May 24, 2004

• I got a 286 when I was eight.
• 51 this coming september.
• I'm 28, going on 12.
• 18 and feeling young.
• I was in highschool when the first test tube baby was a reality...during the Jonestown massacre..during the Iran hostage fiasco.. when skylab hit the India ocean...when sony walkman was first introduced..damn i got old quick, although I don't feel it...42
• 19
• My earliest memory outside of my home is of the fireworks for the USA bicentenial in 1976. I was three and a half.
• I had a crush on Sean Astin, Rob Lowe, and River Phoenix when i was in elementary school. I wanted to be Martha Plimpton so I could mack Mr. Phoenix. (I'm 28).
• I own a house and two cars. I just bought my first tailored suit. I was also in the 6th grade when Challenger exploded, and I remember being intensely sad when my classmates started laughing about it.
• I'll be 29 in a couple of months. Fuck.
• I was a child of Thatcher (not literally, I hasten to add) - indeed, I lived nearly the first seventeen years of my life under a Tory government. I remember the Amstrad 1512. The Ethiopian famine is the first major humanitarian disaster I can recall. I'll have to live into my early eighties if I want to see Halley's comet return. I fully expect that my next birthday will remind me of a popular television series starring Kiefer Sutherland.
• 43, turn 44 july 3. but for some reason i've felt 26 for about 10 years now.
• The first Gulf War started a couple of months before I got my driver's license. "Star Wars" was the first movie I ever saw in a theater. I celebrated my first birthday the same year the US celebrated its two hundredth. I was born exactly one hundred and ten years to the day after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. So, 29.
• As an exchange student in high school, I was unable to travel with my host family to Berlin because the East Germans weren't letting Americans through the corridor that week. In college, we read history books about the fall of the Berlin wall. (34)
• I got a 286 when I was eight.
• I'm a late-cold war kid. Born during Nixon and Vietnam, raised during Reagan. No wonder I'm so cynical. 34 this Thursday. Ay Chihuahua!
• 34
• Do you remember Thunderbirds the first time round? Well I remember Fireball XL5 , its predecessor (don't think they'd even invented Supermarionation then). Actually, come to think of it I remember Supercar , the Gerry Anderson series before that. Hang on - actually I dimly remember Four Feather Falls , which must have been the one before that - could it have been the inspiration for 'Woody's Roundup' in Toy Story 2? Very similar, as I recall.
• I was best friends with Sacagawea, but that bitch left me for two white men. Hi-yo!
• I've been 25 for almost five years now. Still get carded for booze and cigs.
• It has been drawn to my attention that SUPERMARIONATION actually began with Four Feather Falls. Sorry.
• The first movie I remember seeing was Star Wars which opened on my birthday, I was six that day. I was in high school when the Challenger exploded and when Ferris Bueller took his day off. I was in college during the first Gulf War and worried about the possibilities of reinstating the draft. I left college just before the .com boom hit it's stride and took crappy jobs for a while until I got a job at one of those .coms. Tomorrow will be the 27th anniversary of the release of Star Wars.
• I will be able to take my first legal sip of alcohol in 76 days, but I will unfortunately be in the middle of training at Ft. Lewis, Washington so that won't happen.
• I was in elementary school when the Challenger exploded. I vaguely remember the first Gulf War but I think that's just because I wasn't paying attention. They stopped my Latin class freshman year (high school) to announce the OJ verdict. I grew up on 50s and 60s music. I forget how old I really am on a daily basis...
• First week of classes at my first year of university was 9/11. It was my first time being away from home. I remember listening to the verdict of the OJ Simpson trial on the radio in my grade 8 classroom. Went to the see the first Matrix movie on its opening night, BEFORE it was big. That would've been about grade 10 or 11.
• I was going to use similar markers (first movie in theater and DL acquisition age), but I realized that would throw you way off. I'm 34 and have a good enough memory to realize that I once thought 34 was OLD.
• 27
• I play league tennis three days a week and practice three days a week and never thought much about my age even though I'm the oldest guy on the team by eleven years. -- Until this post. Good grief, I'm sixty six. I think I'll go lay down!
• Indirect: My first concert was The Ramones at the Metro in Chicago. Direct: I'm 37.
• I was student teaching in Burnt Hills, NY when it was announced that OJ had been found innocent. I was in grad school. I was 22.
• I'm 27 and I don't remember anything.
• Born between Kennedy and Apollo.
• I was a freshman in college when Lennon was shot, sophomore when Reagan was shot, a senior when Gaye was shot. I'm 41. I'm pretty scared of guns, you betcha.
• almost 21... god I feel old
• My parents dragged me out of bed to let me see and hear Neil Armstrong say that scripted line about giant steps. I was 5 years, 3 months and 16 days and wanted to be an astronaut.
