30 years ago, Phil Lynott passed
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https://twitter.com/thinkgeek/status/948657403008094210
Star Trek references like that never fail to make me feel my age. Uff-da.
Well, I got my first pair of glasses today. I'm officially old.
Welcome to the wonderful world of Geriatric-dom! Now that you've got them, you can look forward to never being able to find them when you need them. I blame it on kids outside walking on my grass. >:( BTW, How many fingers am I holding up?
One. The middle one to be specific.
Don't need them for reading, just distance.
I started wearing reading glasses about 15 years ago, when I turned 40. The decline of my eyes has stabilized so that I only have to wear +1.5 for reading. For doing detail work on my bike or my games, I have to wear more powerful magnifiers.
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I was gonna say, quit yer bitchin', I too have been wearing the blasted things since 2nd grade.
My eyesight is 20/15 with my glasses on :nerd:
My eyesight actually improved at my last eye exam...but that was two years ago. I haven't had time to go for a new one yet. Because of the way my insurance is, I got new glasses about a year or so ago, so they'll be good for a while. Plus I have contacts that will work too, but they're a pain to put in.
My eyesight stabilized several years ago. Doc says I'm a perfect candidate for Lasik but I'm not sure I want to take the chance.
^ Me, either (not wanting to take a chance with Lasik). Years ago back when this laser eye surgery thing first started, I went in to get a free exam. The doctor told me my corneas were borderline too thin. He said I could do the procedure, but couldn't guarantee there wouldn't be issues down the road. I'd hope that the technology has improved in the last couple of decades (lol) though.
Quote from: bbmike on January 09, 2018, 07:00:09 AM
My eyesight stabilized several years ago. Doc says I'm a perfect candidate for Lasik but I'm not sure I want to take the chance.
I had mine back in '07. I'm glad I did, tho now I wear a light prescription for driving at night.
That said, the Lasik procedure was the most terrifying thing I've ever gone thru. It is truly scary as shit.
I had my LASIK done in 2003. Got a nice discount for 'knowing a guy'.
It is indeed not for the faint of heart. If offered the chance to watch a video of the procedure before making up your mind, I strongly suggest saying 'NO!" to the viewing unless you really wanted to dissuade yourself anyway.
Quote from: Staggerwing on January 09, 2018, 08:03:55 PM
I had my LASIK done in 2003. Got a nice discount for 'knowing a guy'.
It is indeed not for the faint of heart. If offered the chance to watch a video of the procedure before making up your mind, I strongly suggest saying 'NO!" to the viewing unless you really wanted to dissuade yourself anyway.
I had a gum graft procedure where they cut into the roof of my mouth for tissue and grafted it over a missing gum area (after 'cleaning' that area). It can't be as bad as that bad.
That sounds painfull as all hel.
LASIK actually didn't hurt at all. The cornea is numbed up so you don't feel either the scalpel or laser.
It's the ancillary sensory experiences-
The sense of great pressure on you eyeball from the suction ring holding it in place.
The sudden blurred vision when a trapdoor-like portion of your cornea is cut away and flipped aside exposing the stroma beneath.
The WHAMWHAMWHAMWHAM of the excimer laser vaporizing tiny bits of the aforementioned stroma, accompanied by the smell of burning hair (what was bits of your eyeball).
The unnatural visual effect of the corneal flap getting re positioned back over the rest of the eye.
Getting bandaged up into complete blindness, to stay that way for hours of healing followed by only moments of light when you apply all the prophylactic antibiotic and steroidal eyedrops every few hours.
Nope, it didn't hurt at all. It's just a really trippy experience. And very much worth it all. O0
About 12 years ago I had lens replacement surgery done because of cataracts in both eyes. It was well worth it.
don't forget the color loss when the cornea peels back, and you feel like you're in an alien-abduction film
I think I'll stick with losing my glasses. :coolsmiley:
:wow:
Yeah, uh...no. Glasses, please!
Anyhoo, got my official "You're eligible for retirement pay!" letter from Uncle Sam, so that's twenty plus-ish years down. Time to get fat and grow a beard!
^ Don't forget the suspenders!
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Good and bad to getting old. The good: Now you've got an excuse to be rude to people you don't like and to stare at young girls, just not too young, and to be slow at your work and forget stuff. Bitching about everything comes more easily and when you do something very rarely sweet, people say, "Ahhhh, isn't that sweet". O:-) The older you get, the younger you're allowed to act and get away with it. But that's usually because they feel sorry for you or they just want you to go away. Either way works for me.
