# Post your age...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-age/40036>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 7, 2000, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-age/40036 "2000-11-07T00:41:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-age/40036/61 "2000-11-07T04:42:54Z")

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1. I figure I’m about halfway through my life.

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**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-age/40036/62 "2000-11-07T04:51:04Z")

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::sliding smoothly into 2nd place in front of **JimB** ::

Sorry Jim.

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**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:** [November 7, 2000, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-age/40036/63 "2000-11-07T04:52:04Z")

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So far,

I figure an AVERAGE of 28.4 and a MEDIAN of 26.

I don’t know much about Statistics, but thank God for spreadsheets.

Tripler

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**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-age/40036/64 "2000-11-07T05:10:12Z")

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1. 

Yup, yup. Scary for a moment because I forgot and had to do the math. (3 July 1981, check me)

I think it may be past the time I should be posting. Or doing O chem. Too bad.

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**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-age/40036/65 "2000-11-07T05:18:53Z")

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I’m 26, and many people confuse me for an adult.

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**Author:** ![Le\_Sang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ee7513/32.png) [@Le\_Sang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Sang)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-age/40036/66 "2000-11-07T05:20:24Z")

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19 here too

[momentary hijack]  
Medea’s Child, GO DO O-CHEM OR GO TO SLEEP!!!  
[/momentary hijack]

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**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-age/40036/67 "2000-11-07T05:37:11Z")

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[hijack]  
Bite me Le Sang

I’ll whine at you about how tired I am tomorrow…  
and I’m never going to show you my toys ever again if you are going to use them for evil.  
[/hijack]

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**Author:** ![Kerrigan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/49beb7/32.png) [@Kerrigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kerrigan)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-age/40036/68 "2000-11-07T05:45:42Z")

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**Author:** ![Whammo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-age/40036/69 "2000-11-07T05:46:11Z")

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28 …and um… 1/2!!!

Dear God what did I do with the years??

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**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:** [November 7, 2000, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-age/40036/70 "2000-11-07T06:19:17Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Nymysys \*  
> \*\*Hey! Democritus is my same age AND comes in both blonde and brunette flavours! Is he my long lost twin brother? \*\*

Bro! 😉

I always knew my smart half was out there somewhere…

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**Author:** ![Nymysys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f6c823/32.png) [@Nymysys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nymysys)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-age/40036/71 "2000-11-07T06:22:40Z")

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Don’t you mean, “sis?”

Glad to know I’m the smart one. That must make you the pretty one.

Mom always liked you best.

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**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-age/40036/72 "2000-11-07T06:48:46Z")

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before I go to bed, hoping the toddlers took the hint when I dropped them in cribs and turned the lights out, and after cheering the Packers for getting so **BLOODY** lucky in overtime and seeing the Second Coming of the Immaculate Reception, I have one thing to say.

I don’t like being 32. Of course that could be 16 for the second time. Wait a second… Holy Cow. I have a mustache that’s old enough to drive. I grew it all for a musical when I was 16, and have had it ever since. The beard has come and gone (and is back, right now), but the mustache has never left.

Dang.

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**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-age/40036/73 "2000-11-07T07:27:50Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by JimB \*  
> \*\*I’m 52 and 2nd oldest on the list so far. I’m also **iampunha** ’s virtual father-in-law.  
> \*\*

Um, Jim? Your virtual daughter and I . . . uh . . .

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**Author:** ![hesredbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/9fc348/32.png) [@hesredbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hesredbird)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-age/40036/74 "2000-11-07T07:30:57Z")

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I am 52 but I look like I am 51. (Tied for 3rd.)

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**Author:** ![Feynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@Feynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feynn)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-age/40036/75 "2000-11-07T07:49:11Z")

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I just turned 35 and am pretty pleased to be seeing a girl that is in high school. (I’ve been waiting all day to say that).

What can I say? I like them young and fresh.

Lola is just 28… when I graduated H.S. she was in the fifth grade…

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**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-age/40036/76 "2000-11-07T08:09:27Z")

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**Author:** ![ricepad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@ricepad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricepad)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-age/40036/77 "2000-11-07T08:28:57Z")

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39 years, 0 months, 2 days, 22 hours, and 45 minutes. More or less, that is.

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**Author:** ![zenith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zenith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zenith)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-age/40036/78 "2000-11-07T08:34:41Z")

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**Author:** ![kawliga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ea666f/32.png) [@kawliga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kawliga)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-age/40036/79 "2000-11-07T08:51:55Z")

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**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-age/40036/80 "2000-11-07T10:00:59Z")

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21 here.  
14??? Gott in Himmel!!

the new mottow should be :The Straight Dope: Corrupting innocent minds since 1973

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