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Subject: Over the hill - officially From: Jim the Bart Date: 01 Sep 00 - 12:03 PM Tomorrow my personal odometer (or should that be "odd meter") clicks over to 50 and I will be spending the day celebrating with friends and family. This past year has been filled with uproar and upheaval. I just wanted to say "Thank You" to all at the Mudcat for keeping me vastly amused, variously stimulated and mostly sane for the past six months or so. Thanks particularly to Max and Joe Offer and everyone else responsible for keeping this remarkable place going. I truly wish you could all come by to sit'n pick awhile and generally share my joy. Thank God I finally have the first 50 years behind me. Now I can get on with the rest of this little adventure. See ya'll on the other side Jim Bartholomew |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill - officially From: Pseudolus Date: 01 Sep 00 - 12:06 PM And may the next fifty be the best fifty!!! Congrats! Frank |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill - officially From: katlaughing Date: 01 Sep 00 - 12:08 PM luvyakat |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill - officially From: Bert Date: 01 Sep 00 - 12:08 PM Fifty isn't over the hill. You're still just a young pup. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill - officially From: jeffp Date: 01 Sep 00 - 12:10 PM Happy birthday, Bartholomew! The first half-century is the toughest one! jeffp |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill - officially From: Morticia Date: 01 Sep 00 - 12:14 PM Happy Birthday Bartholomew.......hope I'm as cheerful when I get to your great age *BG*.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill - officially From: Kim C Date: 01 Sep 00 - 12:23 PM Happy Birthday! I'll be 33 next week. :) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill - officially From: Jim Krause Date: 01 Sep 00 - 12:23 PM Good grief! If the first half century is the roughest, then how am I ever gonna bear the next? Why, I'd hafta be twins it's gonna be so good! Happy Birthday, Jim! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill - officially From: Wincing Devil Date: 01 Sep 00 - 12:35 PM Remember: Middle aged is always at least 2 years older than your present age!
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill - officially From: annamill Date: 01 Sep 00 - 12:52 PM Welcome Jim! It's really great over here! Relax and enjoy! Pamper yourself. I want a corvette and plan to get one soon and my son won't touch it either since he's away at school. Do something you've always wanted to do. Most of all, enjoy life! Love, annamill |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill - officially From: Bat Goddess Date: 01 Sep 00 - 01:10 PM Sorry -- 40 is the old age of youth and 50 is the youth of old age. You're young again! (Just like a lot of us.) Have a great B.D. -- celebrate for at least a month. Bat Goddess |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill - officially From: catspaw49 Date: 01 Sep 00 - 01:14 PM So Bart........Last year I almost checked out just before making 50.........Being past it is great if you almost didn't make it!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! And its a great pleasure to have you at the 'Cat. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill - officially From: JedMarum Date: 01 Sep 00 - 01:24 PM congratulations on your last 50, and best wishes on your next!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill - officially From: Cobble Date: 01 Sep 00 - 01:27 PM Happy Birthday Jim. The third fifty is even better, thats what i'm going for. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill - officially From: Shanti Date: 01 Sep 00 - 01:37 PM Welcome to the Over The Hill Gang! It's really not as bad as it sounds. There are some of us who are still 25 at heart...and that makes it a lot of fun! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill - officially From: Art Thieme Date: 01 Sep 00 - 01:42 PM I've found, as Spaw noted, that almost checking out DOES truly zero one in on what's important. Next year I hit 60. Yeah, the old proverbial glass is more than half full. And the panorama is as beautiful as it was at 20---even better. This weekend Carol and I are heading back to the Mississippi River to celebrate our son, Chris's, and his wife, Shannon's, first anniversary. Chris was cook and deckhand and mate on the boat while I was the folksinger/tale teller there for a decade---his school break summer job. What a treat it was to work with him the way it was in the old days when kids and dads worked and mentored together--before it became natural to just take off for work and never see the family again until evening when everyone was too exhausted to relate. Your good thread here has opened a floodgate for me or so it seems. Thanks. Jim, ENJOY !!! Art Thieme |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill - officially From: SINSULL Date: 01 Sep 00 - 01:42 PM Congratulations! And welcome. I loved turning fifty. Can do all sorts of things in public that are impossible for a woman under fifty. But you have me confused. Weren't you in a bidding war with Mbo over my niece? You can't start being an old fool until you're sixty, so watch it. Mary |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill - officially From: Mbo Date: 01 Sep 00 - 01:48 PM Naw Mary, you're thinking of Benjamin. BTW I haven't struck out, have I? --Matt (29 years before he's 50) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill - officially From: death by whisky Date: 01 Sep 00 - 01:55 PM Congratulations and Happy Birthday. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill - officially From: kendall Date: 01 Sep 00 - 02:01 PM I'd like to be 50 again, and, know what I know now. