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Quoted from pacmanretro:Sorry, but Lmao at the idea of injury watching it...had similar debate last nite. Got the first beer, wanted another...but realized I was also going to have to eventually get up yet again to the bathroom... tough choices
Along the same lines...
that's what helped me quit smokin'...
I got too lazy to go buy 'em.
Quoted from pinnyheadhead:Hey! I thought I was in safe place for sock talk.
But that's ok. Back to lawn mowers we go.
Oh brother... 
Quoted from cottonm4:You mean like the elevators that take you from floor 1 to floor 35? What did you do? Crawl out of a trap door on top of the elevator box?
That's what I'd like to know!
Quoted from ShinyBall:I think you can add the Miller High Life to that list too. Probably the best of the cheap 30pk offerings. IMO
Miller High Life all day long.
I get the tall boys!
I was merely pointing out
just how tragically s-l-o-w
this thread has become.
Flying along and then BAM!
950...951...zzz...oh sorry...
Health could be better but not too bad for for a 54yr old former partier, thanks for askin'.
And Madre De Dios?
As in Peru? 
Fill me in cotton.
Quoted from TractorDoc:Things tend to mover a bit slower with age.
Now that we are in Holiday Season does anyone remember (or still use) one of these?
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Grandma had a large table top version that was always fired up after big meals. Filled the house up with a great aroma and when younger I loved watching the clear sight splash at the top.
Absolutely, positively THE best way to make a pot a coffee!
Quoted from cottonm4:Post 991.
T-10
I was wondering if anyone was counting down...
I dosed off again...
make it 992 and I must say I think it is only fair that TractorDoc get #1000.
Congrats to TractorDoc
on making the #1000th post! 
As well as creating a thread that broke #1000!!
And a congrats to cottonm4
That's some party he's got goin' on there!
Quoted from hlaj78:That looks like the ‘65 Lincoln Park Lane that I used to have. Awesome 5000 pound luxury car for a college student in the 70s....at least until the frame rusted out, broke in half, and took the brake lines with it.
Good 'ol 1970's
American made auto!
...and Twinkies and fruit pies and Ho Ho's and...
Hey! Remember how good and rich the cake was
in a SuzyQ! Now it's 50% air.
Quoted from cottonm4:When New Years Eve consists of a cup of hot chocolate and bedtime by 9:30pm. Because you have seen it all before.
Nah, not because you've seen it all before,
but because you're tired.
Quoted from cottonm4:You are trying to strip away the last vestiges of my pride. I was not tired Read my lips. I was not tired.
Quoted from QuickSilverShelby:When you read a post about bird feeders, click on a link about bird feeders, start reading about bird feeders and you begin to consider what bird feeder would best suit your needs, even though you never had the want or need for a bird feeder.
QSS
... so what kind of feeder
'ya gonna get?
Quoted from dasvis:My Squirrel buster plus works better than yours.....
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This is how we dispatch those little bastards out here in Oregon.
Yeah but with the other they just walk away dizzy...
and with yours they're...dead... 
Quoted from Greenandwhite:You look at old ticket stubs from 90’s concerts and see $25 face value.
Quoted from dasvis:... Or you look at 1980's stubs & see $15~20 face value...
or you think back to your 1st concert:
Ted Nugent
1978
Cost $8
Ahhh...
Concerts!
Those were the days.
Fellas I could go from A to Z
with all the shows I've seen!
In other words, Aerosmith to ZZ Top!!!
Quoted from txstargazer3:You know you are old when...your feet don't stink any more.
OH they stink,
You just can't smell 'em!
You know you are old when...
you have an itch, and,
no matter where it is OR
no matter where you are OR
no matter who's around,
you scratch it!
Quoted from cottonm4:Gawd. There is a bunch of old farts hanging around here
uh-huh...
Quoted from ShinyBall:I was standing inline at McDonalds today when 2 guys (older then me geezers) paid cash for their coffee. Out came that change purse...first the quarters then the dime then the nickle then the pennies...each guy did this. People please! do not become these guys when you get older. What is it with old people that hate loose change? Never the dollar bills...if it is $1.67..then it's 1 dollar then dig for the "exact" change..hold everyone up (rant) Old ladies do this too, usually loose change in the bottom of their purse..one by one by one. It is a old thing.
This is what these guys used.
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HEY!
