How Old is a Mudcatter?

Subject: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Ralph Butts
Date: 06 Jan 99 - 06:33 PM

Curiosity is getting the best of me.

Past postings suggest that the average Mudcatter, if not long in the tooth, is at least, well, MATURE.

How about posting your sex and age (anonymous, of course) so we can get an idea. Just put it into the "From:" section of the Reply area, for example:

M 40 (which would denote a 40 year old man)

Leave the message area blank to keep the thread size small, unless you care to leave a snide remark.

I'll give myself away by making the first post to show you the format, but afterwards, please be anonymous. Should be interesting.

....Tiger

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From: M 56
Date: 06 Jan 99 - 06:34 PM

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From: M 49
Date: 06 Jan 99 - 06:36 PM

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From: M 53
Date: 06 Jan 99 - 06:39 PM

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From: M 50
Date: 06 Jan 99 - 06:42 PM

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From: F 33
Date: 06 Jan 99 - 06:48 PM

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From: M47
Date: 06 Jan 99 - 07:00 PM

Only one brave F, so far?

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From: M51
Date: 06 Jan 99 - 07:11 PM

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From: M 52
Date: 06 Jan 99 - 07:21 PM

Roger in Baltimore

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From: M50
Date: 06 Jan 99 - 07:26 PM

catspaw49

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From: M50
Date: 06 Jan 99 - 07:28 PM

catspaw49

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From: M41
Date: 06 Jan 99 - 07:39 PM

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From: F 51
Date: 06 Jan 99 - 07:48 PM

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From: M43
Date: 06 Jan 99 - 08:01 PM

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From: F 47
Date: 06 Jan 99 - 08:08 PM

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From: F42
Date: 06 Jan 99 - 08:11 PM

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From: F 50
Date: 06 Jan 99 - 08:20 PM

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From: M 61
Date: 06 Jan 99 - 08:44 PM

Oh, my. Don't tell me I am the oldest.

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From: M48
Date: 06 Jan 99 - 08:48 PM

And revelling in it. I ceased to worry about age when I realized that the alternative isn't young. It is dead. The mind remains an eternal 26.

All the best,

Big Mick Lane

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From: M52
Date: 06 Jan 99 - 09:08 PM

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From: M44
Date: 06 Jan 99 - 09:08 PM

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From: F 47
Date: 06 Jan 99 - 09:14 PM

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From: F 52
Date: 06 Jan 99 - 10:14 PM

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From:
Date: 06 Jan 99 - 10:38 PM

M64

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From: M 45
Date: 06 Jan 99 - 10:52 PM

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From: M 70 and counting
Date: 06 Jan 99 - 10:56 PM

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From: M 57
Date: 06 Jan 99 - 11:03 PM

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From: M 48
Date: 06 Jan 99 - 11:15 PM

After table saws,shattered wrists, hearing loss, and twins, I'm still singin'

DRM

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From: M47
Date: 06 Jan 99 - 11:24 PM

And loving it!

John in Brisbane
PS Who is going to perform the demographic analysis?

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From: M 52
Date: 06 Jan 99 - 11:39 PM

Is someone going to calculate the mean, median and standard deviation?

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From: M 55
Date: 06 Jan 99 - 11:45 PM

Mudcatters are a bunch off ol' poops....

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From: F 19
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 12:05 AM

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From: F almost 40
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 12:57 AM

and definintely a "standard deviate"

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From: M 50
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 01:12 AM

Well, I may be older than Big Mick Lane, but I'm still interested in that F 33

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From: F almost 46
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 01:48 AM

Isn't that the "backside of 40"? I'm with Big Mick Lane. I am really enjoying my forties and damn proud of who I've become. BTW, I coined a new term a few years back: I call it "center age" - gets rid of all those nasty connotations of "middle age" (mmm...as in pre-Renaissance?)- and, personally, I think it denotes that well-rounded, balanced (well, hopefully) level of experience we baby crones and wizards have come to!

The only problem I have is with society and conventional doctors who have such set ideas and expectations of what our bodies and we are supposed to be doing at a certain age! When THEY ask for my age on a form, I usually write in "adult" or "all grown-up" or "old enough"!

Out of the ag(e)ist closet, I am

katlaughing!

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: M 66, going on 15
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 02:59 AM

And I don't think I'm the oldest (maybe the youngest, if I ever get there).

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From: F51
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 03:11 AM

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From: Joe Offer
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 03:24 AM

F33 is getting nervous. I told her there are at least half a dozen F's younger than she is..... Probably not many M's, though. Gee, the youngest M so far is 41. Maybe Mick and I do have a chance with F 33....

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From: M43
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 03:29 AM

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From: M32
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 03:30 AM

Body: 32, Mind: 25, Behaviour: 3 up to 80 (just as situation demands)

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From: M47.1/2
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 03:31 AM

I realised last year that for some time I had no longer thought of myself as being 19, but 30-something. Is this what they mean by growing up?

Steve

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: M22
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 04:14 AM

The foundation of Youth establishes itself.

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From: F34
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 05:00 AM

or 35, I can never remember it, and can't be bothered to work it out.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: F43
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 05:48 AM

Joe,

I calculate that you can't be old enough to be having your mid-life crisis yet because you are ignoring the May-December possibilities of F19.

Helen

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From: M51
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 06:02 AM

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From: M48
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 07:05 AM

At 07-Jan-99 - 06:02 AM (M51)
M:F = 30:13
M48.2
F42.5
unless I missed someone, doesn't include me.

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From: F 39
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 07:31 AM

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From: M41
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 07:33 AM

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From: M 51
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 08:03 AM

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From: M 20
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 08:06 AM

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From: M 24
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 08:29 AM

Looks like I'll have to go elsewhere to meet the right girl. most aren't close to my age, few as there are

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From: M 59
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 08:31 AM

Bert.

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From: M69
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 08:45 AM

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From: M47
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 09:30 AM

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From: M 56
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 10:42 AM

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From: M 51
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 10:49 AM

DW

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From: M43
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 11:14 AM

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From: M59...60 next May
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 11:23 AM

and any Mudcatter who can get to Wash DC, USA is invited to drop by my once every 5 years Birthday party!..at the ages of 50 & 55, the highlight (other than the food & music)was that I stood on my head while the assemblege recited "You are old, Father William"..I COULD still do it, but there is this disc in the neck,*sigh*...wife & doctor say don't

More info on the party later...perhaps I'll just have computer connections open all day (ICQ, IRC...ect.)so even those who can't be here in the flesh can post songs they WOULD have sung... and generally cavort as usual..*grin*

the eternally youthful, Bill D

.."early in the morning,hear the razor roar
there's silver in the stubble, and it wasn't there before"

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: m47
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 11:42 AM

Bill you out did me.

As I read thro' the thread I thought that I would put "20th August...but no presents" or something like that..

Ha then I got to your message..

