BS: How old are we all?

Subject: BS: How old are we all?
From: Will Fly
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 04:47 AM

Looking down the threads over several days, I've seen obits of 'Catters who've died, well-wishing threads for those unwell or recovering from illness, birthday threads of 'Catters of a good age - and I've thought to myself: what's the current age profile of Mudcat?

Not that it matters - I'm just curious - but I'm sure that our overall age demographic influences the way we think of the world, and the musical world in particular. And the older members will bring a vast sum of musical knowledge to the debates.

Well, I'm sure we won't get all the thousands of Mudcatter members to respond to this, but perhaps we'll see what happens...

Shall I start? 67 in 2011.

(Lady Mudcatters are allowed to shave their age.)










I said AGE!

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: theleveller
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 05:29 AM

Body age, 62 in two weeks. Mental age, 12.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: greg stephens
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 05:30 AM

Well, everybody's entitled to be a bit vague in this matter. Let's say I'm older than 64 and younger than 66.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Allan C.
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 05:41 AM

I wonder if anything has changed. We did a survey long, long ago from which I believe we discovered that the average age was 52. If I were to bet, I'd bet that the median aged along with a lot of us.

I'm 64 BTW.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 05:43 AM

I'll be a track from Sgt. Pepper in July.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 05:50 AM

79 in May. Ridiculous. Why, only OLD people are 79!

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: David C. Carter
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 05:54 AM

My Birth certificate tells me I'm 63.

My wife tells me I've the mental age of a 12yr old.

My son believes I'm somewhere around 140...

My cat thinks I'm his father.....I can't go on!



I'll get me bike clips...

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 06:24 AM

Once, when collecting my small children from school, when they had been learning about history, I was greeted with "Were you alive in the 1870s?"

As my grandmother (whose mother WAS alive in the 1870s) used to say, "I'm as old as my little finger and a little bit older than my teeth."

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: GUEST,erbert
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 06:25 AM

effin ell, this place needs some young orrible little erberts..


that'll be me then..


52


.. hmmm.. those ads on the telly for "Saga" hollidays are startin to look a bit appealin..

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: GUEST,I don't know
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 06:47 AM

Soon to be 53.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 06:52 AM

I was 67 on Greek "Ochi" Day. I always wondered why they had a public holiday on my birthday. I feel 25 till I look in the mirror or do a couple of hours gardening.
RtS

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 06:59 AM

51

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: GUEST,Big Norman Voice
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 07:14 AM

As old as me tongue, andd a little bit older than what's left of me teeth.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: GUEST,mark-s(on the road)
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 07:26 AM

Qualified for Medicare last July and this July I will be able to continue working and get my retirement age benefits from Social Security without penalty.
(That's 66 for those overseas)
Mark

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Slag
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 07:34 AM

Man, I gotta quit hangin' with you old fogies. Oh, I wish I could say that and mean it. Alas, time and gravity are starting to win the battle. All the aches from all the breaks when I was young enough to think I would always be the same. Sixty-two this April.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 07:35 AM

It's nice to feel young at 57.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Ed T
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 07:41 AM

We are "all" about "6,000 years" old, according to some...give or take a few days.:) I'm not say'n its true or false, not trying to lead a thread takeover, for lack of debate:)

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: greg stephens
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 07:43 AM

Well, it's not surprising that most correspondents here appear to be gaga.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: GUEST, Sminky
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 08:00 AM

I was picking my nose the other day and a maggot popped out.

57.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Dave Sutherland
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 08:11 AM

I'll be 63 in April.
Some years ago following a history lesson at school my daughter asked if I was born in the sixties? No, I had my 21st in the sixties!!

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Wolfhound person
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 08:22 AM

60 within the year.

Growing old is compulsory, but growing up is optional. So bits of me are 17 - the rest ....er....isn't.

Paws

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 08:25 AM

My age recently changed to 59. Height, weight, sex, and eye color, remained the same.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Charmion
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 08:30 AM

56. And counting.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Becca72
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 08:40 AM

I'll be 39 (for the first time) in a couple of weeks.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Kit Griffiths
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 08:44 AM

62 this April.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 08:54 AM

63 in May..... Brain 23..... doctor says I have the heart of a thirty year old but when asked. said he couldn't do anything about the body!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Amergin
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 08:55 AM

I'm 36.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 09:23 AM

64 going on 13

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: MikeL2
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 09:29 AM

hi

I am older than most have stated here !!!

I am old enough to remember that Folk Music on the BBC was Elton Hayes & his small Guitar and that Val Doonican was a drummer in a small band that I did not rate.

Cheers

MikeL2

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 09:43 AM

59 in a few weeks!

then 12 months after that I'll be 60 & get my Senior's Card - I can barely wait for the travel concession - one ticket a day to travel all over the metropolitan area & even hundreds of kms. into the county

and all for $2.50 per day.

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: frogprince
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 09:50 AM

Spent something like two weeks wondering how it could be possible that I was coming up to my 70th birthday (3 days ago). Then I blinked, went "waitaminnit", and realized it was just my 69th birthday. As others have said, I really don't believe my own age until I look in the mirror.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 10:00 AM

66, or backwards, 66, next month. But I have the heart of a little boy...in a jar on my desk.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 10:42 AM

Just turned 55, half way there!

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 10:43 AM

59

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 10:44 AM

I was born in the same year as Chuckie Windsor, so that makes me 63 next year. Quite a bit to go beforew I catch up on my Grandmother - she told Michael Palin "I'm only 99".

