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Things Other People Accomplished When They Were You're Age

ill tonic

01:22 / 26.04.02

Well?

Mazarine

01:24 / 26.04.02

Bah. Fuckin' slackers.

Trijhaos

01:24 / 26.04.02

Most of these people only wrote poetry. The only interesting one I found was this:

French symbolist poet Arthur Rimbaud ("A Season in Hell") abandoned his writing. He had proposed that poets become visionaries by pursuing a complete derangement of the senses. Later he became a gunrunner in Africa

Shortfatdyke

01:26 / 26.04.02

well compared to the bloke who took 34 years to come up with the star spangled banner, i think i'm doing alright, actually.

Persephone

02:26 / 26.04.02

Geez, Anita Hill was young...

MaximusOverdrive

05:05 / 26.04.02

oooh, i am a 24 year old freshman at an art college. i really don't need anything else to make me feel older. ;-)

MaximusOverdrive

05:06 / 26.04.02

oooh, i am a 24 year old freshman at an art college. i really don't need anything else to make me feel older. ;-)

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

06:31 / 26.04.02

Can't believe Hank Williams beat me to the drugs and booze-related end...

Mystery Gypt

06:46 / 26.04.02

At age 99:

Harold Mark Foster of Owensboro, KY, began learning to read.

Teiichi Igarashi climbed Mt. Fuji.

Saveloy

07:12 / 26.04.02

Chris all-bastard-mighty, what a terrible, spirit-withering, soul-denying thing! Talk about a boot stamping on a human face... Have you read the bit down the page where it talks about the original concept, "The Book of Your Life"?

"The idea was that there would be a pair of pages for each age; the left-hand pages would consist of other people's
accomplishments, while the right-hand pages would be blank so you could fill in your own achievements. ."

Jason fecking Christmas... Fortunately, I haven't achieved a decent browser yet, meaning my ancient version of IE protects me from seeing the accomplishments of the uber-classes. Gak. That said, if my Tom hasn't invented artificial intelligence by the time he's three he'll be on the fecking streets.

alas

12:33 / 26.04.02

One Jesus Christ, dead at age 33, got the Western world to mark the dates backwards and forwards from what they calculated to be the date of his birth, I'm told.

I'm 36. What do you think are the chances they'll redate everything from 1966, BA (Before Alas) and AA (Anno Alas)?

grant

15:31 / 26.04.02

I think they should include all the prior ages as well.

Like I got depressed in my mid-20s when I learned Orson Welles had already done "Citizen Kane" by then.

Captain Zoom

15:38 / 26.04.02

Y'know, I don't even have to do that site. Here's two that really depress the fuck out of me. At 28, Marx set down The Communist Manifesto, and Roger Waters wrote "The Wall". Which means the bugger had already got Dark Side, WYWH and Animals under his belt when he was younger than me.

Grrr...

Zoom.

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

15:48 / 26.04.02

damn
Charles Darwin set off as ship's naturalist on a voyage to South America and the Galapagos Islands.

James Joyce left his family, his church and his country for the European continent, in order to become a writer.

suds

15:51 / 26.04.02

elijah, i guess we're the same age because i got that list too.
it pissed me off because all the people who accomplished so much were MEN. i'm not surprised but it still pissed me off.
fuck them anyway. i have already lived and worked in america, spent a year in india teaching english and have made four zines. so there, list.

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

15:55 / 26.04.02

YEAH, screw you list i have..uh..dropped out of university and uh, am living in sin, and uh...crap on a stick

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

17:36 / 26.04.02

All I care about is that Robert Frost didn't even start writing seriously until he was a year older than me.

And Jesus was dead when he got to my age, so I have outdone one of the aspects of God...it's all uphill from here.

netbanshee

21:21 / 26.04.02

I popped in 24 and didn't really see too many things that were earth shattering...hmmm...got 4 more years to compete with Marx though...

_pin

21:40 / 26.04.02

After giving birth at age 8, Nigerian girl Mum-zi became a grandmother at 17

That's not a fucking achivement. All the 17 year olds blow ass on this list. I can write my own name. Like to see them try and fucking do that.

I can also print cheques.

rizla mission

12:06 / 27.04.02

By age 19, W. B. Yeats "lived, breathed, ate, drank and slept poetry."

I know how to eat proper food, and I almost never make a mess. What a loser.

Abner Doubleday devised the rules for baseball.

And they're the stupidest set of rules this side of American football, American drug laws and Roman Catholic doctrine.

Gore Vidal, who never bothered with college, completed his first novel.

Maybe he should have bothered with college cos most of his books were shite.

I rule.

Though Conor Oberst had recorded five albums of fairly decent music by the time be was my age, so I suppose he wins.

suds

12:13 / 27.04.02

i love the turn this thread has taken.

Baz Auckland

22:07 / 28.04.02

May or may not be true, probably the latter:

I remember hearing Ned's Atomic Dustbin put out their first album when they were around 18. In 1993, this made me feel like I was falling behind.

(and no anti-NAD comments, please)

Perfect Tommy

02:55 / 29.04.02

At age 0:

Jesus Christ was born of a virgin.

(Baby) Evans, daughter of Mrs. T.W. Evans, became the first child to be born in an airplane. The first children to be born in a car, covered wagon, boat, etc., were also born at this age.

Before he was one year old, Leonard Bernstein played his first piano note. He appeared to enjoy the note very much.

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