So despite the confusion, YESTERDAY was my actual birthday, and 70 is the new 50.
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So despite the confusion, YESTERDAY was my actual birthday, and 70 is the new 50.
And while I appreciate all the excitement and anticipation and threads and people wishing me a happy birthday yesterday, the plain fact is that I was born on December 13th, and not December 12th.
So I had to start my own birthday thread, because nobody could wait until the actual day, and that's okay, but somebody oughta get the date right, and I suppose it should be me. So I deleted one birthday thread and locked the other one, and this will have to do for an official one.
Whew.
The thing about it is, it's just so preposterous to think that I would reach the age of 70.
After all the crazy stuff I did as a yoot, it just seems weird to me that I would still be alive at 70 years old.
I certainly never thought I'd reach 70. I had very reasonable expectations of being dead before I was 40.
Y'all know, I left home the day after I graduated high school in June 1971, and drove my VW bus clean across this great land of ours, to the Haight-Ashbury to be a hippy forever, and I led a crazy street life for many years, and I honestly thought, if I can just make it to 40, that will be a good long life for me.
I made it to 40.
I came THISCLOSE to dying on more than half a dozen occasions, but I did make it to age 40, and I even managed to get a good education and some nice jobs along the road, considering where I'd been.
And at 41 I married ol' Wifehorn, instead of being dead. This is all bonus time now. She still had to clean me up some, mind you. I was almost could pretend to be civilized semi-civilized by then.
But she's kept me alive and kicking all this time.
So I had to start my own birthday thread, because nobody could wait until the actual day, and that's okay, but somebody oughta get the date right, and I suppose it should be me. So I deleted one birthday thread and locked the other one, and this will have to do for an official one.
Whew.
The thing about it is, it's just so preposterous to think that I would reach the age of 70.
After all the crazy stuff I did as a yoot, it just seems weird to me that I would still be alive at 70 years old.
I certainly never thought I'd reach 70. I had very reasonable expectations of being dead before I was 40.
Y'all know, I left home the day after I graduated high school in June 1971, and drove my VW bus clean across this great land of ours, to the Haight-Ashbury to be a hippy forever, and I led a crazy street life for many years, and I honestly thought, if I can just make it to 40, that will be a good long life for me.
I made it to 40.
I came THISCLOSE to dying on more than half a dozen occasions, but I did make it to age 40, and I even managed to get a good education and some nice jobs along the road, considering where I'd been.
And at 41 I married ol' Wifehorn, instead of being dead. This is all bonus time now. She still had to clean me up some, mind you. I was almost could pretend to be civilized semi-civilized by then.
But she's kept me alive and kicking all this time.
I'm Foggy and I forget if I approved this message.
So despite the confusion, TODAY is my actual birthday, and I'm 70.
Happy Birthday, Foggy!!!
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So despite the confusion, TODAY is my actual birthday, and I'm 70.
How terribly strange to be 70. Happy Birthday Foggy!
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So despite the confusion, TODAY is my actual birthday, and I'm 70.
Happy Birthday you crusty old bird! May you still have many more to come
ETA... I forgot your birfhday cake!
ETA... I forgot your birfhday cake!
So despite the confusion, TODAY is my actual birthday, and I'm 70.
Now if only any of the birthers like Jerome corsi were on cameo we could have chipped in and got a special birthday video
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So despite the confusion, TODAY is my actual birthday, and I'm 70.
On this day in 2003, Saddam was found in his dirty little hidey-hole not far from Tikrit.
I'm Foggy and I forget if I approved this message.
So despite the confusion, TODAY is my actual birthday, and I'm 70.
And many more!!!!!
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So despite the confusion, TODAY is my actual birthday, and I'm 70.
Today is Taylor Swift's birthday.
She's 33 years old.
She's 33 years old.
I'm Foggy and I forget if I approved this message.
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So despite the confusion, TODAY is my actual birthday, and I'm 70.
In 37 years she'll be 70, and you'll be 107!
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So despite the confusion, TODAY is my actual birthday, and I'm 70.
You must have waited to start first grade until the year after you turned 6. December babies were sort of in weird situation back then because depending on where you lived you either started at age 5 and turned 6 the following December or waited the until the fall after you turned 6. Mrs. RC was born a year and a handful of days after you but also graduated in 1971 when she was still 17 because she entered first grade at age 5. It may have been parents' choice to start kids at age 5. I do not recall. My younger brother was born on October 23rd and also started first grade at 5.Foggy wrote: ↑Tue Dec 13, 2022 6:09 am
Y'all know, I left home the day after I graduated high school in June 1971, and drove my VW bus clean across this great land of ours, to the Haight-Ashbury to be a hippy forever, and I led a crazy street life for many years, and I honestly thought, if I can just make it to 40, that will be a good long life for me.
