Poll
Question:
To all of you out there- Were you born before, during, or after 1963?
Option 1: Before 1963
votes: 15
Option 2: During 1963 (or within 6 months either way)
votes: 4
Option 3: After 1963
votes: 22
... because this year is the Big Five-Oh for me and I'm curious where that puts me on the Grogheads Cradle-to-Grave spectrum. Feel free to post about which category you fall into, or not, but do please take the poll.
On the plus side, if anyone bothers you you can always spit your teeth at them. :o
;D
The early voting puts you firmly in the decreiptitude camp. 6 after 1963. Next thing you know, we'll be letting someone born in the 80's in here?!?!?!!!!
I got 2 years before I hit that advanced age... ;)
Stagger, there are some benefits to getting older.
The bouquet and tactile sensation of creamed cauiflower cannot be appreciated by today's youths.
Quote from: MetalDog on May 19, 2013, 11:21:19 PM
The early voting puts you firmly in the decreiptitude camp. 6 after 1963. Next thing you know, we'll be letting someone born in the 80's in here?!?!?!!!!
umm ... to late ... ::)
OH for F&^ks sake! Tent get off my lawn!!!!
I think Tent is one of the youngest forumers around here.
Isn't anyone checking IDs at the door?! :o
Quote from: mirth on May 20, 2013, 01:44:23 PM
Isn't anyone checking IDs at the door?! :o
Actually we are.
I was born on November 2nd, 1963; around 3:30 in the afternoon.
And I was born on Novermber 18th, 1948, although I did fail to note the time.
6th of November, 1963. Dreading being fifty as I crashed and burned at forty, though looking back I suppose it was fun in a warped way.
Quote from: LongBlade on May 20, 2013, 01:50:33 PM
Quote from: mirth on May 20, 2013, 01:44:23 PM
Isn't anyone checking IDs at the door?! :o
Actually we are.
It is just really easy to pass a fake id, what with all y'all's eyesight going and what not. :P
Bawb you are two years younger than my Dad and one year younger than my Mom. So there's that.
I hereby vow to live long enough to see the look on TCT's face when he opens his first AARP mailer.
I am proud to say I am the same age as NASA. It was a good year for space geeks.
Quote from: Staggerwing on May 20, 2013, 07:37:20 PM
I hereby vow to live long enough to see the look on TCT's face when he opens his first AARP mailer.
I'll be sure to swing by the old folks home you are in and bring extra batteries for your hearing aides and a magnifying glass. ;D
Quote from: TheCommandTent on May 20, 2013, 10:25:51 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on May 20, 2013, 07:37:20 PM
I hereby vow to live long enough to see the look on TCT's face when he opens his first AARP mailer.
I'll be sure to swing by the old folks home you are in and bring extra batteries for your hearing aides and a magnifying glass. ;D
Eh? What's that you said Young Lady? And where are my teeth?
Staggerwing, if it's any consolation, at least you're not old enough to be my father. (I was born in '76, which makes me a "whippersnapper" here...relatively speaking. ;) )
Quote from: bob48 on May 20, 2013, 01:57:26 PM
And I was born on Novermber 18th, 1948, although I did fail to note the time.
Ah, so you're actually a few months younger than my father (he just turned 65 yesterday)! For some reason, I'd been under the impression you were born a few years earlier than that.
Perhaps it's your wife's use of the frying pan that had me thinking that -- an elegant weapon for a more civilized age...
Quote from: Martok on May 21, 2013, 08:01:06 AM
-- an elegant weapon for a more civilized age...
Ha!
Has Grogheads thought about offering discounts on Depends? Not that I need them. I'm in the pre-63 group BTW.
Usually people say they are looking to buy in bulk for a parent...
Born October 24, 1946 which was 9 months after my Dad got home from the Pacific. Don't need depends yet.
Quote from: Labbug on May 21, 2013, 12:52:24 PM
Born October 24, 1946 which was 9 months after my Dad gone home from the Pacific. Don't need depends yet.
Thank Gawd for that. Somebody on here that's older'n me.
Quote from: Gusington on May 20, 2013, 07:32:30 PM
Bawb you are two years younger than my Dad and one year younger than my Mom. So there's that.
Jeez, Gus. Cheer me up why don't ya.
Young whippersnapper!
November 3, 1959. I remember being a kid and calculating how old I would be in 2000....and I remember thinking "40. I should still be alive at 40", lol. Kinda glad I made it past that particular milestone already.