If it costs a buck sixty-seven
then $1.67 is what yer' gonna' get!!
Quoted from TractorDoc:Sadly my powers of invincibility seem to be fading with age and my vulnerabilities are multiplying.
Exactly.
Well said my friend.
Quoted from WJxxxx:When you remember hoping the DJ would shut up before the song started as you didn't want him talking on the mix-tape you were making.
Oh man!
Making your own tapes off the radio!
Those were the days.
Quoted from TractorDoc:Or recording television shows with the VCR when there was only a couple channels. Somewhere I still have a VHS tape with a Three Stooges day long "Stooge-a-Thon" recorded onto it.
I have a vhs recording
of a Cubs game from
June 23, 1984!
It was from my first trip to Chicago.
Harry Caray on play-by-play
with Steve Stone color man.
Quoted from Scotty_K:When you get the senior discount without you or the cashier even asking for it...
I had this happen about a week ago at a Dunkin' Donuts. I was buying two breakfast sandwiches and coffee for myself and my wife, and the young thing behind the counter puts the senior discount in, which I didn't notice until I read the receipt. I had conflicting feelings, as I was kinda annoyed that she perceived me to be that old, while happy to save $1.32.
My wife (who is 8 years my junior) thought it was hilarious...
Oh yeah!
Hilarious until it happens to her!
Quoted from cottonm4:when you start getting mail in your box, 1-2 times a week, with all sorts of sales pitches for hearing aids.
...and I'll add to that...
when you get something in the mail from AARP at LEAST once a month!
Quoted from cottonm4:You need to start adding these opening phrases to you conversations:
1) a number of years ago...
2) There used to be...
3) in my younger days...
4) this is probably before your time, but...
You left out the classic...
"Back in my day..."
But then I suppose you have to be REALLY old for that one!
You know you are old
when...
You realize you just can't eat as much as you used to, but there ain't NO WAY
you're gonna order somethin' with "petite" in the name!
Quoted from cottonm4:Ahh... that's piques, my man. Piques.
Wasted effort cotton.
Quoted from DaMoib:This piques my interest....
I stand corrected.
Quoted from cottonm4:When you remember your mom and sister going swimming wearing one of these.
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They use to wear 'em in the shower when they didn't want to get their hair wet. Go figure...
Quoted from cottonm4:LOL
It is amazing the lengths and expense we go to when we a looking to get laid.
And then one day things change you are no longer enslaved by your sex drive and gets a whole lot cheaper to live
And then instead of collecting notches on the bed post we start collecting pins. 
Quoted from dirkdiggler:When your in bed by 10pm on New Year's eve and up at 7am
That's not gettin' old
that's playin' it smart!
Quoted from cottonm4:When you no longer tell yourself that you are getting older; That you know you are past getting older and start your mornings wondering how many more days you have left.
How very sad for you cotton.
How about we change that around to:
"What machine will I work on today?"
Quoted from cottonm4:Don't be sad. It is just me BS'n on a post.
But, yes, it is not untrue. It is an amazing travel going through life and realize how your thoughts change as you age.
When I was 12 I was already thinking about how to get the girl friend through 1st base to home plate (that was the metaphor in vogue when Ann Landers and Dear Abby were in every news paper in the country).
And some old lady down the street died.
At 15, I could barely wait for the driver's license, a car---and the girl friend in the back seat
At 20, I could hardly wait to turn legal and buy a drink at the bar.
And some old lady down the street died.
And life progresses. You get married, or you don't. You buy a house. And if you did not buy a house, at some point in time your get tired of paying rent and wish you had bought a house years ago.
Some old lady down the street died.
Now, friends and family start checking out which gives you a reality check.
At around 45, you start getting tired of working and think about retiring.
And when you retire, and are getting ready to travel, or load up pins, or model trains, or whatever, it is just coming to the front of your mind that you are going to be crossing over to the new frontier, through a dark glass where no one ( who is honest) REALLY KNOWS what's on the other side.
The old lady who lived next door died.
But now, the old lady who died has a name. She was my neighbor. A friend. Not just some nameless person. So much for getting older. You are on the doorstep knowing you are going to get your turn. Embrace it. You can't run from it.
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As far as what pinball to work on today? Well, I am in the middle of a full shop on Dragonfist to get ready for a show. Seawitch is down as I am working on some rectifier board issues. Nine Ball has a diode problem. Catacomb has been down ever since I changed some lamp boards; I don't know what happened and have not had time to troubleshoot this issue.
