You know your getting old when...

[Simon B]

In honour of Mr Rabin's 50th birthday.

As I hurtle towards my 42nd birthday I wondered how you know your getting old.
:grim:


YOU KNOW YOUR GETTING OLD WHEN...

You realise you are now older than John Lennon ever was!

Geddit!

NEXT:

YOU KNOW YOUR GETTING OLD WHEN...

[Earl Grey]

When you realize that you are 12 years older than Jesus Christ.

JC only reached 33 years of age.

It takes one aback!

:ele:

[yessongs72]

When you realize that you are 12 years older than Jesus Christ.

JC only reached 33 years of age.

It takes one aback!

:ele:

Sorry Earl Jesus Christ still lives.Remember he rose on the third day defying death.So in reality he is ohhh 2006 -2010 years old now.

[tim4003]

...half of your parts don't work anymore, and those that do work hurt!
:crybby:

[upbgirl]

...half of your parts don't work anymore, and those that do work hurt!
:crybby:
LOL!! i am THERE with ya, tim4003!
i thought gymnastics would help keep me in shape and limber-boy-i guess i had forgotten about all that crashing and now it has come back to haunt me-BIG TIME!
but i'll STILL do a cartwheel in each and every city i go to..[right, harry? lol!]

you know you're getting old when you say things to your kids that your parents used to say to you.
such as
"you are NOT living up to your potential" [like a 14 year old CARES about potential]

''wipe that look off your face!" [hey! this is my real face!!]

you know you're getting old when so-called music acts steal all the GREAT songs and re-mix them into techno [which is the same as disco, but barely made by real people-canned music-ICK!]

or when you hear good tunes from your high school days advertising vehicles and deoderant!!

or
you hear a song from the year you graduated high school on the OLDIES RADIO STATION!! :crybby:
[but at least they called it a 'classic' ;) ]

and back to the old bod..
you know you're getting old when you kid listens to you crack in the morning and says your joints are louder than the rice krispies when you pour the milk on em..

you know you're getting old when one of your husbands students asks you, "are you our teachers MOTHER?" [OOH-THE PAIN! THAT one hurt for a few days..lol!]

you know you are getting old when they publish your letter in Progression Magazine, and the last comment you made is about howe old you are.. [embarrassing] :slap:

[Simon B]

[QUOTE=upbgirl]you know you're getting old when you say things to your kids that your parents used to say to you.
such as
"you are NOT living up to your potential" [like a 14 year old CARES about potential]

''wipe that look off your face!" [hey! this is my real face!!]

Upbgirl

Mini Mass had a good response to one I tried out on him!
Total: 'What part of NO don't you understand?!'

Mini: 'The middle part' :stick:

You know your getting old when you haven't got the energy to argue with 8 year old logic/sarcasm!

TM

[Thoughtbecontact]

You know you're getting old when your daughter goes to the gyne (sorry guys, but this is a fact of life!) and you tell her she's old enough to make her own decisions.

...your kids (and nieces and nephews) tell you you're cool for an adult.

...your son, who ouweighs you by 100 pounds looks down at you and says "How's the air down there?" and you can remember holding him in the crook of your arm.

[tardistraveler]

You know you're getting old when you hear "House of the Rising Sun" as muzak in a restaurant! (God, was that BAD!)

Body-wise, the only thing that I notice so far is the eyes - I hit 45, and had to succumb to reading glasses!

[Dances w/PURPLE]

Sorry Earl Jesus Christ still lives.Remember he rose on the third day defying death.So in reality he is ohhh 2006 -2010 years old now.

72, always a step ahead aren't ya? ha!

You're older than Moses' toes and twice as corny! (my grandpa said that)

[JaneEyre]

Remember Groucho Marx's Words Of Wisdom:

You're only as old as the woman you feel.

[BlueEagle]

....when you notice the print in the TV Guide, phone book, newspaper etc getting SMALLER every year

[yarstruly]

When The "New young guitarist in Yes" you remember is now 50! But a young 50 I'm sure!

