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In reply to the discussion: How old are you? [View all]

ryan_cats

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18. We
Wed Oct 28, 2015, 10:01 AM
Oct 2015

...We can't bust heads like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to tell 'em stories that don't go anywhere - like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Give me five bees for a quarter," you'd say.

Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...

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How old are you? [View all] Dawgs Oct 2015 OP
59 emulatorloo Oct 2015 #1
66 leftofcool Oct 2015 #2
80 clydefrand Oct 2015 #3
... and proud of it I'll bet. [smile] n/t lamp_shade Oct 2015 #35
late boomer - early gen xer tk2kewl Oct 2015 #4
Me too. nt cyberswede Oct 2015 #42
73 nruthie Oct 2015 #5
Get off my lawn! pinboy3niner Oct 2015 #6
I knew you would show up with something funny! leftofcool Oct 2015 #26
52 Hayduke Bomgarte Oct 2015 #7
old enough to know better, but young enough to keep making the same mistakes over and over. Javaman Oct 2015 #8
+1 emulatorloo Oct 2015 #40
Old enogh to not give a shit either. rug Oct 2015 #58
That too. LOL Javaman Oct 2015 #67
Hey that is really close to my line: Kalidurga Oct 2015 #158
Eligible for Medicare on my next birthday. mnhtnbb Oct 2015 #9
Same here! 65 next January. (Lord, how did THAT happen?) 11 Bravo Oct 2015 #34
I do NOT know. mnhtnbb Oct 2015 #71
36 Zing Zing Zingbah Oct 2015 #10
Same here. Xyzse Oct 2015 #17
46 yeoman6987 Oct 2015 #11
Five days older than Bernie Sanders tularetom Oct 2015 #12
Just turned 79 a week ago. justhanginon Oct 2015 #13
68 GeorgeGist Oct 2015 #14
Is that dog years? Sanity Claws Oct 2015 #15
I have clothes that are 50 years older than you. lamp_shade Oct 2015 #16
You're a hipster? n/t ryan_cats Oct 2015 #19
More like a flower child. lamp_shade Oct 2015 #21
Do you still have your gold electro-plated peace sign on a leather chain? leftofcool Oct 2015 #27
. [laughing] Nope. I was a semi-flower child.... a sort of wall-flower child. lamp_shade Oct 2015 #29
Wall-flower-child here too! leftofcool Oct 2015 #31
We ryan_cats Oct 2015 #18
That bit never fails to crack me up. nt Codeine Oct 2015 #23
Same Here! ProfessorGAC Oct 2015 #33
that old, eh? Hey, thank your lucky stars you can still remember that bit. librechik Oct 2015 #45
Oh gandpa! Behind the Aegis Oct 2015 #157
I'm ryan_cats Oct 2015 #187
68 mainstreetonce Oct 2015 #20
45 as well. Codeine Oct 2015 #22
I'm 54. Trust me... Whiskeytide Oct 2015 #172
67 one month from 68 mountain grammy Oct 2015 #24
Old enough to know better, LWolf Oct 2015 #25
54.424657 corkhead Oct 2015 #28
59 ProfessorGAC Oct 2015 #30
Just turned 39 (ugh) Blue_Tires Oct 2015 #32
75 Tracer Oct 2015 #36
60 in just a few short months! NRaleighLiberal Oct 2015 #37
Turned 70 in August. Glorfindel Oct 2015 #38
Me too. s-cubed Oct 2015 #46
August of '45? Snobblevitch Oct 2015 #61
Yep, August of 1945 Glorfindel Oct 2015 #101
58 KaryninMiami Oct 2015 #39
58, 59 in January n/t TexasBushwhacker Oct 2015 #148
Y'all are a bunch of ancient old farts. F4lconF16 Oct 2015 #41
You missed a couple of great decades. rug Oct 2015 #59
40 NightWatcher Oct 2015 #43