I had to bunch my pins together in my small game room to access the Dragonfist shop job. I managed to slide a couple around so I could get some play action on Robocop. But right when I launched a ball, a rubber broke and blocked the shooter lane. I can't take the glass off to replace the rubber but cannot because Robo is blocked in. Munsters is playable but completely buried, as is Big Game.
I have 7 pins and cannot play a single one for a couple more days That makes you think you just want to shoot yourself and finish out on your own terms.
Which pin will I work on today? None. I have to take the girl friend's little dog to the vet this afternoon. The vet is not local. There will be some miles.
All of this verbiage just to tell you it is real. It is life. And I am having a ball.
And all of this talk has got me to thinking (I am a cheap bastard ) that an old beater of a pin cabinet might make a good casket. It is about the right size. And would be a way to flip off the funeral industry with their caskets that cost as much a car.
Was not expecting such commentary from you cotton but was an exceptional read...and on the mark.
So, thanks for that.
Take care.
Quoted from RWH:When you experience what I did this morning. I went outside to set on my porch because it's going to be sunny and 72 in Ohio today. Well took my shirt off to get some sun when damned if I didn't noticed my dogs were looking at me and their eyes were watering WTF? Am I so white my pets eyes water looking at me lol, I told my wife I was going to sit out here until I start causing accidents or the cops show to investigate the corpse on the porch.
Quoted from cottonm4:When you set down in a new barber's chair, wind up with a crappy hair cut, and you just shrug your shoulders say to yourself that "it will get better in 2 weeks".
True story.
You know you are old when...
you start saying "set" instead of "sit."
When the music being piped in at the restaurant you are eating at is just too dawgone LOUD!
And then your early twenties son tells you
"Dad, it's not that loud, you're just gettin old"
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Aahhh... slippers
Quoted from RWH:When roll caps were King.
You mean like the kind you put
into a pistol on the 4th of July?
If so, man that really takes me back.
I haven't thought about those things in years!
Years ago, I used to play a particular baseball
board game. It had all kinds of charts, a deck
of gameplay result cards and every player from
every mlb team had his own game card.
I described it to my son and he said he would love to see it and give it a go.
I told him we could play it but I would have to dig it out.
Finally did dig it out. Together with my son
we started taking it all out of the box to set everything up and he burst out:
"It's like finding ANCIENT ARTIFACTS!!!"
I have forgotten many things.
Have never forgotten this.
Quoted from cottonm4:When Art Linkletter, Mrs. Olsen, Mr. Whipple, and Madge are names you remember.
Wow cotton, you are old.
Quoted from cottonm4:Sounds like you know who I am talking about
HA!
Precisely.
Quoted from cottonm4:I booted cable TV in 2004 and never regretted it.
Back when St Paul, Mn first got cable TV it was
$9.95 for the basic package.
Fine by me because it included ESPN which consumed
90% of my viewing hours. It wasn't all that long before,
lo and behold, they doubled the price to $19.95. I picked up the phone, told them to come get their crap and have never regretted it, not once.
p.s.
1) I wonder how much money I've saved since I made that decision?
2) In business, true genius is getting people to pay for something they can get for free.
Quoted from LTG:You don't remember the last time you stayed up New Year's Eve to watch the ball drop in Times Square.
LTG : )
What? Stay up?
What for when you can see
it on the news the next day.
Quoted from cdnpinbacon:I went to the beer store in my pajamas today....I just didn't care., that's a sign right?
Either that or you just forgot to change.
Yep
My gramps had a Davenport and a vestibule too.
I would say "Ya mean the hallway?"
and he would say "No, the vestibule!"
Quoted from jrpinball:I also hate it when you're ordering, and they punctuate everything you ask for with "perfect" and "no problem". Why should it be a problem? It's on the damn menu!
It's not like I'm ordering ostrich egg souffle with a drizzling of freshly rendered Mongolian yak fat!
Mmm... Love me some Mongolian yak fat!
Quoted from rollitover:Mmm... Love me some Mongolian yak fat!
If you whip it up and add sugar it becomes the
creamy filling in your cupcake!
Went to Whities yesterday, as in Castle.
Got a #1Combo: 4 sliders, fry, pop and
a medium onion chip. Just under $10.
You know you are old when...
