Just for fun, I'd like to hear what others consider getting old means... For example.. you know you're getting old when you're out in the wilds and have to relieve yourself, and you can't p*** far enough to keep it from splattering on your feet! Or how about when you start to get dressed in the morning, and when you go to put on your underwear, you can't tell the leg hole from the waistband? Well I guess that really only applies to anyone who wears briefs, and is getting fat, but I think you all get the idea....Any other observations?

You ae getting old and fat when you have to lay on the floor to get your neoprenes on.

Ypu are gettign old when you wish they made a fly in waders.

You know you're gettting old when they start using Led Zepplin to sell cadillacs... sacrelidge!!!(did I spell that right?)

You know you are getting old when...

..your cataract prescription isn't a lie.

...you finally figure out how daylight savings time works.

...you can't smoke two packs of cigs, drink a fifth of whiskey and be up at first light in the summertime like you used to....

...when YOU are the one turning down the stereo on the way to the put-in...

...when your hands lock permanently in the 'rowing' position...

You know your getten old when....
...you have more hair on your back than your head
...ya kid calls you old fart
...you buy pretied hooks (or is that lazy)
...you yell at people in your fishen hole
...you quit pullen grey hairs

Gee Iam glad to be young still

You know your getting old when,

you use the morning's Hawks game as an excuse to sleep in. Damn Hawk's, I should have gone fishing.

You know your getting old when your gut expands.. your waist lowers ..and your butt disappears.

...it takes 3 tries to string 8lb leader through a #2 hook.

... when you fart dust

I would contribute to this thread but I dont know what it's like getting old...

Your Old,

When your Manhood used to be like a Oak Tree, Hard and solid, Now It's like a Christmas Tree, Dried up and the Balls are for Decoration.

You know you're getting old when you have to sew a label on all your underwear in BIG print: "YELLOW IN FRONT, BROWN IN BACK"

You know you're old ....

when you forget how old you are.

when you can't have your birthday cake during a burn ban.

when it takes you several years to wear out a pair of sneakers.

when instead of checking your birth certificate for your age, they saw off one of your legs and count the rings.

Just remember - the older you get, the older old gets.

You sink your teeth into a steak and they stay there!

&

Your favorite part of the newspaper is "25 Years Ago Today..."

....plunking starts to sound pretty good to you.

or

.... staying behind to do the morning dishes and wait for the young bucks to go off and drive the game down to camp while you leisurely toss logs on the fire to keep the coffee hot.

Getting older means that I have to sit down to tie on a fly(need to steady the hands). Getting older means you have to buy your flies because you are to shaky to tie them.

Your in the bar and that hot chick over there is young enough to be your daughter!

You know you're old when you no longer have to set the alarm to be on the water before light and you hav'nt seen the news in months because 11:00 pm is just to damn late.

You know you are getting old when you suffer from DICKIE DO- thats when your belly sticks out further than your dickie do!

You remember Hwy99 as the only way to get to California...

It's not?

You Know Your getting Old When:

You can remember:

When the hydroplane races were between the Slo Mos and the Such Crust boats.

When nobody released a steelhead, and they were ALL wild.

When Lucy and Desi couldn't be shown in the same bed.

When Gay meant happy.

You know your getting older when Viagra is your only means of motivation.

You know your old when....
*Pearl Jam was a band that played in Pioneer square and I actually laughed at them
*You remember the Lynnwood Roll a ways "Battle of the Bands"
*Reiter used to be a busy place almost 10 people there usually.
*Cops were older.
* Having long hair is still cool right?
* You intoroduced your best friend to to Mary Fisher, used to be married to Roger, and there still married
* When you were a kid, ya used to jam at Chris Cornells house, ask him about shootiing BB Guns.
* Your latest Band Photos still hang in the Band Aid Music stor, both of them, that was 10+ yrs ago.
*The internet satisfies your needs.
*You alaways back your vehicle in, just like Dad.
*Getting Leighed, must mean Hawaii is coming soon.
* Your new friends that moved here within the last 10 years think they are telling you zipper spots.
*Gorrila Gardens used to be a poular spot for original bands.
* The Riviera was the coolest bar that ever existed, or Rain Tree to some.
* You think Yella Eagle Claws are the current version of Ugly Sticks.
* You still swear on Mustad Hooks
*Spandex skirts still haunt your brain
* Cool Jeans are still Levis
*James Jeans, BNG's, Painter Pants, Star Jeans, Acid washed, Swabbies,Code Bleus,
are still part of your attire.
* Back in the old days It was called a DWI, now it's called a DUI
*Parkers used to be B.y.o.b
* I met Jimi Hendrixs Dad, and partied with him.

Enough for now,,,, I think I am getting old...

WW

Getting old is when you suffer from Dunlaps Disease, when your belly has dun lapped over your beltline. Or the Dr. asks you for a urine and stool sample, and you just leave him your underwear....

.... when the centerfold girl was born after you graduated.

Some very good ones here and I remember most of them.

Here's a few more for the real oldies. I remember these too!!!

