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Thread: Feeling Older.....?

  1. #1
    Jbb
    Hi ah,....
    Hummm let me think ,...why did I send you this......don't tell me it's coming to me.....
    Oh ya.....
    Senior citizens are constantly being criticized for every conceivable deficiency of the modern world, real or imaginary. We know we take responsibility for all we have done and do not blame others.
    HOWEVER, upon reflection, we would like to point out that it was NOT the senior citizens who took:
    The melody out of music,
    The pride out of appearance,
    The courtesy out of driving,
    The romance out of love,
    The commitment out of marriage,
    The responsibility out of parenthood,
    The togetherness out of the family,
    The learning out of education,
    The service out of patriotism,
    The Golden Rule from rulers,
    The nativity scene out of cities,
    The civility out of behavior,
    The refinement out of language,
    The dedication out of employment,
    The prudence out of spending,
    The ambition out of achievement, or,
    God out of government and school.
    And we certainly are NOT the ones who eliminated patience and tolerance from personal relationships and interactions with others!!
    And, we do understand the meaning of patriotism, and remember those who have fought and died for our country.
    Does anyone under the age of 50 know the lyrics to the Star Spangled Banner? or O Canada
    Just look at the Seniors with tears in their eyes and pride in their hearts as they stand at attention, on veterans day and our great country's birthday .
    YES, I'M A SENIOR CITIZEN!
    I'm the life of the party...... even if it lasts until 8 p.m.
    I'm very good at opening childproof caps... with a hammer.
    I'm usually interested in going home before I get to where I am going.
    I'm awake many hours before my body allows me to get up.
    I'm smiling all the time because I can't hear a thing you're saying.
    I'm very good at telling stories; over and over and over and over...
    I'm aware that other people's grandchildren are not nearly as cute as mine.
    I'm so cared for --- long term care, eye care, private care, dental care.
    I'm not really grouchy,
    I just don't like traffic, waiting, crowds, lawyers, loud music, unruly kids, Jenny Craig and Toyota commercials, barking dogs, politicians and a few other things I can't seem to remember right now.
    I'm sure everything I can't find is in a safe secure place, somewhere.
    I'm wrinkled, saggy, lumpy, and that's just my left leg.
    I'm having trouble remembering simple words like.......
    I'm beginning to realize that aging is not for wimps.
    I'm sure they are making adults much younger these days, and when did they let kids become policemen?
    I'm wondering, if you're only as old as you feel, how could I be alive at 150?
    And, how can my kids be older than I feel sometimes?
    I'm a walking storeroom of facts..... I've just lost the key to the storeroom door.
    Yes, I'm a SENIOR CITIZEN and I think I am having the time of my life!
    Now if I could only remember who sent this to me, I wouldn't send it back to them, but I would send it to many more!

  2. #2
    Debbolas
    Does anyone under the age of 50 know the lyrics to the Star Spangled Banner? or O Canada
    I do!!!!
    Oh say can you see?
    By the dawns early light.....

  3. #3
    FMluvswater
    I know all the words to O Canada in both French and English. Okay I probably couldn't write out the French version but I can sing it and I do know what most of it means (the lyrical content is quite different from the English version; more respectful of history, IMO.)

  4. #4
    goneboatin
    If you're really feeling bad about yourself, go to any Wallmart around midnight. You'll feel much better knowing that there are many people worse off than you. I mean ugly. Works every time.

  5. #5
    FRENCHIE
    i love walmart!!! wife hates it!

  6. #6
    goneboatin
    Is it true to get hired at Walmart you must live in a trailer park?

  7. #7
    Kilrtoy
    On the shore dimly seen throughout the mists of the deep
    Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes
    What is that which the breeze o'er the towering steep
    As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
    Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam
    In full glory reflected now shines on the stream.
    `Tis the Star-Spangled Banner, Oh long may it wave
    O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
    And where is that band who so hauntingly swore
    That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
    A home and country, shall leave us no more?
    Their blood was washed out their foul foot steps pollution
    No refuge could save the hireling and slave
    From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.
    And the Star-Spangled Banner in triumph doth wave
    O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
    Oh thus be it e'er when free men shall stand
    Between their lov'd homes and war's desolation!
    Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
    Praise the Pow'r that has made and presrv'd us a nation
    And conquer we must when our cause is just
    And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
    And the Star-Spangled Banner in triumph shall wave
    O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
    That is the rest of it....

  8. #8
    Boozer
    Originally posted by Kilrtoy
    On the shore dimly seen throughout the mists of the deep
    Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes
    What is that which the breeze o'er the towering steep
    As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
    Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam
    In full glory reflected now shines on the stream.
    `Tis the Star-Spangled Banner, Oh long may it wave
    O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
    And where is that band who so hauntingly swore
    That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
    A home and country, shall leave us no more?
    Their blood was washed out their foul foot steps pollution
    No refuge could save the hireling and slave
    From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.
    And the Star-Spangled Banner in triumph doth wave
    O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
    Oh thus be it e'er when free men shall stand
    Between their lov'd homes and war's desolation!
    Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
    Praise the Pow'r that has made and presrv'd us a nation
    And conquer we must when our cause is just
    And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
    And the Star-Spangled Banner in triumph shall wave
    O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
    That is the rest of it....
    Post wh*re

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