"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> On 12/7/2013 10:31 PM, sf wrote:
>> On Sat, 07 Dec 2013 19:00:20 -0500, jmcquown >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 12/7/2013 6:20 PM, sf wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 7 Dec 2013 22:08:42 -0000, "Ophelia"
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
>>>>> ...
>>>>>> On 12/7/2013 10:52 AM, Ophelia wrote:
>>>>>>> Tomorrow is DH birthday and he has requested a chicken and mushroom
>>>>>>> pie
>>>>>>> with cream sauce. He has also asked for a suet pastry top! The
>>>>>>> chicken is roasted and cut up and tomorrow I will do the rest. He
>>>>>>> has
>>>>>>> asked for sides of chips (fries) and sweetcorn!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What would you request for your birthday dinner?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'd like sole piccata with fettuchini and steamed asparagus.
>>>>>
>>>>> Oh yes)))) I must remember that for when my birthday comes around
>>>>> again.
>>>>> Dammit I just had one )
>>>>
>>>> You know about Christmas in July? Have a "half birthday" party and
>>>> make it for yourself!
>>>>
>>> LOL That reminds me of some comedian (whose name escapes me, George
>>> Carlin?) talking about how babies ages are counted in months. Children
>>> are, for a time, something-and-a-half. Adults ages are counted in whole
>>> numbers. Until you get older. Then suddenly you're not about to turn
>>> 70, you're 69-1/2.
>>>
>> I've heard that before... where the beginning and end of life goes by
>> half years.
>
> Here it is, and yep, George Carlin.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkU3kiuZVuE
>
> I was 50 for three or four years. I started calling
>> myself 50 a couple of years before I actually turned HALF A CENTURY -
>> guess I was just trying to thicken my skin to the inevitable...
>
> Well, yeah. I got a little tired of saying I was 49 when I was going to
> be 50 in a couple of months. I had no problem rounding up. Not that many
> people ask me how old I am.
>
>> Hubby had a "life crisis" turning 25. He was in a total depression
>> being a Quarter of a Century.
>
> Sorry he had such a reaction. 25 is hardly old.
>
>> For me, it was 35. The genealogical
>> organization I belonged at the time called members under 35 "junior"
>> and when you hit 35 - you were "over the hill". It was a joke, but it
>> hit a nerve with me.
>>
> Yeah, well, the Red Hat Society calls any woman over 50, um, middle aged.
> Maybe so, but I'd rather not parade around in red hats and purple
> clothing. The idea is ridiculous.
>
>> Talk about a midlife crisis! No 35 YO should think of
>> themselves as being Over the Hill!
>>
> Neither should a 40 year old. I got the whole routine at the office on my
> 40th birthday. I was taken out to lunch by a couple of co-workers. While
> we were out, others decorated my cubicle with black and yellow crepe
> paper. There was a coffin-shaped cardboard box filled with bottles of
> things line 'Over the Hill Pills' (black and yellow jelly beans) and other
> joke stuff. It was cute. But I'd like to know who the heck declared
> the age of 40 over the hill?!

In that case I am over it and down the other side)

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