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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: Liz the Squeak Date: 11 Jan 03 - 12:09 PM Planning things to actually get up and do on a Sunday, rather than knowing you will spend it in bed with a Grade II listed hangover and a bucket. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: GUEST,Nancy King at work Date: 11 Jan 03 - 12:08 PM A while back my 30-year-old son was remarking that he was finding it difficult to meet people (i.e., women to date) in his new community. "Hang out with the local folk group," I said, having had pretty good luck with that strategy myself. "Mom," he said in that tone common to all sons, "They're all YOUR age." Cheers, Nancy |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: boglion Date: 11 Jan 03 - 10:34 AM One sign of aging is when you use the weekends to recover from a hard week rather than the other way round. I started doing that a long time ago. What's the next sign I wonder??? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: Strupag Date: 11 Jan 03 - 10:19 AM I'm sorry, I seem to have forgotten the just of this thre... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: Genie Date: 11 Jan 03 - 09:49 AM Thanks, Amos. Of course, Topper! I us'ta know that but haven't been able to recall the name recently. Must be early stage Alzheimer's! (If you can make a crack like that and be 100% sure you're just kidding, you know you're NOT getting old yet!) Genie |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: catspaw49 Date: 11 Jan 03 - 09:15 AM You waste your money on Viagra Bobertz.......Next time go with the generic instead. It's called Mycoxaphailin. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: Bobert Date: 11 Jan 03 - 09:06 AM Amos: Nah! Ain't me... Ahhh, I got a bottle of 'em Viagras and the P-Vine found 'em and thru 'em in the well. Couldn't get the pump handle down fir two weeks... Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: Gareth Date: 11 Jan 03 - 05:10 AM When you see Railway Locomotives, that were brand new in your youth, stuffed and mounted in Museams. (Vide D8000 at York RM) Gareth |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: Liz the Squeak Date: 11 Jan 03 - 03:29 AM Thanks.. When I reach my 40's I'll think of that.... You know you're ageing when you pick up a flash mag (sorry, soft porn, 'dirty' magazine) and: a) can't remember what you saw in them 20 years ago b) read the articles c) find your daughter on the cover (Poor old Clint Eastwood.....) LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: mg Date: 11 Jan 03 - 03:04 AM I would tell "friend" to tell the pharmacist that if they want your business they should properly train the young lady. No excuse for that sort of nonsense. mg |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: Amos Date: 11 Jan 03 - 03:00 AM Besides his horse, Hoppy had a few sidekicks of notable fame, the first being George "Gabby" Hayes, who was known by the handle "Windy." Gabby was also John Wayne's sidekick, and he even traveled with Roy Rogers. Also at Hoppy's side was a character named "California," an ex-Keystone Kop of silent films by the name of Andy Clyde. He was like a small kid never making his own judgment calls. Boyd was a businessman as well in that he bought up the rights in the late 30's to the films that he had made under the Hoppy banner. It left him very financially broken at the time, but he hung in and held on to the rights. When he signed a deal with NBC in 1948, Hoppy was paid a very big amount of money for use of the Hoppy movies. He also was paid royalties from the sale of Hoppy endorsed items ranging from milk to saddle chaps. Bill Boyd did well from that day forward, and he laughed all the way to the bank. Topper, his horse, died in 1960, followed by its groom a short time later. Bill Boyd took the events as an omen and decided to hang up his spurs and retire. Boyd spent his later years living quietly in Palm Desert, California, where he was happy to walk the streets unrecognized. Bill once said, "In 1935, I met a man I admired ? I became that man and I loved him. Hoppy was the good side of Bill Boyd." In 1972, William "Hopalong Cassidy" Boyd died of a brain tumor. From Percival Friend -- http://www.geocities.com/percivalafriend/friend072902.htm A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: Amos Date: 11 Jan 03 - 02:55 AM Topper. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: GUEST,Genie (who forgot to log in) Date: 11 Jan 03 - 01:44 AM -Someone tells you your sleeves need ironing, and you are wearing a tank top. -You ask for requests from the audience at a nursing home gig, and they start requesting songs you danced to in high school! -kendall, how about "The CANDIDATES all look like kids!" -Liz (Asking a colleague about an event you remember well from your 20's only to have another colleague tell you that's the year they were born....) Try "...an event (or celebrity) you remember from your 30s or 40s!" *BG* Peter T -- Wow! (Mind you, I thought this was s'posed to be a silly thread, but yer on the verge of gettin' all PROFOUND on us, there.) Mary, One small consolation for turning 60 is that you get to be called a "sexagenerian." (Well, take it any way you can, I guess. Right?) LOL, Bobert! Genie BTW, can one of you other geezers remind me what Hopalong Cassidy's horse's name was? Been tryin' to think of it for months, and I just can't! