# Watching a family age over 30 years

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-a-family-age-over-30-years/496494>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 15, 2009, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-a-family-age-over-30-years/496494 "2009-05-15T04:14:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**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:** [May 16, 2009, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-a-family-age-over-30-years/496494/21 "2009-05-16T11:35:29Z")

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Great pics. What a handsome family. (I was a little concerned about the eyes in the boys in their infant pictures, but all is well.)

Mom has the original bee-stung lips.

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**Author:** ![Casserole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b77776/32.png) [@Casserole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casserole)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2009, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-a-family-age-over-30-years/496494/22 "2009-05-16T13:57:34Z")

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Good find!

I liked how the oldest son started growing out his hair around the same time his father started losing his (or at least, trimming it). Later on, the youngest son does so as well… hehehe

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**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2009, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-a-family-age-over-30-years/496494/23 "2009-05-16T14:40:36Z")

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I kept worrying as I scrolled down that I’d see a “guy is dead” placeholder.

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**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2009, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-a-family-age-over-30-years/496494/24 "2009-05-16T14:47:48Z")

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> [@FlyingRamenMonster](#):
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> I kept worrying as I scrolled down that I’d see a “guy is dead” placeholder.

or a series of pics of a progressively rotting corpse.

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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2009, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-a-family-age-over-30-years/496494/25 "2009-05-16T16:47:09Z")

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> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#):
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> Great pics. What a handsome family. (I was a little concerned about the eyes in the boys in their infant pictures, but all is well.)
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> Mom has the original bee-stung lips.

Handsome? This family provided the guys for the Gieco cave man commercials.

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**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2009, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-a-family-age-over-30-years/496494/26 "2009-05-16T17:00:37Z")

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I think everyone in that family looks good and ages pretty well. Most of us wish our families could turn out like that after 30 years.

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