I'm old

[securespark]

In that case, Dam, you should change your signature to:

His vorpal blade went creaky-creak.

 

[Richardp]

hmm, something funny here, I used to listen to radio 4 in bed when I was 8. Great for getting up to.

Umm! Great for getting up to?

 

[ohmygodwhathaveyoudone]

the only good thing about being 40 is .........erm.............erm...........erm...........

 

[andy]

the only good thing about being 40 is .........erm.............erm...........erm...........

go on.....

you can tell us

 

[ohmygodwhathaveyoudone]

erm.........erm..........erm.........

 

[ohmygodwhathaveyoudone]

well its ......oh no its gone again.

 

[petewood]

I think I wrote it down somewhere....

 

[pipme]

the only good thing about being 40 is .........erm.............erm...........erm...........

Not being 41?

 

[securespark]

Best thing about 40:

Is that you are older than you were, but younger than you'll ever be again!

 

[andy]

Best thing about 40:

Is that you are older than you were, but younger than you'll ever be again!

i wish i was a bit older.... and by that then i should have finished my time...

 

[Thermo]

hey securespark, live aid was 20 years ago not 30, so dont feel so old mate, ive got the dvd set and ive started watching it with the missus, and we remember it like yesterday

Damocles....what the hell is a vorpel blade?????

 

[securespark]

Thermo - the live aid reference and the 30 years were supposed to be seperate, but the sound connected when I read it back...

As for the blade, this is what I wrote in another thread:

Sorry to change the subject. I may be a past-it git, but WTF is a vorpal blade? And what does snicker-snack sound like?

And the reply was:

Jabberwocky

'Twas brillig and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxnome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.

'Twas brillig and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

-- Lewis Carroll

 

[felix]

Believe it or not, there is - or was when I was 40 - an advantage to being forty. You could insure a motorcycle without taking out a second mortgage.

That was over ten years ago. The way things are going at the moment you have to be over fifty to get really cheap car insurance - and you have to be Barry Sheen just to get a motorcycle license!

 

[kendor]

Woodstock 36 yrs ago! can still remember how crowded our local cinema was when it first came out but what a festival and what the atmosphere must have been like actually there.

 

[Richardp]

And when you get to fifty your phone will ring and the man from delmonty oh! no not them, the man from Saga holidays will welcome you to the old geezers club. This really did happen to a friend of mine, we went to the pub to celebrate his 50th and as we stubbled home his phone rang and it was them, the colour went out of his cheeks and he said "how the **** did you get my number? and how come you know its my 50th birthday.