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post #1 of 45
10/29/07 at 1:05am
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Today is my birthday, I am now starting to exit my early 20s and go slightly into my mid-20s. 24 years old. Time really does go by and I'm constantly reminded of the ones coming up behind me (Points to Ripoll and others)

Oh and to the ones who sent me PMs, thanks. Those were really cool.
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post #2 of 45
10/29/07 at 1:08am
Starting your own birthday thread?

I hope a laser melts you from space.
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post #3 of 45
10/29/07 at 1:10am
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Hey, former communist nations have attempted it but have not been successful. Besides, I wanted to give thanks to a couple of chewers who said some cool things via PM.
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post #4 of 45
10/29/07 at 1:15am
FFFFWOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSHHHH (please god make this happen)
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post #5 of 45
10/29/07 at 1:16am
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Nope still here, you did howver hit that crack house over on Gower though. Nice work, makes me feel a little more comfortable next time I go over to the Gower Gulch Denny's.
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post #6 of 45
10/29/07 at 1:21am
"The Crossbow Project. There’s no defense like a good offense."
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post #7 of 45
10/29/07 at 2:17am
Old man look at my life,
I'm a lot like you were.
Old man look at my life,
I'm a lot like you were.

Old man look at my life,
Twenty four
and there's so much more
Live alone in a paradise
That makes me think of two.
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post #8 of 45
10/29/07 at 2:42am
Every time a guy in his twenties gets wistful about the passage of time, a kitten dies.
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post #9 of 45
10/29/07 at 8:18am
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Originally Posted by Greg David
Every time a guy in his twenties gets wistful about the passage of time, a kitten dies.
Of old age, sad and alone in an apartment full of people.
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post #10 of 45
10/29/07 at 9:05am
I remember plunging into my slightly-mid-20s, with the actual mid-20s staring me in the face like the Reaper. And if you think 24 is bad, wait for 24 and a half. Hoo boy!
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post #11 of 45
10/29/07 at 9:35am
I turned 27 a few years back. Worst one until I hit 28. It doesn't get better, no matter how many t-shirts say "50 is the new 40!"

Christ, 29 is like the Holocaust of aging. 30 is like the fucking "White Chicks" of lifespan.
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post #12 of 45
10/29/07 at 10:24am
Uhm...when the hell did it become acceptable to be wistful about your early twenties when you're only 24? I mean, Happy Birthday and all that shit, Ed, but really, don't force it, man.
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post #13 of 45
10/29/07 at 10:54am
get off my damn lawn
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post #14 of 45
10/29/07 at 10:57am
Fail thread is fail.
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post #15 of 45
10/29/07 at 11:25am
Really, Ed - Happy Birthday, live it up and have fun, etc. But you've got no reason to do the "passage of time" schtick at 24. Give yourself a few decades more, and then get all misty on us.
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post #16 of 45
10/29/07 at 12:07pm
I had a weird dream last night where I was in high school, knowing all I know now, but with all the kids and fads of today. In my dream I kept thinking how old I was. When I woke up and thought about it, I said to myself "You're 26 years old. Take some man up pills and shut the hell up."

So happy birthday, you damn whippersnapper.
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post #17 of 45
10/29/07 at 12:47pm
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryan S~
Uhm...when the hell did it become acceptable to be wistful about your early twenties when you're only 24? I mean, Happy Birthday and all that shit, Ed, but really, don't force it, man.
Exactly. I'm really just screwing around when I say that about "Getting Old" and being 24. It's pretty much my own private in-joke.
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post #18 of 45
10/29/07 at 12:50pm
The only person on these boards allowed to be wistful about the passage of time is Jacob Singer--mainly because he was around when time began.
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post #19 of 45
10/29/07 at 12:51pm
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Well played Clark. Well played.
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post #20 of 45
10/29/07 at 1:09pm
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Originally Posted by Chris Kent
Christ, 29 is like the Holocaust of aging.
SHUT THE FUCK UP! (not that I'm sensitive)

oh and happy belated B-day Ed
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post #21 of 45
10/29/07 at 1:48pm
I turned 21 in March, and I'm currently shopping for coffins and cemetery plots.

Happy Birthday Ed.
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post #22 of 45
10/29/07 at 1:50pm
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Originally Posted by Greg Clark
The only person on these boards allowed to be wistful about the passage of time is Jacob Singer--mainly because he was around when time began.
Seriously, his balls are older than the Sun and the Moon.
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post #23 of 45
10/29/07 at 1:56pm
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Originally Posted by billylove
Seriously, his balls are older than the Sun and the Moon.
And they revolve around each other, too.
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post #24 of 45
10/29/07 at 2:24pm
Wait a sec. Some 24-year-old is troubled by his birthday?

<pauses>

<takes as large a breath as he can without coughing up a lung...>


BUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!


Now go fetch Grandpa some bourbon.
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post #25 of 45
10/29/07 at 2:30pm
Me, to a 21-year old I work with, after I'd made an El Debarge reference: "Do you even know who El Debarge is?"