Well you're as old as the woman you feel and in my case she's 47 as well.

love and happiness

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From: M 52
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 12:08 PM

We don't need a fountain of youth so much as we need a fountain of smart!

BBJfla

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From: F46
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 12:55 PM

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From: M 30
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 01:10 PM

in detail:
30 (M) whereof 16 (guitar), 8 (tin whistle),
4 (mandolin/fiddle), 1yr8months (Mudcat visitor)

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From: F35 (or thereabouts)
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 01:45 PM

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From: M33
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 01:54 PM

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From: M/63
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 02:09 PM

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From: M53
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 02:44 PM

Biological age that is - Intellectually 32 behaviouraly 16 (according to my missus) body ranges from 20 - 82 depending on which bit and what I did yesterday! 39 years sailing, 30 years rock climbing, 30 years folk singing.

PJM

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Pete M
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 03:38 PM

As at 07.01.1999 2027Z analysis is as follows:

Total responses excluding comments etc = 64, 48 M 16F
Max 70, Min 19, Mean 46.9 Std Dev 10.5, Mode = 47

M only : n=48, x=48.5 s=10.7, bimodal at 47 and 50

F only : n=16, x=42.2 s=8.7, distribution too flat to establish mode

No surprises there given the responses to the "Where in the world.." thread.

Pete M

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: M 38
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 04:08 PM

It's my first visit here. Nice place you folks have. Mind if I stick around?

Buskboy

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 04:11 PM

Well, I imagine if you're an M 38, the F's will be glad to have you....
-Joe Offer, glad to be 50-

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From: Dr John
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 04:30 PM

M 56

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From: F 45
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 05:16 PM

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From: Max 26
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 05:37 PM

We need to get more young people interested in Folk. Don't any of you have kids that you have taught the joys of Folk?

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From: Joe Offer
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 06:12 PM

Well, yes, Max, I tried hard - and all three turned into punk rockers. You'll see what happens when your kids get older. Can't say I like the music, but I do get a kick out of it when kids come up to me and say, "Oh, so you're Nic's father? Like, wow!" (or whatever the expression is...).
-Joe, father of a 26-yr-old punk rocker & two wannabees-

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 06:15 PM

Yes, indeed, Max. Unfortunately they have yet to grasp the joys of computer-communications.. If they became Internet savvy, we could add one M 40 and one M 38. Both good-looking, musical, married and with kids. Sorry M 33!

Sandy

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From: m 54
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 06:59 PM

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From: M54
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 07:17 PM

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From: Animaterra
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 07:23 PM

Well, regarding the kids musical tastes, so far I have a 13yr old and a 9 yr old who prefer folk music above all else! Actually the 13 also likes Mozart and the occasional bebop. Can't say this heaven is going to last, but I'll enjoy it while it does!!! (You should hear the nine yr old sing Griselda!)

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Don Meixner
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 07:34 PM

I have three, a 20 year old theatre arts major who likes David Bowie ( gasp). And Identical twin 16 year old boys. One like Battlefield band and Stan Rogers the other likes Ramstein and Twisted Sister.

One in three ain't bad.

Don

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Susan of DT
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 07:37 PM

The distribution can be as interesting as the mean, sd, etc. So far, we have:

           decade      number male     number female
           19-29          4                1
           30-39          4                4
           40-49         16                8
           50-59         22                4
           60-70          6                0
           TOTALS        52                17

  

Gee, I thought there were more 60s and 70s here. Since Max self-identified, you may want to know that I am 51 and Dick is 69.

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From: M 48
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 07:38 PM

Happy Birthday, everyone, whenever it is!!! Duane D.

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From: Sandy Paton
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 08:26 PM

Aha! So Dick is one of the two others on the list enjoying Medicare! For awhile I was the ONLY one. Still, I'm proud to be the leader of the pack!

Grandpa Paton, folk fogey, matching 26 year-old dreams with Big Mick from Michigan.

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From: M49....50 come Feb. 22
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 08:57 PM

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From: F52 almost
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 09:41 PM

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From: Roger in Baltimore
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 09:44 PM

Two sons, ages 22 and allmost 18. They are both interested in "pop" music, the younger one likes Jewel and Fiona Appel, and the Wallflowers. The older one likes Radiohead and Morphine. The older also searches out local independent bands that he likes. Except for some Techno-head (or whatever) music the younger likes, most of what they listen to is musical to my ears, if not to my tastes. The older son has some interest in electric blues so he received Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, and and John Hooker for Christmas from his Dad.

No folk music is slipped in except they both have a garage tape of their Dad's music (happily, they requested it).

Roger in Baltimore

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From: Sir: M 44 soon
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 10:20 PM

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From: M55
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 10:35 PM

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From: Bruce O.
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 10:49 PM

1000100.00000111 (binary)

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From: Alice
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 11:25 PM

Oh, Bruce, that is SO like you... very funny, and I mean that sincerely.

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From: Alan of Australia
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 11:55 PM

Well Bruce, I suppose that makes you 1111.0000101 years older than I am.

Keeping an eye on that F100001

Cheers,
Alan

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Jenny
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 12:16 AM

F 50 ... And I still can't believe it! I only ever wanted to be 21. But 50 is definitely better than the alternative - dead. jenny

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From: AuneK
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 05:47 AM

M22

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From: M52
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 07:29 AM

Or at least I think so. I had a math teacher who screwed me up forever on calculating ages: If a seventeen-year-old train leaves Detroit headed toward Chicago in 1946 going 75 mph., how old is the other train? - or something like that. My far-too-smart,20 year-old daughter, who lives with me, assures me that I am 52. I was betting on 53...

Allan C.

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From: The second F33
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 11:30 AM

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From: M70
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 01:14 PM

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From: Sandy Paton
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 02:11 PM

Whoopee! Now it's a a tie for seniority!

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From: F33, three time's a charm!
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 02:20 PM

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From: Barbara
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 02:52 PM

hey F33, I'd say the odds are . distinctly in our favor... and getting odder by the minute.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 02:57 PM

Hmmmm. THREE F 33's?
Oh, well, I suppose they're all "Married with Children."
Darn.
-Joe, single-

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: F33 the 2nd o3 is that 34?
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 03:20 PM

Nope - but I did inadvertantly lie about my age - turns out I'm actually 34 - nearly 35. The grey cells must be deteriorating - thought I was 33 nearly 34. Thought you were casting an eye on F19 anyway????

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 03:39 PM

No, F33 the 2nd o3 is that 34, I don't think I could be interested in an F 19. My daughter's older than that. I think it would feel kind of incestuous. That's one of the reasons I find it hard to understand the shenanigans of Bill Clinton. I guess there are some middle-aged men do that sort of thing all the time, but it still isn't easy for me to understand.
I wish Bill Clinton were a Republican. It wouldn't be so embarrassing.
-Joe Offer-

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From: Bill D
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 03:51 PM

if my calculatons are correct, one M-60 requires 3 F-20's for correct balance, nicht wahr?

