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06/03/2015 at 00:04
The first music I listened to was on this particular type of radio, hence the username. I wish I had found something that would tell more about what I like, my passions, but I would be still searching, so it is this radio.
As a child, I used to think that an old radio would only play music from the time it was created (fifties radio fifties radio program, seventies radio, what was nowadays music), and in one way, it was true. […]
Oh God, yeah! He’s right – 47. Coming into an age when each year feels precious, how could I have overestimated like that?
Mea culpa, Mr C – here’s a pome for you:
How can you forget? We were young, in love, and maybe a little foolish … but the world that night, in the carpark behind Curry’s, was surely ours! The Flock Of Seagulls tape in the Cavalier stereo, the heady scent of Hai Karate, Charlie, pine Airwick, and ashtray … the moment seized as only lovers can … what was your name again?
That means, if my arithmetic is correct, you’re seven months older than me and have read 4,000 times as many books and heard 12,000 times as many recordings, as well as speaking several times the number of languages in which I am proficient (one).
Clearly, those busy seven months have made all the difference.
Thanks @Declan! You can tell I’m old by the fact that I had an allergic reaction to the non-alcoholic beer that I “treated” myself to at my birthday dinner… 🙁
I’m 103 first thing in the morning.
Drop to about 15 when I check sport and music news then settle to 58.875 and counting for the rest of the diurnal anomaly.
And what a great clip that is, despite the seizure-inducing camera work. The band is tight as a gnat’s chuff with Jack and Ginger carrying Eric aloft on the best rhythm section in the business
Forty three. I am fortunate enough to work with teenagers, though, and am busy devising the means of stealing their youths from them. As soon as I come up with an effective method, I’ll let everyone here know…
I’ve always felt the young’un on here (and The Word site) – I’m 43
The new admins could probably make a fortune selling adwords and making the new Pink Floyd Box Set pop up everywhere on the site
48. Mental age of 3, prone to tantrums and vomiting from too much spinning around. Occasional bouts of 17 year old teenager moodiness and angst. Increasing outbursts of ‘old geezer’ curmudgeonliness.
So all younger than the oldest Stone. (Youngest stone, even? Ronnie Wood was 69 on 1st of June, Mr Thep, so depends on your definition of “just”) Bill Wyman is 79.
OK, so we have someone older than a Rolling Stone. Anyone got the ages of the Kinks? (Beatle ages don’t count as they stop prematurely.) (Yes, I did forget about Brian Jones when I wrote that.)
My Dad’s G&Ts are 100% gin (ice cold from the freezer) with a mist of tonic spray from an opening can. And the zest of lemon (never the juicy bit). He’s a bit stern when it comes to drinkies.
Sounds a bit like my Grandad’s measures at Christmas. ¾ of a glass of Bacardi, a splash of Coke, and if you were lucky, some ice. This was when I was 13 years old.
I’m now reminded of the year he left the Viennetta out on top of the fridge-freezer for a couple of hours – “to defrost”.
I decided to give up the hooch after I woke up with a hangover after two glasses of red wine. Two! And they weren’t even Buckfast, which would have made it more respectable
(I’m pretty sure this is the first time that last sentence has ever been written).
Manufacture of the SR 9000 began at the tail end of 1966. Production ceased almost immmediately once its creator realised his handiwork was too good for this world. He set about destroying every last one, but the effort caused him to expire before he could dismantle the last unit. Devastated by the loss of his kind and lost without the creator he knew hadn’t wanted him to live, the Sewer Robot remained hidden from the world in a gothic castle situated at the end of a suburban cul de sac waiting for the day Winona Ryder reached sexual maturity…
So, 49.
Does anyone have the time or inclination to compute the average? – shirley a point of interest. If so I’ve now had me dinner, things are clearer and I recall I am 56 and not 21 1/2. Sniff.
54 and never felt better ….. with my glass half empty attitude ( some say grumpy old git) i am not expecting this to last, something shit must be around the corner!
At the time I did it (before sixdog and John Walters added their details), median was the same as mean. Modal, you can see from the graph, of course. The 48-50 and 54-56 age groups seem to be leading the pack.
