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Topic: Old Proggers Corner
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Subject: Old Proggers Corner
Date Posted: May 19 2004 at 14:01
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I hurt my back.... again. I was moving my daughters stuff to a new apartment (Flat) and tweaked my lower back yet again. Seems like the older I get the harder it is to heal. Ibuprofen, ice and Bio-freeze..... Sheesh...... It even hurts to sit at the computer.... need more pain killers (Sam Adams?). Daytime TV sucks and I can only read for so long or it's zzzzzzzz. What about you other old progholes? What's your "Pain of Aging?" Alimony sucks...... |
. At least I don't have Garten's diseaseReplies:
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: May 19 2004 at 14:13
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What about hair loss, oh cranially-denuded one? I picked the bike one, though Harley My accountant (ie, wife) has okayed a bike for next year, though. Now, if only I could justify more new cds and stereo equipment....
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would be my 6th or 7th choice of bike manufacturers.
Aging beats the alternative though, and you take your friends with you, too!Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: May 19 2004 at 15:59
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I picked the Harley for the same reason - but would prefer a Bonnie or a Beezer if there's one going... Hair loss is definitely my least favourite bit - went to Reading festy last year and wore a baseball cap to try to look cool. Man, did I feel a dweeb. |
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: May 19 2004 at 16:11
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Sorry, I should have left the bike of choice to the old cat. Just picked up a prescription for Carisoprodol (Generic for SOMA). Crikey, I'm Spinnnnnnniingg.... And listening to Echolyn, yeah!!!! http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001"> I probably missed some other choice maladies. Got my own choppers, still and I haven't suffered from hemorrhoids either (English Professor's disease). Did I spell that write? Hmmm. So far I've had a hernia surgery, two Ulnar nerve transpositions (Both Elbows) and a penis reduction (kept getting stuck in the shoe laces) and various work related stitches, abrasions and stuff. No STD's to speak of, grew up a good Catholic boy, although I got fired from the altar boys (Thank God, the priest never got me) for sneaking a bit o' Sacramental wine. I do have the ex-from-hell. $900.00 a month still after seven years, "bitch." Any younguns reading this "STAY SINGLE" until you are thirty something or are deemed terminal or marry an orphan with no siblings. BTW, Petey, I'll ignore your folically challenged remark, my wife thinks it zzzexxxy. http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001"> Once you get the bike..... PCH is THE trek of choice by most afficionados. I know some great places for a bite and a tasty quaff of ale!!!
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Posted By: Joren
Date Posted: May 19 2004 at 16:34
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I know I'm not that old, but young girls look at you like I'm a perv.
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Posted By: Fitzcarraldo
Date Posted: May 19 2004 at 17:40
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danbo, You missed out 'flatulence'! My sympathies re the back pain - I'm recovering from my second slipped disc and after 6 months am still suffering. Take care what you lift, because when a disc really goes, boy you've never felt pain like it! And get a decent chair with good lumbar support for sitting at your PC. I wish I'd done that years ago. |
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: May 19 2004 at 18:18
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Thanks for the sympathy, but "flatulence?" Egad, man, I never thought of that as a problem, just a by-product of a good beer and a diet high in veggies. http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001"> http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb037"> |
Betcha Jim clears the dance-floor on occasion!!! Whew, get down and Funky....Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: May 19 2004 at 22:47
Ah yes, the regrettably ubiquitous ball cap -- the poor man's toupee. PS: All you under 30s -- I have discovered that -- believe it or not -- baseball caps can actually be removed when indoors! At my kid's recent school assembly, many of the older dads didn't even remove their redneck toupees for the national anthem! (The younguns, having been dragged up, as opposed to brought up, sadly know no better.) Yes, basic manners and class are fast-disappearing things -- witness the recent nasty posts by the (presumably) young newbies in the "Best Prog Band" thread. Makes me want to quit this Forum, as a "law of the jungle, kill or be killed" sub-moronic mentality takes over....
(I hope those guys are teens -- if they are grown men, they should be doubly ashamed!) Backgammon and Private Messages (or just email) anyone? ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
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Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: May 20 2004 at 00:21
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Backgammon, Yeah!!!! Pete, weese gonna have us some fuuuun when we finally meet. Or is that Meat? Hmmmmm "St. Pauli Girl" too much like Hienni...
Love Backgammon Petey, sh*t, guess I'll have to e-mail yer ass!!!! Soma and St. Pauli Girl...... Who are you...... Hey, get your hands off . . . . Ouch, no needles, Bwitch. . . . Hey, I'm a progger..... Hey.... Not
now/// Sheesh, Pete....Jim . . . . . Help.....
