FiftySomething
i know that hjsg and i are not the only "old folks" floating around IB! as a result of mrspoomp's post: The Big 3-0 and a new clan!!, i created
the FiftySomething Guild!
maybe some of us are too old to remember that we're FiftySomething, but there are certainly more than two of us!
just because us geezers can't hold meetings, i mean how do you have wheel chair races on line? or hide the Depends? even, holding a rip-roarin' game of charades, looses something with out web cams! besides, by the time the page refreshes, we have forgotten what we were doing anyway!
so, c'mon & be proud, we're not youngn's any more, celebrate your oldness! declare your loyalty & join FiftySomething, today. we will even accept you if you're in your sixties or seventies! maybe then, we can band together & overthrow those whippersnappers in Texas!!
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hjsg on Jun 27, 2007
Maybe we can play shuffleboard?
debbye on Jun 27, 2007
actually … i used to love to play shuffleboard! maybe that was a rehearsal for old age +)
onesoaringeagle on Jun 27, 2007
I may be 50something...but I sure won't join the "old foggies club." In spite of a couple of aches and pains I still feel waaayyyy younger. There's a reason why I left Worcester 20 years ago.
hjsg on Jun 27, 2007
Three for three - another one born and bred in Massachusetts!
wvsande on Jun 27, 2007
Hello!
I had no idea that I wasn't the only boomer here!
debbye on Jun 27, 2007
Welcome aboard!
aemcg on Jun 27, 2007
Isn't it wonderful to be a Boomer? It was hard at first being honest about my age but then I said "What the heck, I'm proud that I've lived this long." We've had FUN and we're still having it.
aemcg on Jun 27, 2007
P.S. Born and breed in Chicago, IL and just recently moved to Arizona.
Betty on Jun 27, 2007
I hate to admit it, but, yeah. I'm in.
debbye on Jun 27, 2007
poor, poor, hjsg, having to put up with all these women!
hjsg on Jun 27, 2007
Makes me feel young :)
hjsg on Jun 27, 2007
younger
aemcg on Jun 27, 2007
:D
Buzzy001 on Jun 27, 2007
Well..If all of you oldheimers are joining, so will I, even if I don't feel old.. or geezerish....so we'll be the youngish over fifties group. Thanks for starting it up..and digging up the oldies!
elnitido52 on Jun 27, 2007
Cuff! cuff aaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Who says hjsg is the only middleager boy around? I'm in................
rajr19 on Jun 27, 2007
wow. i'm only 13. its cool there's such a big age difference here.
elnitido52 on Jun 27, 2007
@ Buzzy001 - To join the - Middle Age Group - FiftySomething Guild, just add in your profile, under 'Reading' maybe, the name of the guild "FiftySomething" without the quotes and no typos, welcome!
debbye on Jun 27, 2007
@rajr19 - WE are living our second childhood & collecting some really cool icons is just icing on the cake!
elnitido52 on Jun 27, 2007
@ rajr19 - Bad boy, in your profile says you are 16...........
elnitido52 on Jun 27, 2007
@ debbye - Suggestion: Organize the listing now that it is just starting. Thanks
rajr19 on Jun 27, 2007
no, it says i'm -16
rajr19 on Jun 27, 2007
its a random thing.
anti on Jun 27, 2007
I am working on it, but I do spend a lot of time thinking about the hereafter.
Ya know, you walk into a room, and you stand there, thinking to yourself, ...
WHAT EXACTLY AM I HERE AFTER?
Hope I make it...
daveamun on Jun 28, 2007
Hey - I'm in :-}
Remember when the Slinky Toy came out?
iqon on Jun 28, 2007
hjsg has been trying to recruit me for the 50 sumthin'sumthin' clan but my body hasn't crossed that timeline yet. He says since I have grandkids and I'm a COBOLer that I should be, um, grandfathered in. Are you oldtimers willing to let a young whippersnapper join a few years early?
JBVisions on Jun 28, 2007
You mean an honorary 'Over the Hill'. You can't be far off if you're a COBOL boy. I don't see a problem with it. Mentally I'm still 18 anyway.
Went to a Smokey Robinson concert last night and was looking at the dancers thinking, yep, I could still do that........... until they got to the high kicks and I was immediately concerned for their backs.
I think it's all to do with your mind and not physical age anyway. You know you reached the 50 somethings when you're looking in a shop window at some footwear you wouldn't be seen dead in, and you're thinking, "Hmmmm, they look comfy"
debbye on Jun 28, 2007
@iQon - are you willing to give up your youthful trappings for the more colorful garb of experience? ya know, if we can remember to discuss "grandfathering" at our next meeting, we may consider accepting such a well versed youngn, like yerself. the biggest problem, iQon, i forgot when & where we hold our meetings. :-/
BarbM on Jul 03, 2007
Can an old Nurse join the Boomer clan? ;*0
JBVisions on Jul 03, 2007
You certainly can. How come we all got saddled with Baby Boomers. I've never boomed in my life.
cjvan56 on Jul 06, 2007
Thought I'd join the party a bit late - but I brought my slinky, and I'm wearin' my comfy shoes..... :)
debbye on Jul 06, 2007
now i'm worried - i never thought i would see the phrase "comfy shoes" & be comforted.
aemcg on Jul 10, 2007
cjvan56..Are ou wearing your Davey Crockett hat too?
debbye on Jul 10, 2007
OMG - scary! i have a picture of my brother & i in our "real" Davey Crockett hats. now … i feel old, momentarily.
aemcg on Jul 10, 2007
HAHAHAHA
AmpleSanity on Jul 10, 2007
Count me in! Although, not to brag, I've finally found the perfect setting for my maturing facial features. It's called "dark".
aemcg on Jul 10, 2007
hehehehehehe
anti on Jul 10, 2007
I am older than Iqon. And a grandmother. Not giving up the flip-flops, though.
