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Sorry, Cawacko, you will never be receiving that envite to the Youngin's Pwn. You're still cool, though. 
Oh, yeah, and don't forget, 90 is the NEW 80!
Oh, yeah, and don't forget, 90 is the NEW 80!
OT: Being 40 sucks
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Yet you've never experienced it. How do you know that this is better?
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I confess, it is an assumption I have made based on no firsthand experience. But, given the one-way policy, I'm still willing to wait on it. And that means getting older.
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Sorry, Cawacko, you will never be receiving that envite to the Youngin's Pwn. You're still cool, though.
Oh, yeah, and don't forget, 90 is the NEW 80!
26, just like my daughter. Isn't that sweet. So instead of 3 kids older than you, I have two older and one the same age.
Although I am willing to bet my daughter is prettier.
Billy the Great Khan
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That you had the misfortune of being born before me is hardly my fault.
It was a blessing for me. I saw KISS in concert before it was trendy. I saw the Grateful Dead at the Fox Theatre. I paid $20 for an ounce of excellent weed. I smoked with Jimmy Buffett in Panama City. The legal drinking age in Alabama was 19, and it was 18 in the surrounding states. I saw some of the best bands ever. Bad Company, Kansas (the first time they were the warmup band for Bad Company), the Doobie Bros, Pink Floyd, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Foriegner, Journey, and more. I got to party with Dizzy Gillespie. I spent a day hanging out with BB King and Johnny Shines. I grew pot in my backyard because no one knew what it was. I got laid in the back seat of a '69 GTO. And the worst thing you could catch from sex was VD. The 70s were full of more sex than the 90s and 00s combined.
I had a grand youth. And my parents let me do shit because no one worried about being kidnapped or molested. I played with M80s. My Boy Scout troop had rifles at camp when we were 12.
It was a great time.
Sorry you missed the fun.
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I can still outrun most 20 year olds but I turned 40 back in Jan. The body is fine though I definitely need more rest, get sorer and take longer to recover. The psychological aspects have been harder for me. Every two or three years I look back and think, "What a dumbass, I was." I am getting sick of being reborn.
Billy the Great Khan
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That never stops.
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Nah, I quit saying "What a dumbass I was". I see that sometimes shit looks different in retrospect. Yeah, there are always regrets. But the choices I made led me to where I am today and put me in with the people I have in my life today. It has been a blast, a pain in the ass, and a roller coaster ride. But I wouldn't trade it for all the tea in China.
I thought someone would surely say to drop the "I was."
I still have a little row to hoe yet, I guess. The people in my life keep making the row longer.
wanderingbear
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I cant say your wrong on that one.
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Darla
Happy Birthday Cawacko!
The weirdest thing to me is that the faces of my peers seem to be melting? Almost every woman I know, if not every woman I know, is doing injectables. Then I look at famous women I grew up with like the Friends cast. Anniston held out I think to some extent, or at least she didn't go overboard. But now her face is always bloated. I have been wondering if it's coke bloat. If not, then it's alcohol. (something you might be on the look out for, he he). Once you're 40, what you drank, snorted, smoked, or even ate over the weekend announces itself on your face. With the plastic surgery, cosmetic injectable industry having mainstreamed itself, sometimes I think well, if everyone is going to look younger than me maybe I should do it too. But I don't think they do look younger than me. Just weirder than me.
Also I have always thought I have cancer. It was easier to dismiss when I was in my 20's, though I still always thought I had it. Now I think, you know, this really could be cancer.
Other than that, I really don't have any problems with the whole thing!
Airstrip One
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I am going to be pissed off, because I have an exceptionally powerful long-term memory (complemented by a horrible short-term one), that can still capture pre-school episodes with clarity. It helps feed my nostalgia, and it makes me experience the feeling of loss quite effectively. For me, it's not about the fear of getting older, but losing my previous moments and opportunities.
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You almost definitely don't have the body of a Greek God. Are you at least 6'1? If you're under 6/1 you do not have the body of a Greek God. I think you drink too much to have a six pack. If you don't have a six pack, you don't have the body of a Greek God. There are other criteria, but I'll cut to the chase. Actual Greek God:
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I hate to see men laboring under giving themselves too much credit.
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I am 6'1, but I don't have a six-pack. Also, I'm not Australian (he's a Norse god, btw)...
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You're right a Norse God would be a better description but I don't think too clearly when I am looking at him. And I don't even usually care for blondes. He transcends all of that. I didn't even know there were other Hemsworths. People talk about his brother, who cares? I mean, stop drilling you struck oil man!
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As I get older, the list of people whose opinion matters gets shorter and shorter.
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What a beautiful family!