BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter

Subject: Could I be Oldest Mucatter,
From: jimlad
Date: 27 May 02 - 09:10 PM

Could I be the oldest UK Mud catter? I am 60 and have all my own teeth,most of my own hair,and run 2 marathons a week > > > > > > > > > > > > >

Ok So I lied about the Marathons

Subject: RE: BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter,
From: DonD
Date: 27 May 02 - 09:17 PM

Fageddabatit!

I'm 74 and I know I' not the oldest. And all my teeth are my own; I have the receipt from the dentist to prove it.

Subject: RE: BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter,
From: DonD
Date: 27 May 02 - 09:20 PM

BTW I marched in our local Memorial Day parade today with a vet who's 77 and planning to run in the New York Marathon this year, for the seventeenth consecutive year! I told him I planned to watch for the seventeetn consecutive year.

As some comic recently said about running, "I want to be sick when I die!"

Subject: RE: BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter,
From: Banjer
Date: 27 May 02 - 09:21 PM

You are only as old as you feel, some days that makes me about one hundred and ten years old and others I'm a spring chicken!

Subject: RE: BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter,
From: Banjer
Date: 27 May 02 - 09:24 PM

That comment from the comic sounds like something I would say. I have been know to mention that given all this diet and excercise that Dr has me on "that I may not live forever but I'll be healthy when I die!"

Subject: RE: BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter,
From: Bill D
Date: 27 May 02 - 09:38 PM

"remember...in order to stay healthy until you die, you have to die very suddenly"

(there was a thread "how old is a Mudcatter" once...we have several in 70's and maybe one past 80)

(I'm a spring chicken of 63)

Subject: RE: BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter,
From: Mudlark
Date: 27 May 02 - 09:38 PM

Banjer...Diet, for diet's sake, and exercise, for exercise's sake....may not live forever but it will FEEL like it. 10 minutes on an exercise bike lasts at least an hour...

Subject: RE: BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter
From: Don Firth
Date: 27 May 02 - 09:49 PM

71 next month. When I see that number, my immediate reaction is "no, that can't be right!" But that's what the calendar says.

On the aforementioned other thread, somebody asked, "how old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?" I like that.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter
From: Bert
Date: 27 May 02 - 10:30 PM

Hey Bill D, You're as old as me. We're just youngsters as far as Mudcat is concerned.

Subject: RE: BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter
From: katlaughing
Date: 27 May 02 - 10:32 PM

Don, that was me quoting the actress, Ruth Gordon, and I love that quote, too. Just think, you could claim to be dyslexic, switch your age around and you'd be 17, again! Sounds good to me!*bg*

kat...a state of mind

Subject: RE: BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter
From: Ebbie
Date: 27 May 02 - 10:33 PM

Bert, it appears that the only problem with being 63 is a tendency to repeat oneself. :)

66 here.

Subject: RE: BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 27 May 02 - 10:40 PM

Not enough fingers to count my age (born 1923). Not quite touching wood yet.

Subject: RE: BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter
From: Bert
Date: 27 May 02 - 10:52 PM

That wasn't me Ebbie, That was MICROSOFT!

Subject: RE: BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter
From: Deckman
Date: 27 May 02 - 10:58 PM

Don ... In the words of a very dear mutual friend ... "SHEEEEUH!. CHEERS, Bob (why don't you sit still for a while and I'll catch up to you).

Subject: RE: BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter
From: Bill D
Date: 27 May 02 - 10:58 PM

some kid was complaining about turning 21....I said I liked being 21...liked it so well I did it 3 times!

Subject: RE: BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter
From: rich-joy
Date: 28 May 02 - 12:36 AM

what was that quote from that famous jazz man - Eubie Blake was it?????? - words to the effect that : "If I'd've known I was gonna live this long, I'd've taken better care of meself" ...

(it's still not making me mend my ways yet though) R-J at 50+

Subject: RE: BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter
From: GUEST
Date: 28 May 02 - 01:30 AM

Still a chicken here at 64, but I DO run over 90 kilometres a week. That's more than two marathons.

When my new heart valve is fully run in it'll be more than that :-)

Jack

Subject: RE: BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter
From:
Date: 28 May 02 - 01:33 AM

Oops, I"ve reset my cookie

Jack

Subject: RE: BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 28 May 02 - 01:56 AM

I'm a mere 37 and feel a bloody sight worse than you lot appear to!! Having said that, I worked in an office where I was the 2nd oldest and the youngest could have been my son, and it wouldn't have been a schoolgirl pregnancy! I ended up feeling a lot younger, so I guess surroundings has a lot to do with it.

