Yes, I know have a weapon and bargaining chip that cannot be denied of its awesome power: The ability to use the phrase, "I have T-shirts older than you!".
I suppose this helps clarify the fact that my crusty old age of 33, and these 10-year old t-shirts can somehow prove the wisdom I have collected throughout life. As long as the subject of my wrath is 9 or younger. Don't worry though, I won't be throwing these t-shirts out any time soon. They mean too much to me now.
Also, to the responders of my previous thread: Thank You.
I was a bit out of sorts and was very very upset. But I have come to terms with the curves that life has thrown at me and found ways to straighten them out again. But I just wanted to thank all of you for a place to gripe and groan, but also wanted to apologize for being a troll.
Stronger, Faster, Better.
Alucard 2.0
[ September 15, 2004, 07:12 PM: Message edited by: Alucard... ]
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Alucard,
I have t-shirts older than YOU. So there.
I'm glad you are feeling better.
Liz
Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
I have a stuffed animal that's 25, but I'm thinking that telling someone that won't have the same effect.
Posted by Sara Sasse (Member # 6804) on :
Alucard, so nice to see you back. I'm glad you are feeling better. And just so I sound a little less like a clone of the Lovely Liz, I will also sing you a bit of a song:
quote:By the rivers dark I wandered on. I lived my life In Babylon.
And I did forget My holy song: And I had no strength In Babylon.
It was Leonard Cohen's contribution to The Passion of the Christ, though it was written and recorded several years ago.
I've been a little crazy lately, too. Here's to leaving Babylon behind us.
[ September 15, 2004, 09:32 PM: Message edited by: Sara Sasse ]
Posted by Alucard... (Member # 4924) on :
Ok Ok, but do not expect me to admit this in public, but I still have my stuffed animals from when I was a kid. I am 33, so that makes Snorky 29. Mr sock is a bit younger at 30.
This is a relief to my wife I am sure, but I do not own any underwear that are 10 years old, however, I have a pair of AWESOME workboots that I still wear from 10th grade. That makes them 17 years old. I also own Michael Jackson's leather jackets from Thriller and Beat It . However, of course, these are not originals, but merely replicas.
BUT, let it be known that I make all my son's friends painfully aware that I have "underwear" (meaning my t-shirts) older then them.
Liz, thank you so much. I thought of you when I came on today and your previous concern over my snarkiness that day. I was ready to give it all up and become a monk somewhere in the Swiss Alps, if there are any monastaries left, that is.
Sara, I too have been tearing down walls and building new ones. I did not have the forethought to make any towers though. However, in retrospect, that sounds like a good idea of something I should have done. But I too will take up a flag in hand and celebrate the new Sara. And for the record, I talked to my mom, I talked to my dad. And then I talked to Hatrack.
Thanks again.
[ September 15, 2004, 11:49 PM: Message edited by: Alucard... ]
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
I don't know, Frisco. That really does make you sound very old.
Posted by Jess N (Member # 6744) on :
Suddenly I feel older...not wiser...just older...hehe
You know it's bad when you can remember that Michael Jackson once had a big nose and a huge fro...
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
Dude, Jess. My first memory of music is listening to "Beat It" on the radio during my naptime.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
quote:I have a stuffed animal that's 25
That's very soft and cuddly of you.
[ September 16, 2004, 12:30 AM: Message edited by: katharina ]
Posted by Alucard... (Member # 4924) on :
quote: Dude, Jess. My first memory of music is listening to "Beat It" on the radio during my naptime.
Then you have never felt the awesomeness that can only be described as:
Jordache Jeans.
For men.
I cannot even find a pic to make you cringe at the inate power that they possess...
[ September 16, 2004, 01:40 AM: Message edited by: Alucard... ]
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Alucard,
When I was twenty-four, Flipper, my stuffed animal and confidant of my youth, was inadvertanlty thrown away by a mean person during a move. I guess they thought he was an old rag.
I stood in the middle of the empty apartment and cried for about ten minutes straight while my husband held me.
Never underestimate the power of an inanimate object.
I can still close my eyes and feel how he fit in the crook of my arm, and how, even when I was older, that would soothe me. Poor Flipper.
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
My husband left his old stuffed puppy on an airplane. Between Hong Kong and Taiwan. I'm pretty sure they flew it back to him, though, because he still has it.
Posted by Alucard... (Member # 4924) on :
My son has recently attached himself to this red fox pelt that he wears over his head like a headdress.
Bizarre!
Posted by Sara Sasse (Member # 6804) on :
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