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill - officially From: catspaw49 Date: 01 Sep 00 - 03:22 PM Well Keericed Kendall, that ain't no big deal. You don't know squat NOW!! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill - officially From: GUEST,The Invisible Blazoona Date: 01 Sep 00 - 03:28 PM I turned 50 in January. This being an old codger is great. I can wear my pants up under my armpits, belch and fart in public, and gripe about "the younger generation". It doesn't get any better than this :) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill - officially From: dick greenhaus Date: 01 Sep 00 - 03:38 PM I remember 50.....vaguely. As for being over the hill, it beats the hell out of being under it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill - officially From: annamill Date: 01 Sep 00 - 03:44 PM Yeah, Dick. When I told my ex-husband I didn't want to get old, he'd say 'Think of the alternative'. Love, annamill |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill - officially From: DougR Date: 01 Sep 00 - 03:44 PM Dick, you said it far better than I could, and you're so right. Happy B-Day Bartholomew! DougR |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill - officially From: dwditty Date: 01 Sep 00 - 03:45 PM Well, a Happy Birthday to you, Bart. I thought that was you coming up in my rear view mirror. Sometimes I feel like I still waiting to be a grown up. dw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill - officially From: WyoWoman Date: 01 Sep 00 - 05:18 PM And remember, there's still time to sign up for a berth in our Ancient Mudcateers retirement village, the House of the Setting Sun. See you in the day room. (Does anyone remember what thread that birthday song to the tune of the Song of the Volga Boatmen was on? I love that and haven't been able to find it ...) At least one verse I remember, Bartholomew, in honor of your half-century mark is:br>
May the candles on your cake |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill - officially From: Amergin Date: 01 Sep 00 - 05:32 PM Well, Mbo, you lucky bastard, in about a week and a half, I'll only have 24 years to my 50th.....Happy Birthday, Bart. I did happen to find a picture of you though.....at least it's how I picture you from your posts.....click here Amergin |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill - officially From: hesperis Date: 01 Sep 00 - 06:28 PM To you we sing And happiness we bring To celebrate your birth: An angel here on earth Well, I don't know about the "angel" bit, (*g*,) but happy birthday!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill - officially From: Little Hawk Date: 01 Sep 00 - 11:01 PM May your birthday be happily spent And your mind be most pleasantly bent As you read the wry postings The ravings and roastings That occur neath the great Mudcat tent |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill - officially From: jets Date: 01 Sep 00 - 11:04 PM I made 76 last month.Am I still the senior mudcatter? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill - officially From: catspaw49 Date: 01 Sep 00 - 11:25 PM I thinks so jets........Can't think of anyone older. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill - officially From: Liz the Squeak Date: 02 Sep 00 - 03:07 AM I only FEEL 80! Happy Birthday, I'm heading up on your tail and will be there in about 14 years..... my birthday in 2 weeks takes me over the halfway mark - if the days of our lives are threescore and ten..... I'm still twice as old as the bloke who sits behind me at work!! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill - officially From: Jim the Bart Date: 02 Sep 00 - 10:48 AM Thanks to you all. It's still early, but the revels began last night. Yeesh, this may be more fun than even I thought. If I survive it, it will surely make me better. Amergin, the picture isn't quite right; thanks to my Mom's dad (the direction from the hair follicle gene comes, or so I've been told) I should at least keep my hair. By the way, I have discovered one thing about visibly aging - it seems to happen most during those brief period when I have "retired" from playing music. I'm convinced that music is the fountain of youth. Thanks, once again, to everyone at get my room ready at the House of the Setting Sun. I'll see you all there at the end of the next 50. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill - officially From: Big Mick Date: 02 Sep 00 - 11:28 AM Hey Jim............get the party warmed up, willya? I turn 50 in January and I expect that you will have done your job as the opening act................LOL. Congratulations on making it to the level of "Old Coot". You may now start working on the merit badges to take you to the level of "Old Fart". If you survive that you get to head on to "Old Lech". I can't wait..........hahahahaha. Happy Birthday. Mick |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill - officially From: Metchosin Date: 02 Sep 00 - 12:04 PM Happy Birthday Jim!!! Mine's tomorrow and as a fellow over the hill gang member, no fear, just party hearty, this side looks pretty good so far........ I plan to really kick up my heels with a few stiff belts of Scotch to ease my further slide tomorrow and will "quaff a wee dram" in your honour too...any excuse for a good single malt... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill - officially From: SINSULL Date: 02 Sep 00 - 01:03 PM I thought Reynaud was Senior Citizen here. Didn't he say 80? Somebody claimed 80+. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill - officially From: thosp Date: 02 Sep 00 - 01:18 PM peace (Y) thosp |
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Subject: RE: BS: Over the hill - officially From: JenEllen Date: 02 Sep 00 - 02:16 PM HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! Celebrate like you'll never be fifty again! Does this mean you are a 'collectible' now?? ~Elle (still a MudKitten) |
