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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: sax on November 12, 2007, 07:13:42 PM
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rest of yas shud be in bed cause it's late .
betting money we could start a squad with less than 30 active players .
10 hrs a tour minimum
19 dollars Yankee by the way .
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I am
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Uh huh....okay, whats the catch? make it 18.50 and you got a deal. Need the other .50 fo my Vitamins.
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Originally posted by sax
rest of yas shud be in bed cause it's late .
betting money we could start a squad
name it "+50Babyboomers BZers ",:)
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whats the matter, you guys dont get a senior discount?
3 more years...
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Originally posted by Airscrew
whats the matter, you guys dont get a senior discount?
3 more years...
that wud be lazs who shud get that .
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heheh I would love to go back to 50 it seems like only 14 years ago :)
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55.
As Dipsy would say: "Do I get a prize?"
- oldman
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I already fly with a bunch of geriatrics...The Flying Circus :)
We got guys like Hajo that cant remember that far back.
shamus
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54, I feel like a youngster compaired to those two ^
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Last time I remembered I was 39.
That was in 1989 :aok
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Greetings,
Time for the poke and prod - argh. I now qualify for this club of 'gentlemen'.
Regards,
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:eek: Jeez you guys are old.
I got another 10 1/2 months before I qualify :D
asw
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Im 50 and must be the kid in the group.:confused:
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50 years young and every day is better than yesterday!
BTW, It won't be too long and you youngsters get to start supporting us older folk with your social security contributions.
:cool:
Jim one-eye
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What did he say? Ehhhhh?
Speak up sonny.
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52 overhere, and counting....eehhh.......mhh.. .....missed one count.........; again :confused:
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yup 1957 here
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Over 50 here :)
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55 here, tied with oldman.
Where is Vilkas when you need him, think he trumps everyone.
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my father is 55!
young a flexibly yours,
bat
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fit-tee-tree here
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slipshod I figured you to be a younger person
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Originally posted by Shamus
I already fly with a bunch of geriatrics...The Flying Circus :)
We got guys like Hajo that cant remember that far back.
shamus
Think I'm OLDER than Hajo :D 55 1/2
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ermm....I guess I qualify for this group...
Hey, what were we talking about again? :confused:
Joker
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Originally posted by storch
slipshod I figured you to be a younger person
Funny .. I figured you to be older ... like in "crotchy old" ... ;)
1954 ... so now are you going to "respect" your elders ?
:aok
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Originally posted by SlapShot
Funny .. I figured you to be older ... like in "crotchy old" ... ;)
1954 ... so now are you going to "respect" your elders ?
:aok
why would I start now?
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Birthday Oct 5,1944 - let's see, hmmm, carry the 4 - just celebrated the 24th anniversary of my 39th birthday!
Optiker
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:lol thats funny optiker
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Wow 50...I am glad there are so many of you older guys in here, and to show my appreciation to you all, a gift.
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/413P58TH8RL.jpg)
And go easy on my Social Security money.:aok
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Originally posted by 5PointOh
Wow 50...I am glad there are so many of you older guys in here, and to show my appreciation to you all, a gift.
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/413P58TH8RL.jpg)
And go easy on my Social Security money.:aok
get to work sapling you have three of us to support
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52 here and counting.
All the Best...
Jay
awDoc1
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Grumble grumble....................
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Yup, crossed last October.
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Picture from the AH con:
(http://blogs.move.com/find-senior-housing/wp-content/blogs.dir/23/files/2007/06/grumpy-old-men.jpg)
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Will be 54 in "Two Weeks"
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Got y'all beat...2 months old at the start of WWII. :aok
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54
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Can I join the crowd? Gonna cross the five oh mark in less than a month.
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born exactly 13 years after Pearl
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Here's a joke only the old guys would get:
What did it say on Peggy Lee's organ doner tag?
I Only Have Eyes For You.
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I was born in '54....Uh...What was the question?
Jenks
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Nice to see all the guy's who have posted are all classy geezers!
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Originally posted by wrag
Grumble grumble....................
what are you grumbling for???
ohhhhh............. the bathroom is that-a-ways -------->
might wanna git you some of them thar diapers called depends, I think.
and start taking metamucil, it'll help.
:p
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Got an active member in our squad over 80.
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Bump this thread in another ten years. I'm 40 as of last year. :aok
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Originally posted by DieAz
what are you grumbling for???
ohhhhh............. the bathroom is that-a-ways -------->
might wanna git you some of them thar diapers called depends, I think.
and start taking metamucil, it'll help.
:p
DANGIT they always have KILLSHOOTER ON :furious :t :t :t
:rofl BULLY!
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Originally posted by wrag
DANGIT they always have KILLSHOOTER ON :furious :t :t :t
:rofl BULLY!
I'd be just as safe from yer guns if killshooter was off.
hehehe....... :lol :p
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Originally posted by Connery
Nice to see all the guy's who have posted are all classy geezers!
The reason is that we grew up in the '60s and '70s.
If there was ever a time in History to be a "full of beans" 18yo it was then.:D Ahhhh....the memories.
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After re-reading this thread I beginning to think some Nursing homes should consider getting high speed internet access and Hitech should be advertising in retirement and assisted living communities, Arizona and Florida should be a good start... a wealth of untapped customer potential.
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Originally posted by Ghosth
55 here, tied with oldman.
Where is Vilkas when you need him, think he trumps everyone.
a few months and I join the club too.
Hey G ya forgot that Rowdy guy in the squad..... in his 70's:aok
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BD 1/2/54 :aok
airbull just made the mark last month also :)
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2/28/53.....
My regards,
Widewing
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10/12/57
Just made it.
CAVALRY
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about 30 guys so far .
All yu pups pay attention , don't see anyone in this group
that uses 200 as an ego builder , no DA threats , just happy
to still have 4 or 5 functioning limbs .
Hope most of yu can make it before 40 .
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Haven't seen so many old phearts gathered in one spot cept'n a veterans day parade....:)
Ren
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1956 a very good vintage.
-SR-:)
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11/16/54
:aok
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1957 :aok
Frodo
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Originally posted by Rich46yo
The reason is that we grew up in the '60s and '70s.
If there was ever a time in History to be a "full of beans" 18yo it was then.:D Ahhhh....the memories.
I remember the '60s and '70s!!!!! On my good days. :D
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37 and counting....
Shamroc
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Originally posted by dentin
Got y'all beat...2 months old at the start of WWII. :aok
sheez dentin WWII started in 1939 I had to wait 4 more years to get born (1943)
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Originally posted by sax
about 30 guys so far .
All yu pups pay attention , don't see anyone in this group
that uses 200 as an ego builder , no DA threats , just happy
to still have 4 or 5 functioning limbs .
Hope most of yu can make it before 40 .
AMEN! Preach on Brother Sax!
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Wow...most of you are old enough to be my father. Enjoy my Social Security!
11/18/80 :aok
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I am 52 with a REALAGE of 48 whatever that means.
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Vision gone reflexes gone digestion gone... still in the game.:aok
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Originally posted by NoBaddy
I remember the '60s and '70s!!!!! On my good days. :D
I just got a shocker in the O`club. Someone said the 60`s were over.
I just gotta change that Woodstock calendar.
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Originally posted by Airscrew
After re-reading this thread I beginning to think some Nursing homes should consider getting high speed internet access and Hitech should be advertising in retirement and assisted living communities, Arizona and Florida should be a good start... a wealth of untapped customer potential.
They need it in East Texas too, as Elvis is living in a retirement home there with JFK. Anyone remember the movie "Bubba Ho-Tep"? ROFLOL
All the Best...
Jay
awDoc1
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27/8/1955
here I am.....
what a bunch.....next scenario we'll have to ask for an official pee break every hour or so.....:rofl
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Originally posted by shamroc
37 and counting....
Shamroc
Get back in line with the squeakers :rofl
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Originally posted by Rondar
Can I join the crowd? Gonna cross the five oh mark in less than a month.
Me too! Dec 30th
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Man over 50 was hospital for examination. doctor came in and said:" I have bad news and even worse news. Even worse is that you have AIDS. Bad news is you have dementia."
Man over 50 said:" Huh, im lucky i don't have AIDS." :D
Greetings from man not 50 yet, but over 30.
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Just turned 56.
High School class - 69ers.:)
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Originally posted by stegor
27/8/1955
here I am.....
what a bunch.....next scenario we'll have to ask for an official pee break every hour or so.....:rofl
LMAO and that pee break will take about 10 min's or sooooooooo :furious
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Originally posted by Boxboy
sheez dentin WWII started in 1939 I had to wait 4 more years to get born (1943)
12/07/1941..
Most of my Uncles and a few Aunts served in various capacities while in the service of our Country...most now departed. :(
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Originally posted by 5PointOh
Wow...most of you are old enough to be my father. Enjoy my Social Security!
