BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 / MEMBERS POLL: What's your age?

**Posted by veecee** September 12, 2012 2:02 am

You were born on a dancefloor? Must've been some kinda dance!

**Posted by TicTacToe** September 12, 2012 4:35 pm

veecee wrote:
You were born on a dancefloor? Must've been some kinda dance!

Yeah it was a mix of funky style with a Brian De Palma atmosphere. You know... the 70's : everything was crazy at this time lol

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**Posted by Banbha** September 12, 2012 7:09 pm

^^Night Fever by the Bee Gees was #1 on the day I was born.

**Posted by ancientsgate** September 13, 2012 1:20 am

Banbha wrote:
^^Night Fever by the Bee Gees was #1 on the day I was born.

You all are such babies! Try Bing Crosby, Doris Day and Frank Sinatra for the year I was born! Ye gods.... am I OLD!! lol

**Posted by Carol the Dabbler** September 13, 2012 3:23 am

ancientsgate wrote:
... Bing Crosby, Doris Day and Frank Sinatra ....

Thank you!!! Singers I've actually heard of!!!

(Oh, OK, so I've heard of the Bee Gees. And Blondie.)

**Posted by Davina** September 13, 2012 1:35 pm

The day I was born Sam Cooke was number 1 in the US with You Send Me and Harry Belafonte was number 1 in the UK with Mary's Boy Child. So yes...I am really old enough to know better!

**Posted by Banbha** September 13, 2012 8:23 pm

ancientsgate wrote:
Banbha wrote:
^^Night Fever by the Bee Gees was #1 on the day I was born.
You all are such babies! Try Bing Crosby, Doris Day and Frank Sinatra for the year I was born! Ye gods.... am I OLD!! lol

HA...I've had a lot of trainees this summer who are in their very early 20's. I was speaking to one about the new 21 Jump Street movie, and how I didn't want to see it because I liked the original TV show too much. She looked at me like I'd grown another head on my shoulders and said (disdainfully), "Um, it wasn't a show. It's a movie." Au contraire, mon petit chou!

She didn't believe me until I finally Googled it. *sigh*

**Posted by Carol the Dabbler** September 13, 2012 9:57 pm

Funny, Banbha!

OK, I've got one too. This happened quite a while back, but some of you more mature Americans will appreciate it. My (young) officemate stopped by my apartment one evening while I was watching an old television show on cable. He recognized one of the voices and asked in some surprise, "Is that George Burns?" I replied, yes, in fact it was the The Burns and Allen Show. To which he responded, "Oh, I didn't know that George Burns and Fred Allen had a television show!"

I was flabbergasted that he'd heard of radio comedian Fred Allen -- but not of Burns's wife and partner, Gracie Allen!

Davina wrote:
The day I was born Sam Cooke was number 1 in the US with You Send Me and Harry Belafonte was number 1 in the UK with Mary's Boy Child. So yes...I am really old enough to know better!

Sam Cooke and Harry Belafonte -- what gorgeous voices!

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**Posted by Banbha** September 13, 2012 11:04 pm

Even I know who Burns and Allen were! "Say goodnight, Gracie."

**Posted by Sammy** September 14, 2012 6:43 pm

Huh, so interesting how the poll changes!
Now we seem to have much more youngies than before.

How can she not have heard of 21 Jump Street? Please, Johnny Depp!

**Posted by Banbha** September 14, 2012 7:49 pm

I know, right?

**Posted by Davina** September 14, 2012 8:09 pm

Or it that? Johnny Depp, please!

**Posted by Banbha** September 14, 2012 8:19 pm

I prefer the Pirates of the Caribbean and Chocolat Johnny the the 21 Jump Street version. What can I say, I like my men roguish or intelligent, intense, and...eccentric. Yeah, that's what we'll call Moriarty: eccentric.

**Posted by Sammy** September 14, 2012 10:19 pm

Moriarty is "eccentric"? Well, understatement of the year!

I just realized Johnny Depp might have been my first obsession...

**Posted by Banbha** September 16, 2012 12:45 pm

Sammy wrote:
Moriarty is "eccentric"? Well, understatement of the year!

Totally. But I can't say that I like my men psychopathic...er, right?

So what other ages are around this place?

**Posted by Carol the Dabbler** September 18, 2012 2:31 am

There's a poll on the first page of this thread -- so you can report your own age (anonymously!) and then see the statistics so far.

**Posted by Banbha** September 18, 2012 1:04 pm

I was mainly just striking up conversation.

**Posted by Mary Me** January 8, 2013 2:34 pm

Uh, I am sixteen.

**Posted by Lily** February 21, 2013 3:17 pm

I am 21.
I am happy to see that most of the people here are my age or even older, it shows me that I am not strange or childish for being obsessed with a tv show.

**Posted by ancientsgate** February 21, 2013 9:05 pm

Lily wrote:
I am 21.
I am happy to see that most of the people here are my age or even older, it shows me that I am not strange or childish for being obsessed with a tv show.

Um, I'm 63. What does age have to do with anything? I gave up trying not to be strange ages (decades!) ago!