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Yeah, sixty's the new forty. Oldtimer in the Outback On 24/09/2007, Kenneth Wolman <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > joe green wrote: > > Thanks...they are probably not going anywhere. Today I am 59 and, as always, find that what I write that matters the most to me is the strange past. And a ballad (as unacceptable as one is) does the job for me. All those stories are essentially true. Now here's a song (to the tune of Arthur McBride). > > > > I don't know Arthur McBride from the Bride of Frankenstein but I love > this anyway. And as for being 59, happy birthday, but you are still a > kid:-). I saw all them boys with the transparent skin from a daily diet > of speed that really DID kill, and guys with arms serious trackwork in > the days when you came by your tattoos in a shooting gallery not in some > pissy little tattoo parlor. Yeah, those were the days, and I only get > to missing them when I am awake. > > You cannot become an official Old Fart Until you turn sixty. We'll wait > for you. > > ken >