As for modal, actually I couldn’t see that as I do all of my posting / reading on my phone these days (since my laptop died of Vista Unsupportibus back in January), so I can’t see any small details at all without wearing a Zeiss-quality jewellers loupe in each eye. And vanity precludes that, obvs.
Btw, it’s really good to see you posting here again – a belated but heartfelt Welcome Back from me.
Hi @tiggerlion!
The y axis is just numbers of AWers, not years. As to why it goes up in units of 0.5, I have no idea. I just grabbed the first online graph converter that worked and didn’t look too closely at the results. Very slapdash, I know…
I have to say – I love the return of the edit function – means I can play around with my comments!
Mental age: 19
Actual age: 45
Always told I look a good few years younger so not totally freaking out just yet. Although I was utterly horrified when a couple of former schoolfriends became grandmothers a few years ago.
Thanks @jeff.
I hadn’t really gone away as such, I just always seem to wander in right at the end of a thread’s life and find that anything I might add has already been said, and very eloquently at that.
I turned 37 a week ago. Which, from a brief perusal of the thread, appears to make me the youngest person here. Or at least the youngest who is willing to post their age.
Dr J used to be well young back in the old place, or, at least his shoulders were. (Old head, young shoulders? With me?) Probably as grizzled as the rest of us by now.
Rumour has it I will qualify for bus pass next year.
It is lies I say damn lies.
But I do remember the days before Rock’n’Roll well Beatles version of R’n’R.
sixty, six months and two days.
Getting used to the fact that I will be working ’til I drop in an industry already overcrowded with the semi-senile – some of them in their forties.
A Tom Waits man too! Actually, this song is a treasure trove of potential Afterword handles: Satchel Pudding, Lord God Mose, Blackjack Ruby, Nimrod Cain, Birdy Joe Hoax, Scarface Ron… https://youtu.be/vMP9e3cqKns
I was on a version of the Blog years ago, but lost my Log In details when my PC died and I ended up being too busy in my spare time, so I was pretty much “away from my keyboard” 😉
The sad news of James Blaasts demise brought me back here to pay my respects, as we had been close friends many years ago. All in all my interest in hanging out here has been rekindled 🙂
Rigid Digit says
46
John Medd says
Britvic
http://www.johnmedd.com
davidks says
41 years and 5 months
Pizon-bros says
48 and 4 months. Who is 18 ? 70 ?
H.P. Saucecraft says
A mystery no longer: http://www.radiomuseum.org/dsp_hersteller_detail.cfm?company_id=3858
Pizon-bros says
It never was @H.P. Saucecraft, it never was:
This comment comes from the question about our profile pictures:
Profile photo of Pizon-brosPizon-bros says
06/03/2015 at 00:04
The first music I listened to was on this particular type of radio, hence the username. I wish I had found something that would tell more about what I like, my passions, but I would be still searching, so it is this radio.
As a child, I used to think that an old radio would only play music from the time it was created (fifties radio fifties radio program, seventies radio, what was nowadays music), and in one way, it was true. […]
Don’t blame me that it was too long to read.
pencilsqueezer says
60 and 7 months.
Colin H says
48
Beany says
21. All of 485 months ago.
nigelthebald says
Late 40s – forty-eighteen (© @retropath2).
(I love Edith!) (And seeing the HTML.)
Paul Hewston says
48. Looks like I’m average. In many, many ways.
retropath2 says
Sadly now forty nineteen………
Lodestone of Wrongness says
Done this before haven’t we? I’m 23 going on 67 (in exactly one week’s time)
Twang says
58 and a bit.
craig42blue says
A mere 53,,
Dare I say I thought Beany was slightly younger and that Colin H was a bit older…
Beany says
I love you. I can still fit in my Disney t-shirts. Not a pretty sight.
Sorry for the delay. I am making the most of the final hours of summer.
attackdog says
21 1/2 and counting.
Mike_H says
65½ not out.
bobness says
48 and a third (nearly).
Notwithstanding the above, happy birthday for tomorrow, Uncle W!
mikethep says
I’ve just embarked on an entire year of soixante-neuf. Don’t knock it until you try it.
Mr H says
Heinz for me – 57
Spotcheck Billy says
you and me both Mr H
Jeff says
Me too.
