The Official #! Over-the-Hill-CrunchGang Thread (Page 5 of 8)

I just had a perverse thought that this is going to be like a song that gets stuck in your head and for days you'll be sitting there saying yadda, yadda to yourself -- meanwhile people walking by will be giving you a wide berth. 

Last edited by winotree (2010-07-25 16:56:42)

Hey, ignoring all that stuff (jeez, wish I could - we had that Mickey Mouse song too), here's some nostalgiafodder for the British members (are there any?)

Radio programmes, especially Sunday afternoon, after Sunday Dinner, anyone remember:
The Billy Cotton Band Show ("Hey, you down there with the glasses...")
Have a Go with Wilfred Pickles ("give him the money, Mabel")
Edmundo Ross (my introduction to Latin music and that Spanish scale...)
(more famous)
The Goon Show (especially the amazing Spike Milligan, way ahead of its time and Monty Python's forerunner)
Round the Horne (with the late great Kenneth Williams)
Hancock's Half Hour (with Sid James, Hattie Jacques and Bill Kerr)

I rate those:
The worst - I was almost never there for that!
The best - first sounds of the theme some and I was running downstairs.
At times OK - had to wait and see what was coming, but as I got older I was around a lot more.

True, true, very true.

I'm too old to 'waste' anything . . . especially, time.

Last edited by vrkalak (2010-08-20 18:02:46)

Good grief I hadn't realised it was such a widely-used saying! I thought I'd just made it up

I was thinking about where a restriction in one dimension opens up new avenues in another - like those Japanese black and white paintings that conjure up a whole world, the Korean taste palette of soy sauce, sesame, garlic, chilli that sounds limited but has a whole universe in it, the many many hours that Japanese students have to devote to learning Chinese characters that they could have spent on philosophy or mathematics...

Aah, then I can just post by telepathy in future...

(Winotree, one more post and you'll be a #! Die-hard by my reckoning.)

Last edited by johnraff (2010-08-23 16:49:48)

well, I was really. I think I agree with it on the whole, but I heard a story long ago about a bunch of drunks who came out of the bar they'd  spent the evening at to find a boat tied up by the river. "Let's take a trip" they said, jumped in and started paddling and paddling. Sun started to come up - "hey, where have we got to?" But when it got light they saw they were still in exactly the same place. They'd forgotten to untie the boat. Moral was something about Right Effort.

Thanks!

Last edited by johnraff (2010-08-23 18:13:41)

"Over the hill"

"What hill?"

"I don't see any hill"

http://shop.cafepress.com/60th-birthday?page=1

I bought some Centrum Multi-Vitamins for Seniors recently.  How come the tablets are 'gray' ?  What are they trying to tell us?

And, if you get the Senior Discount at some Buffet-style restaurants . . . the Senior Discount is only $.40 . . . 40 'freakin' cents !!

My mother always, told me:  not to get old ... "you won't like it"

Yup, any day looking down at grass is better than .....

Yea Punch and Judy .... I remember them - the originals! {sigh}