How Old An Ol' Boy Are Yuh, Anyway?

A retired friend—with nothing better to do than forward e-mail jokes—sent along this fairly interesting trivia generator.

Go to Age Gauge.

Enter your birthdate:month/day/year; I entered 2/15/1941 (my fateful day on earth) and got:

You said your birthday is 2 / 15 / 1941 which means you are 63 years old and about:

24 years 3 months younger than Walter Cronkite, age 87
20 years 9 months younger than Pope John Paul II, age 84
16 years 8 months younger than George Herbert Bush, age 80
9 years 5 months younger than Barbara Walters, age 72
7 years 3 months younger than Larry King, age 70
1 year 0 months younger than Ted Koppel, age 64
2 years 5 months older than Geraldo Rivera, age 61
5 years 5 months older than George W. Bush, age 58
10 years 5 months older than Jesse Ventura, age 53
14 years 8 months older than Bill Gates, age 48
19 years 6 months older than Cal Ripken Jr., age 44
25 years 4 months older than Mike Tyson, age 38
29 years 5 months older than Jennifer Lopez, age 34
34 years 10 months older than Tiger Woods, age 28
41 years 4 months older than Prince William, age 22

and that you were:

60 years old at the time of the 9-11 attack on America
58 years old on the first day of Y2K
56 years old when Princess Diana was killed in a car crash
54 years old at the time of Oklahoma City bombing
53 years old when O. J. Simpson was charged with murder
52 years old at the time of the 93 bombing of the World Trade Center
49 years old when Operation Desert Storm began
48 years old during the fall of the Berlin Wall
44 years old when the space shuttle Challenger exploded
42 years old when Apple introduced the Macintosh
42 years old during Sally Ride's travel in space
40 years old when Pres. Reagan was shot by John Hinckley, Jr.
38 years old at the time the Iran hostage crisis began
35 years old on the U.S.'s bicentennial Fourth of July
33 years old when President Nixon left office
31 years old when Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was shot
28 years old at the time the first man stepped on the moon
27 years old when Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated
24 years old during the Watts riot
22 years old at the time President Kennedy was assassinated
18 years old when Hawaii was admitted as 50th of the United States
16 years old when the Soviet satellite Sputnik 1 was launched
12 years old at the end of the Korean War
4 years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima
not yet 1 year old at the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

There is an additional link within the site that will give you similarly discouraging information within the context of popular entertainment and culture.

If this is (fair & balanced) ageism, so be it.

© 2004 D.M.H., All Rights Reserved