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60 - 69 34 16.11%
50 - 59 88 41.71%
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Old 11-27-2007, 01:53 PM   #1
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How old are you?

Been a while since we've done this poll, but I think we are "skewing" a little younger than a year or two ago. So, how old are you?
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Old 11-27-2007, 02:18 PM   #2
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I'm glad you didn't ask us how old we feel.
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Old 11-27-2007, 02:34 PM   #3
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I am 29, blond, thin and independently wealthy - how about the rest of you?

OK, OK - I'll vote...
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I'll bet the vast majority on here are 50-59, but I may be wrong..............
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I'll bet the vast majority on here are 50-59, but I may be wrong..............

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I thought the majority would be in the 50-59 group also. But I'm really surprised at the jump from 30-39 to 50-59. So where are the 40-49?
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Just a guess, but at w*rk?
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Guilty as charged.........

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i presume that since you asked me such a personal question i'll be getting a dinner out this?
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I thought the majority would be in the 50-59 group also. But I'm really surprised at the jump from 30-39 to 50-59. So where are the 40-49?
I used to be in the 40-49...but 2 weeks ago I turned fffifty.
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I'm 49 at the moment. Ask me again in 52 days and I'll be in the next bracket.
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I just turned 29 a few days back. I can hear the ticks on my life clock counting down the dreaded departure from my 20's. What a horrible noise....TICK.....TICK....TICK....
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I just turned 29 a few days back. I can hear the ticks on my life clock counting down the dreaded departure from my 20's. What a horrible noise....TICK.....TICK....TICK....
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I just turned 29 a few days back. I can hear the ticks on my life clock counting down the dreaded departure from my 20's. What a horrible noise....TICK.....TICK....TICK....
The 20's have been highly over rated.....30's were pretty darn good.....then again the 40''s were even better! But, hey, I gotta tell ya......50 is fantastic!

50 is the absolute best.....because I FIRE'd and it's just like being 5 again! No work. No school. Get up when I'm ready. Take a nap when I feel one coming on. Go to bed when I'm tuckered out. And best of all, just like being 5 again.....THE ENDLESS DAYS OF PLAY!!!

So, yep, 50 is the best.......so far! And I'd venture to guess that next year, and each successive year will be even better!
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I turned 60 four months ago and felt older immediately. A psychological thing ... but real nonetheless.
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So far 30 felt really odd (not old)to me. 40 didn't bother me and 50 well I went around telling everyone I was now a half a century old. (And that didn't bother me either.) In 5 years it will be the big 6-0. Mmmm that might feel odd also?

And just as an aside, no 70-80 in sight yet? Does that mean that they (like my parents) refuse to enter this brave new world called the Internet?
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i presume that since you asked me such a personal question i'll be getting a dinner out this?
Only if we can sell you an annuity.
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Sucks not to have rich parents or worked for Oracle in the 80s like some friends of mine. Oh well, I will do it another way.
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I'm 58 til March. Not long ago, I went jogging with my 32 year-old son. We kid around with one another often, part of the patter. When we were done, he said, "Not bad, Dad, considering you're pushing 60."

At first I thought he was giving me his typical "hard time." He wasn't. Ouch
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