# The guess the Doper's age thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 1, 2008, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-guess-the-dopers-age-thread/431857 "2008-01-01T01:11:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-guess-the-dopers-age-thread/431857/41 "2008-01-01T12:47:22Z")
Miss Purl, you’re 21… and hot! And for some reason yours are the only pictures I kept open after guessing. I’ll reopen the others and guess in a minute. Here’s me: [In early December.](http://s222.photobucket.com/albums/dd173/MrBariola/Qatar/?action=view¤t=DSCF9784.jpg) [In December again.](http://s222.photobucket.com/albums/dd173/MrBariola/Qatar/?action=view¤t=DSCF9658.jpg) [August.](http://s222.photobucket.com/albums/dd173/MrBariola/Iraq/?action=view¤t=DSCF9513.jpg) [Last May.](http://s222.photobucket.com/albums/dd173/MrBariola/Maxwell/?action=view¤t=2007_0719TonsOfFun0022.jpg) (And ain’t my baby cute?) ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-guess-the-dopers-age-thread/431857/42 "2008-01-01T12:49:46Z")
[QUOTE=tesseract] **Miss Purl** , can we get married? [/QUOTE] Sure, but we’re going to have to make a break for the Canadian border and then move to Alberta or Saskatchewan or something, because I don’t think the States are going to back down on the same-sex marriage/bigamy thing just for us. Also, you’re going to have to support me in my eccentricities: tribute of one cuddly kitten and a new Lexus every year, with a chauffeur named James, and a gross of whipped topping in aerosol cans. These are my demands; meet them or perish. (Is that your husband in the linked photos? What a handsome guy! You two look really good together, and I wouldn’t have pegged you as being disparate in age at all.) ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-guess-the-dopers-age-thread/431857/43 "2008-01-01T13:12:23Z")
**tesseract** – 30 **Diosa** – 23 **bbs2k** – The picture’s kind of small, but I’m going to say 27 **Aesiron** , I guessed your age right! **fisha** – Blurry, but 28. **Queen Bruin** – Definitely under 30. Let’s go with 28 as well. **Hockey Monkey** – 35 **Drain Bead** --25 And scrolling up and down trying to look at pictures, see who the pictures are _of_, and then guess and write an age and name down is wearing my hands out. Besides, the early posters had more guesses already anyway. So I’m done. For now. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-guess-the-dopers-age-thread/431857/44 "2008-01-01T13:54:49Z")
[QUOTE=bbs2k] And now I must agree with my distinguished Bostonian colleague. Early in this thread I reported that you looked older… bordering on old. In those pics you are gorgeous, seriously. [/SIZE] [/QUOTE] Distinguished is another word for old, isn’t it? [QUOTE=Miss Purl McKnittington] Sure, but we’re going to have to make a break for the Canadian border and then move to Alberta or Saskatchewan or something, because I don’t think the States are going to back down on the same-sex marriage/bigamy thing just for us. [/QUOTE] Hey! You can move here to Massachusetts. We have same-sex marriage AND it’ll be easier for **bbs2k** to just have to pick people up locally in his Hot Babe Van. I’ll just lean on my walker and wave to you young 'uns. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-guess-the-dopers-age-thread/431857/45 "2008-01-01T14:09:53Z")
[QUOTE=lorene] I’ll just lean on my walker and wave to you young 'uns. [/QUOTE] That’s it, you’re in the van. First Boston, then Canada… then by Thursday, Tijuana. ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-guess-the-dopers-age-thread/431857/46 "2008-01-01T15:19:57Z")
**E. Thorp,** I did think you were about 42, (it’s the lines in the neck that gave you away, your face looks much younger) but I figured if you were 22, I would make you feel \*\*bad by being off 20 years. **Miss Purl,** 22 **bbs2k** , I know you’re mid twenties, but you do look a little older, early 30’s. \*\* Diosa\*\*, I know about how old you are, that clouds my response, you look your age. **Tesseract,** you have gorgeous hair. I’m envious. \*\*Dr. Cube-23. \*\* (As an aside, that bar looks really, really familiar. I think I have pics from the same place. Is there a big horse picture hanging up somewhere in there? If I get time today, perhaps I’ll check.) Also, it’s just easier to keep two tabs open, and go back and forth, than scroll up and down. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-guess-the-dopers-age-thread/431857/47 "2008-01-01T15:24:18Z")
**tesseract** - 41 **Helen’s Eidolon** - 33 **ErinPuff** - 21 **SSG Schwartz** - you posted your age already, but I was going to guess 38 **Robot Arm** - judging by your size, I’d say 3, with a glandular condition causing the facial hair. And your mom really needs to get more sun. 🙂 **Aesiron** - 29, although I now see I’m off by four years. **E. Thorp** - 44, and again I see upon review that I’m off by four years. **Hal Briston** - 42, learning from my mistakes by taking my first impression and subtracting four. **Drain Bead** - 29 **Hockey Monkey** - 39 **Queen Bruin** - 32 **fisha** - 36 **Miss Purl McKnittington** - 27 **DiosaBellissima** - 24 **DrCube** - 23 **bbs2k** - 34 And although I’ve posted my age here several times, both directly and indirectly, I’ll play too. [I’m the one on the left.](http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=2126934044&size=m&context=set-72157603511711168) ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-guess-the-dopers-age-thread/431857/48 "2008-01-01T15:28:09Z")
[QUOTE=Sublight] And although I’ve posted my age here several times, both directly and indirectly, I’ll play too. [I’m the one on the left.](http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=2126934044&size=m&context=set-72157603511711168) [/QUOTE] You’re probably one, maybe two. Did you say left or right? ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-guess-the-dopers-age-thread/431857/49 "2008-01-01T15:58:16Z")
