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badenwurtca

Well my doppelganger and I ( plus our visitors ) have kept this little thread going since 2011, so it makes sense that the total has been getting higher.  

ratatouie

  #1. higher than what badenwurca little  jack horner already jumped over the candle stick.

and#2.  badwurca were you named after a vodka or something, not kidding here i am wondering?

badenwurtca
ratatouie wrote:

  #1. higher than what badenwurca little  jack horner already jumped over the candle stick.

and#2.  badwurca were you named after a vodka or something, not kidding here i am wondering?

   ---   Baden - Wurttemberg is the area of Germany  where I was born many years ago and ca stands for Canada, my home for many years.

ratatouie

oh sorry man

badenwurtca
ratatouie wrote:

oh sorry man

No problem, I know it is a bit of a funny username.

ratatouie

ok,  but bade i thought you were resiliant

badenwurtca

Thanks for the posts. BTW I'm getting older every day and no longer seem to care much about this site anymore, after all time keeps passing along.

badenwurtca

BTW you can tell that you are getting older because you have ten pairs of reading glasses hidden around the house.

ratatouie
  1. hey bade you can tell your getting old when your bones start   making noisys
ratatouie

oh badey bade u know ur gettin old when ur bones can tell the weather

badenwurtca

Ok time for another item: You know you are getting older because you remember how to use a typewriter.

pam234

You know you are getting older when you remember filling your fountain pen from a small bottle of ink.

foobarred1

I wrote a 6-part blog on this subject:

https://www.chess.com/blog/foobarred1

ratatouie

baden what posts? i did'nt put up a fence.

badenwurtca

Hey that is a good one  lol.

badenwurtca

Btw you are getting older if you have apologized to your parents for your behavior as a teenager, yep that is a thing  lol.

badenwurtca

Well so how is everyone doing now ? --- Are you sure yet that if you had to do it all over you wouldn't bother. 

ratatouie

i think baden is sipping a little to much of his or  his'en own vodka

pam234

No Ralph, it's been a rollercoaster of a journey but I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

ratatouie

o'boy pammy whammy are'nt u punchual