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 10:49 AM

I know none of you will believe it, but I'm 59½. Free prescriptions in six months but I have to wait a bit longer for the free bus pass. My teeth arer working free, however.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Will Fly
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 10:53 AM

Well - so far - Amergin's our rosy-cheeked baby... Only just in long pants!

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 10:55 AM

Long pants? Hardly the point. Surely it's incontinence pants we should be discussing.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: ClaireBear
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 11:01 AM

Sweet 56 and never ...

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 11:10 AM

49 until August (and savouring each precious day betwen then & now believe me).

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Becca72
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 11:15 AM

Rap,
You stole that line from Stephen King. Us Mainers stick together! :-)

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Amergin
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 11:21 AM

Actually, it was Robert Bloch. King himself referenced that in one of his forwards.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Becca72
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 11:22 AM

Yeah, well I don't know where Robert Bloch is from...
:-)

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: michaelr
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 11:31 AM

55, and it's our 30th anniversary today.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 11:31 AM

80 years, two months, and eleven days.

That's impossible!

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: olddude
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 11:39 AM

57 from this olddude. I feel like 75 however with this cold weather

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Will Fly
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 11:39 AM

The mean so far: (34 factual answers) is 59.5...

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Will Fly
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 11:42 AM

Whoops - OldDude and Uncle D made it 60! (36 respondents)...

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: theleveller
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 11:50 AM

If the saying "you're only as old as the woman you feel" is right, I'm really 47.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: kendall
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 11:50 AM

At my age it doesn't matter. When you are in over your head it doesn't matter how deep the water is.

I ordered a 3 minute egg at breakfast the other day, and they asked me to pay in advance.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Will Fly
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 11:56 AM

LOL! Kendall.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 12:07 PM

MikeL2... Val Doonican connection... I bodyguarded Val in Torquay in the late 60's..... Appaently he is still alive and living in a village somewhere near me.. would love to find out exactly where if anyone knows.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: caitlin rua
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 12:12 PM

36.

(Okay, okay, swap the numerals back into the order they go in...)

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 12:22 PM

57, but only for another 3 weeks or so.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: G-Force
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 12:23 PM

"59 + VAT"

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: G-Force
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 12:24 PM

... and perhaps we need another thread for how much hair the men have got left.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 12:38 PM

71½
(we haven't heard from Dick Greenhaus, Louis Roy and Q yet... they will raise the mean.)

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: gnu
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 12:47 PM

G-Force. Better start that thread quick like.

53.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: mouldy
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 01:04 PM

59 and a week.

Andrea

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Will Fly
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 01:17 PM

43 respondents and still a mean of 60...

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: GUEST,Doc John
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 01:22 PM

68. Old is one year older than one's current age...for ever.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Becca72
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 01:57 PM

Ok, so where are Ranger 1 and J-Boy and the younger crowd? I've only seen 3 posts from us 30-somethings...(or in Tami's case early-40-somethings hehehe).

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Little Robyn
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 01:57 PM

65 last November and very pleased to be on the pension.
But I still feel about 18-19.
Robyn

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: paula t
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 02:05 PM

50 last May.
Whole school sang Happy Birthday in assembly then a little lad said,"Wow Mrs. Tindall. You are older than my Dad!" Felt great!

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 02:11 PM

RE: BS: How old are we all?


Added up, thousands of years.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 02:13 PM

I note that only two responders are chronologically older than I so far.

Like Robyn, I feel like a teenager...from the chin up. It's what's below the shoulders that's breaking down. Some days I feel about 90, but than I subtract my mental age. That brings me to my actual age of 71, and getting older each day.

BTW, when I read, today, of the passing of David Nelson (Ozzie and Harriet), I did have a brief pang of old age creeping up.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 02:57 PM

I told you I was sick!

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Oh all right... If I live I will be 53 in April.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Will Fly
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 03:17 PM

48 respndents and still a mean of 60...

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 03:44 PM

... and perhaps we need another thread for how much hair the men have got left. ===

All of it [tho it started to go a bit grey when I turned 70 & my beard is white]...

What I always say ~~ it is one of the things about which one needs to be STRONG-MINDED!

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: terrier
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 04:00 PM

Well I came into this world screaming and kicking, 1 week before Charles, Prince of Wales. Unfortunately, he got the silver spoon and I got the wooden spatula ;)

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Lox
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 04:05 PM

Another day older and deeper in debt ...


V. Tam,

Some friends of mine made a pilgrimage to Spike Milligans Grave and found that in fact the family were refused permission to inscribe "I told you I was ill" on his headstone as he had requested, and in the end permission was only given on condition that it was written in Irish.

So Spikes intention that his grave should bring cheer to visitors of otherwise sombre place went unfufilled in the end.

They finally managed to muzzle him I guess.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: JennieG
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 04:34 PM

I will admit to being 29 and some months......my children are 32 and 35 though.

I was told a few years ago by a woman, several years older than I myself: "at our age (meaning she and her husband) we don't even buy green bananas"!

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 04:40 PM

62

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: BrooklynJay
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 04:55 PM

I was born about 10,000 years ago
There is nothing in this world that I don't know...

Alright, alright...

55

(Though I still think the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything just might be 42.)

