I'm only going to 'splain this once...

Is it really your birthday, today, Mike L?

I'm an old duffer too.
I've got an Old Timer similar to that one, but a two blade.

munk
 
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I thought this was and old timer?:confused:

Jake
 
No, it's not my birthday...
I did this 'cause some fellow called me an old timer in my thread about expecting my first grand child.
Being the delicate and sensitive guy that I am ;) , I of course took offense.
So, I wanted to illustrate the difference between myself and a true old timer in such a way that even the most intellectually challenged amongst us could grasp.

My real birthday is coming up in June, I will be 39 again...send khukuries!

Mike L.
 
, it's not my birthday...
I did this 'cause some fellow called me an old timer in my thread about expecting my first grand child.
Being the delicate and sensitive guy that I am , I of course took offense.
So, I wanted to illustrate the difference between myself and a true old timer in such a way that even the most intellectually challenged amongst us could grasp >>> Mike L

Well, I'm intellectually challenged, and this is my birthday. The 50.
Damn. Was I supposed to report somewhere to be shot and made into dogfood?

My wife gave me a birthday card- of a crying baby!


munk
 
Wow! Happy Birthday munk! Sorry it's belated...
 
I never mentioned my B day before this....50 just seemed like I ought to say something.
Here I was babbling about owning an Old Timer Knife...I was lost on a culdesac, not germane to the point, just like the old timer I now am. I even thought about erasing my posts, those signs of mental confustion: but why? Here I am in my natural glory...er....something.....at very early hours..awake fifty and one day.

Wish Rusty was here. He'd have had something 'cute' about being 5 0.


munk
 
Happy belated birthday Munk, and hey don't feel bad. Fifty is the new thirty I hear. LOL
 
aproy1101 said:
Happy belated birthday Munk, and hey don't feel bad. Fifty is the new thirty I hear. LOL
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And 30 is the new 17. If i ever find out who that guys that keeps doing donuts in my lawn with his minivan...

Damn yoos kids! with your economy cars and your PTA meetings and your stiff backs you blame on football injuries!;)

Jake
 
youth is wasted on the young, only us old farts have the experience and the money to enjoy it. one of god's jokes i guess.
 
kronckew said:
youth is wasted on the young, only us old farts have the experience and the money to enjoy it. one of god's jokes i guess.
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My Grandpa, who passed away 2 years ago today at 93, always said that we had the system backwards. Society should financially support the youth and let them travel the world extensively and do what they want until mid 40's or 50 and then put them to work for the rest of their lives.

He said it was important to enjoy life while the body was still able to. After all, no one ever wished they had spent more time at the office when they are on their deathbed. He was one of the head forest rangers in Alaska in the early 30's and he wanted to go back and see it one more time in his 80's, but his body just wasn't up to it anymore. Mom and I went up for three weeks after he died with his journals and retraced all the steps he had taken. We stopped in one little town, where the general store is also the town museum, I think it was Hope or something like that. Anyways, they had pictures of the founding members of the town and we had entries in his journal about going to dinner with them. It was very cool.


BTW Munk, now that your 50 it's time to get to work. Playtime's over! :D
 
For the young folks here, a bit of advice. The best way to stay young is to stay active, and the best way to stay active is to keep yourself fit. When you quit doing the things you enjoy, you quit enjoying the things you do. The fastest way to get old is to sit around and wait for it to happen. If you do, it will.

Sarge
 
Sarge just said it. You have to place yourself, exert forward. You can't passively wait for help to arrive. If you aren't moving forward, you're the intellectual equivalent of stagant water. You must try. Doesn't matter if the blade you forge isn't as smooth as Johnny Cock O Tho Walk Of The Face Of The Sun; what mattered were the steps, the hammered blows along the way.

The older I get the more I reassert this simple formula- try.

munk
 
Sylvrfalcn said:
For the young folks here, a bit of advice. The best way to stay young is to stay active, and the best way to stay active is to keep yourself fit. When you quit doing the things you enjoy, you quit enjoying the things you do. The fastest way to get old is to sit around and wait for it to happen. If you do, it will.

Sarge
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yup, thats kinda what i was jokingly tryin' to say, us old farts have to do all the things we never had a chance to do when we were young and foolish, i've already done all my young & foolish stuff, time to do all the stuf i never had time for before, and before the body is no longer capable. i've got a few good years left yet. use it or lose it.
 
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