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Old 10-06-2006, 05:34 PM   #21
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How about... the first time you saw The Wizard of Oz in color was at a screening in college, and you realized all the jokes you'd missed watching it on the B&W TV you had at home.
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Old 10-07-2006, 11:54 AM   #22
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You know you're old when your nieces and nephews can't tell the time in your house because you don't have a digital clock.

Or the day you happen to notice the date of birth of your neighbour's driver's license is the same year you graduated from high school.
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lol this reminds me of the prison documentary I saw. ew.
Kinda glad it's invite only.

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Old 10-07-2006, 11:59 AM   #23
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You know you're old when... you remember when cashiers were actually able to give proper change back without the aid of a calculator or the till telling them how much to give...

You know you're old when... you wonder how people manage to graduate when they can't do simple math or spell?
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lol this reminds me of the prison documentary I saw. ew.
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Old 10-07-2006, 04:36 PM   #24
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You know you're old when you remember when the lights for fencing were switched.
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Old 10-07-2006, 06:09 PM   #25
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You know you're old when you remember when the lights for fencing were switched.
That makes you feel old?

I think: you know you're getting older when you realize you have fencers in your class whose parents you also taught.
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Old 10-07-2006, 06:32 PM   #26
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You know you're getting older when you find that all the above apply...

You know you're getting older when its not just the fencers, but the referees strike you as youngsters...
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You know you're getting older when the teens at the club gets picked up after fencing by their parents, and you think their parents are kind of attractive... Mmm, pappa Larsson! ;-D
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Old 10-08-2006, 02:35 PM   #28
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YKYGO when:

You still know how to direct and side judge dry sabre.

You were a member of the AFLA.
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You know you're getting older when the teens at the club gets picked up after fencing by their parents, and you think their parents are kind of attractive... Mmm, pappa Larsson! ;-D
It's even worse when you think the parents are rather young... and they are--20 years younger than you are! Studiously ignoring pappa Larsson comment...
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YKYGO when:

You still know how to direct and side judge dry sabre.

You were a member of the AFLA.
Ow! Those sure apply to me.... Just look at my avatar/logo...


YKYGO when your after-workout apertif includes Ibuprofen
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I like this thread, it makes me feel young.


YKYGO when you go to a friends house warming and realise that you are the oldest person there... Also that you didn't drink because you went out the night before and your body can't cope with two heavy nights in a row any more.

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YKYGO when you complain that there's no floppy drive in the new computer and people give you funny looks...
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You know you're old when you remember the data on the first home computers was stored on a cassette (by jacking in your cassette player to your Tandy computer). Plus... before you played any games, you had to do your own programming first!!!
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You know you're old when you remember going with your stack of cards into the computer room.... yes folks they did take up a room not so long ago...
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lol this reminds me of the prison documentary I saw. ew.
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You know you're old when you have so much experience with getting old that you just had to share with four consecutive posts here.
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YKYGOW

1) You make a reference about 80's hair bands and the people you are with don't understand what that is.
2) You get comments like: "Wow, you can fence after you have a baby?" and "I didn't think people with kids actually did anything for fun."
3) You remember life before Starbucks, cell phones, remote controls, digital clocks, MP3 players, etc......
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YKYGO when you complain that there's no floppy drive in the new computer and people give you funny looks...
YKYGO when you complain that computers don't have blinking lights anymore. No ZZ, that wasn't Eniac!
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