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Post by paquebot on Mar 6, 2014 21:14:32 GMT -5
If you're over 65, there's too many who think that you've forgotten everything you've ever known, won't fight to defend yourself, and belong in a retirement community in Arizona. The fact that that old geezer may have 50 years experience doesn't register. Ronald Reagan wasn't the exception to mental capacity of AARP members!
Martin
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Post by steev on Mar 6, 2014 22:50:26 GMT -5
Oooh; don't go to Ronald Reagan! As a native Californian subjected to the self-interest of that auslander B-movie, has-been, sell-out during the sixties, I knew him for what he was: a borax salesman corporate shill! By the way, he didn't know shit from apple butter about agriculture, having never grown diddly-squat.
Not the exception to AARP members? Are you saying they're all senile and ready to start recounting movies as their personal exploits?
steev
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Post by templeton on Mar 7, 2014 7:25:30 GMT -5
I can feel a cut and paste to the 'soapbox' coming... T
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Post by littleminnie on Mar 7, 2014 19:39:48 GMT -5
Evidently I do have my year of birth in my profile.
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Post by steev on Mar 7, 2014 21:09:25 GMT -5
Well, then, too late to worry. El gato es fuera de la bolsa, or to paraphrase for SoHem, the numbat is out of the tuckerbag.
In researching for paraphrase, I found that "Matilda" meant "mighty battle maiden"; gee; my great-grand-aunt 'Til never struck me as a battle-ax; pun serendipitous.
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Post by jondear on Mar 7, 2014 21:36:45 GMT -5
If you're over 65, there's too many who think that you've forgotten everything you've ever known Martin More like forgot more than you'll ever know.
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Post by paquebot on Mar 7, 2014 22:07:23 GMT -5
If you're over 65, there's too many who think that you've forgotten everything you've ever known Martin More like forgot more than you'll ever know. Albeit it often the truth, you'll never see me flaunting it. Martin
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Post by blackox on Mar 18, 2014 12:32:43 GMT -5
I don't have my year of birth in my profile (no idea why not) is it possible to change? I guarantee that the authorities already know much more about me than I wanted them to through my web searches (and telephone calls and what I buy, and who knows what else?), no reason why I shouldn't give a proper birth date on an online forum.
In case anyone was wondering how old I am, about sixteen years of age, nice to meet ya!
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Post by blueadzuki on Mar 18, 2014 19:46:52 GMT -5
Ah, another youngling. It's actually sort of depressing when I realize that people WAAY younger than me have done so much more with thier lives already. I remember when Alan pointed out that we shared the same birthday (actually, a LOT of people here do, there must be something about being born on Feb 22 that makes people into eccentric gardeners) and realizing that he had built his farm, built this site.....and was three years younger than me. As Tom Leher put it "It is a sobering thought than when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years."
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Post by steev on Mar 18, 2014 20:29:48 GMT -5
I am encouraged by the number of people older than myself still gardening, and by so many younger also gardening.
A good man, Tom Lehrer; his songs enlivened my college days. Every day, there are fewer people older than I in the world.
I share a birthday with Bill Clinton, as well as some traits.
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Post by blackox on Mar 19, 2014 16:34:55 GMT -5
I'm glad to see people in my age group interested in this kind of stuff. With all of these crazy stuff happening in today's world, it's quite reassuring - that and I know that I'm not the only one.
A share my Chinese zodiac sign with Barack Obama and Adolf Hitler. Hopefully we have no shared traits.
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Post by blueadzuki on Mar 19, 2014 17:10:49 GMT -5
Just the animal (1/12 of the population) or the animal and the element (1/60)
And besides a lot of this board, I share my Birthday with the late great Edward Gorey and Share a LOT of traits with him. Not the art skills, alas, but we both sahre that same sort of twisted dark humor, oh and the cat thing. Pity Charles Addams was born on Jan 7. I would have liked the trifecta to have been perfect.
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Post by steev on Mar 19, 2014 20:38:13 GMT -5
I nearly share a birthday with Gary Larson, the cartoonist, a favorite; I certainly share his loony sense of humor.
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Post by templeton on Mar 20, 2014 6:42:18 GMT -5
A quick way to make some money is to bet someone in a (suitably cooperative) gathering of 50 people or more that 2 of them share the same birthday (not including year). the odds are above 90% I believe. 70 people makes it 99.9% en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problemso it's in fact pretty likely that a pair of members here will share a birthday. T
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