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Subject: BS: Over the hill From: Louie Roy Date: 11 Jan 14 - 10:36 AM 89 today if I had any idea I was going to live this long I would have taken better care of myself |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 11 Jan 14 - 11:33 AM 90 and echo your comment. Bad back from the physical labor involved with a little farm we bought on a whim. Have avoided excessive activity ever since. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill From: MGM·Lion Date: 11 Jan 14 - 11:47 AM ♫♫-Happy birthday 2U-♪♪♪♩♩ from a mere 82-yr-old. 〠❧~Michael~❦〠 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill From: GUEST Date: 11 Jan 14 - 01:57 PM Happy Birthday to both Louis and Q. (I know it ain't Q's birthday, but I missed his 90th. Heck, I missed mine, too :-).) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill From: Bill D Date: 11 Jan 14 - 02:04 PM Us kids of only 74 congratulate you 'experts'... Remember, 'over the hill' means downhill from here on... (that can mean easier going as well as too fast.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill From: Louie Roy Date: 11 Jan 14 - 02:10 PM Happy belated birthday to Q Whatever day and month it was. I always look up to my seniors with respect and honor so Q I will drink an extra highball toast of Canadian Moose milk today in your honor Louie Roy |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill From: Elmore Date: 11 Jan 14 - 03:10 PM Happy Birthday Louis. I'll never see 89. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill From: GUEST Date: 11 Jan 14 - 03:13 PM Elmore, look at it upside down. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill From: Rapparee Date: 11 Jan 14 - 03:22 PM Gee, I'm one of the young punks who'll turn 69 next month -- on a trip to the subarctic to do some aurora viewing. When I get back I'd mug some of you old farts except I'd probably get beat up and rolled myself. Y'all have a happy birthday and remember, you're still lookin' at the tope of the grass (or snow). |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill From: Ebbie Date: 11 Jan 14 - 05:39 PM You guys are inspiring! I'm *only* 78 and I may make it to your level in numbers but I won't be anything like some people I just watched on YouTube; have you seen 86-year-old gymnast Johanna Quaas or pianist Alice Herz Sommer at age 109? I think you have to start early, stay focused and have a good bit of luck tossed in. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 12 Jan 14 - 02:50 AM happy birthday from a mere youngster - 62 next month! 89 & 90 & all the other numbers are excellent numbers, so much knowledge! so much staying power! so much scholarship! I feel privileged to know you sandsa |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 12 Jan 14 - 02:51 AM 5 attempts to post & I include a typo sandra |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill From: MGM·Lion Date: 12 Jan 14 - 03:50 AM Maybe because the sandsa time are running our for us all? ~M~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill From: MGM·Lion Date: 12 Jan 14 - 03:53 AM "out for us all, buggerit. These typos must be infectious... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill From: gnu Date: 12 Jan 14 - 06:51 AM Happies atchya Louie! All of you inspire me. Not only for your longevity but also for your wisdom and sharpness of mind. Kinda makes me think that my lack of wisdom can be partly blamed on my relative youth. >;-) As for the dullness of mind, well, nuthin I can do about that now eh? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill From: Richard Bridge Date: 12 Jan 14 - 07:12 AM Longevity is mostly in the genes. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill From: Will Fly Date: 12 Jan 14 - 07:26 AM A very happy birthday from a chipper, soon-to-be-70-year old! Great quote, Louie - from Eubie Blake as I recollect. :-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill From: Louie Roy Date: 12 Jan 14 - 12:42 PM You are 100% correct Will Fly on my quote Louie |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill From: ChanteyLass Date: 12 Jan 14 - 08:17 PM Happy birthday from me, too! I'm sorry to be late sending my happy birthday wish! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill From: Pete Jennings Date: 13 Jan 14 - 05:45 AM Belated Happy Birthday from another young 'un! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill From: MartinRyan Date: 13 Jan 14 - 05:49 AM I feel like a callow youth - at 67! Best wishes |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill From: GUEST,kendall Date: 13 Jan 14 - 08:59 AM Happy birthday, kid. I don't worry about getting old as long as I'm still so cute. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill From: JohnInKansas Date: 13 Jan 14 - 11:53 AM I'm considering the opinion attriuted to T. S. Eliot: "The years between 50 and 70 are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down." I'm a little past his "difficult years," but apparently not far enough to have noticed much change. John |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill From: gnu Date: 13 Jan 14 - 02:30 PM I gotta have my glasses on to count change. Nickels and quarters should be different colours. I might write a goddam letter! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill From: JohnInKansas Date: 13 Jan 14 - 04:26 PM Those of us more accustomed to lessened visual acuity have learned that quarters have a serrated edge and nickels are smooth on the edge. You don't even have to take them out of your pocket to tell which you have. They are sufficiently similar in size and weight that rigorous scientific tests in the lab a few decades ago showed that squashing a nickel between two solid steel plates at 16,000 pounds load would make the nickel look like a quarter to the vending machines down the hall, but I believe the machines have improved discrimination now. Even then, coin-pay telephones could tell the difference, but there aren't any of those still in existence so the knowledge of how to turn nickels into quarters is totally academic and useless even if it had worked for the phones. John |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill From: Allan C. Date: 13 Jan 14 - 05:39 PM Some say that Mark Twain, George Burns, or even Mickey Mantle may have said almost the same words originally. However, in the interest of making this a musical thread I'll go with Eubie Blake. On the other hand, Samuel Clemens played guitar. Whatever the case, a very happy birthday to you! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill From: frogprince Date: 13 Jan 14 - 06:27 PM Hill?...what hill?...I don't remember any hill... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill From: GUEST,Walt Date: 14 Jan 14 - 07:46 AM I took it to be 'Sandsatime', always running. |