Enough trivia from the 50's.. Happy Birthday Foggy.
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So despite the confusion, TODAY is my actual birthday, and I'm 70.
You keep saying first grade. They didn't have K back in those ancient times?Reality Check wrote: ↑Tue Dec 13, 2022 8:32 am You must have waited to start first grade until the year after you turned 6. December babies were sort of in weird situation back then because depending on where you lived you either started at age 5 and turned 6 the following December or waited the until the fall after you turned 6. Mrs. RC was born a year and a handful of days after you but also graduated in 1971 when she was still 17 because she entered first grade at age 5. It may have been parents' choice to start kids at age 5. I do not recall. My younger brother was born on October 23rd and also started first grade at 5.
I think it was parent(s) choice. I'm an August baby here and my pops wanted me in school at newly 5, so, too, I gradgeeated while still 17.
My adolescent BFF is two weeks my elder and his parents waited until he turned 6.
I always felt that would have been the better plan for me.
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So despite the confusion, TODAY is my actual birthday, and I'm 70.
It was WAY more weird than that.Reality Check wrote: ↑Tue Dec 13, 2022 8:32 am You must have waited to start first grade until the year after you turned 6.
I started 1st grade in military school in South Carolina at 5, read all the books they had in 6 weeks (my mom taught me to read early) and they put me in 2nd grade. But remember, we moved all the time, like a Navy fambly.
I started 4th grade in La Jolla, California, and I was only 7. All the other kids were 9. They yanked me out of 4th and made me do 3rd grade a second time, not because of academics but to get me closer to my age group*.
After 8th grade in Bethesda, Maryland, my parents sent me to boarding school in Delaware for a year. I had to repeat 8th grade at the boarding school, because their academics were tougher than Maryland public schools.
I was not kicked out of boarding school - I was asked not to return.
So I repeated 3rd and 8th grades before I finally got back in with my correct age group for high school.
And I was only busted and suspended from high school once.
* My parents claimed that even at 7, I kept asking, "Why does the teacher repeat things all the time? I understand the first time!"
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So despite the confusion, TODAY is my actual birthday, and I'm 70.
Happy birthday!!
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So despite the confusion, TODAY is my actual birthday, and I'm 70.
70! 70! 70! HAPPY REAL 70TH!
"Mickey Mouse and I grew up together." - Ruthie Tompson, Disney animation checker and scene planner and one of the first women to become a member of the International Photographers Union in 1952.
So despite the confusion, TODAY is my actual birthday, and I'm 70.
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So despite the confusion, TODAY is my actual birthday, and I'm 70.
There is a historical documentary about our dear leader..
I, too, wonder how he made it this far.
I, too, wonder how he made it this far.
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So despite the confusion, TODAY is my actual birthday, and I'm 70.
This documentary should be nominated for a special Emmy!
"Mickey Mouse and I grew up together." - Ruthie Tompson, Disney animation checker and scene planner and one of the first women to become a member of the International Photographers Union in 1952.
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So despite the confusion, TODAY is my actual birthday, and I'm 70.
Happy Taylor Swift's B-Day. May they name a stadium/casino in your honor.
Whoops almost forgot about Dick Van Dyke's 97th today.
Whoops almost forgot about Dick Van Dyke's 97th today.
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So despite the confusion, TODAY is my actual birthday, and I'm 70.
Why am I not surprised you had such an interesting school career?
It's funny but decisions like that can change your entire life. I think that educators decided later that pushing kids into school early like that was not a good idea. I believe now it is more common to have kids wait until they are 5 to start kindergarten.
So despite the confusion, TODAY is my actual birthday, and I'm 70.
(Parents still get to choose when their kids start kindergarten here. My granddaughter, more than ready, started kindergarten right after her fifth birthday; my grandson, not ready, didn't start until he was almost six.)
Have a happy one!
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Happy Birthday, you septuagenarian!!
I'll be joining you in less than two months. And, yes I'm surprised that I lived past 40 too, also.
I'll be joining you in less than two months. And, yes I'm surprised that I lived past 40 too, also.
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So despite the confusion, TODAY is my actual birthday, and I'm 70.
I'll add my happy birthday and a large thank you for giving a bunch of us the chance to hang out with you mostly daily.
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