[Omar Fares]

When a coin falls down and you don´t even try to bend yourself to get it. You justify your laziness saying that your back is hurt or it´s just a lousy pence. Don´t play naive, it´s the inexorable process of aging.
Conclusion: Stay away from coins, they might be harmful.:razz:

[tardistraveler]

Well, there must be a lot of old people then, because I'm always finding coins on the ground/floor!

And I guess I'm not one of them, because I ALWAYS pick them up! Found 14 cents the other day in the grocery store!

[STARRSHIP TROOPER]

You know when your getting old when.............................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. ..................................Oh crap I forgot!
Ah um Me SST

[Simon B]

...when you have to wait for an announcement on YESWORLD but can't convert PST into GMT without the use of a calculator (minus 8 hours)!!

TM

[Earl Grey]

When a coin falls down and you don´t even try to bend yourself to get it. You justify your laziness saying that your back is hurt or it´s just a lousy pence. Don´t play naive, it´s the inexorable process of aging.
Conclusion: Stay away from coins, they might be harmful.:razz:

Omar: I threw my back out once, while reaching down for a guitar-pick I dropped. I do not pick-up pennies: they are simply not worth the risk of a lamenectomy!

[Silent_wings]

You know your getting old when one of the Boy Scouts looks at the date on your Yes shirt (Union) and says "That shirt is older than I am." :crybby:

[Jonah]

You know you're getting old when...you start reading threads entitled 'You know you're getting when'...because you know it has something to do with you

:)

[STARRSHIP TROOPER]

Omar: I threw my back out once, while reaching down for a guitar-pick I dropped. I do not pick-up pennies: they are simply not worth the risk of a lamenectomy!
Earl e care full . I think there using a densergrade plastic in the picks today that make them heaverier.
I guess for Heavy Metal Bands. LOL
tarrship Trooper

[gt76yesman]

You know your getting old when...er, um, I forgot what we were talking about.....

[Shikedants]

You're sitting at a Jon Anderson concert, you look around and say: "We look just like the audience at the Bobby Vinton concert that was on PBS during pledge week".

[JaneEyre]

You're sitting at a Jon Anderson concert, you look around and say: "We look just like the audience at the Bobby Vinton concert that was on PBS during pledge week".


OUCH!

[STARRSHIP TROOPER]

You know when your getting old when all your early Yes T-shirts have turned to dust and the grim reaper is just waiting for you to follow suit.
Starrship Trooper

[soulsearcher]

....when on saturday night the couch looks WAY better than the party you were supposed to go to!

[Omar Fares]

...when you try to call one of your nephews and nieces by his name but you hesitate before saying it, then you realize you once again that you called the wrong kid.
That´s very frustating.:banghead:

[Deliriumyes]

...When you think that you are fitting in with all of the young college kids that surround you, until one of them says, "I think of you as Auntie Karen." OUCH

[brotherofmine]

..you remember when Jon was young!

[umgekehrt]

Jon was ever young?!?!




Actually I always feel old whenever I see Sally play guitar. I wish I hadn't given up so easily with my own guitar lessons...

[cinderella]

You know you're getting old when you find yourself standing next to your car with your keys in your hand, but you can't remember whether you're going somewhere, or you just got back.

Also you know you're old when you're son says, "I know Paul McCartney. He was in that band Wings."

[Bugeyes]

You have the buying power of a generation. See what we like and what we want? Better cell phones!

[CybrKhatru]

To quote Lowell George:

"when your mind makes a promise yo' body cain't fill"

--Matt

[brotherofmine]

You know your getting old when...you remember going to see Yes 'Tales' tour.

[brotherofmine]

You know your getting old when...when one of the children asks you at school, 'How did they play guitars when you were a boy...I mean electricity hadn't been invented then.'!!!!!

[brotherofmine]

You know your getting old when...you think a mobile is something that hangs above a baby's cot.

[relayer_1]

You know when your getting old when you forget where you stored your favorite Yes T-shirt and it has so much mold it is not worth digging for...

Trevor will not (for now) be eligible for Senior Fares for the next Yes Tour like the others over 60, they can even get a discount at hotels and restaurants, another good reason for Yes to tour soon...before its too late.

old relayer

[TNyesfan]

You know you're getting old when the babysitter walks in to your den and says, "Oh my Gosh! Are those... ALBUMS?! Isn't that what they were called?"