The Bad: See all the above. Plus, DOCTORS! At some point you go see one for something and as Admiral Ackbar told me, "It's a TRAP"! You never get to stop seeing them ever again. Ever. But their receptionists are young so.... see the above 'good'. And everything gets stiff. Except what you WANT to be stiff, that gets more..... flexible. The stiffness gets worse, never gets better, and then the pains begin until.... your back to the Doctor Trap. :hide:
I think of getting old as God's way of making us want to get to Heaven more quickly. And it is not for the Weak. So be strong Brother. You're going where only the Tough can survive. :notworthy:
Now I'm really depressed.
Quote from: Gusington on January 10, 2018, 10:25:58 AM
Now I'm really depressed.
Don't let getting old get you down despite the golden years not being what they are cracked up to be. Look on the bright side of things: you can draw your Social Security at the age of 62 (if it's still solvent and you live to be 62); you can get Medicare at age 65; you also get a break on your taxes when you get old; you get Senior discounts; once you retire you will have the time to play the games you've been buying. All these reasons and more should help you appreciate getting older a little bit more.
Here's a little joke to wind up this post:
Do you know why life is like a roll of toilet paper? Because the closer you get to the end of it the faster it goes. ;D
Now have fun and live until you die.
Quote from: Greybriar on January 10, 2018, 12:12:45 PM
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Now have fun and live until you die.
Great motto for any age... :)
Quote from: Labbug on January 09, 2018, 09:09:47 PM
About 12 years ago I had lens replacement surgery done because of cataracts in both eyes. It was well worth it.
Me, too. I was young (at the time) for cataract surgery but the cataracts were smack in the middle of my lenses and that added some urgency to the process.
I still need to wear reading glasses and I have some leftover astigmatism in one eye but I can legally drive without glasses for the first time since I was 16. I started wearing glasses for myopia in 6th grade.
I hit the big 6-0 this year. I can't complain. My last physical was good.
I had both my eyes done this year as well. Like you, I use reading glasses, but driving is now a joy (other road users notwithstanding) and my distance vision is excellent.
I've been with my wife for 30 years in May this year and been married for 25 in June! :'( ;D
Quote from: JudgeDredd on January 11, 2018, 01:29:32 AM
I've been with my wife for 30 years in May this year and been married for 25 in June! :'( ;D
We're coming up on our 35th anniversary this July.
Quote from: JudgeDredd on January 11, 2018, 01:29:32 AM
I've been with my wife for 30 years in May this year and been married for 25 in June! :'( ;D
I've also been under lock and key for 25 years this year JD.....September for me though
Quote from: trailrunner on January 11, 2018, 06:18:56 AM
Quote from: JudgeDredd on January 11, 2018, 01:29:32 AM
I've been with my wife for 30 years in May this year and been married for 25 in June! :'( ;D
We're coming up on our 35th anniversary this July.
36th in May. O0
43rd in March :)
20 For us back in September. My wife is a tolerant type. :notworthy:
Quote from: Sir Slash on January 11, 2018, 11:06:49 AM
20 For us back in September. My wife is a tolerant type. :notworthy:
Either that or incredibly lazy :P
Are the two mutually exclusive?
I have been with The Wife for 21 years this year, 16 of them married. Holy crap.
Is she aware of that? ;D At Twenty your 'A' game has to kick in cause their friends at the Hair Salon starts telling them it's time to trade-up. So resort to the 'Pretend Interest' in house remodeling or trips to romantic places that cost a lot of money. Jewelry also works along with taking her car shopping. In some cases you may have to actually listen to her in conversations while sports is on TV-- extreme I know. If all else fails, start picking-up your underware off the bedroom floor.
Trade up? Damn your eyes!
on the left is actor Kevin James; on the right is future WWE star Mick Foley
we all looked like dorks back in high school, huh?
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Not me. I was hot. That's why I stayed in High School 6 years. :uglystupid2:
School of continuing education eh? I graduated with a kid like that. He was supposed to graduate in 1987 and graduated with me...in 1992 :)
So, he must have gone into politics then. Perfect fit.
https://thechive.com/2018/01/11/life-before-the-internet-was-so-much-simpler/
Good stuff there. Ever since phone booths have gone away, I don't know WHERE people go to have sex in public now?
Well do I remember the first time I called a girl and her dad picked up. I had never met the man and was frightened to death to ask for her.
