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Remember when The Cubs were losers?
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Remember when The Cubs were losers?
The cubs killed me in[69]i'm glad they finally did it,i think about the great ernie banks and all the years he gave em.
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They killed me EVERY YEAR from 1950 through last season. They won their last pennant before I was 70 years old the year before I was born[[1945). But, I watched hundreds of games for 25¢ and, mostly 50¢ in Wrigley Field's bleachers during the 1950s.
Too Bad Harry Caray didn't live to see this. And, the curse still operated, as Ernie Banks lived to 84 years of age, and wouldn't you know it, The Cubs win the Pennant and World Series the very next year after he passes on! Fate is often cruel. But, at least, Cuno Barragon survived to witness it.
Well, at least it happened in MY own lifetime.
Now we need World Peace, a switch to 100% clean energy, voluntary limitation on children to 1 or 0, and lower Earth's Human population to 500 million within 50 years, and only 100 million within 100 years, all Earth's roofs painted white, and Global Warming neutralised.....etc., etc.
And "The Afterlife" being a really good place, making up for this struggle of a life on Earth.
:D
Hey robb,i'm voting for you,hehehehehe!!!
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I'd be better than Trump. But, then, ALL of us would!!! Even a one-celled animal would be.
Great thread and don't even get me started but that phone thing has got to be my biggest pet peeve of ALL TIMES. Heck, I still use a flip phone and PROUD OF IT!
Whippersnappers... I still don't have a cell, flip or otherwise. A lot of folks are mad with me about it but I appreciate not always being expected to converse when anybody and everybody wants to bother me.
LOL...I feel ya on that one, especially since I can still remember the days of rotary phones and party lines.
Years ago I was forced to get a cell because of my job at the time. Company paid the bill so what the heck. I've had one ever since but even back then I would piss my boss off cause I usually had it turned off.....same applies now.....without the boss :)
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I still have a flip phone, my first cell phone, which I only got less than 2 years ago, because a few of my clients and ALL my work partners demanded that I be reachable at crunch time. I hate using it. It has so many touch-activated functions that are set off just by my slightest body movement. I hate that. That's 10 times worse with smartphones, which is why I'll never get one. Same for pad-style computers. I'll carry around a MacBook, rather than get an I-pad. If I sneezed I set of 347 desktop functions or programmes, many of which I'll NEVER be able to close!
I'm dependent upon computers for my work, but often, I wish computers were never invented. Same for mobile phones, and passwords [[I have over 100 user names and passwords, most of which I can NEVER remember, as most of them have different rules about which keyboard characters must and can be used in user names and passwords. For most of my government, bank, commercial, and communication website account memberships, I must click on "forgot user name AND password" button, and receive them one-by-one, eventually, as I even forget my first, car, best friend's name, or mother's maiden name, or that I ever had a first car, first pet, or mother, or favourite colour. It's tough being old! :mad:
I hope "the next life" is less complicated!
Simple: don't let the phone control you. You control the phone! Having a smartphone is great! I can text instead of talk, I can check the internet for the nearest restaurant, use it as a GPS, take pictures if I need, identify songs I want to know the name of, use it as a music player, watch videos and movies, post on Twitter, check the news, compare prices when shopping, use it as an internet hub for my tablet or laptop, check my database when shopping for music so I don't buy doubles, check the SPL of a place if I think it's too loud, and lots of other things.
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Yes, Smartphones can do a LOT more than flipphones, but let's not make flipphones seem totally worthless. Mine can text, and access The Internet, and has a camera. But, of course, it's screen is way too small to really see things well on The Internet. I wouldn't want to watch a film or sports event on such a small screen. But even a smartphone's bigger screen is WAY TOO SMALL, for viewing entertainment. But, then, so are pad/computers and even laptops. I have roughly a 30 inch screen on my desktop, so I can watch films and sports events on a decent size screen.
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Even at an old age, you can avoid aches and pains all the time, if you work out every day, get enough sleep and eat only healthy foods. I even had a lot of hockey injuries over my 20 years of organised play, and they only bother me if I run a reasonably long distance on a hard surface, walk or run into something hard when looking the other way, or get into a fight :cool:. I'm over 70 and don't ever have regular aches and pains. But, I lift weights and use a step machine or ride a bicycle a decent distance every day, or, at least, do a lot of fast walking or some swimming.
I enjoy my life more now than I did when I was in my late teens and 20s.
I have a new pal,his name is arthur i. Tis,he started hangin around the time i turned fifty and he won't leave no matter how many time i try to get rid of him...this guys a real pain.
HEY ROBB,I DO WORK OUT...ONE SIP FIRST THING IN THE MORNING,TWO SIPS BEFORE BREAKFAST[sometimes two sips IS breakfast]...A SWIG AT TEN O'CLOCK AND THREE MORE AT NOON,I STOP COUNTING AFTER THAT...AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
I'm flipping out over here.
I have to say, I love my iPhone - actually I'm not sure I could live without it, LOL! It's like a personal mini computer that can do everything!! They can be annoying though and old phones work just as well as phones.
Remember making a long distance call from the phone booth and hoping you had enough change?
Remember when you paid in cash and the cashier didn't seem confused? They barely touch money any more and some have a little grin when counting cash. It's like they're thinking "well, that's different!"
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Only about 20% of all US and Canadian money is in the form of cash. All the rest is digital.
I remember placing 3rd party billing calls on the phone in my dorm room to girls I knew across the country and having the charges billed to my parents phone in another State. When my father found out, he called all of them and told them to no longer accept calls from me! LOL! How embarrassing!
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Just a-nippin' and a-sippin' the time away, eh? Thus sangeth The Clovers. :rolleyes:
Lifting up that heavy bottle of Johnny Walker builds wrist muscles.
Remember finding a nickel on the ground as a kid and you ran to the corner store to spend it[hehe]? And if you found a quarter you were in heaven.
"I enjoy my life more now than I did when I was in my late teens and 20s. "
cause you ain't broke no mo.... Robb.
Remember when teachers just taught and didn't get political except when teaching students about politics?