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From: M 33
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 03:51 PM

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From: Frieda
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 05:17 PM

M 41

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From: sharon 565
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 05:26 PM

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From: sharon 56
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 05:27 PM

Sorry.. Methuselah, I am not!

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From: F33, the third
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 05:42 PM

I would like to meet the M60 that can keep up to 3 F20's!

My Ex (Joe, we're not all taken) asked me if I would trade him in on 2 18-year-olds when he had turned 36. Ummm, no. It was enough work training one M, wouldn't want to go back and train two more.

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From: Margarita
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 06:27 PM

I'm 44 years sweet (gag)

sweeta Margarita

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From: jet
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 07:33 PM

74 last august.I stil want to be a musican when I grow up.

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From: F 33
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 08:20 PM

Hahahahaha, 2 F33s

This is going to be good fun...... how are you guys going to know which of us you're chasing?

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Jon Hindsill
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 08:52 PM

To Joe Offer---don't wish Pres. Clinton on the Republicans, we have enough embarassments of our own; but between EK & WJC we can sort of relax. M59

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Big Mick
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 09:01 PM

I know which one I'm chasing. At 48 tomorrow, I feel like I am finally mature enough for a spritely 33 year old. But if she is going to act her age, I will look elsewhere. LOL.

All the best,

Mick Lane

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 09:11 PM

I want to congratulate the new champion - 74! They tell me that antiques are of great value, so cherish the role.

Former Champion, now runner up.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: jet
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 10:00 PM

with age comes wisdom. A year ago we had the great ice storm in Maine .This year I have 2 wood stoves .What a diffrence a year makes.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: M 47.5
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 10:01 PM

Was going to go a head and round up to the closest half-year, but what the hell! I'll enjoy my youth while it lasts.

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From: F 38
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 10:19 PM

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From: Sandy Paton
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 10:24 PM

Hey there, Big Mick! Happy Birthday!! In two years you can begin to celebrate, as we do, only the SDBs (Significant Digit Birthdays). Bigger parties!

Sandy

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Big Mick
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 10:42 PM

Great, my friend, and I will expect that we will find a place and get as many 'catters as we can together. That would be a great 50th present. A super session, maybe somewhere half way between Michigan and PA, eh? Would that we could.

Mick

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: f 40
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 10:43 PM

So, are there really a lot more men chatting, or are we women just more shy about such personal info?

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From: gargoyle
Date: 09 Jan 99 - 12:33 AM

Ah...was born a hundred thousand years ago
There ain't nothin' in this world I do not know
Ah...saw...Peter, Paul and Moses
Playin' "ring-a-round-de-roses"
And Ah'll whoop the man who says it isn't so.

M-$*

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Barry Finn
Date: 09 Jan 99 - 12:35 AM

Happy Birthday Mick, I'll be joinging you at 48 next month. I don't mind the aging so much but it's awfully embrassing when people think I'm young enough looking to be my youthful looking wife's (42) son, it's even worst to feel that young while pausing to catch a breath. Barry

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From: M 100,000
Date: 09 Jan 99 - 12:37 AM

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From: Big Mick
Date: 09 Jan 99 - 12:48 AM

Barry,
LOL.......great post, and thanks for the wishes.
All the best,
Mick.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 09 Jan 99 - 04:36 AM

F 40, I don't know if there are more men here, but we certainly talk more often. We're a chatty bunch, aren't we?
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Roger in Baltimore
Date: 09 Jan 99 - 09:45 AM

Updated Data Summary

    

M     n=69     x=48.7

    

F     n=26     x=43.4


    

  Decade        M        F


    

10-19         0        1

  20-29         5        0

  30-39         5        7

  40-49        23       10

  50-59        27        8

  60-69         6        0

  70-79         3        0

Roger in Baltimore

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: M45
Date: 09 Jan 99 - 10:38 AM

... and looking forward

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Will
Date: 09 Jan 99 - 10:44 AM

On the what do the kids listen to topic ...

I have three

My 12 year-old listens to the Spice Girls and Jewel. She says thanks when I give her Nanci Griffith and Waterson and McGarrigal and Pogues disks and then never plays them (so I take them back and play them myself).

My 10 year-old ignores all music as far as I can tell.

My 8-old listens to Beethoven and Carmen.

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From: F 62
Date: 09 Jan 99 - 12:06 PM

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From: M52
Date: 09 Jan 99 - 01:49 PM

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From: F33 who is actually 34
Date: 09 Jan 99 - 02:01 PM

So, is that me out of the running for being chased now I've realised I'm 34? Knew it, a girl turns 34, and that's it... she's on the shelf! Glad your not a pram-chaser though Joe!

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: F54
Date: 09 Jan 99 - 02:07 PM

I remember 33. (You GO GIRL!) I remember 43. (Busy, bothered) I remember 53 (last week). 54 is great so far this week, just hitting my stride.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: F43
Date: 09 Jan 99 - 10:09 PM

That would be busy and bothered (what type of bothered IS that anyway?) Glad to know I have yet to hit my stride!

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From: Amaranth
Date: 09 Jan 99 - 11:04 PM

M 43

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: F29
Date: 09 Jan 99 - 11:47 PM

I have a few more months to go as part of the 20's so far the only one in my gender in this age

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Big Mick
Date: 10 Jan 99 - 02:22 PM

HAH, ALISON You are no longer the young one. Welcome to the land of the old fogies!!!!!But you are still a mere lass to me, and I will continue to flirt shamelessly, despite your advanced age. :-))All the best,

Mick

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: F45
Date: 10 Jan 99 - 03:49 PM

SWF,N/S, wellpreserved (pickling mixture helps) hair color variable, ooh - you didn't need to know all that stuff...sorry......

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 10 Jan 99 - 04:13 PM

Is there any truth to the rumor that someone is working on a chip to protect our kids (and grandkids) from stumbling upon the Mudcat threads, labeling them FOR MATURE AUDIENCES?

Just another foggy folk fogey.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Pete M
Date: 10 Jan 99 - 06:23 PM

Dunno about that Sandy, but if you set up the "Mother Knows Best" filters (aka "Content advisor" in IE) it wont let you access the forum - unsuitable language!! Mind you if the people who use these things knew about the ideas expressed here they would probably have kittens at the thought of little Jimmy reading them, they are far more dangerous than swearing and talk about whisper sex, he might grow up with an open and enquiring mind!

