Yes, I celebrated my..er..our 19th birthday yesterday, but it was too busy (I do have a few friends, surprisingly) to go up to the puter and post. Next year I'll be 20, and I can't help but feeling a bit old already. When I was 12 I always said I would probably die at 18 so I can't tell you how glad I was that didn't happen. (depressed? Me? Well, duh) Also don't forget to congratulate Alec Guinness too, who, if I'm not mistaken, celebrated his 85th birthday yesterday.
Posted by Montgomery (Member # 23) on :
Happy Birthday RW, albeit after the fact.
You think that's bad? I'm 21. By now I'm expected to know what I want to be, where I want to live, and have left a trail of single mothers across the country!
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Posted by The First One (Member # 35) on :
Happy birthday, Rutger, and to you brother too. . . I won't even attempt to spell his name!
It was my grandfather's birthday yesterday, too. 8)
Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :
Birthday. Happy.
Until recently, the above words never seemed to happen together, for me.
Eighteenth - I spent in the woods of Pennsylvania with a bunch of old boring guys, learning Scouting leadership.
Twenty-first - Bought bottle of vodka. Drank 5 shots of same. Went for short walk around campus. Stood on bridge over gorge. Didn't jump. Went back to room and fell asleep.
Twenty-fifth - Slept through most of it, sick with flu.
(now it starts getting better)
Twenty-sixth - Spent with new gf. Mention of activities prohibited.
Twenty-seventh - See Twenty-sixth.
Looking forward to Twenty-eighth.
You're not old, and it ain't over till it's over! Wheee!
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Posted by The Excalibur (Member # 34) on :
Happy Birthday! Don't feel old, wait till you hit 35. That's what I did, I've only felt old for 3 years.
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Posted by The Vorlon (Member # 52) on :
*will mark his 19th in 22 days*
Well, being a Vorlon, that would be my 19th millenium, not year. =P
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One week from today will be my twentieth birthday. I feel like I've squandered a fifth of a century, but oh well. Happy Birthday to all the April babies in here!
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Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :
Yes, RW, welcome to the ranks of the living fossils.
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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
*makes everyone feel older* I won't even be 18 for 39 more days... :-)
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Posted by LB4747 on :
Speaking as an ancient 21 year old, old age does have its advantages...
*Takes a sip of favorite alcoholic beverage*
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Posted by Jubilee (Member # 99) on :
*counts all 20 of her gray hairs and sighs* Old, at 19? Well, I suppose. I'll be 20 on April 12. But come, now, what happened to that "age is just a number" thing? .. (of course, if I held true to that, sometimes i'd be the equivalent of a 4 year old, and sometimes i'd be like 40 or something). I think of it as more than age... but... like growing and stuff. Have you ever had a "tall" day? That's when like, you look around and suddenly realize that you can reach things you never could before, that you can look DOWN on people, and that you can see more of your mother than her knees :-) ... well, I think we should count it like that. At my near 20 years of age, there are alot of things I should know that I don't.... and there are alot of things I know that I shouldn't. One thing is patently clear, however. I know more things now than I did when i was 4 (obviously, i'm typing to you) and when I am 30, or 40, or 50 will know still more things. And is knowledge such a bad thing? .... Don't think of it as getting old. Think of it as getting wiser. :-) (or at least, we hope. *LOL*)
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Posted by Cargile (Member # 45) on :
I can't wait until I'm 2000 years old.
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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
I have to agree with LB4747. Being old and living in the UK has its advantages.
*gets paraletically drunk, and fails to say anything else amusing for a week*
Whadda ya mean, he didn't say anything amusing in the first place. Begone, the lot of you.
21 next year, and dreading it...
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Posted by Bernd (Member # 6) on :
I'm 6,5 years younger than both of you and only 37% of Alec Guiness' age.
Yep, I'm still counting down to my big 2-0 on the 10th. ::sigh:: Now I really do feel freakin' old!
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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
I haven't been 20 long, since December, but its weird, as I think I mentioned in December - I still feel 15...
*sigh* *grin*
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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :
If this thread is any indication, the average age of forumgoers has increased. I suppose this is a good thing unless people start dying of old age or something. I'll be 17 in 125 days, if anyone is interested.
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Posted by Jaresh Inyo on :
I turned sixteen in January.
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Posted by Warped1701 (Member # 40) on :
19 days until I turn 19.
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Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :
Hmmm. It's exactly 300 days until I become something I have spent nearly half my life as something other than: A civilian!
[Eerie music]
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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :
You're leaving the Air Force? Or just taking a week off?
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Posted by The Excalibur (Member # 34) on :
Retiring?
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Posted by RW (Member # 27) on :
If so, send me your cap. I already have a soviet air force cap I bought in Prague and I'd like to add to my collection Posted by RW (Member # 27) on :
*Homer Simpson speak* Hmm...militaria... gggghh..
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Er, Frank, you've just noticed that the age of everyone around here is increasing?
Right, let me explain something to you. As time passes, something happens to everyone, something which we call 'ageing'. It means that everyone gets older. Do you see? I can send you pictures if you want.
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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
"You're older then you've ever been. And now you're even older. And now you're even older. And now you're even older.
You're older then you've ever been and now you're even older. And now you're older still."
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Posted by StationMaster (Member # 63) on :
*giggles at the babies*
I guess that makes me ready for the old folks home........
LMAO!
*farts and runs out of the romm quickly leaving people gasping*
Don't worry Daryus, to protect you, I have put a price on Chris' head. If he ever shows his face around here again, it'll be decorating the street. THAT'll teach him for not letting me buy his comics, HA!
Feel safe Chris? Yes.
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