• CRIPES! No wonder Quonset's so damn cranky. He's ancient. Lessee ... Yesterday morning, I felt about 27, then I did a 15 mile conditioning ride with my spooky, rotton, BOUNCING horse in a miserable cold wind, getting ready for next week's endurance ride. Today I feel about 165 years old. The horse is ready, but I can't believe I'm going to go pay money to do something that hurts so bad. 'Nam; Woodstock; first man in space; the Monkees; Kent State; All in the Family. The Kennedy assassination, Beatles, Led Zep, The Dead; MLK's Dream; that skinny bitch Twiggi and mini skirts (the first time around) The Summer of Luuuuv. In '69, I was too old for Butch Cassidy and too young for Midnight Cowboy. Nixon and Watergate. "Mistakes were made." 5 cent stamps 6/10/53--a fine vintage Gemini. Damn I'm old! Move over Q, GramMa wants to sit down.
• What RXR said.
• When I was ten I saw the Karate Kid in San Franciso.
• I'm infantile.
• I'm 20.
• I lost my primary school job as milk monitor when Maggie Thatcher became the milk snatcher. 34 and still scarred by the experience.
• Young enough to feel I need to lie about it; old enough that I can get away with it, because no one can be sure when you are this old (and dye your hair), and are almost covered by age discrimination legislation.
  
  I guess I should now start promoting the idea that this culture should value its elders, instead of the notion that there needs to be room for new, young ideas, which I had not thought of until this post get me thinking about how old I am getting. Gee, thanks a lot.
• OK, he denys it, but I gotta say I knew it all along: FLASHBOY IS THE LOVE-CHILD OF THATCHER And the rest of you, quit prevaricating. BRATCAT: Only 13 DIRTDIRT: Barely pre-teen BB FINNIGAN: we know you're at least in your 40s IGGY: Isn't it past your bedtime, young lady? DIZZY: Wise beyond yer years. NAXOSAXUR: Probably slept with Eve? Or Adam? Dammit, you were told to leave the snake alone! SIDEDISH: Not quite old enough to drink. BOO_RADLEY: A Dougie Howser in his first tailored suit. NIPPURR: On you, big boy, age looks soooo sexy! EXPPII: I got a 286 when I was eight. I got a 286 when I was eight. ALL RIGHT ALREADY! Sit down before you wet your pants. Fun post, Caution, you lively, handsome young Frog, you.
• LBJ was President when I was born, and the first thing I remember about watching tv was when Watergate updates would break into my Saturday morning cartoons and I remember being annoyed that the boring news kept interrupting SuperFriends and Speed Buggy. I'll be 36 in two weeks.
• 32 in a few days. Margaret Thatcher's 1979 election victory is my first political memory, though I vaguely remember the Queen's Jubilee in 1977 - our street was decked out in flags and bunting. How times change.
• One of the old timers. I was in fifth grade when Kennedy was assassinated.
• Cheers and happy birthday plep, from a fellow 30-something late-May crazed Gemini.
• 42. Life, the universe, and everything. But only for a couple more months.
• I'm 26 - no, 28 - damn, I can't remember any more. This is what I get for not having proper birthday parties with candles and balloons and games.
• childhood rich in lovely orange & brown velour... 36
• quonset is old enough to be my kid brother. *gives q a noogie, tells him a scary story* And BlueHorse would be old enough to be my kid sister, if I had a kid sister. *ruffles BlueHorse's hair affectionately*
• 28. And about to move in with my parents for the summer. Sigh. Let's see, I'm old enough to want nothing to do with this ridiculous 80's rival. These kids today with their ironic legwarmers and white pumps, in my day we wore those things because we didn't know any better. /shaking my tiny fists
• 41 in june and I'd like to take this opportunity to say, "you kids get off my lawn." >My first concert was The Ramones at the Metro in Chicago. Was that when Iggy was the opening act? I should remember that night, but I don't.
• I saw X at Metro
• I remember the moon landings & the breakup of the Beatles. I got a Commodore 64 when I was in high school. My age is my Monkeyfilter user number.
• The day I was born was the same day Affirmed, the last horse to win the Triple Crown, won the Kentucky Derby. I was in elementary school when Challenger exploded - I distinctly remember the janitor lowering the flag to half-mast, and wondering why he started to take down the flag but stopped half way. There's a picture of me in my High School yearbook watching the OJ verdict on TV with my Senior year AP Bio class. 26.
• Just turned 30 last week...or as i like to call it, twenty-ten.
• Star Wars: grade school Reagan (that fucker): high school (is there a charmap for the 'anarchy' symbol?) Guns 'n Roses: College I 486 DX 100: College II Now: Old enough to be amused by the 25+ year olds feeling old, young enough to feel stupid all the time.
• I lived the rise and fall of the Amiga. I evangelized it until the platform's very last gasp. Not I earn my living working with translucent machines twiddling translucent buttons. /whimpers
• Arsenal beat Manchester United in the FA Cup final on my 14th birthday. (YAY!) I remember playing moon landings at primary school. I remember decimilisation. Never saw Star Wars. You could still get a grant when I went to Uni ... I was too young for punk ... but too old for Duran Duran ... Thank f&*k there are older people than me here. It says 39 on my passport but I tell people I'm 28 again ... I'm getting scared about being 40 next year
• 25. :|
• 23 and nothing of note happened to me. I was sequestered during the 80's and the 90's was a blur.
• I'm 40. But I'm emotionally immature so I seem much younger.
• I was 5 years old when Elvis died. When I woke up this morning, my back hurt. I think that means I'm officially joining the ranks of the old people. But I am only 32.
