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    You know you are getting old when:

    Neither did I. But I knew a couple of people who had an old Victrola with a small collection of records. I remember one recording in particular: Tiptoe through the tulips. It wasn't the Tiny Tim version, either. One of the critical points of technology for the old Victrola, and which was still...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    When you remember when vinyl wasn't vinyl and was played at 78 rpm.
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    Things I'll miss when retired

    I have no dreams that involve being employed again. But as it happens, I haven't actually retired yet and my retirement date is only penciled in. Much depends on my new boss and what happens in the next few months.
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    You know you are getting old when:

    You know you're getting old when all those pop groups that your parents didn't care for can be found in the easy listening section of the record store. But you think you're in some kind of time warp when your favorite German music retailer, the one where you buy all the German, Swiss and...
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    Things I'll miss when retired

    One thing I will not miss is waking up at 2:00 AM worrying about something at work. I know worry isn't supposed to help but actually thinking about it does. Sometimes, anyway. Since my boss retired week before last, I'm doing more of that. However much I might miss the nice people at work and...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    You'll have to explain what authentically phony is to me. I've never heard of that. But most of the stuff here I understand. I recall a cartoon published somewhere probably 40 years ago that showed a carload or two of young hipsters, presumably with money, stopping in front of some very...
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    If you had a conversation with a person in 1770 would they understand?

    There are many movies and radio shows from the Golden Age I've never seen or heard (yet), including those with Claghorn. But I saw enough of one to remember one line in particular. Apparently his movies were basically situation comedies. He is sitting on the back steps talking to his dog...
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    The Adventurer's Gear Thread

    I read other forums, you must know, and one of them is about hermits. Don't ask why. Many writers I like to read, as I've already mentioned, while not hermits, either never married or made much of an effort to behave as thought they had. But purely by coincidence, a blog about hermits just...
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    The Adventurer's Gear Thread

    For those who crave adventure, just look around you. Adventure, if you can call is that, is where you find it. "I'm scared of it all, God's truth! so I am; It's too big and brutal for me. My nerve's on the raw and I don't give a damn For all the "hoorah" that I see. I'm pinned between subway...
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    The Adventurer's Gear Thread

    Oh my gosh! I had one that looked exactly like that, although mind did not have the military-style bumpers. I haven't seen one in ages. Mine was a 1965. It suffered a collision in 1972, I think it was. But you should have seen the other car.
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    You know you are getting old when:

    I worked for photofinishing companies for about 25 years but I left before photofinishing became an obsolete industry. One of the buildings became a leading Washington, D.C., area music venue (The Birchmere). I happened to see a column in the Washington Post this week about a columnist who...
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    If you had a conversation with a person in 1770 would they understand?

    Oh, yes, that's exactly what I meant. Some people were especially good with accents, regardless of whether or not the accent was correct or authentic in the context. Someone once wondered why German officers in the movies always had British accents but I guess James Mason is to blame. (James Fox...
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    If you had a conversation with a person in 1770 would they understand?

    It probably wouldn't be worth the difference. The difference, I think, is not in everything but only in certain things. But when everything is put together, if you follow me, the whole package is different. But you are correct; only a local individual would even notice the difference--maybe. But...
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    Things I'll miss when retired

    My wife and I talk a lot about retiring and being retired and are slowly developing plans for the day. I was telling her there will be no Mondays when we retire. Every day will be either a Saturday or a Sunday. I will miss Friday, the day I like the most, even though it is often the most...
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    Film Noir Office

    My father used to work for a large, old-fashioned laundry where he was a route man. I went with him a lot in the summer, so I got to see the office a lot. It definitely had a film-noir feel to it (after all, it was the early 1950s). The office was separated from the plant by a wall and the door...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    I'm not sure I agree with that, although I try not to become angry or stressed out by the way other drivers behave on the road in the evening when I'm going home. There are some very aggressive drivers around here and Type A personalities. Fortunately, most of them are fairly good drivers. But...
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    Things I'll miss when retired

    My wife is also a schoolteacher and is retiring after the end of this term. She has exhausted herself teaching 5th grade. I am 70 myself and still on the job but I also plan on retiring around the end of summer, by which time I will be 71. My late father-in-law retired when he was about 58 and...
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    If you had a conversation with a person in 1770 would they understand?

    Or like in .30-06? I think accents are still as strong as ever and I also think people may be more aware of their accent and speech patterns than they used to be, although that is doubtful. The dictionary says (mine does, anyway) there are only three accents: basically Northern, Southern, and...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    I hadn't thought of the present day as "normal" but I guess it is at that. We bought a cemetery plot last year. It's the same cemetery where several of my wife's relatives are or will be buried. Werner Von Braun is buried in the same cemetery, which is just a coincidence. But it's a weird...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    Nothing much is happening to us that didn't happen to previous generations somewhere along the line. Everyone loses their parents and their friends. Everyone, if they're lucky, gets old and finds out what it feels like. The world has always seemed like it was spinning out of control. There's...

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