Chess for Oldtimers --- Good Idea !

Here's a nice one:  "Oh, well, too bad, but that's how it goes ... if it's not one thing, it's your mother..."

Thanks for the nice new posts, I'm very happy when people take the time to leave messages in these threads. 

A cute item from William Durant: " Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you are going to do now and do it ".

Great idea! -- so now, all I have to do is remember what it was I was supposed to remember to do now.  At least I won't have any problem with that whole "forgetting" business, because it seems like I'm already really good at that.  

Thanks for the post Motherinlaw. I forgot a lot of things when I was young, maybe I'll go in the other direction as I get older ? 

Here's my favorite line about FS's -- it's from an old Jonathan Katz's standup routine:

"I was having dinner with my parents the other night, and I had a Freudian Slip.  What I Meant to say to my father was 'Will you please pass the butter?' but what I Actually said was 'You S.O.B., you've ruined my life!"

What is a Freudian slip???

well ..that is where you say one thing and you mean a MOTHER!!!!

Max

I guess if I said you missed my post #1503 above, that would be an example of a pundit's constructivism.  

Hey, I just thought of what would have been good title for an Isaac Asimov book about linguistics:  "I, Pundit!"

Thanks for the new posts.   ---   A quote from Robert Quillen: " As we got older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes get longer. " ( yup I'm in that group ).   

Another cute item on getting older: " How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young -- or slender " ( Thanks to Williams James ).

        Re the OP's earlier remarks about suddenly making "boneheaded moves", the consensus seems to be that concentration is one thing that weakens with age.

I couldn't agree more!  Just the other day, I was talking with a friend about getting older, and I said ... something.  At least I'm pretty sure I did. 

Thanks a lot for the new posts. Reminds me of the old " Who's On First " routine. A newer version of that gag was done some years ago by Johnny Carson, quite funny. 

Well it's a quiet Sunday here and I'm being a bad boy again. Just had a nice strong Irish Coffee ( Using Southern Comfort ) and now I'm smoking a good Cigar.

Mind you I've got a minor problem with elevated blood pressure but what the hey nobody stays on this planet forever  lol.

Thanks for the post Sir. Funny you should say that, sometimes I wonder about all of the BS that a person has to put up with on this planet ( mind you at least I've got enough to eat, a bit too much perhaps  lol ).  

Thanks, HueyWilliams!  I'm going to cross-stitch this on a pillow:

When doctors try to foist on us 

Their regimens so rigorous,

I think "Were this the portal to gaining life immortal,

I might agree to try it.  It's not, so I won't buy it.

Since we've all got to drop someday, why not have some fun along the way?"

(Hmm ... it's a little long for a pillow, and I don't like cross-stitching anyway, so I'll just memorize it.) 

Thanks for the new posts.

HueyWilliams and AC; Yes that is very true. As it happens a fellow that I know in this area has recently been diagnosed with multiple-sclorosis. That is something I wouldn't wish on anyone, the poor fellow is several years younger than me. One never knows when the crapola is going to hit the fan.   

Motherinlaw; That does seem to make an interesting poem. Unless we apply to go on the soon to be launched one-way trip to Mars we are all stuck on this little planet all the days of our lives. So let us have a bit of fun while we are here. Btw, Re the people going to Mars. Since we are getting close to X-mas, does Santa visit Mars too ? That would be quite the trip for the old fellow  lol.