Quote from: Martok on May 21, 2013, 08:01:06 AM
Staggerwing, if it's any consolation, at least you're not old enough to be my father. (I was born in '76, which makes me a "whippersnapper" here...relatively speaking. ;) )
This is the only site on the Internet where you and I represent the 'damn kids and their newfangled nonsense'. ;D
and we would have gotten away with it too if it hadn't been for you meddling kids
The future of television, 1961
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kekg9g819Ks
My nonsense is more newfangled than yours. But not Bawb's.
I've got oldfangled nonsense.
What is the "fangled" you old-timers are talking about? :P
Old fangled is way more dangerous than new.
Quote from: TheCommandTent on May 22, 2013, 02:38:52 PM
What is the "fangled" you old-timers are talking about? :P
Hint: it has the word "fang" in it.
Quote from: Gusington on May 22, 2013, 02:42:49 PM
Old fangled is way more dangerous than new.
Of course. It's just been lying about, collecting filth and disease for more years than anyone can be bothered to count.
Quote from: TheCommandTent on May 22, 2013, 02:38:52 PM
What is the "fangled" you old-timers are talking about? :P
Shut your punk mouth!
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They sure don't make fangles like they used.
I carried an M14 when I worked for Uncle Sam for a few years, back when dinosaurs still roamed the earth . Along with a poncho, half of a pup tent, a metal mess kit and canteen cup, entrenching tool, steel pot (helmet), etc., and I really did have to eat SOS at times. I guess that dates me. They are all museum pieces now. Hell, I guess that makes me one too.
What do the troops use in the field, if they run out of paper plates?
Quote from: Arctic Blast on May 22, 2013, 03:54:37 PM
Quote from: TheCommandTent on May 22, 2013, 02:38:52 PM
What is the "fangled" you old-timers are talking about? :P
Shut your punk mouth!
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Now that's funny.
^That's charming because it looks like Arctic painted it himself.
Quote from: Fitz on May 22, 2013, 04:36:13 PM
I carried an M14 when I worked for Uncle Sam for a few years, back when dinosaurs still roamed the earth . Along with a poncho, half of a pup tent, a metal mess kit and canteen cup, entrenching tool, steel pot (helmet), etc., and I really did have to eat SOS at times. I guess that dates me. They are all museum pieces now. Hell, I guess that makes me one too.
What do the troops use in the field, if they run out of paper plates?
Fitz, thanks for the nostalgia and welcome to Grogheads. As you can see from the rest of this thread, you'll have no trouble fitting in.
Quote from: Gusington on May 22, 2013, 06:42:31 PM
^That's charming because it looks like Arctic painted it himself.
His geriatric nurse may have given him some help on that one.
I am a Carter baby, as if that should surprise anyone. ;D
All these guys in their 50s! They say 50 is the new 30...
Quote from: Gusington on May 22, 2013, 06:42:31 PM
^That's charming because it looks like Arctic painted it himself.
Nope. Had I painted it, the ranting old man would be a stick figure.
Quote from: TheCommandTent on May 22, 2013, 10:27:22 PM
Quote from: Gusington on May 22, 2013, 06:42:31 PM
^That's charming because it looks like Arctic painted it himself.
His geriatric nurse may have given him some help on that one.
Esmerelda is a saint and you leave her out of it!
...
I think my nurse is stealing my pills.
...
Who is this woman? My NURSE?! I need no such thing!
...
Quote from: son_of_montfort on May 23, 2013, 12:34:21 AM
I am a Carter baby, as if that should surprise anyone. ;D
All these guys in their 50s! They say 50 is the new 30...
lies.
50ish year old women arent as fun as the 30 year olds.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on May 23, 2013, 12:42:45 AM
lies.
50ish year old women arent as fun as the 30 year olds.
Beg to differ... mine 50ish year old wife is a lot more fun than most 30 yr olds I knew..... ;)
Saying you're a Carter baby is a little deceiving. I am a Nixon baby but only because I was born in June '74, just a few weeks before he resigned! But it makes me sound more ancient.
Quote from: Gusington on May 23, 2013, 08:24:00 AM
Saying you're a Carter baby is a little deceiving. I am a Nixon baby but only because I was born in June '74, just a few weeks before he resigned! But it makes me sound more ancient.
Well, I almost was a Reagan baby, I suppose, had I been born seven months later.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on May 23, 2013, 12:42:45 AM
Quote from: son_of_montfort on May 23, 2013, 12:34:21 AM
I am a Carter baby, as if that should surprise anyone. ;D
All these guys in their 50s! They say 50 is the new 30...
lies.
50ish year old women arent as fun as the 30 year olds.
I think that is a supposition that needs to be street tested.
