Off-topic: How old ARE you?
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- MikeHalloran
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The peak of the Baby Boom here. 1954
I've been to all 50 states. I crossed #50 off when I revisited my birthplace.
I've been to all 50 states. I crossed #50 off when I revisited my birthplace.
Mike Halloran
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- zuill
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I heard this quote recently:
"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
Satchel Paige"
So, to answer Mike's question: when I forget how old I am, I'll let you know.
Chronologically: a baby-boomer.
Zuill
"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
Satchel Paige"
So, to answer Mike's question: when I forget how old I am, I'll let you know.
Chronologically: a baby-boomer.
Zuill
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"When all is said and done, more is said than done."
"When all is said and done, more is said than done."
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1960; a mere youngster, evidently ...
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- Djard
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Sixties! Still wet behind the ears.
Since being conservative has been deemed by the inventors of politically correctness as virtually illegal, I gingerly posit that from a medical point of view, everyone is about nine months older than what is printed their birthday certificate.
A lot of truth has become hate speech, but I trust I'm still allowed an opinion here. Gulp!
Since being conservative has been deemed by the inventors of politically correctness as virtually illegal, I gingerly posit that from a medical point of view, everyone is about nine months older than what is printed their birthday certificate.
A lot of truth has become hate speech, but I trust I'm still allowed an opinion here. Gulp!
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Older than Mike, which is saying something.
Bill Stevens
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- gogreen
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68, but 69 in a mere nine days.
Art
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- Djard
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Aging is a process where beauty fades from without and migrates to within...hopefully.
An octogenarian in Munich once shared a pearl with me as we sat in a restaurant, waiting for our schnitzel. He looked far into the distance, that 10,000 yard look, and he said,
"Once I was beautiful. But now...
I'm just beautiful."
He was.
An octogenarian in Munich once shared a pearl with me as we sat in a restaurant, waiting for our schnitzel. He looked far into the distance, that 10,000 yard look, and he said,
"Once I was beautiful. But now...
I'm just beautiful."
He was.
- motet
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- David Ward
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I think I may be older than Bill…Bill Stevens wrote:Older than Mike, which is saying something.
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- ebiggs1
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Well before 1949. Finale was still done on stone tablets with a hammer and chisel. Wait...some parts still are!
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- John Ruggero
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1945 and just a few months after Truman assumed office.
"Some claim that pianists are human,
Heh, and quote the case of Mr. Truman.
Saint Saens on the other hand,
Considered them a scurvy band,
A blight they are he said, and simian,
Instead of normal men and wimian."
—Ogden Nash
"Some claim that pianists are human,
Heh, and quote the case of Mr. Truman.
Saint Saens on the other hand,
Considered them a scurvy band,
A blight they are he said, and simian,
Instead of normal men and wimian."
—Ogden Nash
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He was from a bordering state (Missouri) from me. I have been to his house many times.EphraimJ wrote: I'll bet there are people who don't even know we had a president named Truman!
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- Djard
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Cinco fe Mayo. And I'm told by my fellow Lithuanian DPs (displaced person) that I was born on the last day of the war. Maybe the war ended so as not to wake the baby!
EphraimJ, you forgot to place "again" after Israel.
Israel officially became a nation again in 1949. It lost its nationality in A.D. 70, for resisting oppression. As an insult, a Roman emperor later renamed the region as Syria-Paleastinia. Roman coins stamped Judea ceased to be minted then. So Palestine was a name invented by a disgruntled Roman. Historically, Jerusalem was the capital of Judah even before Solomon's reign, c. 1000 BC.
EphraimJ, you forgot to place "again" after Israel.
Israel officially became a nation again in 1949. It lost its nationality in A.D. 70, for resisting oppression. As an insult, a Roman emperor later renamed the region as Syria-Paleastinia. Roman coins stamped Judea ceased to be minted then. So Palestine was a name invented by a disgruntled Roman. Historically, Jerusalem was the capital of Judah even before Solomon's reign, c. 1000 BC.
- David Ward
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I'm not sure that everyone places quite the same interpretation as you do on this.Djard wrote:Israel officially became a nation again in 1949. It lost its nationality in A.D. 70, for resisting oppression. As an insult, a Roman emperor later renamed the region as Syria-Paleastinia. Roman coins stamped Judea ceased to be minted then. So Palestine was a name invented by a disgruntled Roman. Historically, Jerusalem was the capital of Judah even before Solomon's reign, c. 1000 BC.
As it happens, in 1936 my elder brother was (most likely) conceived in a German nunnery(!) in East Jerusalem, when my father was part of the British army in Palestine and my mother paid an unofficial visit. Later (1946 I think) the man who was to become my favourite kinsman and who paid for my studies with Alexander Goehr (who has a house in Tel Aviv and whose wife is Israeli) was the target of assassination attempts by both Irkud and the Stern Gang. A friend at school was the son of 'Glubb Pasha' (British general who commanded the Arab Legion) and recently I have collaborated on a piece using fragments of e-mails sent to me from Palestine by a Scottish artist who spent time as an artist in residence with young Palestinians in Ramallah, East Jerusalem and the refugee camps &c &c &c (there's more).
There are so many different and conflicting versions of the history of the Middle East, that I think we should probably try to keep clear of most of them on this forum.
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- Djard
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I'll take your good advice. Since many facts have become politically incorrect, and some folks are offended by even the most benign things. I'll remind myself to be as bland as possible, especially since Canada just passed a law that makes it a punishable "hate crime" to address someone with a pronoun that they might not like, which I suppose we'll need to guess. For example, it has become literally risky to call someone who appears to be a he a he if he prefers to be referred to as a she, it or shim.
Raised in Australia during saner times makes it difficult for this septuagenarian to obey the PC police. Yeah, I'm old...walked past a cemetery the other day and two guys attacked me with shovels.
Raised in Australia during saner times makes it difficult for this septuagenarian to obey the PC police. Yeah, I'm old...walked past a cemetery the other day and two guys attacked me with shovels.
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1954, born on the first day of school. Dad, being a teacher, stayed at the hospital long enough to learn I was a boy, then went to work.
Try doing that now, I dare ya!
So, I'll be a semi-retired 63 in a couple of months.
Try doing that now, I dare ya!
So, I'll be a semi-retired 63 in a couple of months.
K M Frye
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- michelp
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1949, spot on.
Michel
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