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RE: OT Things to ponder - 2/2/2017 3:12:44 PM

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I was thinking that too, about the tie. Wouldn't Hardy flip that at someone he was frustrated with?

I'm guessing that his wife helped him put on the tie, so she did a double turn around his neck in hopes it would be tight enough ....

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 2/2/2017 3:20:03 PM

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Out of curiosity I looked around a bit. The 'short tie' was used a lot in WWII due to shortages, with the larger, and in many cases broader, ties coming out after rationing was eliminated after the war. Who knew rationing included ties? What that generation did to win the war just continues to draw my admiration.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 2/2/2017 3:23:49 PM

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Short tie and blue suede shoes.....

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 2/2/2017 3:26:11 PM

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Out of curiosity I looked around a bit. The 'short tie' was used a lot in WWII due to shortages, with the larger, and in many cases broader, ties coming out after rationing was eliminated after the war. Who knew rationing included ties? What that generation did to win the war just continues to draw my admiration.

So why didn't they eliminate ties and stiff collars altogether and let comfortable shirts be worn in the office/public places? I am retired now and have no desire to put another tie around my neck (but will do it for funerals and weddings to show respect).

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 2/2/2017 3:53:39 PM

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Out of curiosity I looked around a bit. The 'short tie' was used a lot in WWII due to shortages, with the larger, and in many cases broader, ties coming out after rationing was eliminated after the war. Who knew rationing included ties? What that generation did to win the war just continues to draw my admiration.

So why didn't they eliminate ties and stiff collars altogether and let comfortable shirts be worn in the office/public places? I am retired now and have no desire to put another tie around my neck (but will do it for funerals and weddings to show respect).

DamnifIknow

That was a bit before my time

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 2/2/2017 4:28:35 PM

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Here's my favorite tie. I plan to wear it to my funeral.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 2/2/2017 4:33:49 PM

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This friend claims to have seen them (with Shemp, not Curly) up close at a mall in Decatur and to have shook Moe's hand. He did have to wash the hand eventually.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 2/2/2017 4:36:55 PM

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Calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard ...

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 2/2/2017 5:24:36 PM

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That picture takes me back through the fog of age. Your friend is 11 years younger than my dad. I remember going to granpa's house {where dad grew up} and playing with three rail train tracks. I never saw the trains and never more than a couple of track lengths. Now I am going to spend the rest of the day trying to remember the layout of granpa's old ranch house {which we tore apart piece by piece to build two other houses}.

You're just a baby, then. My dad was born in 1929 and his given names were Herbert Hoover. That is because he was born on Inauguration Day, which back then was on March the 3rd.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 2/2/2017 6:02:07 PM

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This friend claims to have seen them (with Shemp, not Curly) up close at a mall in Decatur and to have shook Moe's hand. He did have to wash the hand eventually.

With Shemp? That's like seeing Van Halen with Sammy Lee Hagar. I guess it's better than not at all, but quite clearly not the quality of the original.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 2/2/2017 6:25:10 PM

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This friend claims to have seen them (with Shemp, not Curly) up close at a mall in Decatur and to have shook Moe's hand. He did have to wash the hand eventually.

With Shemp? That's like seeing Van Halen with Sammy Lee Hagar. I guess it's better than not at all, but quite clearly not the quality of the original.

You are correct. Many great, great people have died young, none so great as Curly Howard.

However, I wouldn't mind shaking Sammy Lee's wife Kari's something or other.

Are you saying he is Hagar the Horrible?

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 2/2/2017 7:05:04 PM

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This friend claims to have seen them (with Shemp, not Curly) up close at a mall in Decatur and to have shook Moe's hand. He did have to wash the hand eventually.

With Shemp? That's like seeing Van Halen with Sammy Lee Hagar. I guess it's better than not at all, but quite clearly not the quality of the original.

You are correct. Many great, great people have died young, none so great as Curly Howard.

However, I wouldn't mind shaking Sammy Lee's wife Kari's something or other.

Are you saying he is Hagar the Horrible?

Qvack!

I believe that the shaking involving Sammy Lee's wife involves the shaking of the "Alimony tree" by his first wife, whom he divorced in 1994. The guy turns 70 this year (?!?) and has a 13 year old daughter by his second wife Kari. Anyone here (show of hands) want to father a kid at 57?