• thirty-four I outlived Christ.
• I'm a little over fourteen of your Earth centuries old. Although some of you puny humans have said I look as young as 34.
• cs1 i'm pretty sure we're the same person. I was this close to posting that exact same comment.
• I am in my Christ year. About to have a 33 1/3 vinyl party.
• I remember seeing Nixon resign on TV and Viet Nam war footage on the news. I regularly forget how old I am. I'll be 38 the end of August. My daughter will be 21 in October, which is more terrifying than I have the words to express.
• I was 13 when the first PG-13 movie came out. Phew!
• I remember being confused when Match Game '72 (sort of a game show) changed its name to Match Game '73. I was five, and apparently slow for my age.
• This game's too hard for me.
• Trying to imagine How it must feel to be free for the first time, I Remember when The Berlin Wall fell to the Youth of Germany.
• I was 13 in 1975...:)
• Jesus, next thing you know you'll want to know how much money I make. I was born when Dave and Rhonda had their first date. The planets aligned, my mom broke her water and Dave and Rhonda snogged.
• The first world event that I was aware of was the Chernobyl disaster. The Challenger exploded the year I turned ten. I had a massive crush on Lou Diamond Phillips after my Dad took me to La Bamba. My grandmother gave me her Bobbsey Twins collection. 28 in July.
• FDR was president when I was born. JFK was elected about a month before my 21st birthday. R&B and Calypso were vieing to take over from ballads, only to be buried by RocknRoll, when I was in high school. Got my very own 486SX when I was in my mid 50's, and I still don't know what a math co-processor is at 64.
• twentyeight.
• I'm so old, God has forgotten my birthday....47
• Holy Crap! Whadda bunch of youngsters! 49. Hey- Quonset, BlueHorse, languagehat, nippurr (and in preview, TEM)- can I sit with you guys? I promise not to reminisce about anything at all!
• So, Squiddy--- How much DID you pull down last year?
• 29
• 25. :/
• When I was in high school, the Bee Gees were at the top of the charts. I'm still trying to recover... Luckily, punk hit around the time that I went off to college.
• 31. My first political memory: serving as Reagan's "campaign manager" (I was assigned to do it, I swear!) during the '80 election. I made little buttons and handed them out to my class, and he got elected. So, I'd like to formally apologize for my part in the implementation of the Reagan era. In my defense, I was only in first grade and didn't know any better.
• 3/9/66
• I'm 35 and still get carded. I don't I will for much longer since A got a few gray hairs now.
• Hey Hat, CUT IT OUT! You think you're a hot-shot just 'cause mom always loved you best. And you young punks can always Look that up in your Funk and Wagnells. Dizzy: Me, too. Ok, Squid, we can tell you're dying to tell us, we'll bite. Didja make enough last year to afford a tailored suit? If we have a meet-up in your home town, could you shout all the Monkeys a beer? Buy us a meal? Could you fly us all there? Business class or cattle car? Klepton: You don't look a day over 1130. This game's too hard for me. Blaise: Just pick a number, any number. I promise not to reminisce about anything at all! Zed: We'll have to talk about it, but since you DID promise, we just *might* let you sit with the gummers in the prune gallery tonight. Wadda think guys? I SAID, WHAT DO YOU THINK? Dammit, will you old buggers quit spittin' and fartin' and try to discuss this? Where's Hat's ear trumpet?
• Diz, let's just say that I can't afford a one bedroom condo in Los Angeles yet. Still got those student loans to pay off.
• a² + b² +c² + 11= d a + b = 40 a + c = 27 b + c = 31 Solve for d
• you're 900, jim? geez, you are a geezer
• i guess when you get old, you tend to forget your roots ;)
• tinder, he didn't say that was his age. I'm guessing it's his car's engine size. /evil
• 44. or maybe 45. I flunked 16 and had to take it over. First movie in a theater was "Mary Poppins" First play: *cough* Godspell *cough*. First concert: Bowie in the Oakland Coleseum. High school: Patty Hearst was kidnapped, the graffitti on the wall said 'Richard M Nixon in '72...why change Dicks in the middle of a screw.' Also in high school I saw Eraserhead (once). And The Rocky Horror Picture Show over and over and over and over again. Explains a lot, really.
• Gonna be 28 in two weeks. (Now you know, Wolof!) Lots of Geminis here, I notice :) Still feeling a little shell-shocked I managed to live this long.
• 38. I remember watching the first moon landing on a 12" blak and white TV in Vina del Mar, Chile. A few years later and the democratically-elected socialist government was tossed out in a coup that launched the fashion for death squads operating with a wink and a nod from our old pals at State, and is set to continue with Mr. John "Honduras" Negroponte moving to Baghdad to oversee the un-occupation. The next thing I remember after the Chilean coup was Watergate. I was taught early that democracy is fragile and American elected officials are by no means actually in favor of the principle.
