F/C/OT: Let’s feel old!*
- Thread starter Midnighter
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Frankly, I'm not fond of the elderly.
You're in great company for old things turning 50. Look what else shares a milestone with you:
1. Post-it notes
2 Bailey's Irish Cream
3. Rubik's Cube
4. Heimlich Maneuver.
5. Stephen King's first novel - Carrie. , still consider this the best novel of his...
6. and the best one of all ---- The Iconic debut of the "Meow Mix jingle".
- yes, this commercial sample is from 1999, but it's still one of their funniest ones.
1. Post-it notes
2 Bailey's Irish Cream
3. Rubik's Cube
4. Heimlich Maneuver.
5. Stephen King's first novel - Carrie. , still consider this the best novel of his...
6. and the best one of all ---- The Iconic debut of the "Meow Mix jingle".
- yes, this commercial sample is from 1999, but it's still one of their funniest ones. Please, I'll turn 77 in two weeks.
I was so much older then.....
I'm younger than that now....
I'm younger than that now....
Those ages of those actors at that time, vs. my perception of their ages at that time, was as far apart as can be. Must be a tribute to their acting ability (and their make-up artists?)!
I graduated HS in 1974. Old people were so much older then than now. Now, we "Seniors" are still young at heart, able in spirit, dirty in mind, and the farte d'olde staring back at me in the mirror each day is a dear old uncle. (sigh).
Son .... what can I say, other than Oh My Goodness - you are going to be 'OLD-ER.'
May I suggest from an 'Older' 81 year old - be the best GOAT and PITA as you can for the longest number of years ahead of you. My body might hurt and my heart stuff and cancer have been beaten, but my mind and motivation are trying to do as much as possible, until whenever ....
So look on the bright side - the world will get older one day at a time whether you like it or not - but the sun will shine and you will enjoy as much as possible each and every day-- just .... Take Care !
Still on vacation but saw this thread as I waited for Mrs. G to finish her Starbucks run.
50? Old? Really?
I remember when I was 50.
OK, I really don't, it was so long ago, but here is a young lady who turned 50 in March and still stirs my manhood.
Gotta run. Mrs. G approaches. Long day ahead with her family.
You’ll be okay. Remember to lift and watch your diet.
My 1 is 38. She’ll be 39 before I hit 60 at year’s end.
Our generation at 50 isn't the same as previous generations. That's pretty clear.
PS I turned 50 this year too.
PS I turned 50 this year too.
Don't know if it makes me feel old, but I'll tell you a story from years ago that I just couldn't see coming. This was around 1990, and I'm in my grandmothers kitchen, she was born in 1900 (Lived to be 103). She would talk of her older brother in Texas. Occurred to me that though she talked about him often enough. I'd never met the guy. Gram, my mother, and uncles would go to San Antonio and visit.
I figured if he retired about normal age (mid 60's or so) that he would have left the area before I was born (1967). Therefore, unless I remembered a visit when I was a kid, I never had seen him. I asked her, "When did he move to Texas?" She responded with, "He went down there to fight in some border conflict and stayed. It would have been around 1910." It clicked he was down there in the middle of these fights with Pancho Villa. It just blew my mind. No cars, made the trip by train over a bunch of days. Just a different world.
I figured if he retired about normal age (mid 60's or so) that he would have left the area before I was born (1967). Therefore, unless I remembered a visit when I was a kid, I never had seen him. I asked her, "When did he move to Texas?" She responded with, "He went down there to fight in some border conflict and stayed. It would have been around 1910." It clicked he was down there in the middle of these fights with Pancho Villa. It just blew my mind. No cars, made the trip by train over a bunch of days. Just a different world.
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I’m 75. Two years ago I was talking to an attractive lady who has two equally attractive sisters. She said the three of them go skinny dipping on a nearby beach. If she had told me that 10 years ago, that image would have kept me awake all summer. My first thought when she told me was, “That’s interesting. “. My second thought was, “Do we have any cookies at home?” That was the day I realized I was old.
"Hope I die before I get old". - Pete Townshend in 1965 - My Generation
"Can't pretend that growing older never hurts" - Pete Townshend in 1982 - Slit Skirts
"Can't pretend that growing older never hurts" - Pete Townshend in 1982 - Slit Skirts
I'm 76 and I play a lot of pool. I've played the game for over 60 years and I can honestly say that I'm better now than I was at say 20-22.
I stumbled across that on THE very day I turned 53 last November and it felt like a gut punch from the universe.
I texted it to a few of my same-aged friends lamenting, “Dudes, we are ROPER years old!!!”
OLD YOU SAY! (the older (and wiser) farts might remember some of these).
I was a student at PSU:
Before Joe Pa was head coach
When there was a track around the football field
The South end was open. We had a shoe like OSU
When co-eds had to be back in dorms by 1:00AM on weekends
All home football games started at 1:00
Beaver Stadium had 55,000 capacity
You got into football games (and basketball, wrestling, gymnastics, HUB movies, dances) on your student activities card.
You had to take Phys Ed. And, if you couldn’t pass a swimming test, you had to learn to swim! Oh, by the way, the swimming pool was downtown In a hotel!
There were 5-6 on campus fraternities, now 3-4??