Jay

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 05:00 PM

I was born half an hour before the Second World War ended. People used to celebrate "VJ Day" on my birthday until some bright light decided that the date should be the day that it was in Japan when the documents were signed, not the day it was in North America. - nasty!

rags

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 05:04 PM

Just to add a little music into a BS thread, I wrote this back in in December, as a slow, melancholy blues:

Looking out the window on a winters day
Wondering what the future might hold.
Will I still remember what I'm trying to say
Now I've got to 60 years old.
People in their 60s tell me life is fine.
Maybe, but I think I'm gonna bide my time.
60 always seemed to be the end of the line
When I was only 59

Should I act with dignity, be wise and sage?
Or live a life that's wild and free?
Try to find a woman who is half my age?
I don't think that is really me.

I'd like to think that when I live this life of mine,
I will be maturing like a fine old wine
Instead of growing old and grey before my time.
I think I'll stick at 59, yeah,
I wish I was still 59
So if they if they ask me
I'll say I'm only 59


DC

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Don Firth
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 05:14 PM

Yeesh!!

I'll be 80 in June!

(Shhh! Don't tell my teenage groupies!!)

Two thoughts:

1. Inside every seventy-year-old is a teenage wondering "What the hell happened!??"

2. If you didn't know how old you are, how old would you be?

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 05:17 PM

Robert Bloch wrote the original novel 'Psycho', and two 'Star Trek' scripts.

What gets me is that my eldest is having a 40th birthday party soon, and some of his friends are referring to him as "middle-aged" when I haven't reached that stage yet!

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Midchuck
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 05:29 PM

I told someone I was 26 - if you raise the 6 up a little. But that was five years ago.

Peter

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 05:52 PM

According to the genealogical charts I've been able to construct, my (paternal) grandfather was the longest-lived male "ancestor" in the tree.

Assuming that I live that long, I'll take his title in about 7 months - unless I can dig up another ancestor who was actually healthy.

If I can hold the title for ten years or so, I might consider breaking with family tradition and coming down out of the tree, although the ***** I see down in the grass doesn't suggest a really strong incentive to join the crowds there.

John

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Beer
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 05:57 PM

Here is something you can all have fun with.

http://www.paulsadowski.com/birthday.asp

ad.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 06:08 PM

I very rarely think about how old I am. In fact, if someone asks me my age I have to work it out.
First I have to remember what year it is now, which keeps changing.
Then I have to remember which year I was born, which is easier, as it usually stays the same.
Then I have to subtract one from the other, and adjust according to whether I have had a birthday recently . . . is it worth it?
Only if it means I will qualify for something worthwhile, otherwise I really can't be bothered.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 06:25 PM

To work out whether you're old, don't think numbers. Just ask yourself whether you feel it's worth buying long-life milk.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 06:30 PM

It's never worth buying long-life milk. The fresher milk is, the better.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Joe_F
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 06:31 PM

73 last October.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Monique
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 06:42 PM

59 last October
Topsie, be glad they'd been learning about 1870! One of my first graders once asked if I was alive in Roman times... though I'm not wrinkled but neither is the Pont du Gard!

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 06:47 PM

I was born smack in the middle of the last year in the first half of the Twentieth Century -- I'll be 62 in June of this year.

I'm at One with myself...I'm at 61.7 with the rest of the world.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 07:04 PM

The last year of the first half of the 20th century was 1950. I was born smack in the middle of the first year of the second half of the 20th century and I'm only 59½. 60 in June. The exact middle of the year is June 30/July 1.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Janie
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 07:14 PM

59.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: jacqui.c
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 07:18 PM

Chronologically 63.

If you didn't know how old you are, how old would you be? About 15.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: GUEST,Fantum
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 08:22 PM

62
Iembarrass my kids by my childlike behaivour
The eldest sprog encourages my antics despite my wifes tut tutting
As for hair most is grey interspersed with a lot of pink skin
I never think of myself as being old but the truth is that my head makes appoimtments my body can't keep
My aim is to grow old disgracefully and spend the kids inheritance

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: curmudgeon
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 08:44 PM

Sixty Eight, or as my father was wont to say, "in my 69th year."

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: IvanB
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 12:11 AM

70, will be 71 in April.

Back in 73 when I mentioned to my then 9 year old son that comet Kohoutek looked different from the one I'd seen as a boy, his response was that "comets have probably changed since you were young, dad." Funny, he doesn't seem to think I'm so old nowadays.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: GUEST,erbert
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 12:48 AM

my old mum is nearly 80,
and too stubborn to move closer to us,
even though she agrees it's a better option as she gets older.

Which means I need to respond asap to today's 'emergency' phone call
and get on a train to go and retune her freeview TV box

[which has 'mysteriously' suddenly lost all her favourite channels],

so she won't miss "Coronation St." Omnibus on the weekend..

Oh well, I intended visiting anyway, but I really needed tomorrow and Friday free
to fix our bathroom shower that the wife's just broken..

But reading this thread,
if I visualise my mum as she is now at her age,
it sure helps put all the usual mudcat argumentative crankiness and cantankerous wilful confusion & misunderstanding
into much clearer perspective....

..anyone else need their box retuned ????

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: J-boy
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 12:52 AM

04? Oh wait,strike that. Reverse it. Thank you.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 01:23 AM

An old saying: "The old love to give advice to the young, about things they are no longer in shape to do!"

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Gweltas
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 02:19 AM

Will be 64 in May

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: mouldy
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 02:54 AM

When my mum turned 70, she said there was a 40 year old inside, but her body wouldn't let it out. Like everyone else, I feel about 30 in my head, but the rest of my body begs to differ. I very rarely get more nthan an occasional cold, but I now have "conditions".

