h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I'm still the old lady of the group - will be 54. Please go find someone older. I don't want to be the oldest.

** pats Hypatia on the head **

dear, dear, don't get upset.

Is a 58 year old male good enough?

H. - you don't 'feel' like 54 in conversations - attitudes, views, expressions...

I never think of how old other researchers are - and I was quite surprised to learn that one of the Salonistas was only 17! Only 17! But he didn't express himself like a teenager, and his contributions to the discussions were mature and well formulated (it's the Prof - we haven't heard from him for quite some time) so how was I to know?

That's another fascinating thing about h2g2 - that people differing so much in age manage to have so much in common - and apart from the very young ones I really don't think researchers care about age

*blows nose*

A 58 year old male is fine.

*if you're just saying that to make me feel better, keep it to yourself, cause I don't want to know.*

Of course I said it to make you feel better!

But that leaves the fact I will be stuck with this age for many months to come, and the I will really be almost 60.

60 really isn't that old anymore, Marjin. Why, at 54 I'm practically a kid.

I found a website called Who's Alive and Who's Dead. There are a lot of really old people listed......in their 80's and 90's. And it's kind of fun to browse through. http://www.wa-wd.com

You're right, Titania. I think we all relate to one another remarkably well considering the differences in age, nationality, backgrounds, etc.

It isn't? that is nice to hear

Many of my friends are turning 60 these days, and nobody really changes. On a birthday you don't age a year, just a day like on all other days.

We have a lot of experience in this, from turning 10, 20, 30... and the world just kept on turning

Excellent philosophy, Marjin.

*repeats over and over - every day I'm just one day older. Birthdays are no big thing*

And there's always and and and .

All right!

You know what's starting to look old? My hands. They're looking like my mother's.

How does age and train stations relate so well

Personally, I mostly think of myself as "28 and some months"... Therefore it was quite funny when I - through the input of a friend - came to think that 40 when written in hexadecimal numbers is indeed 28 So I'm 28 for the next 10 months

More importantly, though (and this ends up being a lot of words for a Monday morning... ) I absolutely join in the choir of "you're as old as you feel". And that it varies a lot with what you do in the particular moment.

"Better being old and still a child than young and too grown up" (the original Danish wording sounds better but this'll do...)

I think Astrid Lindgren said something along those lines too, something like:

Some people will grow up from the inside and out...

...but some people will grow up from the outside and in, but never all throug, but will always be a child deep inside...

I've met a few persons who've been grown up very early and through and through - no imagination, slightly boring, and dismissing too many things as 'childish'

I just needed 2 mins off w**k - and reread the musings, with joy once again.

But what the is "Tinuvian nose singing" ???

*tries to imagine several concepts, fails and/or laughs uncontrollably*

I once heard a man "play" bits of the 1812 overture with his armpits. And my brother-in-law can put a finger on the outside on his right nostril and make the sound of a trumpet with his left nostril! He's very talented.

Yeah - something along those lines was what I thought...

Ah, life is good when you can sit out under the stars on a summer evening, watch the fireflies, drink bourbon and coke and listen to a good nose trumpet. Sort of brings a tear to my eye just thinking about it.

Life is - only, it pours like you won't believe it here... Oh, and I don't subscribe to bourbon...

But other than that, life IS fine. I'll go see how much finer it is under my down in just a moment...