Hot Wheels cars turned 50 on Jan. 4th.... :P
BC your tale of terror reminds me of what my father in law, dad to four girls, used to do when callers of all types would call his house to look for one of them.
"Is [one of your pretty, buxom daughters] there?"
"Yes."
Dad then hangs up phone. Every time.
In September it will be 33 years of marriage and 38 together for us.
Very good airboy. O0 You're an inspiration to us all.
My mother asked me if I wanted one of her nitro tabs to take on my vacation. I thought the better of telling her that I'd only need one of those if I was to continue to be around her for another month. :DD
^Ha!
35 years ago, Fraggle Rock hit the air
Quote from: bayonetbrant on January 28, 2018, 09:37:38 PM
35 years ago, Fraggle Rock hit the air
Never watched a single episode.
Seriously? You missed out, brother.
Yeah! The dozers and the Shambling Mound. \m/
Dude, Fraggle Rock was AWESOME.
And it's REAL!
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Was that a show about 'Pet Rocks'? Because the one I had died. :'(
Fraggle Rock was awesome, I think I have seen most of them.
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THAT is pretty funny :)
Molly Ringwald turns 50 today
Quote from: bayonetbrant on February 18, 2018, 02:25:07 PM
Molly Ringwald turns 50 today
She had a great cameo in
Not Another Teen Movie. One of her epic quotes from that film was, "f*cking teenagers." ;D
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^lmao!
MASH finale was 35 years ago
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/mash-oral-history-untold-stories-one-tvs-important-shows-1086322
^Ouch.
Cheers finale was 25 years ago.
Seinfeld finale was 20 years ago.
Quote from: mirth on February 25, 2018, 09:42:26 AM
MASH finale was 35 years ago
I got my B.S. degree 35 years ago, and I got married 35 years ago.
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https://twitter.com/gamespot/status/972687307181559809
I remember thinking it was completely unfunny...
I still think that.
I was never much of a fan. And Aeon Flux was just weird.
I had been called 'Butthead' so many times I nearly copy write sued over that show.
Beetlejuice 30th anniversary yesterday
http://variety.com/gallery/beetlejuice-cast-where-are-they-now/#!1/beetlejuice_new
That's twice in one post! Don't say it again or else he will..... you know what. :hide:
BEETLEGUS BEETLEGUS BEETLEGUS
That will summon extra-dimensional dongles.
50th anniversary of the 2001 premiere
https://twitter.com/airandspace/status/980853019775467521
The creation of NASA was proposed 60 years ago.
https://twitter.com/NASAhistory/status/980837266242396160/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nasa.gov%2F
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Quote from: bbmike on January 09, 2018, 07:00:09 AM
My eyesight stabilized several years ago. Doc says I'm a perfect candidate for Lasik but I'm not sure I want to take the chance.
I had mine back in '07. I'm glad I did, tho now I wear a light prescription for driving at night.
That said, the Lasik procedure was the most terrifying thing I've ever gone thru. It is truly scary as shit.
I know very little about the procedure other than what the TV ads say.
Once it is done, is it all over with? Does your vision not deteriorate after it is done, and also does it not make patients more vulnerable to macular problems with the retina leading to poor vision in the longer term? I just don't know, and wondered about this as I thought about going through this procedure. I'm just concerned if it can just make things worse in the long term?
Fifty years ago today, on 8 April 1968, I reported in at Oakland, California for deployment to Vietnam. While it doesn't seem like yesterday, it doesn't seem like it's been 50 years ago either!
Quote from: Greybriar on April 08, 2018, 07:44:13 AM
Fifty years ago today, on 8 April 1968, I reported in at Oakland, California for deployment to Vietnam. While it doesn't seem like yesterday, it doesn't seem like it's been 50 years ago either!
I think you just won the thread.
Quote from: Greybriar on April 08, 2018, 07:44:13 AM
Fifty years ago today, on 8 April 1968, I reported in at Oakland, California for deployment to Vietnam. While it doesn't seem like yesterday, it doesn't seem like it's been 50 years ago either!
I was born the month before you left.
I had only just emigrated to the USA two years earlier, at 3 years old.
My brother served in Vietnam. Thank you both for your service. O0
Quote from: Ubercat on April 08, 2018, 02:03:16 PM
Quote from: Greybriar on April 08, 2018, 07:44:13 AM
Fifty years ago today, on 8 April 1968, I reported in at Oakland, California for deployment to Vietnam. While it doesn't seem like yesterday, it doesn't seem like it's been 50 years ago either!
