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26. Well.................don't tell anyone this, OK?

Sat Mar 5, 2022, 08:27 AM

Mar 2022

Our elder daughter just turned 39 last Tuesday, and we don't want her to get wise to us.

Hello back from, umm, hold on, let me check, ah, OK--Germany! (I was still in Spain this morning)

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How old are you, DUers? (poll) Please vote! lol [View all] DemocraticPatriot Mar 2022 OP

What I am hearing on the radio right now... DemocraticPatriot Mar 2022 #1

Always loved that song PlanetBev Mar 2022 #34

I think you forgot something DemocraticPatriot canetoad Mar 2022 #2

Now i have. 59 DemocraticPatriot Mar 2022 #5

Thank you! canetoad Mar 2022 #8

Ask me two weeks from today DFW Mar 2022 #3

Are you finally turning 40?!? róisín_dubh Mar 2022 #4

Well.................don't tell anyone this, OK? DFW Mar 2022 #26

but we ask tonight, not 2 weeks later DemocraticPatriot Mar 2022 #6

I use my DU right to refuse to answer DFW Mar 2022 #27

I turn 60 myself in about three weeks. Dial H For Hero Mar 2022 #33

Been there, done that: DFW Mar 2022 #41

'Early returns' suggest that we are mostly older than shit DemocraticPatriot Mar 2022 #7

Periodically canetoad Mar 2022 #10

I'm not the same age I was when I joined DFW Mar 2022 #28

Thank you for that reference! Many of us here will get it ms liberty Mar 2022 #29

As the saying goes...... DFW Mar 2022 #30

And what a great age! MuseRider Mar 2022 #38

It's from a Bob Dylan song DFW Mar 2022 #77

Love 'The Byrds' too... nt DemocraticPatriot Mar 2022 #55

Musically, their version was by far the best DFW Mar 2022 #75

yes, the site started about 20 years ago, yes? DemocraticPatriot Mar 2022 #69

Tom Petty was indeed a loss! Btw, it was the Byrds who did the cover DFW Mar 2022 #74

bedtime is 3am orleans Mar 2022 #9

You're a true night owl True Dough Mar 2022 #12

Same here, I'm a night owl plus I have terminal insomnia. I've always been up when everyone Raine Mar 2022 #15

I'm definitely a night owl, and I wish I could get to sleep by 3 wackadoo wabbit Mar 2022 #19

Same here, but I'm more like 3-4am to 10-11am. smirkymonkey Mar 2022 #44

I have found the supplement "melatonin" to be helpful for sleep.. DemocraticPatriot Mar 2022 #71

Way back when, I was presented with option of a desk job with regular hours. I was 23. I passed. DFW Mar 2022 #78

i'd be up later too if i had more options orleans Mar 2022 #59

same here I was always a night owl. yellowdogintexas Mar 2022 #58

This message was self-deleted by its author jfz9580m Mar 2022 #11

I'm about to exit the category you just entered True Dough Mar 2022 #13

This message was self-deleted by its author jfz9580m Mar 2022 #23

The really interesting thing about our age is that when (a lot) of us joined we were two categories Eureka Mar 2022 #14

It's hard to believe that I first joined DU 17 1/2 years ago. StevieM Mar 2022 #53

I don't think age matters. A person is an idiot, or they're not. betsuni Mar 2022 #16

+1 brer cat Mar 2022 #24

Agreed. I've been an idiot for over half a century. DFW Mar 2022 #79

I rarely engage in discussion because of time zone difference. Myrddin Mar 2022 #17

Yes, not all of us are in the U.S. betsuni Mar 2022 #18

Boomers Baby! denbot Mar 2022 #20

I thought you needed less sleep as you got older? Shermann Mar 2022 #21

Will DU grow old and fade away? Kaleva Mar 2022 #22

It's the weekend berniesandersmittens Mar 2022 #25

Some of us older DUers occasionally find fun shit to do, too (state secret) DFW Mar 2022 #81

Have you considered the time zones we live in? Hekate Mar 2022 #31

Celerity is just a baby! milestogo Mar 2022 #32

Thankies! Celerity Mar 2022 #72

Old enough to know better, but young enough to not really care... Wounded Bear Mar 2022 #35

I jumped on DU when I was 50 PlanetBev Mar 2022 #36

This message was self-deleted by its author PlanetBev Mar 2022 #37

DUers are mostly older. MineralMan Mar 2022 #39

It's because the younger ones are all busy FakeNoose Mar 2022 #40

yes, "message boards" have somewhat fallen 'out of favor' DemocraticPatriot Mar 2022 #70

Just turned. . . ironflange Mar 2022 #42

Somewhere between 40 and Death. Golden Raisin Mar 2022 #43

Yes, but how many states were there? A HERETIC I AM Mar 2022 #54

I was in my 30's when I joined! smirkymonkey Mar 2022 #45

I was, too! AwakeAtLast Mar 2022 #47

And I thought it was bad back then, which is what prompted me to join DU! smirkymonkey Mar 2022 #48

No kidding! AwakeAtLast Mar 2022 #50

This is by far the oldest forum that I'm on (and I'm on like 50) Polybius Mar 2022 #46

38! Elessar Zappa Mar 2022 #49

Well, the calendar says 60. Iggo Mar 2022 #51

At 34 I'm def on the younger end JonAndKatePlusABird Mar 2022 #52

wow there are more 80+ than 30-somethings. WarGamer Mar 2022 #56

well I a, 73 and I usually check in here before I go to bed...at 1:00 am nt yellowdogintexas Mar 2022 #57

Almost 35. sakabatou Mar 2022 #60

It appears that the vast majority of us either lived through the 1960's or were born during them, artemisia1 Mar 2022 #61

It is what it is. DemocraticPatriot Mar 2022 #62

I was born in 1962, 2 months after the Cuban missile crisis... DemocraticPatriot Mar 2022 #63

Geez, we're like Congress TexasBushwhacker Mar 2022 #64

I tried hard for the first year or 2 after I joined in 2018 to get some of my friends/schoolmates/ Celerity Mar 2022 #67

You are one of my favorites here, DemocraticPatriot Mar 2022 #73

Awww, thanks, I appreciate that and your posts as well. Celerity Mar 2022 #76

so disheartening that out of 324 replies, there are only 2 of us under 30, & only 11 total under 40 Celerity Mar 2022 #65

Blame my parents DFW Mar 2022 #80

I don't like my Chinese Zodiac animal, lolol, 1996, year of the Rat, Fire Rat to be precise Celerity Mar 2022 #83

I should look that up DFW Mar 2022 #84

The numbers do explain a whole lot Bettie Mar 2022 #82

I was a young 56 when I joined DU in 2003. Now I'm 74. Elwood P Dowd Mar 2022 #66

Was it the Iraq War that brought you here? Celerity Mar 2022 #68