Dogbyte says
And me.
niallb says
59 yrs, 10 months, 16 days, 21 hours, 47 minutes
Give or take
fitterstoke says
How old are you now, Niall?
SteveT says
Hi Niall,
Is this some kind of a race?
59 yrs, 8 months, 25 days and not counting the minutes
davebigpicture says
52 last week.
Gatz says
49 (or in my fiftieth year if you want to make me sound older)
retropath2 says
Sixth decade adds even more gravitas (as in nearer to the grave)
bungliemutt says
55 in 3 weeks. Not liking it.
mr.apollo says
approaching 64 far too rapidly
minibreakfast says
Mother, I’m 41!
Hannah says
Snap!
Neilo says
A rough as balls 48 here, too.
geedubyapee says
61 and a bit
salwarpe says
48 (born in same week and year as Rob C, as it happens)
retropath2 says
Yet he is ageless as an ashram. Or is that mushroom.
Rob C says
(ahem) 47, for three and a bit more weeks of my current round on the Karmic Wheel.
_/\_ x
salwarpe says
Oh God, yeah! He’s right – 47. Coming into an age when each year feels precious, how could I have overestimated like that?
Mea culpa, Mr C – here’s a pome for you:
Rob C says
Hear you go, Saldude. 2 years and eight days ago before our birthday:
salwarpe says
Thanks, @rob-c
Delightful viewing, with a dramatic ending to stir the senses.
Blue Boy says
59 and one day
fitterstoke says
55….and two months…..
Kid Dynamite says
You’re not fooling me, I’ve seen Logan’s Run, I know what’s going on here.
(Two people so far are younger than me. That’s all you’re getting)
Ainsley says
Still 55 for another 2 weeks
Bamber says
I’ll be 51 in a fortnight.
androo1963 says
53. My username gives it away.
Fenderman says
58 and 1 month
Milkybarnick says
38 and more than a half.
H.P. Saucecraft says
I can’t remember.
minibreakfast says
I can 😉
H.P. Saucecraft says
How can you forget? We were young, in love, and maybe a little foolish … but the world that night, in the carpark behind Curry’s, was surely ours! The Flock Of Seagulls tape in the Cavalier stereo, the heady scent of Hai Karate, Charlie, pine Airwick, and ashtray … the moment seized as only lovers can … what was your name again?
SteveT says
Was that the gear knob or were you just excitable?
Chrisf says
Was 49 in Feb
Locust says
49 on Sunday.
Colin H says
Happy birthday 🙂
Locust says
Thanks, Colin!
And Happy Birthday to Uncle Wheaty!
Colin H says
That means, if my arithmetic is correct, you’re seven months older than me and have read 4,000 times as many books and heard 12,000 times as many recordings, as well as speaking several times the number of languages in which I am proficient (one).
Clearly, those busy seven months have made all the difference.
Declan says
Belated but..
happy birthday @Locust.
Locust says
Thanks @Declan! You can tell I’m old by the fact that I had an allergic reaction to the non-alcoholic beer that I “treated” myself to at my birthday dinner… 🙁
nogbad says
I’m 103 first thing in the morning.
Drop to about 15 when I check sport and music news then settle to 58.875 and counting for the rest of the diurnal anomaly.
Sitheref2409 says
45 in September
Vincent says
I’m 55.
Has nobody here said “25 or 6 to 4” yet? We’re getting old.
Junior Wells says
59 dont feel a day over 70
Wilson Wilson says
38. One of the continuing joys of The Afterword is that it’s the only place on the internet where I feel like one of the youngsters!
H.P. Saucecraft says
We’ve bought a bouncy castle just for you. You’re the only one with enough puff left to inflate it.
Wilson Wilson says
Oh no. I didn’t say I was healthy. I have the lung capacity of an emphysemic pensioner.
Mousey says
62. And a half.
Interestingly (or maybe not) if you reverse the digits you get 26 which is the age of my eldest daughter and the year both my parents were born.
Yes well, might be time to listen to “26 0’clock” from that fab new Counts of Omnisphear album…
mikethep says
My mother is 96, and the reversal is giving her a certain amount of innocent pleasure. Last time that happened she was 63 and I was 36.
Johnny Concheroo says
To paraphrase Dave Grohl’s typically excitable quote about Lemmy, I’m old enough to remember a time before rock and roll existed.
mikethep says
Who isn’t?
