Chess for Oldtimers --- Good Idea !

Hi badenwurtca,

There are always a couple of critically acclaimed shows in every decade on commercial TV, or one would hope.  As late as the mid 1970s through the early 1980s there was Barney Miller.  In the early 1990s there was Northern Exposure.   Today, however, perhaps due to my age, I only enjoy Doc Martin, a Cornish variation on Northern Exposure, and reruns of Red/Green, both on public television, and classic films without commercial interruption on Turner Classic Movies.  Most of the time I'd rather read or watch my boxed DVD sets of old TV shows such as The Twilight Zone or Gunsmoke or some other series where TV writers knew how to spin a tale that isn't a string of one-liners.

Regarding sports, I do enjoy the NFL and at times MLB when I turn down the volume on the motormouth broadcasters and zoom through the loud, noisy, interminably in-your-face commercials with my DVR.  To show you how old I am, I look back with fondness to the more relaxed days of Dizzy Dean and Pee Wee Reese announcing The Game of the Week on NBC.

Anyway, I think you can now stream the NFL and MLB online for a fee, so who needs cable or satellite.  Both of these methods of telecommunications are going to have to adapt and offer customers something different or they'll be dead; perhaps they already are to youth who grew up with the Internet.

Best,
Bob

Thanks for the post Fightingbob. On the sports front I'm not too far outside Edmonton, Alberta so I do get to hear most of the NHL Oiler hockey games on the radio ( Edmonton is leading Dallas in the game that is going on right now   lol ).  

I enjoy watching hockey as well, preferably in person, badenwurtca.  Oh I almost forgot, I like to watch well played pool (as in pocket billiards) matches.  I get a great thrill seeing first-rate snooker and 3-cushion players ply their trade too.  Like chess or a nice looking woman, it must have something to do with geometry.

Thanks for the post Fightingbob. I guess one reason that I've come to like listening to the Hockey games on the radio is that I can still do other things at the same time ( such as playing around on the internet ). If I had the games on TV then I would most likely be sitting and watching the activities.

I recently saw a cute item about driving: As a senior citizen was driving down the freeway, his car phone rang. Answering, he heard his wife's voice urgently warning him, " Henry, I just heard on the news that there's a car going the wrong way on 280. Please be careful ! " Henry said, " Hell, it's not just one car. It's hundreds of them ! "

i saw that firsthand one time and it wasn't as funny as your joke. anytime i see the scene in planes, trains, and automobiles where john candy is driving on the wrong side of the road i'm reminded of it (still a funny scene, though).

Now that one cracked me up, badenwurtca.  The exact wording of the punch line is laugh out loud perfect.  Thanks, you made my day.

Thanks for the posts.

AlCzervik:  Yes that was a very funny movie, I should watch it again soon.

Fightingbob: I'm glad you enjoyed that joke, I quite like it too.

Grins. Very funny badenwurtca.

Thanks for the post Pam234, glad you enjoyed that item. Mind you I'm not the best driver out there either.

Neiher am I. My daughter says I drive too slowly. She's is the one recently caught speeding doing 37mph in a 30 limit. So I just laugh and point this fact out to her! lol

Extra Points for a joke (posted by a man!) which makes fun of drivers who are not "women drivers!"  (Must note, though, in all honesty, re those clichés about women drivers and parallel parking & backing a car down a hill?  If anyone wants to examine that premise through scientific experimentation --- just don't include me in the subject pool, OK?)

I'll go in the subject pool MIL. I often drive long distances in heavy traffic to visit my sister often doing 8 hours behind the wheel in a day. I find it tiring but I do it confidently.

Thanks for the new posts.

An interesting thought from Harry Belafonte: " When I was forty and looking at sixty, it seemed like a thousand miles away. But sixty-two feels like a week and a half away from eighty. I must now get on with those things I always talked about doing but put off. "  

Each decade brings its joys. My 60s brought me  my 1st grandchild, 2 weeks ago.

Congratulations Pam, which just happens to be the name of my daughter, who gave me my first grandchild back in 1978. I was in my 40s. I was a child 'groom

Years ago, when I first checked out this site, I saw someone named "WannabeGM" and my first thought was "Oh, isn't that sweet?  She's just like me -- she wants to be a Grandmother, too!"  

(Then 5 years ago, I finally got to be a GM! and it's just as wonderful as I thought it would be ... "Grandmasters" eat your hearts out! 😊)