68 but I feel about 80 some days. Shrike47 Oct 2015 #44
I'm 64 Digit Oct 2015 #47
71 onyourleft Oct 2015 #48
"Too young for Medicare but too old for men to care" --- femmocrat Oct 2015 #49
55. Rond Vidar Oct 2015 #50
39 Heddi Oct 2015 #51
Hey, me too Recursion Oct 2015 #155
When's your birthday Heddi Oct 2015 #166
July 7 (nt) Recursion Oct 2015 #169
Look out 40! Heddi Oct 2015 #170
YOU'LL BE THERE FIRST!!! Recursion Oct 2015 #174
62, and I just moved in with my father roody Oct 2015 #52
Message auto-removed Name removed Oct 2015 #53
37 nt prayin4rain Oct 2015 #54
51 n/t PasadenaTrudy Oct 2015 #55
Pushing 72, just like frogmarch Oct 2015 #56
I'm thirty-twentyeight. Gidney N Cloyd Oct 2015 #57
59 kimbutgar Oct 2015 #60
Older than Bernie. Downwinder Oct 2015 #62
55 Runningdawg Oct 2015 #63
33 Quackers Oct 2015 #64
I just turned 34. bravenak Oct 2015 #72
I feel 60 Quackers Oct 2015 #121
I know!!! bravenak Oct 2015 #125
203. hunter Oct 2015 #65
As Mr. Dixie complained not too long ago dixiegrrrrl Oct 2015 #117
in the game of life dixiegrrrrl Oct 2015 #66
Alrighty then...I'm level 56 for the last 5 ays. Half-Century Man Oct 2015 #112
I'm 27 IVoteDFL Oct 2015 #68
*high-fives fellow Millenial* sakabatou Oct 2015 #74
Above ground. Solly Mack Oct 2015 #69
Just a kid Tree-Hugger Oct 2015 #70
28 sakabatou Oct 2015 #73
Bless you, my child! LongTomH Oct 2015 #75
... sakabatou Oct 2015 #111
My apologies. That was a thoughtless comment. LongTomH Oct 2015 #118
*shrugs* You didn't know sakabatou Oct 2015 #186
117, and I smoke two packs a day and drink a quart of Wild Turkey randys1 Oct 2015 #76
Lemmy?! nt Codeine Oct 2015 #179
80 ! virgogal Oct 2015 #77
71 and 1/2. n/t Peregrine Took Oct 2015 #78
Too damn old!!!!! The big seven-ohhhhh! LongTomH Oct 2015 #79
Isn't this how identity theft starts? nt valerief Oct 2015 #80
74 this month. jwirr Oct 2015 #93
Me too, in August. trof Oct 2015 #122
old enough to know better! MisterP Oct 2015 #81
Quite a bit more than 1 billion,... DreamGypsy Oct 2015 #82
As old as my tongue and a little bit older than my teeth benld74 Oct 2015 #83
DAMN. I was JUST about to post that. dorkzilla Oct 2015 #123
almost 53 BuelahWitch Oct 2015 #84
39 JackInGreen Oct 2015 #85
32. Though the matter I'm assembled of is ~16 billion years old Scootaloo Oct 2015 #86
Main brain always short-circuits when I see/hear comments like this one. You are part of a long ChisolmTrailDem Oct 2015 #100
Dust? No, friend. ELECTRONS. Scootaloo Oct 2015 #102
So, it's them electrons what's doin' it? Am I collecting electrons from stars and nebulaes? ChisolmTrailDem Oct 2015 #109
I don't age GummyBearz Oct 2015 #87
Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now pinboy3niner Oct 2015 #96
My favorite group. I was there at the beginning . . . . . . Hoyt Oct 2015 #153
This message was self-deleted by its author 1000words Oct 2015 #88
++++++++++++++ still_one Oct 2015 #127
I'm asking out of curiosity. n/t Dawgs Oct 2015 #167
40 in hexadecimal Doc_Technical Oct 2015 #89
48! arcane1 Oct 2015 #90
59 maveric Oct 2015 #91
58. wait or am I 59? no, it's 58 I think. IcyPeas Oct 2015 #92
71. Old age ain't for sissies. Bette Davis Tierra_y_Libertad Oct 2015 #94
I thought that was Katherine Hepburn! Tipperary Oct 2015 #97