I was born the month before you left.
My parents hadn't met yet when you left :-"
I was born in Oakland (Oak Knoll Naval Hospital) 7 years to the month before you left.
On the bright side, you're alive so that you can feel old. I had just started to play wargames (Blitzkrieg) about that time.
Thanks for your kind words everyone. I expected to be killed during my tour of duty in Vietnam and feel that I have been living on borrowed time ever since.
20 years since the Seinfeld Finale
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/seinfeld-finale-at-20-hidden-tales-vault-a-comedians-bizarro-world-1111377
Holy crap. I remember all the parties people we're throwing at bars in Monterey when I was working at Kinko's.
People threw Seinfeld parties? ???
Quote from: bbmike on May 13, 2018, 07:06:56 PM
People threw Seinfeld parties? ???
I think every bar in walking distance of my Kinko's branch down in New Monterey had a party for the Seinfeld finale.
That is a rough one :buck2:
Wow! Poor Kramer. I bet time has not been good to him.
Never got into Seinfeld.
I've been re-watching Night Court in memory of Harry Anderson's passing. Really surprised how many cameos were on this one, both major and minor...Don Cheadle, Nana Visitor, most of the actors from Not Necessarily The News, Gary Grossman (the little creepy shrimp/dork from Bachelor Party), and several others.
WOW Not Necessarily the News!
Yep. Sans Rich Hall, the Sniglets guy. I've seen Stuart Pankin a couple of times, Anne Bloom once, and Mitchell Lawrence several times.
Brent Spiner shows up as a semi-regular.
Oh yeah, totally forgot about Brent. They even had them buying the news stand in the cafeteria but then they mysteriously disappeared. I think that might have had something to do with Brent moving on to TNG.
The Wife is similar and loses her mind in a bad way if Curb Your Enthusiasm is ever on the tv.
I never got the appeal of Curb Your Enthusiasm either. Nor Arrested Development.
I loved Arrested Development. It reminded me of working in the Crazy House back in the day.
Never dug Arrested Development. Got Seinfeld, just thought it was stupid. Funny as hell on occasion, but, dumb nonetheless.
I'm with you on Seinfeld, MD. I usually like goofy shit too, but this was a different plane for me.
I saw a VERY young yet hawt Terri Hatcher on a Night Court episode; she was telling the Dan Fielding character she wanted to sit on his lap and suck his fillings out. ;)
www.graduationplaylist.com
you're welcome... uh, I mean, "I'm sorry"
Quote from: bayonetbrant on May 16, 2018, 01:47:17 PM
www.graduationplaylist.com
you're welcome... uh, I mean, "I'm sorry"
Only goes back to 1950. Bob and Windi are out of luck.
Quote from: mirth on May 16, 2018, 01:49:55 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on May 16, 2018, 01:47:17 PM
www.graduationplaylist.com
you're welcome... uh, I mean, "I'm sorry"
Only goes back to 1950. Bob and Windi are out of luck.
it could go back to 1950 BC and Windi would be out of luck
1950 is a bit before my time. Was Windy around when banging rocks and sticks together in a cave constituted music?
Ah Cutting Crew. That takes me back.
Guess you gotta be bald and jewish and enjoy a good round of cunnilingus to enjoy Curb Your Enthusiasm more.
Quote from: bayonetbrant on May 16, 2018, 01:47:17 PM
www.graduationplaylist.com
you're welcome... uh, I mean, "I'm sorry"
How do I get it to automatically skip all the crap?
Quote from: Staggerwing on May 16, 2018, 06:50:19 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on May 16, 2018, 01:47:17 PM
www.graduationplaylist.com
you're welcome... uh, I mean, "I'm sorry"
How do I get it to automatically skip all the crap?
Go back in time and graduate in a different year.
Then it'd be same crap, different year.
Quote from: Staggerwing on May 16, 2018, 07:27:46 PM
Then it'd be same crap, different year.
Story of my life.
Quote from: Staggerwing on May 16, 2018, 07:27:46 PM
Then it'd be same crap, different year.
Yeah, type in 2017. That'll put you in the "Feeling Old" category for sure.
Did they even have music back when some of youse graduated high school? :P
A great band played at my graduation. Called, "Sticks and Rocks". Cause that's what they played.
Quote from: BanzaiCat on May 17, 2018, 07:28:45 AM
Did they even have music back when some of youse graduated high school? :P
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Archie Bunker was actually a Bolshie sleeper agent.
