What's so great about being 50?
- IDAwHOa
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What's so great about being 50?
Not that I am or anything, but I am getting close.
PERKS OF BEING OVER 50
1. Kidnappers are not very interested in you.
2. In a hostage situation you are likely to be released first
3. No one expects you to run--anywhere.
4. People call at 9 pm and ask, " Did I wake you?"
5. People no longer view you as a hypochondriac.
6. There is nothing left to learn the hard way.
7. Things you buy now won't wear out.
8. You can eat dinner at 4 pm.
9. You can live without sex but not your glasses.
10. You enjoy hearing about other people's operations.
11. You get into heated arguments about pension plans.
12. You no longer think of speed limits as a challenge.
13. You quit trying to hold your stomach in no matter who walks into the room.
14. You sing along with elevator music.
15. Your eyes won't get much worse.
16. Your investment in health insurance is finally beginning to pay off.
17. Your joints are more accurate meteorologists than the national weather service.
18. Your secrets are safe with your friends because they can't remember them either.
19. Your supply of brain cells is finally down to manageable size.
20. You can't remember who sent you this list.
And you notice this was typed in Big Print for your convenience.
PERKS OF BEING OVER 50
1. Kidnappers are not very interested in you.
2. In a hostage situation you are likely to be released first
3. No one expects you to run--anywhere.
4. People call at 9 pm and ask, " Did I wake you?"
5. People no longer view you as a hypochondriac.
6. There is nothing left to learn the hard way.
7. Things you buy now won't wear out.
8. You can eat dinner at 4 pm.
9. You can live without sex but not your glasses.
10. You enjoy hearing about other people's operations.
11. You get into heated arguments about pension plans.
12. You no longer think of speed limits as a challenge.
13. You quit trying to hold your stomach in no matter who walks into the room.
14. You sing along with elevator music.
15. Your eyes won't get much worse.
16. Your investment in health insurance is finally beginning to pay off.
17. Your joints are more accurate meteorologists than the national weather service.
18. Your secrets are safe with your friends because they can't remember them either.
19. Your supply of brain cells is finally down to manageable size.
20. You can't remember who sent you this list.
And you notice this was typed in Big Print for your convenience.
Steven - IDAwHOa - Wood Rocks
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One of the nice things about turning 50 is that those 19- and 20-year-old girls, to whom you became invisible when you turned 30, now can see you again, and they open doors for you and call you "sir."
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50 is the point at which it becomes pretty much impossible to argue that you're still got most of your life ahead of you. That's sort of a daunting realization and coming to grips with it is a bit of a challenge. I like to think of it as cresting a hill. Getting to th top was hard. Now that I'm going down the other side, I burn a littel less fuel. I can coast a bit when I want to. The view is much better because I can see much further into to the distance. Enjoy.
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At my age 50 sounds pretty good. Actually, the time between about 41 to 55 or so was the best since junior high school.
It strikes me that those of us of the older persuasion are about the last group for which it is politically correct to make statements like this
19. Your supply of brain cells is finally down to manageable size.
It strikes me that those of us of the older persuasion are about the last group for which it is politically correct to make statements like this
19. Your supply of brain cells is finally down to manageable size.
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Being over 50 is superb. You can drink red wine all night and every night and get a big belly, but still delude yourself into thinking that young nubile women (max. age 27) will still be magnetically attracted to you, not because of your figure but because of your brain and because of all the tenderness and experience you could endow upon them. If only they could see it...
"Last night, among his fellow roughs,
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
Steve that may be only if you dring red wine all night...SteveShaw wrote:Being over 50 is superb. You can drink red wine all night and every night and get a big belly, but still delude yourself into thinking that young nubile women (max. age 27) will still be magnetically attracted to you, not because of your figure but because of your brain and because of all the tenderness and experience you could endow upon them. If only they could see it...
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Now, Denny, you are getting your species confused here. Try to separate the sheep from the goats, willya?Denny wrote:Lambchop wrote:I am six.
ya don't look it kid
"Last night, among his fellow roughs,
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!