Pete M

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Panic Attack
Date: 10 Jan 99 - 06:52 PM

m50 Ian UK

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 10 Jan 99 - 08:21 PM

Sandy- Maturity? It's not synonymous with Age.Sometimes, not even close.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Pete M
Date: 10 Jan 99 - 09:47 PM

OK for those of you who prefer pictures, here is a stem plot of our age distribution in 5 year bands (does away with problems about "nearly" or "next birthday" and 33’s who are actually 34 etc)

  Age band           M                 F

<20                         |x
20-24                   xxxx|
25-29                      x|x
30-34                   xxxx|xxxx
35-39                      x|xxx
40-44              xxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxx
45-49        xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxx
50-54    xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxx 
55-59              xxxxxxxxx|X
60-64                    xxx|x
65-69                   xxxx|
>69                      xxx|

Pete M

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: M62
Date: 10 Jan 99 - 11:20 PM

...and I've been told that I'll never be as old as I look. RonU

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Jack Hickman - M - 66
Date: 11 Jan 99 - 12:00 AM

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: M45
Date: 17 Jan 99 - 02:35 AM

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Pete (inactive)
Date: 17 Jan 99 - 05:08 AM

Clansfolk Ages

Pete - M 47

Simon - M 16

Eileen - F 47

Is it something to do with the 60s Folk Boom?

as there is a glut of 'young' 40-60 age group.

We have been trying to introduce more young people to the Traditional scene though folk clubs and Festivals. The Young Generation Contest at the Fyle Folk Festival has done well over the years several professional performers have come out of the Competition (eg. Kate Rusby).

Lets all stay young forever.

take care and sing well

Pete and family (Clansfolk)

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: M39
Date: 17 Jan 99 - 12:04 PM

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Rasta
Date: 17 Jan 99 - 12:24 PM

F-50 I agree Jet when I grow up Ill be a better musician then I am now--Im still learing--aint life grand Rastaaaaaa

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Alice
Date: 17 Jan 99 - 12:43 PM

I've always looked younger than my years (as did my parents.. youthful genes) so I have never thought of myself as 'old'. I was stunned (or stung) about 2 years ago when I was talking to a guy after the session was breaking up and he complemented me on my singing. He then went on to say, 'and it's nice that older people like you can pass on the songs to the young people...' ... and I had been thinking of him as a peer while I was talking to him... I could have popped him in the nose, as my daddy would say, but I'm a lady. I stood there speechless, instead, as my face blanched then blushed.

alice in montana

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Rasta
Date: 17 Jan 99 - 12:44 PM

F-50 I agree Jet when I grow up Ill be a better musician then I am now--Im still learing--aint life grand Rastaaaaaa

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Indy Lass
Date: 17 Jan 99 - 01:17 PM

F 42.5 I just joined about a week ago and I feel I'm already getting to know fellow Mudcatters. I learned about DT when attending a Celtic College session in Goderich, Ont. (I live in Indiana). These "how, what, where" threads have been helpful--nice to meet all of you!

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: M 39
Date: 17 Jan 99 - 03:42 PM

Frank McGrath

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: bet
Date: 20 Mar 99 - 04:17 PM

F58

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Night Owl
Date: 20 Mar 99 - 05:36 PM

Just received this from a friend...:" Then-long hair, now-longing for hair; then-a keg, now-an EKG; then-acid rock, now-acid reflux; then-seeds and stems, now-roughage; then-popping pills, smoking joints, now-popping joints; then-the President's struggle with Fidel, now- the President's struggle with fidelity; then-Paar, now-AARP; then-killer weed, now-weed killer; then-hoping for a BMW, now-hoping for a BM; then-getting out to a new, hip joint, now- getting a new hip joint."

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: DennisM
Date: 20 Mar 99 - 06:27 PM

m 60

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: skarpi Iceland
Date: 20 Mar 99 - 07:07 PM

Just got thirty five and I still think I am eighteen, ja h‚rna. The time goes fast. sl n. skarpi.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Beeswing 38
Date: 20 Mar 99 - 09:16 PM

Better get one more entry in for the under forty crowd ( all what, 6 of us ?!) I'm 38 and female!! Honestly I don't feel a day over 24...

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: bbc
Date: 20 Mar 99 - 09:27 PM

46 today! :)

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: katlaughing
Date: 20 Mar 99 - 11:46 PM

Happy Birthday! BBC! My mom would've been 83, yesterday, and I will be 46 a week from Sunday!

katlaughing

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: o'hanrahan
Date: 21 Mar 99 - 07:20 AM

M 46 but i hardly look a day older than 45 and an 'alf.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: M32
Date: 21 Mar 99 - 01:22 PM

Great to be here with you old guys !!!

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: M45
Date: 21 Mar 99 - 03:46 PM

Just on board recently, using the handle "Bob Jovi". Got a 3 yr old son that likes the Beatles and Saint-Saens (music from "Babe"). He's on his third guitar, and he likes my conducting baton. So far--no interest in folk music, except for Pete Seegar's "Abi Yoyo".

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: M 19 Sam Pirt
Date: 21 Mar 99 - 05:51 PM

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: AlistairUK
Date: 22 Mar 99 - 05:22 AM

M33 I started in clubs when I was 17 and that was it *sigh*

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: M 29
Date: 22 Mar 99 - 01:44 PM

Sean MacRuaraidh

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: M 53.076712
Date: 22 Mar 99 - 04:54 PM

The 53 is after morning coffee, it's pushing 80 before.

The ratio of m's to f's is interesting. I see the same thing at the acoustic jam I go to. Are guys more musical, or do they just have more spare time?

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: AlistairUK
Date: 22 Mar 99 - 04:56 PM

erm...i plead the fifth ( can I do that as a furriner?)

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: F55
Date: 23 Mar 99 - 11:35 AM

Still sailing/racing on Monterey Bay and tap dancing through life. Rita

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: steve in ottawa
Date: 23 Mar 99 - 12:34 PM

M 35 Steve T

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Roger the zimmer
Date: 23 Mar 99 - 02:56 PM

Ok, I confess, not yet ready for a zimmer ,coined after a correspondent (on another list) called me "the pelvis" after I helped out with some '50s skiffle lyrics!-I thought it more appropriate to a (yes, typical mudcat male) 55 year old (but still 25 at heart)

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: M39 for a few more days
Date: 23 Mar 99 - 03:57 PM

Will hit the big 4-0 on Saturday, having some problems dealing with it. I'm thinking "but I was so much older then" but I'm not really believing it.

Steve Latimer

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: F15
Date: 24 Mar 99 - 07:46 PM

i feel little!!

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Becky 27
Date: 26 Mar 99 - 08:53 PM

New to Mudcat, but after spending hours and hours and hour reading all your threads, laughing and falling off my chair at some of them, and singing my head off at others, it looks like I might be here to stay :)!

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: skarpi
Date: 27 Mar 99 - 06:41 PM

Becky 27,welcome to mudcat and have a good time with all of us. sl n go foill skarpi Iceland .

