BS: I am 40 now!

Subject: BS: I am 40 now!
From: Kim C
Date: 13 Sep 07 - 05:30 PM

Yes indeed. My friend Sue told me now that I'm 40, I have to be all serious and mature.

I stuck my tongue out at her. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: I am 40 now!
From: Peace
Date: 13 Sep 07 - 05:33 PM

But you did that seroiusly and maturely. Good for you.

Happy Birthday.

Subject: RE: BS: I am 40 now!
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Sep 07 - 05:35 PM

Yes, you do. You are no longer permitted to stand on your head, or turn cartwheels in the grass, or roll down hills, or do any of that fun stuff. Not until you became 60. That's why I'm glad I'm over 60. Everyone thinks it's just "second childhood" when the truth is that I never outgrew my first.

Subject: RE: BS: I am 40 now!
From: Wesley S
Date: 13 Sep 07 - 05:37 PM

I'm waiting for the large print version of this thread.....

Subject: RE: BS: I am 40 now!
From: Folkiedave
Date: 13 Sep 07 - 05:45 PM

Been there, done that.....

Subject: RE: BS: I am 40 now!
From: lady penelope
Date: 13 Sep 07 - 05:46 PM

I have to be what??? I turned 41 this year... I've been doing it wrong all year!!! But the worst thing is I reckon I'm also screwed for the next couple of decades.... Bum.

Guess I'll just have to resign myself to enjoying myself instead.... *G*

Subject: RE: BS: I am 40 now!
From: Maxine
Date: 13 Sep 07 - 05:50 PM

Me too, 40 in May this year. I'm quite glad to be here actually, things could have been very different for me as I was poorly in my 20's so WELCOME 40, I embrace you and am grateful I've got this far!!

Subject: RE: BS: I am 40 now!
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 13 Sep 07 - 05:54 PM

It is so refreshingly lovely that you youngsters can enjoy yourselves in this manner...40 being such a far distant memory. My even more mature tongue out to you all.
Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: BS: I am 40 now!
From: Becca72
Date: 13 Sep 07 - 06:04 PM

Serious and mature? No thank you, I say. Lucky for me I'm only 35. Hopefully by the time I reach 40 you'll need to be 50 to be serious and mature.

Subject: RE: BS: I am 40 now!
From: Peace
Date: 13 Sep 07 - 06:04 PM

"But the worst thing is I reckon I'm also screwed for the next couple of decades.... Bum."

No comment.

Subject: RE: BS: I am 40 now!
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 13 Sep 07 - 06:43 PM

Have you worked out yet what you are going to do when you grow up, Kim?

Subject: RE: BS: I am 40 now!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 13 Sep 07 - 06:45 PM

Enjoy any gray hair-- you earned 'em-- and look forward to 50. It's even better than 40.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: I am 40 now!
From: Leadfingers
Date: 13 Sep 07 - 06:51 PM

These Uppity Kids posting in here !! I say act your shoe size , NOT your age !

Subject: RE: BS: I am 40 now!
From: jacqui.c
Date: 13 Sep 07 - 06:55 PM

A mere youngster! Don't listen to anyone who says you have to grow up! Keep on having fun - that's what keeps you young.

Live long, die happy.

Subject: RE: BS: I am 40 now!
From: Amos
Date: 13 Sep 07 - 07:00 PM

So, Terry, I suppose you go around acting EEE?


A

Subject: RE: BS: I am 40 now!
From: Peace
Date: 13 Sep 07 - 07:08 PM

Forty isn't even middle age. Shouldn't you be in bed instead of fooling around on an internet site?

Subject: RE: BS: I am 40 now!
From: Hawker
Date: 13 Sep 07 - 07:29 PM

Happy Birthday Kim C I got there before you na na na na na !
Cheers, Lucy

Subject: RE: BS: I am 40 now!
From: RangerSteve
Date: 13 Sep 07 - 07:53 PM

40? You're just a kid. You have every right to act like one.

Steve, who is 56 or 57, I have to think about it, but I prefer not to. I don't care how old I am.

Subject: RE: BS: I am 40 now!
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Sep 07 - 08:02 PM

Some 'kid' was complaining about turning 20....I said.."20 is great! I liked it so well, I did it 3 times!"

Subject: RE: BS: I am 40 now!
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 13 Sep 07 - 08:31 PM

40 is only a pup!

happy birfday, Kim C, I'm celebrating it by turning off the boring radio & playing your lovely CD

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: I am 40 now!
From: Genie
Date: 13 Sep 07 - 08:54 PM

[[Peace said:
Forty isn't even middle age. Shouldn't you be in bed instead of fooling around on an internet site?]]
... or you could be sleeping instead of fooling around in bed ...


Kim, just remember, you can't help getting older but that you can still refuse to grow up.

Subject: RE: BS: I am 40 now!
From: GUEST,Don Firth
Date: 13 Sep 07 - 09:20 PM

40. 40!??

EGAD!! A mere child!

And "serious and mature?" I'm 76, and I still haven't mastered that one!

Inside every seventy-year-old, there's a teen-ager saying, "What the hell happened!??"

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: I am 40 now!
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 13 Sep 07 - 10:27 PM

At forty, you're too old to blame your eccentricities on youth and too young to blame them on old age.

