How Old are you Guys?...and Gals!

[LOTRFan]

I'm 27 as well, and no I don't think we are middle-aged.

 

[Khev]

I'm 32. Got to see the SW OT during each of their original theatrical runs and also take part in the glory days of Atari 2600 and Saturday morning cartoons. :chew

 

[pixletwin]

I'm 32. Got to see the SW OT during each of their original theatrical runs and also take part in the glory days of Atari 2600 and Saturday morning cartoons. :chew

 

[gideon]

from FrankenFan

Well. A challenger to my exalted station of board Grand Geezer.

What's your DOB, gideon? I was born July 29, 1949,

was born on the seventh day of the seventh month and if you multiply the month times the day you get the year .... seven times seven being forty-nine.

So my friend I have you my a mere three weeks. I taught school for 33 years and always offered an automatic grade of 100% on our first major test if any student could do the multiplication trick with their birthdate what I could do with mine. It happened just twice in all those years.

FrankenFan...when you were young how many miles did you walk to and from school each day(both ways uphill of course)? How much was a Hersheys candy bar? How much was the first burger, fries and malt you bought at a fast food place? And ten cent comics ..... remember those? I better shut up or get both of use banned here.

 

[carbo-fation]

And ten cent comics ..... rememeber those.

Wish it was still true today!!

 

[lcummins]

I'm 32. Got to see the SW OT during each of their original theatrical runs and also take part in the glory days of Atari 2600 and Saturday morning cartoons. :chew

Do you actually remember seeing ANH at that age? I don't think I can remember anything before about 5 years old...

OH! and the late 70's wasn't the glory days of Saturday morning cartoons! That would be the late 60's and very early 70's!!!

 

[pixletwin]

I'm the same age as Khev and I remember seeing ANH. The only thing I remember was the scene with Vader, Leia, and the interogation droid.. Scared the piss out of me!

By the way... I can remember many instances from my infancy.

 

[dunedain]

Still 17...

 

[vespagirl]

57 now .... that beats even the nazgurl .... but it has its advantages ... back in the early 1970's I traded a $250.00 book for first US editions of all three Lord fo the Rings books complete with original dust jackets. Traded a second one of the same value for a first US HOBBIT - sadly no dust wrapper. . Not just first editions but first printings as well. Have held onto all of them despite soaring values.

So being around awhile has its advantages.

Heck, I remember asking Teddy Roosevelt for his autograph ... (never mind).

So I have to ask....was Moses in your yearbook?

 

[gideon]

Moses had just retired as a teacher in the high school I was to attend a year before I got there.

 

[DarkArtist81]

Moses had just retired as a teacher in the high school I was to attend a year before I got there.

Moses had a Harley and some tats... Big Ten Commandments belt buckle...

 

[RoboDad]

Well. A challenger to my exalted station of board Grand Geezer.

What's your DOB, gideon? I was born July 29, 1949, the same month Groucho Marx made his television debut hosting "The Popsicle Parade of Stars," and the day the mercury hit a record-setting 99øF in NYC.

I may be a few years behind you both, but I have no less auspicious a birthday. I was born on the day Dwight D. Eisenhower was re-elected to the presidency. My mother was a staunch Stevenson supporter, and has forever blamed me for his loss in that election (a "fact" that has always brought me no end of mirth ).

 

[gideon]

Another Boomer heard from. Cool.
Ike did give us the coast to coast national highway system --- so he did at least one very good thing.... other than your birthday that is.

 

[Darren Carnall]

a sprightly 34 here.....

although with the constant 12 hour days, 6 (sometimes 7) days a week I'm doing at the moment on my commissions I think I'm aging by about a year each week............

 

[FrankenFan]

So my friend I have you my a mere three weeks.

I have been dethroned! The Grand Geezer is dead! Lone live the Grand Geezer!

FrankenFan...when you were young how many miles did you walk to and from school each day(both ways uphill of course)? How much was a Hersheys candy bar? How much was the first burger, fries and malt you bought at a fast food place? And ten cent comics ..... remember those?

gideon... I'm 57-years old. Do you really expect me to remember my childhood?

But, seriously, I lived "out-of-district" to the closest kindergarten and elementary school and had to walk about a half-mile to catch the school bus. Past the third grade, school bus service was not offered and I had to walk an additional mile to public transportation, then walk about another half-mile to the school. So, roughly 4-miles to and from, and, it was rather hilly. Honest!

Growing up in the fifties, a Hershey bar was a nickel; a real burger, fries, and shake was 55-cents at the local "candy store," where I also bought my comics for 10-cents each; Famous Monster of Filmland cost 35-cents an issue and Mad was a quarter; and penny candy sold for, well, a penny. Mmmm. Wax lips and peppermint cigarettes!

 

[El Roranous]

I have been dethroned! The Grand Geezer is dead! Lone live the Grand Geezer!


gideon... I'm 57-years old. Do you really expect me to remember my childhood?

But, seriously, I lived "out-of-district" to the closest kindergarten and elementary school and had to walk about a half-mile to catch the school bus. Past the third grade, school bus service was not offered and I had to walk an additional mile to public transportation, then walk about another half-mile to the school. So, roughly 4-miles to and from, and, it was rather hilly. Honest!

Growing up in the fifties, a Hershey bar was a nickel; a real burger, fries, and shake was 55-cents at the local "candy store," where I also bought my comics for 10-cents each; Famous Monster of Filmland cost 35-cents an issue and Mad was a quarter; and penny candy sold for, well, a penny. Mmmm. Wax lips and peppermint cigarettes!

I like those prices!!!

 

[LOTRFan]

 

[DarthNeil]

I'm as old as I feel----- so while my driver's license may say 32 & 3/4 I will always be a spritely 11 & 3/4.

 

[Cocoboloboy]

I'm 32. Got to see the SW OT during each of their original theatrical runs and also take part in the glory days of Atari 2600 and Saturday morning cartoons. :chew

Wow. I was born in 75 and the earliest movie I remember seeing in the theater is E.T., but I do remember seeing SW ROTJ in theaters with my older brother as well as Jaws 3-D.

 

[Fritz]

39

(October 14)

although I'm not Scottish...

1322 - Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence.

...but more importantly...

1978 - US President Jimmy Carter signs bill legalizing home brewing of beer for the first time since Prohibition.