• 21. I remember second grade homeroom during the first Bush's gulf war. We pasted little cut-out men and drew little explosions onto maps every morning to chart the progress of the U.S. troops. Then we wrote to soldiers. Mine was one of the few who wrote back. She sent me Iranian Coke cans and M&M wrappers. One day our school had a pro-war pep rally (what can I say? I grew up in an area that was and still is overwhelmingly Republican. It's in Louisiana, but it might as well be in Crawford, Texas). A guy in a Native American costume (the mascot of the local college) came out and ripped a Saddam Hussein doll to shreds. I felt a little inexplicably weird about the whole thing. I put the candy wrappers up on my bulletin board, though.
• The first president I could vote for was Cleveland (the second time around), I experimented with snake handling during the Great Awakening, became disillusioned with it after hanging out with Prince Kropotkin, got terribly sick with yellow fever fighting the Spanish outside of Havana, and the Tea Pot Dome scandal changed the way I felt about USian politics; but really I don't feel a day over twenty four.
• Until I was 17, everyone thought I was a few years older than I was (hardly ever carded for smokes). After I was 17 until about two years ago, everyone thought I was a few years younger than I was (always carded for booze and smokes). Now I suppose I look my age, but I feel ten years older. I guess having a baby will do that to you. =P It could be those first gray hairs, or the little frown lines developing on the forehead, or the sudden droop-and-spread on my body. Or it could be the mental havoc wreaked when I made it to the quarter-century mark - because I guess I didn't expect to, somehow. When the Challenger disaster happened, we were watching it live from my third grade classroom. It freaked me out because that teacher was the first person I ever knew of that had the same first name as me. And then, you know, she exploded. So. I feel compelled to tell you that I'm a Virgo and that's why my answer is overly detailed.
• 36 Does anyone get the feeling that we skew, ah, mature here?
• quick! someone histogram this thread! i have a feeling we may be bimodal! stat!
• 38. 39 in about a week. And every morning I wake up, and I feel 15.
• 3/9/66 Wow, we share birthdays. You know, give or take 19 years.
• So...is it give or take, BBF? /nosy
• I gradumated college and turned twenty-two the day this Great Conjunction happened, and I lead a charmed life.
• Maybe a better link.
• just turned 26
• 42. Life, the universe, and everything. me too ! 06.20.61 june babies rule ! i neither act nor look my age and i don't intend on doing so for quite some time.
• Does anyone get the feeling that we skew, ah, mature here? Speak for yourself, buster, at 52 I'm skewing 'crumbling into decay'. I consider myself a human version of one of those urban ruins sites everyone loves.
• physically 25 mentally 12 most of the time I act like a 4 year old
• Koko just turned 35 today. singing: You're the birthday You're the birthday You're the birthday Boy or girl!
• happy birthday KoKo...! may this be your best year yet :-) everyone do the birthday dance...!
• Happy Birthday to KoKo! Today is also the anniversary of the Chinese government removing its ban on Shakespeare and the release of Star Wars. It's a good day. We really do have a ton of Geminis. My birthday is on the 27th. Yay for Geminis!
• Alnedra: Take. I think. Uh. I'm younger. Yes. Anyway, I just worked out that he's probably using the ass-backwards American date method so we don't share a birthday at all. Oh well.
• I was in 7th grade when the Challenger exploded & a senior in high school when the first Gulf War started. Today I'm 31 1/2.
• "Arse-backwards", Blaise, "arse-backwards".
• National speed limit of 55mph is enacted, Happy Days debuts on TV and Richard Nixon resigns as President of the United States. 30 years young.
• we need a "monkey birthday today" thread or javascript crawl or sommink. Scorpios represent! /monkey_gang_sign
• In my early sixties.
• Lots of Geminis here, I notice We really do have a ton of Geminis Actually, there really aren't that many more Geminis, it's just the schizo voices and multiple personalities make it seem so. Does not, BlueHorse. Does, too. Does not. Does too. Shut up. You shut up. No, you shut up ....
• I think that it just *seems* that there are more Geminis because we are all in birthday season right now, and comment on that. oh, and we tend to talk a lot too.
• BlueHorse: Speak up, I can't hear you -- somebody took my damn ear trumpet! zedediah: Come on over here, but look out for quonset, he does love setting people's hair on fire. He doesn't mean anything by it, though. Koko: Happy birthday!
• My post-highschool life corresponds with my post-9/11 life. (Drove to college on thursday.) My first political memory is the Gulf War in (I guess?) third grade. 21. And never ever carded.
• Our polite but confused Geminis are all right by me. It's those uppity Aquarians that are always causing trouble!
• So, did I win or lose? I'm not sure.
• Path, believe you may be my senior by a year or two from your remarks above re JFK. I was born June 1942 like so many chatterboxes and parrot lovers. So if there's a prize, you should probably claim it. If someone else doesn't nose us both out, that is:)
• ehh, 20, I think.
• BBF, she meant; March 9, 1966. She is a redheaded Pisces. Too old to keep up with my two and three year olds. But lovin' it nonetheless.:) /digress
• bees - I was born in 1939. But I'm not sure that the oldest among us "wins."
• wow. Path, you're older than my grandma! uh... not that that's a bad thing. I ♥ you! *salute*
• who let all these damn kids in here? what's that - Hawaiian noises? He's bangin' on the bongos like a chimpanzee . .
• ..54 i think eisenhower was president back when my family emigrated from britain in '53, to canada. but my memory isn't that great for that year.