Johnny Concheroo says
Tell us what you remember about the rise of that upstart Glen Miller, Mike.
Junior Wells says
Perhaps a retrospective on Satchmo’s first gigs with the hot five that you saw in New Orleans
Johnny Concheroo says
Robert Johnson. What was he REALLY like?
H.P. Saucecraft says
Mike was waiting at the crossroads and he never showed.
mikethep says
This lot showed up instead.
http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g401/mikethep/crossroads_zpsluxsjezb.jpg
H.P. Saucecraft says
COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT ADVISORY
mikethep says
Actually no. Labelled for non-commercial reuse. GRASS ALERT.
Johnny Concheroo says
Yeah. H.P, the little copper’s nark, blabber, informer, rat, squealer, stool pigeon etc
H.P. Saucecraft says
I don’t make the rules. In the current climate, we can’t be too careful. And as the mods have made me their intern …
Hawkfall says
If we get through the day without someone posting either (i) the sleeve or (ii) the YouTube clip for Benny’s single then I will be very disappointed.
Junior Wells says
This should be enough of a cue for the Conch to get out the albums and head out to those much photographed sun room tiles.
Johnny Concheroo says
Here’s one I made earlier. Tiles just out of shot
http://i.imgur.com/WwmxWCQ.jpg
Johnny Concheroo says
And what a great clip that is, despite the seizure-inducing camera work. The band is tight as a gnat’s chuff with Jack and Ginger carrying Eric aloft on the best rhythm section in the business
Junior Wells says
@Mikethep was the switch from cylinders to shellac more traumatic for you than the switch from vinyl to cd to streaming ?
Johnny Concheroo says
I was sorry to see the back of those pianola rolls
minibreakfast says
If I were 20 years younger, I might ask “What’s rock n roll? Is it a kind of ice cream?”.
Sniffity says
56 and a smattering of months
Davidg says
Me too, but the smattering is more like six.
Harry Tufnell says
53 and three quarters
I’m a bit of a toy boy…..
aging hippy says
64 and 7 months exactly, as it happens, and getting older every day.
robert says
Forty three. I am fortunate enough to work with teenagers, though, and am busy devising the means of stealing their youths from them. As soon as I come up with an effective method, I’ll let everyone here know…
DrewToo says
A very average – 55
dai says
36 (Hex) = 54 (Dec)
Hawkfall says
I’m 47. You probably thought I was younger, but that’s because I moisturize.
H.P. Saucecraft says
So does minibreakfast.
Hawkfall says
Maybe she does, but I do it without using moisturizer.
H.P. Saucecraft says
That’s called “sweating.”
The Good Doctor says
I’ve always felt the young’un on here (and The Word site) – I’m 43
The new admins could probably make a fortune selling adwords and making the new Pink Floyd Box Set pop up everywhere on the site
LordTed says
54 for one more week..
simon22367 says
48. Mental age of 3, prone to tantrums and vomiting from too much spinning around. Occasional bouts of 17 year old teenager moodiness and angst. Increasing outbursts of ‘old geezer’ curmudgeonliness.
plumb1909 says
60 and three months, and very much looking forward to retirement next summer.
metal mickey says
52 & a half – how did that happen?
Black Celebration says
Still in my 40s – until next week.
Lunaman says
55 – A young grandad!
badartdog says
54 and an old dad!
(Just took me 6 attempts to remember/type my password correctly too)
chiz says
Fiddy-deuce but still down with tha kids, aii
Tiggerlion says
58
H.P. Saucecraft says
Amazing.
Tiggerlion says
Holy gremlins! The most amazing thing is that my avatar has changed to batman.
H.P. Saucecraft says
Yes, dear, of course it has! Time for Mr Happy Pill!
ip33 says
A bog standard 51.
bigstevie says
Born in ’58, which makes me 58!!
Not actually true because I’m still 57, but only for a wee while longer.