You can only blame them on being batshit crazy.

Subject: RE: BS: I am 40 now!
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 14 Sep 07 - 02:02 AM

I'd stick my tongue out at you, but I might dribble or my dentures might fall off.

But congrats on your 40, KimC. The rest of us are only envious. In a friendly sort of way (muttermuttermuttermutter...).

Subject: RE: BS: I am 40 now!
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 14 Sep 07 - 03:57 AM

Happy birthday, sorry it's a bit late.

Hope you had a grand day

khatt

Subject: RE: BS: I am 40 now!
From: GUEST,Liz the Squeak pretending to work
Date: 14 Sep 07 - 04:33 AM

Only 40 - Huh!!

I remember it as well as I remember anything these days... with a 3 year lead on you!

Life may not actually begin now, but it certainly makes a lot more things permissable - you can blame it on being batshit crazy, like I've been doing for the last 20 years!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: I am 40 now!
From: gnu
Date: 14 Sep 07 - 07:04 AM

Happy yesterbirthday Kim!

Subject: RE: BS: I am 40 now!
From: GUEST,rock chick
Date: 14 Sep 07 - 08:33 AM

Only 40!! You're still a youngster. Well I am 55 and proud of it, and I still stick my tongue out, and do lots of silly things, it's what keep us young in mind, that and good exercise keeps the body fit.

rc

Subject: RE: BS: I am 40 now!
From: Kim C
Date: 14 Sep 07 - 09:52 AM

Thanks y'all! No, McGrath, I have no idea what I'm going to do when I grow up. Maybe I will have it figured out by the time I finish graduate school next year.

And Wys, I've been accumulating gray hair since I was 29. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: I am 40 now!
From: Metchosin
Date: 14 Sep 07 - 10:39 AM

Yeah, right, but in your underwear?

Subject: RE: BS: I am 40 now!
From: Kim C
Date: 14 Sep 07 - 04:59 PM

I'll never tell.

Subject: RE: BS: I am 40 now!
From: GRex
Date: 15 Sep 07 - 03:30 AM

I agree with Don Firth. Can't help the maturing bit though, just like old cheese. As for the serious part, getting old is serious when you reach my age.
   
             GRex

Subject: RE: BS: I am 40 now!
From: alanabit
Date: 15 Sep 07 - 03:43 AM

Welcome to middle age Kim. It's never too late to have a happy childhood!

Subject: RE: BS: I am 40 now!
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 15 Sep 07 - 04:00 AM

Better to be 60 and feel 40 than 40 and feel 60!!Remember you are only as young as the person you feel!

Subject: RE: BS: I am 40 now!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 15 Sep 07 - 04:11 AM

Well as I'm stroking an 18 yr old cat, that makes me about 120.

Which is how it should be on the morning after your birthday, but not if you went to bed the right side of midnight (just) and stone cold sober!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: I am 40 now!
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 19 Sep 07 - 11:03 AM

I'm with Don Firth on this one. At 63 - which is 21 x 3 - I'm still 21 between the ears.

The great thing is half-price gigs ! We went to the Big Session at the Arts Centre a year ago. My beloved's ticket cost her £12 ; while mine, as a fully qualified ould git, was a fiver.

And as for LtS : stroking an 18 year old pussy - well, chance would be a fine thing.

Growing old is mandatory ; growing up is discretionary. The only thing I don't the do now that I did then is FARTING - see the post on Ageing- the Sordid Truth.

Subject: RE: BS: I am 40 now!
From: The PA
Date: 19 Sep 07 - 11:27 AM

40's good - but 50+ is even better. You can get away with so much more people just blame it on your age.

Last week I got fed up with waiting in line for the next petrol pump, the furthest away pump was empty being blocked by a car filling up - with me so far - so, I drove round the the other side of the pumps and reversed into the empty space thus avoiding the four cars in the que. I'd seen another 'oldie' do this - brilliant.

My 17 year old son sank down in the front seat and said I cant believe you just did that. !!! Great !!

Oh before you all start - no I dont make a habit of this sort of thing - not yet, anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: I am 40 now!
From: Cobble
Date: 19 Sep 07 - 12:40 PM

Im sixty next May, roll on second childhood.

Happy birthday Kim.

Cobble.

Subject: RE: BS: I am 40 now!
From: Blindlemonsteve
Date: 19 Sep 07 - 03:21 PM

My sister is 40, just thought someone might be interested.

Subject: RE: BS: I am 40 now!
From: fat B****rd
Date: 19 Sep 07 - 04:33 PM

Grow up !! It's the last thing you should do. Happy birthday.

Subject: RE: BS: I am 40 now!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 Sep 07 - 04:51 PM

40 is good. 50...not so good. 60.......

Subject: RE: BS: I am 40 now!
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 20 Sep 07 - 09:25 AM

I'm waiting for the large print version of this thread.....

It is here. Press Ctrl++

Subject: RE: BS: I am 40 now!
From: Rowan
Date: 20 Sep 07 - 09:46 PM

A friend of mine who was 46 at the time told me, whenever she was asked her age, she'd answer
"Sixteen, with 30 years' experience of it!"

Sounds fair enough to me.

Cheers, Rowan