You know you are getting old when:

[tonyb]

^^^^^
Cursory research discloses that the Mission Impossible theme is NOT a Henry Mancini composition, although he and his orchestra recorded the version heard on the TV show.

 

[Inkstainedwretch]

^^^^^
Cursory research discloses that the Mission Impossible theme is NOT a Henry Mancini composition, although he and his orchestra recorded the version heard on the TV show.

The hell with Mission Impossible. It was Mancini's music for "Peter Gunn" that kicked ass.

 

[Lean'n'mean]

and remarked that I should have a soundtrack! Hmmm, the theme from "Shaft", "Sharp Dressed Man", anyone have any suggestions?

You could borrow this one

 

[GHT]

Perhaps the chorus of that Muddy Waters song, sung by Etta James might give you a swagger:
And I can tell by the way you walk that walk
And I can hear by the way you talk that talk
And I can know by the way you treat your girl
That I could give you all the loving in the whole wide world.

 

[Zombie_61]

Who's talking about 'dating'.....it's not because you're on a diet that you can't look at the menu.

True, but what good does it do to look at the menu when you can't eat the food?

 

[KILO NOVEMBER]

It occurs that people under the age of, say, 40, might recognize the melody but couldn't say what it is. And they probably couldn't say just who Henry Mancini was, either. (But they know his work, even if they don't know they know.)

People under forty will know the (writer holds nose) Tom Cruise movies, but not the 1960's original TV series. You know you're getting old when that pup Cruise starts to look old. Lalo Schifrin, by the way.

 

[Trenchfriend]

In my youth, at the 90's, I liked much of the 80's stuff and older and I was always VERY astonished, how much unknown all the older music-stars were to the other (school)kids, which were really only busy with their boring, curious or stupid kiddie-whatever-discostuff, which was not even the regular chartmusic-stuff, but rather kiddie-versions of teenage charts! And this lasted until the end of 10th schoolgrade! It was no problem to me. I just wondered about that.

 

[MisterCairo]

Line from the English comedy skit "The Old Gits" from the show Harry Enfield and Friends:

"Life begins at 40? Try telling that to John Lennon..."

 

[Lean'n'mean]

True, but what good does it do to look at the menu when you can't eat the food?

What good does it do looking at hats when you're never going to wear them ?

 

[2jakes]

True, but what good does it do to look at the menu when you can't eat the food?

“ Here’s looking at you, kid!"...

 

[Stearmen]

 

[Stearmen]

Line from the English comedy skit "The Old Gits" from the show Harry Enfield and Friends:

"Life begins at 40? Try telling that to John Lennon..."

Or as they said here in the states, "life begins at 50!" I am sure Steve McQueen would not agree!

 

[Zombie_61]

What good does it do looking at hats when you're never going to wear them ?

But my wife will let me buy hats.

^ Just to be clear, I abandoned the metaphor there.

 

[2jakes]

But my wife will let me buy hats.

 

[Lean'n'mean]

"life begins at 50!" I am sure Steve McQueen would not agree!

"Life begins at 40? Try telling that to John Lennon..."

Sometimes life is over before it has began for us common mortals......... at least those two above knew how to live..

 

[Edward]

People under forty will know the (writer holds nose) Tom Cruise movies, but not the 1960's original TV series. You know you're getting old when that pup Cruise starts to look old. Lalo Schifrin, by the way.

Saw a picture of Cruise recently - looksl ike the last tiem he went under the knife, he asked the surgeon to make him look "more like Richard Gere". Eep.

 

[BlueTrain]

I started to realize I was getting old when it had been longer since I got out of the army than the time between my father got out of the army and I went in. That was 28 years ago. It's now been nine years since my son got out of the army, too. Ah, but I am not yet a grandfather!

 

[Edward]

Losing one of my beloved cats to kidney failure in recent weeks has me thinking about all the others I've loved and lost over the years. I realised my first cat died twenty-three years ago last month: he's been gone for almost double his own lifetime. Still miss the old bugger terribly.

 

[GHT]

Losing one of my beloved cats to kidney failure in recent weeks has me thinking about all the others I've loved and lost over the years. I realised my first cat died twenty-three years ago last month: he's been gone for almost double his own lifetime. Still miss the old bugger terribly.

Edward, cats rule us, dominate our lives, give you a look, after scolding them, that says: "And your problem is?" They can break your heart and then heal it again with one gentle rub of their face. If you go to this web site, you can leave a tribute.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Losing one of my beloved cats to kidney failure in recent weeks has me thinking about all the others I've loved and lost over the years. I realised my first cat died twenty-three years ago last month: he's been gone for almost double his own lifetime. Still miss the old bugger terribly.

As long as you remember them they're never entirely gone.