11/18/80 :aok [/QUOTE
I/we are! :p
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Couple years back as I was tossing some 20 sumtin's out the door of a bar I was bouncing at - the other bouncers would yell at the dearly departing former patrons
"Have some respect for your elders"
1956
:)
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that sounds like fun newbie :lol
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Originally posted by dentin
12/07/1941..
Most of my Uncles and a few Aunts served in various capacities while in the service of our Country...most now departed. :(
heheh ok you ment start of WWII for America then :) My dad was at Iwo Jima, and I had uncles at almost very famous WWII battle except D-Day.
One Uncle at the Battle of the Bulge, one at Anzio, one at Guada Canal and my wifes' aunt was an Army nurse in London.
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to you all or figuring out how to turn the computer on! My grandparents can barely manage that, much less post on a BBS, fly cartoon planes et.c.
Here's a question; Who had to walk the farthest, climb the biggest hill (and in how many directions), traverse the deepest snowdrifts and with what kind of footwear to get to school, assuming school had been invented when you were younger?
p.s. any of you have an autographed picture of Jesus?
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well clerick, I had to walk barefoot 100 miles to get to school up some very steep hills. during the winter the snowdrifts were so high that we would walk on the fence post. oh and it was up hill both ways. yes that was during the last ice age when miami florida was both mountainous and cold.
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I'll tellya one thing I remember vividly is a time when everyone owning a PC wasnt even a concept. And when the Internet, before the great Al Gore invented it, wasnt even an idea. I never even saw a PC until the early 80s when my buddy first bought one and had some pathetic golf game on it, the playing of which, felt like walking on the moon. We used to stay up for hours playing that game and guzzling beer.
My 1st day of High School the kids shut the school down with a Vietnam war protest. I remember the first time Star Trek aired. I was home sick from school when JFK got blowed up. I remember Jerry Kramers block Packers/Dallas 1967 in frozen Lambeau field for the championship. I went to Disney world Florida the first week it was open. I remember hating disco.
In my day if you smarted off at school you got beat. I mean beat! Then the cops might beat you and the old man certainly would.
And now in AH we are like wise old elephants leading the herd to better pastures. Beware the older guys. Be afraid, be very afraid.
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does 59 qualify.....lol
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55 , I may be old but I'm in bad shape and senile.
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Originally posted by clerick
to you all or figuring out how to turn the computer on! My grandparents can barely manage that, much less post on a BBS, fly cartoon planes et.c.
Here's a question; Who had to walk the farthest, climb the biggest hill (and in how many directions), traverse the deepest snowdrifts and with what kind of footwear to get to school, assuming school had been invented when you were younger?
p.s. any of you have an autographed picture of Jesus?
No BS. This is true.
I grew up in northern MN, near the Canadian border. Growing up we didn't have running water in our house. We had a hand pump in the kitchen, an outhouse, an out-building sauna (good Finns that we are/were) and a crank phone on a party line.
We took baths once a week when the sauna got heated (my dad and bothers only made enough wood in the fall for weekly saunas through the year). Trips to the outhouse at -30F were a winter norm.
By the time I was about 10 we got indoor running water in the kitchen so as a teen I was able to wash my hair daily and after I moved away my mother finally got an indoor shower.
I had to walk 1/4 mile to the highway and stand there waiting for the bus in the winter at anywhere from +10 to -40F, often through a foot of snow or more.
My how things have changed.
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Originally posted by BaldEagl
No BS. This is true.
I grew up in northern MN, near the Canadian border. Growing up we didn't have running water in our house. We had a hand pump in the kitchen, an outhouse, an out-building sauna (good Finns that we are/were) and a crank phone on a party line.
We took baths once a week when the sauna got heated (my dad and bothers only made enough wood in the fall for weekly saunas through the year). Trips to the outhouse at -30F were a winter norm.
By the time I was about 10 we got indoor running water in the kitchen so as a teen I was able to wash my hair daily and after I moved away my mother finally got an indoor shower.
I had to walk 1/4 mile to the highway and stand there waiting for the bus in the winter at anywhere from +10 to -40F, often through a foot of snow or more.
My how things have changed.
Almost the same for me, 'cept I was in rural Missouri so it was a little warmer, and no Sauna, dang. We walked 1/4 mile down the muddy lane to a gravel road for the bus.
Two longs and short - for the phone, hehe.
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Originally posted by CAV
10/12/57
Just made it.
CAVALRY
What are the odds of this? Same day myself 10/12/57!
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Didn't have a crank phone, but phone numbers were assigned to "regions"
The town I grew up in was Watertown, CT. It's telephone region was "CRestwood" so all number began with 27 (CR).
The next town over, Thomaston, was "ATwood" so all numbers began with 28 (AT).
So if someone asked you what your phone number was you would say ... "Crestwood 4-5555".
Also, if you were in the "Crestwood" region and wanted to dial another number in the "Crestwood" region you only had to dial 4-xxxx.
Most of us withing this age spread could probably relate to this ...
During the summer, I would get up and out the door at 7 am in the morning. Take off on my bike with my buds, and not have to be home until 5 pm. During that time, my mom never knew where I was and it was never a concern. Can't do that nowadays.
You just had to make sure that your arse was in the dinner chair for 5 pm tho ... else all hell broke loose ... go figure.
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Originally posted by SlapShot
Didn't have a crank phone, but phone numbers were assigned to "regions"
The town I grew up in was Watertown, CT. It's telephone region was "CRestwood" so all number began with 27 (CR).
The next town over, Thomaston, was "ATwood" so all numbers began with 28 (AT).
So if someone asked you what your phone number was you would say ... "Crestwood 4-5555".
Also, if you were in the "Crestwood" region and wanted to dial another number in the "Crestwood" region you only had to dial 4-xxxx.
Most of us withing this age spread could probably relate to this ...
During the summer, I would get up and out the door at 7 am in the morning. Take off on my bike with my buds, and not have to be home until 5 pm. During that time, my mom never knew where I was and it was never a concern. Can't do that nowadays.
You just had to make sure that your arse was in the dinner chair for 5 pm tho ... else all hell broke loose ... go figure.
Mine was PRescot, and we had a party line:)
shamus
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LOL,
I remember having a party line and waiting a couple years after color tv came out to get one because there weren't many color shows available. Now I have 3 HDTV's with surround sound.:)
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3-31-59
999000
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I am. :cool:
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Originally posted by BaldEagl
No BS. This is true.
I grew up in northern MN, near the Canadian border. Growing up we didn't have running water in our house. We had a hand pump in the kitchen, an outhouse, an out-building sauna (good Finns that we are/were) and a crank phone on a party line.
We took baths once a week when the sauna got heated (my dad and bothers only made enough wood in the fall for weekly saunas through the year). Trips to the outhouse at -30F were a winter norm.
By the time I was about 10 we got indoor running water in the kitchen so as a teen I was able to wash my hair daily and after I moved away my mother finally got an indoor shower.
I had to walk 1/4 mile to the highway and stand there waiting for the bus in the winter at anywhere from +10 to -40F, often through a foot of snow or more.
My how things have changed.
Spunds like a pretty darned good childhood. Did ya have a pond to skate on? Then it would be about perfect.
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Anyone remember these?
(http://webpages.charter.net/rjgoniea/tutportfolio/day132.jpg)
A Polaris Sno-Traveller. My best friend across the highway got one when I was about 8. It would only do about 8 mph but did we have a blast on that thing. Of course, if we got stuck it took us all day to get it out.
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Originally posted by SteveBailey
Spunds like a pretty darned good childhood. Did ya have a pond to skate on? Then it would be about perfect.
No, but there was a creek back through the woods that would freeze over and certain years, if the freeze/snow cycles were right, you could skate for miles up and down the creek.
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Hi Mates
How about a squad for those over 70?
Cheers
Majors
Oldest Yank in the RAF
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Originally posted by SlapShot
Didn't have a crank phone, but phone numbers were assigned to "regions"
The town I grew up in was Watertown, CT. It's telephone region was "CRestwood" so all number began with 27 (CR).
The next town over, Thomaston, was "ATwood" so all numbers began with 28 (AT).
So if someone asked you what your phone number was you would say ... "Crestwood 4-5555".
Also, if you were in the "Crestwood" region and wanted to dial another number in the "Crestwood" region you only had to dial 4-xxxx.
Most of us withing this age spread could probably relate to this ...
During the summer, I would get up and out the door at 7 am in the morning. Take off on my bike with my buds, and not have to be home until 5 pm. During that time, my mom never knew where I was and it was never a concern. Can't do that nowadays.
You just had to make sure that your arse was in the dinner chair for 5 pm tho ... else all hell broke loose ... go figure.
