09-25-2011, 06:21 PM
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#241
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wins 10 internets
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: slightly to the left
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Originally Posted by flamesfever
I tend to feel old(er):
- when getting together with friends, the main topic of interest seems to center on aches and pains.
- when it won't be long before the grandkids start thinking about which University they hope to attend.
- when you look forward to an afternoon nap.
- when the police look like teenagers.
- when everyone you meet addresses you as "Sir".
- when you look in the mirror, and the image doesn't jive with how you think of yourself.
- when you don't leave the paper without checking the obits.
- when you think of your youth, and you can remember things like Foster Hewitt doing the NHL ply-by-play, Syl Apps as the Captain of the Maple Leafs, and George Armstrong the captain of the Marlies.
- when you can also remember watching Joe Louis fight Jersey Joe Walcott, looking through a store window at a the latest new device called a television.
- when you can remember listening on the radio to Lux Family Theater, Boston Blacky and the Inner Sanctum.
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you could have just said "when you check the paper". only old people read newspapers anymore
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09-26-2011, 02:52 AM
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#242
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Helsinki, Finland
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To be fair, I remember feeling terribly old at 22.
Of course I was divorced with a receding hair line, so I still think I sort of had a point.
Ten years later I'm a student with a mohawk and I feel much younger, go figure 
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09-26-2011, 08:59 AM
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#243
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First Line Centre
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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
you could have just said "when you check the paper". only old people read newspapers anymore
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I don't doubt you're right. However, as a retiree, and more than one person reading it...it's not a bad way to catch up at a reasonable cost.
Last edited by flamesfever; 09-26-2011 at 10:23 AM.
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09-26-2011, 03:55 PM
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#244
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Crash and Bang Winger
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When I pulled out my NES and Sega and the kids over at my house went "what's that, it looks wierd!".
Last edited by ThisYear; 09-27-2011 at 09:34 AM.
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09-26-2011, 11:38 PM
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#245
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First Line Centre
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I'm having a urodynamics test done on Friday. I don't know what what that entails, but it sounds like a test old people should be having.
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09-27-2011, 12:20 AM
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#246
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Crash and Bang Winger
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: home away from home
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I feel old when adults don't know what I'm talking about when talking about a leased rotary phone from AGT... always hated it when there were too many big numbers to ring up, took forever.
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09-27-2011, 12:32 AM
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#247
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First Line Centre
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Some of kids at work didn't believe that $2 wasn't always a coin.
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GMs around the campfire tell a story that if you say Sbisa 5 times in the mirror, he appears on your team with a 3.6 million cap hit.
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09-27-2011, 06:49 AM
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#248
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Super Nintendo Chalmers
Some of kids at work didn't believe that $2 wasn't always a coin.
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The Loonie is going to be 25 years-old next summer...and I was in high school when the dollar bill was removed from circulation. Ugh.
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09-27-2011, 07:58 AM
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#249
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First Line Centre
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Originally Posted by getbak
The Loonie is going to be 25 years-old next summer...and I was in high school when the dollar bill was removed from circulation. Ugh.
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I was bartending when that happened I made way more in tips because of the changeover.
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09-27-2011, 08:00 AM
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#250
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: sector 7G
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Super Nintendo Chalmers
Some of kids at work didn't believe that $2 wasn't always a coin.
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I had the first one in Calgary in my hand. A friend of mine was part of the big twonie campaign when it first came out.
Last edited by habernac; 09-27-2011 at 11:13 AM.
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09-27-2011, 08:12 AM
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#251
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Lifetime Suspension
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Originally Posted by habernac
I had the one in Calgary in my hand. A friend of mine was part of the big twonie campaign when it first came out.
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I still miss the two dollar bill, the back with the two robins is still one of my favorite Canadian bills.
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09-27-2011, 10:39 AM
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#252
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Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
I still miss the two dollar bill, the back with the two robins is still one of my favorite Canadian bills.
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No more fifty cent pieces in circulation anymore either. I'd like them to dump the penny and bring back the fifty cent piece.
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09-27-2011, 10:43 AM
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#253
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Franchise Player
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Having to wear these %$@%$& darned reading glasses!
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09-27-2011, 11:10 AM
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#254
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Originally Posted by Cheese
Having to wear these %$@%$& darned reading glasses!
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Get Progressives you old Stubborn Coot.
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09-27-2011, 11:34 AM
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#256
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by habernac
I had the first one in Calgary in my hand. A friend of mine was part of the big twonie campaign when it first came out.
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Remember how you could easily pop the centre out of the first batch of toonies?
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09-27-2011, 12:08 PM
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#257
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Crash and Bang Winger
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Going to my daughter school, seeing their smartboards, a rack full of computers, and trying to explain to her that when i was her age the most advanced thing in my school was the phone in the office!
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09-27-2011, 03:40 PM
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#258
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Draft Pick
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Cops that look younger than my kids.
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09-27-2011, 07:48 PM
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#259
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Likes Cartoons
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Quote:
Originally Posted by fotze
People aren't embarrassed of their ridiculous phobias. To be afraid of needles was a thing you hid and was embarrassed of, now no one feels embarrassed of it.
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That's kind of a weird thing to feel old about...
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