So far the oldest is Dicho at 79. Any advance?

Could we start a rival thread about who LOOKS the oldest? Because if you put Spaw and Bill Sables together you wouldn't necessarily get the ages right!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter
From: greg stephens
Date: 28 May 02 - 04:50 AM

Subject: RE: BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 28 May 02 - 05:47 AM

I'm just a young 58. I heard many years ago that having sex was the equivalent of running a mile - so why do all these silly b*****S go jogging ? As far using an exercise bike, I'd rather use a real one - at least the scenery changes.

I agree with the fellow who when asked how he would like to end his days said "Shot by a jealous husband - at the age of 98 !"

A jewish lady who I know (she is on the folk scene) had an uncle who died in his Eighties - in bed with the Rabbi's wife ! - I was at the funeral with her.

Subject: RE: BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter
From: Deckman
Date: 28 May 02 - 06:02 AM

Dave Bryant ... Oh BOY! There hangs a tale! (sorry ... sort of ... I couldn't resist it)! Have you started to write the song yet? CHEERS, Bob(deckman)Nelson

Subject: RE: BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter
From: Allan S
Date: 28 May 02 - 10:15 AM

74 in Nov. and still kicking

Subject: RE: BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 May 02 - 11:38 AM

Well he doesn't post, 'cause he doesn't have a computer, but if we count Mudders' Fodders who have been heard on Mudcat Radio and whom the offspring have told you lot a lot about, then my dad might be close; he just turned 85 and still drives himself 20 miles or so,each way, 2-3 times per week to "entertain the old folks." BUT, I think Bert's dad may be older than him, even.:-)

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter
From: Shonagh
Date: 28 May 02 - 02:11 PM

what about the youngest? Could I possibly be the youngest catter at 16? (17 next month though!)

Subject: RE: BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter
From: Willa
Date: 28 May 02 - 02:30 PM

jimlad: to answer your question. Yes, but not yet!

Subject: RE: BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 28 May 02 - 02:56 PM

Shonagh, sorry, Phoebe (Bratling) posted and has sung at the age of 5.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter
From: RichM
Date: 28 May 02 - 03:15 PM

You may not be the youngest, Shonagh-- but stick around and persevere: you may some day be the oldest; In any case, keep on making music!
...And today I did my second busking gig--made 8$!!!

Rich McCarthy, (60 years young)

Subject: RE: BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter
From: SharonA
Date: 28 May 02 - 03:21 PM

Liz: Where's this post (or these posts)? Did a search on "Phoebe" and "Bratling" and came up with nada.

And here I'd thought Gloredhel was the youngest, but come to think of it she may be a few months older than Shonagh.

Subject: RE: BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter
From: Mr Red
Date: 28 May 02 - 04:12 PM

er - do re-incarnations count? if so how many are allowed?

Subject: RE: BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter
From: Crane Driver
Date: 28 May 02 - 04:44 PM

My ambition is to die young - as late as possible. I've put it off for 53 years so far. Who was it said that good health is just the slowest way to die? BTW, my dad just turned 90, he still drives but complains he's starting to feel a bit tired walking around town!

Andrew

Subject: RE: BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 28 May 02 - 05:57 PM

I feel like a youngster at 66. Joe, our bass singer in the Gospel Messengers just turned 78, and Frankie our baritone is 76. A couple of weeks ago, we did a concert with the Dixie Hummingbirds and their lead singer, Ira Tucker just about peeled the paint off the walls. He's been in the Dixie Hummingbirds for over 60 years! That's the great thing about folk music and gospel.. it's cool to get old. In today's pop music, you're washed up at 19. :-)

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter
From: Gloredhel
Date: 28 May 02 - 06:07 PM

Egads, it looks like I've been soundly bounced from my position as youngest! Shonagh's six months younger. Until last month, I was the youngest member of my choirNow I'm not even the youngest Mudcatter? What next?

Subject: RE: BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter
From: curmudgeon
Date: 28 May 02 - 06:39 PM

Wow! And I thought I was beginning to age at 59+.

This discussion puts me in mind of a short filler in an old Sing Out!

"Due to his life long habit of drinking whiskey, another old man has passed away at the county home at the age of 104; he was an orphan."