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Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: May 20 2004 at 01:21
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I'm not so old (39), but 15 years ago I was at the gym working with pulleys and the cable that carried the weight for my left arm broke, leaving all the weight (90 Kgms.) on my right arm. When still at my 20's I had no problem and continued working out (stupid of me), but when I reached the late 30's my back started to kill me, specially in winter, the doctor said it is caused by that accident and age, if I add that pain to a pitcher's elbow (also thanks to that same accident), growing old is a pain in the a$$ or most exactly in the arm and back. Iván |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: May 20 2004 at 03:16
Now there's the game!! I have to admit I'm something of a Diva at the ol' backgammon myself - "when shall we three meet........." Chess, anyone? I shall get back to the main thrust of this thread as soon as I can list ALL the ailments lined up against me. ------------- 
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Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: May 20 2004 at 03:46
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Well I´ve had both Penis reduction and braincell suction but alas both failed horribly Haven´t got the Jim disease yet, but it´s just around the corner ------------- Billy Connolly Dream Theater Terry Gilliam Hagen Quartet Jethro Tull Mike Keneally |
Posted By: dude
Date Posted: May 20 2004 at 07:05
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AT 36 AND WITH 18 YEARS OF MARTIAL ARTS TRAINING I AM ACTUALLY QUITE FIT BUT I AM KIDDING MYSELF IF I THINK I CAN PULL IN THE TWENTY YEAR OLD GIRLS STAYING UP LATE IS MY PROBLEM(THAT AND A LOUSY LOVE LIFE I STILL HAVE ALL MY HAIR BUT ITS GREY NOW |
Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: May 20 2004 at 07:25
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Got all my hair and It´s also GREY Let´s dye it purple Dude ------------- Billy Connolly Dream Theater Terry Gilliam Hagen Quartet Jethro Tull Mike Keneally |
Posted By: dude
Date Posted: May 20 2004 at 07:35
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PURPLE AND GREEN..LETS MAKE A STATEMENT!!!!!
AND THAT STATEMENT WOULD PROBABLY BE..."LOOK AT THOSE TWO OLD FARTS!!!" |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: May 20 2004 at 07:35
At the tender age of 36, with approx 1 year's martial arts training (that has nothing to do with it, just thought I'd mention it...), I met my current partner - a week after her 18th birthday... I won't say how many years we've been together as that'd be a giveaway - all I'll say is Don't give up hope - age is NOT a barrier!!! Remember - you're as young as the person you feel. Phwoar!!!!
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Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: May 20 2004 at 07:40
 Dude------------- Billy Connolly Dream Theater Terry Gilliam Hagen Quartet Jethro Tull Mike Keneally |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: May 20 2004 at 07:42
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Right!
Age! I'm 41 now & the problems are (in no particular order) 1 - Jiggling! Don't get me wrong, I'm by no meants fat, but when running up stairs, where all used to be firm, there are now disturbing ripples & vibrations. 2 - Mirrors! In the early morning, there is a strange middle aged man shaving in my mirror; I don't know who he is, where he came from, or what he did with the youngster who used to be in there (mind you, he is damned handsome) 3 - Stamina! Again, I'm not a porker, but 14 years of nicotine has taken its toll; as many of you know (and laugh derisively at), I love psy-trance clubs & will happily dance from 10:00pm to 6:30am - however, some of this time has to be spent in the 'chill out' area, basically getting my breath back - as my friends say - "Jim's had to come up for air again"; mayhap time to knock the ciggies on the head & spend more time cycling. 4 - Young People! Baseball caps, monosyllabic sentences, slovenlyness, arrogance, mobile phone dependency, general ignorance, their mistaken assumption they all come from South Central L.A., appalling music...... And that's just Joren! 
5 - Weight! Lets just say one has to be careful, or those saddle bags begin to appear...... 6 - Old People! - Whether you admit it or not, they still bug the hell out of you....... all the time. However, now you're getting closer to their age, your belt is rising, and will soon be nearer your armpits than your waist, you WILL begin to wear more layers, you WILL precede most of your sentences with "in my day....." (that's right - intolerance has now turned to fear of the inevitable!) Having said the above, I luckily have no problems whatever with back-pain, poor eyesight, THAT disease which seems to bear my name (thanks, Danbo - dont you find policemen are looking younger these days?? Present company excepted, of course) , young girls looking at me as if I'm a perv (they just see a middle aged married man  ), my wife sounding like nyah, nyah, nyah (sorry guys, I'm very happily married) - and as for flatulence..... Hey, we're getting old! We're supposed to smell like a compost heap! It's in the contract!