Quote from: son_of_montfort on May 23, 2013, 09:37:46 AM
I think that is a supposition that needs to be street tested.
There's anecdotal evidence this is true. Women in their 30s are generally in the midst of rearing children. Their libido plummets.
Post-menopausal women OTOH often report a return of energized libido.
Quote from: LongBlade on May 23, 2013, 10:46:56 AM
Post-menopausal women OTOH often report a return of energized libido.
Where do these women go to file those reports and during what hours? I might need a wingman...
^I can help you.
While she's still a young lass at 47, I can attest to the re-energized libido :)
I was born in '63. My reward was having my first colonoscopy (and without anesthetic - very interesting experience).
What's really strange is that 1963 is the next-to-last year of the Baby Boom, which means I'm in the same age cohort as people born in 1946, who are almost old enough to be my father. Demographics are weird.
A colonoscopy without and anesthetic is also weird, these days.
But I tell ya, the topical anesthetic they give you for bronchoscopies and gastroscopies is really weird. Well, it freaked me out, anyway. If I ever have to have another bronchoscopy, I want a general anesthetic!! :(
Yup, we're getting older. We're comparing medical procedures.
Actually, other than a few moments of discomfort, a colonoscopy is interesting. You can watch the journey through your colon (and they give you pictures as souvenirs). It literally looks like a Jacque Cousteau underwater adventure.
Michael
Quote from: Gusington on May 23, 2013, 08:24:00 AM
Saying you're a Carter baby is a little deceiving. I am a Nixon baby but only because I was born in June '74, just a few weeks before he resigned! But it makes me sound more ancient.
Which is why I can claim to be an Eisenhower baby, even though I was born in the last two months of his final term ;D
Both my parents are Truman babies.
To feel really ancient start thinking about what kind of presidential babies your grandparents or great grandparents were if they were born here in the US. My grandparents that I knew were not born here, but if they were, they would have been Wilson and Harding babies!!
Now that's old[e].
My paternal grandmother would have been a Roosevelt baby...
Teddy Roosevelt.
Quote from: Steelgrave on May 25, 2013, 12:17:51 PM
Which is why I can claim to be an Eisenhower baby, even though I was born in the last two months of his final term ;D
I'd be a Kennedy baby, myself, so you must be only about three plus years older than me. Huh.
Depends. I'm 53, but I was born the week before JFK won election and two months before he was inaugurated. So I'm just barely an Eisenhower baby.
Technically I'm a Ford baby, as I was born December 1976. How woefully undistinctive. :-\
Quote from: Gusington on May 25, 2013, 04:06:34 PM
Both my parents are Truman babies.
To feel really ancient start thinking about what kind of presidential babies your grandparents or great grandparents were if they were born here in the US. My grandparents that I knew were not born here, but if they were, they would have been Wilson and Harding babies!!
Now that's old[e].
My grandmother (on my mom's side) probably has everyone beat: She's a Taft baby!
Not so... Read my post above. ;)
I meant in the sense that my grandmother is actually still living. (102 years old, and still going strong!) If we go by who has the oldest grandparents period, then our more distinguished members like bob and Greybriar are certainly going to take that one. :P
102! Congratulations!
My Grandmother lived to 96 but her last decade was not a happy one due to her dementia. I'm glad to hear yours is doing well. I imagine she has quite a few stories to tell about her perspective on the great events of the last century.
Wow. I like the idea of Greybriar and I being elevated in status to 'Distinguished' as opposed to 'Old Farts' ;)
^No one says you can't be both.
I've known about Martok's Grandmother for some time and want him to pen her biography, especially up to the age of ten!
My great grandmother is long dead. And she was born in Ukraine, not the US. Despite both those key items she would have been a Grover Cleveland baby :) (1895)
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I'm feeling a bit left out, so I thought I'd chip in with a UK entry.
It seems that Clement Attlee was PM when I was born, and not, as some of you may think, Benjamin Disraeli. ;D
I would have put money on Walpole.
Quote from: Martok on May 25, 2013, 11:58:34 PM
Technically I'm a Ford baby, as I was born December 1976. How woefully undistinctive. :-\
dont sell yourself short. youre cool enough that Im pretty sure you were concieved in a Chevy.
Quote from: Gusington on May 26, 2013, 01:55:15 PM
I would have put money on Walpole.
Nevet heard of the bugger, Gus. So I looked him up;
Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, KG, KB, PC (26 August 1676 – 18 March 1745), known before 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British statesman who is generally regarded as the first Prime Minister of Great Britain. Although the position of "Prime Minister" had no recognition in law or official use at the time, Walpole is nevertheless acknowledged as having held the office de facto because of his influence within the Cabinet.