There's a wonderful little book called "Growing Old Disgracefully" by Rohan Candappa. It's my manual for when I have to admit to myself the passage of time. I have bought it for several of my friends. It doesn't deny ageing: it gives ideas for making the most of it, and turning it to one's advantage!

My late husband had a tee shirt (now in the possession of my nearly 32 year old son) which says "I came into this world fat and bald, and I intend to go out the same way". He did.

I used to have a badge with "39 and holding"...I think I need an upgrade!

Andrea (59 and holding)

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 10:36 AM

Beer that was a fun link even better than an Astrological guide. According to that I am an old dog and under the Chinese sign of the Goat! It was interesting to see the estimated date that my parents got frisky Spring, Spring Spring. There is another section about the meaning of names which is intersting too, apparently my shortened name means something slightly different to the full name.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: jacqui.c
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 11:20 AM

100 - the post, not my age.....

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 11:21 AM

Old enough to know the score, yet young enough to play the game. (If it doesn't go past 9 pm)

Today is my Mother's birthday. Had she lived she would be very grouchy. (111.) She died young, 85. That's young compared to many of my ancestors; they lived very long lives. My Uncle told me they had to shoot his grandmother to start a grave yard.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 11:59 AM

I`m 28 in dog years.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Beer
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 11:59 AM

Your welcome Patsy.
ad.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Bob the Postman
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 12:12 PM

60. Yes, I'm a mean son of a bitch.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: frogprince
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 01:02 PM

Just can't help it; ever since this started, I've been seeing the nurse walking in saying "it's time for 'our' shot", or "Do 'we' need to go to the bathroom now?" : )

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 01:16 PM

As old as England's only Football World Cup victory.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Becca72
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 01:32 PM

"Had she lived she would be very grouchy"

I found that to be the case while she was alive! :-) BUT 29 grandchildren will do that to a person, I suppose...

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 02:46 PM

Since more and more Seniors are texting and tweeting, there appears to be a need for a STC (Senior Texting Code)...

    ATD:    At The Doctor's
    BFF:    Best Friend Farted
    BTW:    Bring The Wheelchair
    BYOT:    Bring Your Own Teeth
    CBM:    Covered By Medicare
    CUATSC:    See You At The Senior Center
    DWI:    Driving While Incontinent
    FWB:    Friend With Beta Blockers
    FWIW:    Forgot Where I Was
    FYI:    Found Your Insulin
    GGPBL:    Gotta Go, Pacemaker Battery Low!
    GHA:    Got Heartburn Again
    HGBM:    Had Good Bowel Movement
    IMHO:    Is My Hearing-Aid On?
    LMDO:    Laughing My Dentures Out
    LOL:    Living On Lipitor
    LWO:    Lawrence Welk's On
    OMMR:    On My Massage Recliner
    OMSG:    Oh My! Sorry, Gas.
    ROFLCGU:    Rolling On The Floor Laughing... And I Can't Get Up
    kTTYL:    Talk To You Louder
    WAITT:    Who Am I Talking To?
    WTFA:    Wet The Furniture Again
    WTP:    Where's The Prunes?
    WWNO:    Walker Wheels Need Oil

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 02:48 PM

My Mother was like Russian toilet paper. Wouldn't take no crap off nobody.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 02:57 PM

Did someone say that Mudcat is LITT (Longer In The Tooth) than Myspace and Facebook?

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: MikeL2
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 03:51 PM

hi dan

I am 75 and feel like 57    !!!   

Cheers

MikeL2

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Lox
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 04:08 PM

999,

you're 196?

I'm impressed!

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Beer
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 04:11 PM

That makes me 196 as wel.
ad.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Joe_F
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 08:14 PM

Guest from Sanity: I think that goes back to Rochefoucauld: We console ourselves by giving good advice when we are too old to set a bad example.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Slag
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 08:30 PM

BatGoddess, you beat me to my line! Hey, where are all the kids(30 somethings and younger)? Out playing marbles? hopscotch? mumbeltypeg?

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Slag
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 08:33 PM

So, GGfS, are you giving advice these days or still setting a bad example?

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 08:59 PM

Kedall, thank you, I always wondered what those letters really meant, but I was to afraid to ask, people would think I was old.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 09:09 PM

83 in June

"I have led a good life, full of peace and quiet
I shall have an old age, full of rum and riot.
I have been a good boy, wed to work and study
I shall be an old man, ribald coarse and bloody.

I have never slit throats, even when I yearned to.
Never sang dirty songs that my fancy turned to.
I have been a nice boy, and done what was expected
I shall die and old bum, loved but unrespected."

Still going strong, but as my middle-aged sone reminds me, odor isn't everything.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: DougR
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 09:23 PM

80.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 01:47 AM

The exact middle of the year is June 30/July 1. ????

There are 4 months with 30 days. Two are in the first half and two in the last half of the year.

There are 7 months with 31 days. Three are in the first half and four are in the last half.

The remaining month in the first half of the year has 28 or 29 days.

January through June is 181 or 182 days.

July through December is 184 days.

The exact midpoint of the year is at 182.5 (noon on July 1) or 183 days (midnight July 1 or beginning July 2). It's never "between" June 30 and July 1 (on the calendar).

#$!%@$ old people that forget how to count.

(Or maybe Steve's a kid that hasn't learned how yet? He's still one of the youngsters here.)

John

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Smedley
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 02:35 AM

52.

Today!! Feel free to wish me a happy birthday - not that I'm desperate or anything.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 04:11 AM

I bow to that, John. I worked it out decades ago when someone told me my birthday, June 15, was the exact middle of the year, being the middle of the 6th month. I knew that wasn't right so I worked it out. I posted without rechecking my arithmetic, which was accurate then but imperfectly remembered now! As for old people counting, remember there are three kinds of people, those who can count and those who can't.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 04:36 AM

I'll be 99 this year in octal!