His current music projects include Chickenfoot with a 2011 album entitled Chickenfoot III. No relation.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 2/2/2017 7:25:13 PM

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If I had hands I could show one or two, but not in that case.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 2/2/2017 8:48:28 PM

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ORIGINAL: geofflambert

This friend claims to have seen them (with Shemp, not Curly) up close at a mall in Decatur and to have shook Moe's hand. He did have to wash the hand eventually.

With Shemp? That's like seeing Van Halen with Sammy Lee Hagar. I guess it's better than not at all, but quite clearly not the quality of the original.

You are correct. Many great, great people have died young, none so great as Curly Howard.

However, I wouldn't mind shaking Sammy Lee's wife Kari's something or other.

Are you saying he is Hagar the Horrible?

Qvack!

I believe that the shaking involving Sammy Lee's wife involves the shaking of the "Alimony tree" by his first wife, whom he divorced in 1994. The guy turns 70 this year (?!?) and has a 13 year old daughter by his second wife Kari. Anyone here (show of hands) want to father a kid at 57?

His current music projects include Chickenfoot with a 2011 album entitled Chickenfoot III. No relation.

Ask Mick Jagger, who did at 73. And he's already a great-grand father.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 2/2/2017 10:04:51 PM

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ORIGINAL: geofflambert

This friend claims to have seen them (with Shemp, not Curly) up close at a mall in Decatur and to have shook Moe's hand. He did have to wash the hand eventually.

With Shemp? That's like seeing Van Halen with Sammy Lee Hagar. I guess it's better than not at all, but quite clearly not the quality of the original.

You are correct. Many great, great people have died young, none so great as Curly Howard.

However, I wouldn't mind shaking Sammy Lee's wife Kari's something or other.

Are you saying he is Hagar the Horrible?

Qvack!

I believe that the shaking involving Sammy Lee's wife involves the shaking of the "Alimony tree" by his first wife, whom he divorced in 1994. The guy turns 70 this year (?!?) and has a 13 year old daughter by his second wife Kari. Anyone here (show of hands) want to father a kid at 57?

His current music projects include Chickenfoot with a 2011 album entitled Chickenfoot III. No relation.

Ask Mick Jagger, who did at 73. And he's already a great-grand father.

Well, that's what Mick thinks anyway! I'd want some DNA testing of Junior if I was a father now!

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 2/2/2017 10:36:38 PM

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This friend claims to have seen them (with Shemp, not Curly) up close at a mall in Decatur and to have shook Moe's hand. He did have to wash the hand eventually.

With Shemp? That's like seeing Van Halen with Sammy Lee Hagar. I guess it's better than not at all, but quite clearly not the quality of the original.

You are correct. Many great, great people have died young, none so great as Curly Howard.

However, I wouldn't mind shaking Sammy Lee's wife Kari's something or other.

Are you saying he is Hagar the Horrible?

Qvack!

I believe that the shaking involving Sammy Lee's wife involves the shaking of the "Alimony tree" by his first wife, whom he divorced in 1994. The guy turns 70 this year (?!?) and has a 13 year old daughter by his second wife Kari. Anyone here (show of hands) want to father a kid at 57?

His current music projects include Chickenfoot with a 2011 album entitled Chickenfoot III. No relation.

Ask Mick Jagger, who did at 73. And he's already a great-grand father.

Well, that's what Mick thinks anyway! I'd want some DNA testing of Junior if I was a father now!

The baby's lips are a giveaway :-)

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 2/3/2017 12:19:59 AM

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You're saying if the kid has the lips of a grouper he's Mick's? To tell you the truth, if somebody assigned a kid to me and said he/she was mine I wouldn't argue or ask for a DNA test. I'm old. I don't know any better.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 2/3/2017 2:20:28 AM

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Want to say something about the best actor I ever saw. He's been in many movies with actors everyone would say are among the best they ever saw. He always gets surrounded with great actors beacause of how great he is. This guy has dumbfounded me my whole life. I think the first time I saw him, or noticed him was when he played Boo Radley.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 2/3/2017 4:13:38 AM

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This friend claims to have seen them (with Shemp, not Curly) up close at a mall in Decatur and to have shook Moe's hand. He did have to wash the hand eventually.

With Shemp? That's like seeing Van Halen with Sammy Lee Hagar. I guess it's better than not at all, but quite clearly not the quality of the original.

You are correct. Many great, great people have died young, none so great as Curly Howard.

However, I wouldn't mind shaking Sammy Lee's wife Kari's something or other.

Are you saying he is Hagar the Horrible?

Qvack!