FR(anklin) =374-6857 was the phone number. out of the house by seven home by five. I wore out two schwinn varsities. if I heard my dad whistle I was in deep kimshe.
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Originally posted by DAVENRINO
Now I have 3 HDTV's with surround sound.:)
Dont forget the Viagra
to all you fellas
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Originally posted by storch
if I heard my dad whistle I was in deep kimshe.
Whistle my butt................all it took was take certain look...............AND YOU KNEW :O
Now A Days............you give your kid that Look..........kid dials 911. Can't tell ya how many 911 calls I've been dispatched to cause some kid was in trouble with parent (s), or had just been disciplined.
Rokit
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in my neighborhood the dads whistled for the boys to come home, each dad had a distinct whistle. my dad only whistled when I messsed up and needed to get home and set things right. you could hear his whistle two blocks away. if I didn't hear it someone did and would cruise up with hey your dad is whistling for you. oh ***** peddle as fast as I could for home.
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72 in two weeks
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too old
not bold
can't see
can't pee
old age is not for sissies
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52 before the month is out. Never though Pong would lead to this.
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When we were kids all we did was run and play ball. I remember loving Sundays because it was about the only night I could watch some television. Back then "Wild Kingdom" was the first and only nature show on TV. If you were lucky enough to have a color TV, and found a good enough spot for the antennas, you could also watch "The Wonderful World of Disney" on Sunday night in true color. Then you really had the cat by the hinds parts.
You guys remember watching Flash Gordon?? And all those other great shows? Boy, TV was TV back then and there was none of the gratuitous violence and sex in it.
And you'd never see a fat kid back then cause we never had any of these games and gadgets. All we had was bats and balls.
Any AH players in High School now have also never had a cold winter. We haven't had a truly cold winter since the '80s. And money?? We had to work for it. Nobody gave it to us and I'll bet the rest of the older guys here have been working since about 12 or 13. Or even younger cause many of us started young with paper routes.
Ive actually gotten 911 calls from kids who would want their old man arrested cause he cracked them one for being a screwball.
Can you guys imagine us calling the Police, way back when, cause the old man cracked us one?:lol :lol
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Originally posted by Rich46yo
When we were kids all we did was run and play ball. I remember loving Sundays because it was about the only night I could watch some television. Back then "Wild Kingdom" was the first and only nature show on TV. If you were lucky enough to have a color TV, and found a good enough spot for the antennas, you could also watch "The Wonderful World of Disney" on Sunday night in true color. Then you really had the cat by the hinds parts.
You guys remember watching Flash Gordon?? And all those other great shows? Boy, TV was TV back then and there was none of the gratuitous violence and sex in it.
And you'd never see a fat kid back then cause we never had any of these games and gadgets. All we had was bats and balls.
Any AH players in High School now have also never had a cold winter. We haven't had a truly cold winter since the '80s. And money?? We had to work for it. Nobody gave it to us and I'll bet the rest of the older guys here have been working since about 12 or 13. Or even younger cause many of us started young with paper routes.
Ive actually gotten 911 calls from kids who would want their old man arrested cause he cracked them one for being a screwball.
Can you guys imagine us calling the Police, way back when, cause the old man cracked us one?:lol :lol
I'm only 36, Rich. but all this applies to me as well.:aok
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Originally posted by storch
in my neighborhood the dads whistled for the boys to come home, each dad had a distinct whistle. my dad only whistled when I messsed up and needed to get home and set things right. you could hear his whistle two blocks away. if I didn't hear it someone did and would cruise up with hey your dad is whistling for you. oh ***** peddle as fast as I could for home.
:rofl ... back when I was a kid, my town was pretty rural and my neighborhood was all dead-end roads and bordered a dairy farm ... so my Dad's whistle could carry for a long way.
When ya heard the whistle ... you knew your arse was grass ... I worked hard at not having to hear that whistle. Dad was a West Point grad so he had a militaristic way of handling things. If anyone here has graduated from the "Point" or had a father that was a grad ... you will know what I am talking about.
We also had one of those stupid bells attached to the side of the house by the front door ... that was my Mom's way of calling me.
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Originally posted by Rich46yo
Can you guys imagine us calling the Police, way back when, cause the old man cracked us one?:lol :lol
Yeah ... the cop would of reamed our arse out and the held us so the 'Ol man could crack ya again.
Wild Kingdom ... loved the show ... hated the segway into the commercials tho ... bugged the crap out me.
"See how the mother lion protects her cubs ... well if you had Mutal of Omaha's home owners insurance, you can rest knowing that your "pride" will always have a safe place to live to" ... something like that.
Color TV ... yeah right. Only B&W for us and only 2 or 3 channels depending upon the weather.
My dad and I loved hockey and loved to watch the NY Rangers ... well to get that channel, the antenna had to be in the right spot. We had a pair of vise grips snapped onto the antenna pole so I could turn it, and when the signal was good ... dad would bang on the wall ... was fun doing that when it was 10 degrees or colder.
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Originally posted by SlapShot
Color TV ... yeah right. Only B&W for us and only 2 or 3 channels depending upon the weather.
My dad and I loved hockey and loved to watch the NY Rangers ... well to get that channel, the antenna had to be in the right spot. We had a pair of vise grips snapped onto the antenna pole so I could turn it, and when the signal was good ... dad would bang on the wall ... was fun doing that when it was 10 degrees or colder.
one channell b & w till some boys with wire cutters cut the wires
holding the tower up .
Funny thing is I had to wait untill I was well in my 40's to see
a Canadian win the Cup for the Rangers . I called the
cable company and had the wires cut :)
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My dad was the guy everyone in the family / friends called when their TV wasn’t working, I used to go to the local Walgreen’s? Store with him while he used the machine to test the tubes ( remember those ) as a result we had a color TV pretty early on and being somewhat close to Chicago we had the channels man.
Oh and the other thing when the front porch light came on I had about two minutes to get my butt in the house an check in. I have to say though once the folks knew that I was in the yard and it was a no school night I could stay out outside with the friends in the neighborhood. Back then there was no regular garbage pickup so a lot of people burned what they could everyone had a fire pit or an old drum. We’d stay out start a fire and then play flashlight tag or just bs by the fire.
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Didn't have one of those, but we had a pair of the early model Artic Cats that followed it a few years later. 15 horsepower, would do maybe 20-25 mph on good going. Dad kept one running for years just for pulling ice fishing houses on & off the lake.
Originally posted by BaldEagl
Anyone remember these?
(http://webpages.charter.net/rjgoniea/tutportfolio/day132.jpg)
A Polaris Sno-Traveller. My best friend across the highway got one when I was about 8. It would only do about 8 mph but did we have a blast on that thing. Of course, if we got stuck it took us all day to get it out.
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When I was a young kid on the farm, one late afternoon we all heard the heavy rumbling of a big airplane growing louder and louder. The whole family ran outside to see a four-engined TWA Constellation flying over with gear and flaps out. My aunt was a flight attendant and had asked the pilot to buzz her sister's farm on the way to KC.
Yeah, those were the days.
Don't forget Bonanza on TV too.
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9/30/44
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Originally posted by sax
one channell b & w till some boys with wire cutters cut the wires
holding the tower up .
Funny thing is I had to wait untill I was well in my 40's to see
a Canadian win the Cup for the Rangers . I called the
cable company and had the wires cut :)
Well ... if you were 40 then it must have been this one ...
1927-28 New York Rangers vs Montreal Maroons
In 1994 ... it was Brian Leetch who brought the Rangers the Cup and he got the Conn Smythe Trophy too.
Brian grew up in Cheshire, CT .. which is around 3 towns over from where I live and grew up ... so he wasn't Canadian.
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It requires good luck in order to get old.
Anyone old is, by definition, lucky.
Good luck.
regards, T. E. Shaw
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to all the Old Farts :D
(still 8 years to go here hehe)
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50 here. Banter between players corsened badly since I 1st played.
Nice to see the names of guys I mostly get along with.
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Originally posted by SlapShot
Well ... if you were 40 then it must have been this one ...
1927-28 New York Rangers vs Montreal Maroons
In 1994 ... it was Brian Leetch who brought the Rangers the Cup and he got the Conn Smythe Trophy too.
Brian grew up in Cheshire, CT .. which is around 3 towns over from where I live and grew up ... so he wasn't Canadian.
Mark Messier , St. Albert Alberta
Leetch was deserving tho .
So yu a Jagr fan ? I used to be ok with him before the salute.
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Originally posted by Old Sport
When I was a young kid on the farm, one late afternoon we all heard the heavy rumbling of a big airplane growing louder and louder. The whole family ran outside to see a four-engined TWA Constellation flying over with gear and flaps out. My aunt was a flight attendant and had asked the pilot to buzz her sister's farm on the way to KC.
