Things Other People Accomplished When They Were Your Age

[Robb]

Feeling good about yourself? Self-esteem at an all-time high?

Well, we'll fix that. :)

[bhunt70]

1. urgh- how evil.

[2Sailsgirls]

2. hmmm

I'm kidda glad that i have yet to commit a single murder while Billy the Kid (by age 18) had commited 12.
As for the rest of them- Good for them.

[VelmaD]

3. I love it...

I would feel like a shlub except the first two "accomplishments" made me smile:

At age 33:
English feminist Mary Wollstonecraft wrote "Vindication of the Rights of Women"

Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic alone.

[catzies]

4. I used to do this to my daughter on a regular basis

"When <name of famous person> was your age <insert accomplishment>, and you won't clean your room or rinse and stack your dishes!"

[Greyskye]

5. ROFLMAO!

I find the ones that I bolded especially hilarious!

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. Yeah, but try being born at some other age. Say... 18 years old. Now that would be a trick!

By eight weeks of age, Christian Friedrich Heinecken was speaking intelligible German. Many children can't even speak English at that age. You know, they're right! Many children can't even speak English at 8 weeks of age! SHAMEFUL!

At six months of age, William J. Sidis, Jr., the son of a psychiatrist, knew the alphabet.

At nine months, the American actress Maude Adams first appeared on stage. She later played the title role in Peter Pan.

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

[HawkerHurricane]

6. When Mozart was my age...

He'd been dead for 3 years. - Tom Lehrer.

[denverbill]

7. Hahah. Age 45.

"Earl Vickers created a program for displaying things other people accomplished when they were your age."

[mlawson]

8. Bill Clinton was in his second term.

This post is indeed evil....

[Snow]

9. Hmmm. There's a lot more going on at age 8 than age 58, my

actual age. Guess we all burned out by 9.

[LastKnight]

10. at 17:

Nicolo Paganini dazzled audiences with his virtuosity and pawned his violin in order to pay gambling debts.

Artificial heart developer Robert Jarvik began working on his first invention, a surgical stapler.

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

Rugby college student William Webb Ellis invented the game of rugby.

Author Joseph Conrad, wanting to be a sailor, first went to sea. This was an uncommon ambition in land-locked Poland.

American author Jack London ran away to sea on a sealing ship headed for the North Pacific. After becoming a hobo and spending time in jail, he resolved to get an education.

Composer Felix Mendelssohn wrote his overture to Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." By this time he had also composed twelve symphonies.

Walt Whitman began teaching school in Long Island.

great... just great, im behind

-LK

[Bake]

11. Jeff Immelt is Chairman of GE; younger than I am.

And I'm not **that** old.

Bake

[eeyore]

12. The Beatles broke up ...

I think the Beatles had broken up before they were all 30. As a 35 year old musician still grinding it out I find that really upsetting!