Wednesday, September 12, 2007

I'm How Old Now?

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Once upon a time, in a beach house in Carpinteria, California, a little boy turned six years old. A split second before he blew out the candles on his birthday cake, his little sister blew them out for him. After a good deal of complaining, and maybe even a little crying, he vowed to his little sister that he would pay her back by blowing out her birthday candles one day.

I never did, but I will…one day :-)

I am:
45 years 10 months younger than Walter Cronkite, age 90
41 years 2 months younger than Nancy Reagan, age 86
38 years 3 months younger than George Herbert Bush, age 83
31 years 0 months younger than Barbara Walters, age 75
28 years 10 months younger than Larry King, age 73
22 years 7 months younger than Ted Koppel, age 67
19 years 2 months younger than Geraldo Rivera, age 64
16 years 2 months younger than George W. Bush, age 61
11 years 2 months younger than Jesse Ventura, age 56
6 years 10 months younger than Bill Gates, age 51
2 years 1 month younger than Cal Ripken Jr., age 47
3 years 10 months older than Mike Tyson, age 41
7 years 10 months older than Jennifer Lopez, age 37
13 years 4 months older than Tiger Woods, age 31
19 years 9 months older than Prince William, age 25

And was:
38 years old at the time of the 9-11 attack on America
37 years old on the first day of Y2K
34 years old when Princess Diana was killed in a car crash
32 years old at the time of Oklahoma City bombing
31 years old when O. J. Simpson was charged with murder
30 years old at the time of the 93 bombing of the World Trade Center
28 years old when Operation Desert Storm began
27 years old during the fall of the Berlin Wall
23 years old when the space shuttle Challenger exploded
21 years old when Apple introduced the Macintosh
20 years old during Sally Ride's travel in space
18 years old when Pres. Reagan was shot by John Hinckley, Jr.
17 years old at the time the Iran hostage crisis began
13 years old on the U.S.'s bicentennial Fourth of July
11 years old when President Nixon left office
9 years old when Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was shot
6 years old at the time the first man stepped on the moon
5 years old when Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated
2 years old during the Watts riot
a 1 year old at the time President Kennedy was assassinated





13 comments:

Deech said...

Carlos, everything is perspective. We only relate to others by doing fair and unfair comparisons. Have the happiest of B-days and remember that its not the age...its the mileage.

Flyinfox_SATX

Margaret said...

Happy Birthday fellow Virgo. =O)

I should have known also.

Whew, I feel better knowing that you're older than me. Hehehehehe.

Happy Birthday - turn the world upside down this year. =O)

Woozie said...

You're 44? You old piece of crap, why am I here? :)

That GIF is missing the Dramatic Chipmunk, how could you?

Shelley said...

45 is a great age to be - oh, yes...I remember it well. Happy birthday, dude!

Ivy the Goober said...

Happy Birthday!

Anonymous said...

Happy BD young man!

LOL that your little sis beat you to the punch on blowing out your birthday candles - this must have been an act of revenge on her part.

The_Gator said...

Happy birthday my friend...44 aint that bad?....just make sure if you get down on your knees to do something...the boy is there to help you up.

The_Gator said...

correction...45th birthday...

Arlene said...

Wow, those are a lot of random facts!
Happy Birthday!!!!!!

Carlos said...

Flyin’ Fox: Thanks for the well-wishes neighbor. Well put.

Margie: You shoulda! Thanks!

Wooz: 45. I guess my profile picture takes a few years off ;-) Dramatic chipmunk? I’ve never seen it. You need to share the joy!

Shell: You do? ;-) Just jerkin’ your chain. Thanks for the well wishes. Thanks for the nice card you got for me, and thanks for arranging that card from the folks at work. Purty sneaky :-)

Ivy Baby: Thanks! I’m glad you’re back.

Sheila: Thank Sheila! And you’re probably right…there had to be something I did to deserve it!

Gator: Thank you kind sir. My knees really are creaky these days. Unfortunately bad knees run in my family, so I fully expect I’ll have problems.

Arlene: There’s actually a pretty cool web site that generates those things based on dates. I’ll send it to ya if you want.

Margaret said...

Yes, send me that website that generates that stuff.

In '99, I got a PC for my birthday. Plugged in and went online to play around. I search engined my birthday trying to find out such crazy facts just like this.

But no... I ended up getting some Resume' by this computer geek in NH. Turns out he had my birthday, the same birthday.

And now I'm stuck with him for the rest of my life.

reneegrrrrrrrr said...

Hey I missed it, Happy Bday old man ;).

Carlos said...

Nay: I'm crushed you forgot...but thank you dear...ya big 'tard ;-)