Chess For Oldtimers --- Part II

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A cute quote from the writer Garrison Keillor: " They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by a few days. "

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A quote from writer Dick Sharples: " Death is just nature's way of telling you to slow down. " 

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You can remember turning on the tube to watch a football game, and they actually showed you a football game. Not a rock concert, undressed women, or drunken idiots in the end zone seats. Just a football game. Maybe a marching band or two. 

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Thanks for the posts.

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Good advice from  the late Harry S Truman ( President ): " Never kick s fresh turd on a hot day ". 

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A cute item for the golfers: " You've got a 28 handicap and an $ 8,000 set of clubs. 

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Up here in this area we have a little newspaper that is published  for seniors. Sometimes they will print a funny item: " If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old " ( quoted from Edger Watson Howe ). 

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A quote from Ambrose Bierce ( Satirist ): " Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate. " 

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From Comedian George Burns: " I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it: at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere ( I have heard that line quoted from other people ? ).

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Say good night Gracie.

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Wits-end wrote:

Say good night Gracie.

   ---   Yes the late George had a Sit-com on black & white TV way way way back in the early 1950's, one of the earliest Sit-coms ( Gracie was his wife ).

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A quote from Arnold Glasow: " Find an aim in life before you run out of ammunition. "  

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A funny and cute quote from Fred Allen: " I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me ".

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We are getting older because it takes an hour to compose and send a text message on the darn cell- phone, 

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When twentysomethings talk about hooking up, you think they are getting cable TV.

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   ---   When asked for advice nowadays, you have a tendency to chuckle.

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You have a specific chair you sit in to eat, and no one else had better sit there  lol.

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andreaspin wrote:
I mean camon man

   ---   What the heck does that mean ???

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No info yet  lol.

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You bought a book you think you've read before. After rereading the whole thing , you're still not sure  lol.