• I think he is going to sit in a corner quietly and not say anything, lest he embarasses himself again.
• hey, now i have a much better idea of who i'm dealing with. we do indeed seem to be skewed towards the mature side (with a few of us either being or acting immature to balance it out). thanks, y'all. so how long before the geritol and AARP sidebar ads start showing up? (and for the record, as of february '04 i'm 30. so those of you 29 and under can no longer trust me.)
• I think path should win the exalted title of "Monkeyfather". Which just leaves the question of who gets the exalted title of "Monkey's Uncle"
• We're all so avuncular, there's just no way to judge.
• so who's got this mapped out yet? Overlay the political leanings and we have the beginnings of a monkey demographic. Then sell it to Coke for $$$! oops did I type that or just think it? . . D'oh!
• Gosh, I thought Uncle Nostril must be the monkey's uncle.
• Plegmund, go to your room right now for even suggesting such a thing! (Besides, I'm female, and "Monkeymother" sounds like a swear word.)
• Path: Does that mean I have to give you my GramMa
• And yes, Nostril is the Monkey's Uncle. But I DO think we need a MonkeyMutha-- Shall this be an elect or a volunteer position?
• MonkeyMutha-- ? perhaps a rotating honour, for whomever merits the title, as per mood and comments of the day?
• Wow. Times like these, I really have to tell you all I love you. *HUG* We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread.
• You can totally call me monkey mutha. Even though im 25 and male.
• BlueHorse - there's no way anyone can take your title away from you. I would never dare to try. And the rest of you, you've already got a Monkeybashi, which is much better than a Mutha. And, I'm not sure that Mutha is really complementry (or, is that the point?), even though I suspect I would qualify based on some of my past indescretions. Alnedra, let's pause for a moment to ponder the sweetness that is you before we return to our regullarly scheduled silliness.
• *ponders Alnedra's sweetness*
• Ok, ok, already! Let's get off my sweetness. I only got so much! *blushing furiously*
• awww....
• Path: Of COURSE it's not a compliment--for instance: Pete_best gets today's MonkeyMutha award for lecherous pondering. Although it was close--lkc almost had it for use of the word totally (lost it 'cause he didn't use dude in the same sentence) And Fes is the Monkey's AvUnkel, of course.
• i would think that, in monkey milieu, Monkeymutha would be an ambiguous word, dependent upon the specific context it is presented and taken. no harm given, none taken. award given, try to get out of it. i suspect that on some days, people will be seeking it, in it's various aspects, of course.
• They say PF is one baaad Monkeymutha-- Shut yo' mouth! --but I'm talkin' 'bout PF! Then we can dig it.
• wowachickawowachickawowachicka *backs up goetter, cues string section*
• *shakes booty*
• IT'S TOO FUNKY IN HERE! *sweats*
• *pages Maceo*
• 22
• Uncle?? WE GOT TWO MONKEY'Z UNCLES! On you Uncle, 22 looks gooooood.
• Although it was close--lkc almost had it for use of the word totally Awww, hella weak, dude. Word-booty. To your moms that is. Those terms are all better than "snark" by the way.
• Has dng added all this to the stats yet?
• i've been busy and neglecting the land of monkeys. has no one claimed the fame yet? or earned it? *finds this very hard to believe...
• Obviously PF must be awarded the title Monkeymutha, or Munkey Mutha, if you prefer, for all the bodacious booty shakin' going on. The rest of the Monkeys are in awe of his bootyliciousness. So what ever happened to the rest of the Monkeys? Are they afraid they'd skew the demographics if they posted their ages? Are they too senile to remember how old they are? Did their mommys sign them up at birth and they can't reach the keyboard to post? IMWTK!
• 25, and now you know.
• Why bother Bluehorse? Assuming all the petebests are the same age we could certainly conclude the average user age is near 34.
• *laughs at Zemat's comment*21
• (i'm just so happy i started a thread that got over 150 comments. look at me, i'm all giddy... now if i can just do that with like an actual post rather than the "ooh! ooh! a personal question!"-type thing we all like to get in on, i'll have it made!)
• several of me are much more immature. *sticks tongue out at Zemat*
• There have been 166 comments. There are 1130 Monkeys. They can't all be pete_best. Somebody isn't playing. Now, NOW, NOW is the time to quit lurking. If you post only one time in your Monkey career, do it NOW. Do it for the children.
• I think they're all either pete_best stunt doubles, or else hit-and-run monkeys who haven't logged in since January.
• I have noticed that new users supposedly haven't logged in since Jan 01, 2001 or something like that. I should get around to fixing that one day. Either that or time moves backwards in MoFi and we're all getting younger by posting here. *sucks thumb, toddles*
• Frogs sort of asked for hints rather than figures, but if it's for the children, then, um. 47
• When I was born "Jaws" and "Tommy" were the big movies and Kung Foo Fighting dropped out of the top 10 on the music hit list.
• squeak: so you're in your prime!
• 29 But in S. Korea where, I've been living the last couple of years, age is measured from conception, making me 30. So I've been getting some practice. I live in NYC as of last Friday. I don't know how they measure age here. I'm still trying to figure out the trains.