Dodger Lane says
Recently turned 56.
anton says
same here
anton says
ooh first chance to edith a comment 🙂
retropath2 says
So all younger than the oldest Stone. (Youngest stone, even? Ronnie Wood was 69 on 1st of June, Mr Thep, so depends on your definition of “just”) Bill Wyman is 79.
mikethep says
My definition of “just” makes me younger than Ronnie Wood…
Alan Balfour says
I don’t have much input here but for what it’s worth in December will attain the grand old age of 70. Geriatrics rule ok 🙂
mikethep says
Alan, @h-p-saucecraft, @johnny-concheroo and @junior-wells (aka The Axis of Pisstake) were wondering if you had anything to say about the first performance of Beethoven’s Ninth.
Junior Wells says
That’s very unkind to Alan @mikethep you should be ashamed. But I am interested in What it was like when @Alan-Balfour interviewed Charley Patton
retropath2 says
OK, so we have someone older than a Rolling Stone. Anyone got the ages of the Kinks? (Beatle ages don’t count as they stop prematurely.) (Yes, I did forget about Brian Jones when I wrote that.)
mikethep says
I am exactly the same age (to the day) as Lord Anderson of Tull, if that helps.
Johnny Concheroo says
While I am the same age as Lord Hepworth of Word and Simon Nicol out of Fairport Convention (within a week or so, anyway)
ianess says
Captain Sensible and I shared birthday drinks at Dingwalls in ’79.
H.P. Saucecraft says
Afterword T-Shirt (remaindered, special offer)
minibreakfast says
I had three gins last night, and today I have a headache. Three blinking gins. I do not feel 41 this morning.
Junior Wells says
How many fingers per drink ?
minibreakfast says
I don’t know, they were ‘dad’ measures (it was a family get-together with dad on bar duty), so probably big, even though I asked for small.
retropath2 says
I try to keep my fingers out of my drinks, but maybe that’s because I know where they’ve been. (Work based joke)
H.P. Saucecraft says
My Dad’s G&Ts are 100% gin (ice cold from the freezer) with a mist of tonic spray from an opening can. And the zest of lemon (never the juicy bit). He’s a bit stern when it comes to drinkies.
minibreakfast says
Sounds a bit like my Grandad’s measures at Christmas. ¾ of a glass of Bacardi, a splash of Coke, and if you were lucky, some ice. This was when I was 13 years old.
I’m now reminded of the year he left the Viennetta out on top of the fridge-freezer for a couple of hours – “to defrost”.
Hawkfall says
I decided to give up the hooch after I woke up with a hangover after two glasses of red wine. Two! And they weren’t even Buckfast, which would have made it more respectable
(I’m pretty sure this is the first time that last sentence has ever been written).
minibreakfast says
*scrolls up to check Hawkie’s age*
Jimmy says
I am 51.
And happy birthday, Uncle.
moseleymoles says
‘Saga for you’ – 50
Fifer says
Nudging that average ever upwards, I was born in 1950 so am currently 66. Sixty-bloody-six? How did that happen and, more to the point, when?
Izzy says
I’m 51, quite a few from a good vintage 1965 here. Life is good. Life sucks.
andielou says
I am 41. One of the babies round here.
H.P. Saucecraft says
Hop up onto Unkie Saucie’s lap, Andielou!
(*cracks knuckles*)
andielou says
*hops up onto Unkie’s lap*
So, what was it like in the old days?
H.P. Saucecraft says
Sort of like this. Only more often.
Mike_H says
And in black and white.
Phil Pirrip says
Just over 54 and a half
hubert rawlinson says
Helping to boost the demographic ever upwards, sixty one and three quarter.
Deviant808 says
Another relative youngster (not many places I can say that these days) at 48
TRMagicWords says
53 and 3 months.
Number Six says
49 & 3/4.
Sewer Robot says
Manufacture of the SR 9000 began at the tail end of 1966. Production ceased almost immmediately once its creator realised his handiwork was too good for this world. He set about destroying every last one, but the effort caused him to expire before he could dismantle the last unit. Devastated by the loss of his kind and lost without the creator he knew hadn’t wanted him to live, the Sewer Robot remained hidden from the world in a gothic castle situated at the end of a suburban cul de sac waiting for the day Winona Ryder reached sexual maturity…
So, 49.
Paul Wad says
46, but mentally more like 26 and physically around 86.
Rob C says
Happy Birthday Wheatyhead.