The ratio of men to women was 3, maybe 4:1……men. Guys had to travel to Indiana, Lycoming, etc to get a date….or accept leftovers of upper-classmen or frat boys
Engineers were prohibited from wearing jeans, t-shirts or going sockless. Deemed by our esteemed faculty as unprofessional
Only a few blacks on the football team
Actually, very few minorities on campus. Mainly Asian/Indian grad students
All roads leading to University Park were two (sometimes three on hills) lanes
Few students had cars. The student parking lot was “way out” near East Halls
You had to sign up for classes by going to Rec Hall and praying there was a section of your required class at time that fit your schedule
Slide-rules pre-empted calculators or computers
THAT’S OLD! But I’m glad I can still remember it.
I was a student at PSU:
Before Joe Pa was head coach
When there was a track around the football field
The South end was open. We had a shoe like OSU
When co-eds had to be back in dorms by 1:00AM on weekends
All home football games started at 1:00
Beaver Stadium had 55,000 capacity
You got into football games (and basketball, wrestling, gymnastics, HUB movies, dances) on your student activities card.
You had to take Phys Ed. And, if you couldn’t pass a swimming test, you had to learn to swim! Oh, by the way, the swimming pool was downtown In a hotel!
There were 5-6 on campus fraternities, now 3-4??
The ratio of men to women was 3, maybe 4:1……men. Guys had to travel to Indiana, Lycoming, etc to get a date….or accept leftovers of upper-classmen or frat boys
Engineers were prohibited from wearing jeans, t-shirts or going sockless. Deemed by our esteemed faculty as unprofessional
Only a few blacks on the football team
Actually, very few minorities on campus. Mainly Asian/Indian grad students
All roads leading to University Park were two (sometimes three on hills) lanes
Few students had cars. The student parking lot was “way out” near East Halls
You had to sign up for classes by going to Rec Hall and praying there was a section of your required class at time that fit your schedule
Slide-rules pre-empted calculators or computers
THAT’S OLD! But I’m glad I can still remember it.
Boy you had me fooled. Thought I inadvertently typed that.
Cheers my friend, that's fantastic!OLD YOU SAY! (the older (and wiser) farts might remember some of these).
I was a student at PSU:
Before Joe Pa was head coach
When there was a track around the football field
The South end was open. We had a shoe like OSU
When co-eds had to be back in dorms by 1:00AM on weekends
All home football games started at 1:00
Beaver Stadium had 55,000 capacity
You got into football games (and basketball, wrestling, gymnastics, HUB movies, dances) on your student activities card.
You had to take Phys Ed. And, if you couldn’t pass a swimming test, you had to learn to swim! Oh, by the way, the swimming pool was downtown In a hotel!
There were 5-6 on campus fraternities, now 3-4??
The ratio of men to women was 3, maybe 4:1……men. Guys had to travel to Indiana, Lycoming, etc to get a date….or accept leftovers of upper-classmen or frat boys
Engineers were prohibited from wearing jeans, t-shirts or going sockless. Deemed by our esteemed faculty as unprofessional
Only a few blacks on the football team
Actually, very few minorities on campus. Mainly Asian/Indian grad students
All roads leading to University Park were two (sometimes three on hills) lanes
Few students had cars. The student parking lot was “way out” near East Halls
You had to sign up for classes by going to Rec Hall and praying there was a section of your required class at time that fit your schedule
Slide-rules pre-empted calculators or computers
THAT’S OLD! But I’m glad I can still remember it.
And you were great friends with 'Old Coaly" and helped lay the cornerstone for the Obelisk also!OLD YOU SAY! (the older (and wiser) farts might remember some of these).
I was a student at PSU:
Before Joe Pa was head coach
When there was a track around the football field
The South end was open. We had a shoe like OSU
When co-eds had to be back in dorms by 1:00AM on weekends
All home football games started at 1:00
Beaver Stadium had 55,000 capacity
You got into football games (and basketball, wrestling, gymnastics, HUB movies, dances) on your student activities card.
You had to take Phys Ed. And, if you couldn’t pass a swimming test, you had to learn to swim! Oh, by the way, the swimming pool was downtown In a hotel!
There were 5-6 on campus fraternities, now 3-4??
The ratio of men to women was 3, maybe 4:1……men. Guys had to travel to Indiana, Lycoming, etc to get a date….or accept leftovers of upper-classmen or frat boys
Engineers were prohibited from wearing jeans, t-shirts or going sockless. Deemed by our esteemed faculty as unprofessional
Only a few blacks on the football team
Actually, very few minorities on campus. Mainly Asian/Indian grad students
All roads leading to University Park were two (sometimes three on hills) lanes
Few students had cars. The student parking lot was “way out” near East Halls
You had to sign up for classes by going to Rec Hall and praying there was a section of your required class at time that fit your schedule
Slide-rules pre-empted calculators or computers
THAT’S OLD! But I’m glad I can still remember it.
I actually helped to rebuild the obelisk after a virgin walked by!And you were great friends with 'Old Coaly" and helped lay the cornerstone for the Obelisk also!
"When I'm 64" by the Beatles was playing on the car radio a few months ago. My wife said how depressing it was that we're now older than the old people in that song.
When I'm Sixty Four (Remastered 2009) (youtube.com)
I remember going to the computer science building to work on our project at 9:00 pm on Sunday night. It wasn't because we procrastinated, it was because it was difficult to fight the crowd and get on a machine any other time.Computer classroom during my freshman year 1975
That was you? Well, I did appreciate your discreetness, still do.
