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In reply to the discussion: How old are you? [View all]...We can't bust heads like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to tell 'em stories that don't go anywhere - like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Give me five bees for a quarter," you'd say.
Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...
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old enough to know better, but young enough to keep making the same mistakes over and over.
Javaman
Oct 2015
#8
. [laughing] Nope. I was a semi-flower child.... a sort of wall-flower child.
lamp_shade
Oct 2015
#29
Main brain always short-circuits when I see/hear comments like this one. You are part of a long
ChisolmTrailDem
Oct 2015
#100
So, it's them electrons what's doin' it? Am I collecting electrons from stars and nebulaes?
ChisolmTrailDem
Oct 2015
#109
Old and wise enough to still be seated at the kid's table for the holidays....
Brother Buzz
Oct 2015
#128
You can try, but it's a little saggy Skittles. You might fall on your ass.
smirkymonkey
Oct 2015
#137