• born in the year of the tiger I have both Pyramids and Guards Guards in hardback somewhere, which were the first Terry Pratchett novels I read, but didn't get seriously addicted until I started university a few years later. I remember looking for the supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud. 30
• 21
• I could have sworn I posted here, but now I can't see where. So... 26 on the 30th. And no, I'm not changing my username. 25 is my favorite number (I've had minda25 as my email address since I was 17). My husband does that, though.
• Mere babes in arms! Polychrome, there are days I feel like I WATCHED the LMC being created. Older than the known universe, that's me.
• Do it for the children. We have offspring of monkeys here? Is this like a generational filter? Anyway, my birthday is Sputnik Day, but I was born in a different year, between Apollo and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In fact, it was the year Secretariat won the Triple Crown aka the year of the water ox. In other words, I'm 30.
• *raises hand* There's at least one Monkey offspring here. I get to call path Mutha even if the rest of you don't. And I'm 35.
• 34 going on
• 24. Same birthday as BlueHorse, ergo Gemini.
• 34
• Gee, how did I miss this thread when I've got a clasic bit of Wendelltrivia®™ about how the day I was born became a Major Motion Picture.
• 54 we had to learn how to leap quickly under our desks in public school. that was for some protection from nuclear fallout during the Bay of Pigs. we believed that world war 111 was potentially immiment. that's in Canada. i was a teenager when the Beatles arrived. i've been busy for the rest of my life.
• Wendell, you're obviously destined for greatness.
• wendell destiny is parallel to greatness. Always near to touch it but never to reach it.
• Zemat: Whoa! That's so guru-like! Will have to meditate on it for a while to figure out what it means, but very impressive.
• I'm 17. I think I may be the youngest here. I was born on February 21, 1987, just in case you monkeys didn't feel old enough already. And that was over a year after Challenger.
• wendell destiny is parallel to greatness. Always near to touch it but never to reach it. Yep, that's gonna be the new tagline on my blog.
• Argh, BBF and Mfpb are hardly old enough to stay up late rockin' with the geezers on the front porch!
• Hush. (It's 1:24AM where I live and I'm about to go run an errand, so this is typical for me.)
• It's after ten, do you Monkeys know where the kids are?
• I stayed home from 3rd grade one day, due to post MLK assasination riots in Baltimore. Was John Dean a hero or traitor? And how about Maureen Dean - cute? Energy crisis, gas lines, lots of talk about living with shortages. We got a used Ford as president when I was in 10th grade. I don't remember who I voted for in the 1980 election. Three Mile Island - wrote a paper on it in English in college, even as it happened. Born on Mothers' Day, 1959.
• World's oldest monkey dies :-(
• younger than the oldest monkey, I am. may she enjoy picking up peanuts in that monkey haven of the great beyond! born the year Hot Chocolate had "You Sexy Thing" on the radio. also a Gemini, whee!
• Hey, Abiezer, thanks for reviving this thread- I wasn't here the first time around. I'm a couple of months older than EarWax.
• I am currently the age of the "secret" number on a bottle of Rolling Rock
• Dammit, do you all realize I'm nearly a year older than when Mr. Frogs first posted this thread? Paagh! *smacks gums, mumbles, drools
• *hastily removes high-port bit from BlueHorse's dainty mouth*
• 22
• I'm a litttle older than when this thread starting loading on my dial-up.
• I have tried different ages, but many years back I decided to stick to being 32. Mainly because I think 16 is the best age to be halfway to where I have been for some time, now.
• whinny snort stomp *blows green slobber down the front of Bees' shirt in gratitude *bridles, sidles, and bats eyelashes charmingly
• Enough, BlueHorse, back on the lunge line until you work out some more and behave more appropriately. /damn fillies in this spring weather.
• *prongs around the field with her nose in the air, her tail kiked up over her back, and the "can't catch me" attitude
• Late to join, I'll be 26 this coming Bastille Day. Zute Allures!
• 51 days older than BlueHorse.
• Callaghan child here - 7 months old at the advent of la Thatcher. (but flashboy is more famous than I am)
• 50 and apparently one of the old timers here. Gotta go- my lumbago's acting up
• Poor Kamus, bad kidneys AND lumbago. tisk-tisk
• wow, I've never seen this thread before The Greatful Dead were on the cover of the Rolling Stone (but I was never a dead hed.) The Ford Pinto just hit the streets. Little Big Man, Five Easy Pieces, and Catch-22 were in the theaters. 35
• I missed this the first - and second - times through as well. I was 10 years old when I won a family bet on who shot J.R. Ewing. I was 13 when MTV first broadcast. Indeed, I saw it the very first day, and fondly remember the video montage bumper segments they used then to fill up airtime, as well as some of the more, ahem, obscure artists that got a ton of play just because they were among the few who had videos. (Duke Jupiter, anyone? The rocket launch montage? The frequent and disturbing showings of Un Chien Andalou? Randy of the Redwoods?) I was in high school when Live Aid took place. Somewhere, I still have a copy of one of the knockoff/companion releases, Stars by Hear 'N Aid. I am a Gemini, but actually, I'm a pisces. I realize that my personal milestones are skewed, and indicate that I was allowed to watch waaaaay too much TV growing up. (I too, was personally outraged when they pre-empted the Superfriends and the Kroftt Superstars to show the Watergate hearings. A slightly older generation hated Nixon for Vietnam, we hated Nixon for that. Also, I had nightmares for many years because of John Ehrlichman's eyebrow.) I still watch waaaaay too much TV.
