"Just for the record...... (oldest poster at TMP?)" Topic

Who is the oldest poster on TMP? I'm only 43 so I might be older but not oldest.

Well thank god it's not me ! I just hit the big FOUR ZERO today

Happy Birthday.

It's not me.....

I'm pretty sure it is not the OFM either.

I'm 48, but in my own way, I'm also................timeless!

48

Are we counting age or mileage?

54; aged to perfection :)

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jizbrand is in the lead - can anyone beat 54?

NOPE BUT I TIED HIM AT MY YOUNG 54!!! WHICH IS REALLY ONLY 7 AND A HALF IN DOG YEARS.......

Just a young 32 :-)

What about Larry Brom? He is at least 55.

Who is the 80-something that marked on that poll? Come to think of it, that poll was from 3 years ago, maybe he's hit 90!

And I always figured that Mike Weaver was younger than me (38 until October). Must be that Neotacha keeps him young.

Wyatt

well, not many teens do wargaming because it's seen as being geeky, and those that do play GW exclusively, explaining the abscence of teen votes on that poll. I wouldn't be surprised if I was the only historical teen wargamer in the country!

40 in body, 14 in mind.

I'll be 55 on July 2. So far I am in the lead. Which is like having the high bid on eBay on the second day.

Larry doesn't count until he checks in himself.

That poll was a couple of years back. I'm 22 now.

42 - I'm nowhere near the eldest. Thank goodness!

Thanks, Wyatt.

32 here, unless "relationship mathematics" are in effect (wherein you average your age with that of your partner) in which case, I'm 26.

- Monk

40 - so cant help. Also cant remember anything and find myself drawn to regional and local news programmes and snoozing on the sofa.

watsicalled, nope I'm 17. Geeky, no, I view it as I'm in a better hobby than you. :) Most people I know are fancisnated in the fact that I can paint....

Sorry OFM, 58 here (unless I'm entitled to a discount for the 1970s?).

Larry Huber, can you up the ante?

I think Rocky Russo or Rudy Nelson (the senior nelson, gamestore & convention sales, forgot the name right now though...) have you beat.

Only 44 meself.

Ah a mere lad (Cpt Arexu), may you have the good fortune to be 58 (and far beyond) someday! ;-)

Well, I'm certainly not going to up my bid...

I've been 32 since March 14th...

Sorry. Just turned 40, three months ago.

Since I have turned completely gray in the 14 years since we married, she jokes that she has aged me prematurely. Actually, I started going gray when I was 18, so I think it was just my time.

Hey! You're all forgetting that a woman is only as old as she feels.

A man is only as old as the woman he feels :-)

In which case, I'm 29. Again...

I'll be 54 next Saturday. Puts me in the upper range, no doubt about that.

Not forty for...four more days!

Cheriton is in the lead at 58... going once...

Just turned 30, but I feel old...

53 - There seems to be a cluster in the mid-fifties and another bump in the late thirties, early forties. Is there a common theme for either as to initial attraction to the hobby. I know Avalon Hill gets part of the blame/credit with me.

Avalon Hill and SPI - bought some, but didn't play a lot (early to mid 70s). Then D&D caught me in a big way (Summer '79).

About 70 in the morning, till the body wakes up, round about midday I feel about 50. By the time I leave work, about 100. When I get home and get to see my missus and the dogs I feel about 16 again.

....On my birth certificate it says 38! Though I sure feel older phsically.

My wife says I act like a two year old on xmas morning when I get a package of miniatures in the mail. So does that count as an age??? :-)

I will not be 54 till October so I am out of the running...in more ways then one... :-)

37 in a fortnight. Seems TMP is the only place left where I'm young :-)

Age is a state of mind. You get to a certain age and you don't mind!

28.

But I feel older as a gamer, since my dad is an old-style Avalon Hill wargamer, so I've been gaming almost my whole life. I have a very distinct memory of sitting on my dad's knee while he was playing Fire in the East, and him asking me if I wanted to move one unit at a time, or all of them. I of course correctly answered 'all of them!'

I seriously can't understand life without gaming.

My first real miniatures game was GHQ's 'Tank Charts' for WWII microarmor. (Excellent, if complicated rules, and probably my only claim to being a serious historical gamer, since other than that I play DBA and GW games...)

I read Charles Grant and Peter Young when I was 12 or so, because some weird timewarp (a local library giving away old, 'useless' books) delivered their works into my avid hands in the late 80's. I even played games with the old Airfix Napoleonics, which I found at a strange little hobby store near my grandfather's house.

Just hit 39 & had my first tattoo. A coincidence?

I'll be 64 in July (the 2nd). FWIW, Larry B. is in
his mid-seventies, IIRC.

I'm nowhere near the oldest

Ed is the oldest Gamer/ GM I know that is active on the list or the web for that matter. There are others in the "senior" class but not many on line that much. We have been seeing the passing of many over the past few years.
VR
James Mattes
Young at 45

37
look 25
feel 55
act 15

"Just hit 39 & had my first tattoo"

Congratulations! What is it? Something miniature gaming related I should hope.

Cheriton

Nah I am 49, soon to be 50, but since I have worked with the public for 38 years I think I should tack on some years...lol

Larry Huber