05-08-2009, 12:05 PM
Quote:yossarian Wrote:
What's so bad about being old?
If I knew it was such an insult I'd never have said it. Surely most old people are proud of their age and experience, rather than treating it as a wart to be ashamed of and resisted?
The thing about inside jokes, is that you don't get them if you're an outsider. Suffice it say, my good friend (and I do consider you one, my youthful colleague), that when you referred to good Q as an "elderly gentleman" or to he and I above as "old people" it was received by both of us to be as preposterous as my referring to you as "middle aged" (which I hasten to point out would have been precisely correct if you were living a mere hundred years ago). Unfortunately, although we can protest loudly to your categorizing us as such, we understand that there is nothing we could possibly do to convince you to the contrary. So, please allow us the opportunity to savor the irony of the many similar statements and thoughts we have harbored between our youth and our now "advanced state of life experiences", shall we say.
On the bright side, as elderly gentlemen, we will without a doubt soon forget whatever it was we were laughing about, and simply move on. Please forgive us this exercise in self deprecation, which has become, in our mutual dotage, one of the few joys that Q and I can share.
(05-08-2009, 12:37 AM)Quantum Wrote: I'm actually starting a non-profit fund for raising monies towards the purchase of his first wheel chair. I'm even thinking we could place bright shiny Tarot Cards in the spokes of his wheels to make that really cool noise that playing cards make in bicycle wheels, and maybe throw in a little rubber balled horn under the arm rest he can squeeze to get the other geriatrics out of his way.
Thank you, dear Q for that kind gesture. Please make sure that it his powered by a gas guzzlin' 454 under the hood, and has room enough for any babes I may be able to attract (in spite of the bib I must wear to control the drool that incessantly drips from the corners of my mouth ever since I turned 40).
Love and Light and racing wheelchairs,
3D (hopefully not riding too soon into the) Sunset