Post #70,541
12/23/02 5:11:04 PM
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Another year older... not sure about wiser.
Started the morning off with my wife playing "Touch of grey" (Greatful Dead) instead of the alarm clock, just before releasing the dogs to jump on the bed. Very rude, but I'm sure that I'm loved.
I have a theory that only birthdays that are divisible by 5 (maybe 10) are *really* traumatic. This on shouldn't be traumatic... still on the low numbers for fifth decade. Only lost one friend in the past year, but another just had a double mastectomy, and my wife's boss/friend has been diagosed as terminal.
I think I've got the holiday blues, don't care what G.Carlin has to say about it. Probably not a good idea to take any morbid posts from me to seriously. Of course the intelligent thing would be for me not to post until I loosen up a little. (I'll probably continue to lurk as I seem to have a plasma dot addiction...)
I hope to see you all around next year. Have a great end of year celebration.
Best regards,
Hugh
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Post #70,546
12/23/02 5:39:37 PM
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Happy birthday, Hugh!
Consider the alternative to not getting older. :) Well, actually you are considering and hence a bit down.
I've had some grey hairs since age 18 and what's left is now white! So cheer up, it could be worse!
Alex
"No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session."\t-- Mark Twain
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Post #70,548
12/23/02 5:40:13 PM
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Ya aint the only one...
Who's getting older... :)
Happy birthday.
From another in the lower numebers of the fifth decade.
How many decades does it take before we become decadent?
[link|mailto:jbrabeck@attbi.com|Joe]
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Post #70,549
12/23/02 5:43:24 PM
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Nice to see the LRPD addiction...
... I think.
Sometimes I wished I was a hobbit, not a human, and could reasonably expect to live just that little bit longer... :-)
Wade.
"Ah. One of the difficult questions."
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Post #70,550
12/23/02 5:47:21 PM
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Heh.. don't read the papers for a while.
(Had one a few days ago; forgot to notice if the moon was full or - it just seemed like it was)
Perhaps you are suffering from living within a 'pre-War Condition' - one of those times where it isn't a phrase described from hindsight, but current [?]
Schubert can help - talking heads blather seems to rub it in.
Cheers! then,
Ashton
When the rich assemble to concern themselves with the business of the poor, it is called Charity. When the poor assemble to concern themselves with the business of the rich, it is called Anarchy.
-Paul Richards
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Post #70,563
12/23/02 6:46:01 PM
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Full moon 2 or 3 days ago. I think.
"Ah. One of the difficult questions."
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Post #70,552
12/23/02 5:53:08 PM
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Happy birthday
I'm sure that you are loved as well. And continue to lurk - it is good to be reminded that there are friendly people out there. (Hopefully you consider us friendly people on the whole..)
Cheers,
Ben
"Career politicians are inherently untrustworthy; if it spends its life buzzing around the outhouse, it\ufffds probably a fly."
- [link|http://www.nationalinterest.org/issues/58/Mead.html|Walter Mead]
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Post #70,557
12/23/02 6:11:34 PM
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Happy Birthday!
Imric's Tips for Living- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Post #70,565
12/23/02 7:07:18 PM
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Happy Birthday
And to the rest of you - a very merry un-birthday! (Sorry, I just got Alice in Wonderland for my kid - its rather disturbing how many of the household's "in" jokes are now quotes from kids movies).
Low 50's. Funny, you don't read a day over 35. :-P
I am out of the country for the duration of the Bush administration.
Please leave a message and I'll get back to you when democracy returns.
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Post #70,965
12/26/02 4:49:46 PM
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Low 40s, the way I read it - the fifTH decade...
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Post #71,081
12/27/02 11:47:05 AM
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Nope, 52... oh well. Thanks, all
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Post #70,567
12/23/02 7:22:54 PM
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Happy Day!
And smack your wife for the Dead thing ;-)
You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! Laurie Anderson
[link|mailto:bepatient@aol.com|BePatient]
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Post #70,665
12/24/02 10:56:56 AM
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Happy B'day, Hugh...
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Post #70,672
12/24/02 11:16:14 AM
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just ignore the old fart in the mirror(what I do)HBD
will work for cash and other incentives [link|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html|skill set]
You think that you can trust the government to look after your rights? ask an Indian
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Post #70,684
12/24/02 12:05:13 PM
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Happy Birthday! (and holidays, too :-))
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Steve
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