badenwurtca wrote:
BTW we can tell that we are getting older because we are down to three vegetables we can fully digest.
By this age, your intestines have been through so much and so much has been through them!
Chess for Oldtimers --- Good Idea !
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Dec 27, 2021
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y-r-o-t-s-i-H wrote:
Speaking of old, I love to see 10 year old threads revived. I just celebrated my 75th anniversary of life and have been playing since I was 8, which was a while ago. (born in 1946) I have read a lot about brain games slowing the onset of mental deterioration like dementia. It's too late for my wife who is in her 6th year of decline with Alzheimer's. I haven't noticed any decline in my own abilities but I don't play much chess anymore and when I do it's 5 and 10 minute games. It's more a lack of interest than a lack of concentration.
Best of luck to those of you who are aging rapidly. Yes it speeds up later in life. In spite of the strain of being sole caretaker of my wife I find this time in my life to be most satisfying in many respects. For one I feel no need to say sorry to anyone for anything which may be why I enjoy the forums. I get insulted less and am insulting more. Sorry, not sorry.
Oh well another one gone, people come and people go !
Dec 27, 2021
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#2604
Yes, this latest manifestation didn't seem to last very long. This guy just blows up and flies out the window at the slightest provocation.
Dec 28, 2021
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#2605
An item from John Cleese ( Faulty Towers ): " I used to desire many many things, but now I have just one desire, and that is to get rid of all of my other desires ! "
Jan 1, 2022
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#2606
You know that you are getting older because you have a box in the attic with about 30 AC adapters, but what the heck are they all for ?
Jan 2, 2022
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#2607
badenwurtca wrote:
You know that you are getting older because you have a box in the attic with about 30 AC adapters, but what the heck are they all for ?
Traveling to Germany?
Jan 5, 2022
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#2609
BTW you are getting older if you have a vehicle where the odometer is into six figures and you have no plans to buy a new vehicle.
Jan 5, 2022
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#2610
Ages ago, my older sister had a Mercury that had only a 5-digit odometer. I guess they didn't expect it to reach 100,000.
Jan 7, 2022
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#2612
You are getting older because you remember when branding was for cattle, spin was something you put on a backhand, and damage control was what the Merchant Marine did to avoid sinking.
Jan 9, 2022
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#2613
You also remember when there were no ratings on movies, warnings on cigarettes, or seat belts in cars.
Jan 9, 2022
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#2614
You remember sending post cards… to play chess with someone across the world. Or, making a person-to-person phone call home asking for yourself (no he’s not here right now) so mom would know you made it back to college safe and sound. Once, the operator said “your mother knows you’re safe now.” 
Jan 9, 2022
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badenwurtca wrote:
You also remember when there were no ratings on movies, warnings on cigarettes, or seat belts in cars.
I don't think there should be ratings on movies. That way, you'd have a nice surprise when you watched the movie.
Jan 9, 2022
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#2617
I remember cigarette ads. Marlboro men and Winston tastes good like a cigarette should. Then the criticism that is should be "as a cigarette should." To which the next ad featured the line: "What do you want good grammar or good taste?"
Ah, the good old days of lung cancer!
DrSpudnik wrote:
I remember cigarette ads. Marlboro men and Winston tastes good like a cigarette should. Then the criticism that is should be "as a cigarette should." To which the next ad featured the line: "What do you want good grammar or good taste?"
Ah, the good old days of lung cancer!
Ha ha, 'bad' grammar is still a thing now = I'm loving it!"
i'd walk a mile for a camel.
Jan 10, 2022
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#2620
AlCzervik wrote:
i'd walk a mile for a camel.
I'd let the camel walk for himself!
Actually, I remember that one too.
I'm too young to remember when Chesterfield had commercials where some guy played a doctor giving advice on cool, smooth cigarettes to a patient.
"Here, smoke these. Cancer never tasted so good!" or some such.
BTW we can tell that we are getting older because we are down to three vegetables we can fully digest.