Posted October 14, 201410 yr www.you.regettingold.com You are 48 years, 6 months and 12 days old today. You are 17,727 days old. Your star sign is Aries. Your birth stones are Diamond or Rock Crystal. The total number of candles on all your birthday cakes so far is 1,176. As an infant8th Apr 1966Leonid Brezhnev becomes General Secretary of the Soviet Union (you were 6 days old) 28th May 1966 It's a Small World opens at Disneyland (you were 1 month old) 8th Sep 1966 Star Trek , an American science fiction television series is first aired on NBC (you were 5 months old) 15th Dec 1966 Walt Disney dies while producing The Jungle Book (you were 8 months old) 4th Jan 1967 The Doors' self-titled debut album is released (you were 9 months old)Show more events from this period As a child9th Oct 1967Guerrilla leader Che Guevara executed in Bolivia (you were 1 year old) 4th Apr 1968 Martin Luther King is shot dead in Memphis, Tennessee (you were 2 years old) 20th Jul 1969 Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to step onto the Moon (you were 3 years old) 17th Apr 1970 Apollo 13 returns safely to earth after explosion cripples craft en-route to the Moon (you were 4 years old) 4th May 1970 Four students at Kent State University in Ohio are killed and 9 wounded by Ohio National Guardsmen (you were 4 years old)Show more events from this period As a teenager8th Dec 1980John Lennon is shot dead in New York City (you were 14 years old) 12th Aug 1981 The IBM Personal Computer is released (you were 15 years old) 6th Jun 1984 The Tetris video game is released in the USSR (you were 18 years old) 3rd Jul 1985 Back to the Future, American comic science fiction film is released (you were 19 years old) 20th Nov 1985 Microsoft Corporation releases the first version of Windows, Windows 1.0 (you were 19 years old)Show more events from this period In your 20s17th Sep 1988The opening of 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul, South Korea (you were 22 years old) 9th Nov 1989 The Berlin Wall falls (you were 23 years old) 2nd Aug 1990 The start of the First Gulf War (you were 24 years old) 3rd Oct 1990 East Germany and West Germany reunify into a single Germany (you were 24 years old) 7th Aug 1991 The World Wide Web is announced to the public by Tim Berners-Lee (you were 25 years old)Show more events from this period In your 30s31st Aug 1997Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car crash (you were 31 years old) 1st Jan 2000 Start of the 2000s. The Millennium bug fails to cause chaos (you were 33 years old) 1st Jan 2001 The dawn of the new millennium (you were 34 years old) 11th Sep 2001 9/11 terror attacks on NYC's World Trade Center and Pentagon (you were 35 years old) 29th Aug 2005 Hurricane Katrina makes landfall along the U.S. Gulf Coast, causing severe damage (you were 39 years old)Show more events from this period In your 40s29th Jun 2007The original iPhone is launched (you were 41 years old) 8th Aug 2008 Opening ceremony for the Beijing Olympic Games (you were 42 years old) 25th Jun 2009 Michael Jackson dies (you were 43 years old) 29th Apr 2011 Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey in London (you were 45 years old) 2nd May 2011 Osama bin Laden killed by US military forces in Pakistan (you were 45 years old)Show more events from this period
October 14, 201410 yr Just thought of this one... In the first Austin Powers movie, which came out in 1997, he traveled 30 years back in time to 1967. That movie itself is already 17 years old. Similar to Back to the Future, which came out in 1985, and he traveled 30 years back to 1955. Next year, the movie itself will be 30 years old.
October 14, 201410 yr Similar to Back to the Future, which came out in 1985, and he traveled 30 years back to 1955. Next year, the movie itself will be 30 years old. Which is the year they travel to in Back To The Future II. That blows me away because I was Michael J. Fox's character's age in those movies. I was 18 in 1985 and that 29 years has just flown by. Time goes by faster and faster the older you get -- one of the worst tricks that the God of Time puts on humans. You want time to slow down, instead. BTW, all you young folks thinking about making fun of us 40- and 50-somethings, be careful. It's one thing to be tall and make fun of a short person, or to be small and fun of a tall person because you will never be short or tall. But you will all get old. You have no choice to be us someday, and it will happen faster than you can possibly imagine. So there. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
October 14, 201410 yr I liked the stats about population the most. We've grown by 2 billion in my 25 years. I then checked my dad (1957) and we've gone from 1.9 billon to 7.22 billion in his 57 years. That's insane growth.
