I just went through the latest issue of my college alumni magazine. For the first time, more of my classmates are mentioned in the Obituary section than in the Accomplishments section.
Jeez.
Oh, Man...
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Well what do you expect, it has been, what, about 700-800 years. Sheesh!wintergreen48 wrote:I just went through the latest issue of my college alumni magazine. For the first time, more of my classmates are mentioned in the Obituary section than in the Accomplishments section.
Jeez.
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That just mean they are not braggarts.wintergreen48 wrote:I just went through the latest issue of my college alumni magazine. For the first time, more of my classmates are mentioned in the Obituary section than in the Accomplishments section.
Jeez.
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It first struck home that I was aging in (if memory serves) February 1980, when for the first time Playboy featured a centerfold who was born after I was.wintergreen48 wrote:I just went through the latest issue of my college alumni magazine. For the first time, more of my classmates are mentioned in the Obituary section than in the Accomplishments section.
Jeez.
The next benchmark will be when I'm older than anyone playing major league baseball. Thank God for Julio Franco. --Bob
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For me it's realizing that my pastor is younger than I.Bob78164 wrote:Jeez.It first struck home that I was aging in (if memory serves) February 1980, when for the first time Playboy featured a centerfold who was born after I was.
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FIL attended his 50th high school reunion. Came back and said he wouldn't go to another one. "There were all these OLD people there!"Bob Juch wrote:My father complained that all of his old friends are dying. I told him to get younger friends.
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Another mile marker is going to a wedding of a child who's parents wedding you also attended.
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.