Humor will not be tolerated!! -Portia

Face it, man. You're three times the age of most of the other people here.

In my book, that be ancient.

This post sounds like you took seriously vorpal's comment. Which was not a serious comment.

He knows he's ancient (and wise and wonderful, or something ).

To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, "I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue [in this forum]. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, [your] youth and inexperience." -during a 1984 presidential debate with Walter Mondale

One of the definitions of ancient is venerable, meaning "commanding respect by virtue of age, dignity, character, or position." So, thank you Giovanni Schwartz.

I have some friends who served their missions in Italy and there they call the Elders "Anziano", which means "ancient" or "elder".

Excellent point, Damasta. I served my mission in Italy, and our title was "Anziano" meaning elder, senior, or ancient. People often looked at us a little funny when we would introduce ourselves as "Anziano [Blade]," or "Anziano Smith," or whatever. I should have remembered that and used it in my response. So, I've been called "ancient" since I was 19 years old.

You know, to a six year old many of you are ancient, as well.

Isn't that the truth. My younger sisters, aged 9 and 5, have declared me beyond the age of getting married respectably. I just smile and nod. The nine year old declared two years ago that she was going to come to my wedding, but only if she was still alive.

Unit of Energy wrote:Isn't that the truth. My younger sisters, aged 9 and 5, have declared me beyond the age of getting married respectably. I just smile and nod. The nine year old declared two years ago that she was going to come to my wedding, but only if she was still alive.

Love it! One of my favorite things to do is ask my little cousins how old they think I (and my other sisters) are.

How old I are. Oh, parentheses, I love you.

Props Vorpal, for being of significant importance to be mentioned. Any press is good press, am I right?

My thoughts exactly. Being mentioned on the real Board would be a highlight to my day, even if they said something like that about me . . .

Hehe... Well, Vorps, you are way older than us. I think you are older than the majority of the people in the world at this point. I'm not positive on numbers, but most people don't live to 100, which would make this make sense. Therefore, you are ancient. As in, "freaking old". Not "venerable".

But you know it's all in love. We tolerate you because we love you. [ =

same is true for Japanese.

長老 (chourou): the head old person.

I was going to italicize "ancient" for comedic effect, but chose not to. I kind of regret it now. I think ancient looks wonderful in italics.

ancient.

Yeah, I regret it.

That is interesting, Bismark, about Japan, which tends to honor their elders. I've noticed the same respect for elders shown in Bollywood movies.

My wife tells a story about when she was a little girl. She told her grandmother, "You are really old, grandmother!" Her grandmother asked my wife how old she thought her grandmother was. "Oh...maybe 25!" Her grandmother loved to retell that story.

Well, it is nice to be "loved." I was surprised to see my "name" mentioned. I'm sure many of the readers of the Board must have wondered, "Who is vorpal blade?" I don’t think they would know, unless they frequently read this message board, where we know each other pretty well. I guess I do stand out as being more "ancient," more outspoken, and probably for being more conservative, and more controversial, and maybe more cantankerous by a lot than other readers of the Board.

I was interested to see what the median age of the world is, to see if I was older than the majority of the people in the world. A short Google search turned up conflicting numbers, but the median age seems to be a lot younger than I expected. According to the CIA World Factbook “Currently, the median age ranges from a low of about 15 in Uganda and Gaza Strip to 40 or more in several European countries and Japan.” (https://www.cia.gov/library/publication ... /2177.html)

If you are 18 or over you are older than the majority of the people of Afghanistan, Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, The Gambia, Gaza Strip, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mayotte, Mozambique, Niger, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Uganda, Yemen, and Zimbabwe.

Okay, most of those nations are small. But the median age in the United States is just 36.7 years old. In China, the biggest nation, the median age is 34.1 years old. In India, the second most populous nation, half the people are under 25.3 years old.

Are you beginning to feel old as well?

I would just like to point out that for the last several years, Japan's death rate has been higher than it's birthrate. Over 20% of Japan's total population is 65 years or older. Japan is an old country (in many ways).

Vorpal, you'd fit in like a charm here. Of course, I don't know exactly how old you are and there the whole issue of not looking Japanese. But, you'd probably at least get a lot more respect here for your age. Just sayin'.

For some reason, this is making me think of th time that my brother, in trying to explain that the microwave in his college apartment was ancient and dilapidated, described it as "venerable."

Sky Bones, more respect--definitely. More fun--I don't know.

Wisteria, dilapidated? Ouch!

vorpal blade wrote:Sky Bones, more respect--definitely. More fun--I don't know.

Wisteria, dilapidated? Ouch!

The truth hurts.

Just glad that no one has mentioned spavined.

How are your shins?

My children, I have no problems with shins.

But he slew not their children, but did as it is written in the law in the book of Moses, where the Lord commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own shin.

And remember,

He that is without shin among you, let him first cast a stone .

Wow, Vorpal, that was just awful. I think you just shinned against humanity.