I called him Grandpa.
No way, because Archie Bunker was basically MY grandpa. :)
Won't you two be surprised when you open up your 23andMe results...
I would like to welcome my new Jewish brother.
Fifty years ago this August I entered the first grade.
Fifty years ago this August I was dating a First Grade Teacher. She kept me after school. ::)
Quote from: Sir Slash on May 19, 2018, 10:12:10 PM
Fifty years ago this August I was dating a First Grade Teacher. She kept me after school. ::)
Did she spank you?
There are kids going to college who had not even been born when the Technoviking first appeared on Youtube.
The song 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins always made me feel old. Figured it was meant mainly for kids born in 1979 and since it came out in the mid-90s, they were teens then, but now they're almost 40 themselves.
Quote from: Staggerwing on May 20, 2018, 08:27:52 AMwhen the Technoviking first appeared on Youtube.
YouTube started in 2005, so it's only 13 years old.
I'm pretty sure the Technoviking predates YouTube by quite a while, of course.
Quote from: BanzaiCat on May 20, 2018, 08:29:40 AMThe song 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins always made me feel old. Figured it was meant mainly for kids born in 1979 and since it came out in the mid-90s, they were teens then, but now they're almost 40 themselves.
It was written about Billy Corgan's experiences in 1979 when he was starting his teenage years
Quote from: bayonetbrant on May 20, 2018, 08:42:10 AM
Quote from: Staggerwing on May 20, 2018, 08:27:52 AMwhen the Technoviking first appeared on Youtube.
YouTube started in 2005, so it's only 13 years old.
I'm pretty sure the Technoviking predates YouTube by quite a while, of course.
You're right about youtube, though Technoviking is from a Berlin street festival from 2000.
QuoteMayim Bialik, who played the young Bette Midler in Beaches, is now as old as Bette Midler was when the movie was filmed.
According to my sources, Sammy Hagar is now 71...or will be this October. My God.
Clint Eastwood is 88 today.
Lea Thompson is 57 today.
Lea Thompson is still quite hawt.
Quote from: OJsDad on May 31, 2018, 08:04:57 AMLea Thompson is 57 today.
Ouch. She was my childhood crush.
Quote from: bayonetbrant on May 31, 2018, 09:30:32 AM
Quote from: OJsDad on May 31, 2018, 08:04:57 AMLea Thompson is 57 today.
Ouch. She was my childhood crush.
What, you think your too old to still have a childhood crush.
Quote from: OJsDad on May 31, 2018, 09:34:49 AM
What, you think your too old to still have a childhood crush.
good point
I sure don't act like an adult
That's the whole point of being old. You can now get away with not acting like an adult. You can now be crude, offensive, rude to people, prejudiced, and leer at young women because you're just being a, 'Funny Old Guy'.
Even armed robbery can be explained as just trying to support ourselves on Social Security. Of course you have to sell it, walk slowly with a slight limp hunched-over a bit, say, "What" when somebody asks you something while cupping your hand over your ear-- it doesn't matter which one, act sad and confused when you wander accidently into the Women's Dressing Room at major department stores.
When you eat out, demand discounts from organizations that don't even exist, somebody will give you something free just to shut you up. Shoplifting? No, just say you're trying to find where you left your teeth, pucker when you say this, it helps. Pay to see a movie? No, just ask if 'Mannix' is playing here tonight. Grope some young girl in line? Just tell her you lost your glasses or she reminds you of your 'lost' wife recently 'departed'. Oh, and handcuffs don't fit either.
I've waited all my life to be old so I can annoy everyone around me and get away with it. Just like old people used to do me. O0
Slash, are you really Morgan Freeman.
I'm old enough to be Morgan Freeman when he was Joe Clark.
^Welcome to the jungle.
32 years ago
[yt]https://youtu.be/ISPHII9F1nQ[/yt]
^I would feel more embarrassed than old if I had watched that.
And one time at Space Camp...
Quote from: mirth on June 07, 2018, 07:25:57 AM
And one time at Space Camp...
If the stories involved Lea Thompson or Kelly Preston you would tell them all. the. time.
Quote from: bayonetbrant on June 07, 2018, 08:02:06 AM
Quote from: mirth on June 07, 2018, 07:25:57 AM
And one time at Space Camp...
If the stories involved Lea Thompson or Kelly Preston you would tell them all. the. time.
Not in this day and age.