Yeah, those were the days.
Don't forget Bonanza on TV too.
Bonanza was a classic. The rifleman? Remember The Rebel? Remember "Combat" with Vic Morrow?? My old man used to speak German and he used to translate. Now that was great combat TV.
Remember Mchales Navy?:lol Hogans Heros?:lol Leave it to Beaver?? Remember Eddie Haskell??:lol
Naw that was real TV back then. I feel for these poor kids today having to watch some of this stuff. I still watch the old shows on cable.
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Originally posted by Clifra Jones
What are the odds of this? Same day myself 10/12/57!
Offhand, I'd say 365/1. ;)
My regards,
Widewing
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365.25/1
You forgot leap year.
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I can't help it guys. This thread is going this way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FatHLHG2uGY
:lol
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Originally posted by sax
Mark Messier , St. Albert Alberta
Leetch was deserving tho .
So yu a Jagr fan ? I used to be ok with him before the salute.
I liked Mark ... even tho he is Canadian ... :p ... my kind of hockey player.
Jagr fan ... nope ... Bobby Orr fan ... last player that I really idolized and as far as I am concerned ... the finest player to ever strap on a pair of skates.
Other players are ...
Bobby Hull
Stan Makita
Brad Park
Gordie Howe
Derek Sanderson
Phil Esposito
Eddy Giacomin
Henri Richard
The list could go on.
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Originally posted by Rich46yo
Bonanza was a classic. The rifleman? Remember The Rebel? Remember "Combat" with Vic Morrow?? My old man used to speak German and he used to translate. Now that was great combat TV.
Remember Mchales Navy?:lol Hogans Heros?:lol Leave it to Beaver?? Remember Eddie Haskell??:lol
Naw that was real TV back then. I feel for these poor kids today having to watch some of this stuff. I still watch the old shows on cable.
God I LOVED Combat !!!
How about ...
Sky King
Ted Mack Amateur Hour
Mitch Miller Show
Superman
Spinner and Paddle Foot
Queen for a day <--- my Gram watched this ... so I had to when visiting
Lawrence Welk Show
I Love Lucy
Gilligan's Island
I babysit for my grandson alot and I refuse to let him watch the cartoons that they have out for kids these days ... with the exception of Sponge Bob Square Pants and shows like Dora the Explorer.
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Originally posted by SlapShot
I liked Mark ... even tho he is Canadian ... :p ... my kind of hockey player.
Jagr fan ... nope ... Bobby Orr fan ... last player that I really idolized and as far as I am concerned ... the finest player to ever strap on a pair of skates.
Other players are ...
Bobby Hull
Stan Makita
Brad Park
Gordie Howe
Derek Sanderson
Phil Esposito
Eddy Giacomin
Henri Richard
The list could go on.
One of my friends, Skip Krake started his career with the Bruins , played
with Espisito I think , knows Orr , I think Skip was traded when Orr came in .
He played with Sather in Boston as well , then Edmonton when Sather coached , they are still good friends , thats why the Rangers are important to some of us Canucks .
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I dont qualify by the date I was born 1988 but my kid and my wife say I act 70. Does that count
JUGMAN
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Originally posted by Widewing
Offhand, I'd say 365/1. ;)
My regards,
Widewing
Hey Widewing - how's it going? I've seen this B4 but always thought it fascinating:
http://discovermagazine.com/2006/may/fuzzy-math
In a group of 23 people, the odds are better than even that at least two of them will share a birthday.
Seems as if you'd need many more people before you'd find a shared birthday, doesn't it? But consider the reverse situation, in which nobody shares a birthday. Since all birth dates are equally likely, then the odds of picking 23 different ones out of 365 aren't that good—less than fifty-fifty. Among 200 people, there is a 99.9999999999999999999999999 percent chance that two birthdays will match! So why don't you meet more people who share your birthday? That's because a specific match is less likely than an arbitrary one. For any two people to share a birthday, any day will suffice; for someone to share your birthday, only one does.
Regards,
Optiker
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Man I feel bad for my pops, he's 55. He knows accounting and stuff but he does not know how to use the internet :(
I should get him hooked to the internet:)
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Jeez, I remember all the guys in this thread as handsome young stud fighter pile-its.
I must be getting old.
Louie.... you CAN'T be that old... how long ago was it we all met up in the great white north? You was just a kid then!
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Originally posted by Toad
Jeez, I remember all the guys in this thread as handsome young stud fighter pile-its.
I must be getting old.
Louie.... you CAN'T be that old... how long ago was it we all met up in the great white north? You was just a kid then!
Cold weather , slow heart beat , I was about 47 or so when yu were here .
Thougt yu died John .
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I remember going to my 50th high school reunion - what a shock to see all the old farts I went to school with. Of course I was still this dashing dapper dandy - all the gals I lusted after! - old crows!
Ever notice old is always 10 years older than you are?
Regards,
Optiker
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Speaking of black and white TVs.....we got our first one in 1954. I remember my Dad on the roof. Our TV antenna was attatched to the chimney. We wanted to be able to watch a Cleveland Browns game and our antenna needed to be turned (anyone remember VHF and UHF?) My job was to stand next to the window and watch the TV as my father turned the antenna. When the picture came in for the station the game was on I was to yell at my father to let him know.
LOLOLOLOLOL all I remember is hearing the word "****" as my father whized by the window going down with the antenna cable in his hands.
Fortunately there were a lot of Hemlocks beneath him that cushioned his fall and he suffered only some minor bruises. My 85 year old father and I still laugh until tears come from our eyes when we remember that.
Oh btw....we did get channel 8 in cleveland with his "antenna adjustment" and were able to see the Browns game.
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I remember my dad trying to convince my brother and me that we had "color" tv by saying "see that guy he has a red shirt on" :)
I of course remember when there was NO tv like many of you in this thread and listening to the radio was the intertainment of the day. Boston Blackie, Sky King, The Shadow, and Sgt Preston of the RCMP saying to his dog "thanks to you King this case is closed".
Man the memories flood in when reading some of these posts.
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Originally posted by Boxboy
Man the memories flood in when reading some of these posts.
Agreed. I've been tempted to post about a dozen more times but held back.
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Gunsmoke - Miss Kitty was Hot :)
Ponderosa
Ed sullivan show
Steve Allen Show
Howdy Doody Show
Ernie Kovatz (spelling prob wrong - too lazy to lookup) Show
Dobie Gillis
The Three Stooges - sadly - the original ones :)
Mickey Mouse Club
-- grade school times -- Dark Shadows -- -don't let mom catch ya :)
Peyton Place - see above :)
many more memories from the b&w TV days lol
Newbs
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The Show of Shows
The Milton Berle Show
The Lucky Strike Hit Parade
The Gale Storm Show
The Gillette Friday Night Fights
The Real McCoys
Topper
The Citizens Choice
The Life of Riley (with William Bendix of course)
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How about this one ...
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Originally posted by Hajo
The Show of Shows
The Milton Berle Show
The Lucky Strike Hit Parade
The Gale Storm Show
The Gillette Friday Night Fights
The Real McCoys
Topper
The Citizens Choice
The Life of Riley (with William Bendix of course)
Growing up on Long Island in the 1950s and 60s, shows unique to New York City were great fun. Little kids all watched Ding Dong School with Miss Francis. We also had Soupy Sales and the Sandy Becker show. Afternoons included Popeye cartoons hosted by Captain Jack McCarthy, the Three Stooges hosted by Officer Joe Bolton and Laurel & Hardy hosted by Chuck McCann.
My favorite Saturday morning cartoon show was Crusader Rabbit; "run for the roundhouse Nellie, they'll never corner you there!"
My regards,
Widewing
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Originally posted by Widewing
"run for the roundhouse Nellie, they'll never corner you there!"
:rofl ... classic ... how about Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Greenjeans ?
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Hi Mates
ET will remember, as well as some of the others.
I was a very lucky kid, I was in grammar (elementary school) during WWII at Pensacola, FL. Dad was in charge of advanced air training (Capt) and took me flying in everything they had including PBY, PBM, SNJ, Stearman, SBD, Kingfisher, and some others. What a blast. Got me hooked on flying.
Anyway, we went home to Memphis in 1946. Back then coke came in a bottle for a nickle, gay meant happy and fun, weed was something you dug up in the front yard.
Security at our house was the hook on the screen door, everyone left the keys in the cars in the driveways and on saturdays, we went to the movies that cost me a quarter. 15 cents to get in, a nickle each for popcorn and a coke. Double feature with 10 cartoons, plus Buck Rogers serials. Left my bike out front with no locks. Summers were hot, how did we live with just the attic fan. When the polio vaccine came out they gave it to us at school on a sugar cube. No one got sick. No one sued the school board.
