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South Beach Gal
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Username: South_beach_gal
Post Number: 36
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 16, 2005 - 2:01 pm: |     |
...when your eyebrows start looking like Andy Rooney's.
...when you hear creaking as you climb the stairs and realize it's your knees. |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 5534
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 16, 2005 - 2:31 pm: | |
...when you have just as much hair as before but in different places. Not so much on the top of the head any more. Lots on the shoulders, hands, neck, nose, ears, ... |
Mark Fuhrman
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Username: Mfpark
Post Number: 1311
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 16, 2005 - 3:34 pm: | |
...you read celebrity obits and more and more of them are younger than you are. In fact, you can clearly remember a time before they were famous.
...you start realizing that 65 is really not all that old. |
Mark Fuhrman
Citizen
Username: Mfpark
Post Number: 1312
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 16, 2005 - 3:40 pm: | |
Pete Seeger did a version of this in his Carnegie Hall concert with Arlo Guthrie many moons ago:
How do I know my youth has been spent:
Because my get-up-and-go, has got up and went
But in spite of it all, I'm still able to grin
When I think of the places my get-up has been
Old age is golden, I've heard it said,
But sometimes I wonder as I go to bed
My ears are in a drawer, my teeth in a cup,
My eyes on a table until I wake up
When I was young my slippers were red
I could kick my heels right over my head
When I grew older my slippers were blue
But I could still dance the whole night thru
Now that I am old my slippers are black
I huff to the store and puff my way back
The reason I know my youth is spent
My get-up-and-go has got up and went
I get up each morning dust off my wits
Pick up the paper and read the "obits"
If my name's not there, I know I'm not dead
So I eat a good breakfast and go right back to bed |
Joan
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Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 4956
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 16, 2005 - 4:27 pm: | |
you remember when events described in your child's history book were headlines in your daily paper. |
Carrie Avery
Citizen
Username: Carrie33
Post Number: 115
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 16, 2005 - 4:28 pm: | |
How freakin depressing.
What about we start a new topic?
"You know you are alive when....." |
LibraryLady(ncjanow)
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Username: Librarylady
Post Number: 2201
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 16, 2005 - 5:30 pm: | |
you know that Arlo's dad was a folk singer too, and Paul MCCartney had a group before Wings and that Jakob Dylan's dad was somebody important. |
South Beach Gal
Citizen
Username: South_beach_gal
Post Number: 37
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, February 17, 2005 - 12:57 pm: | |
...when you lose your sense of humor! |
Joan
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Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 4960
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 17, 2005 - 4:11 pm: | |
... when your first name, which was extremely popular when you were born, isn't even in the top 2,000 names for babies born today. |
ajc
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Username: Ajc
Post Number: 3505
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 17, 2005 - 6:18 pm: | |
... when you need a haircut every other week instead of every week.  |
yabbadabbadoo
Citizen
Username: Yabbadabbadoo
Post Number: 196
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, February 17, 2005 - 9:27 pm: | |
Try top 3500!!
FF |
Cynicalgirl
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Username: Cynicalgirl
Post Number: 1133
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 18, 2005 - 6:34 am: | |
When you refer to a young woman as looking like a "Breck Girl" and no one has any idea what you're talking about...
(Overheard this yesterday in the smoking court at work! The speaker and I knew, but not the surrounding young people...) |
Wendyn
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Username: Wendyn
Post Number: 1379
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Friday, February 18, 2005 - 8:15 am: | |
You remember when there were no "smoking courts" and people were able to smoke where ever they wanted.
You realize you are past your prime and you have never ploinked a celebrity. |
Innisowen
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Username: Innisowen
Post Number: 433
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Friday, February 18, 2005 - 9:59 am: | |
When you remember on radio (of all things) The Shadow, The Lone Ranger, Gangbusters, Jack Benny, and, most of all, Fred Allen... |
vor
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Username: Vor
Post Number: 397
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 18, 2005 - 10:13 am: | |
ajc
when you don't haircuts at all |
AlleyGater
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Username: Alleygater
Post Number: 82
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Friday, February 18, 2005 - 11:54 am: | |
When you're scared to go to the toilet cause it might hurt.
George Burns told a variation of this for a punchline to a joke, and the audience laughed SOOOO hard cause you know it's George Burns signature style to tell I'm So Old jokes, but also cause the audience was all old and it's an inappropriate subject (well back then) to talk about that sort of thing. Well as a kid, I just didn't get the joke. So maybe I should add...
