 
Tponetom
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Username: Tponetom
Post Number: 284
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 6:20 pm: |    |
I do not know how many Dinosaurs are members of the Forum. I have put an arbitrary age limit on all of them as follows:
Age 60 and above are OLD Dinosaurs.
Age 40 to 60 are MIDDLE AGE Dinosaurs.
Age 20 to 40 are YOUNG ADULT Dinosaurs.
Those under 20 are just simply YOUNG Dinosaurs.
We know that Dinosaurs were not just male creatures. So I think we can assume that about half of them were, indeed, female. The same age limits above, applies.
Now we get into that sticky, nebulous area of ‘color.’ That is really not a problem because I am sure that all Dinosaurs were colored, BATTLESHIP GRAY. (Perhaps Walt Disney had something to do with that.) Previous to becoming a Dinosaur, they may have been of various colors but the melting pot incubator, that was Mama Dinosaurs womb, sort of homogenized things.
The subject of ethnicity, after the color thing was resolved, is not of any consequence.
To be sure, there were endless varieties of Dinosaurs. Some were carnivorous, some were herbivorous, some were cantankerous and many of them gaggled together and cackled, endlessly.
A momentary pause-----
Those are the grim statistics of this post. If you meet any of the above criteria, you are a Dinosaur.
Until I was forty, (1968) I followed and obeyed the government’s political line about Vietnam and other things. When the senseless slaughter continued, I was awakened by the ‘protestors’ and joined them. I learned something from those “YOUNG ADULT’ Dinosaurs. I did my own thinking after that.
I just like the idea of one Dinosaur learning from another one, regardless of age .
A short intimate story. At the Zoo Park in Tucson, the ticket person was a girl/woman who had a somewhat haughty attitude. I asked her if she was the ‘girl’ who sold the tickets. She replied, sarcastically, I am not a girl, I am a ‘lady.!
I paused for a moment and then said, “I apologize,”
I paused a few seconds more and then I said, “ I got a little confused. I thought the term, ‘Lady,’ was a subjective term and not an elective one.
She smiled and said, “Oh, that’s all right.”
Such are life’s little triumphs. |
Ray1936
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Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 2917
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 7:07 pm: | |
There are benefits to being an Old Dinosaur. I don't worry much about all the stories of Social Security going belly-up in 2047. I don't worry at all about "global warming melting the icecaps by 2100". And fights over pro/anti abortion are of no concern to me.
I don't much care which of the current three stooges will be elected President this fall. Seems to me we came up with three real yo-yos when a Thomas Jefferson was really needed.
Like Tp, I was a hawk over Vietnam until well after it was over. Unlike too many in power today, I learned from it and was totally against the Iraq invasion even before the fact. I do cry a bit when I think what those billions of dollars being spent over there could have done for our nation's infrastructure.
Well, dinosaurs ruled the world 65 million years ago. I guess our day came and went.
P.S. I like being an old dinosaur. People expect it when we belch or pass gas. |
Jams
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Username: Jams
Post Number: 8058
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 7:25 pm: | |
As I approach the Old Dinosaur status, I appreciate the lessons you have to teach me.
The best one is to have a sense of humour about the fragility of our bodies.
Hell, I could barely say the word fart let alone have it happen in mixed company (including my ex as long as I was awake}. Many painful runs outdoors or to the bathroom. |
Bigb23
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Username: Bigb23
Post Number: 847
Registered: 11-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 9:30 pm: | |
Ditto, on lessons to be learned from our elders.
Up until I was 18 years old, I didn't listen much to them, but a hitch in the Navy changed that somewhat. At 30 years old, I started listening more. At 40+ years , the elders started dying off. Now at 53 I'm trying to find that knowledge online , because my family elders were gone years ago.This part of the forum is a quiet place to share.
