’m nineteen. * * * “human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust; we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.” - albert einstein ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2000, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-youngest-doper/13881/3 "2000-01-24T03:50:00Z")
55 in March. Now just wait, somebody’ll claim 108 and this’ll be **another** contest I won’t win. If they do, make 'em prove it. Ask 'em how to do the Lindy, or give us a recipe using lard or fatback. ---
**Author:** ![neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3ab097/32.png) [@neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neuro-trash_grrrl)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2000, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-youngest-doper/13881/4 "2000-01-24T03:52:00Z")
Well, as it happens, I turned 108 just last month. Sorry about that, better luck next time. * * * An infinite number of rednecks in an infinite number of pickup trucks shooting an infinite number of shotguns at an infinite number of road signs will eventually produce all the world’s great works of literature in Braille. ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2000, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-youngest-doper/13881/5 "2000-01-24T04:09:00Z")
I’m a fetus. ---
**Author:** ![OldBroad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@OldBroad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldBroad)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2000, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-youngest-doper/13881/6 "2000-01-24T04:14:00Z")
57 last Thanksgiving Do I get a prize? ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2000, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-youngest-doper/13881/7 "2000-01-24T04:36:00Z")
You’re a fetus? Well, I’m a **zygote**. (I like the word zygote.) * * * ~Kyla “Anger is what makes America great.” ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2000, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-youngest-doper/13881/8 "2000-01-24T04:37:00Z")
Democritus, you misspelled fetid. NanoByte is reportedly in his late 60’s. fLoWeRcHiLdGenerationY (or something like that) claims to be 15. WIU Wozman also seems to be a highschooler. * * * Tom~ ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2000, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-youngest-doper/13881/9 "2000-01-24T04:37:00Z")
I can do the Lindy. I’m 28. * * * – Teeming Millions: [http://fathom.org/teemingmillions](http://fathom.org/teemingmillions) “Meat flaps, yellow!” - DrainBead, naked co-ed Twister chat O p a l C a t [www.opalcat.com](http://www.opalcat.com) ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2000, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-youngest-doper/13881/10 "2000-01-24T05:13:00Z")
\*Kyla: You’re a fetus? Well, I’m a zygote. \* \Oh yeah? Well, I’m a sperm!\ * * * Judges 14:9 - So [Samson] scraped the honey into his hands and went on, eating as he went. When he came to his father and mother, he gave some to them and they ate it; but he did not tell them that he had scraped the honey out of the body of the lion. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2000, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-youngest-doper/13881/11 "2000-01-24T05:48:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by OpalCat: > \*\*I can do the Lindy. I’m 28. > > \*\* I’m sorry, Opal, you’re just not my type! 😉 Eldest Son is registered and has posted occasionally, and he will be 15 in March. Middle (11 1/2) and Youngest (10 in April) Sons are registered, but more so that no one else took those names than because they post. Middle Son looks here occasionally (at selected threads while Hubby or I are around to supervise); Youngest Son does not. -Melin ---
**Author:** ![saraam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@saraam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saraam)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2000, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-youngest-doper/13881/12 "2000-01-24T14:49:00Z")
AWB, I hate to do this to you, but I’m just a twinkle in my daddy’s eye. Beat that. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2000, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-youngest-doper/13881/13 "2000-01-24T14:53:00Z")
I’m 45. Can I claim the title of ‘most middle-aged poster’? 🙂 * * * Buses stop at bus stations; trains stop at train stations. There’s a work station on my desk. ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2000, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-youngest-doper/13881/14 "2000-01-24T15:02:00Z")
I think every poster should be able to stake their claim to some sort of “\_\_\_\_est poster on the SDMB.” I feel pretty safe in saying that I win the prize for Tallest poster. Autographs are available, fees are minimal. * * * My sig line is currently unavailable. Please check this post in 1 hour when we resume our broadcast day. ---
**Author:** ![Pixoid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Pixoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixoid)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2000, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-youngest-doper/13881/15 "2000-01-24T15:35:00Z")
17 years, five feet zero. I’m not youngest, but can I claim shortest poster? Or shortest semi-adult poster? I dunno… * * * Question authority–just not mine. ---
**Author:** ![Carl\_Berry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@Carl\_Berry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Berry)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2000, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-youngest-doper/13881/16 "2000-01-24T15:35:00Z")
When I posted this, I did not give my age. I only asked if anyone could top 50. Born 4/19/37, I’ll be 63 in April. But, it looks like I’m not the farthest over the hill! thanx for your replies…Carl ---
**Author:** ![ReservoirDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@ReservoirDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReservoirDog)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2000, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-youngest-doper/13881/17 "2000-01-24T16:02:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by saraam: > **AWB, I hate to do this to you, but I’m just a twinkle in my daddy’s eye. Beat that.** My grandfather hasn’t even been born yet… ---
**Author:** ![Vestal\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5e9695/32.png) [@Vestal\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vestal_Blue)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2000, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-youngest-doper/13881/18 "2000-01-24T16:20:00Z")
40 YOA, 5’11’’, Brown hair, hazel eyes. * * * VB TANSTAAFL! ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2000, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-youngest-doper/13881/19 "2000-01-25T06:02:00Z")
I’ve got dibs on “dullest” and “most mediocre”! ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Thin\_Skin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@Mr\_Thin\_Skin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Thin_Skin)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2000, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-youngest-doper/13881/20 "2000-01-25T06:06:00Z")
Neidhart: Wrong! Compared to my posts, yours are **Zesty** , **Fresh** , and full of **Uncommon Insight**. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-youngest-doper/13881.md?page=2)