You can remember getting 3X more
for 3X less than what I paid.
Fast food ain't what it used to be
that's for sure.
... when you can remember entertainment consisted of a board game or two followed by NBC Saturday Night at the Movies or perhaps the ABC Sunday Night Movie.
Quoted from cottonm4:My mom said to me one time that all of the older actors were dying off. That was in the early 60s
Happens to all of us cotton.
Every generation. And so it goes...
You know you are old when
You insist the saying is "my bag"
because "my bad" just doesn't make sense.
Quoted from DanQverymuch:While if you're young, you embrace the lack of social decorum and decency and make WAP the #1 song in the country.
I'm afraid it's all over.
The America we all grew up with is gone...
never to return again.
Quoted from cdnpinbacon:You know your old when your wife buys your clothes.
And it also constitutes a MANDATORY
surrender of one's man card.
Quoted from PinballAir:You spend more time looking thru a long lifetime of crap you have accumulated to find that thing "you know you have one of" than it would take to run to the store to buy one.
Because you know dog-gone-well that
once you go buy one the one you own is sure to turn up.
Quoted from dasvis:I prefer The Rockford files
Absolutely loved Jim Rockford, but Angel made the show.
You know your old when...
You are perfectly happy to wear the same thing for three days in a row, or even four.
Quoted from cottonm4:When you get older, or just plain old, you figure "what the hell", why bother to comb my hair.
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Ok this time I'm not just commenting,
I truly did LOL!
Thanks for my daily laugh cotton!
Quoted from zr11990:They aren’t? Damn
NO, they aren't.
They're just being nice to the deaf,
half-blind old guy.
Quoted from jrpinball:You remember when there was a lot more fun in this world.
Frank Zappa said it best when he asked, "whatever happened to all the fun in the world?"
Fun...Fun you say?
Oh no, we can't have any of that its too "offensive."
Quoted from rzgrip:When you have never heard of the top performer of the Super Bowl halftime show. The Weekend?
Yep, his opening act is
"MondaythruFriday"
Quoted from vid1900:You Know You Are Old When. . . You think that Blaupunkt is a good brand for car stereos
I see or hear the word Blaupunkt and can't help but think of:
"I got a Porsche already; a 911 with a quadraphonic Blaupunkt."
"You don't NEED a quadraphonic Blaupunkt!
What you NEED is a curveball!"
Calvin LaLoosh and Crash Davis
Bull Durham
Quoted from Playdium:Loved Woolworth's when they had the soda fountain. W.T. Grant was another favorite. Each had an amazing amount of merchandise.
Loved Woolworths way back when.
Bought my very first record there.
They had THE best selection of 45's anywhere!
Always had The Billboard Top 100 posted as well.
Comic selection was top shelf too.
Quoted from TractorDoc:Wife has the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade on this morning.
So far I don't know who/what half the "new" floats are. Probably don't recognize closer to 80% when it comes to the singers/performers.
I suppose I need more culture!
" need MORE culture" you say?
No, no TractorDoc! Stay safe right where you are.
Quoted from DanQverymuch:Am I old? Every time a Pizza Hut ad claims that "Nobody out-pizzas the Hut" I mutter something to the effect of "Yes, because it is impossible, since there is no verb 'to pizza.'"
THANKYOU!
I find that incredibly annoying.
Now another pizza factory has picked up on it
and they say this is "how you pizza."
WHAT?!?
... I guess you know you are old when you appreciate proper English.
Quoted from paragon07:You might be old if you are wondering how Break Dancing became an Olympic sport. Whaaat.
Oh you don't have to be old
to be scratchin' your head on that one.
Quoted from LTG:LTG : )
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HILARIOUS!
Quoted from cottonm4:"Mischievous youngster" is good euphemism for: Little bastard, young vandal, pain in the ass kid, little hellion, and probably a whole lot more that I cannot think this of at the moment
I prefer "hoodlums."
That's what my aunt called us five kids.
Quoted from cdnpinbacon:Yeah rhymes with Aaron and Erin,,,never mind.
Time for a Finley walk he’s terrorizing me.
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Look at that face!
That's a good boy!
Quoted from TractorDoc:I can still remember my first home phone number from growing up. . . even though I have not dialed it in decades!
Yep!
One of those things permanently embedded in my memory.
Well I certainly just taught myself a lesson.
