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Subject: Am I really that old??? From: nutty Date: 24 Feb 01 - 01:18 PM I've just been listening to the TV and it said that The Beatles appeared at the Cavern 40 years ago........ 40 years...... they have just got to be joking I know the old joints are not as supple...... the feet not as nimble........ the brain not as agile ........ the eyes not as bright ..... but 40 years I refuse to believe that I am 40 years worth of older .......... 30 I might accept .... 20 is more how I feel How do these years creep up on us?????? I really think folk music is to blame ...... it lets us grow old and yet still participate You can sing and play sitting down ..... no need to be agile You can still sing and play as well or even better than you used to as a teenager All your friends are ageing alongside of you ...... so you don't notice it as much You are much more discerning about your activities and have learned to pace yourself A friend of mine says .... GROWING OLD IS INEVITABLE..... GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL .... I believe her ... I,ve done the long climb to the top -- now I'm on the gentle slide down the otherside -- How about you???? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: Amergin Date: 24 Feb 01 - 01:22 PM Well, I'm still climbing....but then I'm not nearly as old as alot of you farts..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: SINSULL Date: 24 Feb 01 - 01:22 PM Carpe Diem nutty. Carpe Diem. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: Big Mick Date: 24 Feb 01 - 01:23 PM I canna stop aging.........in fact, I revel in it. But I absolutely, categorically, and paragorically refuse to get old. Ain't doin' it!!! I am 50 years old and just had an aged Uncle ask me if it wasn't about time that I grew up, got a haircut, and a real job. I asked him what the feckin' hurry was. I am, after all, just a kid!!!.................LOL. All the best, Big Mick |
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: Hawker Date: 24 Feb 01 - 01:53 PM I am 40 in May - birthdays are not a sign of getting old, but a good excuse for a party! If it makes you feel old, just think how it makes Paul Ringo & George feel! Heres to being young at heart! I think that is whay I enjoy running children's workshops - 'cos I can join in! Regards, Lucy |
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: katlaughing Date: 24 Feb 01 - 01:55 PM Same here, Mick!!! Though I've not reached as many years as you. **BG** |
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: Dave (the ancient mariner) Date: 24 Feb 01 - 02:08 PM I am closer to fifty than my wife is to forty. I was born an "old soul" or so I was told. Wear your scars and lines with pride, you are a survivor. Stay young Big Mick you earned the right too. Yours, Aye. Dave |
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: Clinton Hammond Date: 24 Feb 01 - 02:10 PM Matt Watroba on Folks Like Us is doing a show themed on songs about growing old... LOL!! Maybe he's reading Mudcat eh? Gotta Love NPR :-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: Lonesome EJ Date: 24 Feb 01 - 02:10 PM Ah, Mick, we did grow up, just not exactly like Mom and Dad expected. As young as I often feel, I've still got my 12 year old daughter to remind me how out of date I am. The other day, she was doing a back-flip in her gym class, and I clapped and called "far OUT!" It took a day before she started talking to me again. Bummer. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: John Hindsill Date: 24 Feb 01 - 02:13 PM Nutty - Growing old is inevitable; the alternative is not as good, but also inevitable. As a radio talk show used to say, "I want to grow old disgracefully." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: wdyat12 Date: 24 Feb 01 - 02:15 PM nutty, I am in complete denial also. wdyat12 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: Amos Date: 24 Feb 01 - 02:15 PM Ah, LEJ, lad, I feel your pain! Almost everything I try to say to my daughter from the heart gets half-way across and then crashes and burns because of the generational dialectical gap. But remember, Mick and LEJ, that it's just a body that ages. You guys know perfectly well that in the last analysis you are standing outside of time, outside of space, reaching in to cause trouble and then laughing your big spiritual buns off. Regards, A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: Hollowfox Date: 24 Feb 01 - 02:20 PM I'm old enough to get away with it and young enough to want to. I'm neither so old nor so young that I have to do anything stupid to prove either that I'm old enough to hang out with the grown-ups or young enoough to keep up with the young'uns. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: GUEST,Sarah2 (at work) Date: 24 Feb 01 - 02:28 PM Gee, Amergin, I thought that was Carpe Guinness. Sarah |
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: Katcina Date: 24 Feb 01 - 02:43 PM I'm with wydat and nutty. I've been in denial for years. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: Hollowfox Date: 24 Feb 01 - 02:50 PM Not me, Katcina. I'm hoping to have even half as much energy as my great-grandmother, at half her age. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: kendall Date: 24 Feb 01 - 02:54 PM I'm 66, have a grand daughter 14 and she loves to visit me. She says I'm ..uh..something. It was a compliment like kool. We laugh a lot. She is also a Monty Python freak. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: Amos Date: 24 Feb 01 - 03:00 PM Well, it's a lot easier with Grandchildren, Doctor Morse; you get all the priveleges and none of the responsibilities! Easy to be cool if you don't have to trim the sheets, fight the helm. order the course changes, pump the bilges and try to get fixes in rough water at midnight! Regards, A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: Gern Date: 24 Feb 01 - 03:05 PM Allow me to share a couple reality checks I endured. Introducing a class I was about to teach in high school 5 years ago, I mentioned John Kennedy. A student said, "Isn't that the guy who dated Daryl Hannah?" Groan. My stepson listened to a music documentary and then said, "I didn't know Paul McCartney was one of the Beatles?" He later pointed out that the Beatles were singing an Aerosmith song, "Come Together." Longevity has its drawbacks. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: GUEST Date: 24 Feb 01 - 03:38 PM Nice quote in this morning's paper...it is from a man in his eighties...one of the rapidly dwindling number of of Iwo Jima vets at a recent reunion: "Who is going to sit and listen to us talk? We are as obsolete as dinosaurs. We are the old fools who saved the world." Fool on. SandyBob
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: Katcina Date: 24 Feb 01 - 03:42 PM I will always deny being old Hollowfox. I think the denial of being old is how my grandmother was able to keep up with all of us at once. I'll never grow up either. I'm having too much fun being a kid. Grandma would approve. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: Big Mick Date: 24 Feb 01 - 03:55 PM Well..............you did it again, LEJ!!!! I had a mouthful of Diet Coke when I read your "Far Out" story. As I type this my sinus cavities are full of Diet Coke..............thanks, buddy!!! And if you think you have it rough.............I have a 24, 22 and 8 year old daughters. And I am less than two weeks away from my first grandchild. He is a boy.......and his name is Connor. Can't wait.........give me a bunch of kids, a beagle, a guitar, some pennywhistles and a summer day........all I can say is all you grownups can go to hell!!! LOL. All the best, Big Mick |
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: Troll Date: 24 Feb 01 - 04:11 PM I'M A SENIOR CITIZEN
- I'm the life of the party... even when it lasts 'till 8pm. - I'm very good at opening childproof caps with a hammer. - I'm usually interested in going home before I get to where I'm going. - I'm good on a trip for at least an hour without my aspirin or antacid... - I'm the first one to find the bathroom wherever I go. - I'm awake many hours before my body allows me to get up. - I'm smiling all the time because I can't hear a word you're saying. - I'm very good at telling stories -- over and over and over and over... - I'm aware that other people's grandchildren are not as bright as mine. - I'm so cared for: long-term care, eye care, private care, dental care. - I'm not grouchy, I just don't like traffic, waiting, children, politicians... - I'm positive I did housework correctly before the Internet. - I'm sure everything I can't find is in a secure place. - I'm wrinkled, saggy and lumpy, and that's just my left leg. - I'm having trouble remembering simple words like... uh... - I'm now spending more time with my pillows than with my mate. - I'm realizing that aging is not for sissies. - I'm walking more (to the bathroom) and enjoying it less. - I'm sure they are making adults much younger these days. - I'm in the *initial* state of my golden years: SS, CD's, IRA's, AARP. - I'm wondering, if you're only as old as you feel, how could I be alive at 150? - I'm anti-everything now: anti-fat, anti-smoke, anti-noise, anti-inflammatory. - I'm supporting all movements now... by eating bran, prunes and raisins. - I'm a walking storeroom of facts... I've just lost the key to the storeroom. - I'm a Senior Citizen and I think I am having the time of my life...Aren't I? troll
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: Hollowfox Date: 24 Feb 01 - 04:38 PM I'm in full agreement, Katcina. Of course, my teens are always complaining how they're too tired from their full lives to clean their rooms. If I follow their logic, and I'm only as old as I feel, I must be barely sixteen. The things that make me feel part of another generation? When somebody tells me that Marilyn Monroe was fat. That, and when some teens I know "couldn't see the point " of the MASH tv series, and couldn't quite understand the visual cues in "Jesus Christ, Superstar", either. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: kendall Date: 24 Feb 01 - 04:44 PM That was great Troll! I have a lot of things going for me...my eyes, my hair, my hearing... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: tiggerdooley Date: 24 Feb 01 - 04:51 PM If you listen to music that provokes the reaction "Now that's not music, it's just noise/talking/crap!!" then you're NOT old. Still listen to your old favourites, 'cos I do, but also keep annoying the ones with closed ears. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: Peter T. Date: 24 Feb 01 - 04:59 PM When I was growing up, we believed that we would be blown up every day by the Russians in a nuclear holocaust. I have taken them a day at a time ever since. It is a pity that, thanks to George W. Bush, the next generation will have to return to that stupid childhood fear, due to the coming new arms race. There is a decadal generation that was freed from that fear, and the masters of war are closing in again. I am sorry for the next generation: I had hoped we might have worked harder towards ridding them of that prospect, given how terrible it was the first time around -- even if it did make me grateful for each new day. yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: Katcina Date: 24 Feb 01 - 05:00 PM Heck tigger, that is what my dad always used to say to me, more years ago than is possible. I listen to all of it but really appreciate some of it more that other. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: tiggerdooley Date: 24 Feb 01 - 05:07 PM Yeah, Katcina. That feeling of "Oh you just don't GET it!" will never cease to be both satisfying and frustrating, even if you are listening to something that you've been listening to since you were fifteen. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: Amergin Date: 24 Feb 01 - 05:08 PM Come on, you all just don't get it.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: tiggerdooley Date: 24 Feb 01 - 05:16 PM That's the point, Amergin, and that's why it's such fun. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: bet Date: 24 Feb 01 - 09:26 PM Getting old is a state of mind. Kat remind me of that in a couple of months when I get a cane, seeing eye dog and and ear phone. I love the reaction of people wne hey find out my real age. I've got them fooled though some days I wish they'd treat me like a tottering old lady. HA HA! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: Amergin Date: 24 Feb 01 - 10:19 PM That's ok, Bet.....I'm around to treat your sister as a tottering old lady.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: Bill D Date: 24 Feb 01 - 10:40 PM I now have a greater appreciation of the remark.."Youth is a wonderful thing--too abd it is wasted on the young" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: Alice Date: 24 Feb 01 - 10:44 PM A couple of mornings ago I was clicking through the news and paused at the Today show, hearing Matt Lauer talking about some news coming up about Seniors, he paused and said, don't we need a new term instead of "Seniors"? Katie Couric said, "What, you mean Us?" Lauer clutched his heart and fell over on the couch. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: Amos Date: 24 Feb 01 - 10:46 PM That's why the really smart oldsters refuse to let go of it! A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: Gypsy Date: 25 Feb 01 - 12:08 AM I dunno. This is my year to be forty, and seems like life is getting better with each passing year. I'm a better musician, wife, deacon, person, and friend. I have less hangups. I like myself. It's okay to make mistakes. Of course, my perspective on age is aided by the live in M-I-L, who is 85. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: Spud Murphy Date: 25 Feb 01 - 12:40 AM Children should be seen and not heard. And what's so wrong about 'second childhood'? Spud |
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: DonMeixner Date: 25 Feb 01 - 01:10 AM At fifty I haven't the energy to sieze an entire day any more, Carpe Post Meridian makes more sense to me. As I age I learn more, and I refine more. I still play the same games but experience tells me when to slide and when to take the out at second. 100 yards are just a far but I'm in less of a hurry and there is some great things to see along the way. The Swiss naturalist Louis Agassi said of vacations that he took them in his back yard because there were undiscovered worlds under the grasses in his lawn. I still sing the same songs I use too only I understand the passions that inspired them now. Which makes them more passionate in of themselves. I understand now the meaning of " Its the trip, not the destination thats important". As we age we still do the same stuff we did as kids but now we savor when we used to sample. And we've learned to appreciate as well. Ain't nothing wrong with 50, my Sweetie is nearly there and I doubt we will be able to tell the difference tween 49 and 50, any more than we could at 17 and 18 or 22 and 23. If we can just slide through these years together things will be fine. Don |
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: john c Date: 25 Feb 01 - 02:07 AM 40 is OLD???? I´m getting on for 47 - though really I can hardly believe it. When I reached the magic 40, I found myself turning my life completely on its head. Maybe it was the classical midlife crisis setting in! Anyway, I got out of a relationship which had definatly run its course, dumped a pretty good job in industry and decided it was time to start trying to follow a few of the dreams that had been lurking somewhere deep inside for as long as I can remember. I simply had the feeling that I´d been given a second (and last) chance and was bloody sure I was going to take it! So I stopped earning decent money and started working with severly handicapped adults - and I love every minute. And I´ve got a really good band together (which would have