The family retired to the sunroom after dinner to listen to the radio shows mentioned above. I recall our first TV we got in 1952. Had about a 11 inch screen. We used to watch the test pattern and then the static to see if we could see something else. I got my first color TV when I was in the Army in 1964. By the way, everyone served their country back then. You did two years either after high school or after college. Everybody was a veteran. Did my time during the sixties over there, nobody ever spit on me though.
No problems with the Plege of Allegiance, hand over heart for the National Anthem, a little prayer before class in school. Also, no problem with the principal giving you a little taste of a canoe paddle if you really screwed up.
Talk about memories coming back. Now with 6 grand children, three children, one of whom, my son, is a Major in the Army (Blackhawk driver), having done Afganistan and Iraq. A Long time has past but I know I have been a very lucky person to have lived during the very best times in the USA.
Being disabled, if has been my pleasure to participate with all these young furballers since back in 1996 in Warbirds and coming over to AH with the beta. Made some good friends up here. Met a bunch of my squaddies in England, and we get together over there from time to time. I fly with the Brits as we can get together in the afternoon. I go to bed early these days.
Not much good in AH, but I do have a good time. Hats off to all you young whippersnappers (does that mean something bad now, please don't call the ACLU). Some of the things you say and do literally crack me up. Keep it up.
Cheers and check six all the time.
Majors
249 RAF
Oldest Yank in the RAF
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Originally posted by SlapShot
:rofl ... classic ... how about Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Greenjeans ?
Yep, was great stuff. In the 60's, the Captain Crunch (cereal) character was modeled on Captain Kangaroo, just like the Flintstones were modeled on the Honeymooners.
My regards,
Widewing
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How about that moment when they slammed that "under God" into the Pledge, and even in your little child's mind, you first recognized political cynicism?
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Originally posted by TEShaw
How about that moment when they slammed that "under God" into the Pledge, and even in your little child's mind, you first recognized political cynicism?
Ever notice how all these school shootings, and assorted problems, started after they chased God out of the place. Weve had some gang riots in our schools that are right out of "Escape from NewYork.
Im glad Im old enough to remember a better time. A time when kids were raised in the church and to obey Gods laws. Thats the problem with a lot of people today. They dont believe they will one day have to answer for what they do, and there aint going to be any slick lawyers around to answer for them.
The '60s were a simpler time to be a kid. A better time. We were raised to respect our elders thats for sure. And our parents were people who worked for everything and never complained. They were better then us, that WW-ll generation. They were a far stronger generation then we are.
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Another difference between the 50s and 60s' now.
(Your Mother) Get out of the house! Play outside! We played baseball basketball or football until it got to dark to see. We snuck into ponds at night when sleeping out so we could do some night fishing! Hunting nightcrawlers with a flashlight to find them. Once you spotted them with the flashlight you had to remember where the nightcrawler was. Reason if you left the light on him he would vanish into his hole. So you'd spot. get light off the crawler and as quickly as you could from memory grab it!
Sleeping out? LOL to todays generation that means in a Motel:aok We'd get a group of guys with sleeping bags and just sleep in someones yard knowing full well we weren't going to sleep until we dropped. Raid gardens or go fishing in a local bass pond was the norm for sleeping out.
Hey guys! The Townsend Ave guys have challenged us to a baseball game tomorrow. I said yes! We are to meet them in the field next to Carls house. Bring whatever you can find we'll need some bases.
(Baseball wrapped completely with electrical tape because the cover gave up three weeks ago, a few bats, some with nails in them to hold them together, and if you didn't have a glove it was ok we shared.)
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Originally posted by Hajo
Another difference between the 50s and 60s' now.
(Your Mother) Get out of the house! Play outside! We played baseball basketball or football until it got to dark to see. We snuck into ponds at night when sleeping out so we could do some night fishing! Hunting nightcrawlers with a flashlight to find them. Once you spotted them with the flashlight you had to remember where the nightcrawler was. Reason if you left the light on him he would vanish into his hole. So you'd spot. get light off the crawler and as quickly as you could from memory grab it!
Sleeping out? LOL to todays generation that means in a Motel:aok We'd get a group of guys with sleeping bags and just sleep in someones yard knowing full well we weren't going to sleep until we dropped. Raid gardens or go fishing in a local bass pond was the norm for sleeping out.
Hey guys! The Townsend Ave guys have challenged us to a baseball game tomorrow. I said yes! We are to meet them in the field next to Carls house. Bring whatever you can find we'll need some bases.
(Baseball wrapped completely with electrical tape because the cover gave up three weeks ago, a few bats, some with nails in them to hold them together, and if you didn't have a glove it was ok we shared.)
Did we live in the same neighborhood ? ... :lol
Get out of the house! Play outside!
Hellz yeah ... else they found some "chore" for you to do. They never saw me from 7am 'til 5 pm for sure.
Raid gardens ...
We NEVER went hungry in our neighborhood during the summer. We use to go downtown to the local market and by those minature Mortan's Salt shakers and carry them in our pocket ... ya never knew when you were gonna run into a GARDEN FRESH tomato.
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Originally posted by Majors
Hi Mates
, weed was something you dug up in the front yard.
:rofl :rofl Salutte old man!
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Originally posted by SlapShot
Did we live in the same neighborhood ? ... :lol
Get out of the house! Play outside!
Hellz yeah ... else they found some "chore" for you to do. They never saw me from 7am 'til 5 pm for sure.
Raid gardens ...
We NEVER went hungry in our neighborhood during the summer. We use to go downtown to the local market and by those minature Mortan's Salt shakers and carry them in our pocket ... ya never knew when you were gonna run into a GARDEN FRESH tomato.
or take rocksalt in the bellybutton stealing watermelons
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Hi Storch
You were lucky, Rock Salt?? The guy we used to swipe watermelons from shot dried beans. Talk about hurt!!
Think kids can run the 100 fast now with a football? Should have seen us with a watermelon under each arm and beans flying everywhere!!
Great times, for sure.
Cheers
Majors
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1/15/58
I have a few days left until the BIG 50.
Do we get a discount from HiTech with an AARP Card?
Mac
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dried beans!!!! yikes did they break the fabric on the jeans? the rock salt didn't but you sure got dusted. lol ya we ran like devils too. there was nothing sweeter than them watermelons though.
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Ever notice how all these school shootings, and assorted problems, started after they chased God out of the place. Weve had some gang riots in our schools that are right out of "Escape from NewYork.
They took God out of the schools and replaced him with the deputy sheriff and metal detectors.
:(
Swoose
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I'm a little late on this one because I just woke up from my nap. I remember Sarurday moening cliff hangar serials at the neighborhood movie theater. (Yes, there once were neighborhood movie theaters.)
I also remember hearing Johnny Ray sing "That Lucky Old Sun" on AM radio. (Yes, youngsters, there was a time when all pop music was on AM and hardly anyone heard of FM.)
I think both qualify me for the over 50 club and then some. Now, time for another nap. :)
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I'M IN
50 Plus
4XTCH
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I'll be 60 in January 2008.
True story, to renew my second class medical the FAA insisted that I get a stress test. I'm still an active CFI. So I'm at the last part of the test where the heart rate really takes a beating. They got like a crash cart standing by incase I keel over with an oxengyn tank and two nurses, one para-medic and the Cardiologist with me on this treadmill doing like 4 miles an hour up a 15% grade.
I look over at the 39 yo cardiologist sitting in the corner and I realize that he is holding his chest, turning all sorts of the color blue. He hits the floor and all kinds of hell breaks lose in this tiny room. Their pounding on his chest and shooting him full of all kinds of drugs. Must be every doctor and nurse in this pratice is in this room. Their getting ready to pull the sheet over this guys face when one of them realizes that I'm still on the treadmill running.
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Originally posted by Traveler
I'll be 60 in January 2008.
True story, to renew my second class medical the FAA insisted that I get a stress test. I'm still an active CFI. So I'm at the last part of the test where the heart rate really takes a beating. They got like a crash cart standing by incase I keel over with an oxengyn tank and two nurses, one para-medic and the Cardiologist with me on this treadmill doing like 4 miles an hour up a 15% grade.
I look over at the 39 yo cardiologist sitting in the corner and I realize that he is holding his chest, turning all sorts of the color blue. He hits the floor and all kinds of hell breaks lose in this tiny room. Their pounding on his chest and shooting him full of all kinds of drugs. Must be every doctor and nurse in this pratice is in this room. Their getting ready to pull the sheet over this guys face when one of them realizes that I'm still on the treadmill running.
I hope the doc made it but :lol at the incident.
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Originally posted by storch
I hope the doc made it but :lol at the incident.
Im a doc, smoking and drinking, dating wild women, and I made it to 50 so far :=)
Kind regards
danish
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> Geezers
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Myself and a lot of my squadron is over 50.
