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 From:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)    3 Jun 2014 10:57 
 To:  JonCooper     ANT_THOMAS      22 of 45 
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You guys sure know how to cheer someone up!   :-P
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 From:  Manthorp   3 Jun 2014 12:27 
 To:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)      23 of 45 
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Hence all those badly preserved creatures of indeterminable age, presumably.
"We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked."
James Thurber, The Thirteen Clocks 1951
 
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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)   3 Jun 2014 22:13 
 To:  Manthorp      24 of 45 
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Carbon dating is your friend.

OMG I should start a website!

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 From:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)   22 Jun 2014 18:20 
 To:  Al JunioR (53NORTH)      26 of 45 
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Enjoy it. I had mine (big 50, that is) last month.

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 From:  william (WILLIAMA)   23 Jun 2014 12:59 
 To:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)      27 of 45 
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Late congratulations!

 
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 From:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)   23 Jun 2014 13:05 
 To:  william (WILLIAMA)      28 of 45 
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Belated thank you!

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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)   23 Jun 2014 14:47 
 To:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)      29 of 45 
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GET OFF MY LAWN!!!

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 From:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)   23 Jun 2014 16:02 
 To:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)      30 of 45 
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Not until I've finished relieving myself. These trousers show off the embarrassing damp patch far too well.

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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)   23 Jun 2014 16:07 
 To:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)      31 of 45 
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Embarrassing? What's that?

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 From:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)    26 Jun 2014 22:33 
 To:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)      32 of 45 
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Was/is it hard to accept being 50?  40 was terrible, when I turn 50 I'll either have to laugh to keep from crying or jump in front of a truck.
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 From:  Killamarshian (HAL9001)   27 Jun 2014 05:44 
 To:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)       33 of 45 
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I hit 50 two years ago and it didn't really bother me. I always think getting old is better than the alternative. Some of my friends never made it.
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 From:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)   27 Jun 2014 07:13 
 To:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)       34 of 45 
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Nope, not hard at all. But then I had no problems with hitting 40.

TBH, the hardest was 20. After that, it's all been a breeze.

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 From:  Manthorp   27 Jun 2014 08:57 
 To:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)       35 of 45 
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Nah.  I'm 56 and I'm boozing & schmoozing, artfagging and fornicating with aplomb.  With two plombs, actually.

One of the most positive changes since my forties has been that I give less of a fuck about anything with every passing year.  Greyhair & I have completely changed the direction of our work; I bought a mountain bike & take great pleasure in careering down a bridleway on the verge of being completely out of control.  I go to the park & bounce about on Poweriser stilts or fly my quadcopter.  I recently bought £200 of booze to fill a cocktail cabinet. I wear what the hell I want and say what the hell I want, in private or on public platforms.

Mid-life crisis? Whether I go by my death date tattoo or the sheer abuse I rain upon my body, I must be well over mid-way, and it certainly doesn't feel like a crisis; just liberation.
"We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked."
James Thurber, The Thirteen Clocks 1951
 
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 From:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)    27 Jun 2014 13:54 
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You are all an inspiration!  I hope I can approach 50 like that, but I doubt it.  40 was hard and every passing year just pisses me off more.  By the time 50 rolls around I'll be screaming at kids on my lawn and mumbling to myself!
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 From:  william (WILLIAMA)   27 Jun 2014 19:46 
 To:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)       37 of 45 
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I hit 58 back on June 21 (Thanks for the cards y'all) and I still feel as young as ever, apart from the tiredness, and arthritis. Oh, and the poor memory and awful existential doubt. Then there's the realisation that now I really never will sleep with Kate that I was in love with from 11, and that when I look at a pretty 25 year old now I come over as some kind of Jimmy Savile. I can overlook the 'senior' colleagues 20 years younger than me who patronisingly compliment my work in the 'database space', because, what the hell? I get to retire soon. Other than that it's pretty good really.
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 From:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)    28 Jun 2014 01:43 
 To:  william (WILLIAMA)      38 of 45 
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I think that is another cruel trick!  In your mind you don't feel different at all (well I do because my mind is broken) but in reality your body can't do what it used to.  The mind doesn't know that and tells the body to drink 12 beers or ride that bike for 20 miles.  Then the mind wonders what the hell happened!  Stupid mind anyway!

Time is a cruel thing, it really is!
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 From:  DeannaG (CYBATRON)   18 Jul 2014 19:52 
 To:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)       39 of 45 
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Like Milko says, when you are away from people and in the woods it really does make life better.  There are times when I think it would be great to sell everything and build a cabin in the woods and just unplug from everyone and everything.

I like the way you guys think. :) My old man and I spend a lot of time in the woods year round. It's wonderful!

Deanna

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Message 41074.40 deleted 22 May 2015 11:12 by 53NORTH

 From:  Killamarshian (HAL9001)   19 Jul 2014 07:39 
 To:  Al JunioR (53NORTH)      41 of 45 
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Wait until you start picking an age in the future and then you count back and think about what you was doing then. For me lets say 65, takes me back to 39, the things I did then seem just a few years ago.
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