It's movies like that that made the first computer games look like a viable entertainment alternative. ;D
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Large abandoned Victorian houses were NEVER a good thing to go into back in the 80's. Especially if they had 'wide porches'. Still, if you don't go in... there's no game so, they've got you.!
There's usually a sneaky snake around.
Quote from: bbmike on June 07, 2018, 09:11:28 AM
There's usually a sneaky snake around.
And we have a new nickname for Gus.
Quote from: bbmike on June 07, 2018, 09:11:28 AM
There's usually a sneaky snake around.
there's usually one around Kelly Preston, too
Mirth's mom loved my sneaky snake.
Mom's still dead, Sneaky Snake.
I didn't do that.
https://twitter.com/thinkgeek/status/1006262891765469185
https://twitter.com/FilmNewsNos/status/1014547102150610946
still an all-time top 5 war movie
Yeah. Great Escape and Patton are two of my all-time favorites.
My Dad took me to see Patton at the drive-in (when it was new) when I was a young kid (he was a career paratrooper - that explains a lot).
O0
Animal House turns 40 tomorrow
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/animal-house-cast-now-john-belushi-tim-matheson-more-1126335
I can't look. :hide:
Quote from: mirth on July 27, 2018, 10:12:45 AM
Animal House turns 40 tomorrow
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/animal-house-cast-now-john-belushi-tim-matheson-more-1126335
Speaking of 40 years ago -- I'm going to see Jimmy Buffett next weekend. The first (of many) times that I saw him was in San Diego in 1978 (might've been 1977), 40 years ago! I was 17 years old then, and Buffett was about 32.
This time, I'm going with my daughters and their husbands. No grandkids (yet), but I'm still come a long way since then.
Quote from: Sir Slash on July 27, 2018, 12:23:27 PM
I can't look. :hide:
Good idea- I know it's tempting but you don't want to fall off that long ladder again, do you?
Or the short one.
Denial can be a true and steadfast friend. And I refuse to believe otherwise.
Quote from: trailrunner on July 27, 2018, 03:22:19 PM
Quote from: mirth on July 27, 2018, 10:12:45 AM
Animal House turns 40 tomorrow
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/animal-house-cast-now-john-belushi-tim-matheson-more-1126335
Speaking of 40 years ago -- I'm going to see Jimmy Buffett next weekend. The first (of many) times that I saw him was in San Diego in 1978 (might've been 1977), 40 years ago! I was 17 years old then, and Buffett was about 32.
This time, I'm going with my daughters and their husbands. No grandkids (yet), but I'm still come a long way since then.
I would never have pegged you as a Parrot Head.
eeesh
QuoteThe Astros' July 31, 1998 trade for The Big Unit, a late-night blockbuster that stunned baseball and led to the most dominant two months of a storied career, turns 20 years old on Tuesday. Two decades later, it stands as both a prime example of the potential impact of a rental player and a case study in the long-term risk of parting with elite prospects.
I found out today that a giant office campus I worked at 15 years ago is being torn down for condos...the place was soul extinguishing so I don't know why it's demise is making me feel so old and a little sad.
Quote from: Gusington on July 30, 2018, 11:37:13 AM
I found out today that a giant office campus I worked at 15 years ago is being torn down for condos...the place was soul extinguishing so I don't know why it's demise is making me feel so old and a little sad.
Probably because you are thinking about those condo dwellers being haunted by all those extinguished souls!
How big were the Giants who lived there and where did they move to? Are they the same ones who fall flat on their asses every year in the NFL?
Well it's not like they're the Jets. Come on. Now.
I can definitely see the lost souls haunting this new and very expensive condo complex. There is no soul more vexed than one that has been swallowed up by the traditional print publishing industry.
I know this first hand, unfortunately.
50 years ago Russian tanks ended the 'Prague Spring'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Spring
I well remember that. Even a youngling, I felt bad for the Czechs.
This one is more 'Feeling Very Old'.
https://www.space.com/42287-war-of-the-worlds-broadcast-alien-invasion-reaction.html
On this day (Oct. 30) 80 years ago, actor Orson Welles announced to audiences in a chilling radio performance that Martians were invading New Jersey, leading terrified listeners to believe that Earth was under attack by hostile aliens.
Original full broadcast included !
That sure wouldn't be believable today. If aliens landed in N.J. today, it would probably scare them so badly they would drop their Anal Probes getting outta town in such a hurry. Thank you New Jersy for being so scary. :clap: