BS: Gifts Of Ageing

Subject: RE: BS: Gifts Of Ageing
From: GUEST,Hard 8 :: ::
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 09:15 AM

Sex is phenominal, nuclear.

I believe it has more to do with her than with me, but it has gone from small (kiloton-level, or maybe lightning bolt) explosions when younger to massive megaton detonations (think, "Bikini Atoll", or "Changshen eathquake") now that I am older.

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Subject: RE: BS: Gifts Of Ageing
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 09:21 AM

The good days are clearly evident.

Subject: RE: BS: Gifts Of Ageing
From: theleveller
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 09:21 AM

A couple of years ago I started the Growing Old Disgracefully Society (GODS). So, if you think worshipping other gods is a waste of time, become one of the GODS yourself. All you have to do is be over 50 and do what the name says. You don't know how long you've got left, so make sure you enjoy every minute. Just remember, this is as good as it gets!

Subject: RE: BS: Gifts Of Ageing
From: lefthanded guitar
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 04:43 PM

I 'd love to have this mind in my 22 year old body. I'm slightly less stupid about the world now, but don't get out of a low chair so well.

Oh, I don't really mind getting older, cept for the part where I pass a mirror and think: Who the hell is that?

Subject: RE: BS: Gifts Of Ageing
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 05:40 PM

"Just because there's snow on the roof, it doesn't mean the fire's out in the hearth."

Subject: RE: BS: Gifts Of Ageing
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 07:12 PM

Yes it does, Bill unless Viagra is added into the equation.

I really do not like to see the wrinkles in my neck and the drab grey my hair is turning but both are a small price to pay for the peace of mind I have at 60.
I watch the young ones at work trying to ACHIEVE(!), trying to impress, trying to save for a house and a wedding and.... I watch young parents agonizing over the cost of colleges.
That is all behind me. My life is simple, my needs are few and my expenses can be handled if I am careful. But best of all I wake up in the morning and I am happy and safe and content. And for the most part, my friends and loved ones are too.

Life is very good. My life is much better than it was when I was 5, 10, 20, 30 or even 50.

Subject: RE: BS: Gifts Of Ageing
From: Joe_F
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 08:30 PM

ObSongs:

I have led a good life, full of peace and quiet.
I shall have an old age full of rum and riot.
I have been a good boy, wed to peace and study.
I shall have an old age ribald, coarse, and bloody.

I have never cut throats, tho I often yearned to,
Never sung the dirty songs that my fancy turned to.
I have been a good boy and done what was expected.
I shall be an old bum, loved but unrespected.

Sung by Carl Sandburg.

Subject: RE: BS: Gifts Of Ageing
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 09:02 PM

Recent research (probably by Starbucks) stated that coffee seems to counter Alzheimer dementia or at least improves memory. Ati oxodent claims were also made.

pancreatic cancer links be damned I WANT MY COFFEE>

COFFEE
yeah it makes me write things here that are cringe worthy but what the hell, I've been brain damaged my whole life. Every major neuron bridge to access proper names is out...only one ferry remains but the captain is out having coffee.

Subject: RE: BS: Gifts Of Ageing
From: theleveller
Date: 10 Apr 08 - 03:31 AM

Probably the best gift was at the age of 51 - my daughter, Holly, now 8.

Subject: RE: BS: Gifts Of Ageing
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 10 Apr 08 - 02:03 PM

I was taught to respect my elders but it's getting harder and harder to find any...

Enjoy the day, breathe in, breathe out!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Gifts Of Ageing
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 10 Apr 08 - 03:55 PM

LTS-
re breathing in and out....the trick is making the numbers equal.

Subject: RE: BS: Gifts Of Ageing
From: theleveller
Date: 11 Apr 08 - 03:30 AM

They say you're getting old when you comment on how young policemen are, these days. Imagine how I feel - my son's one (and he has two kids of his own). He still managed to get a speeding fine the other week, though (I didn't laugh - much!).

Subject: RE: BS: Gifts Of Ageing
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Apr 08 - 07:25 AM

Hearing my 8 year old wake up in the morning saying that he wished we had a time amchine.

I wish we did too.


Time, The darn stuff is, talsteless oderless and invisible in the short run.
Love it, Fight it, slow it down, stretch it out, hurry it along, it always gets the last word.

Subject: RE: BS: Gifts Of Ageing
From: Midchuck
Date: 11 Apr 08 - 07:45 AM

I saw a good quote this morning:

"Setting a good example for the children takes all the fun out of middle age."

The good thing about "late middle age" (which is the period from 50 to 100) is that the kids are out and you don't have to.

I feel sort of sorry for people who had their kids late in life. (If you feel your life is empty without something around to love, you can get cats. No one ever tried to set a good example for a cat. It would just confuse them.)

P.

Subject: RE: BS: Gifts Of Ageing
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Apr 08 - 07:48 AM

The truth is we DNA beings are nature's time machine. We go against the grain of time from one generation to the next from one epoch to another.

Subject: RE: BS: Gifts Of Ageing
From: theleveller
Date: 11 Apr 08 - 08:47 AM

And, of course, you're only as old as the woman/man you feel!

Subject: RE: BS: Gifts Of Ageing
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 11 Apr 08 - 09:28 AM

I have a time machine.
I get in it in one place and end up getting out of it at another place...or the same place at a different time.

Subject: RE: BS: Gifts Of Ageing
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 11 Apr 08 - 09:28 AM

My car by the way!

Subject: RE: BS: Gifts Of Ageing
From: Art Thieme
Date: 11 Apr 08 - 07:22 PM

If we continue to get nostalgic about things that are more and more recent, pretty soon we will be forced to live in the present!

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: BS: Gifts Of Ageing
From: Art Thieme
Date: 11 Apr 08 - 07:29 PM

Jerry,

I have learned to try to make the most off all that comes, and the least of all that goes!

Once in a while,
I can do that.

Art