OM
H.P. Saucecraft says
OMG
Uncle Wheaty says
Cheers dude.
Dave Ross says
51
Malc says
48
attackdog says
Does anyone have the time or inclination to compute the average? – shirley a point of interest. If so I’ve now had me dinner, things are clearer and I recall I am 56 and not 21 1/2. Sniff.
James EB says
48
count jim moriarty says
9 months older than my teeth (and about 53 years older than the front ones on the denture).
count jim moriarty says
It appears that I am exactly 5 years older (to the day) than Trent Reznor.
Cathy’s Clown is my birthday number 1.
bricameron says
A half century come October. What can you do…
Jackthebiscuit says
60 & a bit (3 months actually).
Carolina says
A half century now. But 50 is the new 30 according to the Daily Mail so it must be true!
Psychology Today would beg to differ though and gives a few reasons why being 50 is an improvement.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/bouncing-back/201511/50-isnt-the-new-30-and-why-s-good-thing
Razor Boy says
54 and never felt better ….. with my glass half empty attitude ( some say grumpy old git) i am not expecting this to last, something shit must be around the corner!
Arthur Cowslip says
43.
Should we award a prize for the oldest and youngest?
duco01 says
A sprightly 54, due to my healthy diet and plenty of exercise [are you sure about this, duco – Ed.]
seekenee says
45 and a half
walker1 says
Turned fifty on Saturday. No big deal. Turning thirty on the other hand was utterly traumatic.
geacher says
63. Only four and a bit months till I get a telegram from Sir Macca.
KDH says
50 (and a quarter).
Vince Black says
Same as Mousey. 62. And a half.
We’re similar in many ways. Well, leaving aside the fact that he’s a professional musician, composer and made his latest album at Abbey Road
goodfella says
I’m 46. Next year it will be 30 years since final year at school and I’m still trying to get my head around it.
ivylander says
A well-worn 62.
Billybob Dylan says
56 and five sixths next Thursday.
SixDog says
46.
Mind of a 24 year old, body of a 65 year old
Where does the time go?
Jeff says
I’ve just found a watch down the back of the sofa*, if that’s any help?
(*I haven’t really)
salwarpe says
For @attackdog
Average age: 53.5
(hmm – edit function, and I still can’t work out how to post images)
Jeff says
Ooh ooh, could we have median and modal (say, 3-year intervals) as well, please?
PS Hi Sal!
salwarpe says
Hi backatcha, Jeff!
At the time I did it (before sixdog and John Walters added their details), median was the same as mean. Modal, you can see from the graph, of course. The 48-50 and 54-56 age groups seem to be leading the pack.
Jeff says
Thanks for the reply Sal.
Ah right, gotcha re median and mean.
As for modal, actually I couldn’t see that as I do all of my posting / reading on my phone these days (since my laptop died of Vista Unsupportibus back in January), so I can’t see any small details at all without wearing a Zeiss-quality jewellers loupe in each eye. And vanity precludes that, obvs.
Btw, it’s really good to see you posting here again – a belated but heartfelt Welcome Back from me.
Blue Boy says
Ooh that’s clever!
mikethep says
Think you forgot Alan B out there to the right.
Alan Balfour says
Don’t worry about it, especially as I’m an old fashioned “lefty” 🙂
salwarpe says
He did say he would be 70 later this year – he’s still keeping you company for a bit longer, @mikethep.
attackdog says
That’s great, Sal. A 31 year Grumpspan.
I bet you enjoyed colouring that in.
mikethep says
Clutching at straws, obviously…
Tiggerlion says
Why the half years on the Y axis, sal?
salwarpe says
Hi @tiggerlion!
The y axis is just numbers of AWers, not years. As to why it goes up in units of 0.5, I have no idea. I just grabbed the first online graph converter that worked and didn’t look too closely at the results. Very slapdash, I know…
I have to say – I love the return of the edit function – means I can play around with my comments!
,—@>
W-W’
Tiggerlion says
I wish I’d reread my comment before Edith left the building. I meant to make a joke about cutting JC in half.
Sewer Robot says
Before it’s too late:
?HAPPY BIRTHDAY UNCLE WHEATY!!
John Walters says
63 here
dai says
So average person here is about 53, male and British. It’s me!