Her: "No, I don't follow sports."
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post #26 of 45
10/29/07 at 4:06pm
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Originally Posted by misfit
Me, to a 21-year old I work with, after I'd made an El Debarge reference: "Do you even know who El Debarge is?"

Her: "No, I don't follow sports."
I'm still wondering who's Johnny?
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post #27 of 45
10/29/07 at 10:25pm
I wish to god I didn't know who El Debarge was.

The one that got to me was when I had to explain to someone who Jim Jones was.
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post #28 of 45
10/29/07 at 10:31pm
I was talking to someone the other day about classic games and I mentioned Pong.

The other person had no idea what Pong was.


I'm getting old.
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post #29 of 45
10/29/07 at 10:52pm
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Originally Posted by Greg David
I wish to god I didn't know who El Debarge was.

The one that got to me was when I had to explain to someone who Jim Jones was.
Why would anyone born in the 80's know who Jim Jones is? The only reason I know is that I looked it up after someone made a reference to it.
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post #30 of 45
10/29/07 at 11:04pm
I've known about Jim Jones for many years.
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post #31 of 45
10/30/07 at 12:22am
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Originally Posted by englebert
Why would anyone born in the 80's know who Jim Jones is? The only reason I know is that I looked it up after someone made a reference to it.
Why would anyone born in the 80's know who Charles Manson is? But they do.
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post #32 of 45
10/30/07 at 12:32am
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Originally Posted by Greg David
Why would anyone born in the 80's know who Charles Manson is? But they do.
Charles Manson became a pop culture phenomenon. Would you expect young people to know who David Koresh is in 20 years? Honestly, I probably will have forgotten who he was by then.
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post #33 of 45
10/30/07 at 12:38am
And that's exactly what's fucked up about American culture. These are names that should be remembered.
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post #34 of 45
10/30/07 at 2:25am
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I knew who Jim Jones was. But I guess it depends what you're looking at.
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post #35 of 45
10/30/07 at 2:48am
Hold on a sec...Slater has a space laser?
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post #36 of 45
10/30/07 at 3:02am
Yeah, it's for just these sorts of situations.

Little known fact: Tetsuo's horrific change at the climax of Akira wasn't due to drug withdrawal, but was actually precipitated by the psychic dissonance of him turning 24 and thinking he was getting old.

Alternatively: Tetsuo's horrific change at the climax of Akira wasn't due to drug withdrawal, but was actually precipitated by the psychic dissonance of him turning 24 and thinking anyone gave a shit.

Fwoosh, indeed.

But in seriousness, happy belated birthday from one scorpio to another.
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post #37 of 45
10/30/07 at 9:20am
Ed, I wouldn't worry - I think you have about 6 more years until Last Day. When you see this:


You'll be old enough for this:


But no Jenny Agutter for you!
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post #38 of 45
10/30/07 at 9:40am
Just so I'm clear on this, englebert is saying that people should be stupid and not know anything that happened before they were born.
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post #39 of 45
10/30/07 at 9:46am
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Originally Posted by Greg David
And that's exactly what's fucked up about American culture. These are names that should be remembered.
Exactly. It's totally fucked up, and there's no excuse for it. The "I don't know, I wasn't born then" excuse is one of the things that pisses me off the most when I hear it. The solution is "Pay attention in your fucking history classes" - nothing more. It's not that hard. It's no great accomplishment that I have a reasonable knowledge of things that happened before 1963 - I just listened up when the history teachers started talking.
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post #40 of 45
10/30/07 at 9:51am
Why the hell should I know where Nagasaki was? I wasn't born then.

Da Vinci? Why the hell should I care about an artist who lived hundreds of years before me?
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post #41 of 45
10/30/07 at 10:55am
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Originally Posted by Ryan S~
I'm still wondering who's Johnny?
This made me laugh more than it should have.
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post #42 of 45
10/30/07 at 10:57am
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Originally Posted by Diva
This made me laugh more than it should have.
Well, they never did answer the question.
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post #43 of 45
10/31/07 at 1:13am
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Originally Posted by Brad Millette
Just so I'm clear on this, englebert is saying that people should be stupid and not know anything that happened before they were born.
That seems to be the point, yes. To extend this, I had a discussion with someone the next day who gave me attitude because I was talking about music that came out before they were born.

So is this an entire generation of people whose mothers drank heavily while pregnant, or have young people always been this willfully, gleefully ignorant?
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post #44 of 45
10/31/07 at 1:39am
I still fail to see why Jim Jones is equal to Da Vinci or Nagasaki. They don't teach it in history classes and I don't see why they should. He's just yet another whackjob and continuing his memory is giving him and people like him validation. It is ridiculous to generalize what I said about Jim Jones into ignorance of history in general. My point was simply, I don't give a shit about Jim Jones and that Greg should save his indignation for something that matters.
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post #45 of 45
10/31/07 at 2:02am
I agree.

Da Vinci and Nagasaki are on, like, a totally different level than Martian Manhunter.
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