BS: How old are we all?

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.....