I believe that the shaking involving Sammy Lee's wife involves the shaking of the "Alimony tree" by his first wife, whom he divorced in 1994. The guy turns 70 this year (?!?) and has a 13 year old daughter by his second wife Kari. Anyone here (show of hands) want to father a kid at 57?

His current music projects include Chickenfoot with a 2011 album entitled Chickenfoot III. No relation.

Ask Mick Jagger, who did at 73. And he's already a great-grand father.

Yes. I know there are some nut jobs out there that think that fathering a child at 70+ is a good thing. But...it isn't. I was querying this group (of nut jobs) to see how many of *them* wanted to be a father at 57.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 2/3/2017 4:15:14 AM

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Want to say something about the best actor I ever saw. He's been in many movies with actors everyone would say are among the best they ever saw. He always gets surrounded with great actors beacause of how great he is. This guy has dumbfounded me my whole life. I think the first time I saw him, or noticed him was when he played Boo Radley.

Lunatic.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 2/3/2017 5:10:12 AM

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My father was 46 and my mother was 41 when I came along. It's more common now, but they went through hell raising a kid that late in life. My father started social security my first year in college.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 2/3/2017 5:25:08 AM

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A friend of mine's grandfather was born in 1863.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 2/3/2017 6:31:38 AM

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My family has generation stretched. All of my grand parents were born in the 19th century and I was born in the 60s. My mother's father's family is well documented back into the 1600s with more traces going back to the 1200s. Her grandfather was born in 1862.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 2/3/2017 11:43:45 AM

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Want to say something about the best actor I ever saw. He's been in many movies with actors everyone would say are among the best they ever saw. He always gets surrounded with great actors beacause of how great he is. This guy has dumbfounded me my whole life. I think the first time I saw him, or noticed him was when he played Boo Radley.

He is one of my favorites also. One of my favorite films of his is Secondhand Lions with Michael Caine.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 2/3/2017 1:11:34 PM

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My father was 46 and my mother was 41 when I came along. It's more common now, but they went through hell raising a kid that late in life. My father started social security my first year in college.

Bill

We did this. Mom & I didn't burn the candle at both ends, we nuked that sucker

But we also were able to get a bit ahead job wise, so we could provide better. Now the kids off to college, and ma & I are looking to hang it up in a few years.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 2/3/2017 1:17:41 PM

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There are real advantages either way, aren't there? I can see both sides of the argument: getting ahead in a career to provide better for the young 'uns versus having kids while you're relatively young and able to keep pace with the craziness better.

It gets more difficult when you've got 12+ years of college / residency in the mix before you can start really earning in your given profession. It's even *more* difficult when your wife is in exactly the same position. Trying to thread that needle and squeeze out those pups before mom's biological threshold gets crossed out is a challenge.

Things worked out OK for us, but it-having kids in today's world-is no laughing matter, dudes.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 2/3/2017 2:03:36 PM

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Things worked out OK for us, but it-having kids in today's world-is no laughing matter, dudes.

You got that right. When my kids were young we had them hold onto us in stores. If they where not holding on, they were in the shopping cart. You just have to be very careful with your kids and do the best you can raising them....GP

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 2/3/2017 2:28:24 PM

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Things worked out OK for us, but it-having kids in today's world-is no laughing matter, dudes.

You got that right. When my kids were young we had them hold onto us in stores. If they where not holding on, they were in the shopping cart. You just have to be very careful with your kids and do the best you can raising them....GP

Abduction of kids is pretty rare, but the poison the druggies want to get into them are everywhere. That's my biggest fear for my grandkids.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 2/3/2017 2:31:44 PM

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I was 47 when we adopted our first of two {my wife had three from a prior marriage}. Yeah, it was hard. But I also had the maturity to look beyond the obvious. Like when things started to go missing and our daughter admitted {quite innocently} that she took them. We knew what it was and our daughter confirmed it when she told us that if she had our "things" we wouldn't leave her because we'd be leaving our things behind. Not sure I would've been able to look beyond the obvious if I had been 20-nothing years old.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 2/3/2017 2:59:53 PM

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We knew what it was and our daughter confirmed it when she told us that if she had our "things" we wouldn't leave her because we'd be leaving our things behind.

Stuff like this gets to me, and is why I still work in Boy scouts long after my son moved on. 99 kids go their own way, do their own thing etc. But then that 1 comes along that for whatever reason needs a rock. Not to hold onto, but just to use as a reference. And that makes all the time spent worth it.

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