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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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10-07-2006, 11:54 AM
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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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10-07-2006, 11:59 AM
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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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"But it doesn’t matter cause I’m packing plastic & that’s what makes my life so f'cking fantastic"~ Lily Allen
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10-07-2006, 04:36 PM
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#24 | | Senior Member
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| You know you're old when you remember when the lights for fencing were switched.
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10-07-2006, 06:09 PM
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Originally Posted by akaiyuki 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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10-07-2006, 06:32 PM
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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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10-07-2006, 08:21 PM
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#27 | | Posting Hound
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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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10-08-2006, 02:35 PM
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#28 | | Senior Member
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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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10-08-2006, 02:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Zilverzmurfen 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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10-08-2006, 02:41 PM
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Originally Posted by sabreur 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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10-08-2006, 03:38 PM
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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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10-08-2006, 03:57 PM
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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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10-08-2006, 04:19 PM
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#33 | | Posting Hound
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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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10-08-2006, 04:22 PM
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#34 | | Posting Hound
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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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10-08-2006, 04:24 PM
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#35 | | Posting Hound
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| You know you're old when you remember when TVs and radios had tubes.... okay in my house they still do.... and some of my phones are rotary...
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"But it doesn’t matter cause I’m packing plastic & that’s what makes my life so f'cking fantastic"~ Lily Allen
By the time a woman realizes that her mother was right, she already has a daughter who's convinced she's wrong.
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10-08-2006, 04:25 PM
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#36 | | Posting Hound
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| You know you're old when you remember when you see things that were in your home as a child in Antique Stores.
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"But it doesn’t matter cause I’m packing plastic & that’s what makes my life so f'cking fantastic"~ Lily Allen
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10-10-2006, 04:16 AM
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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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10-10-2006, 01:46 PM
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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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10-10-2006, 02:21 PM
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Originally Posted by ParryRiposte 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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10-10-2006, 03:44 PM
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#40 | | Posting Hound
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| Has anyone else notices Inq hasn't dared to post...hehehe... 
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