<p>Obama is the first president who is younger than I am. THAT tells you that you are old.</p>
<p>…Fiftieth anniversary of the day the music died is coming up…</p>
<p>It makes me feel old to realize that my college graduation in 1976 is longer ago now (almost 33 years) than the end of World War II was then (31 years). And that I now remember (even though just barely) things that happened a half-century ago.</p>
<p>During a conversation at work today, I realized how old I really am. I will be 49 this year and will have 29 years with my company.</p>
<p>My Dad was too young for WWI & too old for WWII although several of my uncles fought there. I always felt like the baby because my folks were in their 40s when I was born and my B & S are 11 & 16 yrs. older. Now I feel old. H & I are avid ballroom dancers. At a lot of places we went in the beginning we were 20-30 years younger than the average age. Older folks used to come up to us and say how much they enjoyed watching “us youngsters” dance. They don’t say that anywhere.</p>
<p>Ah…slide rules…I think I’m gonna get one for my child just so he knows …</p>
<p>Speaking of Paul McCartney, how come Colbert gets to interview him AND sing a duet with him??!?!?? Colbert was just silly as usual, but really, how come? </p>
<p>One of the nice things about buying an old restored automobile is if you take good care of it the car still looks the same 10 years later… while you… well, you know what happens to you. :D</p>
<p>On those rare occasions when I want to feel old, all I have to do is listen to the noises my knees make, going up stairs.</p>
<p>One thing that makes me feel young—our paper each day lists birthdays of significant people. I’m shocked what age some of these people are turning. People like Ian Anderson and Mark Farner (I saw both long ago) are in their 60’s…others are even turning 70! Frankie Valli turns 75 this year (he could be my father). Most are older than I am, and for that I’m thankful. (and Paul McCartney is 66)</p>
<p>Hhhhmmm… reading this made me have a thought. Are CC parents by chance a tad older than your average HS/College parent?
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/645235-cc-parents-umm-older-side.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/645235-cc-parents-umm-older-side.html</a></p>
<p>Ever since my kids were born, people have been thinking that H and I were their grandparents. So I’ve been looking old for a long time. Having kids later in life, though, really makes you feel younger!</p>
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<p>My kids don’t know who they are. My kids have never watched Saturday Night Live more than once or twice. They think it is a “boring show”. My kids are 18 and 24.
I remember watching the first season of SNL in my freshman dorm lounge. We all marveled at it. It was such a “cool” show. Big sigh. That’s a real sign of getting old, when what was once considered cool doesn’t even register on a “young person’s” radar.</p>
<p>Harriet,
“On those rare occasions when I want to feel old, all I have to do is listen to the noises my knees make, going up stairs.”</p>
<p>Have you been hanging out while I trudge on the elipitical torture device every afternoon?</p>
<p>SNL is nothing like it was in the heyday. I had never seen it, until I met H-I couldn’t believe the muppets. 
I do like some of the more modern incarnations but I don’t stay up that late.</p>
<p>my kids and I watch some of the same shows.
My older daughter & I love the West Wing- she introduced us to Pushing Daisies,
I told them about Flight of the Conchords ( which I only started watching because they played at a SubPop birthday last year), I don’t think either of them watch the Wire or the Closer, which I really like, but younger D did start watching Burn Notice when it was on my ipod.</p>
<p>I am in college and most of the time I feel not so much older- ( than the 34 yr olds- but the 18 yr olds are way younger than my own 18 yr old)-until I go into the bathrooms with their horrible overhead florescent lighting and wonder what happened.</p>
<p>dragonmom - this is why I love love love my rowing machine. </p>
<p>SoCalGal, it’s my powerful impression that CC parents are pretty normally representative - there are young ones, lots of medium, and older ones. Right now, I’m actually on the somewhat younger side. My oldest will graduate from college right around my 50th birthday. (My knees sound like ratchets because I played volleyball for fifteen years.) But when my youngest graduates, I’ll be 64. So, yeah.</p>
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<p>McCartney is flogging a new album. I thought the interview they did was great. I don’t know if it was planned as a duet. Colbert starting singing a capella and it took McCartney some time to join in.</p>
<p>Not like when Colbert had CSNY (minus Y) on his show…that was planned.</p>
<p>Anyone used to watch the Tonight Show religiously? Before Jay Leno, I mean. That’s how H learned much of his American culture.</p>
<p>I always feel old when I recall that both Union and Confederate Civil War veterans were still collecting pensions when I entered kindergarten. Fortunately I don’t think about that too often.</p>
<p>Went out to eat to a buffet last night and the cashier asked if we were seniors. Ouch! That was the first time ever. I was so startled, I didn’t know what to reply other than a curt “no.”</p>
<p>I was the one of the judges for an Academic Team competition last week. The question was about the religious leader in Iran after the Shah was deposed…</p>
<p>Fill in the blank: Ayatollah ___________.</p>
<p>You don’t have to spell it, you don’t need the middle name.</p>
<p>16 of our best and brightest high school juniors and seniors… Time expired.</p>
<p>My fellow judges and I felt quite OLD. Apparently this is really ancient history.</p>
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