You know you are getting old when:

[Stearmen]

 

[Zombie_61]

 

[2jakes]

If you can remember this tune & movie!

 

[F. J.]

If you can remember this tune & movie!

I wonder if the lyrics would be appropriate to post . . .

 

[Zombie_61]

I wonder if the lyrics would be appropriate to post . . .

Surely you're thinking of the "Hitler parody" version, because the original "Colonel Bogey March" had no official lyrics.

That being said, I'd err on the side of caution and say no, the lyrics probably aren't appropriate for The Lounge.

 

[F. J.]

Surely you're thinking of the "Hitler parody" version, because the original "Colonel Bogey March" had no official lyrics. [...]

Precisely. “Coloney Bogey” was written in 1914, those lyrics not till ’39.

[...] That being said, I'd err on the side of caution and say no, the lyrics probably aren't appropriate for The Lounge.

Of course, there are still other lyrics to the tune:

“Comet, it makes your mouth turn green,
Comet, it tastes like gasoline,
Comet, it makes you vomit,
Go buy some Comet and vomit to-day!”

 

[Stearmen]

Precisely. “Coloney Bogey” was written in 1914, those lyrics not till ’39.



Of course, there are still other lyrics to the tune:

“Comet, it makes your mouth turn green,
Comet, it tastes like gasoline,
Comet, it makes you vomit,
Go buy some Comet and vomit to-day!”

Darn, you beat me to it!

 

[Stearmen]

Was he aiming at an empty chair?

 

[2jakes]

Is he aiming at an empty chair?

 

[GHT]

You know that you are getting old when you misinterpret text speak:
BFF Best Friend’s Funeral. BRB Bring Radio Back. BTW Bring The Wheelchair. GTG Good Time Granny IMO. In Monday’s Obituaries. Incontinence May Occur. LMAO Like Many Absentminded Oldies. LOL Little Old Lady. OMG Old Man Grumbling. OTW Open The Whisky. POS Proud of Senility. ROFL Retirement Opportunity, Fort Lauderdale. ROLFCGUA Roll Over Laughing on the Floor Can't Get Up Again. TTYL Try Taking Your Laxatives. WTF Where’s The Fire?
In the UK, the acronym OAP means Old Age Pensioner, I can only think of Old and Pissed, so if you can come up with something more imaginative................

 

[MisterCairo]

... you are watching the grey in your chest hair catch up with the grey flecks in your whiskers...

 

[Hurricane Jack]

You know you're getting older when you no longer get sales flyers & yearly catalogs from Bass Pro Shops & Cabelas but get junk mail for hearing aids & crematoriums instead!

 

[LizzieMaine]

Surely you're thinking of the "Hitler parody" version, because the original "Colonel Bogey March" had no official lyrics.

That being said, I'd err on the side of caution and say no, the lyrics probably aren't appropriate for The Lounge.

Around here that tune is universally remembered as the commercial jingle for Getty Oil. Be that as it may, there seems to be some historical evidence suggesting that Hitler was in fact monorchidal.

 

[2jakes]

In my youth I took chances without thinking of the consequences
& sometimes later I would worry about it.

Now, in my old age I take chances & I think of the consequences & I figure ---
what the hell --- what do I have to lose at this stage in my life.

 

[Lean'n'mean]

Saw this on bacefook, thought it might be relevant.

 

[GHT]

Old is an attitude of mind more than a number on a calendar. People expect you to be on a zimmer frame at 90. Shock 'em.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Saw this on bacefook, thought it might be relevant.

2:10 Haha! What's going on in his head??

 

[p51]

I know a former Navy SEAL who's in his late 50s that shows the wear of that lifestyle in his face but also looks like he's carved from a block of wood. He can still out-PT anyone a third of his age. They should have put him in that video.

 

[Zombie_61]

You know that you are getting old when you misinterpret text speak...

That's why I dislike acronyms. If you're too lazy to type out the words, you deserve to be misunderstood.

 

[GHT]

Text speak like thx for thanks seems less common, maybe it's because phones have progressed. Now phones have a one tap keyboard and word predict so there's no need to labouriously tap one. twice, three times for the letter 'C' and the same for the rest of the message. But in the early days of text I would receive such gobbledegook that I sent back my own acronym. IEM. In English McGee.