When that joke means something to you. |
notehead
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Username: Notehead
Post Number: 2083
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 18, 2005 - 1:40 pm: | |
When you're at a bar, and Stairway To Heaven is playing, and you overhear a (legal) bar patron say "Hey, this is cool, what song is this?" |
Innisowen
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Username: Innisowen
Post Number: 435
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Friday, February 18, 2005 - 2:54 pm: | |
When you're on the subway in NYC and think of Miss Rheingold and the Rheingold ads. |
Innisowen
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Username: Innisowen
Post Number: 436
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Friday, February 18, 2005 - 2:56 pm: | |
When you're on the subway in NYC on the N train to Brooklyn, and you remember when it was the Seabeach Express. |
Joan
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Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 4969
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 18, 2005 - 7:57 pm: | |
When you remember US postage costing 1 cent (for a postcard) and a NYC subway ride costing 10 cents. |
Analog01
Citizen
Username: Analog01
Post Number: 39
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Friday, February 18, 2005 - 9:06 pm: | |
when you realize that YOU'RE FREAKIN OLD! |
vor
Citizen
Username: Vor
Post Number: 399
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 18, 2005 - 11:15 pm: | |
when your grandkids bang on your stomach and yell "listen to the drum" |
vor
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Username: Vor
Post Number: 400
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 18, 2005 - 11:16 pm: | |
when you re-read your posts and realize you just told the world that you're bald and fat. |
AlleyGater
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Username: Alleygater
Post Number: 91
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, February 19, 2005 - 12:02 am: | |
notehead, I remember that happening to me in England, but it was actually Maxwell Silver's Hammer playing. The kids were going, "oh my god, oh my god, it's that cool song...who's it by? who's it by?" And the entire group starts singing it at the top of their heads really out of key cause they barely know the song and messing up all the lyrics.
All the while I'm groaning to myself, cause they sound so bad, and I'm embaressed I am with them. But then it hits me. All of these people are British, and they don't know who the Beatles are? I'm American and I know EVERY Beatles song (thanks to Philadelphia radio playing Beatles A-Z every year) and they're all the same age as me. WTF? |
marie
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Username: Marie
Post Number: 1262
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, February 19, 2005 - 1:52 am: | |
Your child asks you how to dial a rotary phone... |
Lizziecat
Citizen
Username: Lizziecat
Post Number: 514
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, February 19, 2005 - 1:06 pm: | |
Your grandchild doesn't know what a record is. You tell her it's an old-fashioned CD. |
vor
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Username: Vor
Post Number: 405
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, February 20, 2005 - 8:10 am: | |
..when you have a grandchild (sorry lizzie couldn't resist) |
Lizziecat
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Username: Lizziecat
Post Number: 516
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, February 20, 2005 - 4:46 pm: | |
Grandchildren are the reward that you get for being older. |
Innisowen
Citizen
Username: Innisowen
Post Number: 452
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, February 20, 2005 - 4:50 pm: | |
Older is the reward you get for living so long... (by the way, I used to be younger than I am now...) |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 5586
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, February 20, 2005 - 5:06 pm: | |
Innisowen, it seems to me it's the other way around: living long is the reward you get for getting older. |
Innisowen
Citizen
Username: Innisowen
Post Number: 460
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, February 20, 2005 - 8:36 pm: | |
Tom Reingold, I think you're right. I probably need to re-think my position on growing older. But it's fun to get old and have more experience.
As a wise man once said, "If I knew how much fun I would have getting old, I would have grown older at a younger age..." |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 5595
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, February 20, 2005 - 9:28 pm: | |
Was it Eubie Blake who said, "If I had known I would live this long, I would have taken better care of myself"?
He lived to the age of 100.
Also, "Youth is wasted on the young." |
CageyD
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Username: Cageyd
Post Number: 232
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Monday, February 21, 2005 - 8:41 am: | |
Old age is a privilege denied many - be grateful |
Innisowen
Citizen
Username: Innisowen
Post Number: 467
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Monday, February 21, 2005 - 9:16 am: | |
May we all enjoy length of years... |
Jason & John
Citizen
Username: Johnh91011
Post Number: 166
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 1:21 pm: | |
When you lose the ability to touch your toes without bending your knees and give thanks for the ability to touch your knees without bending your toes |
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