young Robin typical us sharing a trench three years after the war had
finished -but seriously it was my great grandson you were chatting
to--anyway who's old round here?????:-)
just cause the rest of you are so unfit in your flashy cars a cycle poem
would be beyond you-hang on one of those snapshots of
mine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!patrick zimmer 100 metres champion
----- Original Message -----
From: Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 3:13 AM
Subject: Re: It's my birthday
> > For me 75 was the watershed. Couldn't swim laps worth talking about any
> > more or get a speedos that looked right. Oh well.
> > Mairead
>
> Well, joking aside, it depends how old you +really+ are.
>
> I used to think there wasn't much positive about having your left thigh
> deconstructed by a dum-dum bullet in the Boer War, before the term was
even
> invented ...
>
> I mean, by the time they'd worked their way through to giving it a name,
> leave alone having the UN declare the use a War Crime, my +grandchildren+
> were drawing their pensions.
>
> But there was this one small advantage -- I could look down at it and if
it
> wasn't cherry red, no rain coming, so no need to pack an umbrella.
>
> Then it started talking to me.
>
> Hey, that wasn't *so* bad -- at my age, you can live with bits of your
> anatomy talking back. But it was what it said ...
>
> "You made your will yet, mate?"
>
> ALL I *need*, to have my war-wound nag me about making a will.
>
> Patrick McManus will apprecate this -- he and I were sharing a trench an'
> chatting about this and that in 05.
>
> "That wee reporter man will go FAR, Robin, take my word," said the Aged
> Pensioner From Hell.
>
> "As IF!!!" I naturally laughed, "even if he survives this, he'll spend his
> life walking across the floor between the Liberals and the Conservatives.
> Stupid [expletive deleted] chancer."
>
> "Heh heh heh," chuckled Patrick evily, "just you wait -- I'll survive to
run
> back and forth across your bones on my powered Zimmer frame ... "
>
> He did, too.
>
> Sad that, but.
>
> Zorro, the Masked Cliche.
>
> MORAL: *Don't* grow old. Or if you must, do it gracefully and wittily,
> like Patrick.
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