How old are you as of Jan 09, 2008?

We're all "1"

yakubu is 18.

25 and 72/73

i actually had to do the math because i wasnt sure

^^^ ditto

discriminating against new born babies

vingt

If a baby started posting here it'd get hounded off the board within seconds anyway so it's kind of academic

you mean to say you get hounded off for typing

this forum is awesome

i actually had to do the math because i wasnt sure

I was only going to admit that to my most beloved, but you guys are making it ok to be old and scatterbrained. :)

24

average age 29-30

30

u guys cant actually not know how old u r come on

Hey, it's easily done! My thirties seemed an approximate age between 33 and 38. Now, I only know too well my age. But, hey I'm alive and get away w/ looking younger, but there are medical reasons why I do, so swings and roundabouts.

I assign a basketball player to my age to help me remember. Last year was Larry Bird. This year is Magic Johnson.

To all you 24-year olds out there, those two men used to play basketball in the NBA for Boston and Los Angeles, respectively.

Can't remember how old she is (one doesn't like to ask) but it's my mum's birthday today!

I assign a basketball player to my age to help me remember. Last year was Larry Bird. This year is Magic Johnson.

-- Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, January 9, 2008 11:16 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

this is the guy from the burger king commercials

If a baby started posting here it'd get hounded off the board within seconds anyway so it's kind of academic

-- That mong guy that's shit, Wednesday, January 9, 2008 9:34 AM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

BAN BEEPS

(don't worry Beeps, that's what we always do with newbies here)

-- StanM, Saturday, March 3, 2007 5:27 PM (10 months ago) Bookmark Link
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-- milo z, Saturday, March 3, 2007 5:35 PM (10 months ago) Bookmark Link

^_^

u guys cant actually not know how old u r come on

dude, wait til you're 44.

i'm 32, and i tend to think i'm 30 or 33.

hang on, am i 32? *counts* ... yeh.

going on 60.

don't you mean 42?

xpost

omg grimly otm i'm 32, and i tend to think i'm 30 or 33.

i'm 34, but when put on the spot about how old i am i really have to stop and calculate it.

I'm 28.

i'm 34

Snap, wow we must be twins.

WHYYYY GOD WE HAD A DEEEAL (30 in May)

but i have the mind and experience of a 26 year old

u wish lol!

HI DERE I WEE'D MESELF

king boy pato?

DON'T LIKE POTATOES THEY YUCKY

19

23.

only 6-18 count

OMG Mr. Plains that is the best mnemonic I've ever heard.

I'm 24 now but will I live to be 24? The way things are going I don't know.

I'm 35 and forget sometimes. I think the average age of ilx will be about.. 28.

THAT NICE MISTER MONGUY WAS RIGHT I HAVE BEEN ONLY HERE FOR A LITTLE BIT AND ONE MAN SAID HE WANTED TO BAN ME AND ANOTHER MISTER CALLED ME A BORT.

23, and I know who Bird and Johnson are, my friends had video game consoles thankyouverymuch.

But yeah I used to do the same w/ hockey players. Six years ago I was Wendel Clark. Four years ago I was Steve Yzerman. Now I'm... what, Chris Drury? Meh.

I assign a basketball player to my age to help me remember. Last year was Larry Bird. This year is Magic Johnson.

you went from 33 to 32?

i'm paul pierce for another two days.

I had remembered Magic being #34. Now I don't know how old I am.

http://ibleedbasketballs.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/magic_johnson.jpg

I had remembered Magic being #34. Now I don't know how old I am.

-- Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, January 9, 2008 1:11 PM (Wednesday, January 9, 2008 1:11 PM) Bookmark Link

http://www.any-sports.com/images/news/pic_9.jpg

veinteuno

Barkley. I was thinking of Barkley.

I am Mj. Or Beckham. But he stole his number from Jordan anyway.

...while scuba diving and avoiding sharks and other scuba divers with guns or something?