* except I am 54
ernietothecentreoftheearth says
So am I, so it’s actually me.
Smudger says
46, although only for another three weeks.
Scarlet says
Mental age: 19
Actual age: 45
Always told I look a good few years younger so not totally freaking out just yet. Although I was utterly horrified when a couple of former schoolfriends became grandmothers a few years ago.
Jeff says
‘ray, another returner!
Good to see you back too, Scarlet.
Scarlet says
Thanks @jeff.
I hadn’t really gone away as such, I just always seem to wander in right at the end of a thread’s life and find that anything I might add has already been said, and very eloquently at that.
Must try harder 🙂
Beezer says
52. Fucking hell.
The Muswell Hillbilly says
I turned 37 a week ago. Which, from a brief perusal of the thread, appears to make me the youngest person here. Or at least the youngest who is willing to post their age.
Sewer Robot says
Junior ‘Worder Styrofoam Plates went to bed early as he has to be up at dawn to do his paper round..
retropath2 says
Dr J used to be well young back in the old place, or, at least his shoulders were. (Old head, young shoulders? With me?) Probably as grizzled as the rest of us by now.
bricameron says
Aww look everyone, it’s a bairn!
Rec Room says
I’m 42. I’d have thought the average age here was considerably older than what the results show.
bricameron says
Watch yer tongue ya whippersnapper!
Declan says
61. A few days younger than Annie Lennox.
MC Escher says
53. But I look 53.
bricameron says
Night,night afterworderburners.
Max the Dog says
Also 53 and starting to feel it.
drakeygirl says
44. But I don’t look a day over…well…44.
ger_the_boptist says
Rumour has it I will qualify for bus pass next year.
It is lies I say damn lies.
But I do remember the days before Rock’n’Roll well Beatles version of R’n’R.
Baron Harkonnen says
I’m 66 and 26 in me head. I was so much older then I’m younger than that now errors that a copyright infringement?
Badlands says
64 – I think my son still needs me, but I feed myself.
People tell me I look a lot younger. I reply – yes, but I’m falling apart inside.
paulwright says
54, which obviously a 45 played backwards for the Satanic voices.
Junior Wells says
I know this could go on forever but an update taking account of the laggards would be good @salwarpe
salwarpe says
Hi @junior-wells – only just alerted to your, um, alert…
When I have a free moment, I am happy to do this.
Junior Wells says
cheers
Chopmanski says
Long time lurker, seldom poster and 56 years 51 weeks today
Blue Boy says
Happy birthday next week Sir!
Wayfarer says
sixty, six months and two days.
Getting used to the fact that I will be working ’til I drop in an industry already overcrowded with the semi-senile – some of them in their forties.
policybloke says
I shall be 66 and 8 months this coming Sunday. Which makes me two weeks younger than Paula Wilcox, and Robert Lindsay.
Almost Simon says
44
Razorweed Onion says
61.75 on Monday. Younger than Mick Jones and Topper Headon, two weeks older than Paul Simonon.
This is my first post
ivylander says
You’re off to a fine start.
duco01 says
Welcome, Mr Onion, sir.
mikethep says
And welcome to the top end of the demographic.
A Tom Waits man too! Actually, this song is a treasure trove of potential Afterword handles: Satchel Pudding, Lord God Mose, Blackjack Ruby, Nimrod Cain, Birdy Joe Hoax, Scarface Ron…
https://youtu.be/vMP9e3cqKns
Captain Haddock says
I’m 42 and three-quarters.
I feel surprisingly youthful all of a sudden.
Big_Si says
I’m “00101010” and this is my 1st Post 🙂
Junior Wells says
Hey there welcome – have you come out of the lurkers closet or new to the blog?
Big_Si says
I was on a version of the Blog years ago, but lost my Log In details when my PC died and I ended up being too busy in my spare time, so I was pretty much “away from my keyboard” 😉
The sad news of James Blaasts demise brought me back here to pay my respects, as we had been close friends many years ago. All in all my interest in hanging out here has been rekindled 🙂
Junior Wells says
Well, that’s great that you have come back and found enough to keep you here.
Mike Hull says
54
NigelT says
Born in 1950 – like Mr. Hepworth, I got the golden lottery ticket. Makes me 66…I think….