# Warren Buffet is 90

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warren-buffet-is-90/919482>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 31, 2020, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warren-buffet-is-90/919482 "2020-08-31T22:28:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warren-buffet-is-90/919482/1 "2020-08-31T22:28:23Z")

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He has no plans to retire. His VP is 96.

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**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2020, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warren-buffet-is-90/919482/2 "2020-09-01T00:13:04Z")

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Met him once. He absolutely loves his work, and apparently continues to be good at it.

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**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2020, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warren-buffet-is-90/919482/3 "2020-09-01T00:21:45Z")

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Warren is easy about being in public. He is often seen in the older neighborhood restaurants. I saw him not long ago looking at suits in the men’s department of Dillards.

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**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2020, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warren-buffet-is-90/919482/4 "2020-09-01T14:05:42Z")

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He strikes me as the money making version of the savant who can play piano like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, but can’t tie his own shoes.

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**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2020, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warren-buffet-is-90/919482/5 "2020-09-04T13:01:04Z")

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we have a local billionaire who shops by himself at Target.

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**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2020, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warren-buffet-is-90/919482/6 "2020-09-04T13:19:37Z")

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[Bill Gates’ birthday cake for Warren.](https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/30/business/bill-gates-warren-buffett-cake/index.html)

StG

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**Author:** ![Hermitian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hermitian/32/470_2.png) [@Hermitian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermitian)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2020, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warren-buffet-is-90/919482/7 "2020-09-04T14:34:15Z")

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> [@StGermain](#):
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> Bill Gates’ birthday cake for Warren.

I wonder if Bill really did all that. Pretty nice cake maker if so. Maybe he could quit his day job and open a little cake shop in downtown Seattle.

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**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2020, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warren-buffet-is-90/919482/8 "2020-09-04T16:15:00Z")

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Yeah, but how are you going to cut a cake like that in real life? You can’t just slice through crisp cookies evenly. Maybe an electric knife?