So, you know more'n me, mate.
I was just going for the 300 years between Walpole and us, Bawb. But if you as a Brit never heard of him, maybe I should have just used...William Pitt (The Elder)?
^Pitt the Infant, according to Blackadder.
However, I lament my lack of knowledge of British PM's - who, lets face it, have by-and-large been a bunch of useless tossers anyway, and only qualified for the job because they were too dopey to get proper work.
Bah! - Bring back Oli Cromwell, says I. He was always good for a laugh.
HA tossers. I dig most US Presidents. Except the likes of Franklin Pierce, Andrew Johnson and the wet farts we've been stuck with for the last 13 years.
Quote from: Steelgrave on May 25, 2013, 04:53:53 PM
Depends. I'm 53, but I was born the week before JFK won election and two months before he was inaugurated. So I'm just barely an Eisenhower baby.
You've been misrepresented Steelie. I thought you were OLD old. 53 is simply old. ;D
It occurred to me recently, that at 42, I'm now middle aged. That realization was an onion in the ointment.
Quote from: mirth on May 27, 2013, 01:08:29 PM
Quote from: Steelgrave on May 25, 2013, 04:53:53 PM
Depends. I'm 53, but I was born the week before JFK won election and two months before he was inaugurated. So I'm just barely an Eisenhower baby.
You've been misrepresented Steelie. I thought you were OLD old. 53 is simply old. ;D
It occurred to me recently, that at 42, I'm now middle aged. That realization was an onion in the ointment.
I remember being a kid and thinking that 40 was ancient! Funny how our perspective changes. I consider myself to still be middle aged. The good part of the equation is that I am more comfortable in my skin than I was at 20...or 30...or 40. I know who I am and I'm ok with it.
Gee, that almost sounds kind of "Dexter"ish......ha!
Quote from: Steelgrave on May 27, 2013, 01:15:34 PM
I remember being a kid and thinking that 40 was ancient! Funny how our perspective changes. I consider myself to still be middle aged. The good part of the equation is that I am more comfortable in my skin than I was at 20...or 30...or 40. I know who I am and I'm ok with it.
I feel like I'm just hitting my stride. For a long time I still felt, more or less, like the same "kid" I was at 20. It's really only in my 40s that I've felt "mature", still don't feel old at all.
Quote from: bob48 on May 20, 2013, 01:57:26 PM
And I was born on Novermber 18th, 1948, although I did fail to note the time.
You should've been paying better attention!!!
1960 here..
Quote from: mirth on May 27, 2013, 01:08:29 PM
Quote from: Steelgrave on May 25, 2013, 04:53:53 PM
Depends. I'm 53, but I was born the week before JFK won election and two months before he was inaugurated. So I'm just barely an Eisenhower baby.
You've been misrepresented Steelie. I thought you were OLD old. 53 is simply old. ;D
It occurred to me recently, that at 42, I'm now middle aged. That realization was an onion in the ointment.
its not like he said you were Windy old.
Quote from: Tuna on May 27, 2013, 01:55:28 PM
Quote from: bob48 on May 20, 2013, 01:57:26 PM
And I was born on Novermber 18th, 1948, although I did fail to note the time.
You should've been paying better attention!!!
1960 here..
LOL - yeah, musta been kinda distracted.
Quote from: mirth on May 27, 2013, 01:47:57 PM
Quote from: Steelgrave on May 27, 2013, 01:15:34 PM
I remember being a kid and thinking that 40 was ancient! Funny how our perspective changes. I consider myself to still be middle aged. The good part of the equation is that I am more comfortable in my skin than I was at 20...or 30...or 40. I know who I am and I'm ok with it.
I feel like I'm just hitting my stride. For a long time I still felt, more or less, like the same "kid" I was at 20. It's really only in my 40s that I've felt "mature", still don't feel old at all.
I regard my 40's and 50's to be the best years of my life so far. I have very little strife, a wife of 33 years and counting, two sons who grew into fine men who make me proud, two wonderful daughters in law who are really daughters, two grandsons that have my heart tied into knots, several friends who I go back decades with, and newer friends from all over the globe who don't drink my beer because we're online.
Life is good!
Quote from: MetalDog on May 23, 2013, 09:47:27 PM
While she's still a young lass at 47, I can attest to the re-energized libido :)
Is that relationship going well?
It's running over a couple of bumps at the moment, but it's mostly due to external pressures and little time to spend with one another. Stuff that will clear of its own accord and in due time. Thank you for asking :)