We're old enough to never be confused for underage at nightclubs and convenience stores, but not so old that we automatically get the discounted tickets at the movie theater.
We can act immature and then just assert that we are mature anyway, by definition.
There are what?, two of us here?
[ June 12, 2004, 09:52 AM: Message edited by: Bob_Scopatz ]
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
I am not in my mid-forties, I am in my low forties. This means that I have to continually point out that I am in my low forties.
Bob, you are not immature in your mid-forties, you are reclaiming your youth(positive connotation) or having a midlife crisis(negative connotation)
It must suck to be sooooo old. I am sorry for you.
Posted by msquared (Member # 4484) on :
Well Bob I just had my 41st birthday yesterday, so I don't know if I qualify for the Mid-40's clique, but it is the closest one out there.
Move over you old fart.
msquared
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
M2, Did you not read my post? You are MUCH YOUNGER than Bob, and cannot be in his clique. You are in mine.
Posted by Suneun (Member # 3247) on :
Bob, you will always be immature to me. Posted by eslaine (Member # 5433) on :
You are not alone, brother.
We're also old enough to have become "the establishment" we railed so hard against as a youngun.
When is the next Roxy Music Christmas Special?
Oh, well. My boy will probably want to watch Johnny Screamer and the Squealers on MTV instead....
Posted by punwit (Member # 6388) on :
So Elizabeth do I qualify for the low 40's distinction? I'm pushing the envelope, I think. I'll be 43 at the end of July.
And BTW, Bob, my immaturity isn't an act.
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
Just great - another one that doesn't fit me.
Passed mid-forties awhile ago.
Somebody let me know when the "perpetually immature" clique opens up.
That said, I'm off to the Blues Festival. Posted by eslaine (Member # 5433) on :
The blues is the music of the immature?
I thought it was Hansen. Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
Steve,
You got it, man!
Have fun at the Blues festival. If that's not an oxymoron.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
Finally, one I can join. Posted by Jalapenoman (Member # 6575) on :
I'm 43.
No, the blues are not our official music. They are only what we see when we look at our expanding waistlines and receeding hairlines.
We look at these, of course, through our new bifocals, the same ones we use to balance our ever shrinking checkbooks (due to our ever more expensive kids).
Our true music of choice is the funeral dirge.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Icarus, I find that being a teacher is a great cover for being immature.
Punwit, 43 is too old, sorry.
Bob, I wish you had kept the thread title, and clique, intact. Being a youth-needy low forties woman, how can I lord it over the mid-forties clique now?
Posted by Dead_Horse (Member # 3027) on :
Definitely. Definitely mid-forties. Definitely immature. My inner child has escaped, and leaves her toys all over the house. And I had chocolate milk for breakfast.
Rain
Posted by littlemissattitude (Member # 4514) on :
Sounds like the clique for me. I'm sure trying to stay perpetually immature, except that I try to call it "staying in touch with my inner child" so that people will quit telling me to act my age.
Also, I almost fit by age criterion (47 till August).
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
I'm going to have my inner child tell on your inner child!
Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :
44 in 12 days. When is it okay to go out and buy a Corvette or a Harley?
Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
The mid (or very, very early for Elizabeth) forties crowd is cool.
You guys always peg me for younger than I am when guessing my age and tend to have really cool stuff in your homes that you've accumulated over the years. Like big-ass screen TV's and DVD-Bose-popcorn maker combos that you bought with your Home Equity Lines of Credit.
Hey - can I come over and kick it?
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Ralphie, Thanks to Rivka(I think), we now have one of those fancy remote-key finders. Just push a button, and you can find your remote, or anything else that has the little ring attached to it(up to 4 items) Thing is, this company is SMART. They make the remote finder detachable from the base. This leaves the forty-something-maturity-lacking individual open for losing the finder, and hence, needing to buy a finder to find the finder. Thank heaven above for Sharper Image and "As Seen on TV."
[ June 12, 2004, 02:42 PM: Message edited by: Elizabeth ]
Posted by msquared (Member # 4484) on :
Liz Look at the time stamps. Our posts were a minute apart. We were probably typing at the same time.
I have a big screen TV so that I don't have to wear my glasses to watch it.
msquared
Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
quote: I have a big screen TV so that I don't have to wear my glasses to watch it.
EGGS ZACTLY.
I'll bring Pringles and all of my twenty-something friends. You order the movie pay-per-view. Let's make a night of it.
(Also, I've known only one person in my life that had a pool table in their house who was under the age of 40.)
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
quote:44 in 12 days. When is it okay to go out and buy a Corvette or a Harley?
Now seems like a good time.
Although, I highly recommend Yamaha instead of Harley, and get yourself the BMW M3 instead of the Corvette.
Posted by ak (Member # 90) on :
I would fit in here, but I think I'll start my own clique of people who don't join cliques, instead. Anyway, as everyone knows, 14,000 is still early adolescence for a dragon. Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :
skillery,
the Tavern is having a new driveway paved just for you.
fallow
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
quote: Steve,
You got it, man!
Have fun at the Blues festival. If that's not an oxymoron.
Thanks, Bob!
