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At my age? I was just asked for my birth date (note: not just the year) so that I could purchase THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS at Target. Sent them a polite nastygram to their Feedback address when I got back to my desk, too, believe me. None of their business how much older than 17 I am, and I have no desire to have my birthdate attached to my purchasing records or my Visa card number in their files.

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I just post false information at this point. I used to put Jan 1, 1900 for my birthdate, but some sites won't take it -- evidently, if you're 104, you're not on the internet. One site I was curious enough to track down Jan 1, 1918 as the oldest birthdate they would allow. Someone had to go invent that number, stick it in the javascript, ...sheesh.

Anyway, nowadays I use something similarly easy to remember (in case, against my protest, they ask for it as identification). If they're going to ask stupid questions, I'm going to give them stupid answers...