> > REMEMBER?
> > Hey Dad," one of my kids asked the other day, "What was your favorite
fast
> > food when you were growing up?"
> > "We didn't have fast food when I was growing up," I informed him. "All
the
> > food was slow."
> > "C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?"
> > "It was a place called 'at home," I explained. "Grandma cooked every
day
> > and when Grandpa got home from work, we sat down together at the dining
> > room
> > table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed to
sit
> > there until I did like it."
> > By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to
> > suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how
I
> > had to have permission to leave the table.
> > But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood
if
> > I
> > figured his system could have handled it:
> >
> > Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis, set foot on a golf
> > course, traveled out of the country or had a credit card. In their later
> > years they had something called a revolving charge card. The card was
> > good
> > only at Sears Roebuck. Or maybe it was Sears AND Roebuck. Either way,
> > there is no Roebuck anymore. Maybe he died.
> >
> > My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This was mostly because
we
> > never had heard of soccer. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50
> > pounds,
> > and only had one speed, (slow).
> > We didn't have a television in our house until I was 11, but my
> > grandparents
> > had one before that. It was, of course, black and white, but they
bought
> > a
> > piece of colored plastic to cover the screen. The top third was blue,
> > like
> > the sky, and the bottom third was green, like grass. The middle third
was
> > red. It was perfect for programs that had scenes of fire trucks
riding
> > across someone's lawn on a sunny day.. Some people had a lens taped to
the
> > front of the TV to make the picture look larger.
> >
> > I was 13 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called "pizza pie." When
I
> > bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off,
swung
> > down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that, too. It's still
> > the
> > best pizza I ever had.
> >
> > We didn't have a car until I was 15. Before that, the only car in our
> > family
> > was my grandfather's Ford. He called it a "machine."
> >
> > I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone in the house was in
> > the
> > living room and it was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had
to
> > listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using
the
> > line.
> >
> > Pizzas were not delivered to our home. But milk was. All newspapers
were
> > delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers. I delivered a
> > newspaper, six days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper, of which I got to
> > keep 2 cents. I had to get up at 4 AM every morning. On Saturday, I had
> > to
> > collect the 42 cents from my customers. My favorite customers were the
> > ones
> > who gave me 50 cents and told me to keep the change. My least favorite
> > customers were the ones who seemed to never be home on collection day.
> >
> > Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the
> > movies. Touching someone else's tongue with yours was called French
> > kissing and they didn't do that in movies. I don't know what they did
in
> > French movies. French movies were dirty and we weren't allowed to see
> > them.
> >
> > If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want
> > to
> > share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just
> > don't
> > blame me if they bust a gut laughing. Growing up isn't what it used to
> > be,
> > is it?
> >
> > MEMORIES from a friend:
> > My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and
> > he
> > brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a
> > stopper
> > with a bunch of holes in it. I knew immediately what it was, but Kati
had
> > no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or
> > something.
> > I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to
> > "sprinkle" clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am
> > old.
> >
> > How many do you remember?
> >
> > x Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
> > x Ignition switches on the dashboard.
> > x Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
> > x Real ice boxes.
> > x Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
> > x Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
> > x Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.
> >
> > Older Than Dirt Quiz: Count all the ones that you remember not the ones
> > you
> > were told about! Ratings at the bottom.
> >
> > 1. Blackjack chewing gum
> > x 2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
> > x 3. Candy cigarettes
> > x 4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
> > x 5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
> > x 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
> > x 7. Party lines
> > x 8. Newsreels before the movie
> > x 9. P.F. Flyers
> > x 10. Butch wax
> > x 11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive-6933) One of our first
> > phone numbers was 340R
> > x 12. Peashooters
> > x 13. Howdy Doody
> > x 14. 45 RPM records and before that they were 78 rpm
> > x 15. S&H Green Stamps
> > x 16. Hi-fi's
> > x 17. Metal ice trays with lever and before that, real "ice boxes" that
> > you
> > put ice in to keep things cool (not cold)
> > x 18. Mimeograph paper
> > x 19. Blue flashbulb
> > x 20. Packards
> > x 21. Roller skate keys
> > x 22. Cork popguns
> > x 23. Drive-ins
> > x 24. Studebakers
> > x 25. Wash tub wringers
> >
> > If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
> > If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
> > If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age,
> > If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!
> > Don't forget to pass this along!!
> > Especially to all your really OLD

Ha Auntie, I knew you would know all that stuff.

BTW. All better now. Man, when I looked after cut and paste it put on a bunch didn't it?

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I have more but it's pretty nasty. Can I put nasty things on here?

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We were the first ones in the neighborhood to get a Pong set for our TV. Anyone remember those??

Also, our TV was also the radio, record player, and album storage cabinet. It wasn't a TV, it was the console. My little sister was the remote control. She had to change between the two channels we had.

