On Saturday, December 7, 2013 10:08:32 PM UTC-6, jmcquown wrote:
> On 12/7/2013 10:31 PM, sf wrote:
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> > On Sat, 07 Dec 2013 19:00:20 -0500, jmcquown >
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> >> On 12/7/2013 6:20 PM, sf wrote:
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> >>> On Sat, 7 Dec 2013 22:08:42 -0000, "Ophelia"
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> >>>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> >>>>> On 12/7/2013 10:52 AM, Ophelia wrote:
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> >>>>>> Tomorrow is DH birthday and he has requested a chicken and mushroom pie
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> >>>>>> with cream sauce. He has also asked for a suet pastry top! The
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> >>>>>> chicken is roasted and cut up and tomorrow I will do the rest. He has
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> >>>>>> asked for sides of chips (fries) and sweetcorn!
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> >>>>>> What would you request for your birthday dinner?
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> >>>>> I'd like sole piccata with fettuchini and steamed asparagus.
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> >>>> Oh yes
)))) I must remember that for when my birthday comes around again.
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> >>>> Dammit I just had one )
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> >>> You know about Christmas in July? Have a "half birthday" party and
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> >>> make it for yourself!
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> >> LOL That reminds me of some comedian (whose name escapes me, George
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> >> Carlin?) talking about how babies ages are counted in months. Children
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> >> are, for a time, something-and-a-half. Adults ages are counted in whole
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> >> numbers. Until you get older. Then suddenly you're not about to turn
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> >> 70, you're 69-1/2. 
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> > I've heard that before... where the beginning and end of life goes by
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> > half years.
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> Here it is, and yep, George Carlin.
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkU3kiuZVuE
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> I was 50 for three or four years. I started calling
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> > myself 50 a couple of years before I actually turned HALF A CENTURY -
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> > guess I was just trying to thicken my skin to the inevitable...
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> Well, yeah. I got a little tired of saying I was 49 when I was going to
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> be 50 in a couple of months. I had no problem rounding up. Not that
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> many people ask me how old I am.
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> > Hubby had a "life crisis" turning 25. He was in a total depression
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> > being a Quarter of a Century.
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> Sorry he had such a reaction. 25 is hardly old.
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> > For me, it was 35. The genealogical
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> > organization I belonged at the time called members under 35 "junior"
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> > and when you hit 35 - you were "over the hill". It was a joke, but it
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> > hit a nerve with me.
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> Yeah, well, the Red Hat Society calls any woman over 50, um, middle
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> aged. Maybe so, but I'd rather not parade around in red hats and purple
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> clothing. The idea is ridiculous.
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Talk about a midlife crisis! No 35 YO should think of
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> > themselves as being Over the Hill!
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> Neither should a 40 year old. I got the whole routine at the office on
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> my 40th birthday. I was taken out to lunch by a couple of co-workers.
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> While we were out, others decorated my cubicle with black and yellow
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> crepe paper. There was a coffin-shaped cardboard box filled with
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> bottles of things line 'Over the Hill Pills' (black and yellow jelly
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> beans) and other joke stuff. It was cute. But I'd like to know who
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> the heck declared the age of 40 over the hill?!
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Males are "over-the-hill" at 39, females at 42. I'm defining "over-the-hill" as past the midpoint of life expectancy.
http://www.health.ny.gov/health_care...6adm-5att8.pdf
You may have your own definition, but mine has a basis is actual statistics.
0-27----> young
28-54----> middle aged
55+----> old
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> Jill
--Bryan sex+