been impossible in my earlier life) and a CD out which isnt selling badly at all.Lots of TV and radio coverage. And, and, and.....the list could go on and on! Ok, so it isnt all a bed of roses.....crises come and crises go.....but its all down to weathering the storm and thats something I´ve learned to do pretty well. But the most important thing - my relationship to my kids couldnt be better. Now that they are growing up, they are turning into really good friends and I´m getting to be very proud of them! So much so that my daughter, who is 14 and is going through a very difficult phase, has just camped herself down on my floor and has decided to move in with me. For good!! So I am now sharing my 30m² with 6 guitars, a banjo, a mandolin, and a daughter! Looks like the next couple of years could be veeeeery interesting. (Must start looking for a bigger flat!!) So, what I´m trying to say - 40 is the time to take your chances, roll with the changes and make your life what YOU want it to be! All the best, John |
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: rangeroger Date: 25 Feb 01 - 03:02 AM Around the time I turned 40, my mom made a comment that I was middle-aged and wasn't a success.I told her that I really resented that comment because I wasn't middle aged. I'm now 55 and am still not a success, whatever that means, but I do finally consider myself middle-aged. rr |
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: nutty Date: 25 Feb 01 - 07:26 AM I never suggested 40 was old It's 40 years added on to the age I was when The Beatles first appeared that creates the problem ........ life seems to have shot by and in retrospect there have been times when I just wanted to grab the moment and hold it for a while It's been a real ... STOP THE WORLD I WANT TO GET OFF ...... experience Now I want to be able to savour life at a much slower pace .. doing a bit of freewheeling where necessary ... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: GUEST,2 feathers Date: 25 Feb 01 - 07:49 AM Left Field said it well with "Millions of Brain Cells Ago" The part of my brain that I miss the most is the part that remembers all the lryics. My mom will be 99 next week. How come SHE remembers all the words? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: John P Date: 25 Feb 01 - 08:47 AM We have to age in order to get really good at our professions and hobbies. It hit me when I turned 40 and realized that I was doing my adult work, that I was in the midst of a couple of careers, and that I wasn't waiting to find out what I was going to do with my life anymore -- I was already doing it. Now, seven years later, I am conscious of the fact that I am middle aged, and thouroughly enjoying it. We have to age in order to be the elders of our communities. I feel like I have learned a lot and seen a lot. Every once in a while I am asked to pass some of it on. The young folks don't get asked that. I hope that continues. I am thoroughly enjoying it. I think the secret to success as an aging person is to thoroughly enjoy whatever stage of your life you are in. I suspect that is what people really mean when they talk about being young at heart. But I don't see myself as being young at heart or in any other way. I'm having too much fun being the age I am -- I'm getting older all the time and enjoying in thoroughly. John Peekstok |
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: kendall Date: 25 Feb 01 - 11:49 AM One of my wise ass daughters said to me "60 ain't old...if you are a tree." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: Amos Date: 25 Feb 01 - 12:30 PM That's the kind of woman you want to track down, Kendall. A wiseass who will keep you laughing well into your nineties. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: Bill D Date: 25 Feb 01 - 01:08 PM You are Old Father William
"You are old, father William," the young man said,
"In my youth," father William replied to his son,
"You are old," said the youth, "as I mentioned before,
"In my youth," said the sage, as he shook his grey locks,
"You are old," said the youth, "and your jaws are to weak
"In my youth," said his father, "I took to the law,
"You are old," said the youth, "one would hardly suppose
"I have answered three questions, and that is enough," |
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: granny Date: 25 Feb 01 - 04:14 PM One good thing...The older you get, the less people care about you, or, so it would seem. So, by the same token, the less anybody cares about you getting old. But, when you're young, you've got to be young so perfectly, do it just right, don't screw up. You have more freedom to screw up at being old. (???) I felt old the other day for a moment...looked at my page-a-day 'Forgotten English' calendar. The word for the day, I suddenly realized...people used to use, when I was young! I could recall saying it (Happened to be the word, 'daw.')-- or, I thought we used to say it.
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: jaze Date: 25 Feb 01 - 04:48 PM I liked Jack Benny's comment on aging: "Age is a matter of mind, if you don't mind, it don't matter"! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Am I really that old??? From: Amos Date: 25 Feb 01 - 05:00 PM I thought a daw was a common name for the Eurasian crow.
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