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And may long live Spock.............

DEAR NEIGHBOR: Hi, Fred, this is Richard, next door. I’ve got a confession to make. I’ve been riddled w/guilt for a few months & have been trying to get up the courage to tell you face-to-face. At least I’m telling you in this text, & I can’t live w/myself a minute longer w/o your knowing about this. The truth is that, when you’re not around, I’ve been sharing your wife, day & night. In fact, probably much more than you. I haven’t been getting it at home recently, & I know that that’s no excuse. The temptation was just too great. I can’t live w/the guilt & hope you’ll accept my sincere apology & forgive me. Please suggest a fee for usage, & I’ll pay you. Regards, Richard NEIGHBOR’S RESPONSE: Fred, feeling very angry & betrayed, grabbed his gun, went next door, & shot Richard, killing him. He went back home, shot his wife, poured himself a stiff drink & sat down on the sofa. Fred then looked at his phone & discovered a 2nd text message from Richard. 2ND TEXT MESSAGE: Hi, Fred. Richard here again. Sorry about the typo on my last text. I expect you figured it out and noticed that the darned Auto-Correct had changed “wi-fi” to “wife.” Technology, huh? It’ll be the death of us all.

It is, indeed, made in America... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Jack_(gum)

Count all the ones that you actually remember, not the ones you were told about. Ratings at the bottom. 1. Blackjack chewing gum 2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water 3. Candy cigarettes 4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles 5. Coffee shops or diners with table-side jukeboxes 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers 7. Party lines on the telephone 8. Newsreels before the movie 9. P.F. Flyers 10. Butch wax (that was our hair product) 11. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. 12. Peashooters 13. Howdy Doody 14. 45 RPM records 15. S&H green stamps 16. Hi-fi's 17. Metal ice trays with a lever 18. Mimeograph paper 19. Blue flashbulb 20. Packards 21. Roller skate keys 22. Cork popguns 23. Drive-in movies 24. Studebakers 25. Wash tub wringers If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age, If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt! PS: I remember them all. I guess that's why they call me a dirty old man.

Indeed, CRS (can't remember s**t) is a terrible disease............

I agree with Nick. I don't want to know as it has no bearing on the enjoyment I've gotten from simming for the last 39 years. All I know is that whatever the investment is, it pales when compared to what I've spent on flying real-life aircraft and the boats I've owned .....Doug

I have everything that I wanted as a teenager. Only it's 70 years later. I don't have to go to school or work. I get an allowance every month. I have my own pad. I don't have a curfew. I have a driver's license and my own car. The people I hang around with are not scared of getting pregnant and I don't have acne. Life is great. I changed my car horn to gunshot sounds. People get out of the way much faster now. Gone are the days when girls used to cook like their mothers. Now they drink like their fathers. I didn't make it to the gym today. That makes five years in a row. I decided to stop calling the bathroom "John" and renamed it the "Jim". I feel so much better saying I went to the Jim this morning. When I was a child I thought "nap time" was a punishment. Now it feels like a small vacation. The biggest lie I tell myself is... " I don't have to write that down, I'll remember it". I don't have gray hair... I have "wisdom highlights"! I'm just very wise. If God wanted me to touch my toes, He would've put them on my knees. Last year I joined a support group for procrastinators. We haven't met yet. Why do I have to press one for English when you're just going to transfer me to someone I can't understand anyway? Of course, I talk to myself. Sometimes I need expert advice. At my age "Getting Lucky" means walking into a room and remembering what I came in there for.

I don't remember the year, but it was sometime in the early 1960's. Probably 1961 or 1962. The babe I was dating back then (and now my wife) lived in San Francisco. Many of our dates took us to The Blackhawk where we heard the greatest live jazz performances in the world. And that's where I first heard Ahmed Jamal. I'll never forget that night. R.I.P. Jamal. We miss you..........

Do you need one? No. Does having one make some things easier? Yes. Mine is always turned off unless I make a call (which is almost never). I don't do text messages and I don't use my cellphone as a camera. But what do I know? I'm just an 80-something old fart who thinks that 1955 was a really great year to be alive. But you're right Rodger - we're slowly being forced to use it for more-and-more things. And that's one of the reasons (along with politics) that I'm glad I don't have long left.

Or, even better, go back to P3D and enjoy it.

I spend several hours each day with my friend Jack Daniels.

It's been 30 years now. 30 years since I last went to The Masters with a guy named Mitch Cook. He was the Pro at my home club (The Champions Club Of Atlanta) and was Larry Mizes' tour caddy for many years. We only went there on practice days. Those were the days when USD$15 was charged for admission. Walk right up, pay the price of a ticket, and walk right in. It took a while, however, for us to get the course. There was nobody Mitch didn't know. We constantly stopped and talked to people. Mitch knew everybody... golfers, caddies, wives...and girl friends. I met more of the pros back then than I can count. Those were the days...........

And, as with most other exercises, the number of reps is also important.

The average heart rate for men and women during an orgasm is 140 beats per minute.

Really great stuff Graeme. Thanks for posting them.........Doug

I have them all on an external HDD stored as .mp4 files. Once the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that recording for personal use time-shifting was "fair use" and not copyright infringement (Sony Corp. of America v. Universal Studios - 1984) the door was opened and the DVR record-it-now-and-view-it-later era began. None of that applies to DMCA-protected content on physical media (such as DVD's or VHS tapes) but there is, as of now, no legal restriction on recording any streamed content for later viewing as long as it's strictly for personal use.

Movies. The older the better. I've been at it for 42 years now and there are still a few (a lot) I don't have .

Hooray! Good on ya mate..........

Thanks Nick. Part of the problem is the use of a VPN (Virtual Private Network). I have a VPN which has connections originating in over 75 countries. I use mine to watch Formula 1 races on a British station. And there are many other reasons for using a VPN. Unfortunately the spammers use them too........Doug

It's the clown that posted all that stuff about how to contact airlines. Thank God those posts are gone now. Genuine forum spam.

Does anyone else agree?..............

Pamela Anderson...........

Actually Rodger you'll be celebrating the 41st anniversary of your 39th birthday. The E-word is a WNA. (I just got there too.......).

The day don't make me no nevermind.......

I'm with you Ken. I 've been simming now for 40 years and I somehow feel like I've been-there-and-done-that. Not much new to explore. I've never been into the eye-candy side of things. I'm more into practices and procedures. I thought MSFS2020 would get me going again but it's so poorly implemented that I've decided to put it on the shelf and move on to other things.