George Carlin on Age

George Carlin was born on 12 May 1937 and he died on 22 June 2008.

   "Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like 
    to get old is when we're kids? If you're less than 10 years 
    old, you're so excited about aging that you think in fractions."

   "'How old are you? I'm four and a half!'" You're never thirty-six 
    and a half. You're four and a half, going on five! That's the key."

   [16, 21, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80]

   "Into the 90s, you start going backward;  'I Was JUST 92.'"

   "Then a strange thing happens.  If you make it over 100, you 
    become a little kid again. 'I'm 100 and a half!'"

Exercises

1. Rounded to the nearest hundredth of a year, George Carlin died at the age of ________ years.

2. Written as a mixed number (with the fractional part reduced), George Carlin died at the age of ________ years.

3. 1 score years = 20 years; therefore, with years rounded to the nearest whole year, George Carlin died at the age of ________ score and _______ years.

External Hyperlink(s)

• Avolites.org.uk::George Carlin's view on aging

Creator: Gerald Thurman [gdt@deru.com]
Created: 24 June 2008 (posted 16 July 2008)