So, guys, all in all, age is better than the alternative - and if we weren't 'of a certain age', we might think that Progressive Rock began with Pallas (and how bad would that be?). We can: Impart wisdom Bestow knowledge Offer advice Offer reasoned debate And break wind at will!! Wear your age with pride! WRINKLE POWER!! Now, where are my slippers & pipe?Nurse! Nurse! Nurse!!! NURSE!!! Never mind.....too late! -------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: May 20 2004 at 07:46
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Me ? well I´m not young enough to know everything. I was born on a cold March morning back in 1952, yes 1952, not 1852 and then again 2 weeks later.I´ve been a Clown and an rabid Amateur Gynocologist for years. ------------- Billy Connolly Dream Theater Terry Gilliam Hagen Quartet Jethro Tull Mike Keneally |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: May 20 2004 at 07:51
But old enough to know better -------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: May 20 2004 at 07:52
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I Wish Jim I Wish ------------- Billy Connolly Dream Theater Terry Gilliam Hagen Quartet Jethro Tull Mike Keneally |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: May 20 2004 at 15:30
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^ I'm okay now, by the way. I needed my twice-daily crusty-curmudgeonly rant! (At my advanced, drooling and doddering age, it's good to be able to do at least something twice daily!) Welcome, young "newbies!" Write enough posts and you'll lose the somewhat-less-than-flattering appellation! (No, Danbo, "appellation" is not a reference to your inbred hillbilly heritage -- look it up!) ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: May 20 2004 at 16:04
Baiting me again, Petey? Or should I say Professor Petey? Mom said if you keep up the baiting you'll have to wear glasses. Holy Shiite Batman, I forgot to add CRS to the list, go figure...
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Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: May 21 2004 at 03:09
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So we are too nice in here eh ????
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Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: May 21 2004 at 03:15
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: May 21 2004 at 06:58
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Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: dude
Date Posted: May 22 2004 at 01:57
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HMMM DANBO,JIM,VELVE,PETER ETc......YEP! THE(VERY) old GANGS ALL HERE! ANYWAY....HARD!!?.....HARD!!?...YOUNG PEOPLE TODAY DONT KNOW THE MEANING OF THE WORD.WHY IN OUR DAY WE DIDNT HAVE THINGS LIKE CDS OR DVDS,WHY WE HAD TO MAKE OUR OWN ALBUMS!!!!!! WE HAD TO DRAG THE EQUIPMENT TO THE CONCERTS,RECORD, THEN MIX THE ALBUM OURSELVES WE DIDNT HAVE ANY OF THESE NEW FANGLED "RECORDING STUDIOS"!!!! ALSO WE DIDNT HAVE TRANSPORT OR CARS EITHER, WHY I HAD TO WALK 15 miles TO SCHOOL EVERY DAY THROUGH BLINDING SNOWSTORMS IN THE MIDDLE OF SUMMER, FIGHTING OF DINOSAURS AND SABERTOOTH TIGERS!!!! YOU TRY TELLING THAT TO YOUNG PEOPLE TODAY AND THEY WONT BELEIVE YOU!!! DISCIPLINE THATS WHAT THEY NEED!!
