# So, I turned 50 today. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 24, 2005, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-turned-50-today/318493 "2005-08-24T21:14:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-turned-50-today/318493/1 "2005-08-24T21:14:29Z")
Meh. Most stuff still works, some stuff doesn’t. I just didn’t want a half a century to pass without a mundane and pointless virtual marker. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-turned-50-today/318493/2 "2005-08-24T21:15:40Z")
You’re 50? You type like someone half your age. Happy Birthday and many, many healthy more! ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-turned-50-today/318493/3 "2005-08-24T21:17:02Z")
Welcome to the club! There is life after 50 - at least till 51. I’ll let you know in January about 52! 😃 Happy B-Day!!! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-turned-50-today/318493/4 "2005-08-24T21:18:51Z")
Na-na-na-na-na-na You say it’s your birthday Na-na-na-na-na-na Well, it’s my birthday, too, yeah. Seriously, it is. I’m 42 today. Happy birthday! ---
**Author:** ![Ludy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Ludy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludy)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-turned-50-today/318493/5 "2005-08-24T21:22:05Z")
Wow, I am almost half you age, exactly, well my birthday was Sunday, but close enough ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-turned-50-today/318493/6 "2005-08-24T21:27:42Z")
If, in the next couple of weeks, you feel a strong compulsion to hijack a Cafe Society thread, take my advice and refrain from doing so. It there’s anything to the theory about history repeating itself, you could become the subject of a 10 page pit rant and end up with you getting suspended. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-turned-50-today/318493/7 "2005-08-24T21:34:25Z")
50 isn’t so bad. And I say that as someone who was unemployed when I had my 50th birthday. Let’s check in at 55. ---
**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:** [August 24, 2005, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-turned-50-today/318493/8 "2005-08-24T22:06:39Z")
\*\* HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTHDAAAY TOOOOOO YOUUUUUU!!! HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTHDAAAY TOOOOOO YOUUUUUU!!! HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTHDAAAY TOOOOOO DEEAAARRR KOOOEEEOOOAAADDDIII!!! HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTHDAAAY TOOOOOO YOUUUUUU!!!\*\* ---
**Author:** ![ladybug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@ladybug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladybug)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-turned-50-today/318493/9 "2005-08-24T22:16:15Z")
Happy birthday, **koeeoaddi**! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-turned-50-today/318493/10 "2005-08-24T22:23:33Z")
Happy Birthday to You!!! I too will be joining you in under a year… well under. Enjoy! ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-turned-50-today/318493/11 "2005-08-24T22:24:13Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > Welcome To Aarp! I turn 50 on Monday. They sent me a letter–should I join? What do I get, really? They promised me juicy, life-enhancing, amazingly valuable discounts; is that true? Or do I basically just get a membership card that, when produced at Hickory Point Cinemas, will cause the teenaged help to burst into mocking laughter? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-turned-50-today/318493/12 "2005-08-24T23:56:09Z")
Happy birthday, you young whippersnapper! (Dunno on the AARP thing – I’ve decided to wait till I stop getting zits before I join. ) ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-turned-50-today/318493/13 "2005-08-24T23:58:33Z")
Happy Birthday!!! GT ---
**Author:** ![Ragiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6de8d8/32.png) [@Ragiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ragiel)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-turned-50-today/318493/14 "2005-08-25T00:26:47Z")
Fifty’s cool. You get to say “I’m not too old for that,” when something fun is on the agenda, yet you gain a little credibility when you decline to help a coworker’s son-in-law move a piano. The local Goodwill here starts giving senior discounts at 50, too. 😉 Many many happy returns! ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-turned-50-today/318493/15 "2005-08-25T00:45:00Z")
Happy Birthday! ---
**Author:** ![CBCD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@CBCD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CBCD)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-turned-50-today/318493/16 "2005-08-25T00:48:55Z")
Here is the [bike](http://www.electrabike.com/04/bikes/05bikes/str/05_str_14.html) I bought myself for my 50th birthday. That made my 50th birthday one of the best days ever! And a Happy Birthday to You! ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-turned-50-today/318493/17 "2005-08-25T01:03:29Z")
Congratulations! Remember the wise words of J. B. Priestley: “One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.” ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-turned-50-today/318493/18 "2005-08-25T01:09:17Z")
Congrats! I loved turning 50 (seven years ago) because it was the beginning of Senior Discounts. I’m always delighted to claim a discount when one is available. At least there are some good points to being a geezer! The best part is when they ask for proof of age because they don’t believe you look like a “senior.” I never get tired of that. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-turned-50-today/318493/19 "2005-08-25T01:30:21Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > Na-na-na-na-na-na > You say it’s your birthday > Na-na-na-na-na-na > Well, it’s my birthday, too, yeah. > > Seriously, it is. I’m 42 today. > > Happy birthday! Crap on a cracker, **Mr. Blue Sky**. I _knew_ it was your birthday from one of those old birthday threads. I was going to mention it in my OP and I forgot. The very essence of oldbatdom. Happy birthday! > [@CBCD](#): > > Here is the [bike](http://www.electrabike.com/04/bikes/05bikes/str/05_str_14.html) I bought myself for my 50th birthday. That made my 50th birthday one of the best days ever! > > And a Happy Birthday to You! I bought myself a haircut. I was going for a jaunty Meg Ryan kind of thing, but wound up with a District Bank Manager helmet, instead. An improvement over what I had, but not all I had hoped for. Thanks everyone for your good wishes! I’m touched. I’m verklempt. I’m off to the Pit to hijack a thread so I can be canonized in an 8 page Cafe thread. I have that wrong, don’t I? ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-turned-50-today/318493/20 "2005-08-25T01:31:01Z")
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