• *sneaks up behind Deconstructo, kicks cane*
• Hey - I missed this too! Amnesty International was my first concert. I was home sick from high school when the Challenger blew up. Pretty Hate Machine and Nevermind were the soundtracks to most of my college years. I left my cubicle to watch the verdict of the OJ case. And I'm the same age as the level of my undead mage in WoW (34).
• First concert was Stompin' Tom, with my second (third?) girlfriend, who said she hated Tom but later tried stealing my signed t-shirt. Which led to our breakup. (Theft of a Stompin' Tom shirt was, is now, and always will be a dumpable offence.) Challenger explosion was in grade six, when I was in the bullshit tax-haven known as Enrichment, where the nerds were stuck in a room with nothing to do but fill in Xs in logic graphs, where that boredom-in-babysitting was called 'self-directed learning.' A bit older, I was waking up with a nasty hangover, turned on the tv and heard that the shuttle went kaboom, thought 'the anniversary was last week -- this is pretty old stuff', and went back to bed. I missed the second tower getting hit because I couldn't see without my glasses. Convinced my mother that it was just instant replay. Missed the first Live-Aid because I was camping. Missed watching the original Star Wars because Mom thought it was too violent. I 'celebrated' my third-annual twenty-ninth birthday last December. I'm a Saggitarius. Which means I'm half man, half horse.
• I am a Rat. Rats of my vintage have seen our year go by twice, and are looking forward to the third in 2008.
• theft of Stompin' Tom related articles is a grave offense.
• (twice after our birth-year, that is. Oops.)
• To repeat a common theme in this thread, I also missed this thread first/second time around, and I was also in the sixth grade when the Challenger gave up the ghost... *PA System crackle* Principle Weingartner: For those of you who might happen to follow the space shuttle program, I thought you might like to know that the Challenger just blew up... /*PA System crackle* (Yeah, and then I got in trouble for watching the news coverage on the TV in the library. My history teacher demanded that I return to class and watch a film on the Salem witch trials instead) When I was in the second grade, I wrote a letter to President Carter. I got a hand-written letter back from his daughter Amy, and a polaroid of Grits. [damn, I wonder whatever happened to that]
• After waiting for Daisey_May, I'm quite sure I'm two years older now.
• Dx, no wonder you missed her. She came in under another name.
• Yeah, look, whatever...but seriously, I'll be another year older in a week or so, so I'd be hurrying that collection along if I were you. I've told Chy what I want, so check with him. Thx
• How long does a beetroot sandwich stay good for? Do they make beetroot packing peanuts?
• Saw the first manned moon landing as a toddler, vaguely remember posters of Spiro Agnew in prison stripes. Fully alert for The Star Wars Christmas Special. In short, old as the hills. Cheers to the fellow she/he-geezers!
• Daisey got to come by using another name? *contemplates name change. Does it really help? This would be so much simpler than HRT and sticky creams and stuff? /wow, a sex life again?
• Another one who missed this thread. I was born in Indianapolis on the morning of this tragedy.
• DX: The problem with a sex life after 50 is getting out of breath so quickly. That, and remembering where you put things.
• That, and remembering where you put things I'm not going to say it I'm not going to say it I'm not going to say it
• I think I've found it, it was behind the bath chair...
• Well, imagine that. I'm forever losing things and forgetting where i put them. If I blame it on my non-existent sex life, there could be even more problems and, shall we say, distractions from that fellow who is always looking for a place to put his thing. So we both seek and lose for different reasons and causes. Which brings the sex thing into a different dimension. Philosophical dichotomy of physical fusion. /ponders genital area with detachment.
• Yours DETACHES??????
• The future is all about naughty-part modding. I'm installing an Easy-Bake oven and a thermal carafe in my wife next week.
• No, Granma, *explains with plodding precision. I detach from them. Big difference. Less ouch for the buck and lots more mental stimulation and pleasure. /trots off with head held high in disdain and still gumbling, now about smart-ass old mares.
• *picks up monkeywrench, thinks about proceedure, puts down monkeywrench I'm afraid to detach because I'm not sure if I can reattach. Damn, now where'd I put the monkeywrench?
• ...when I was in the bullshit tax-haven known as Enrichment, where the nerds were stuck in a room with nothing to do but fill in Xs in logic graphs, where that boredom-in-babysitting was called 'self-directed learning.' Wow, Capt., I did that too. I actually got stuck in a entirely different school for one day a week. I thought it was just some bland dream; far too boring for a nightmare. The one thing I never understood was the relaxation techniques: was this an early form of ADHD treatment that my parents never owed up to?
• *finds monkeywrench* *throws it in the works* Since I'm gonna have some of those unnecessary parts detached surgically next month, /hot flash /have to catch up with that rambunctious mare later on.
• Hot flashes: all the sensation of a really bad sunburn without the peeling skin and sand in the swimsuit.
• So they tell me.