I suspect these were both computer knock-offs of actual arcade games:

Sabotage = you have a central gun turret; helicopters fly by and drop little paratroopers; if four paratroopers reach the ground on either side, they form a tiny human pyramid and blow up your turret

Neptune = you are in a little undersea submarine (more like a spaceship) going through caves, some of which get narrow and you have to steer all crazy; you have a straight-ahead gun and a bomb-drop that arcs out the back like poop; there are undersea enemies; there are little thingies for either gas or oxygen (can't remember) which you have to shoot to not run out of said thing

OMG we also had KARATEKA:

http://www.webomatica.com/images/blog/2e/karateka_lg.gif

^^^^^^ this fucking game

new desktop

okay, from an adult perspective, does the name "karateka" make me anyone else feel like it's going to be some kind of martial-arts softcore?

w/o the "me"?

reference info for young whippersnappers:Old Age Stuff

also, GET OFF MY LAWN

I guess technically my first video game was a Sesame Street game on a Texas Instruments computer that hooked up to our TV

40 as of last October. If anyone wants to stop on by and shoot me in the fuckin' head, that'd be perfectly swell.

re: KARATEKA

how do you get pass the gate that kills you as you walk past?

Sabotage = you have a central gun turret; helicopters fly by and drop little paratroopers; if four paratroopers reach the ground on either side, they form a tiny human pyramid and blow up your turret.

I remember this game! I used to play it on my cousin's PC back when PC screens had four(?) colours and IBM was the only company making them.

I'm pretty sure my first video game was Super Mario Bros, back when the 8-bit Nintendo had been just released in Europe. Though I had Commodore 64 before that, can't remember what the first game I played on that was.

'sabotage' = 'paratrooper' (paratroo.exe)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

how do you get pass the gate that kills you as you walk past?

HOLY CRAP WHY DO I REMEMBER THIS: you come out of the run and go into your fighting crouch, then advance ever so slowly, ever so slowly, until your toe touches the line and the gate slams down, but AHA, you have nudged back, and now as the gate rises back up, slowly, you run through

Either (a) that works, or (b) I thought that would work and kept trying it but never actually got it to work

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

who can make a quick average?

hahahaha nabisco OTM on karateka gate solution.

HEY LADIES

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/59/Yiearkungfu.png/180px-Yiearkungfu.png

1979 BITCHES

http://hg101.classicgaming.gamespy.com/princeofpersia/pop-pc1.jpg

Better than Karateka.

HOW YOU DOIN

27

CONGRATULATIONS

1979 BITCHES

-- bell_labs

HELL YEAH

SUP GIRL

you people are psyched now, but none of you had friends in high school!

/don't even know what that means.

TASTE IT MOTHERFUCKERS

Actually, you know, I'd be curious to know how this has changed over time. Has the average age (I guess this poll measures the mode) increased as a core group of posters has gotten older? Or is this counteracted by other people not posting as much as they get older and younger people discovering ILX for the first time?

20 6

?

1 1 ?
1 100 ?

lurkers xpost

100 1?

lurkers xpost

this would make a great handle

20s: 131
30s: 76
40s: 27
50s: 6
10s: 5

27-30: 68
23-26: 48
31-34: 46
19-22: 29
35-38: 23
39-42: 20
43-46: 13
47-50: 5
over 50: 3
15-18: 2
joeks: 10

Actually, you know, I'd be curious to know how this has changed over time

http://www.garnersclassics.com/pics/billted/stare.jpg

Results look intersting

18 1

barely legal, identify yoself!

The person who clicked '69' would like to chat.

"sixty-nine, dude!"

xp to gabbneb

guys, somehow i get the feeling that it was '69' that voted 69, you know?

When we did this about 5 years ago the answer was 29, and it looks like it's still 29.

well, 28, but i take your point.

18 1

barely legal, identify yoself!

-- gershy, Saturday, January 19, 2008 6:35 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

prob. Tape Store

1979 BITCHES

-- bell_labs

HELL YEAH

Represent!

I'm sure there's a pocket of the elderly, and possibly some centurians lurking....

I think we can safely assume that the 5 answers in their 90s and the one answer of 100 were fraudulent. The percentage of the population that reach age 90 or above is quite small and only a tiny percentage of those who do would find ILE worth their while.

That leaves three suspect, but remotely plausible answers of 78, 77 and 69. The answer of 69 is too obviously a lol and needs to be tossed. I would not be so cavalier with the other two, if only because of the enduring Google bait of the "TS: Olivia de Haviland vs. Joan Fontaine" thread, which may well have attracted some older folks as lurkers on ILE.

I invite the people who clicked those ages to come forward, either to receive their well-merited congratulations or to confess to their perfidy.