Could have been. Either way it rings true. Tierra_y_Libertad Oct 2015 #98
I looked it up. It was Bette. Tierra_y_Libertad Oct 2015 #99
Good to know! Tipperary Oct 2015 #104
Both of them were classy and well-spoken. Tierra_y_Libertad Oct 2015 #106
Yes indeed. Tipperary Oct 2015 #115
59 hifiguy Oct 2015 #95
38 nt a la izquierda Oct 2015 #103
69 bhcodem Oct 2015 #105
39 liberal_at_heart Oct 2015 #107
55 CentralMass Oct 2015 #108
I don't remember... in my 3rd trimester... Kip Humphrey Oct 2015 #110
52. nilesobek Oct 2015 #113
50 applegrove Oct 2015 #114
Depends. What we using as the yard stick? Glassunion Oct 2015 #116
69 and one month. Blue_In_AK Oct 2015 #119
Also 45 loyalsister Oct 2015 #120
Born in the late 1960s. Warren DeMontague Oct 2015 #124
52, too. Why aren't we all too old for the internet? Bucky Oct 2015 #126
Old and wise enough to still be seated at the kid's table for the holidays.... Brother Buzz Oct 2015 #128
63 Agnosticsherbet Oct 2015 #129
my age begins with a six.... mike_c Oct 2015 #130
71 lpbk2713 Oct 2015 #131
34 nt Luciferous Oct 2015 #132
8 years and one day younger than Bernie. calikid Oct 2015 #133
Early 30s. Deadshot Oct 2015 #134
51, but most people think I am 10 to 15 years younger. smirkymonkey Oct 2015 #135
you want I should kick your young-looking ass, smirkymonkey? Skittles Oct 2015 #136
You can try, but it's a little saggy Skittles. You might fall on your ass. smirkymonkey Oct 2015 #137
well, you can no longer bounce a dime off my ass Skittles Oct 2015 #138
Young enough that I still enjoy comics and cartoons! kentauros Oct 2015 #139
Just this side of dirt Homer Wells Oct 2015 #140
I own fossils of animals that used to be my house pets DFW Oct 2015 #141
I won't give an exact age, GGJohn Oct 2015 #142
62 PCIntern Oct 2015 #143
I'm 49 Rhythm Oct 2015 #144
I'm 65. eom a kennedy Oct 2015 #145
47 flygal Oct 2015 #146
71 kskiska Oct 2015 #147
XXXIX aidbo Oct 2015 #149
45 Starry Messenger Oct 2015 #150
Happy belated Bday! Behind the Aegis Oct 2015 #156
61 Pastiche423 Oct 2015 #151
66 NBachers Oct 2015 #152
Older than Surtsey Island Art_from_Ark Oct 2015 #154
I am 32 and will be 33 before the end of November. nt LostOne4Ever Oct 2015 #159
Old enough to know better than to put my real age on the internet. cwydro Oct 2015 #160
Are you joking about not putting real age on internet? Dawgs Oct 2015 #168
I don't put anything personal on the internet if I can help it. cwydro Oct 2015 #180
I'm 44 davidpdx Oct 2015 #161
32 marle35 Oct 2015 #162
In my head, I'm 30. ladyVet Oct 2015 #163
Old enough to know better-not that it has stopped me. hobbit709 Oct 2015 #164
65 last June SteveG Oct 2015 #165
65 next April. B Calm Oct 2015 #171
50 mucifer Oct 2015 #173
69 tomorrow. tavernier Oct 2015 #175
56 liberal N proud Oct 2015 #176
67 - And I'm noticing a lot of other old farts in here. GoneOffShore Oct 2015 #177
37 BlueJazz Oct 2015 #178
Just turned 71 this month. nt Stellar Oct 2015 #181
Older than what I look like FrodosPet Oct 2015 #182
80 Thirties Child Oct 2015 #183
3/4 century OxQQme Oct 2015 #184
And this thread represents the HIGHLY skewed support for Bernie on the site snooper2 Oct 2015 #185
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