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: bbc
Date: 27 Mar 99 - 10:20 PM

Happy 40th birthday, Steve Latimer--March 27, 1999 (I would have sent you a personal message, but you are not in the member list as "Steve Latimer"!)! Don't worry about 40. I'm sure you have done enough things in your life up to now to be the age you are. Many of us are past the 40 year mark & going strong. I'm sure I'm entering the best part of my life! Go to it!!! :)

Happy Year!

bbc (46) & Duane D. (48)

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: M 43, but I lie sometimes!
Date: 27 Mar 99 - 10:30 PM

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: F almost 63 but know I am 19 at heart
Date: 28 Mar 99 - 02:31 PM

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 29 Mar 99 - 12:37 AM

49 and wild as a deer

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Shula
Date: 29 Mar 99 - 10:14 PM

F 52 -- BTGOG

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Benjamin Bodhránaí
Date: 07 May 99 - 10:03 PM

M29

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Benjamin Bodhránaí
Date: 07 May 99 - 10:47 PM

Here's an update (you just can't keep a good statistician down!!)

Age band M F
<20 2 xx|xx 2
20-24 4 xxxx| 0
25-29 3 xxx|xx 2
30-34 6 xxxxxx|xxxx 4
35-39 5 xxxxx|xxxx 4
40-44 11 xxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxx 8
45-49 20 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxx 10
50-54 20 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxx 10
55-59 10 xxxxxxxxxx|xxx 3
60-64 5 xxxxx|xx 2
65-69 4 xxxx| 0
>69 3 xxx| 0
total 93 45
138 brave souls told us there age
32.6% female, 67.4% male
I think I'll let Pete M. finish off with the stats, I'm just a Bodhránaí.

Slán

BB

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Cap't Bob
Date: 07 May 99 - 11:30 PM

Do you want the age in Metric or English?

Cap't Bob

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Greg Baker
Date: 08 May 99 - 02:18 PM

Male, 43

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: katmuse (inactive)
Date: 08 May 99 - 04:29 PM

F62, every year gets better (mostly). (Using WebTV, can't access/modify the "From" line.) Only 2 yrs. to "When I'm 64," provided we all survive y2k.

Alice in Montana (Jan. 17 posting): I had a corresponding experience over 5 yrs. ago at a Dawn Dance (all-nite contra-dancing), when a (beautiful) young chick, age 20, came up to me ca. 4:30 a.m. and said admiringly, "I just love watching you dance, you're so graceful and energetic at the same time." Ooh, such a compliment! I was about to express my pleasure at hearing it (and compliment her in turn on her perspicacity) when she went on, "You remind me of my grandmother!" Ooh, such...uh.... So taken aback (knocked off my pins, us oldsters might say), all I could think of to reply was that I remind me of _my_ grandmother too. (Which is true, but I was startled to think it showed from the outside. I'm beginning to get used to that part now, even tho I don't believe it except when I look in a mirror sometimes.)

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Bojangles
Date: 09 May 99 - 01:33 AM

M 60

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: jets
Date: 09 May 99 - 10:39 AM

at 75 am I the oldest male?

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Roger in Baltimore
Date: 09 May 99 - 03:28 PM

Yes, Jet, you are, at least among those reporting. And Sandy had been so proud of being tied for the oldest member, but you have taken that prize!

Just bringing us up-to-date statistically. Total # of Mudcatters reporting is 131, M = 90, F = 41.

Average Mudcat age is 46.4 years, M = 47.3, F = 44.3.

Age Range is 15 - 74, M = 19 - 74, F = 15 - 63

Modal range is M = 45 - 49, F = 50 - 54

   Age band        M              |             F
  15-19                          x|xx
  20-24                       xxxx|
  25-29                        xxx|x
  30-34                      xxxxx|xxxx
  35-39                      xxxxx|xxxxx
  40-44                xxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxx
  45-49       xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxx
  50-54        xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxx
  55-59                 xxxxxxxxxx|xxxx
  60-64                     xxxxxx|xxx
  65-69                        xxx|
  70-74                        xxx|
  

Roger in Baltimore

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Uilleand
Date: 10 May 99 - 01:47 PM

F 30

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From:
Date: 11 May 99 - 01:05 AM

F69

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: WyoWoman
Date: 11 May 99 - 01:32 AM

I don't even know yet how to post anonymously ... But I'm F50

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: KYST (inactive)
Date: 11 May 99 - 02:01 AM

F21

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: M60
Date: 11 May 99 - 04:02 AM

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Ian Stephenson
Date: 11 May 99 - 05:04 AM

M 17 and feeling almost as small as F 15!

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Momba (inactive)
Date: 11 May 99 - 02:29 PM

Just turned 29, no really!

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Matthew B.
Date: 11 May 99 - 04:45 PM

M43

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Bri- F15
Date: 11 May 99 - 11:51 PM

Hey!! I'm not completely alone, at least, kind of!! :0)

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: GutBucketeer
Date: 22 May 99 - 12:18 AM

M 44

How young do you feel. An interesting experiment would be to take about 50 pictures of people of different ages and ask someone to pick out three that are closest to their age. I wonder if I would pick out three people in their 30's or in ther 50's?

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: katlaughing
Date: 15 Dec 99 - 04:18 PM

refresh

remember the words of Ruth Gordon: "How old would you be, if you didn't know how old you were?"

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 15 Dec 99 - 04:29 PM

M50 actually going on 12 and a bit!! Merry Christmas.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Caitrin
Date: 15 Dec 99 - 04:33 PM

I'm 17, female. (18 in less than a month.)

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: longhair
Date: 15 Dec 99 - 05:02 PM

over 30 and under 50, and feel 90!!! of course, I have a cold, so that might have something to do w/ the way I feel!!:)

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: IceWolf
Date: 15 Dec 99 - 05:15 PM

37M

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Mbo
Date: 15 Dec 99 - 05:18 PM

I'm 21 and don't feel a day over 15. I think about other people who are my age who in the military, or married, or having children, or cleaning up on the stock market. And I say HOW? We're so young! I still feel like a kid, even though I'm supposed to be an adult. Those people are 21 years old, I'm 21 years young.

--Mbo

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Stewie
Date: 15 Dec 99 - 05:34 PM

F56

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Stewie
Date: 15 Dec 99 - 05:38 PM

Jeez, I've changed sex. The above posting should be M56.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: F19
Date: 15 Dec 99 - 05:46 PM

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Metchosin
Date: 15 Dec 99 - 05:49 PM

F53 but if I couldn't count, 12 or maybe 70.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: F44
Date: 15 Dec 99 - 06:24 PM

This is truly the happiest I've ever been in my life: The children have grown up nicely and are now independent, my career has fluorished from being able to focus on it, and I have three delightful grandsons.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Lin in Kansas
Date: 15 Dec 99 - 07:33 PM

F52--Aries to the max.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Bugsy
Date: 15 Dec 99 - 08:12 PM

Male,51.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Edmund Flynn (inactive)
Date: 15 Dec 99 - 11:47 PM

M 76 and a bit taken aback to discover that I am the last living human being to know a song my daddy taught me on a fishing trip to Florida in about 1940.

I asked Mudcatters for help with a a couple of lines that are in doubt and no one had ever heard of the song.

But you people are fantastic ... that seems to be the ONLY song you can't manage to recapture.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 16 Dec 99 - 12:06 AM

F 21 - 36/24/36 and my ambition is to be a folk singer...