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Stu
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 04:46 AM

44

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Will Fly
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 04:53 AM

62 respondents - and the mean age is now... 70.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 05:09 AM

Will - are you sure you're making due allowance for people, er, "dropping off" over the duration of the thread...?

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Will Fly
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 05:24 AM

Steve - reports of their deaths have been greatly exaggerated.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Janie
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 05:24 AM

Rats. Once again, I find myself below average.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Will Fly
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 05:27 AM

Hmmm... a current mean of 70... Suddenly I feel young again... Wheee!

Younger than springtime... am I...

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 06:11 AM

Sorry. What I meant to say was that next year, in octal, I shall be 100 in octal. This year, of course, I shall only be 77 (or 3F in hexadecimal). In hexagecimal, I am still only 12.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: freda underhill
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 06:48 AM

Haaapppy Birthday Smedley!!!!


Freda

(a very young 94)

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Maryrrf
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 08:46 AM

Okay I'll tell. 55

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: EBarnacle
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 11:02 AM

According to recent anthropological reports, the age of homo sap has gone up to about 200,000 years.

So far, I've made it through 64 1/2 of them.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Stu
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 11:15 AM

We're all talking dog-years here are we? I never realised in I was in the company of such venerable folk.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: GRex
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 12:29 PM

Mind 24, age 84, brain feels 124

       GRex

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Smedley
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 12:37 PM

Thank you Freda, I always knew your generation had better manners!

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 02:53 PM

I'll be 31 in August, still getting my head round turning 30!

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 03:15 PM

OK, Smedley. A very happy birthday to you from Charlie in Dunfermline.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 03:19 PM

When I was 30 I was feeling down, thinking I was nearly halfway through, then I learned that my great aunt was 90, and realised that I might have twice as much still to come, which really cheered me up. Sadly I am now definitely more than halfway through.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Bill D
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 04:21 PM

Remember... today is the last day of the first part of your life.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Mooh
Date: 15 Jan 11 - 11:03 AM

52. Born March 4 '58.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: EllenV
Date: 15 Jan 11 - 11:26 AM

Am I the youngest person on Mudcat?

I'm 16 (17 in September).

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: EllenV
Date: 15 Jan 11 - 11:56 AM

Am I the youngest person on here?

I'm 16 (17 in September).

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 15 Jan 11 - 12:28 PM

No, Ellen. You have an identical twin, as can be seen above. It all depends on which one of you popped out first. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: gnu
Date: 15 Jan 11 - 12:41 PM

Freda! 94? You don't post a day over 60!

Happy Bday Smedley.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Bob Landry
Date: 15 Jan 11 - 01:40 PM

Leading up to 64 and very thankful for snowblowers

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Jan 11 - 03:09 PM

Having averaged the ages here with the children who have been born from the children of the people here over the last 10 years along with the number of children expected to be born over the next 10 years... the average age is 13.

Numbers are what we make of them

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: EllenV
Date: 15 Jan 11 - 07:57 PM

@ Steve Shaw: Thanks for the belly laugh. :D

I've really no idea how that double-post (including the mysterious switching of "Mudcat" to "here") happened...

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 15 Jan 11 - 08:12 PM

Hitting the half century this year. (hope it doesn't hurt much)

~ Becky in Long Beach

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 15 Jan 11 - 09:06 PM

Don't worry, Ellen. If you saw the size of my beer belly you'd get an even bigger belly laugh! :-(

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Dorothy Parshall
Date: 15 Jan 11 - 09:30 PM

74 going on 16.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: number 6
Date: 15 Jan 11 - 11:51 PM

How old am I ... well, my warranty ran out some time ago.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: freda underhill
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 03:05 AM

thanks gnu, I've had a pagelift :-D

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: gnu
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 06:19 AM

Hahahahaa!

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 11:11 AM

Hardi B-day 1954, mine '53. Due to our upbringings, both of us are much older in some ways... younger in some ways and working on it.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Bert
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 05:27 PM

Too

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 07:36 PM

A good friend says " Dont act your age , act your Shoe Size" so I am still trying to work up to Seven and a half ! which is difficult when you're 68

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Ebbie
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 08:45 PM

75 my last birthday. It occurred to me when I adopted my latest dog that this could be the last one I ever have. He is only 2 years old and should live to be round about 15. Logically speaking, I should live to be 84 or so.

My daughter just had her 49th birthday. Now,that is startling. Previous to this one, her 29th birthday was of the most significance to me because I remember so clearly when I turned 29. But 49? That is recent history!

Someone once said that no matter how old you live to be, the first 20 years will always be the longer half.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Kent Davis
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 10:57 PM

50

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Bill D
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 10:58 PM

A few year ago, some kids were talking and one said: "OMG..I'm turning 20! I'm not a teenager anymore..I'm getting OLD!"

I said. "Hey...20 is great! I like 20....in fact, I liked it so well I did it 3 times, and working on 4!"

They just stared at me...

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: meself
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 11:09 PM

54, thank you for asking.


A few years back, when my son was taking Chemistry in high school, I was boasting about how back in MY day, we had to memorize the Periodic Table. His response: "Yeah, but back in your day there were only four elements, weren't there?"

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Bobert
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 11:15 PM

Well, hell, ellen-Vee... I gotcha beat by a year... 15 and countin' down from an unpublished number...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 12:44 AM

Absolutely right, Ebbie, about the age-perspective regarding the early part. My schooldays certainly lasted at least 10 times as long as my first, 48-year, marriage!

~Michael~

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 05:37 AM

62 this week.

Still can't play the guitar as good as I'd like. I've gone off reading, which is okay - it fits in with my eyes not being as good as they should. Worryingly, I've gone off the idea of an afterlife. I don't think even if i lived into eternity the guitar playing would get right.

I should have attempted something easier in life. More in line with my capablities. Perhaps I would have been a success working in a burger bar - I can make sausage sandwiches.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 09:51 AM

Al~~~

❁★♫❤♫★✬ HAPPY BIRTHDAY ✬♥❧❦❧♥✿

〠〠〠〠〠〠〠〠〠〠〠〠〠〠〠〠〠〠〠〠〠〠〠〠

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 10:18 AM

Why thank you! Kind sir!

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 03:19 PM

All the best for your birthday, Al. I enjoy your posts now and when you were somebody else.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: GUEST,robhunter
Date: 02 Jun 11 - 03:44 PM

Welll... in my bio at www.onetinleg.com (which brought me to the previous thread) I'm using the line "with the onset of late middle age..." Been dining out on that one for the last seventeen years. I was twenty in 1960 and played backup guitar with Pete Stampfel and Jim Kweskin at the Gaslight Cafe on MacDougal Street. The day job was as Murray the K's board operator at WINS before the all-news format. Memories, anyone? Gee, that makes me 72.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: gnu
Date: 02 Jun 11 - 04:26 PM

"with the onset of late middle age..."

Hehehehee... I like it.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Wesley S
Date: 02 Jun 11 - 05:13 PM

I'll be 60 on the 28th.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 02 Jun 11 - 06:13 PM

Birthday No 70 done Bin and Gawn!

Hell Will, why 'ja have to remind us?

Now I'm gonna have to think about what I want to be when I grow up.

And that means I'll have to decide whether to grow up or not.

I've been putting off that decision for, OH,.........Two or Three years now.

Don

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: JennieG
Date: 02 Jun 11 - 06:32 PM

I am 29 and some months. There are no numbers after 29.

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: ranger1
Date: 02 Jun 11 - 06:39 PM

I am currently the answer to life, the universe, and everything. And still getting carded when I buy alcohol, btw.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Amos
Date: 02 Jun 11 - 08:50 PM

That's just 'cuz you're so cute. You KNOW that!

S

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 02 Jun 11 - 08:52 PM

Six Times Seven
Twenty Four and Eleven

Just a young thing
And cannot leave my mother.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

The ghoul-pool (an outside betting organization) has three of my ten for 2011 within the Mudcat.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: gnu
Date: 02 Jun 11 - 09:06 PM

Yer 77 Garg? You don't look it.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: frogprince
Date: 02 Jun 11 - 10:02 PM

Will Fly noted in January that 62 respondants averaged 70 years of age; so at that point we were just about 4340 years old. Our 16 year old friend knocked the average down some since then.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Allen in Oz
Date: 03 Jun 11 - 01:23 AM

Jennie G ....I always thought you were 29 and some months

Jack Benny was always 39 !

I, on the other hand, am 68..... going on 38


AD

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 03 Jun 11 - 02:02 AM

I wonder if there was some part of us, that's been around ever since "Let there be Light."

........................................(just a thought)

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: J-boy
Date: 03 Jun 11 - 02:18 AM

Ranger1 is so cute she'll be carded till she's fifty. I still get carded for cigarettes and I guess I should be thankful. An incentive to quit perhaps.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 03 Jun 11 - 02:35 AM

Update ~~ now in my 80th year.

Or do I mean downdate? Certainly counting down ...

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: DrugCrazed
Date: 03 Jun 11 - 02:41 AM

I'm just a young 19 year old.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: DrugCrazed
Date: 03 Jun 11 - 02:57 AM

I'm also still convinced that the folk clubs only let me in because I'm 19.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 03 Jun 11 - 04:35 AM

I'm 63 in July.

Yesterday I walked about 10 miles and am feeling no ill effects today at all.

The day before my GP told me that I am a bit unfit but healthy. He also told me that he is fit but not particularly healthy. We occasionally meet when I am walking and he is cycling. He says that I 'amble' too much and that if I want to be fitter I need to get out of breath more. While I'm ambling along I might think about that!

Apart from all of that life has never been as sweet and as exciting than it is now ... I never imagined that 63 would be like this!

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: kendall
Date: 03 Jun 11 - 06:40 AM

I don't feel like a 70 year old, I feel like 7 ten year olds.

Truth to tell, I've reached the age when my back goes out more often than I do.People no longer say, "You are good looking" they say "You are looking good."
It's true that I'm looking good, just had my glasses changed.

Went to my 50th high school reunion, met my old girl friend, she was so old she didn't recognize me.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 03 Jun 11 - 11:02 AM

I'm eagerly awaiting my next birthday (February) when I'll have a party with the theme "Me Bus Pass Birthday"

I will officially be a Senior & entitles to my Senior's Card which gives me subsidised public transport & occasional discounts! I already get offers of seats on buses!! And I always accept them.

sandra (who is really only 39 & a bit)

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 03 Jun 11 - 12:28 PM

53 in October.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: kendall
Date: 03 Jun 11 - 12:28 PM

Example of Maine humor:

A rather large woman was trying to board a local bus but the doors were designed for normal people, so she was kinda stuck. The driver smirked at her and she got huffy. She said to him "If you were half a man, you would help me." He said, "If you were half a woman, you wouldn't need help."

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 03 Jun 11 - 05:01 PM

The other day I reported (as I do every month) to the COAG Clinic, to check blood coagulation time, because I take Warfarin. I had a new (to me) nurse to do the minimal interview and finger-stick for a drop of blood and run it on the little computerized analyzer.

As I left the examination room, she said, "There's NO WAY you're eighty!"

Without looking back toward her, I said, "You'll have to talk to my mother about that, Nicole!"

Well, it seemed witty at the time. I guess you had to be there.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: DrugCrazed
Date: 03 Jun 11 - 05:35 PM

Ms Yankee, I will be disappointed if you've decided to steal my birthday as well.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 03 Jun 11 - 06:08 PM

Hmmm... so what is it I've already stolen, DC?

I take it you were born in October, too...

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Lighter
Date: 03 Jun 11 - 07:49 PM

I'm so old I can barely remember my first bronto.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 Jun 11 - 07:57 PM

Kendall, I think you might've meant "Mean" humour.


kat, still under 60 and getting called "kid" by certain friends.:-)

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: kendall
Date: 03 Jun 11 - 09:07 PM

She opened the door.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 Jun 11 - 10:42 PM

True...

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 03 Jun 11 - 10:49 PM

But he "started it" -- by smirking.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 Jun 11 - 10:52 PM

She could probably have sued based on the Americans with Disability Act which would mean the bus should have doors wide enough...

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 03 Jun 11 - 10:57 PM

...assuming it's a true story...

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 03 Jun 11 - 11:19 PM

In this thread ("bbc retired today"), bbc says she is 58, so I expect it's OK to mention it here...

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 03 Jun 11 - 11:20 PM

Hey... 200!

my second ever "number post" (and the first was less than an hour ago -- and also a 200)!

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: J-boy
Date: 04 Jun 11 - 12:14 AM

What does it mean when you get on a bus and don't see any freaks? It means the freak is you.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: autolycus
Date: 04 Jun 11 - 05:57 AM

Now I know why I feel at home in Mudcat - people of around my age a-plenty.

65, but not for much longer - get to middle age next month.

Next Tuesday is my late Dad's centenary, another way to tell it aint what it used to be.


Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: kendall
Date: 04 Jun 11 - 07:00 AM

If I were so fat that I couldn't get through a door I would own the problem and do something about it.

It's a JOKE! let's not make a federal case out of it.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Musket
Date: 04 Jun 11 - 07:40 AM

How old am I?

Hang on, just look at my driving licence.

Oh Shit...

Need a beer

Or a few

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Nancy King
Date: 04 Jun 11 - 09:49 AM

I'm 69, and I love being carded to make sure I'm old enough for the senior discount...

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Jun 11 - 11:14 AM

Kendall, we're just jerking yer chain.:-)

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Ross Campbell
Date: 04 Jun 11 - 12:17 PM

"It's never worth buying long-life milk." (above)

And life's too short for instant coffee...

and a few other things I can't remember at the moment.

Never knowingly under-old.

Established 1949 (which as MOST of us know, is in the early part of the last century).

Ross

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: kendall
Date: 04 Jun 11 - 01:11 PM

I'm older than Methuselah's cat.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: autolycus
Date: 04 Jun 11 - 01:38 PM

When I'm tying my shoelaces, I do sometimes wonder what else i can do while I'm down there.

Otoh, I can still run for buses.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: scouse
Date: 05 Jun 11 - 04:43 AM

I'm goin' down route 66 till December can anyone tell me where I turn off for route 67???

As Aye,

Phil.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: David C. Carter
Date: 05 Jun 11 - 05:39 AM

I can still run for buses...but can't remember why!


David

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: DrugCrazed
Date: 05 Jun 11 - 07:43 AM

Yankee, as long as the day in October isn't the square of 5 I'll be fine. One person stealing my birthday is enough thank you.

And you stole me from my innocent ways, and made me sit in a pub, drink beer and sing folk songs. Not that it's a bad thing...

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: kendall
Date: 05 Jun 11 - 12:24 PM

The only time I find the energy to run for a bus is when it is bearing down on me.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 05 Jun 11 - 02:18 PM

And you stole me from my innocent ways, and made me sit in a pub, drink beer and sing folk songs. Not that it's a bad thing...

I'd love to take credit for that, but I thought it was Bob/asirovedout who was responsible for your corrupintroduction to pub-sings.

As for your birth date, it's safe from me -- mine is within the first week of the month.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: DrugCrazed
Date: 05 Jun 11 - 04:18 PM

Yay!

And yes, I think it was Bob. But you still made me stay ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 05 Jun 11 - 08:41 PM

Now old enough for concessions in some European countries where they don't kick in until 5 years after here. My own bus pass is coming up for 5-year renewal at the end of this month, but I still get suspicious looks from the drivers when I run for the bus.
Following the advice given in song when I retired in 2006 - (may you stay) "Forever Young".

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 06 Jun 11 - 12:59 AM

G'day all,

I see that my friend Sandra in Sydney is looking forward to access to the PET (Pensioner Excursion Ticket) ... allows all day access to local (New South Wales ... particularly Sydney) public transport for small bundle of coins ...

I ought to have been using one of them since last year ... except for some foolish addiction to working ... and, if I'm counted as still working if & when I cash in my several years owed Long Service Leave (let alone >2½ of retained sick leave ... I mightn't be travelling on little white tickets until the end of this decade!