The rest of the young whipper snappers are in thier 40s.
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Lawd have mercy i thought i was the oldest person playing ah(6-11-48)
I remember red skelton and mary ann's tight short shorts on gilligan's
island and elle may's tight britches on the beverly hillbillies. I don't think
i'll EVER forget mary ann's tight short shorts she put daisy duke to shame.
I'm gettin turned on here. Gotta go
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56
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I'm done. Here's a trivia question for all the baby boomer's. I'm sure all of you remember a program calle "The cisco kid." Can anyone tell me who
played the roles of cisco and pancho. No google searches please.
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Originally posted by Mister ED
Myself and a lot of my squadron is over 50.
The rest of the young whipper snappers are in thier 40s.
Boy sitting around with you old geezers makes me feel young again at 50yo.:D
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54 here...and I thought I was one of the few :D hey any of you guys remember "WhirllyBirds"? I think it was an old H47 Bell but they could make it hover above a bad guys house while they came down the ladder to deal with em then climb back up and fly away after the cops got there ..amazing technology...
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I'm 55 going on 18...
Opps...gotta run, the bus to Geezerville is here and I'm supposed to be on it.
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Originally posted by df54
I'm done. Here's a trivia question for all the baby boomer's. I'm sure all of you remember a program calle "The cisco kid." Can anyone tell me who
played the roles of cisco and pancho. No google searches please.
Sheesh, I don't think I could even read yet when that was on!
Si, Cisco.
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I remember "Hey Pancho, Hey Cisco!" but I was too young to care about who the actors were.
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Here's a show I'll bet this generation hasn't seen nor will ever: Amos & Andy
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Originally posted by HomeBoy
Here's a show I'll bet this generation hasn't seen nor will ever: Amos & Andy
Or a Johnny Weissmuller "Tarzan" movie!
AHHHHH-EE-AH-EE-AH-EE-AH-EE-AHHHhhhhhhh...
Juju Bhwana, Juju :confused:
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Originally posted by Erkel
Or a Johnny Weissmuller "Tarzan" movie!
AHHHHH-EE-AH-EE-AH-EE-AH-EE-AHHHhhhhhhh...
Juju Bhwana, Juju :confused:
They should show those on AMC or something. They used to have a Tarzan movie on during the daytime every weekend when I was growing up.
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George-King Fish
Lightning
Amos
Andy Brown
Calhoon
Saphire
Yea Im down...lol
Youtube brother funny stuff
Triumph
Co of ~~~No Evil~~~
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i dont remember amos and andy but i remember the expression "holy
makarel sapphire".
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Anyone remember Mood Rings? They really DID work. My girlfriend had one and whenever she was relaxed and happy it would be blue. And then if I did something to piss her off, it'd leave a red mark on my forehead.
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Here's a little nostalgia from the sixties:
(http://moreoldfortyfives.com:80/TakeMeBackToTheSixties.htm)
Then came the 70's. The women's rights movement takes hold. Being a man is becomes politically incorrect. Divorce rate goes through the ceiling. Fathers are alienated from their families and it all starts going to ***** from there.
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In 54 here, not sure if I can get to the 55 though :rofl
Dizz
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I wasnt when the thread started but I am now.
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born exactly 13 years after Pearl
Born 14 years after the kickoff of Operation Market Garden. :D
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Im 54 so old skid marks are studied by anthropologist
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I wasnt when the thread started but I am now.
+1 just turned 50 this year :cry
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:aok
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2007 to 2009....I was two years younger than I am now
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Born March 1949 yep that makes me over 50
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September 11 1958.
As sad as the circumstances are no-one forgets my birthday any more.
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Jeezzzzz I dont feel so old now ..55 here
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54 this coming June 6th (D Day!)
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Hard to read this with my bifocals, 52 and counting.
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52 here.
Feel like an old fahrt reading all of these stories about the "good old days". Yeah, all we did was play some form of sports, rode our bikes for miles, or played "army" until dark. Hardly ever played indoors, even in the worst weather. Every evening at 6:00 the emergency siren would go off in the town where I lived. That was our signal to get home for dinner. Was asleep within seconds of hitting the pillow and slept like a dead man through the night.
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Yup, same here! 52 and having a ball! :D
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51 and feeling it. Multi-tasking skills diminishing by the minute.
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.does the soul good to know there is a group of old guys here an I aint alone
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58 years young as Arthur Smith used to say.
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Were going to have fun at the old nursing home. I just hope they dont run out of "Depends" :uhoh
I used to have the eyes of an eagle. Still do!, but its a blind eagle. A lot of times I shoot at airplanes I think are going away but are actually coming at me. Ya gotta laugh. :rofl
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Ok...I'll bite...52 years young here. And I already have my AARP membership..lol. :rock
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I've made it to 54 so far....
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Yes I am 52 years young and it doesn't hurt and fully functioning according to my wife :D
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50 plus 4 grandkids 5 kids 28 to 11 for kids 5 3 new gradson yesturday 5/18/2009 born on his greatgradma's birthday mom turned 85 and held him first.
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Wow I am playing with a bunch of young kids :uhoh just turned 63 this month.
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Wow I am playing with a bunch of young kids :uhoh just turned 63 this month.
Call Skuzzy. You should be Veryoldman.
- oldman (7/31/52)
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If I said I was fifty could I be in the squad too ;)
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Call Skuzzy. You should be Veryoldman.
- oldman (7/31/52)
Your mean oldman :cry :lol
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53.... never thought I'd get here.
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50, that was ten years ago
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Wasn't this a Nov '07 thread many just turning 50 responded to? :)
Ren
08/52
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My FAFL Teammate "Bolin" was born in 1945...
so he's one of the oldest here! I believe Wizkid is around that, even more.
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Well ... if you were 40 then it must have been this one ...
1927-28 New York Rangers vs Montreal Maroons
In 1994 ... it was Brian Leetch who brought the Rangers the Cup and he got the Conn Smythe Trophy too.
Brian grew up in Cheshire, CT .. which is around 3 towns over from where I live and grew up ... so he wasn't Canadian.
Almost 49..... 9/23/60
Went to Cheshire High and then to North Haven High...Class of 78...Hated that danged BLIZZARD that year! Thank God for warm Pensacola.
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1955 here ...... seems like i forgot the 70's where the hell was i?oh wait i still can't remember :frown:
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As I stated earlier, I'm 52 but as I was reading the posts here, I just remembered this story. Back when I was in my early thirties, my brother
Quite a few years ago now, I was playing Trivial Pursuit with my brother who is six years younger than I am. I drew a question asking what year Alaska and Hawaii became states. Being the "genius" that I am, I answered 1959. My brother gets this look and then asks me "what year were you born?' I said, 1956. OMG, he says, when you were born this country had a whole different flag! He still enjoys reminding me of this every so often.
rkanjl
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Almost there.... 10/16/60...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keIvA2wSPZc&feature=related
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VILKAS was a German conscript working in sub-pens during WW2.
Ask him his age. :)
Ren
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Being 52 I can only eat 10 prunes a day.
My dad on the other hand Fisher01 being 72 can down 34 a day.
<S>
Spiker
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Speaking of the flag being different... I too was born when there were only 48 stars on our flag! I was born in Hawaii pre-statehood and before they built a damn bridge to Ford Island... OT now, does anyone listen to music while playing AH? My favorite set of songs is the 'Best of Glen Miller.' Nothing like climbing to alt while hearing 'American Patrol...'
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Speaking of the flag being different... I too was born when there were only 48 stars on our flag! I was born in Hawaii pre-statehood and before they built a damn bridge to Ford Island... OT now, does anyone listen to music while playing AH? My favorite set of songs is the 'Best of Glen Miller.' Nothing like climbing to alt while hearing 'American Patrol...'
Ahhh, thought that handle was familiar. :)
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54
GMC31st
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man there is abunch of us old geezers on here
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I'm this old 3.80295253 Over the hill by any math calculation.
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ermm....I guess I qualify for this group...
Hey, what were we talking about again? :confused:
Joker <S>
:lol
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LOL this thread is going out last some of us :O When I first replied I was 64 now I am 66 and the thing is still going :salute
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I am 56 going on 12.
R-105
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D.O.B. 12/25/1957
That makes me currently 51, um... I think.
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52 for now! :rock DUXFORD WING RAF
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This thread reminded me of an an encounter I had with a nice librarian in January. She wished me a happy new year. Instead of just returning the sentiment I got all conspiratorial and leaned over the counter. "I should tell you something..."
"What?"
"You know, if this keeps happening every year...we're all going to die."
" :huh"
It was great.