Jon

(M 39 really)

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: sophocleese
Date: 16 Dec 99 - 12:17 AM

Well I tried to hide it but I'm F35. As I read all these Mnumbers I keep wondering if James Bond is REALLY old enough to drive a car.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: M51
Date: 16 Dec 99 - 01:19 AM

Lots of middle aged hippies here?

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Metchosin
Date: 16 Dec 99 - 02:07 AM

where else can we go?

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Metchosin
Date: 16 Dec 99 - 02:11 AM

Edmund, what was the song?

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Lady McMoo
Date: 16 Dec 99 - 03:17 AM

M47

mcmoo

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: dollmaker
Date: 16 Dec 99 - 08:52 AM

Dollmaker 52,Snoopy 50

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: MTM
Date: 16 Dec 99 - 11:03 AM

29

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: KathWestra
Date: 16 Dec 99 - 11:44 AM

F45. Thanks for refreshing this interesting thread, whoever did it. K.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: roopoo
Date: 16 Dec 99 - 11:54 AM

F47 - will be 48 in 3 weeks!

mouldy

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 16 Dec 99 - 02:18 PM

Old enough to know better. (And born on 26th November, so anyone can look me up in bbc's resource if you really want to know.)

But give us another chance at that song, Edmund - you might be luckier this time.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: kendall
Date: 16 Dec 99 - 03:55 PM

Mostly man, 65

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: jeffp
Date: 16 Dec 99 - 04:20 PM

Male, 45; sometimes acting younger, sometimes feeling older

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Magpie
Date: 16 Dec 99 - 04:48 PM

Female 34 at least that what my mother tells me. About the age, I mean. The other part I'm pretty sure of.

Mapie

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: gunner
Date: 16 Dec 99 - 05:12 PM

m63 here and big mick has got it right, getting old ain't so bad if you consider the alternative

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Edmund Flynn (inactive)
Date: 16 Dec 99 - 07:21 PM

I would be delighted to give you all a second chance to find that song ... how should I do it? start a new thread?

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: tradsteve
Date: 16 Dec 99 - 07:35 PM

I'm 17 years old and male. I'll be 18 next month and probably still male.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Ma-K
Date: 16 Dec 99 - 10:51 PM

69 in March

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Hagbardr
Date: 16 Dec 99 - 11:30 PM

Male 20.

Just a babe....

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Metchosin
Date: 17 Dec 99 - 12:34 AM

By all means start a new thread Edmund.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: katlaughing
Date: 17 Dec 99 - 12:49 AM

Yea! JL in Ozland! Another Aries! Whoo-hoo!

katlaughing

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: momnopp
Date: 17 Dec 99 - 07:46 AM

F36 and divorced. . .

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Chris/Darwin
Date: 18 Dec 99 - 07:12 AM

M54. I look in the mirror sometimes and see this grey bearded face staring back, and sometimes think that it couldn't be me - I am still young! Even my grandkids say so!

I suppose all the 50+ folkies are left over from the 60's folk boom. When the next folk boom happens we may not even recognise it, I suppose it will be very different.

PS. The reason I have a beard is because I don't like looking at my face in the mirror - particularly in the morning - yuck! - but most times. Not shaving saves a lot of soul searching.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: gillymor
Date: 18 Dec 99 - 08:04 AM

A spry M47 (cough, cough).

Frankie

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 18 Dec 99 - 08:39 AM

Forty seven in 2000 Cordially. Dave

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: wildlone
Date: 18 Dec 99 - 10:28 AM

M-48
yet another child of the fifties.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: MamaTamba.F56
Date: 18 Dec 99 - 09:53 PM

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From:
Date: 19 Dec 99 - 04:32 PM

I'm a 200 years old alcoholic and the nickteens caughted at me and the worst of all in the morning mail got a suit for preparity I'm not really unhappy cause maybe I have me a sun in this morning IT will be just as shining as the first day the world begun but it's never to late to start living to get out and have some fun the sun will just as shining as the first day the wourld begun

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: M58
Date: 20 Dec 99 - 03:16 PM

Long in the tooth? Yes, but at least I still have most of em!

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: lamarca
Date: 20 Dec 99 - 03:34 PM

F43 - Virgo; not perfect yet...

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: bbelle
Date: 20 Dec 99 - 08:32 PM

Old ... very old! moonchild

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Jefe1946
Date: 21 Dec 99 - 12:35 AM

Male 53 divorced (1977)

Subject: RE: 52
From: Jack The Lad
Date: 25 Dec 99 - 09:07 AM

52 and almost all

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Escamillo
Date: 25 Dec 99 - 11:26 PM

Andrés M 53
Graciela F(yes, traditionally) 51
Sons: Mariano M25, Javier M23, Andrés M17

STOP THE MILLENIUM ! I'M STILL IN THE 70 s' !!

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 26 Dec 99 - 01:20 PM

Don't worry. Five more days at midnight, and it turns into 1900, and we aren't born yet.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: catspaw49
Date: 26 Dec 99 - 01:50 PM

I put on two or three years loading this thread.

Spaw

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Pete Peterson
Date: 26 Dec 99 - 03:18 PM

55, M, born when FDR was still President. (In those days women were wold not to get up for 3 weeks after delivery. . . my mother, who had lived in Washington DC until moving to Philadelphia in 1941, was DETERMINED to get downstairs and vote for FDR. She did, carried by precinct workers in a stretcher.)

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: JenEllen
Date: 02 Jan 00 - 02:51 AM

Laughed my ass off guys! The things that you come up with....Susan, Roger, or Pete, you can add a 27 year old fem-thang to the final tally. Herself

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: M35
Date: 02 Jan 00 - 07:27 AM

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: M50
Date: 02 Jan 00 - 08:39 AM

Turned 50 on Christmas Eve. I'm telling anyone (who wants to listen!) that I'm starting the second half of my life!! Too many things to do, places to see and songs to sing in only 50 years.

I'm with you Kat - my sentiments exactly.

Hey! How come CATSPAW49 is 50?? Shouldn't he now be CATSPAW50?? And as for the statisticions (sp?) Roger, PeteM and Susan of DT..... you really need to get out more :)

Reid - Faded Denim

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: f 20--funny thing...
Date: 02 Jan 00 - 04:54 PM

had to look at this--'cause i responded to it last year as i was staying at my dad's house for the night and he showed me mudcat...unfortunately i didn't have a computer between then and now and i thought it was crazy that now that i visit almost everyday, it came back again---good memories!!!

but here's a funny little birthday story --- when i turned 20,every member of my family sent me a card saying happy 21st (including my mother)....that night , i was playing out a bar that i play regularly and i had told my older brother that i was playing out at this bar, so he sent a letter to the bar telling them that it was my 21st and with $$ for a few drinks. so when the owners came out with a cake and asked me what i wanted my first legal drink to be... i could not tell a lie :) i had to tell everyone that it was really my 20th b-day...and everyone in the place passed around the cards that my whole familiy had sent me with the wrong age and we laughed.