We lived in a very small town. Christmas shopping consisted of dog-earing the pages of the Sears and Roebuck and Montgomery Ward catalogs. I remember the grocery checkers keying in the prices by hand, no scanners. When I was 10 I got a new 5-speed bike with a cheater slick rear tire, a bannana seat, and the gears were shifted by a stick shift on the nut buster bar. I remember when car companies only had one style of car. Remember push button trannies?? My aunt's house had a corner booth in the kitchen to sit in like at the soda shop. Remember soda shops? We called them Soda Fountains. The cool guys had spinner hub caps on their cars. Curb feelers? Our sidewalks were still made of wood, there is STILL a law on the books that makes it illegal to kick the heads off of snakes that stick their head up through the sidewalk planks so that the bodies don't fall back down and stink the place up. I remember movies had cartoons first, Woody Woodpecker was the man then. I remember when we got an electric motor with a dial to move the TV antennae. Uptown for sure. We didn't watch the ball game, we listened to it. We had a self propelled mower-you had to propel it yourself. Remember when the McDonalds sign said "Over 1 million sold", or even when they kept track?? Paper drinking straws. Cars with no seatbelts and steel dashboards. All of our dressy clothes were made by mom. Man, that red velvet vest was my favorite, you know, the one with the belt! When I was in high school, the first chordless phones had a metal antennae you had to pull out first. The Straight 8? or Slant 6? A letter across the county took several weeks. To dial long distance you had to talk to an operator, and you usually knew her by her first name. Switchboards-real ones with chords that had to be plugged in by hand. Coolest store in town was Western Auto. Malts. Spaceburgers. Bowling alleys that employed guys called "pin setters". Soda Jerks.

Man, the good old days. I miss them. My kids laugh when we talk about the Titanic being found and such a big deal. They never new it was lost.

One word - bifocals.

My brain says that I am young… My wife says I act like a kid… but…

A co-worker that seems as a peer… finally tells me his age and I realize that I am old enough to be his father… ouch…

I have to stop myself from telling my Boy Scout's something that I did when I was thier age ... used to do this or that… because it is illegal now…

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Hey Huntar… another spin on your centerfold item… a friend of mine (a couple of years older than myself) and her husband that grew up and still live in Renton… the husband brought home the Playboy issue a little while back that had the centerfold girl from Renton… she was the daughter of the wife's high school best friend….

Another word: Depends!

Dude, the same punch line got me kicked off the site last year.....

....different joke though!!

4-salt,
You never come across as being that old

It must be real nice though when your wearing neoprenes...

:p

When you buy slip on shoes cuz ya can't bend over that far to tie em any more. I have a couple pair & really like em.
When fishing poles were made out of bamboo & the line was string or wire.
You were really rich if you had a motor on yer boat.

...my breathables actually!

With them bad boys on I can stand in on spot for 12 hours straight at Blue Creek, even after a hearty meal of bran muffins and prune juice!

4Salt...Hilarious! LOL
What kind of car do you drive?
I want to make sure I Never park next to you at a hole 'cause when you peel those clothes off my rig may need a new paint job!

Auntym: The reason our frienda keep repeating things over and over and over is cuz, we can't hear a damn thing!

4Salt definately knows how to keep a clear area around him so he has plenty of room to cast a play his fish!

An old guy is bragging to his buddy about his brand new top of the line hearing aid.
"What kind is it?" The buddy asks
The old guy replies, "Oh, about 10:30."

You're getting old when "your actions creak louder than your words."

When:
*Weekend entertainment was Roller Skating, Shoot the Moon, Couples Only, etc.
* When commiting to a girl was "going Steady" or "Going with" the person
*French Kissing was really getting Frisky
*Pinball was your Favorite sport
*A poster of Farrah Fawcwtt hung on the wall
*Boxers were for Old dudes
*White Tees underneath a shirt was normal
*Wife Beaters were criminals, not Tank Tees
*Hush Puppies were shoes and a food
*Hot Wheels were the desired gift
*A 56' Tbird is more desired than a lowered, Acura with Ground effects.
*Fleece was something your Cat or Dog got
*Shopping for x-mas meant picking clothes out from the "Wish Book"
*Having a MilkMan was normal
*8-tracks were cool
*Being a Nurd was a Bad thing
*Ben was your favorite Micheal Jackson tune
*You still like Gilligans Island
* You played Pachingko

WW

WW

You know you're getting old

...when you've wiped so much Smelly Jelly, egg goo, fish slime and slobber on your vest that your dog rolls on it when you lay it down.

...when the sweat/soil stain on your fishing cap covers it from the bill to the back, giving it the rain repelling qualities of a genuine oilskin, and the aroma of a decomposing seal.

You know you're getting old

...when "a full day of fishing" means your Depends overflowed while you were on the water.

...when hypothermic hands make it impossible to tie fishing knots, use your car keys, or button the fly on your Levi's. While shivering uncontrollably, you wonder if you're getting too old for summerrun steelheading.

You know you're getting old

...when you like to go squidding, because it allows you to get up at the crack of dusk.

...when you would go fishing tomorrow, but you can't remember where you put your rod, reel, and boots after today's trip. No problem finding the vest, however, it'll be right where the dog always leaves it.

When you target silvers cuz the kings take too damm long to land......