Really got the itch to play me some Star Trek Pro,
which is my sons pin. However upon a pre-game inspection I noticed one of the stationary "Red Matter" targets was loose. Now I might of let it slide if it was my machine but the fact that it is my kids machine REQUIRES that I pull the glass, lift the playfied and tighten 'er up.
Don't want it getting any worse.
Only thing is, can't do it as is. The glass hits the wall of our small game room. SO you have to pull the game out, say four or five feet, and turn it oh 'bout 150-160° and face it towards the entry door in order to give it enough room to remove the glass and lift the playfied.
Did I do it? You know I did! Tightened 'er right up and got it back into position.I would REALLY like to add "no problem" at this point but holy cow, now I'm so tired I can't even play!! You know, not too many years ago I used to move 'em around pretty good. Not any more. I'm winded and my back don't feel too good either. Am I playing? NOPE!
Sitting in my electric recliner havin' a beer.
The lesson: ten years goes by fast and when you act like you did ten years ago you're bound to teach yourself a lesson. Next time I need to move a machine I'll wait till the kid's around. Yep, that's what I'll do.
That and have another beer.
Quoted from cdnpinbacon:Minnie Ashley vintage hottie of February?
Just how old are you!?!
Quoted from cdnpinbacon:I didn’t know the early 1900s was out of bounds
HA! lol
Lets just say you have to have at least ONE
color picture of ANY nominated "hottie."
Did someone mention KOOLS?
Heard this one time:
Brother walks into a convenience store and says
"Gimme a pack a what I is!"
The dumbfounded clerk responds "Huh?"
The brother says
"Gimme a pack a KOOL Milds"
Quoted from cdnpinbacon:Oh yeah . Screeching like she was in the Amazon at 7am. Picture a tube like view filled with rage and a dish towel in your hands , a crooked smile on your face . That's it
I said to my wife ..kijjj . Some lady bought her and when I went and met her lily the bird from hell, Flew away into a tree . No 300 bucks and no red lobster celebration dinner .i curse that bird.
You crack me up sometimes!
Quoted from Budman:When you wear Footjoy golf shoes to work because comfort always trumps style!
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What you talkin' about Budman?!?
Those got style all day long.
Quoted from Kkoss24:Sooooooo how many pins is enough pins ? When can I stop ?
You can stop AFTER
you move out the couch and put two pins in it's place.
Quoted from Azmodeus:I feel old when it seems Rock and roll has nearly left the building.
But there will be time for old ness when I die. Long live rock and roll...
I watched The Wall Live in Berlin with Rodger Waters
in its glorious 2hr entirety on YouTube just last night.
Long live Rock n Roll indeed!
Quoted from cdnpinbacon:Sometimes I get a little farty when I begin to sleep. My loud coughs don't fool my wife and she gets really mad! What am I supposed to do????
You let 'er fly and then say
"Sorry dear, it comes with the whole manly package"
You know you are old when:
... You know you are old when?
.......you know you are
old when...
zzzZzZZzzzZZ.....
Quoted from RTS:This could be its own topic.
I ordered the stupid ghost that flies with a remote control. It's shown in the bottom left corner. It was a a white balloon with a plastic cover and fishing line. To make it fly, just add helium. Learned about false advertising at an early age.
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That's called taking advantage
of the imagination of the young and gullible.
Quoted from cottonm4:It is capitalism at its finest. Ripping others off.
And that was my next thought.
Ain't it so, ain't it so.
Quoted from jrpinball:Well, you could say the same thing about pinball then. Sucking the pocket change and lunch money out of young boys' pockets with their seductive imagery. Yeah, it's better than buying worthless junk from the back of a comic book, but it's basically the same thing.
Nonsense.
Pinball is what it is. Besides, you can actually become skilled at any given game so long as you are paying attention.
I would argue that the art package; backglass, cab and playfield, had very little to do with extracting quarters from young boys pockets. Fun to look at maybe but if the game stinks, a quarter or two is all it gets. So no, any given pin could not mislead the youngsters the way those comic book ads did. mho
Quoted from cottonm4:I have been living in my house for 42 years. The 100 year old woman woh lives that the corner is the oldest on the block, followed by my neighbors who moved in next door 6 months before I moved in.
I'll probably die on the front porch steps.
Nah... You'll die flipping away on Big Game or
getting one last high score on your Catacomb.