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I hear HiTech's read this thread and is now modeling the Aces High Zimmer Frame (btw 51 here)
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I hear HiTech's read this thread and is now modeling the Aces High Zimmer Frame (btw 51 here)
Mizzn, we need an update mate :)
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When first posting on this subject I was a young lad of 57. I'm very close to 60 now.
Some things I find myself doing now.
Network TV. = turning it off.
New Casts = sensationalism instead of "Goodnight Chet, Goodnight Dave, and goodnight from NBC News."
When driving around during the Summer scanning to see if kids are playing baseball....anywhere in the neighborhood.
Sadly I find none. Unless it's organized children aren't interested. No creativity I guess.
Newspapers= canceled subscriptions.
Cable News= looking for cleavage ;)
New Movies = Special effects with little or no substance or authenticity.
I Miss= John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum and Charlton Heston great Actors.
I Miss = Katherine Hepburn, Yvonne DeCarlo, Maureen O'Hara, also great Actors.
I Miss = AM radio from the 50s and 60s'.
Geez....the list gets longer....
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Actually now that I think about it, none of us should even be alive. No car seats to put the babies in, didn't wear seat belts and the cars weighed as much as light tanks. No bike helmet and no knee pads, heck, usually in the summer, no shoes! Played with chemisty sets that had poisons in them (I had one that had mercury in it), bought the kids wood burning sets (basically a kids version of a soldering iron), I even remember a rock and mineral sample kit I received one Christmas that had asbestos in it. In the summer or on weekends we were out all day and into the night, my parents had a vague idea where we were (usually somewhere in the county). So I survive all of that and it turns out it's hamburgers that's gonna kill me. :O
rkanjl
(Archangel)
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Guess i am one of the old farts be 61 in july and aint none of them kids that can keep up with me
Especially if my hoveround has a full charge on the batteries
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Aged 50 here as well.
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55 here.
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born april 1959 ... I qualify :aok
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64
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Sixty five here,going on 20!I refuse to age,even if some of my body parts don't agree!Any online flying skills I may have had at one time,have long since departed.Can't see,can't shoot,can ram!I actually came in fourth one month whilst playing Air Warrior.I think Soup, Zazen,and Tapper came in ahead of me.I had a wingy in AH that was sixty four,B2B is a good stick,and a heck of a nice guy.I'll leave you all with these words"when I left Viet Nam,we were winning!"Sigh... :salute
IronDog
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How about if you are 60 or older.
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How about if you are 60 or older.
You pulled a 3 and a half year old thread to add that? Are you senile? :devil
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10x5
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does 50 going on 17 count?
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born -60 :old:
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I'm in 3-31-59.
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56
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most of our squadron pilots are over 50,60,and 70. we have a few that are younger.
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I'm getting so old I completely missed this thread.. 54 here.
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I'll post here next year :bolt:
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I'll hit the big 6...0 this fall. Yesterday I was 18. :( The only reason I can remember my name is because co-workers shout it at me all day long.
Fly in AH under the handle of "Gyrthe."
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51 here. 50 and over squad? I'm in!
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1954 :old:
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57
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57
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Grumble grumble....................
Wrag has underwear older than 50
I am relatively young to him at least - born in 1956
NwBie
:)
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what are you grumbling for???
ohhhhh............. the bathroom is that-a-ways -------->
might wanna git you some of them thar diapers called depends, I think.
and start taking metamucil, it'll help.
:p
Oh my god - who lifted up the rock this guy crawled out from under?
:)
Never mind - us old guys need to check original posted dates... lol
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Turned 50 on 28 dec 2012... :old:
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In this club
:cheers:
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I'm 60, going on 18. Does that count?
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I hear that if you haven't grown up by age 50, you don't have to.
I'll find out in 4 months.. so far, so good.
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Guilty + 5
<S> Bell
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Yep :cry
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WOW ! Did not know it was that many people 50 and over playing . 51 here . Old 1961 seems like a long time ago .Oh wait that was a long time ago , lol .....
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:huh :huh :huh :huh Im 12 !!!!!!!!! :neener: :neener: :neener: :neener: :neener: :neener: :neener: :neener: :neener: :neener: :neener: :neener: :neener:
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:huh :huh :huh :huh Im 12 !!!!!!!!! :neener: :neener: :neener: :neener: :neener: :neener: :neener: :neener: :neener: :neener: :neener: :neener: :neener:
I'm only thirteen... --- Are you nekked, dear? Well, I am... Does that excite you? :x :x :x Must be the cereals you've eaten... Hooowwwwwlll!!!
I qualify.
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Fitty-two
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1960... 53 in august :old: :D
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LMAO @ all these old farts playing a childish game , ya figure after 50 years of living you could figure something better to do with your old grumpy life...
i have 11 more months before i qualify :salute
maxy
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LMAO @ all these old farts playing a childish game , ya figure after 50 years of living you could figure something better to do with your old grumpy life...
i have 11 more months before i qualify :salute
maxy
:airplane: I guess I am in, 79 and holding! Didn't discover this great game until 2 and 1/2 years ago! This game has certainly brought back some memories! Gosh, I forget what this post was about, but what the heck, am having lots of fun!!
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1951, :aok.
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57 :airplane:
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55 and now you know why I can't shoot straight! MactakkatcaM
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55 and blind a can be :O
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Wow! Who dug this up? :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl
As of 1/8/2013......I turned 63.
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Wow! Who dug this up? :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl
As of 1/8/2013......I turned 63.
Hope you remembered to have a happy b'day! Ask some one to show you the video. :neener:
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57 and counting
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LMAO @ all these old farts playing a childish game , ya figure after 50 years of living you could figure something better to do with your old grumpy life...
i have 11 more months before i qualify :salute
maxy
You know . Been there done that . I can't think of anything I have not done , LOL . Nothing better to do now but wast my time flying a childish game with a bunch of old farts ,lol .
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77 years old 1 month ago, don't play much anymore, reflexes ,eyesight etc.
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Wow there are a bunch of old codgers playing the game.
Phew I will be there in 5 years..
CrazyLwn
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:old: 56 as of Jan. 2nd
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LMAO @ all these old farts playing a childish game , ya figure after 50 years of living you could figure something better to do with your old grumpy life...
My life wasn't grumpy until I passed 55.
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Hope you remembered to have a happy b'day! Ask some one to show you the video. :neener:
Shane! :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl <slap> ;)
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I was 59 in October, so will be 60 this year - looking forward to Retirement at last! :D :cheers:
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Joined the Club this year! :aok I'm not 50 I'm halfway to 100! :banana:
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49.5 here.
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56
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as of november. been waiting to race in the over 50 class in mx and tri's.
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I was 59 in October, so will be 60 this year - looking forward to Retirement at last! :D :cheers:
Flossy....lol. Howdy. Glad to see you're still around. Used to fly on some of your maps back in the day when AH still had H2H. Didn't you have a video arcade or some such business at one time? How are things?
Regards, Shuckins
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My life wasn't grumpy until I passed 55.
I was not mean untill I turned 50 and now I take yur head off with a blink of a eye , lol . Working on it even started back to church .
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Flossy....lol. Howdy. Glad to see you're still around. Used to fly on some of your maps back in the day when AH still had H2H. Didn't you have a video arcade or some such business at one time? How are things?
Regards, Shuckins
Hi Shuckins.... think you may be confusing me with someone else! :D I've never played H2H or had my own maps... and no, never had any kind of business either lol. :lol Well, apart from a bit of typing service a number of years ago.... :) I have worked as a secretary in Social Services for nearly 26 years now. :cheers:
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Hi Shuckins.... think you may be confusing me with someone else! :D I've never played H2H or had my own maps... and no, never had any kind of business either lol. :lol Well, apart from a bit of typing service a number of years ago.... :) I have worked as a secretary in Social Services for nearly 26 years now. :cheers:
Well, that is possible....I'm an old coot after all. :lol Or perhaps there was another player that had a variation of that name (Flossie). I was near the end of a near 30 year teaching career when I started playing AH. I'm the educational coordinator for a day service center for adults with developmental handicaps. So, I work with social services (DHS...DDS...etc.) quite a bit.
Regards, Shuckins
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10/6/52 now how old am I :huh :huh :headscratch: :headscratch: :bolt:
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10/6/52 now how old am I :huh :huh :headscratch: :headscratch: :bolt:
Two years younger than dirt. :cheers:
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53 as of Jan 2,
:old:
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61 and still counting > Thank God! :banana:
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Younger than my Hair but older than my Teeth. :old:
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Well I was only 46 when this thread started 5 years ago.
IN
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We need to start a 50 and over squad .
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We need to start a 50 and over squad .
See ya in 6.5 years.
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Sixty and older squad < In :airplane:
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52 with a long gray beard that would get me an automatic acting job on "Duck Dynasty".
