What year were you born in?

[OKSooner]

Who wants to know?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Why is this interesting?

It tells you the year in which a person who was your current age when you were born was born. (Get you mind around that sentence!) For instance if you were born in 1972, and are now 50, a person who was 50 when you were born, was born in 1922. If you were born in 1940, and are 82, then someone who was 82 when you were born would have been born in 1858. Gives you an idea of the depth of time, and how close the past really is.

[americas.best.days...]

Did you mean,

In what year were you born?

[The Klingon]

1896....now I feel old :)

[right way right]

Yes, but can you count your balls and get the same number twice?

Important things to do today.

[House Atreides]

“ More identity information for people wanting it.”
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What was your mother’s maiden name? ;-)

[tarator]

It is very interesting to hackers or identity thieves, beause from your answer they can easily compute your year of birth:
Y=(A+2021)/2, which is often a security question.

[Fiji Hill]

Both my grandfathers were born in 1888. Only one lived long enough to see manned space flight but he passed in 1968 before we landed on the moon.
To go from horse and buggy to space flight must have been and incredible experience.

My grandfather came West in a covered wagon and passed away shortly after the Apollo 17 moon landing.

[Bonemaker]

My paternal grandfather was born well before Custer’s Last Stand.

[shotgun]

It’s an interesting mind game to think about that.

[Old Grumpy]

1873

Oh my aching bones.

[Robert DeLong]

1287

[Steely Tom]

Is this an information mining post? I expect to see a lot of these dual intention posts soon.

You mean like those "how do I get a silencer for my pistol" vanity posts?

[MercyFlush]

My grandmother was born in 1899. When I was a kid she told me how as a child she knew a Civil War veteran who in turn knew a man who fought in the Revolution.

The point being to be aware that the past is not so long ago as some people think it is.

[imardmd1]

They say “time flies,” but you can’t. They pass at too irregular intervals.

[bgill]

1437 BC

[Fiji Hill]

I was born after the “Joe-1” atomic bomb test but before the USC Trojans and Wisconsin Badgers played each other for the first time.

[real saxophonist]

What was your first pet's name?
What was the name of your elementary school?
What is your fathers' middle name?

[Scarlett156]

*cautiously* I’ve never been to Canada.

[Scarlett156]

They want to find out your birth year.