Quoted from Elvishasleft:Im old enough to remember when a Sony Trinitron was the best Tv you could get.
I had an in at Sony and got a huge one for cost in the 90s, it weighed more than a car.
Did have a great picture for the time though.
Quoted from swampfire:I’m a Quasar man, myself. I’m pretty sure we had this exact model.
RCA for me.
We were the last to get a color TV
in not just the neighborhood,
but it seemed the whole city.
When we finally did get one, I could
not have been happier. It was football season.
I was in front of that thing
from pregame to the final play of the day,
each and every week.
Finally, the NFL in all its glorious color!
Quoted from Playdium:I'm dizzy...
Take your pills.
Quoted from swampfire:It’s crazy to think about this now, but when I was 8-10 my job was to burn the trash in the backyard. I don’t remember that my parents ever supervised me, they just said “make sure you take out any hairspray or deodorant cans first”.
Boy... I remember trash burning.
Everybody had an old 55gal drum
out back by the garage and near the alley.
It was a chore many of the boys in the
neighborhood had to do after school.
Quoted from cdnpinbacon:Not sayin I do or anything
Of course not...
Quoted from cottonm4:No, actually, I follow cooking my bacon by scrambling a couple of eggs in the bacon grease.
THAT my friend is Classic Cooking!
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And there he is, Finley the wonder dog!
That's a good boy!
Quoted from TractorDoc:Another milestone. . . 4000+ posts!
I'd say this thread is getting old but I think there is a good chance it could make it to 5000.
Oh it will make it,
as we all age gracefully along with your thread Doc.
Quoted from jrpinball:You said "album cover", not inside!
I don't have the album. Just took an educated guess.
Quoted from electricsquirrel:Come on, JR.....
Inside, outside.....it's still an album cover!
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JR makes a point. What you refer to is a "sleeve."
Quoted from electricsquirrel:no.
The album cover opens up. the picture is on the inside.
The actual vinyl disc goes in the sleeve.
Now I'm getting hungry looking at that picture.
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Hey! Look at that-green vinyl.
Reminds me of the red vinyl J Geils band "Bloodshot" album!
Quoted from curban:...you know you are old ...
I went bowling on Saturday for first time in a while. I'm still sore. bowling. seriously. bowling
Hey it takes energy to get that 12lb rock down the lane!
Quoted from cdnpinbacon:I have been thinking of leaving Canada and mining for gold in Guyana. Should I do this?
Why not stay in Canada and mine your backyard?
Quoted from Charlemagne1987:New to this thread and I’m not going to read through 89 pages to see if this one’s been said yet…
You know you’re old when your family talks about you while you’re sitting right there and they don’t ask you to chime in. It happened to me today…what the hell?
And to make a point,
if you do it right back they think YOU'RE nuts! 
Quoted from frenchmarky:You know you're old when you've earned the right to blame your farts on not just the dog but on anyone you please and not be argued with.
Nah,
You know you're old when 'ya just let 'em fly and don't give a rip.
...no pun intended.
Quoted from tomdrum:Had a graduation dinner for my daughter from PSU and sat around with a bunch 20 somethings and a couple in their 30's. Talk turned to who's Gen X or Gen Y. Said I was born when Eisenhower was president. "You were born during WWII?" Obviously that kid slept thru history class.
Hey, at least he was in the ballpark.
So many of them don't have a clue.
Quoted from cottonm4:Here mouth is off-center.
Her mouth is fine...
It's her nose, eyes and forehead
Quoted from cottonm4:I was 14 when my paternal grandfather died. He was 83. I thought he was older than dirt. And now that I am 70, James Caan did not seem old at all at 82. But I am hoping for 90, like Sean Connery
If you're going to aim, then aim high cotton.
Shoot for triple figures!
Quoted from Scotty_K:I understand she was very fluent in Jive...
HA!
Quoted from jrpinball:I just picked up a perfectly good working rototiller and an Echo backpack blower in the trash!
I've also gotten two working leaf blowers on wheels, lawnmowers, an an Echo weed whacker, and a perfectly good snowblower recently.
I'm gonna give 'ya one a these... Atta boy!
Quoted from cdnpinbacon:Bad Finley! Had to send this email to a new customer for a meeting tomorrow
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"accidentally" ...uh huh
And you say bad Finley?!