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Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: May 22 2004 at 02:31
Well I was lucky, my father gave me a kerosene record player on my 30th birthday. But I always hated to have to fight those Dinos every single day, just to be able to attend The Gutter University. ------------- Billy Connolly Dream Theater Terry Gilliam Hagen Quartet Jethro Tull Mike Keneally |
Posted By: dude
Date Posted: May 22 2004 at 02:39
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KEROSENE!!! WHY IN MY DAY WE HAD TO HAND CRANK OUR TURNTABLES!!!! BUT THOSE DINOS WERE REAL PESTS THOUGH
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Posted By: Stormcrow
Date Posted: May 22 2004 at 04:01
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Ha! Dinosaurs. Ha, I say! You ought to have had to try to keep the trilobites and brachiosaurs out of your Edison cylinder collection! Now THOSE were tough times! Snowstorms. Fooey! We had to walk to school barefoot everyday through freshly broken glass and discarded razor blades. Uphill. Both ways. And the summers! It was so bad that we couldn't fend of the hordes of Indians because our lead bullets kept melting in the summer heat. We moved from Kansas to Wyoming and back twice in one week just from tornadoes! The wind blew so hard that one chicken laid the same egg three times! You young whipper-snappers had it easy! |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: May 22 2004 at 09:36
You were LUCKY!!! You didn't have to keep feeding 7 dozen parrots, or keep them trained so that they remembered exactly which note to squawk at the right point in the music. If they forgot, you had to stand behind them and pull out a tail feather or two. Shovelling all those parrot droppings was a nightmare, I can tell you. Walking on razor blades and glass? LUXURY!!! We had to wade through lakes of raw sewage and sulphuric acid - and swim through the deep bits. Uphill. Once we'd swam across each lake, we had to shovel it all using collanders and pitchforks into small paper bags and move it 5 miles to the top of the nearest mountain. And the summers!!! The tar on the roads boiled and bubbled as we pulled the sledges of parrots from gig to gig. Wheels hadn't been invented back then. I can tell you that the sabre-toothed tigers and woolly mammoths were a real hindrance, as we only had spears woven out of the hair from our heads. Of course, back then, all the continents were joined together, so Kansas to Wyoming was a day-trip for us. We did Newfoundland to Sydney as a matter of course - every morning before breakfast. If we could catch it. Weather back then was real weather; I remember a hurricane so violent that I passed my cave three times on successive gusts that each blew me the entire circumference of the earth. It made one of my parrots lay a pterodactyl egg. Fried. Sunny side up. And you tell the kids nowadays - and they just don't believe you... |
Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: May 22 2004 at 10:19
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But you know, we were happy in those days.
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Posted By: John Hicks
Date Posted: May 25 2004 at 13:15
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I can't see too well in my left eye which has gotten worse since the 1990s. My hearing is OK and I could lose about 20 lbs and exercise more, overwise I'm relatively healthy. ------------- _____________________________ |
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: May 25 2004 at 18:25
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Too bad about the eye, Lefty. One thing I noticed about the weight, If I get too light (190 or less) I have a hard time slammin' dirt bags to the floor. I'm not in bad shape, but a little beef helps in my profession. Since my double elbow surgeries, I've lacked the motivation to run. I do ride a bike, but not often enough to get a good burn going. My main aerobic activity is 12 oz. curls. MMMmmmm, good. |
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: October 21 2004 at 00:04
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Hey we got a buncha new old guys and gals....
Check it! |
Posted By: gdub411
Date Posted: October 21 2004 at 00:10
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I used to get so much sex...and that was just 5-7 years ago...it gets pretty dry now..even if I could get it I am too unmotivated to bother...instead I'm here talking to you geezers Getting old sucks!!!!!! |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: October 21 2004 at 03:30
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gdub, your posting leaves you wide open (now there's a mental picture I don't need), to crude responses....
"it gets pretty dry now.........." Don't think about it, Jim, just don't think about it
"Getting old sucks"
Resist, man, resist! You naughty old 'other team player' you! -------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: October 21 2004 at 03:49
| Return of the chutney ferrets? |
Posted By: Petra
Date Posted: October 21 2004 at 06:20
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Good Grief!!! I voted for weight control ------------- Don't hate me I'm not special like you |
Posted By: sigod
Date Posted: October 21 2004 at 06:35
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This is a very funny thread indeed I nearly split my sides a couple of times I was laughting so much. Oh, and Policemen look too young now too... ------------- I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. - Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: October 21 2004 at 07:05
Now, let's not get silly! -------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Reed Lover
Date Posted: October 21 2004 at 07:11
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As Maurice Chevalier once said: no not "thank heaven's for little girls"-you'll get Danbo on my case! "I prefer old age to the alternative!" Greg sorry to see that old age has left you....
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Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: October 21 2004 at 08:12
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Give up drinking ???????????? No Way !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted By: threefates
Date Posted: October 21 2004 at 10:10
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Actually I'm feeling pretty perky these days.... I see a young Irish guy when I need the exercise.. (he's just off the boat however, and sometimes I need a translator) I can still pull a rock star... of course now they're asking me to help them to the bus.. .cause they're too old to do it themselves.... but its not a bad time at all....
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Posted By: Petra
Date Posted: October 21 2004 at 10:15
A young Irish guy for exercise!!! ------------- Don't hate me I'm not special like you |
Posted By: penguindf12
Date Posted: October 21 2004 at 12:41
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I really can't post anything here, but I am anyway. |
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: October 21 2004 at 13:26
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Come on, Pengy, #3 probably applies..... otherwise you'd be slappin' booty instead of posting in this forum. |