Tip for the day: The challenge of retirement is how to spend time without spending money.
Chess for Oldtimers --- Good Idea !
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Oct 10, 2015
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Two elderly gents were chatting in their retirement home. " I may be getting old " said one " but at least I can multi-task now ". " In what way ? " asked the other. " Well, these days, whenever I sneeze I also pass gas ". ( I was lucky that I didn't have my mouth full the first time that I read this one ).
Oct 13, 2015
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#1424
The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills and wills ( from Richard J Needham ).
Oct 16, 2015
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#1425
Time for a thought that came from Benjamin Franklin: " To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals " ( the man was very smart guy ).
Oct 22, 2015
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#1426
badenwurtca wrote:
Time for a thought that came from Benjamin Franklin: " To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals " ( the man was very smart guy ).
Very smart indeed, though not an actual 'beanpole," as I recall. 
Oct 24, 2015
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#1427
Thanks for the post Motherinlaw. Good point, mind you most drawings of him are from later in his life ( I'm also not as trim as I was 20 or 30 years ago lol ).
Oct 25, 2015
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#1428
Today we have a quote from Ogden Nash: " Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long. "
Oct 25, 2015
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#1429
Julius Caesar to Marc Antony:
Let me have men about me that are fat,
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights.
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.
Oct 25, 2015
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#1430
Oct 26, 2015
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#1431
Thanks for the posts JamieDelarosa. I'm not very good at quoting the one and only Mister WS but I do remember something like: " All the World is but a stage and we be merely players " ( or something like that lol ).
Oct 26, 2015
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#1432
badenwurtca wrote:
Thanks for the posts JamieDelarosa. I'm not very good at quoting the one and only Mister WS but I do remember something like: " All the World is but a stage and we be merely players " ( or something like that lol ).
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.
Oct 27, 2015
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#1433
badenwurtca wrote:
The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills and wills ( from Richard J Needham ). --- Thanks for the info JamieDelarosa. Oddly enough we have a list of 7 items from a previous post of a couple of week ago lol.
Oct 30, 2015
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#1434
Another gem from the late great WC Fields: " A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her. "
Nov 1, 2015
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#1435
badenwurtca wrote:
Another gem from the late great WC Fields: " A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her. "
Love it! ;-D
Nov 1, 2015
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#1436
motherinlaw wrote:
badenwurtca wrote:
Another gem from the late great WC Fields: " A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her. "
Love it! ;-D --- Yes Mr Fields could come up with some good ones. Thanks for the post.
Nov 1, 2015
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#1437
HueyWilliams wrote:
badenwurtca wrote:
I'm not very good at quoting the one and only Mister WS ...
I thought you meant Steinitz! --- Ah yes the one and only Wilhelm Steinitz, born back in 1836 in the city of Prague which was then part of the Austrian Empire. Yes those sneaky Austrians used to have their own little empire on the go. Thanks for the post.
THE man who find out THE chess is à genius
Nov 1, 2015
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#1439
Thanks for the new posts. Way back when Persia was Persia a poet named Hafez once said: " The pleasures of the joyful heart hang by a single, silken thread ". Good point, things can change fast.
My dog's dad's sister's owner's parrot's cat's lion's feet's mustard's potatoes' mangos' cousin's brother's sofa's tv's weight watcher's bannana's panties married a ten year old girl. So that 90 year old man could have married that 18 year old girl.
--- Thanks for the post Chatur64.
One very funny guy from the old days was Henny Youngman, eg: " Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays; I go Fridays. " ( that's our Henny ! ).