October 15, 201410 yr Why aren't you whippersnappers sharing? Similar to Back to the Future, which came out in 1985, and he traveled 30 years back to 1955. Next year, the movie itself will be 30 years old. Which is the year they travel to in Back To The Future II. That blows me away because I was Michael J. Fox's character's age in those movies. I was 18 in 1985 and that 29 years has just flown by. Time goes by faster and faster the older you get -- one of the worst tricks that the God of Time puts on humans. You want time to slow down, instead. BTW, all you young folks thinking about making fun of us 40- and 50-somethings, be careful. It's one thing to be tall and make fun of a short person, or to be small and fun of a tall person because you will never be short or tall. But you will all get old. You have no choice to be us someday, and it will happen faster than you can possibly imagine. So there. Thats right you tell'em KJP[/member]
October 15, 201410 yr Total number of candles on all Of your birthday cakes is 666. Sign of the beast!
October 15, 201410 yr Total number of candles on all Of your birthday cakes is 666. Sign of the beast! But you'll be guaranteed a helluva good time! "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
October 17, 201410 yr Similar to Back to the Future, which came out in 1985, and he traveled 30 years back to 1955. Next year, the movie itself will be 30 years old. Which is the year they travel to in Back To The Future II. That blows me away because I was Michael J. Fox's character's age in those movies. I was 18 in 1985 and that 29 years has just flown by. Time goes by faster and faster the older you get -- one of the worst tricks that the God of Time puts on humans. You want time to slow down, instead. BTW, all you young folks thinking about making fun of us 40- and 50-somethings, be careful. It's one thing to be tall and make fun of a short person, or to be small and fun of a tall person because you will never be short or tall. But you will all get old. You have no choice to be us someday, and it will happen faster than you can possibly imagine. So there. Only if they are lucky. That's not a guarantee. Hug those you love. Now where were we?
October 17, 201410 yr Only if they are lucky. That's not a guarantee. Hug those you love. Every day. Not because I'm afraid of anything, but because life is good. I'd rather die dancing in the middle of a busy street than while hiding in a corner someplace. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
January 2, 201510 yr http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2014-12-31/15-things-back-to-the-future-told-us-wed-have-by-2015
January 2, 201510 yr http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2014-12-31/15-things-back-to-the-future-told-us-wed-have-by-2015 http://www.11points.com/Movies/11_Predictions_That_Back_to_the_Future_Part_II_Got_Right http://www.11points.com/Movies/11_Predictions_That_Back_to_the_Future_Part_II_Got_Wrong The comedy writer who does this site is LA based but he's from Beachwood, he does Cleveland sports lists and other Cleveland-related things from time to time. An interesting, less flashy thing that the movie got wrong is the internet. Among all the flying cars and hoverboards, future Marty gets fired via a fax, of which he has multiple fax machines in his house, which print the message, on paper.
January 2, 201510 yr The thing about getting old(er) is that so much of what you used to do has been torn down. You get upset when you see something you like which is still there and unchanged because you know that it will be gone before you are.
January 2, 201510 yr http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2014-12-31/15-things-back-to-the-future-told-us-wed-have-by-2015 http://www.11points.com/Movies/11_Predictions_That_Back_to_the_Future_Part_II_Got_Right http://www.11points.com/Movies/11_Predictions_That_Back_to_the_Future_Part_II_Got_Wrong The comedy writer who does this site is LA based but he's from Beachwood, he does Cleveland sports lists and other Cleveland-related things from time to time. An interesting, less flashy thing that the movie got wrong is the internet. Among all the flying cars and hoverboards, future Marty gets fired via a fax, of which he has multiple fax machines in his house, which print the message, on paper. The fingerprint thing isn't all that far fetched since the newest phones have fingerprint locks and in some cases you can pay with them. Plus, why would there need to be a central fingerprint database for house locks and even point of sale?
November 24, 20177 yr Is humor is age related? A friend and I were watching television a while ago and I said to him, "I can remember when Saturday Night Live was funny." Has the show changed so much or is it me? (I am possibly the oldest person on this forum.) Remember: It's the Year of the Snake
November 24, 20177 yr ^Humor is obviously subject. I think SNL is currently funnier than ever and the production values have clearly improved over the years. I remember it well when it first came out in the 70's (with all the iconic comics that people praise) and thought it was incredible then. Now I look at some of the bits and think what was I laughing at (and the acting was horrible...its like they didn't even rehearse).
November 26, 20177 yr Is humor is age related? A friend and I were watching television a while ago and I said to him, "I can remember when Saturday Night Live was funny." Has the show changed so much or is it me? (I am possibly the oldest person on this forum.) It still has its moments, especially when it forgets to be PC and goes for the ironic. The white liberals on Election night with the black guys providing "background" was as good as their iconic moments and they didn't pull any more punches with Obama than they did with W. Trump is a different matter, but since he's a self-parody they need to go further. But even back in the day it had its "non moments". The end skit that goes on about three times as long as it should is basically a tradition.
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