(you'd think after 20 years they'd figure it out)

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: f41
Date: 02 Jan 00 - 05:04 PM

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: DougR
Date: 02 Jan 00 - 09:07 PM

I reviewed this thread and can't find that I contributed to it. I know you ladies have been waiting with baited breath...old DougR is 69. That puts me awful close to Sandy and a very few others.

DougR

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: F54
Date: 02 Jan 00 - 10:28 PM

But when I talk to myself,I'm 27. "HE" is 66 and we feel like teenagers. It's in your head mostly.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 23 May 02 - 07:32 AM

M 26 again!

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: DMcG
Date: 23 May 02 - 07:44 AM

M 49 - too close to the Standard-Mudcatter profile for comfort (see Pete M 10 Jan 99 above)

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Celtic Soul
Date: 23 May 02 - 08:05 AM

F 40

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: GUEST,F18
Date: 23 May 02 - 10:47 AM

Looking at the ones that have already been, the only ones that are anywhere near my age will be 20 or 21 now. Am I one of the youngest Mudcatters??

Flamefeline (work it out for yourself!)

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Trevor
Date: 23 May 02 - 11:04 AM

M 50 next week (spit!)

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 23 May 02 - 12:12 PM

Well, I, for one, do not need to hide behind a nonce nickname like "M35" or "F53". I yam what I yam.

I am male. And I am 71 and about a half. My Beautiful Child-Bride Wife doesn't like me to admit to that, because people make inferences as to her age, but then it is true that she's younger than I. (By about a month).

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Paul from Hull
Date: 23 May 02 - 12:22 PM

Interesting thread

I'm probably just below the mean average (allowing for the offset of 3 1/2 years since the start of the thread) at 43 this year

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: GUEST,Fsoon-to-be-40
Date: 23 May 02 - 12:57 PM

I'll be 40 in two months and I'm loving the thought of it. Life just keeps getting more interesting.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Don Firth
Date: 23 May 02 - 01:05 PM

Roughly 25 (old enough to know better but young enough to try it again) trapped in a 71 year old body (as of next month).

Over the hill? What hill? I don't remember any hill!!??

Don Firth

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Haruo
Date: 23 May 02 - 01:16 PM

M 48.15 ... and happy to surmise that Paul from Hull is slightly less mean than average. Hope I can say the same.

;-)

Liland

PS: The instrux at the top say to put it in the "From" field, but how can I since I have a cookie (and if I didn't wouldn't it prefix "Guest" to my age?

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Amergin
Date: 23 May 02 - 01:29 PM

boy...alot of old folks here....my parents are younger than you....BG.

M27 (going on 12)

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Mac Tattie
Date: 23 May 02 - 02:32 PM

Male, 53 and a bit. cheers

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Les from Hull
Date: 23 May 02 - 02:49 PM

Male 53 also. Ask me again on Monday and the answer will be different!

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Devilmaster
Date: 23 May 02 - 03:07 PM

Male 28 myself.

Steve

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: CarolC
Date: 23 May 02 - 03:36 PM

F 46

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: GUEST,F45
Date: 23 May 02 - 03:44 PM

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: GUEST,M51
Date: 23 May 02 - 04:04 PM

M%!---where'd my cookie go? What's all this anonymous stuff?

I like katlaughing's "centerage."

DaveJ

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: DaveJ
Date: 23 May 02 - 04:11 PM

Got my cookie back----chocolate chip!

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: GUEST,M41
Date: 23 May 02 - 04:47 PM

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: GUEST,Mel B.
Date: 23 May 02 - 05:31 PM

I was born about 10,000 years ago and I'll whup the man who says it isn't so.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: catspaw49
Date: 23 May 02 - 05:50 PM

Ya' know, when we first started this thread, it was back in the dark ages where we often gave out almost no personal info. This was one of the boilerplate threads we ran that led to a lot more open community. A lot of us didn't post at first to it and then only after a few months. Things have changed................

Anyway, I'm lucky to be about 3 and a half years older than when we first ran this turkey.

Spaw .... male, age about to be 53

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: DonD
Date: 23 May 02 - 06:15 PM

M 74 which puts me in second place -- again, I think. Hope that Jet is still around to claim the prize though I haven't seen him posting lately.

I also note that a number of the names I assumed were female identify themselves as M -- hmmm.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Miken
Date: 24 May 02 - 12:30 AM

M61. ( the upper edge of Kats' "centerage")

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: GUEST,M.56
Date: 24 May 02 - 12:47 AM

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Gloredhel
Date: 24 May 02 - 12:54 AM

Yes Firecat! But I'm younger than you are *to a school-yard taunt melody*

F17 and enjoying youth

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Amergin
Date: 24 May 02 - 01:19 AM

hey, spaw...we are all lucky that you are 3 and a half years older....would be a lot duller without you....

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: GUEST,F 59 1/2
Date: 24 May 02 - 01:41 AM

Joe O, I was about to post a chiding, puzzled query re the fact that you just got married (didn't you?)--until I noticed that this thread dates back to 1999!

Almost To The Big 60

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: CharlieA
Date: 24 May 02 - 06:38 AM

F 21. so what are the stats now anyone (with more maths than me!!!)

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: GUEST,Bobby Z.
Date: 24 May 02 - 10:06 AM

My name it means nothing, my age it means less.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: irishajo
Date: 24 May 02 - 10:49 AM

F 27

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: gnu
Date: 24 May 02 - 12:27 PM

M 45.2136986 (Engineer with calculator)

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: GUEST,mike strobel
Date: 24 May 02 - 01:17 PM

male-49

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: CapriUni
Date: 25 May 02 - 12:35 PM

F, 38...

So, again someone asks the stats question:

When this thread started 2 1/2 years ago, the M's were in a large majority... has that majority gotten any smaller? And have we got any more young-ish members?

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Joe_F
Date: 25 May 02 - 06:26 PM

M 64 (a nice round number in binary).

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: GUEST,M47
Date: 25 May 02 - 06:31 PM

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: DMcG
Date: 26 May 02 - 08:51 AM

OK, I have faced up to doing the stats. First of all, I have only included those who posted this year as I can't be sure how many of the previous Mudcatter's are still here. This may leave out a lot of people who didn't bother reposting.

These are the previously reported figures:

Average Mudcat age is 46.4 years, M = 47.3, F = 44.3.

Age Range is 15 - 74, M = 19 - 74, F = 15 - 63

Modal range is M = 45 - 49, F = 50 - 54

And the new figures:

Average Mudcat Age is 46.23, M= 51.5, F=35.2

Age Range is 17-74, M=26-74, F=17-60

Modal Range is M = 53, F= 40

It is based on a much smaller sample of 21 M and 10 F

It is interesting that the mean age hasn't changed, so Mudcat isn't just the same old faces getting older!