Quoted from cdnpinbacon:Was accident ...always hugging Finley and bent hit foot wrong way
Ah well cdpb, I was just kidding around.
I am sure it was not intentional.
Finley looks like a good companion.
Quoted from tomdrum:Older than me. The 1st music I purchased was "Let it Be" by the Beatles on a 45 in 1970. Next was "Hot Rod Lincoln".
My first 45 was "Kung Fu Fighting" purchased at Woolworths. Pretty sure it made one of many "Worst Songs of All Time" lists by Rolling Stone magazine.
Nobody ever accused me of having good taste in music. It is so very subjective afterall.
Hey, I like what I like.
Quoted from cottonm4:KFF got a lot of airplay in the day. It was a dance song. I was spinning records at the enlisted men's club on Friday and Saturday nights back then. The girls liked it and liked to dance to it; Therefore a lot of guys liked it
After my job was done I would go home and maybe put on some Uriah Heep, or something else along those lines.
The other big dance songs were music from K.C. and the Sunshine Band.
Uriah Heep!
Sweet Lorraine, let the party carry on!
My girlfriend's name was Lorraine. Oh YEAH!
Quoted from cottonm4:I can count the concerts I have been to on two hands. Yes happened on the first hand. Dallas 1971
And I could go A-to-Z with all the concerts I've seen.
It'd what we did.
Quoted from cdnpinbacon:Please do...would like to pick out some bands and ask about experience
Cheers
Oh man! Saw some good ones over the years that's for sure.
Quick story:
I remember one year Foreigner was touring and was
scheduled uto play the now long gone Parade Stadium in Mpls.
Got tickets right away as they were pretty popular.
Turns out it got canceled-bummed us all.
Happy ending though. Couple two three years later they made it
back to the Twin Cites and they HONORED the tickets from
the canceled show. Lou Gramm actually mentioned the incident
and apologized to the fans. Righteous Mr. Gramm, quite righteous.
Quoted from DCP:Old people like me collect adapters of all sorts. Here's the International Space Station of Adapters!
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In some circles they call that art and it is worth thousands.
Quoted from cdnpinbacon:I miss the Waltons wholesome T.V.
Goodnight jrpinball...
Goodnight cotton...
Goodnight cdnpinbacon.
Quoted from cottonm4:I went to bed at 10:30 last night.
Wow... night owl.
Quoted from cottonm4:"Al Jaffee, record-breaking Mad Magazine cartoonist, dies age 102"
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/al-jaffee-dies-intl-scli/index.html
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Too bad. Mr Jaffee was a key contributer of MAD magazine.
His "Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions" always cracked me up.
I LOVED satire and sarcasm. As I grew up I found some good
inspiration from these:
MAD magazine
Archie Bunker
Don Rickles
Bugs Bunny
Quoted from rollitover:Too bad. Mr Jaffee was a key contributer of MAD magazine.
His "Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions" always cracked me up.
I LOVED satire and sarcasm. As I grew up I found some good
inspiration from these:
MAD magazine
Archie Bunker
Don Rickles
Bugs Bunny
Ahhh! And how could I forget this classic source of sarcasm and star power:
The "Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts" from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas!
Those were great. I still watch 'em once in awhile.
Quoted from cottonm4:1977: $8.50 to get in the door. Before the limousine crowd discovered rock and roll.
In 1977 it cost me $7.00 to see The Eagles. I was 25.
Yep, Ted Nugent 1978... 8 bucks!
Quoted from pinwiztom:This may apply
if you are old enough to remember
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/hate-break-youve-eaten-literally-223147004.html
Yep to almost all of 'em
Quoted from cottonm4:from one cheap bastard to another, I hate paying it out. Getting older does not change that.
And yet, aging forces what's necessary.
...When you make your way to the gas station at 9a.m.
(cause if you wait till noon it would be WAY too hot).
As you start pumping gas you look down and realize
that you still have your slippers on. Seems you forgot
to swap them out for your favorite pair of loafers.
And so it goes...
Quoted from vid1900:You know you are old when.... you constantly say "Hey, like Einstein said, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting different results "
Because everyone under 50 knows Einstein never said that.
And yet, we keep saying that he did.
...HEY! Wait a minute!!!
Quoted from cottonm4:I'll go for Grace Kelly in Rear Window.
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Excuse me boys but any woman with that kinda class
should NEVER be referred to as a "hottie."
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