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I'm 66 and looking forward to the next 30 years. ;)
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52 with a long gray beard that would get me an automatic acting job on "Duck Dynasty".
Love that show.......
(http://i899.photobucket.com/albums/ac195/pew_pew/General/tumblr_m45mvzKaWz1qe3hudo2_250.gif)
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Yes I have reached the half century mark......................... ....07/19/1962
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I know we all love ouur squad's but would it not be cool to have a 50 and over squad ? I like the idea myself .
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I know we all love ouur squad's but would it not be cool to have a 50 and over squad ? I like the idea myself .
Would that squad share my sociolinguistic identity? Would that squad join me naked in the sauna, dip into the frozen lake and roll in the snow - not to forget building a bareskinned human pyramid in the midst of a snowfall? Would that squad support me with business contacts that help me run my tiny business here in the middle of nowhere?
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IN.... well except for the snow :O, let's do this squad thing... The " 'Ol Farts" or the "Flying 'Ol Farts "
whatever- Old is in! :banana:
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Would that squad share my sociolinguistic identity? Would that squad join me naked in the sauna, dip into the frozen lake and roll in the snow - not to forget building a bareskinned human pyramid in the midst of a snowfall? Would that squad support me with business contacts that help me run my tiny business here in the middle of nowhere?
Sure . I don't see why not :)
That's a few good ones Driver .but maybe something more thump to it hmm like Elite50"s or something like thatt . Get someone to crop this with the name ?
(http://i1025.photobucket.com/albums/y313/LittleGeorgeJr/thumbnailCA635EHN.jpg)
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Hmmm .... could be fun ... I still don't feel old.
Some initial suggested names:
* The Ripe Stuff
* The Expendables (per latest genre of post-popular action heroes: Stallone, Norris etc.)
* Project Daedalus (per Space Cowboys movie)
* The Space Cowboys
* Funeral Home Killing Machines
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Funeral Home Killing Machines , LOL . I like it .
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Sure . I don't see why not :)
:D :D :D I thought you'd only see the word "naked" and agree with all the other things. I'm glad you're so willing to learn fluent Finnish and migrate to our society. :P
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:D :D :D I thought you'd only see the word "naked" and agree with all the other things. I'm glad you're so willing to learn fluent Finnish and migrate to our society. :P
HAHAHHHAA
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I know we all love ouur squad's but would it not be cool to have a 50 and over squad ? I like the idea myself .
Yea. maybe we can get custom denture holders with a squad insignia on them. LMAO
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I am too old to be bothered with posting in a thread like this............ :old: oh dear, I guess I just did .......... darn meds........ Nurse, Nurse.............. come back here :bolt:
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Would that squad... naked in the sauna... and roll in the snow... ?
I've done that. Stung like hell.
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Yea. maybe we can get custom denture holders with a squad insignia on them. LMAO
I have to get AOM off mine first , lol .
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I'm way over 100!!
oh waitaminit... <puts on reading glasses> Ohhhhh..... "post if yu are 50 or older..." I thought it read "Post if iq are 50 or over..."
my bad.
not yet.
:bolt:
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1954 here - a vintage year. would like sauna. would try rolling in snow. naked piramid would not work for me - assuming we were all in the over 50 club and of both male and female sexes. Of course Raquel is over 50, so I might be a bit hasty here. :x :x But, then again, so is Maggie Smith. :bolt:
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60 in a few weeks... And, I suppose, I'm looking my age....
(http://i1237.photobucket.com/albums/ff480/Tredlite/January2013B_zps618b91fe.jpg)
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ok, so I'm 54. Now get off my lawn.
:old:
Gnatzor
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Nurse, Nurse.............. come back here :bolt:
I knew Chilli would be the kind to chase the nurses around the home
(http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac82/mbailey166066/old-man-mooning.gif)
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Hi Mates
Had my 50th 33 years ago.
Salute to you all.
Cheers
Majors
249RAF(Ret)
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Majors, though I'm glad to see you're 83 and enjoying the game, why are you spending an inordinate amount of time bumping necro-threads? Just curious.
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:headscratch: I'm just a hair under 3 centuries. Do I qualify?
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:headscratch: I'm just a hair under 3 centuries. Do I qualify?
Only if the rest of us are really bad at math ;)
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born april 1959 ... I qualify :aok
61 now and still kicking
<S>
Eagler
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61 now and still kicking
<S>
Eagler
Yup born February 1959. Only 48 stars on the flag back then.
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66 I got socks older than 50
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67, here.
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Need a post looking for players less than 50 :)
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62 here
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My daughter was born on my 29th birthday 24 years ago. Since then it's been her birthday and therefore I'm still 29.
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Need a post looking for players less than 50 :)
:rofl
I just dont think they would own up to it :D
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'They.' :D
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Yup, and not going to say how much
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64
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52 here :airplane:
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I knew Mt. Everest when it was still a hill. :D
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I knew Mt. Everest when it was still a hill. :D
I was on the R&D team for DIRT.
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Seven years younger than Majors :old:
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102 :old:
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68 yrs
:old:
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Hey Shuff...found some of your missing parts in that dirt when i fell into it on MondayNight !
Almost 71. :)
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Hey Shuff...found some of your missing parts in that dirt when i fell into it on MondayNight !
Almost 71. :)
Some??? There are many more out there then. :D
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Looked at the last post from 2013........realized how much I missed Widewing.........anyone heard from him?
He was always very informative and had a lot of historical knowledge and trivia he would share.
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the first time I posted in this discussion I 50............. this time I'm 63. :(
time flies when you're having fun
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59 yesterday!
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59 yesterday!
Happy Birthday! Now you're older'n me! :aok
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54 today... Yay me
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I turn 50 this month.
Does this mean the banter on 200 could be considered elderly abuse?
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54 today... Yay me
Happy Birthday!
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Happy Birthday to all of you
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Not 50 yet, but I'm feeling a bit sentimental looking at all the old names that posted here. <S> old timers 8)
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Happy Birthday!
thanks bud! :salute
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Scott66...happy belated birthday young man!
Looking forward to seeing you again in a Brew v Brew!
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Turned 50 yesterday. Been here since beta 1. :salute
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When I created AH i was 38. In a little over a week I will no longer be in my 50s.
HiTech
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When I created AH i was 38. In a little over a week I will no longer be in my 50s.
HiTech
I got you beat by 2 months. I turned 60 on May 16th of this year.
Craig.
BSB
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56 here....................
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When I created AH i was 38. In a little over a week I will no longer be in my 50s.
Which is why so many of us still call you "sonny."
- oldman
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When I created AH i was 38. In a little over a week I will no longer be in my 50s.
HiTech
I started playing when I was 19. I am now 39.
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I started playing when I was 19. I am now 39.
I started when I was 36. :old: :cheers:
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I started playing when I was 19. I am now 39.
LOL. Holy Cow. You were almost a sqeaker!
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i will be 40 15 years ago.
semp
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71 next month..... :airplane:
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LOL. Holy Cow. You were almost a sqeaker!
I had been playing sims for some time, I even owned AW3, but my dad wouldn't get Internet. I didn't have internet until I moved away to college. lol.
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63
One-eye
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I got you beat by 2 months. I turned 60 on May 16th of this year.
Craig.
BSB
I will be 60 in October this year
I continously played, first Warbirds, then Aces High from feb 1997 until a couple of months ago.
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I am 52. I got my first Windows PC in August of 2000 for doing college work at home, but made sure it was built strong enough to play flight sims at a decent quality/frame rate. I immediately got all the Jane's games. But I quickly discovered Warbirds and Aces High. I don't play AH online very often, but I am currently subscribed. I hope to see AH continue to exist as it remains one of the best WW2 air combat simulators and had led the way into VR.
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68 here started AH in 2009 I believe still play as often as I can Love it :aok :cheers:
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Plus some.
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God help us if there is a mandatory retirement age in Aces High.
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God help us if there is a mandatory retirement age in Aces High.
Did you not read your game contract?
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68 yrs
:old:
And cantankerous as ever
:rock
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Posted already in this thread. Now 66, hopefully 67 October...... :noid
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Funniest thing happened to me last week while visiting my life long friend since kindergarten.... A young 29/30 yr old asked me what was Vietnam like?
I said how old do you think I am, LOL, he said 65 to 70, too funny
I told him "I'm only 52"
Bet I could look 35 if I would color my hair and shave this silver & grey beard and mustache off
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I said how old do you think I am, LOL, he said 65 to 70, too funny
I told him "I'm only 52"
It's not the years; it's the mileage.
:D
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It's not the years; it's the mileage.
:D
Ain't that the truth :D
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It's not the years; it's the mileage.
:D
Some people age like fine wine, some age like milk.
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I'm older I'm 73 and enjoy it. :banana: