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.