• /fans self with one hand and pecks keys with finger of other. Also manouvers cold, damp cloth. I'd just soooo love to have a sunburn. *glares at ovarian area with hostile intent*
• Hot flashes are caused by power surges. They make old mares cranky.
• They also flash who only stand and gape.
• Now, now BlueHorse - it's not you, the room's too hot! It'll be too cold in a moment or two. Great to have the buzz back in MoFi.
• I'm 85. Who wants some gentle jiggery-pokery?
• I'm bummed, because in four days I'll no longer be The Answer.
• almost 21... god I feel old Yeah, once you hit the big One-Five it's all downhill. I'm bummed, because in four days I'll no longer be The Answer. Now that is bum-worthy. Or should I say bummed-worthy because of you cheeky monkeys? Okay, I'll stop now.
• I should have gone to Carousel last September, but I ran.
• 34, now, eesh. I still dont need to shave more than once a week though...might have something to do with the months supply of birth control pills i ate in one sitting at the age of 3. i do worry about a heightened risk for cervical cancer...
• InsolentChimp, did you see Jenny A.? Is she still wearing that green thingy? Oh, and your hand clock is showing.
• oh sexyrobot, you are so cute!!! 34, well I can pretend to be your babysitter, right??
• I am, like about 80% of MoFi, 30 now. Thirty, of European ancestry, middle-class, educated (well, mostly). Is this the standard MoFi demographic? Is anyone willing to write a census?
• Definitely the Census should use year of birth instead of age so you don't have to do so much adding in old threads (~_^)....
• 1955 (gasp!) Educated, middle-class, European I enjoy long walks on the beach, candlelight dinners and anal massage in the fenlands
• Erg. Turning 35 this year. I try not to think about it too much.
• Keepin' it real since 1973. *points at fimbulvetr, laughs*
• '69, dude!!
• What Koko said.
• I don't feel as old as my birth certificate indicates, so the concept of being halfway to 70 is a bit disconcerting.
• I do not act my age, I simply bee.
• Erg. Turning 35 this year. I try not to think about it too much. Yeah, fimbulvetr, me too. To both.
• 1968 here, so I guess I can be Louis babysitter too.... /leers suggestively in the general direction of Canada
• RTD=nunia+12 or Medusa+10. Still not too old to...oh, wait, what was the question???
• Old enough to know better, too old to care.
• Your math is wonky, Ralph. Must be the old age creepin' up on ya.
• You young whippersnappers use what is known by the rocking chair set as "New Math". Gampy Ralph is clearly (and appropriately) using Old Math, thus the variance in numbers.
• 1970. Nuff said.
• 1971! What a good vintage year (^_^)
• 1970
• *points finger at pretty much everybody, laughs more*
• 1965 Now get the hell off my lawn!
• Erg. Turning 35 this year. I try not to think about it too much. Yeah, fimbulvetr, me too. To both. posted by nunia at 02:19AM UTC on January 09, 2007 Ditto that.
• 6' 3".
• My wife's 35. The doctors keep referring to her condition as "advanced maternal age." I find this phrase fascinating, and use it in her presence as often as I can. She enjoys this.
• The older I grows, The dumber I gets; The more things I knows, The more's I forgets. Is knowledge the price Of the wisdom I gains? Is that why there's mice Running loose in my brains? I used to be clever, But now I is old. If learning's a fever, My gray matter's cold. I forgotten the point I was trying to makes, 'Cause my rickety joints Is beginning to aches.
• )))))
• Great poem ya old bag!
• Eh? A blog?! I don't want a blog! My wiki hurts!
• Old enough to know better, too old to care. posted by islander at 03:01AM UTC on January 09, 2007 Islander's been in MY profile, messin' with MY soul lines! Get'em, boys! When I get ahold of that scamp I'm going to thump him till he's back in diapers.
• My wife's 35. The doctors keep referring to her condition as "advanced maternal age." I find this phrase fascinating, and use it in her presence as often as I can. She enjoys this. Heh. I should try that on Mrs. Fimbulvetr. I bet she would enjoy that as much as she does my refering to her as a weeble (5" tall and 7-month-pregnant). The funny part is that her mother now also calls her a weeble! I am in sooooo much trouble.
• you are in even more trouble, as you just claimed she was 5 inches tall
• stupid non-metric measurement systems. I shoulda stuck with what I know.
• hmmm... *checks Bluehorse's profile* But GramMa, you're "still young enough not to care"! Some days I feel like I'm approaching the "too old to know better" phase.
• as you just claimed she was 5 inches tall It's good to know even the teeny-weeny people can find happiness. There truly is someone for everyone. Aw.
• I guess at 5 inches tall, she really would be weeble sized . . . .
• "When I get ahold of that scamp I'm going to thump him till he's back in diapers." GramMa, can you just thump me until I'm back to, say, 19? okthxby
• I'll be in diapers again soon enough, thanks.
• I for one look forward to the upcoming diaper years.
• "advanced maternal age." At a similar age and in similar circumstances Mrs P was charmed to find her forms described her as an "elderly prima gravida".
• *tries to stop a couple thumps short for Lara WHOOPS!
• 1959, on Mothers Day.
• Googoo!