Yet one more piece to a very nice day. A clique I fit in with!
As I think you know, Bob, having fun with blues isn't an oxymoron, since some of the best blues involve thumbing your nose at the suffering in your life - whether the source of suffering is your man, woman, God or yourself.
My blues gene is limited to listening, appreciation and (on rare occasions when no one is listening) singing. I never learned to play anything.
(Will answer to "Steve," "Stephen," and "sndrake." For a few years, I even went by "Draker" and "The Draker." In fact, my high school yearbook has the name "Stephen T. Draker" on it. The assistant dean hunted me down to ask me if I was sure I wanted that on the cover. I got an early start on immaturity. )
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
Elizabeth, that was me in the 20something crowd that touted the miracles of the Sharper Image key finder. Which reminds me mine has died and I need new batteries.
The interesting thing is that it has been dead for a while now and I haven't been losing stuff as often. I think that is because for the 8 months it was working I realized where I actually put my odd objects so now I know where to look for them.
(yeah I'm prematurely absentminded for a 20 something, I think that puts me in the over 80 clique with whoever belongs there!)
AJ
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
quote:Just great - another one that doesn't fit me.
Passed mid-forties awhile ago.
Somebody let me know when the "perpetually immature" clique opens up.
Haha, sndrake, I was going to say I'm too old for a mid-40s clique, too.
But we're never too old for a "perpetually immature" clique, right?
Bob, you're the best. Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
quote: (Will answer to "Steve," "Stephen," and "sndrake." For a few years, I even went by "Draker" and "The Draker."
How about Steverino?
Or "the Drakester?"
Ela, glad you could join us. By the way, did you ever buy those lederhosen for your hubby? He looked so good in the hat at Epcot, I felt sure you'd get him the whole outfit for "special" occassions.
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
He'd shoot me if I did that.
You should have seen his face when he saw the picture you took of him on his desktop for the first time. It was hilarious. Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
quote:How about Steverino?
Or "the Drakester?"
That's exactly what I thought, though in the opposite order. How about Drakerino?
Dagonee
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
Draker?
The Draker?
It's the reincarnation of Ripper! Stephen, did you spend part of your rough-and-tumble years raising the demon of Eyghon?
"I wouldn't say that. I wouldn't say that at all. In fact, Ripper, old mate, I'd say something rather interesting was about to hap--"
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
I think we should you use BOTH The Drakester and Steverino. I think he needs to come with some archaically cool hand gesture that is really uncool now to go along with his name.
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
I have a feeling his chosen hand gesture might be the one recently foresworn by mackillian.
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
She's foresworn it? Not that I'm aware of. Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
But that hand gesture is not archaically cool, Bob, it is perpetually cool. He needs something like the thumb's up combined with a wink and tongue click.
[ June 13, 2004, 12:50 PM: Message edited by: Elizabeth ]
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Ela, I think Mack has just taken to wearing mittens, so no one will SEE the middle finger up, they will just sense it, know it deep inside, but not be able to prove it.
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
--I--
Despair not.
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
Elizabeth: I told you so... Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Ha ha ha!
Yay! I got Mack to do a naughty thing!
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
No, Elizabeth, I got mack to do a naughty thing. Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
A dastardly deed was done, that is the important thing, Ela.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
By the way, Ela, that was wicked immature of you to have to point that out.
Yee-ha! Welcome to the Over Forty, Perpetually Immaturing Club! You are doing great! ha ha.
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
Posted by CaySedai (Member # 6459) on :
ooohhh, can I join?
<---hasn't decided what she wants to be when she grows up <---is 43
Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :
*slathers AK to a greasy sheen*
*repeatedly tosses a lasso yon Bob's graciouslly hysterically inflated gullet*
*wants to play with the big kids*
*pouts*
fallow
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
We should have some sort of celebration. Our posts are in the forties. Our numbers!!
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
Hmmm.. where did we decide was the break-off between "early 40s" and "mid 40s"??
I'm 43 - so sounds like I have good company.
Thanks for making a place we can "belong" to Bob!
Farmgirl
Posted by ssywak (Member # 807) on :
Uh Oh.
I'm 43, too. June 6th.
We have to find out why we're all here--what we all have in common--and why, one by one, we're all slowly growing older...
But is that low mid-forties, upper low-forties, or what?
--Steve
Posted by CaySedai (Member # 6459) on :
Farmgirl - Elizabeth decided that 43 was above the cutoff for early 40's.
Elizabeth:
quote:Punwit, 43 is too old, sorry.
Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
What about 42, does that qualify as early forties?
By my counting 40-43 (early forties) 44-46 (mid forties) 47-90 (late forties)
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
quote:We have to find out why we're all here--what we all have in common--and why, one by one, we're all slowly growing older...
But is that low mid-forties, upper low-forties, or what?
Steve: It's been renamed the "perpetually immature clique" - so, by my calculation, we both fit. Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
Okay -- so to keep people from having to scroll up and down with their bi-focals on -- is this the list of the clique so far?
sndrake - OLD Ela - too old for a mid-40s clique (you never said exactly.....) littlemissattitude - 47 Bob_S - 46 (?) Dead_Horse - mid-something skillery - almost 44 Jalapenoman - 43 Farmgirl - 43 CaySedai - 43 ssywak - 43 punwit - 42, almost 43! The Rabbit - 42 ? msquared - 41 Elizabeth - 40 ak - ?? icarus - ??
