How old is everyone?

[Auburn Annie]

Yeah, well, you've had your reasons lately. Give it a little time and you'll be bouncin' like Tigger.

[violet Blue]

That reminds me of what I used to say to twenty something men who'd ask that question in bars and such while they were trying to pick me up.

"So, how old are you?"

"Young enough to still remember the answer, and old enough to know better than to tell you."

For a variety of reasons, I no longer frequent bars.

Originally posted by Auburn Annie:
Older than dirt and younger than springtime am I - in other words, 53 and taking aim at 54 in January. But I feel like I'm in my late teens most days.

[ November 16, 2005, 15:08: Message edited by: violet Blue ]

[Sheila Ann]

Around 21...for the third time

[Janice]

I'm 43 and still hanging in there

[Borderstone]

Gordon Lightfoot is 67! :D (no,he did not ask me to relay the messge. :D

[Affair on Touhy Ave.]

I'm 32. but anyway all this age talk got me thinking about those who regualerly use the internet and post on message boards. Now being here long enough I know there are those here 40 and over. Now I belong to a number of groups including some yahoo ones and it seems there are not very many or doesn't seem to be very many of of the age range I just mentioned and so often it's more of the younger people. Now I mention this because I'm sort of an historian, not interested in every historical thing. Some of my yahoo groups are about the 60s, 70's and 80s. 1 of the 80s groups is often busy, but the 2 70s groups not as busy, and the 1 60s group about the same. I've look over other 60s group before joinging and they're also never busy. Now I understand it's pretty common for older people to not always keep up with more modern day things I've seen this in my own family and I wouldn't expect most in there senior years to have modern day things like computers or internet serve though I'm sure there are exceptions. but what about those who are more middle aged? Am I right in my predicument? do any of you belong to other forums and find you're in the minoity when it comes to anyone middle aged? It's unfortunate in a way because it's always nice when you're interesing in things from the past it's nice to have those who have lived in such a time period to discuss it with.

[Cathy]

I belong to several Yahoo groups, but most of them aren't very active. I also belong to rec.music.makers.bowed.strings where most of the members play a bowed string intrument, like fiddle, violin, viola, cello, etc., with members of all ages. I also belong to rec.music.makers.guitar.accoustic, which is one of the most active newsgroups on the Internet, and has people of all ages, but many of them are 40+. I think the younger guitar players frequent the electric guitar groups. And of course, alt.music.lightfoot, which has a few youngsters, but mostly people my age (or older).

[violet Blue]

Yes, it happens constantly. Thanks for reminding me that I'm middle aged by the way. Why not just call me mamma while you're at it and finish me off. I hope when you hit middle age you constantly run into 18 year old store clerks who call YOU mamma mercilessly and offer to help you out with your bag of groceries.

Originally posted by Affair on Touhy Ave.:
I'm 32. but anyway all this age talk got me thinking about those who regualerly use the internet and post on message boards. Now being here long enough I know there are those here 40 and over. Now I belong to a number of groups including some yahoo ones and it seems there are not very many or doesn't seem to be very many of of the age range I just mentioned and so often it's more of the younger people. Now I mention this because I'm sort of an historian, not interested in every historical thing. Some of my yahoo groups are about the 60s, 70's and 80s.

[Shutup and Deal, I'm Losin']

I'm only 21, but sometimes I feel like I'm 121.

I've always wondered, if you reach the age of 113 through 119, would that make you a teenager again? (one hundred thirTEEN)?

[Auburn Annie]

Older than dirt and younger than springtime am I - in other words, 53 and taking aim at 54 in January. But I feel like I'm in my late teens most days.

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Bringing this back up to the top...


Update: 56 headed for 57 (go, Annie, go!)

I just went to our high school class' 39th reunion, which was the 50th for the high school itself - all members of Mount Carmel High School classes from 1958 - 1973 were invited. We had somewhere north of 1400 show up, including about 130/157 from our class. We've lost 11 classmates in 39 years.

Well, what a hoot! Each class had its own party on Friday night, and the entire student body showed up at the Pavilion at Emerson Park - after a tour of the old school - for Mass, picnic food, drinks (cash bar) and boogying the night away until they closed the park just before midnight. There were a half dozen faculty/staff members there, old uniforms complete with saddle shoes and beanies, and yearbook photos (yikes!)

The ambulance crew on standby twiddled their thumbs for the evening because in spite of extreme humidity, high heat and higher ages (it was nice being the youngster in the group) there was nary a faint, much less coronary, in the bunch. I had to particularly admire a nearly 70-year-old alumna dancing enthusiastically (and really well) for hours to everything from "Mustang Sally" to "Brick House" to "Play That Funky Music." We do know how to party.

[fezo]

My goodness! Hadn't seen this one before.

I'm 25. And 25 again. And 7. If that sounds like 57 that would be correct.

[geodeticman.5]

Chris - I just turned 50 ! As Gordon said: he'd been around, on: Is There Anyone Home "half a hundred days", well, I've been around half a hundred years ! I do not feel the wiser for it.

But I've heard it said that "he who is wise is one who knows what he know's NOT" - sort of from the homogenized regular guy's verson of Shun Tzu, or Confucious, hmm whadever - someone said it so its got to be true, right ?

Which must make me pretty gol'dern wise(enheimer), because I KNOW I don't know much. So, I must therefor be pretty wise. Course if I am theoretically, infinitely dumb, (not far from true I am told) and wisdom is the ideological inverse of how well you know how little you know, (&*$!) then my wisom is 1/infinity, or infinity to the power of negative 1.

