# Who's The Oldest Doper? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 20, 2008, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-oldest-doper/464473 "2008-09-20T19:36:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hyperelastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Hyperelastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hyperelastic)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-oldest-doper/464473/1 "2008-09-20T19:36:56Z")
I have to believe this has been asked before, but perhaps not recently. I’m 39, so I doubt it’s me. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-oldest-doper/464473/2 "2008-09-20T19:40:23Z")
It used to be **David Simmons** but he has recently died and would guess it’s currently **KlondikeGeoff** if he’s still around. I’ve not run across any of his posts recently. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-oldest-doper/464473/3 "2008-09-20T19:42:11Z")
> [@Hyperelastic](#): > > I have to believe this has been asked before, but perhaps not recently. [It has](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=478541). ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-oldest-doper/464473/4 "2008-09-20T19:46:47Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > It used to be **David Simmons** but he has recently died and would guess it’s currently **KlondikeGeoff** if he’s still around. I’ve not run across any of his posts recently. Geoff posted today. ---
**Author:** ![monavis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e0b2c6/32.png) [@monavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monavis)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-oldest-doper/464473/5 "2008-09-21T12:01:29Z")
I was born in 1930, any one older than this? Monavis ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-oldest-doper/464473/6 "2008-09-21T12:56:21Z")
I felt much older this morning. But I’m not. Bourbon. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-oldest-doper/464473/7 "2008-09-21T13:19:50Z")
> [@monavis](#): > > I was born in 1930, any one older than this? > > Monavis I believe **KlondikeGeoff** has a few years on 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:** [September 21, 2008, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-oldest-doper/464473/8 "2008-09-21T14:27:05Z")
> [@monavis](#): > > I was born in 1930, any one older than this? > > Monavis I feel like a whippersnapper at age 61. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-oldest-doper/464473/9 "2008-09-21T14:44:41Z")
64, but it’s all in your head. ---
**Author:** ![as\_u\_wish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@as\_u\_wish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/as_u_wish)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-oldest-doper/464473/10 "2008-09-21T14:58:59Z")
Wow! Lot of maturity here (56.85 checking in). ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-oldest-doper/464473/11 "2008-09-21T15:02:12Z")
> [@as\_u\_wish](#): > > Wow! Lot of maturity here… Maturity is not an attribute that is often associated with my username. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-oldest-doper/464473/12 "2008-09-21T15:18:22Z")
Middle-aged 26yr old here. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-oldest-doper/464473/13 "2008-09-21T15:50:55Z")
My age is indeterminate. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-oldest-doper/464473/14 "2008-09-21T16:16:51Z")
> **[Pointless, I guess, except for those pointy scalpels and chisels they used on...](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=482131)** > > So, after nearly a year of pretty bad pain in the lumbar region, the glutes and both legs, caused not only by a herniated disk of long standing, but severe stenosis, arthritis and nasty little bone spurs scratching my nerve roots, the medicos gave up... **Geoff** is 81. ---
**Author:** ![lynxie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e99b99/32.png) [@lynxie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lynxie)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-oldest-doper/464473/15 "2008-09-21T23:03:25Z")
I’m 53. In a couple of months I will be the same age as the year I was born. (-1900, of course) ---
**Author:** ![KlondikeGeoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3e96dc/32.png) [@KlondikeGeoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KlondikeGeoff)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-oldest-doper/464473/16 "2008-09-21T23:26:36Z")
> [@Struan](#): > > Geoff posted today. Hmm, considering everything, perhaps there should be a sticky where I can post every day to keep claiming the title as the Oldest Doper Geezer, thus assuring everybody that I’m still on the right side of the sod. 😃 In any case, I weathered the surgery OK and feeling less pain all the time. Besides walking, am doing leg exercises while laying in bed, which is one good way to get exercise, eh? Sorry to learn that **David Simmons** has left us. And to answer another post here, I was born in August 1927, during the presidency of Calvin Coolidge. When we used to marvel at some of the oddities of my father, we kept it in perspective by recalling that he was born during the reign of Queen Victoria, and he made it to 88. Think of the changes in his lifetime. To sign off in a good mood, I like this one: Subject: Hail to the Queen! Queen: How dare you hail when I’m reigning? G. ---
**Author:** ![monavis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e0b2c6/32.png) [@monavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monavis)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-oldest-doper/464473/17 "2008-09-22T12:41:34Z")
> [@KlondikeGeoff](#): > > Hmm, considering everything, perhaps there should be a sticky where I can post every day to keep claiming the title as the Oldest Doper Geezer, thus assuring everybody that I’m still on the right side of the sod. 😃 > > In any case, I weathered the surgery OK and feeling less pain all the time. Besides walking, am doing leg exercises while laying in bed, which is one good way to get exercise, eh? > > Sorry to learn that **David Simmons** has left us. And to answer another post here, I was born in August 1927, during the presidency of Calvin Coolidge. When we used to marvel at some of the oddities of my father, we kept it in perspective by recalling that he was born during the reign of Queen Victoria, and he made it to 88. Think of the changes in his lifetime. > > To sign off in a good mood, I like this one: > > Subject: Hail to the Queen! > > Queen: How dare you hail when I’m reigning? > > G. Good for you, I hope you are able to be a doper for many more years. My husband is 82 he will be 83 in July. He is now remodeling our barn, Last year he put on a metal roof and remodeled my daughter’s home. Monavis ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-oldest-doper/464473/18 "2008-09-22T23:43:22Z")
> [@monavis](#): > > My husband is 82 he will be 83 in July. He is now remodeling our barn, Last year he put on a metal roof and remodeled my daughter’s home. > > Monavis So, he’s slowing down a bit, is he? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![monavis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e0b2c6/32.png) [@monavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monavis)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2008, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-oldest-doper/464473/19 "2008-09-23T11:00:15Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > So, he’s slowing down a bit, is he? 😃 It is funny you asking that because he constantly complains that he can’t get as much done in a day as he did when he was much younger.😃