old men

[David Petersen]

#5952

On a lighter note … Not long ago I pointed to two pathetic old drunken guys across the bar from us and told my friend, Bob, “That’ll be us in ten years.” Bob turned to me with an empathetic look on his wrinkled old face and replied: “That’s a mirror, you dummy!”

[Col Mike]

#46209

And then I said “turn up your hearing aid–next round is on you”.:D

[Penntradarcher]

#46210

Good one Dave! By the way, I have several of your books and enjoy your writing very much. I’m a aspiring writer myself, but haven’t been published yet. My first “published” work will be a blog article. I’m currently working on a short article for TBM regarding that need so many of us have to get outdoors. In particular, your books Heartsblood and A Man Made of Elk have really interested me in natural history.

[Ralph]

#46219

Hah! “The” elderly statesman speaks well!! 😆

[Troy Breeding]

#46262

I thought you had started a thread about me….:D

Troy

[horserod]

#46473

Dave, Talking about a picture of two old guys……I have a pic of you and I at the Kazoo Expo that I’d like to send ya if you will PM me with your address. Horserod (old Bullseye)

[Raymond Coffman]

#46881

Hey Wexbow

what do ya think – Irish Pub or English ? haha

Scout.

[Wexbow]

#46916

Scout, it’s Irish. And I know that not because the men are wearing typical elderly Irish attire and drinking Irish stout but because the bottle on the counter is red lemonade – a uniquely Irish soft drink, essentially composed of sugar and red colourant and nothing to do with lemons, that was a ubiquitous mixer with whiskey!

[Raymond Coffman]

#46945

Wexbow –

I thought so – but went for the expert opinion.

I saw the Red Lemonade and remembered [vaguely] that I thought it was specific to “Eire’s green Isle”

Scout

[David Coulter]

#47125

May we all be so lucky to someday live in that scene. dwc

[WICanner]

#47473

Ha – Right now my wife is in Ireland with one of her lifelong friends. (They are shopping for Lace, pottery, crystal, wool, beer & good food – not necessarily in that order.) Perhaps they’ll run into those two guys. 🙂 I think I’ll have a Guinness tonight in their honor, and throw another log on the fire. 🙂 (That’s what old guys do in the states.)

[wolfkill220]

#47612

I feel the same way sometimes .Espicaily lately after my doc tells me am going to have to operate and rebuild me knee .Heres hoping done and healed intime to get out this coming fall.

[Mark Turton]

#48921

Cochran’s brown lemonade and Black Bush, happy days, when I was indestructible:D

[Ben M.]

#49043

🙂 Pretty funny, Dave.

[ccrconner]

#50693

I don’t care what the mirror says, I’m still 18—-inside!!! All the rest is cosmetic!

[wideangle]

#51494

Keeping fit is high on my todo list. I believe it slows the aging process a wee bit. A friend and I drop camp hunted an OTC unit in Colorado this year. Our tent was at 11,000 ft. We hunted up higher every day for 10 days. We did kill 1 elk. I’m Medicare eligible. Exercise as if your life depended on it!

[Fallguy]

#51545

A guy I work with says when you are in your 30’s and 40’s you can do stuff, but when you start into your 50’s and 60’s you still think you can do the stuff you did in your 30’s and 40’s and that’s when you start breaking stuff.

[Ralph]

#51663

Let’s see if my math makes sense:50’s/60’s = 30’s/40’s. Now since I’m way closer to 70 than 60 I’m going for the R2 equation 70’s = 20’s. Might’s well think big! What’cha think Mr. Peterson?? :P:lol:

Ain’t no E=MC² but what the hey! How bout a 70 = 20R2²

Can ya tell I gotta lot to do today 🙂

[David Petersen]

#51695

Fallguy — I’d say this fellow at work needs to whip himself back into shape. I’m 66-9/12ths and physically I can still do everything I ever did and still want to do (which doesn’t include running marathons and flying helicopters). In fact it works the other way: what I overdid in my youth is haunting me today: blew out a knee running too much and too fast; blew out a shoulder from lifting too much iron and doing too many Eskimo rolls in kayaks, etc.

R2 — What nobody here seems to understand, or agree with, is that older is better (well, with one major exception called g-i-r-l-s). I’m mostly retired and have most of my time to myself … I get an annual fishing license for $1, I no longer have to comb or wash my hair, I get a free “senior drink” at Taco Bell and 10% off at the liquor store, even people who detest me treat me with a degree of “respect for the elders,” etc. Old is (mostly) good!

[Ralph]

#51712

Yep, smooth mostly. Doin’ gym 4-5 days a week. Lifting more weight than I ever did (kinda like your marathon running though, didn’t used to do that :~}. Shooting less #’s on my bow and shooting better. Probably would have shot better the last 40 yrs. if I had been shooting some less weight but what is, is what is, what I did, I done. I’m 67 & 10/12’s 😛 and happy everyday cause I’m here and all’s well, pretty much. I still hate turnips!!! We have a friend in the burnunit in Lubbock, not because of burns but because of, look up in Google images, eyrthodermic psoriasis. His whole body like the worst image you can see. We gotta be grateful that our aches and pains are not as his. Ain’t nada wrong with free cokes!!!

[horserod]

#52002

Yeah, I’m shooting less #’s and enjoying it more myself! Now if I could loose some body pounds I could get around better for sure…..but, the trouble is I like to eat and drink a few beers! After 66 years of hard labor I deserve it anyway……….That’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it!!!! 😉 Horserod

[Fallguy]

#52894

Well Dave he is a former power lifter, like you he has the aches and pains of youth running at full throttle. I on the other hand refuse to age, my wife keeps asking when I will grow up? I give her the same answer my Grandfather gave my Grandmother ” Ten minutes after they start patting me in the face with a shovel”:lol:

[Nutmeg]

#59277

Well I keep telling my oldest son who razzes me occasionally about getting old(62yrs.), and I tell him”one day you’re going to be shaving and you’ll look in the mirror and ask, who is that old bastard staring back at me? Lol. BTW ” I’m not as good as I once was but I’m as good once as I ever was”.:lol:

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