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: Amos Date: 10 Jan 03 - 10:42 PM Hey, man, it could be worse -- much worse -- PVine could say it wasn't worth it! A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: Bobert Date: 10 Jan 03 - 10:40 PM WARNING, WARNING: Bobert was abducted by aliens and did not write the previous post. Nope, must have been an alien. Danged aliens. Getting into everything. Worser than mice... Awww, never-the-heck-mind... NaNuu, NaNuu |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: Bobert Date: 10 Jan 03 - 10:31 PM VIAGRA... Speakin' of which, like I work in this small town where everyone knows everyone and also everyone's business and so like this friend of mine... (Ahhh, yeah right, Bobert? Like these folks gonna belive this really ain't about you?) Okay, so "this friend of mine" went down to the Leesburg Pharmacy to pick up his first perscription for ahhhhh, you know... Viagra. Well, Saturday afternoon is that time when just aboutm everyone who lives in Leesburg is at the pharmacy pickin' up their perscriptions... Doc Lillis had called it in and so everything was supposed to go real smooth. Right? Well, when my "friend" got there on a busy Saturday afternoon, the perscription was not in the "F" bin for "friend" so the 17 year old girl with the tight sweater asked my "friend" what the perscription was for. Hmmmmmm? What's a "friend" to do? Viagra, "friend" whispered to the tight sweatered 17 year old girl... Bad idea, "friend"! "Hey, "friend" is here to pick up his Viagra perscription!" yelled the 17 year old tight sweatered girl to the pharmacist loud enough for it to be heard by the 30 folks waiting on their perscriptions. Then there was this big *hush*. You know the kind.... Then everyone just looked down at the floor like they didn't hear a danged thing... Yeah right!?!?!... Danged, if I see that girl on the street... opps. I mean, if my friend sees that girl on the street he'll.... Bobert p.s. My "friend's" wife says that what ever embarassment that my "friend" went thru was well worth it................. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: Bill D Date: 10 Jan 03 - 09:28 PM "42. When service stations provided air for your tires for free." well SO far, I have never paid for air!...I know where the stations are that still have a free air hose. (and I remember all them things from radio & early TV...and Sky King and Red Ryder and all...I used to wear two (cap) guns facing backwards and practice cross-drawing like Red Ryder did. ) and the way I knew I was growing up is when it bagan to bother me that Roy Rogers & Gene Autry, etc, had Ford station wagons, but still had gunfights and chased bad guys on horseback... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: Deckman Date: 10 Jan 03 - 08:44 PM HEY! Red Ryder BB GUNS were the best! Bob |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: khandu Date: 10 Jan 03 - 08:12 PM Sorry. I must apologize. I misread the thread title. I thought it said "Top ways to tell you are a Ging". I had no idea what a Ging was, so it threw me off. Now that I have seen my mistake, I re-read the whole tamale. Yeah, it is funny. k |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: vindelis Date: 10 Jan 03 - 08:12 PM The suits your grandmother used to wear, become fashionable again, - and suit you. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: khandu Date: 10 Jan 03 - 08:09 PM I relate to none of this. You people are talking Greek to me. What's this all about? I am confused. Could somebody help me out here? Is this some kind of code? Wha? What did you say? Is there anyone here that makes some sort of sense? That's it! No more of this prattle! I'm leaving! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: Amos Date: 10 Jan 03 - 08:04 PM Well, ya gotta add Rootie Kazootie and Polka-Dottie to that list, along with Cecil and Beanie, Captain Video and the Ranger, Our Gang, Froggie of the Magic Twanger, and Mister Science. Fireballs, 10-cent DC comics (Green Lantern, Batman, and a whole array of American GI comics), green-glass Coke bottles, and Moxie!! A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 10 Jan 03 - 07:56 PM I knew dirt when it was still a rock. My first experience at the "awareness" Spaw talked about was when my daughter was 12 and we were walking through a crowd. As the crowd parted I noticed that the men were looking at her instead of me! (Every male should have a daughter...and live to see her grow up!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: Cluin Date: 10 Jan 03 - 07:41 PM 42. When service stations provided air for your tires for free. What will disappear next? No charge for "toothpick & water"? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: Stephen L. Rich Date: 10 Jan 03 - 07:32 PM You're old when you realize that you have children older than your doctor. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: Little Hawk Date: 10 Jan 03 - 07:19 PM I scored 20! Yeee-hah!!! I'm older than dirt! (Either that or I've got a very good memory...) Still, I know people who are considerably older than me. Where do they fit in? Here are some more things to add to the list: 26. Burma-Shave 27. Wind-up metal toy animals that shoot sparks from their mouths 28. Cap guns 29. Red Ryder rifles 30. Alleys & marbles that each look unique 31. Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, and Ming the Merciless 32. Shaving brushes & soap in a wooden bowl with a lid 33. Steam engines 34. Model T Fords 35. Duesenbergs 36. Cords (the automobiles, I mean) 37. The Super G Constellation (beautiful airliner) 38. Sputnik 39. Checkers (the dog) 40. Bonzo (the chimp) 41. Felix the Cat - LH |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: Bill D Date: 10 Jan 03 - 06:53 PM "Once a king, always a king- but once a knight's enough." "I'm not as good as I once was, but I'm as good once as I ever was" (seriously...the only thing that convinced me I had to take 'age' seriously was: 1st, when the AARP started chasing me, and 2nd, when the government started sending me money for lasting this long!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: Bill D Date: 10 Jan 03 - 06:47 PM old age is when you can't take 'yes' for an answer. I am a bit worried...I think I may have....ummm.....Whatzisname's disease. "Just because there's snow on the roof, it doesn't mean the fire's out in the hearth" Isn't is interesting how often "Mature Wisdom" resembles "Too Tired"? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: Amos Date: 10 Jan 03 - 06:35 PM RR, I remember every one of them, and I am not older than dirt. I have irrefutable proof of this, because I also remember lots of dirt, which always much older than I was. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: maire-aine Date: 10 Jan 03 - 06:22 PM This is only slightly related, but so cute. There is a wonderful, sweet older gentleman (70s at least) that I know, and he observed the little old gents used to get hugs and kisses from pretty young girls because they were thought to be 'harmless'. Since the advent of Viagra, he said, the pretty young girls don't hug the little old gents any more. That's kind of sad, in a way. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: Rustic Rebel Date: 10 Jan 03 - 06:20 PM I just had this in my mail, thought it fit the thread; Older Than Dirt Quiz Count all the ones that you remember- not the ones you were told about! Ratings at the bottom. 1. Blackjack chewing gum 2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water 3. Candy cigarettes 4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles 5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers 7. Party lines 8. Newsreels before the movie 9. P.F. Flyers 10. Butch wax 11.Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive-6633) 12. Peashooters 13. Howdy Doody 14. 45 RPM records 15. S&H Green Stamps 16. Hi-fi's 17. Metal ice trays with lever 18. Mimeograph paper 19. Blue flashbulb 20. Packards 21. Roller skate keys 22. Cork popguns 23. Drive-ins 24. Studebakers 25. Wash tub wringers If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: Liz the Squeak Date: 10 Jan 03 - 05:49 PM It's not the grey hairs in your underarms that matter........ Asking a colleague about an event you remember well from your 20's only to have another colleague tell you that's the year they were born..... Having to explain the plots of films like Basic Instinct, The Great Escape, The Italian Job and Fatal Attraction to the same colleague! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: Homeless Date: 10 Jan 03 - 05:40 PM When you see a hot young girl dressed to the nines with her okay-looking mother, and decide you prefer the mother. When you go to shoot pictures of a college frat house, and when walking around the corner surprise a couple of frat boys there who were saying, "...and then we got stoned." Then as they see you they try to cover with "Yeah, those stonings are pretty bad, aren't they?" (Jeez, I ain't that old yet. And I lived in the generation that caused the "war on drugs"). My boss says, "When the high point of your day is taking out your teeth." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: Rustic Rebel Date: 10 Jan 03 - 05:03 PM I meant to say- "plucking gray hairs from my underarms!" Add to my list forgetting how to spell, or just plain forgetting. I'm sure I have said this before, that I belong to the C.R.A.F.T. club, (can't remember a fucking thing) but I can't remember. Peace, Rustic |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: Deckman Date: 10 Jan 03 - 04:55 PM My aging clue is when I start to avoid threads such as this! CHEERS, Bob |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 10 Jan 03 - 04:48 PM My 85-year-old uncle says that the nice thing about getting older is that so many more girls/women look good to him! (Spaw, forget about looking at those "hard bodies" on the beach.) Mary (who is older than Spaw) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: C-flat Date: 10 Jan 03 - 04:04 PM When you start checking the obituary page to make sure you're not in! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: Bert Date: 10 Jan 03 - 03:42 PM When you find some sheet music from your teens - in an antique store. When you listen to an oldies program on the radio and the songs are all AFTER your time. When you realise that your favorite "Do Who" actors are all dead. I still like looking at the young girls though. And one of the advantages of getting older is that there are lots more girls who are younger than you. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: catspaw49 Date: 10 Jan 03 - 03:18 PM ANNETTE is still a class act. Always has been....... Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: MMario Date: 10 Jan 03 - 03:18 PM EEEEYYYYUUUUOOOOOO! LH! I'm gonna have nightmares for a freekin' week! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: mg Date: 10 Jan 03 - 03:17 PM you know..I just reread this and realized I could do this right now. I have taken the classes for foster parenting..I can't take in kids right now..maybe later..but I did sign up for respite care for other foster parents. Something happened to my application and it is in limbo somewhere...without a car I can't go to someone's house, with buses the way they are here...but they could at least bring young babies to me...at least on the weekends...with the heater the way it is I couldn't have toddlers but maybe very young babies..I shall check into it. I could take them to the ocean on nice days. Sounds like a plan. mg |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: Amos Date: 10 Jan 03 - 03:17 PM Not only have you dislocated your icons, LH, but I think you are confused about where your mind is!! LOL! A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: Little Hawk Date: 10 Jan 03 - 03:12 PM I've been finding it a big relief looking at pretty young girls lately and NOT feeling like I was still 25. It's a load off my mind, I can tell you. Peter T. - Good stuff!!! I think another way to tell you are aging is to look at a recent picture of William Shatner, preferably clad in a thong-type bathing suit, and think...Gosh! Bill's getting kind of...old! He's a little overweight too. Sort of flabby around the butt. When did that happen??? Where has the time gone? What does this MEAN????!! Then you go to the mirror to check yourself for similar signs... - LH |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 10 Jan 03 - 03:10 PM Geez, you guys are depressing! I don't plan to grow old, it's simply not on my list of things to do. Annette Funicello has the advanced stages of mulitiple schlerosis and has been wheelchair bound for years. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: mg Date: 10 Jan 03 - 03:08 PM I can tell you haven't kept up with Annette Funicello. She has very serious multiple sclerosis (or MD)..and is in a wheelchair and very incapacitated. She did have a doll or teddy bear or some sort of business for home shopping I think. She is still very beautiful and in fact inspirational. We used to play Mousekateers and fight over who got to be Annette. I never won. My main thing about aging is turning seriously toward voluntary simplicity. It definitely did not start out voluntary..I was forced into it kicking and screaming..but I have downsized everything...I don't own anything I can't leave behind..my clothes fit into a couple of laundry baskets..I own two permanent books and a few diet books (two permanent are Up from Slavery and Kiplings Poems). I will stay at my very modest job (in pay, complex in responsibilities) for as long as it lasts. I'll take the bus maybe forever. Someday soon I would like to just sit on a rocking chair on a porch and people could bring me their babies to rock..not change, not chase after, just rock..and I would feed them too. mg |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: Amos Date: 10 Jan 03 - 03:00 PM The whole panoply of famous icons I once related to mentally is completely obsolete. There are two generations of completely regenerated and reinvented personalities. I still think of Katherine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, the Duke and Dirty Harry as movie stars. (My DNA has also forced me to make room for that beautiful wide-smiling Julia Roberts, but...). The people who are being cast up on the media driven celestial map of "stardom" these days are complete strangers to me. Music, fashion, politics, even literature with a few exceptions, might as well be from another planet. I still think proudly of Roy Campanella, Yogi Berra, ROger Maris and Mickey Mantle, for crissakes! LOL!! I am gradually coming to terms with then otion that I am just hopeless as far as the mainstream goes, and it no longer bothers me, because I honestly don't think of the mian stream as very main, and possibly no more astream than Disneyland's Amazon Boat Excursion is!! :>) Speaking of which, anybody heard from Annette Funicello?? LOL!! A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: bill\sables Date: 10 Jan 03 - 02:43 PM I find these days while watching adverts on TV for someones greatest hits that I have never heard of the singer in the first place and in quiz shows I can never answer the "Music" questions. But the most recent thing was a TV show with people impersonating other famous people, I couldn't tell weather they were good or not as I didn't know the famous person they were trying to do |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: catspaw49 Date: 10 Jan 03 - 02:39 PM Rustic, that is exactly what I am looking for. And although some of my first post were things that have been said, several were original and in every case, it's something that has come to me within the past 6 months like a ton of bricks. The last one about the young girl.......When we were in Florida over Christmas, that one hit me hard. I don't know if others do, but somehow I have always seen myself, unaging at about age 23 or so. Saw this little girl at the zoo, perfectly well behaved and very nice kid with her family. She was very attractive and all I could think was "Geeziz, I'll bet her parents worry themselves sick over her." At the same time I realized that I was NOT in fact 23 anymore and my attitudes had changed, although I have no idea when it happened. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: Leadfingers Date: 10 Jan 03 - 02:30 PM When you realise that the floor is a lot further down than it used to be. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Top Ways To Tell You Are AGING!!! From: Amos Date: 10 Jan 03 - 02:26 PM Peter T, you have the rights of it; and it may less be a matter of chronological age than a matter of where you are in the repeating life-cycle of diving in and then backing out, hopefully with some acquired insight from the process... A |