Then again ... I just mightn't ... be ...

Regard(les)s,

Bob (65 ... and some months - though not quite as many as JennieG is consolidating)

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: J-boy
Date: 06 Jun 11 - 01:21 AM

Hey DrugCrazed. You are in for quite a ride. Mudcatters are great but they are also fucking nuts. Welcome to the club and enjoy yourself. But remember that resistance is futile.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 06 Jun 11 - 08:01 AM

""Mudcatters are great but they are also fucking nuts.""

Absolutely not!

That size of nut is heavy and bloody cold.

Besides they are threaded. Gives a whole new slant to the concept of screwing.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Gibb Sahib
Date: 06 Jun 11 - 08:53 AM

I am 35, so I don't know any old people jokes.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Seayaker
Date: 06 Jun 11 - 11:08 AM

64. Hows the average doing?

I started out feeling old and then got younger

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Billy Weeks
Date: 06 Jun 11 - 02:37 PM

83. Don't feel a day over 82.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: autolycus
Date: 06 Jun 11 - 03:38 PM

There's a good chance that the average of the first five will turn out to be close to the ackchewall average.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: JennieG
Date: 06 Jun 11 - 05:53 PM

Only a few less, Bob......

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 07 Jun 11 - 12:10 AM

If you say so, Mr Crazed...
BTW, I trust the ligaments in your arm are mending well? ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: David C. Carter
Date: 07 Jun 11 - 04:19 AM

My wife,sick of seeing me running after buses, bought a dog.
It now runs after them for me!

We had a dog before this one,but it used to chase parked cars.
The vet's bills were costing us a fortune!And the dog lost his "no claims bonus".

We gave it to a kind neighbour we coudn't stand.

D

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: DrugCrazed
Date: 07 Jun 11 - 10:43 AM

"BTW, I trust the ligaments in your arm are mending well? ;-)"

And now I'm confused. THANKS YORKSHIREYANKEE

"64. Hows the average doing? I started out feeling old and then got younger"

I make a constant joke about the fact I'm only allowed at folk clubs because of the average. I think people are fed up of hearing it now, but when did that ever stop me.

"Hey DrugCrazed. You are in for quite a ride. Mudcatters are great but they are also fucking nuts. Welcome to the club and enjoy yourself. But remember that resistance is futile."

I'm well aware you're all nuts. Why else would I join up? ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 07 Jun 11 - 11:19 AM

Mr Crazed, I was trying to imply that your arm had been seriously twisted... guess my attempt at humour was a little too opaque!

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: DrugCrazed
Date: 07 Jun 11 - 11:41 AM

I guess that I should have given up on watching E3 and gone to bed earlier, evidently haven't woken up yet...

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Jun 11 - 04:40 PM

Today my wife is 47
Happy Birthday Sweetie!

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: CupOfTea
Date: 07 Jun 11 - 06:30 PM

If 70 is the "new 50"
and
60 is the "new 40"

In new math, I'm 36.

in the land of reality, I barely REMEMBER 36



Joanne, born in Cleveland 2.16.1955

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: GUEST,BanjoRay
Date: 07 Jun 11 - 07:46 PM

I'll be 69 in September....
can't remember the exact date.
Ray (I think)

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: autolycus
Date: 08 Jun 11 - 06:07 AM

My Dad would have been 100 yesterday.

He did make it to 94, and was in prettuy good shape until just the last few months.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Myrtle's cook
Date: 08 Jun 11 - 09:19 AM

42 years to date.

Although when I go to a sing around/folk club after a long day at work and look and and listen to some of the singers who are retired I realise it's me who is tired, grumpy and jaded.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Jayto
Date: 08 Jun 11 - 10:32 AM

38

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: GUEST,Rapparee
Date: 08 Jun 11 - 01:26 PM

I remember like it was yesterday when God was born....

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: DrugCrazed
Date: 08 Jun 11 - 02:00 PM

I remember when this was all fields an-

Wait, no I don't.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Spleen Cringe
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 01:50 PM

47. Ex-punk rocker. Limited hair. Beard. Bit of a gut. Starting to get achy. Does that get worse?

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 03:59 PM

Wow! For once I am below average! ;-) 52

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Stringsinger
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 05:25 PM

Now I understand everything about everybody. (Not true).

I am 76. (No trombones)

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: autolycus
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 05:57 PM

"Starting to get achy. Does that get worse?"

Varies from person to person.

Go to whichever type of medic is your preference and find out what it's about in your case. Go from not knowing to knowing.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 06:12 PM

How old are we? Too damn old! That's all that really needs to be said about it.

Subject: RE: BS: How old are we all?
From: frogprince
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 08:37 PM

TOO OLD TO CUT THE MUSTARD
(Bill Carlisle)

The Carlisles - 1951
Ernest Tubb & Red Foley - 1952
Rosemary Clooney & Marlene Dietrich - 1952
Buck Owens & Buddy Alan - 1972


When I was young, I had an automobile
I'd scoot myself right under that wheel
I had to fight the gals off with a stick
But now they say, "Oh, he makes me sick"

He's too old, too old
He's too old to cut the mustard anymore
He's a-gettin' too old, he's done got too old
He's too old to cut the mustard anymore

When I was young I had a lot of pep
I could get around, I didn't need no help
But since I'm old and a-gettin' gray
The people all look at me and say

He's too old, too old
He's too old to cut the mustard anymore
He's a-gettin' too old, he's done got too old
He's too old to cut the mustard anymore