Dorsetmike
Member
You ain't started yet Teddy, you know you have got really old when your great grandkids are teenagers
Signs of old age
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JHC
Chief assistant to the assistant chief
Sounds like a Rover to me
Dorsetmike
Member
Ah that was when Rover was a real car maker, not the later use of the name by what grew out of Austin, Morris, BMC, British Leyland or whatever other flag they flew under; this is a real Rover
Corno Dolce
Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
Duckmeister,
Now you're talking Moskvich and ex-DDR made Trabant - Some of the most vilest, oil-burning, foul-stenching, gearbox grinding, mobile deathtraps that have ever been made.............
marval
New member
Tips for staying young
1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctor worry about them. That is why you pay him/her.
2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.
3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. "An idle mind is the devil's workshop;" the devil's name is Alzheimer's.
4. Enjoy the simple things. When the children are young, that is all that you can afford. When they are in college, that is all that you can afford. When you are on retirement, that is all that you can afford!
5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath. Laugh so much that you can be tracked in the store by your distinctive laughter.
6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be alive while you are alive, don't put out a mailbox on the highway of death and just wait in residence for your mail.
7. Surround yourself with what you love, whether it is family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.
8. Cherish your health. If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.
9. Don't take guilt trips. Go to the mall, the next county, a foreign country, but not to guilt country.
10. Tell the people you love, that you love them, at every opportunity.
AND ALWAYS REMEMBER, Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Health Message
As I was lying in bed pondering the problems of the world, I rapidly realized that I don't really give a rat's tail.
It's the tortoise life for me!
1. If walking/cycling is good for your health, the postman would be immortal.
2. A whale swims all day, only eats fish, drinks water, and is fat.
3. A rabbit runs and hops and only lives 15 years.
4. A tortoise doesn't run and does nothing, yet it lives for 450 years.
And you tell me to exercise? I don't think so.
I'm retired. Go around me!
1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctor worry about them. That is why you pay him/her.
2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.
3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. "An idle mind is the devil's workshop;" the devil's name is Alzheimer's.
4. Enjoy the simple things. When the children are young, that is all that you can afford. When they are in college, that is all that you can afford. When you are on retirement, that is all that you can afford!
5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath. Laugh so much that you can be tracked in the store by your distinctive laughter.
6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be alive while you are alive, don't put out a mailbox on the highway of death and just wait in residence for your mail.
7. Surround yourself with what you love, whether it is family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.
8. Cherish your health. If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.
9. Don't take guilt trips. Go to the mall, the next county, a foreign country, but not to guilt country.
10. Tell the people you love, that you love them, at every opportunity.
AND ALWAYS REMEMBER, Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Health Message
As I was lying in bed pondering the problems of the world, I rapidly realized that I don't really give a rat's tail.
It's the tortoise life for me!
1. If walking/cycling is good for your health, the postman would be immortal.
2. A whale swims all day, only eats fish, drinks water, and is fat.
3. A rabbit runs and hops and only lives 15 years.
4. A tortoise doesn't run and does nothing, yet it lives for 450 years.
And you tell me to exercise? I don't think so.
I'm retired. Go around me!
JHC
Chief assistant to the assistant chief
A great idea, that way the standard of rolling stock for each country would be improved
GoneBaroque
New member
Excellent advice Margaret.
Corno Dolce
Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
Duckmeister,
Here's a mobile deathtrap complete with creepy music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRwAmryKRVQ
Seriously, what a joke it is - the engine is the starter motor of a Soviet T-72 tank!
Here's a mobile deathtrap complete with creepy music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRwAmryKRVQ
Seriously, what a joke it is - the engine is the starter motor of a Soviet T-72 tank!
Corno Dolce
Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
Teddles,
Get a grip on yo'self, ok? You're getting me worried.
With much love,
CD
Get a grip on yo'self, ok? You're getting me worried.
With much love,
CD
Corno Dolce
Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
If the trabant motor didn't start you'd have to whack it on the block with a ten kilo rubber mallet........
JHC
Chief assistant to the assistant chief
That sounds like a starter motor drive problem, it could have been a Lucas Starter Motor
Corno Dolce
Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
Br. Colin,
Oh, the horror of the starter motors on Trabants, Moskvichs and VAZ - They let many a motorist down - Some of the most unreliable equipment yet devised to aggravate the "peanut gallery."
Oh, the horror of the starter motors on Trabants, Moskvichs and VAZ - They let many a motorist down - Some of the most unreliable equipment yet devised to aggravate the "peanut gallery."
marval
New member
Ode to Old Age
There's quite an art to falling apart as the years go by,
And life doesn't begin at 40. That's a big fat lie.
My hair's getting thinner, my body is not;
The few teeth I have are beginning to rot.
I smell of Ben-Gay, not Chanel no5;
My new pacemaker's all that keeps me alive.
When asked of my past, every detail I'll know,
But what was I doing 10 minutes ago?
Well, you get the idea, what more can I say?
I'm off to read the obituary, like I do every day;
If my names not there, I'll once again start -
Perfecting the art of falling apart
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
There's quite an art to falling apart as the years go by,
And life doesn't begin at 40. That's a big fat lie.
My hair's getting thinner, my body is not;
The few teeth I have are beginning to rot.
I smell of Ben-Gay, not Chanel no5;
My new pacemaker's all that keeps me alive.
When asked of my past, every detail I'll know,
But what was I doing 10 minutes ago?
Well, you get the idea, what more can I say?
I'm off to read the obituary, like I do every day;
If my names not there, I'll once again start -
Perfecting the art of falling apart
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Corno Dolce
Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
GrandDame Margaret,
So delectably subtle an Ode........"Perfecting the art of falling apart" and "Moments that take our breath away".
Thank you for a timeless posting.............
So delectably subtle an Ode........"Perfecting the art of falling apart" and "Moments that take our breath away".
Thank you for a timeless posting.............