[QUOTE=bbs2k] You’re probably one, maybe two. Did you say left or right? [/QUOTE] Ok, you got me to go back and check. Left. ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-guess-the-dopers-age-thread/431857/50 "2008-01-01T15:59:29Z")
[QUOTE=fisha] \*\*Dr. Cube-23. \*\* (As an aside, that bar looks really, really familiar. I think I have pics from the same place. Is there a big horse picture hanging up somewhere in there? If I get time today, perhaps I’ll check.) Also, it’s just easier to keep two tabs open, and go back and forth, than scroll up and down. [/QUOTE] Sorry, but none of those pictures were taken in a bar. Only the one from last May was taken in the US. And I should have known to use the power of Tabbed Browsing! :smack: When will I ever learn to work smarter, not harder? ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-guess-the-dopers-age-thread/431857/51 "2008-01-01T16:10:53Z")
[QUOTE=DrCube] Sorry, but none of those pictures were taken in a bar. Only the one from last May was taken in the US. And I should have known to use the power of Tabbed Browsing! :smack: When will I ever learn to work smarter, not harder? [/QUOTE] Sorry, not a bar, like a chai place. Not in the US either, that’s why I was amazed. Now for sure I’ll try to find it. Out of probably a thousand pics or so, damnit. ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-guess-the-dopers-age-thread/431857/52 "2008-01-01T18:05:24Z")
[QUOTE=fisha] Sorry, not a bar, like a chai place. Not in the US either, that’s why I was amazed. Now for sure I’ll try to find it. Out of probably a thousand pics or so, damnit. [/QUOTE] 🙂 Don’t worry about searching through all those pictures, unless you’ve been to a Turkish restaurant in the Villagio Mall in Doha, Qatar. Man, that place was yummy, too. It was really beautiful in there, so I wish I could have taken more pictures. The people there have a problem with having their pictures taken, even just in the background. Since it was crowded, I could only take one or two. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-guess-the-dopers-age-thread/431857/53 "2008-01-01T18:27:57Z")
**Miss Purl** , how you… [QUOTE=Miss Purl McKnittington] **Robot Arm** : 18 months. [/QUOTE] Never mind. And thanks, **lorene**. ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-guess-the-dopers-age-thread/431857/54 "2008-01-01T18:28:29Z")
I don’t want to play the age guessing game, but it’s fun to see what everyone looks like! ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-guess-the-dopers-age-thread/431857/55 "2008-01-01T18:42:00Z")
Oooh, I’ll play. [Taken just now. Sans makeup.](http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x163/faeriehazel/oliveandme/oliveme.jpg) [Before going out.](http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x163/faeriehazel/bored/bored06.jpg) [Drunk as all hell.](http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x163/faeriehazel/me/IMG_0118.jpg) I’ll post my guesses in my next post. ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-guess-the-dopers-age-thread/431857/56 "2008-01-01T18:48:38Z")
OK, [I’ll play](http://www.flickr.com/photos/noonespecial/655052973/) (from about 2 years ago.) I have noticed a lot of ages people have posted in the past, so I’m not going to guess right now… maybe I’ll come by later and see which people here I **don’t** have prior knowledge for. ---
**Author:** ![tesseract](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@tesseract](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tesseract)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-guess-the-dopers-age-thread/431857/57 "2008-01-01T19:38:20Z")
[QUOTE=Miss Purl McKnittington] Sure, but we’re going to have to make a break for the Canadian border and then move to Alberta or Saskatchewan or something, because I don’t think the States are going to back down on the same-sex marriage/bigamy thing just for us. Also, you’re going to have to support me in my eccentricities: tribute of one cuddly kitten and a new Lexus every year, with a chauffeur named James, and a gross of whipped topping in aerosol cans. These are my demands; meet them or perish. (Is that your husband in the linked photos? What a handsome guy! You two look really good together, and I wouldn’t have pegged you as being disparate in age at all.) [/QUOTE] Hmmm, yeah I can see a few barriers to our continued relationship. I like Alberta – actually, I was born there – but it’s like really freaking COLD, you know? Is it OK if we steal the Lexus? Yeah, that’s my husband. Thanks. 🙂 I suppose he might be another barrier. OK I’ll forget it for now. And I’m glad to hear the other retractions on my earlier age. Whew… ---
**Author:** ![tesseract](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@tesseract](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tesseract)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-guess-the-dopers-age-thread/431857/58 "2008-01-01T19:54:12Z")
For any new posters, unless you want to guess the whole thread, maybe we should start a new list since the first ones have pretty much been done? Here are my new guesses: **DrCube** – 23 **bbs2k** - 32 **Sublight** – 40 \*\*Hazelnut Coffee \*\* – 22 but for some reason I think you must be older than that… **Noone Special** – 34 ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-guess-the-dopers-age-thread/431857/59 "2008-01-01T19:56:16Z")
Hmm, just about everyone was in the ballpark (I’ll be 27 next month [I will be? That doesn’t seem right…]) except for **Sublight** , who accused me of being over 30. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Gail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Gail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gail)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-guess-the-dopers-age-thread/431857/60 "2008-01-01T19:59:34Z")
The best I can do is to link you all to my [photos on zaadz](http://www.yogi5943.zaadz.com/photos)…I’m the adult blond. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-guess-the-dopers-age-thread/431857.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-guess-the-dopers-age-thread/431857.md?page=4)