Jan on Jul 10, 2007
Remember when roller skates clamped onto your shoes? How about spoolies? :)
louiemctool on Jul 10, 2007
hey, COBOL kicks ass. be proud to know it!
debbye on Jul 10, 2007
Spoolies - nightmare. i didn't know that if you had long hair [remembers waist length tresses without gray] & you tried to use spoolies, when you unrolled the little *%#*@ all of you hair was in knots connected to countless other spoolies & then a trip to get hair "restyled"
Note: spell check doesn't recognize "spoolies"
louiemctool on Jul 10, 2007
Here's a classic for y'all:
Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal
:)
iqon on Jul 10, 2007
ARRRRR, me has abused Pascal (and FORTRAN and Assembler) in the past but I unleash the most havoc with COBOL, QUIKJOB, and RPF.
If you want to see fear, ask a CS grad from the 90's or newer to rebuild an EBCDIC mainframe VB file to FB and replace all the low-values with space. . .and then convert to a PC ASCII file.
Half don't even know what low-values are.
iqon on Jul 10, 2007
I still have my stainless steel forms ruler even though we haven't used greenbar since the late 80s. Its make a great backscratcher and two-legged pest whacker.
ARRRRR, why do they ask for help and then not want to do what you suggest?
diverpam on Jul 10, 2007
Boomers rock!
GrammyG on Aug 05, 2007
I am so glad the hjsg told me about all of you. I definitely want to join. Count me in.
Coyote on Aug 05, 2007
I`m halfway to get there but you talk just like my father. Nice to be protected by so many FiftySomethiers (is that correct?).
daveamun on Aug 09, 2007
1955: Disneyland, McDonald's, A&W, LOTR (Return of the King) is published, Rock Around The Clock hits #1 (& so does the Ballad of Davy Crocket!), James Dean & Einstein pass away, Scrabble debuts!, 1st Ford Thunderbird, Mickey Mouse Club begins, first Saturday morning cartoons - Mighty Mouse
Honeymooners, Captain Kangaroo, Lawrence Welk, Gunsmoke all hit the airwaves (no cable!)
Me ;-} Go Boomers!
Jan on Aug 10, 2007
Yay, Dave!
The year is 1955. The first wireless remove is designed by Zenith. At the same time, Oklahoma debuts with the hit song "I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say 'No.'" The enticement of the remote vs the girl introduces man's greatest dilemna: "Should I stay or should I go?"
In that same year, the microwave oven is introduced by Raytheon. To those people standing in front of the oven screaming, "Hurry! Hurry!", is dedicated the song "Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat" (Guys and Dolls).
Again, in the same year, Jonas Salk invents the polio vaccine. In 1955 there are 28,985 polio cases worldwide. By 2005, that number drops to 1,200. Those become immunized escape the devastating effects of polio are free to "Rock Around the Clock" (Bill Haley and the Comets).
Later, in 1957, the 3 point seatbelt is introduced (YES, seatbelts DO save lives), leading Chuck Berry to lament "All the way home I held a grudge, but the safety belt, it wouldn't budge!"
Space becomes the new frontier. The year is 1958. As the Boeing 707-120 debuts as the first successful commercial jet airliner, Americans (and perhaps people everwhere) are transfixed on meeting aliens from outer space. Betty Johnson lives to regret her spurning of one such extraterrestrial in the song "Little Blue Man."
Meanwhile, radio stations across the nation are banning rock and roll. But, like super glue, marketed in 1958, "Rock and Roll is Here to Stay!"
And, like superglue and Rock and Roll, baby boomers are "Here to Stay" as well! :)
debbye on Aug 12, 2007
i didn't even realize that this thread had been resurrected!
and it wasn't even our devoted Louie! maybe he'd be willing to start the FiftySomethingFanBoy Guild & hang out with the girls { sorry boys! }
i remember my grandfather's first color TV. we'd go over to his house to watch the thing and everything was in color - green & white! And you'd spend all that time adjusting the vertical and horizontal hold. Then he got one of those huge antennas on the roof that would change direction from the dial on top of the TV - it would take 4 or 5 minutes to change & then you had to change again. by the time you figured out the right direction, the show was over!
do y'all remember when you paid an extra dollar for a stereo LP? my first one was Alan Sherman - My Son, the Nut! who really cared if "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh" was in stereo, plus we didn't own a stereo, then. when the family did get a stereo, we had the obligatory recording of sound effects, so you could really hear that train coming from the left, then louder, now, in both speakers, & finally exiting quietly to the right. if you closed your eyes, it was so real, awe inspiring! [ Mom grew to hate that train ]
i'm sure that the memories of the other "members" here have a better recollection of dates than i, so i won't try to cite them. in whatever year, that we first went into space, our family watched on TV, as did much of the rest of the world. but to us, [ & me, now ] it was a bit more exciting. my father was an engineer/physicist, who with others, developed the heat shield that protected the occupants of these craft from becoming toast. i have two pieces of Apollo heat shield amongst my plethora of stuff, one piece that is "new" & one that is used, encased in lucite. in it's unused state, it is about 2.5" thick and this was the protection from 2000+º and feels like a piece of balsa wood. the used piece is only about .75" smaller, being burned up upon reentry.
they should insulate our homes with this stuff!
dyar on Aug 12, 2007
The year is 1955. The first wireless remove is designed by Zenith.
Actually Philco had a wireless Remote for a Radio in 1939. I know because I have the Radio and Remote, Model 39-116. The Radio works fine but I have yet to find a required battery for the Remote.