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: CapriUni
Date: 26 May 02 - 11:45 AM

Also interesting that the ratio between M's and F's hasn't changed all that much (about a third of us are female... Back on May 9, 1999, there were 90 M's and 41 F's responding -- also about a third).

Though internet wide, the online population is creeping closer to 50/50 (though we're not quite there yet). So, does that mean that the field of trad/roots music is male dominated in general?

...Or just that guys are more interested in answering surveys and breaking things down into demographics? ;-)

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: bernil
Date: 26 May 02 - 04:03 PM

I couldn't figure out how to change the text on "From:". So... I'm female, 46, that's very close to the Average Mudcat Age.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Gloredhel
Date: 27 May 02 - 08:19 PM

Does this make me currently the youngest Mudcatter?

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: GUEST,Firecat at college
Date: 28 May 02 - 06:58 AM

Oh, fair enough then, Gloredhel!

Firecat, very relieved that she's not the baby!

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 28 May 02 - 08:35 AM

M 58 - in 2 weeks.

BTW - How do you change the "From" box if you're logged in with your Cookie ?

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: CapriUni
Date: 28 May 02 - 10:33 AM

So, how old are you, Gloredhel?

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Gloredhel
Date: 28 May 02 - 05:47 PM

Just go up a little further and you'll see it--I'm 17 and 5 months as of today.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: yobob
Date: 29 May 02 - 09:39 AM

just hangin on at m53

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Declan
Date: 30 May 02 - 05:33 AM

M Soon to be 42.

Looking forward to finding out the meaning of life the Universe and everything.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 24 Jul 02 - 09:39 PM

freeresh,

mmmmmm,52+1/3 and counting.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Lepus Rex
Date: 24 Jul 02 - 09:43 PM

28, a month, and eight days.

---Lepus Rex

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 24 Jul 02 - 09:53 PM

300 posts to one thread-is this a record?

ps can some kind soul put us out of our misery by making a part 2 please?

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: nickp
Date: 25 Jul 02 - 05:13 AM

M 49 and counting

Subject: F39
From: Dagmar
Date: 25 Jul 02 - 07:07 PM

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: jets
Date: 25 Jul 02 - 10:06 PM

M 78 next month

Subject: M 45
From: aussiebloke
Date: 26 Jul 02 - 10:22 PM

aussiebloke

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Bilge Rat
Date: 03 Aug 02 - 05:57 PM

M 54

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: bazza
Date: 04 Aug 02 - 12:09 PM

M57

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 04 Aug 02 - 01:26 PM

22 on the 15th of this month!!!

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 05 Aug 02 - 09:13 AM

twenty nh twenty nh twenty nh

I'm TWENTY NINE....

29

boo hooo hooo hooo hoooo hoo hoo hooo

(but I'm in denial - I feel a whole lot younger)

Not looking forward to next year!

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: GUEST,F49.75
Date: 05 Aug 02 - 03:52 PM

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Genie
Date: 06 Aug 02 - 12:50 AM

Omigod! I really AM old!!!

Genie
¤;- )

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: GUEST,M 58
Date: 06 Aug 02 - 06:39 PM

The older the fiddle, the sweeter the tune

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: cetmst
Date: 07 Aug 02 - 07:30 AM

"Some say he's 67 but he's 19 Celsius" Who wrote and sings it ? From 24 Celsius next month

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Amergin
Date: 07 Aug 02 - 01:33 PM

Wow Ella...you are getting up there in the years.....have they shipped you to a geriatrics center yet?

amergin....27 going on twelve....but will be 28 next month

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: GUEST,M 49
Date: 07 Aug 02 - 01:48 PM

thought I better get on record before my record catches up with me. Does this have something to do with where I was in '68?

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: running.hare
Date: 07 Aug 02 - 05:49 PM

F 21

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: GUEST,M 21
Date: 12 Dec 13 - 01:26 AM

I'm here to revive an 11 year old thread!
M 21
folk music enthusiast from NW coast of America

I'm finding it very interesting, scrolling through this thread--besides confirming my suspicion that not many of us young'ns find their way here--to think about what age the posters are *now*.

Everybody, you've aged 14 years! Or 11, if you were one of the '02 posters...

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: GUEST,F78, as of last month
Date: 12 Dec 13 - 02:03 AM

The other day I wondered what happened between age 68 and now? 68 sounds pretty old to me- 78 is fairly spry.

I was so much older then. I'm younger than that now.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 12 Dec 13 - 07:35 AM

62 in a few months!

sandra (currently a young 61 & a bit)

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Dec 13 - 07:48 AM

40 now (argghhhhhh)

(Ella who is Sooze)

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: GUEST,silver
Date: 12 Dec 13 - 08:34 AM

F 68. Am I the oldest female on Mudcat? I certainly don't feel that old! Folk music is rejuvenating!

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 12 Dec 13 - 01:34 PM

84

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: GUEST,M 58
Date: 12 Dec 13 - 03:21 PM

Almost 59...

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: gnu
Date: 12 Dec 13 - 03:29 PM

Imagine that! 11 years. I am 56 + about 30 as my arthritis and such tell me today.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Dec 13 - 03:48 PM

92

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: GUEST,Young Thing
Date: 12 Dec 13 - 08:38 PM

Six Times SEVEN    Twenty - Four and Eleven

We are Sincerely a young thing....

And cannot leave our mother.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Joe_F
Date: 12 Dec 13 - 09:06 PM

M 76: As old as my tongue, and a little older than my teeth.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: MikeL2
Date: 13 Dec 13 - 05:52 AM

Hi

78 last week.....Now where am I.....???? lol

cheers

Mikel2

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: DMcG
Date: 13 Dec 13 - 05:53 PM

I get the impression is that the average age of Mudcatters is getting higher at close to real time: while there certainly are young mudcatters most posters seem to have been here at least as long as I have

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Hagman
Date: 13 Dec 13 - 09:54 PM

M 60

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Firecat
Date: 14 Dec 13 - 11:05 AM

I'll be 30 three weeks tomorrow.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: GUEST,M74
Date: 14 Dec 13 - 11:36 AM

I'll soon be 74 (Xmas Day next) comprised of Heart 54; Stomach 5; Legs & Arms 3; Brain 12: Total 74

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Allan C.
Date: 14 Dec 13 - 04:10 PM

Seems to me that our resident statistician decided some time ago that our average age was 59. If that is still the case I am about 8 above average. Being above average is new and quite foreign to me.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: GUEST,F 48
Date: 14 Dec 13 - 07:08 PM

And Allan, you're above average in several ways that I can think of!

Was just looking at some pics of your visit on the First Great Mudcat Adventure.

Fun thread.

Dani

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: Billy Weeks
Date: 15 Dec 13 - 01:36 AM

85.

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: bradfordian
Date: 15 Dec 13 - 03:45 AM

M 67

Subject: RE: How Old is a Mudcatter?
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 15 Dec 13 - 12:23 PM

Oh hell we all remember when the rocky mountains were just foothills