Any old timers still around?

[RoJoHen]

I'll be 40 next year. I know that still makes me a young 'un to some folks around here but it's getting harder to make '80s and '90s references in the forums without being called "old man."

I'm only 27, and I have a hard enough time making 90s references around people just a few years younger than me. I shudder when I check IDs at my bar and see that people born in 1992 are old enough to drink.

 

[cooleddie74]

I know. When I stop and think that babies that were born the month I graduated from high school are now approaching the legal drinking age I feel like drinking myself.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I just got back from eating breakfast at my favorite diner. They gave me the senior discount...and I didn't ask for it. I'm only (as of this May) 43!

 

[StarMan]

Does anyone still care about their post count? What an insanely pointless thing to worry about.

Indeed. Back in the late 20th century there were some shockers. There was one particular twit who posted a thread titled "will I be the first rear admiral?" and proceeded to spam the place up...



Speaking of getting old - I just hit 31! I was still a teenager when I signed up. Still check the site daily. Although my post count is now a shadow of it's former stratospheric level.

 

[CorporalClegg]

That's not old.

I turn 32 in a week. Now talk about old!

 

[RevDMV]

I time line it by telling people that JFK was alive when I was born, and that pretty much makes it ancient...

 

[RoJoHen]

I was still a teenager when I signed up. Still check the site daily. Although my post count is now a shadow of it's former stratospheric level.

That's the thing that really blows my mind. I signed up when I was 14!

"Mom, get off the phone! I need to get on AOL!"

 

[cooleddie74]

I was 26 going on 27 when I joined the board. I still had dial-up back then if I'm not mistaken.

 

[RoJoHen]

I joined in 2000. I was definitely still on dial-up on my old school Macintosh.

 

[PlainSimpleJoel]

I know. When I stop and think that babies that were born the month I graduated from high school are now approaching the legal drinking age I feel like drinking myself.

I know what that feeling is like ... as recently I've gone back to studying, and many of the other students just finished high school last year. One of the first persons that I met isn't 18 yet.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

Hey it's my birthday and now I'm an old, old timer...call me 50

Congrats, oh venerable ancient one!

^Congratz old man! -I'll be 49 in 17 days

Happy Birthday!!
another 41 days for me

I just got back from eating breakfast at my favorite diner. They gave me the senior discount...and I didn't ask for it. I'm only (as of this May) 43!

They made a mistake. They surely meant to give you the regular customer discount and just hit the wrong key.


I'm so old that I remember when the first pocket calculators were invented. And Quartz clocks. And my dad had the 3rd PC ever in Germany
And when Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins flew to the moon, we were allowed to stay up late and watch the first two hop around on TV.
Oh, and I heard the Beatles live on radio. And saw the Blues Brothers movie premiere and the very first airing of TOS.

 

[Jim Gamma]

^I guess I'm lucky - at age 30 I still get ID'd in pubs and told I don't look over 20. I just thank them for the compliment and show them my ID card...

 

[rhubarbodendron]

ah, just you wait. You'll get old soon enough

 

[RevDMV]

I always love the Eastwood line in the Unforgiven, "We all have it coming kid..."

 

[cooleddie74]

I'm starting to get some silver ear hairs if that says anything.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

You mean that similar to silverback gorillas, Trekkies get silver-eared with age?

 

[cooleddie74]

Seems like it.

Although some of us started flinging our feces long ago.

 

[Gillian]

Hi everybody. I used to post when it was PsiPhi.org. I haent seen any names that I remember yet. I remember that some of the writers like Christopher Bennett and Margaret Something used to post. Is it still run by David Henderson, or is this completely different now. By the way I really am pretty old.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Your last name isn't Taylor, is it?

I just got back from eating breakfast at my favorite diner. They gave me the senior discount...and I didn't ask for it. I'm only (as of this May) 43!

They made a mistake. They surely meant to give you the regular customer discount and just hit the wrong key

The "regular customer discount"? I know of no such animal.

I think it's just whichever waitperson thinks I look old, they give me the discount if they feel like it.

 

[Gillian]

No. But I do like whales.