Age test...
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After reading OG's post about ARPANET 50 years ago I started to wonder who is the oldest/youngest active member here (age not membership)?
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
I've still got a few weeks left of being The Answer. :)
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined" - Homer
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I've still got a few weeks left of being The Answer. :)
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
I was pretty sure you are older than me... Surprise, surprise... :-D
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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After reading OG's post about ARPANET 50 years ago I started to wonder who is the oldest/youngest active member here (age not membership)?
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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077 puts you on 3rd place, because there are some of 74 already, so you must be 0113 or above, but that is 4 digits...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Born a couple of months before VJ day. Without wishing to offend any of our eastern friends, my dad was still fighting their fathers or grandfathers when I was born.
You take the prize so far - by about seven months, which actually looks like a whole year in this case. I have no idea what my father did the in war except: 1. He finished at Oxford and quickly got commissioned into the Royal Corps of Signals. 2. Rapidly promoted to middle ranks. 3. Never left the UK for the whole of the war. 4. Lived and worked in a bunker in London that was so far underground he never had to worry about bombs. I know more about my grandfather in the first war, who was a gunnery officer onboard HMS Dreadnought.
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Am the oldest, my age is 3 digits. All digits are greater than 0.
"Coming soon"
Are you giving your age in (solar) years, or (lunar) months? :D
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
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After reading OG's post about ARPANET 50 years ago I started to wonder who is the oldest/youngest active member here (age not membership)?
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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You take the prize so far - by about seven months, which actually looks like a whole year in this case. I have no idea what my father did the in war except: 1. He finished at Oxford and quickly got commissioned into the Royal Corps of Signals. 2. Rapidly promoted to middle ranks. 3. Never left the UK for the whole of the war. 4. Lived and worked in a bunker in London that was so far underground he never had to worry about bombs. I know more about my grandfather in the first war, who was a gunnery officer onboard HMS Dreadnought.
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After reading OG's post about ARPANET 50 years ago I started to wonder who is the oldest/youngest active member here (age not membership)?
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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After reading OG's post about ARPANET 50 years ago I started to wonder who is the oldest/youngest active member here (age not membership)?
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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That's what I remember from my C++ days... But maybe it is a C++ compiler issue and in reality you do not have to add it...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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How active must a person be on the boards to be considered active? I know I'm not close to either end of the spectrum but curious minds and all that. '81 so just a wee lad by some people's standards.
As long as you post a response you are active :-)
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Now all you need to do is post a separate question asking what everyone called their first pet and BOOM... 20 new identities acquired :laugh:
How did you called your first pet? :laugh:
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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April,1934
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
Wow! Not for nothing you called yourself 'old'!
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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How did you called your first pet? :laugh:
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Not I - I am a mere stripling from February 1959.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I was hoping for Commodore...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Wow! Not for nothing you called yourself 'old'!
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
Inside every old person is a young person, wondering what the hell happened.:)
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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You take the prize so far - by about seven months, which actually looks like a whole year in this case. I have no idea what my father did the in war except: 1. He finished at Oxford and quickly got commissioned into the Royal Corps of Signals. 2. Rapidly promoted to middle ranks. 3. Never left the UK for the whole of the war. 4. Lived and worked in a bunker in London that was so far underground he never had to worry about bombs. I know more about my grandfather in the first war, who was a gunnery officer onboard HMS Dreadnought.
- My father was a Master Carpenter and Master Fitter (Engineer) - he designed and built a machine that helped build machines that made parts for Spitfires (and other aircraft) so he was in a "reserved occupation" and was not allowed to join up. He ran away and tried to anyway, three times. The third time he managed to get through two weeks of basic before they tracked him down and sent him back. Later, he was blown across a road into a wall during the blitz on Coventry and this affected his eyesight for the rest of his life - and finally stopped him trying to join up again. - My grandfather started WWII as a Colonel and then became a Brigadier General by the end. He was in logistics moving materials around the country on the railway so never left England during the fighting. He also assisted the Germans to rebuild their railway systems after the war. He got to be this rank during WWI where he started out as a second lieutenant in the Royal Artillery being promoted to lieutenant after only two weeks because all the other lieutenants were dead. A couple of months later he was promoted to acting captain because all the other captains were dead. He was then confirmed as a full captain a couple of weeks later because no replacement captains were available. After three months he became an acting major, then a full major for similar reasons. His unit was cut off and surrounded by a German pincer advance and he was under standing orders to kill all the horses, spike the guns and surrender if this happened. Instead he had them limber up and charge forward, unexpectedly jumping over the German trenches and wheeling to the south for a mile or two, then jumping back over the lines to the British side beyond the encircling German pincer movement. He only had one horse and two men injured and brought back all his guns and equipment. He was recommended for a medal but it was turned down as he had "disobeyed orders"! However, he was promoted again to Lieutenant Colonel and given command of four units back in the place he had escaped from after the Germans had been driven back again. He became a reservist at the end of the war, being promoted to Colonel at that time. Neither he nor my father talked about their wartime experiences, I found out all this from some of their friends over the course of several years.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Yay for 1959, old man! May 1959 myself - you can call me "kid".
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
Forogar wrote:
Yay for 1959, old man! May 1959 myself - you can call me "kid".
Taking that line of reasoning to an extreme, I once asked the younger of a set of twins if her older sister ever tried to annoy her by starting a story with "you weren't around then, but back in my time..."