Thanks All. |
Gazhekwe
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Username: Gazhekwe
Post Number: 1754
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 5:06 pm: | |
Old dino dame here. I also love the learning and the humor. If we don't laugh, we will surely be sorry rags of folks. |
Eriedearie
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Username: Eriedearie
Post Number: 1154
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 8:02 pm: | |
Thanks for logging on before me Gazhekwe - I didn't want to be the only one to qualify for OLD dino dame! LOL
I lurk around on here to learn from Dinosaurs of all ages and walks of life. I feel I'll never learn enough to satisfy myself.
I agree with you. I have to laugh at all this aging, wrinkling, sagging and pains in places where I didn't know I had places. Especially when I consider the alternative.
Of course it's not a knee slappin' laugh. After all, I might hurt myself in the process! |
Eriedearie
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Username: Eriedearie
Post Number: 1157
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 10:33 pm: | |
Campbell's soup for us dinosaurs
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Tponetom
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Username: Tponetom
Post Number: 285
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Friday, March 28, 2008 - 11:29 am: | |
Erie:
In addition to the LARGE TYPE of Alphabet Soup, Kellogg's would have to increase the decibels of SNAP, CRACKLE AND pOP!
I AM A LITTLE 'HARD OF HEARING.' |
The_rock
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Username: The_rock
Post Number: 2216
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, March 30, 2008 - 7:21 pm: | |
Being an OLD dinosaur does have its drawbacks.
I ordered a red sex toy that I saw at a local shop. But they called me today and said that I had to order something else as I had picked out their fire extinguisher which was hanging on the wall. |
Jjaba
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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 6250
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 31, 2008 - 4:16 pm: | |
Rock, lame joke.
Check your mailbox for jjaba's shipment of sex toys for you. Kalamazoo, direct to you.
The rock is so old, he wears "The Production Line" cap to Red Wings games. He's so old, he drives a Hudson Hornet. He's so old, he's still waiting for the Interurban out in Royal Oak.
The Rock is so old, he knew Mayor Jeffries.
The Rock is so old, he used to dump Detroit Shopping News bundles behind his house.
jjaba, Old Timey Detroit Times boy. |
Johnlodge
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Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 5876
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 31, 2008 - 4:20 pm: | |
jjaba is so old, he went over to Monroe Ave. to try to sell some raccoon furs he trapped, only to find a Casino. |
Ray1936
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Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 2937
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Monday, March 31, 2008 - 5:59 pm: | |
You notice I ain't saying anything. Folks living in glass houses, or something like that. |
Tponetom
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Username: Tponetom
Post Number: 288
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Monday, March 31, 2008 - 6:31 pm: | |
All of you seem quite young to me. I hope that helps.
This Forum is one thing that keeps me, maybe not young, but it helps to slow down the aging process. |
Jjaba
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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 6251
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 31, 2008 - 7:58 pm: | |
Johnlodge, The Rock is so old he knew you when you were mayor. He was one of the guys with a golden shovel when your expressway was first dug.
The Rock even is old enough to remember when there was a Greenlawn exit on your John C. Lodge Expressway. (Before the engineers realized there were a dozen schools on Greenlawn in the vacinity.)
johnlodge, you made jjaba laugh. Thanks. It's true, jjaba brought some fur pelts into the Casino in trade for chips.
jjaba. |
The_rock
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Username: The_rock
Post Number: 2267
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, April 17, 2008 - 6:05 am: | |
johnlodge can always be counted on to produce both interesting and humorous comments on The Forum.
Although I saw Hank Greenberg play, met Mayor Cobo and went to double features at the Varsity theatre, only jjaba voiced his opposition to some of the Commandments when Moses brought 'em down from The Mount. Even the dinosaurs were shaking their heads.
Talk about old. A real altacocka. |
Ray1936
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Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 3030
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, April 17, 2008 - 11:56 am: | |
I think it was Jjaba who looked like Mel Brooks coming down from Mt. Sinai with these 15.....(crash, splinter)...ooops....10 commandments. |