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franklyn
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I was born in the later half of the 20 th century
The year of my birth ( subtracting 1900 ) is the same as my age.
How's that ?
Take your year of birth and double it , for example
if you were born 1934 , 34 X 2 is 68
so , in 1968 you were 34 years old , equal to your year of brith
Lets say you were born in 1972 , 72 X 2 is 144 , ( minus 100 ) = 44
so , in 2044 you will be 72 years old , equal to your year of brith
At present some of you are over the hill , many of you have the
hill before you.
There won't be so many alive in 2098 that can say they were born
in 1999
Oh almost forgot , so how old am I
present year 2010 minus 1900 is 110
divided by 2
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Rogeryermaw
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@ Rosco like that nat king cole song! good stuff.
kinda profound innit?
[Edited on 10-10-2010 by Rogeryermaw]
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psychokinetic
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When this poll was started I was one, but now I am the next.
“If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found
the object of his search.
I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.”
-Tesla
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12AX7
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Strange, didn't I already vote in this? Were the votes reset recently, or am I mad?
...A possibility, I know...
Tim
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Rosco Bodine
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Ummm, yeah, ... and if you like profound ..... try this one 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96px84SJQJI&fmt=18 Moonlight Serenade - Carly Simon ( song circa 1939 - Glenn Miller )
or this one, if being laid back has a theme song, this is probably it 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWh-ppeyFB4&fmt=18 Dreamsville - Henry Mancini ( 1963 )
[Edited on 10-10-2010 by Rosco Bodine]
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psychokinetic
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Quote: Originally posted by 12AX7  | Strange, didn't I already vote in this? Were the votes reset recently, or am I mad?
...A possibility, I know...
Tim |
Just a little bit more than you were before.
“If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found
the object of his search.
I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.”
-Tesla
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franklyn
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I have vicariously seen a past I have not experienced , experienced a past never
to be seen again and I can foresee a future I will never experience.
It was in the middle 1920's , before he met my mother my late father bought what was
then the only consumer electronic item that there was. It was called a " radio set " , to
play broadcast music , it had a horn to concentrate the sound of the feeble loudspeaker
and three dials to carefully tune to a station as NBC ( National Broadcasting Company )
CBS ( Columbia Broadcasting Company ). He paid about $ 150 for it , at a time an
average salary was $ 14 for a 6 day week working 10 hours a day. A pocket radio today
does much more and sells for less than $ 15.
I can still watch the old science fiction series " Outer Limits " from the early 1960's
after 4 Am. As a youngster , Television then was of course black and white , and
stations went off the air after the late , late show movie , playing the national anthem
and a poem about God ; a TV test pattern of an indian in feathered hat then came on
and was there until TV shows started again in the morning at about 6 a..m. with the
farm show and locally produced news featuring local people. Before there was Sesame
street there was Captain Kangaroo. My favorite show was Colonel Bleep ( no not an
expletive that was the cartoon's name ).
In a rural area the only phone in the house was on a party line. Before you could dial,
you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the
line. To call long distance ( more than a few hundred miles ) you had to do so with the
help of the telephone company operator ( there was only one , American Telephone &
Telegraph ) after saying " I'd like to call long distance ". Before there were area codes
we had " exchanges " which were two leading letters of a telephone number. Ours then
was RE ( Regent ) , there was also MU ( Murry Hill ) , PL ( Plaza ) , UN ( University ).
Before there was Xerox and the copy machines it made , if you wanted a copy
you had to use carbon paper to produce it at the time you typed it on a typewriter.
If you wanted to make many copies you instead used a Mimeograph machine which
made a miserable ghostly transfer copy of the stencil on which you had typed.
You would swoon from the methanol vapor that put out. Some years ago the last
typewriter repair shop in Manhattan closed for ever.
How about 45 RPM records and the portable battery operated record player that took
6 , carbon D cells.
Threading a film roll into a camera under your jacket over your head , manual film
advance and single use blue flashbulbs.
No one delivers milk any more - now instead it's pizza , back then they were called
pizza pies and you had to go out to get it yourself. I could buy a slice of pizza and
a paper cone of soda for 25 cents. The same thing today costs $ 3.50
Soda pop machines dispensed glass bottles , coke's had curves , you needed to use
a bottle cap opener to open one.
Instead of vending machines there was the Automat a cafeteria commissary with a
wall to wall vending machine with anything you could want. Coffee shops and diners
had tableside jukebox selection keypads. Instead we now have Starbuck's and wi-fi.
Newsreels ran before the movie show at the movie theatre.
At the Drive-in theatre you could watch from inside your Packard or Studebaker.
OMG I'm starting to sound like Andy Rooney.
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P.S.
According to the poll 75 % of members are under 30
When I was under 30 we used to say
" don't trust anyone over 30 "
Can't imagine why now , lack of perspective I guess.