Age well -- Tom

Subject: RE: BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter
From: DougR
Date: 28 May 02 - 06:48 PM

72 DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 May 02 - 10:19 PM

Ahhhh....Gloredhel, that's a shame....But you can still be young....Just too bad and I'm sorry for you......Why not come over here and sit on Ol' Spaw's lap and tell me all about it? Hop right up here and Ol' Spaw will show you a trick..........

heheheheheheheheehehehehehehhehehehehhe

Uncle Spaw, Resident D.O.M.

Subject: RE: BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 29 May 02 - 01:08 AM

Shonagh, she posted on my cookie. I said she'd posted, I didn't say she had a cookie. Imagine the crap she could post if I let her!! She's bad enough on Paltalk!

You'd have threads about princesses, various shades of pink, the merits of My Little Pony over Barbie's horse and the only music would be Atomic Kitten (if you can call them music) and SClub7....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 29 May 02 - 01:13 AM

I am 6. ffhhhh

Its my daddys birthday todyaaay

I Like mudcat..

pphooebbebebe be ebebbb

Subject: RE: BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter
From: Morticia
Date: 29 May 02 - 11:01 AM

drunk again,Liz?

Subject: RE: BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter
From: Fortunato
Date: 29 May 02 - 12:30 PM

I ain't telling how old I am. But I will answer Dave Bryant! IMHOP and experience, running improves sex exponentially. That's why we do it. Oh, and it enhances the ability to sing and play one's instrument (that's musical instrument, 'Spaw), sharpens the mind and makes you feel frisky! I agree about the exercise bike. Real bikes make you feel like a kid again, with your first two-wheeler.

Arrrh, Jim, lad. Them that dies be the lucky ones, Jim.
Long John Silver.

Subject: RE: BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter
From: 53
Date: 29 May 02 - 01:41 PM

52 and counting, I'll be 53 on 8 29 49 by the way I still have some hair and some teeth left. I have all 10 fingers and 10 toes too. Bob

Subject: RE: BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter
From: RoyH (Burl)
Date: 29 May 02 - 04:52 PM

I'll be 69 on June 15th but I'm really looking forward to next years birthday. 70 years old seems such a landmark, biblical span, etc. I'm considering doing a whole years celebration, 2003 - 04, coming out of my semi-retirement and doing a 'life in the old dog yet tour'. I'd like to sing in as many UK clubs as I can,likewise California (it's been 20 years) and Australia (also 20 years), and make a first time visit to the PNW, plus some non-musical things I've been putting off for years. I keep reasonably active with running, walking, rowing machine etc, but I can't compete with my Auntie Nelly who has conplained of ill health throughout her life, has a pessimistic view on everything, and has never taken exercise. Her favourite topic is ailments, hers and other peoples, and she always enjoys a good funeral. My Dad said of her "Our Nelly enjoys bad health". He also said that"She's always poorly but she'll outlive the lot of us". He was right. In November Aunty Nelly will be 102 years old. Seems like I've got good genes. If I hold on long enough I COULD get to be the oldest Mudcatter!

Subject: RE: BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter
From: catspaw49
Date: 29 May 02 - 05:16 PM

Looking on the bright side here, we're already older than a lot of famous dead guys!

and BOB53........If you'll be 53 on 8/29/49, that means you're 105 now. So either you're the oldest or you live in a time warp.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter
From: DougR
Date: 29 May 02 - 07:43 PM

Gloredhel: mount yourself onto Spaw's lap at your own risk. Could be he has more on his mind than a bit of counseling.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 29 May 02 - 08:37 PM

Liz-I met you at Lanstock, and I know women sometimes knock a few years off their age, but I do not believe you are only 6! if you are 6 years old you must have had a very hard life! :-)
spaw-I reckon BOB has built a time machine!

Subject: RE: BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 30 May 02 - 12:31 AM

That really was Phoebe posting, honest!!! It was 6.00am ish and not even I can get drunk at that time of the morning!

(Actually, been a while since I got drunk at all..... twice in the last 2 years I think.....)

I've never seen the need to knock anything off my age, you're only as old as you feel and today I feel about 95. With any luck there'll be a fire drill and I can feel a few more...

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter
From: kendall
Date: 30 May 02 - 09:34 AM

I'm not the oldest, but, I will be some day. I come from a family of long livers. In fact, they had to shoot my great grandmother to start a graveyard.

Subject: RE: BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter
From: SharonA
Date: 31 May 02 - 10:05 AM

kendall: See my comment here! *G*

Subject: RE: BS: Could I be Oldest Mucatter
From: Ebbie
Date: 31 May 02 - 10:13 PM

I decided that I was going to stop mentioning how long the people live on both sides of my family, just in case there is something to the idea that we all live until we have learned the lessons we must learn.