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

then! your granddad and gran have my respect, as if not for them, I wouldn't have known you and have another friend

He'd be 117 this year, if he were rather improbably still with us, she'd be a mere slip of a girl at 100. That in itself makes *me* feel old.

My grandfather would have turned 102 today... time flies... I've soon reached half that age but I doubt I will experience so many changes during my life as he did during his.

its what he past on for the future thoughit's in the genes

and I still say it should "above average" now

terribly is so not now(posh voiceon)

I'm a genetic dead end. One of the cousins has four children; he can take care of transmitting the genes forward.

those will be mere clonesand as I don't know them, no worries - I "talk" with the real McCoy

Hell, I don't know them either. I saw one of them when he was about four, and now I think he might be getting married soon. But they all live a long way from here, in a part of the country I never have a reason to go to. Oh well.

I understand the distances down there, in the early 80's I was on a plane flying home from Los Angeles with 2 mates(after holiday) and this American youth, after seeing my rock badges etc on my denim coat, said "did you know Blue Oyster Cult are playing in Phoenix tonight". I blew the stack I replied - did you know I'm flying at 440 miles per hour at 33 thousand feet towards England (a few choice words added). Did he think I could jump out and go watch them.

Here in Yorkshire, I can travel down south in a few hours for anything, but in places like Aus', a next door neighbour can be 50 mile away

Sometimes, even that can be too close.

amen to that, Ivan

I once shook hands with an old man whose grandfather fought in the war of 1864 - that made me feel old

Both of my paternal grandparents were born before the city I live in was founded. That feels a bit odd.

*waves hi to Ivan and everyone*

*waves back*

If alive my father would be 110 and my mother 107 - now that's old, for parents. Grandparents should be old

Websailor

Tell that to one of my sister's schoolmates - she was a grandmother at 39. Carelessness must be hereditary.

I have a recent case of 'carelessness' in my family too, but there will still be ancient parents and even more ancient grandparents

Websailor

I'm 39 now. The thought that I could have been a grandfather by now - well, I'm so glad I'm not... Mind you, it would be rather freakish if I were, considering how it is one ends up in that condition.

When I visited Los Angeles in 1997 they told me that only a century before that there only lived 16 souls in 'the pueblo', now the number was up to 16 millions in greater Los Angeles

(I'm not sure about the numbers but they were roughly something like that)

I told them my house was built in 1898 and they told me no building that old would be found anywhere near

Evolution can be frightening, yes?

The house I lived in before this one was built in 1938. It's on the local heritage register - not because anything much happened there, just because it's considered 'old' by local standards.

And yes, evolution can be frightening, especially when one looks at some people and wonders if they're the products of evolution or some sort of unevolved relic from an earlier time.

Geez! The house I live in dates back to 18th century. Well, the cellar anyway.