# So, you're 30... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 8, 2002, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youre-30/107830 "2002-05-08T01:12:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youre-30/107830/1 "2002-05-08T01:12:13Z")
And then you’re, like, 49. How does this happen? I guess you just avoid dyin’ in between. Uh, was I planning to do something with this life? I forget. ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youre-30/107830/2 "2002-05-08T01:41:06Z")
Um… Happy Birthday! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youre-30/107830/3 "2002-05-08T01:43:50Z")
Thanks, dear. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecccb3/32.png) [@Lord\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youre-30/107830/4 "2002-05-08T01:52:39Z")
It gets worse too. **Happy Birthday, Ringo!** Jim ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youre-30/107830/5 "2002-05-08T01:53:47Z")
Happy Birthday, Ringo! I will always think of you as not the Ringo from “HELP!”, but the Ringo from “CAVEMAN!” ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youre-30/107830/6 "2002-05-08T02:06:52Z")
_smooch!_ Happy birthday! ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youre-30/107830/7 "2002-05-08T02:11:45Z")
49? Cool! That means I can hang around you feeling younger (even though anyone under 30 would think we’re about the same age). Happy birthday! As for the way years fly by, I suggest starting to write your memoirs, and making up interesting stuff to go in any blank spots. ---
**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youre-30/107830/8 "2002-05-08T02:14:09Z")
Happy BirthdaY! I’ll buy you a beer at the next HouDope. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youre-30/107830/9 "2002-05-08T02:35:28Z")
Happy birthday! Does this mean I turn 49 this year, too, since I turned 30 last year? :eek: ::MsRobyn waddles into the kitchen to make Ringo a special birthday cake:: Robin ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youre-30/107830/10 "2002-05-08T03:58:11Z")
> [@](#): > > …but the Ringo from “CAVEMAN” You’re on to ot, pal. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youre-30/107830/11 "2002-05-08T05:03:36Z")
No, actually I’m not 30. Cripes, let me enjoy the last year and a half of my twenties, would ya? Happy birthday, you old coot! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youre-30/107830/12 "2002-05-08T11:25:32Z")
Hope you had a great one, **Ringo**! ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youre-30/107830/13 "2002-05-08T11:49:31Z")
Happy birthday, **Ringo**. You’re late, though. These feelings have been an annual even for me ever since I turned 40. ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2002, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youre-30/107830/14 "2002-05-09T03:10:04Z")
Happy Birthday **Ringo DARLING**! _Unloads the portable hot tub, sets it up in the backyard beside the munchies table, sets up the massage table beside the assorted scented oils table, looks around…_ HEY! Where’d everybody GO? Well, looks like it’s just you and me, babe;) Happy Belated Birthday, hon…I promise to remember next year, HONEST I will. Much Love, Cheri