[Edited on 22-10-2010 by franklyn]
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average age
10 to 19 yrs. is great.but what about gender?i was reading an interesting entry and pussy washing popped up.i thought it was funny if women members
read it.maybe it was just a pseudonym for some chemical compound and had already been precipitated and isolated.anyway i think female members here are
unique as well as the males.chemistry is priority!
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27 going on 60 here. Can't hear worth a damn and depending on the weather I can't walk (arthritis-and the hearing is NON pyro-related btw!). Set the
parent's trash can on fire when I was 9 (who woulda known pool shock and sulfur aren't compatible?) and I've been hooked ever since. The fires are
usually intentional these days, though. Of course the shockwaves are always accidental-when the neighbors ask...
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franklyn
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How many of these threads do we need ?
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=2120
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=3100
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=16170
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DerAlte
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How many of these threads do we need ? asks Franklyn - good question. However, the sample available quote above is as poor as a typical media poll -
around 250 out of 10650 members.
Statistal significance is therefore questionable: especially since C. 1% are age nine or lower!
Anybody beat 74? As the old song goes, I don't get around much anymore. Rosco, a chance to find it on Youtube - Sinatra?
Der Alte
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Rosco Bodine
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOJV3VrEBt8 Night And Day - Frank Sinatra
I'm sending over a nurse to help lift your spirits. 
Take two viagra and call me in the morning.
More from Sergio and Lani, and Herb, and Lani
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM9Jc2E2Khs Night And Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCiFxRqI-hE Put A Little Love Away
Herb Alpert and Lani Hall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeotM8dasB4 Come What May 1980
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljS-ZuwyArE ditto (lyrics)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inKZU5FFc-Y You and I - Kenny Rogers and The Bee Gees
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EfHZtCKJGY The Water Is Wide - Karla Bonoff and James Taylor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8HgAVenbUU Bring The Rain - Mercy Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9L1dGKLWuY You Are Mine - Faith Alumni Chorale
[Edited on 6-11-2011 by Rosco Bodine]
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DerAlte
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@Rosco:
I guess Frank didn't record that one. Here's a version:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxwvOncHVbQ - don't get around much any more.
Always did love that jazz...
| Quote: | I'm sending over a nurse to help lift your spirits.
Take two viagra and call me in the morning. |
Don't need 'em, old pal! You could perhaps sneak in the nurse...
Not getting around much is relative. I don't have arthritis or any of those things they say old folks ought to have. Just got a bit of cataract in the
left eye and a deaf right ear and possible deterioration in between, and a load of white hair, though. Otherwise all systems go but unable to run
marathons any more.
I was referring to travel. I am content to sit on my backside in the sun way down South here and watch the garden grow in the sunshine. I've done my
travel - from the New York Island(s) to the redwood forests;
cf http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuo5AvAn_Ak&feature=relat... now you've got me at it!
... Every county in England, Wales and Scotland and several of the Inner Hebrides...
Nearly every state in the US except a few mid West and Alaska, Hawaii; I've thrown stones across the Rio Grande into Mexico and walked into Canada
from Maine.
Bahamas, Jamaica; nearly every country in Europe bar Scandinavia and the East; every province in Canada except PEI Saskscatewan and Manitoba. I've
seen Albania and Greenland from afar, crossed the Atlantic by liner. Missed Australia by a hair, was due for a six months stint. Have worked in UK,
Canada, North & South US and in Silicon Valley. Loved then all (except New Jersey).
I can remember when air travel was a a pleasure, not a cramped ride in an airborne cattle car. They didn't change the air every half hour then but
every few minutes: You could smoke, get free drinks, meals that were edible; and air hostesses were not over thirty and would let you pinch their
bottoms. Flirting was an art in those days, not a dangerous pastime as it now is in this ridiculous PC era.; men were men and women were women. Those
were the days.
I've been everywhere, man: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov4epAJRPMw
So I don't need to get around anymore...
I leave you with this thought - Not only that, I did it my way, as Frank Sinatra sings here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tVi121_h-I&feature=relat...
Regards,
Der Alte
[Edited on 7-11-2011 by DerAlte]
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Gary1234
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Rather than start a new post on member's ages, I thought it would be more appropriate to resurrect this long, well-established post.
Initially, I thought that this forum was mainly for young amateur chemistry enthusiasts under the age of, say, 16, but I was pleasantly surpised to
discover than there are quite a few adult (i.e. 18+) members here, with some into the grand age of 70 
I have not clocked as many years as 70 (yet)- I am 25.
I guess that you are never too old for an 'adult' chemistry set!
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Started when I was 10, I'm now 13 and have refined my interest to synthetic organic chemistry.
"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." Winston Churchill
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