# We shall overcome **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 1, 2011, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-shall-overcome/566068 "2011-01-01T18:47:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-shall-overcome/566068/1 "2011-01-01T18:47:26Z")
Today is the day that the oldest baby boomers start turning 65 at the rate of 10,000 per day. This will continue for the next 19 years. We’re coming for you, you whippersnappers, albeit slowly. MUA-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA! ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-shall-overcome/566068/2 "2011-01-01T18:54:33Z")
You laugh now, **Chefguy** … … but my generation has got its eyes on you. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-shall-overcome/566068/3 "2011-01-01T19:12:52Z")
Note: rent _Woodstock_ while I still remember what it is… (Actually, I’m on the cusp between Boomer and Gen X, influenced by both. I won’t be 65 until 2028.) ---
**Author:** ![Makeitstop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@Makeitstop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Makeitstop)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-shall-overcome/566068/4 "2011-01-02T03:59:12Z")
Fellow post-boomers, we must unite! Stand together now, or all will be lost! Naw, but I intend on mooching off of whatever generations come after mine(And my own, if I get my way!). So enjoy your moment at the top, baby boomers. You’ll get whatever’s coming to you. Faster than most of us, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-shall-overcome/566068/5 "2011-01-02T04:13:18Z")
We will bury you. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-shall-overcome/566068/6 "2011-01-02T04:26:58Z")
Filthy hippies. ---
**Author:** ![Mrs.Cake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Mrs.Cake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs.Cake)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-shall-overcome/566068/7 "2011-01-02T04:38:23Z")
Given that the women on both side of my family regularly live well into their 90’s, I fully expect to bury most of Gen X. Unfortunately, I also expect to have to become a Wal-Mart greeter at age 75 and continue for 15 years to pay for my refrigerator box and shopping cart rent. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-shall-overcome/566068/8 "2011-01-02T04:46:37Z")
I knew we pulled out of Viet Nam too soon. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-shall-overcome/566068/9 "2011-01-02T09:03:19Z")
I preceded the first boomers by exactly 3 months. And since my birthday’s on the first of the month, I got Medicare a month early. Now I’m using up all the cheap medicine before you young’uns get it. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-shall-overcome/566068/10 "2011-01-02T14:06:09Z")
> [@Mrs.Cake](#): > > Given that the women on both side of my family regularly live well into their 90’s, I fully expect to bury most of Gen X. > > Unfortunately, I also expect to have to become a Wal-Mart greeter at age 75 and continue for 15 years to pay for my refrigerator box and shopping cart rent. I’d never make it as a Wal-Mart greeter. I don’t think they want someone greeting people with: “What’re YOU lookin’ at, dipshit?” ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-shall-overcome/566068/11 "2011-01-02T19:24:37Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > I knew we pulled out of Viet Nam too soon. I _told_ you to use protection. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-shall-overcome/566068/12 "2011-01-02T19:29:58Z")
> [@Makeitstop](#): > > Fellow post-boomers, we must unite! Stand together now, or all will be lost! I’m at the very bottom of the Baby Boomer era, and I stand with you. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-shall-overcome/566068/13 "2011-01-02T20:39:39Z")
> [@Ann\_Onimous](#): > > I’m at the very bottom of the Baby Boomer era, and I stand with you. Traitorous wench! ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-shall-overcome/566068/14 "2011-01-02T21:09:26Z")
While I might be technically classified as a boomer (I was born in '63), I’m definitely sucking hind tit, and I am concerned that whatever my future might have held will be completely sucked dry by the most self-absorbed generation of all time. Plus, I’m sick of them thinking they fucking invented everything. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-shall-overcome/566068/15 "2011-01-02T21:11:38Z")
My name is Sam, and I’ve been sucking at the public teat for 9 months now. 66 1/2 here. But…it’s MY money, I tell you. It’s MINE. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-shall-overcome/566068/16 "2011-01-02T21:15:46Z")
> [@An\_Arky](#): > > While I might be technically classified as a boomer (I was born in '63), I’m definitely sucking hind tit, and I am concerned that whatever my future might have held will be completely sucked dry by the most self-absorbed generation of all time. Plus, I’m sick of them thinking they fucking invented everything. You’re doubly screwed: I retired early and have been drawing social security since age 62. Bwa-hahahahahahaha! ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2011, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-shall-overcome/566068/17 "2011-01-04T03:54:37Z")
Wait till you fogies are in the nursing homes and those of us who have to wipe your bottoms amuse ourselves by playing gansta rap for you. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2011, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-shall-overcome/566068/18 "2011-01-04T05:48:03Z")
Coming for us? You came, you saw, you conquered, and you left us so deep in the hole we’re halfway to China. But hey, congratulations. Only a few more years, if we’re lucky, and the party’s over so we can get to work fixing things. Really, you didn’t expect us to be happy about it, did you? ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2011, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-shall-overcome/566068/19 "2011-01-04T13:05:36Z")
For your amusement: [The Baby Boomer Death Counter.](http://www.boomerdeathcounter.com/) More than 10% of you are DEAD already. More than 2,500 in the last 24 hours. And the rate is increasing. Sing along with the Hypno-Toad: Ten little, nine little, eight little boomers… ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2011, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-shall-overcome/566068/20 "2011-01-04T15:13:57Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > For your amusement: [The Baby Boomer Death Counter.](http://www.boomerdeathcounter.com/) More than 10% of you are DEAD already. More than 2,500 in the last 24 hours. And the rate is increasing. > > Sing along with the Hypno-Toad: Ten little, nine little, eight little boomers… Oh, _thanks_, **Toad**. :eek: That is terrifying. Just what Ms. 1956 here needs today. \* Hark, is that the ticking of the death watch beetle i hear..?\* 😉 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-shall-overcome/566068.md?page=2)