[Yes2Yes]

You know your getting old when you stretch and think you pulled a muscle or something.

[gt76yesman]

You know you're getting old when the babysitter walks in to your den and says, "Oh my Gosh! Are those... ALBUMS?! Isn't that what they were called?"
:sofunny:

...you wake up in the morning with a hangover and you didn't drink the night before.

[Silent_wings]

You know you're getting old when your kids ask you if you were alive before they had computers. :crybby:

[cinderella]

You know you're getting old when "getting lucky" means you found your car in the parking lot.

[cinderella]

You and your teeth don't sleep together.

[ToBeOver]

I posted this joke a day ago in the jokes forum... it seems more appropriate here. ;)

You Know You're Getting Old When...

1. You and your teeth don't sleep together.

2. Your try to straighten out the wrinkles in your socks and discover you aren't wearing any.

3. At the breakfast table you hear snap, crackle, pop and you're not eating cereal.

4. Your back goes out but you stay home.

5. When you wake up looking like your driver's license picture.

6. It takes two tries to get up from the couch.

7. When your idea of a night out is sitting on the patio.

8. When happy hour is a nap.

9. When you're on vacation and your energy runs out before your money does.

10. When you say something to your kids that your mother said to you; and you always hated it.

11. When all you want for your birthday is to not be reminded of your age.

12. When you step off a curb and look down one more time to make sure the street is still there.

13. Your idea of weight-lifting is standing up.

14. It takes longer to rest than it did to get tired.

15. Your memory is shorter and your complaining lasts longer.

16. Your address book has mostly names that start with Dr.

17. You sit in a rocking chair and can't get it going.

18. The pharmacist has become your new best friend.

19. Getting "lucky" means you found your car in the parking lot.

20. The twinkle in your eye is merely a reflection from the sun on your bifocals.

21. It takes twice as long to look half as good.

22. Everything hurts and what doesn't hurt; doesn't work.

23. You look for your glasses for half an hour and they were on your head the whole time.

24. You sink your teeth into a steak and they stay there.

25. You give up all your bad habits and still don't feel good.

26. You have more patience, but it is actually that you just don't care anymore.

27. You finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.

28. You wonder how you could be over the hill when you don't even remember being on top of it.

:keyboard:

[fovman]

Schwing becomes swing....

[rmig68]

When you start matching peoples ages with the year of a Yes album. "Let's see you're 19, oh yeah, Big Generator-1987", "Going on 23, 90125-1983" "Oh really Greg, you're 27? Yesshows-1979,"" George, I can't believe you're 32, Relayer-1974 "and the scariest one of all...."Cindy, you're 38, oh yeah Yes-1968"...maybe even scarier, "you're son is 5 now, Magnification-2001!

Which brings me to another item in this line of thought...

I am 40. Yes is only 2 years younger than me. I feel like I've lived a long life as I think back to my earliest memories of Viet Nam, Fragile (my first Yes experience sooooo long ago as a kid), 1972 terrorist at Olympics, Apollo missions, OPEC oil embargo, Watergate, Fisks home run 1975 Red Sox Reds World Series, 1976 Olympics, Iran Hostage Crisis, Rocky, Jaws, Star Wars, Disco, ABBA, Sweet, disco, first smoked a joint, first drank, first nooky, graduation, 90125 (getting a bit long in the tooth itself), AIDS epidemic, college, experimentation with psychedelics, Challenger disaster, Gulf War, college graduation (itself a lifetime, took 9 years to get a degree), by now tons of Yes and other rock concerts under my belt, long relationships gone bad, 9/11 and ensuing "War on Terror" marriage, birth of child, soon to be buying my first home......and through it all....YES

thanks guys

[rmig68]

.....Oh, and I forgot Punk, Rap, Grunge, the internet, personal computers, the digital revolution, and on and on....there's more, of course (that being history and all), but, again, Thank You Yes!

[rmig68]

ToBeOver: That's an exception list!.....and very funny, I must say. You even had this old cromudgeian laughing. #25 got me writing to you.

[shortexchanges]

your hair stops growing where you want it to and starts growing where you dont!!