Random thought for the day

[Herm brews]

1970 and 2022 are as far apart as 1970 and 1918.

Fun with numbers, and yes, I too was alive in 1970.

 

[Zambi]

Same here

 

[RoadRoach]

The only alternative is an early death, so maybe not.

I've heard lots of folks say that gettin' old beats the alternative. I mostly hear that from young people that don't yet have all the ailments of old age. It might be better than dying, but I'm sure the pain is done afterward. Arthritis can make you miserable in Alabama when combined with the humid sudden weather changes and cool winter. The problem is winter never gets cold enough to stabilize the weather by lowering the humidity. The barometer here jumps around like a jack-rabbit in a pepper patch.

 

[Donoroto]

I hear ya brother.

 

[Craigerrr]

Even scarier to think I was alive in three out of four of the years mentioned.

Three out of the four
Lets see 1970, 2022, and 1970?
Sorry, couldn't help myself...

 

[RoadRoach]

Three out of the four
Lets see 1970, 2022, and 1970?
Sorry, couldn't help myself...

No apology necessary. I thought it funny too, but if you knew my life, you'd understand why I might count 1970 twice.

 

[Josh Hughes]

I’m starting to realize “we used to do that all the time as kids” means we did it a few times.

 

[Nosybear]

The only alternative is an early death, so maybe not.

Agreed, the alternative is worse.

 

[west1m]

I’m starting to realize “we used to do that all the time as kids” means we did it a few times.

I'm sure I must have done, I just can't remember..

 

[soccerdad]

I’m starting to realize “we used to do that all the time as kids” means we did it a few times.

Unless it's masturbation

 

[RoadRoach]

Unless it's masturbation

But only until I was a little near-sighted.

 

[Craigerrr]

"You kids should go outside and play"
"When I was your age I was outside all day. All I had to play with was a stick, it was a gun in the morning, and a sword in the afternoon"

 

[soccerdad]

My family couldn't afford sticks.

 

[GFHomebrew]

My family couldn't afford sticks.

Use your imagination

 

[RoadRoach]

My family couldn't afford sticks.

We were so poor, I couldn't even pay attention.

 

[Donoroto]

We were so poor, it was a good thing I was a boy, or I'd have had nothing at all to play with.

(stolen from Rodney Dangerfield).

 

[BarbarianBrewer]

One of my favorite Monty Python skits that started as The Four Yorkshiremen sketch from ‘At Last the 1948 Show’.

"There were 150 of us living in a cardboard box in the middle of the road"
"Cardboard Box?"
"Aye"
"You were lucky!"

 

[Donoroto]

"There were 150 of us living in a cardboard box in the middle of the road"
"Cardboard Box"
"Aye"
"You were lucky!"

That's a young Marty Feldman on the right, but who's the chap on the far left?

 

[BarbarianBrewer]

I recognized him but couldn't place him. So, I googled and learned he was Timothy Brooke-Taylor. I know he's been in a bunch of shows primarily in the 70s and 80s but, I think I remembered him most from a British show in the late 80's called "You must be the husband". Unfortunately he died of covid in April 2020.

 

[Craigerrr]

Right then!, and now for something completely different!