# Today is my 50th birthday **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 1, 2014, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-my-50th-birthday/697153 "2014-09-01T15:16:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-my-50th-birthday/697153/21 "2014-09-01T17:50:44Z")
Happy Birthday! ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-my-50th-birthday/697153/22 "2014-09-01T17:52:45Z")
Happy Birthday! ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-my-50th-birthday/697153/23 "2014-09-01T18:01:50Z")
Everybody sing! [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRoiXsHxTNs) ---
**Author:** ![CT\_Damsel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CT\_Damsel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CT_Damsel)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-my-50th-birthday/697153/24 "2014-09-01T18:28:32Z")
Happy Birthday! Take the day off. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-my-50th-birthday/697153/25 "2014-09-01T19:33:08Z")
Thanks, everybody! I have the day off anyway. No cake today - instead, my wife’s world-famous homemade ginger drop cookies, by my request. ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-my-50th-birthday/697153/26 "2014-09-01T19:50:07Z")
Happy Birthday youngster! I’ll be 57 in less than 3 weeks! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-my-50th-birthday/697153/27 "2014-09-01T20:03:48Z")
Utúlien aurë! Many happy returns of the day, Apanónar! ---
**Author:** ![Vita\_Beata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@Vita\_Beata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vita_Beata)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-my-50th-birthday/697153/28 "2014-09-01T20:04:00Z")
Happy Birthday Elendil’s Heir! ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-my-50th-birthday/697153/29 "2014-09-01T21:16:21Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > Happy birthday! You got 14 years on me. I figured that’s what the “78” meant. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-my-50th-birthday/697153/30 "2014-09-01T21:18:17Z")
Happy birthday! ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-my-50th-birthday/697153/31 "2014-09-01T21:20:51Z")
Happy Birthday you old(ish) dog! Wife, family, teeth all present? You’re set for the next 50,000 km. ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-my-50th-birthday/697153/32 "2014-09-01T21:42:10Z")
50 was a fun one! 55, not so much, until I realised: hey, discounts for older people. Happy birthday. 🙂 ---
**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:** [September 1, 2014, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-my-50th-birthday/697153/33 "2014-09-01T23:05:10Z")
Happy Birthday! Now go out and start hunting down those geezer discounts. I love my geezer discounts! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-my-50th-birthday/697153/34 "2014-09-01T23:43:04Z")
> [@Napier](#): > > I figured that’s what the “78” meant. You mean he’s not 78 years old? :mad: ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-my-50th-birthday/697153/35 "2014-09-01T23:57:19Z")
Happy Birthday!! ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-my-50th-birthday/697153/36 "2014-09-02T00:28:22Z")
Happy birthday! I turn 50 next month. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-my-50th-birthday/697153/37 "2014-09-02T00:31:59Z")
Got you by 20. Let’s get the next Cleveland dopefest going before I expire and you go into a coma. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-my-50th-birthday/697153/38 "2014-09-02T01:07:18Z")
By all means! ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-my-50th-birthday/697153/39 "2014-09-02T01:24:01Z")
Welcome to the club! And do watch out at the doc’s office for more frequent recommendations of things requiring uncomfortable insertions. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-my-50th-birthday/697153/40 "2014-09-02T01:35:43Z")
50, huh? Happy Birthday, but watch out for strange runes scratched into your door, placed there by a mystical old wizard. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-my-50th-birthday/697153.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-my-50th-birthday/697153.md?page=3)