Therefor, in this paradigm, we have a paradox.

If (hah!) I am infinitely stupid, which explains how I feel sometimes, then I must be very, very wise. But I know I am not very wise. In the original precept:
If P [is high] then Q [then my Q ( wisdom) must be great, where P (knowing full well how dumb I am eg awareness is high of knowing what I know NOT), and Q in turn is then supposed to be high for me e.g. wisdom, but in reality I am not very wise, we have invalidated the precept, or, simply demonstrated the principle of exception, and so we conveniently throw it out as a skew in our convenient statistical spin...., OR, we have in fact ( I like this !) proven as court de jour empirically that the Heisenburg Principle is true (OK so its ALLREADY A TRUISM pffft), in that by virtue of examining the system too closely we have invariably changed it simply by analyzing and examining it.

And are we not supposed to be self-aware, introspective, self-examining ( I won't go there), and analytical in so far as we may invoke the skill of objectivity ? We then here and now lay claim to DISPROVING THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD. And all that we thought we knew in our quest toward the unified field theory, and holding true the theory of relativity is now falling through our fingers like sand..... OK says the peanut gallery: all you have done is given legs to Quantum Mechanics and. no doubt, for good white paper presentation's value - fractals, too play a part here. Where I do not know, but they do.

Our "right" triangle is wrong, Euclid was wrong, and the complex plane has been flown ! But, as Nich DeCaro knew all along in Gord's music, string theory is TRUE and GOOD ! And the topologically impossible but real nevertheless Mobius' one-sided Ribbon of Darkness is now a victory of illumination, because by dissection, we have validated the axiom of: Whenever a Mobius strip is cut down the center of its one side, TWO non-Mobius strips result !

On alighternote -that reminds me of a great college prank to play on undergraduate math, engineering, or surveying students- tell them they MUST paint the Mobius strip one side green, the othe side blue, and the blue must be on the OUTSIDE, and that is impossible but not immediately recognizable ! A AH HAHAHAHAHA (evil laugh with good-natured hazing subtext overtones from the necessary adjuncts of the privations of troubled childhood) . Speaking of childhood, that reminds me of age, and the whole point of the thread. But that usually does not deter me.... but OK back to the subject at hand.

Chris - you know you never are suposed to ask a lady her age ! Wait, don't ask her at first.. and then REALLY offend them later with the Teutonic penchant for simply making a bad thing WORSE ! Ask them how old they are, and then say " I never would have guessed you for a day over (the age they specify minus two years) ! - You will think you have recovered from what will clearly reveal itself immediately as a social gaff upon asking their age, then, expecting the recovery with what you thought was a compliment, get wapped on the head for gaff # 2 !

You see Chris, we are supposed to say to women, only when the whole best-voided subject of age is unavoidable, to say to a lady (lets say she has stated coquetteisshly she is 39....... ), you respond with Cary Grant-like debonairre and suave smarmy-ness "why, ma'am, I never would have guessed you to be (what she said eg 39, minus ten - 15 years, unless that makes em under 18, where plausibility is shattered) - "[the mathematical results of your better-be-good math]".

Its a shame about the wisdom versus knowledge thing; since imho it is all a paradigm for humility, not the quest for wisdom, which altruistically is arguably vane, which then if we were to integrate the simultaneous equations of the two algorithms resulting from the paradox, we can therefor approach negative infinity of knowledge, and hence: mucho Wisdomo. But the classic logic algorithm is not valid in reverse.

So unfortunately, if we let our knowledge grow less and less, in an attempt to grow wiser, we learn the intrinsic limitation of not being able to take the inverse of the equation. And in humility is the seed of widom. Back to the drawing board with the universal quest of the neo-illuminati - the attempt to quantify the qualitative. It just don't work.

I know how I'll get dummberer, and in turn wiser: I'll become an extremist Liberal politician, nothing dumb about the Liberal , but the politician....er... best avoided. So, to become infinately wise ( monotheistically impossible) I must move to the left of zero on the integer line of knowledge - to negative infinity again...and..OK ok enough of the hooey. I am sorry to be so full of it... I do actually hope you got a laugh or two, that WAS the goal I promise my next post will short, concise, and to the point.lol.......

~geo steve

[geodeticman.5]

ooops this is small talk - and I just did tall talk...I'm....sorry...
-geo steve

I'm so old that...last time I went for a ride, I fell off my dinosaur

[Nightingale]

Oh no, that's really bad cause you're younger than me!

Now I feel really old...lol.

[timetraveler]

As for me, I'm very proud & happy to admit that I'll be 47 in September. Would you believe that I don't feel any older than 30?YEE HAA!

[Patti]

I'll be 51 this Tuesday.

[Cathy]

I'm five months younger than Char, and that's very satisfying....

Cathy

[charlene]

Originally Posted by Cathy

I'm five months younger than Char, and that's very satisfying....

Cathy

You're only 38 ???

[Cathy]

What? I thought you were 29! That would make me 28!

Cathy

[charlene]

typo..typo..it was supposed to be 28..
lolol
(I can't even remember back that far...lol)

[Cathy]

I remember Dan being born when I was 28. I remember living in an old trailer that used to get frost heaves in the floor.

Cathy

[timetraveler]

Myself, I'll be 47 in September, and yet I don't feel any older than 35. A nice feeling.