Feel free to make corrections.
Now we know we are not alone in the Hatrack world!
FG
[ June 14, 2004, 02:42 PM: Message edited by: Farmgirl ]
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
Yoohoo, FG, over here...
(I'm "old" like sndrake. )
[ June 14, 2004, 02:17 PM: Message edited by: Ela ]
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
quote:How about Steverino?
Or "the Drakester?"
Bob, a neighbor used to refer to me as "Steverino" when I was four years old. I didn't know who he was referring to at the time, but I do now. I suggest that "Steverino" be reserved for the rest of time for the late great Steve Allen.
Oddly, "Drakester" was one that never came up.
"Drakeness" did -- and my little sister got referred to as a "Drakeling."
(Before anyone says it, there was never any subtext of "The Unbearable Drakeness of Being" - that particular nickname came into use and fell out of use years before the movie)
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
quote:Draker?
The Draker?
It's the reincarnation of Ripper! Stephen, did you spend part of your rough-and-tumble years raising the demon of Eyghon?
"I wouldn't say that. I wouldn't say that at all. In fact, Ripper, old mate, I'd say something rather interesting was about to hap--"
I think it would be a good idea to change the subject right now, foolish girl.
Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :
Threads that the Mid-40's Clique should consider sponsoring:
Beatnik Poetry Competition
Psychedelic Drugs and Their After-effects
Jive-Talkin'
The Welcome Back Kotter Fan Thread
The Disco Moves Thread
The Barry Manilow Fan Thread
The Marsha Brady Fan Thread
The David Cassidy Fan Thread
Acid Rock
Before We Knew Elton John Was Gay
The Jatraquero Sit-in
Names for Your Pet Rock
Children of the Cold War
The "Who Combed Their Hair With an Angel Food Cake Cutter" Thread
Far Out and Funky
Edit: Oops, forgot the "Flower Power" thread
[ June 14, 2004, 03:26 PM: Message edited by: skillery ]
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
quote: The David Cassidy Fan Thread
oh -- I'm so IN !
FG
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
quote:sndrake - OLD
Can't help noticing that in the the listing of ages, mine is the only one that warrants CAPS.
I have only one thing to say to that:
(Old and in the way - and likely to remain so. Some of us still do sit-ins once in awhile, ya know.)
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Rabbit asked: "What about 42, does that qualify as early forties?"
I think that 42 counts as early forties, but not 43. I am not sure why. Mathematically, it fits, but not psychologically. And as I remember it, my generation is the "Me" generation.
Interesting that the mode of our ages is 43. So, 43-year-olds, you got the mode, Baby!
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
quote:Names for Your Pet Rock
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Skillery,
Some other thread titles would be:
-The New Math -Those hairy little trolls that come with tiny hairbrushes -The BeeGees -Who is your favorite Brady?
Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
I think we should require that people be able to answer at least 10 of these 20 questions in order to join the clique.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
I'm in, Rabbit.
How about this one:
What was Jimmy Carter's brother (most) famous for? (or infamous, depending on your perspective?)
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
But Rabbit, you gave me a 15/20 on that quiz, and I'm too young for this clique. You better raise the minimum score.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Dana, By dating a man who is in his upper forties, his knowledge of late 60's and 70's trivia will probably rub off on you, therefore bumping you up to early forties status.
Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
dkw, There is always error in any testing protocol. I do think, however, that you exceptionally high score is an indication that you are lying about your age.
[ June 14, 2004, 05:02 PM: Message edited by: The Rabbit ]
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
Liz, if you average Bob's and my age, we're still only 38 (and a half). So he gets to join the 30s clique.
Rabbit, maybe I was just an exceptionally politically and socially aware toddler.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Dana,
I am sorry, but you left out an important point. Bob is Over the Hill. Therefore, the downward pull of gravity being stronger, he has pulled you up and over the fortieth year. Averages just don't count in this case.
It is rather rude of him not to have told you these things.
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
Now wait a minute,
I was under the impression this was now the "perpetually immature" thread.
So it seems question items like these might be more appropriate:
1. What company does Wile E. Coyote buy all his equipment from?
2. "Weird Al" is: a. A famous used car salesman b. A creepy character in a Stephen King novel c. A Rock and roll accordionist d. The king of pop song parodies e. c & d
3. When someone in the room farts, I do the following: a. Keep talking and pretend nothing happened. b. Breathe through my mouth. c. Point at the offender and laugh loudly. d. Fart even louder. e. c & d
4. How are you different than you thought you'd be when you grew up? a. I'm not as wealthy. b. I'm not as successful. c. I'm making more money. d. I'm more successful. e. I'll let you know when I actually grow up.
5. Who wrote the song "Shaving Cream?"
Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :
I've worked for the company from which Wile E. Coyote bought all his equipment.
I remember a time when farts weren't funny, and the word itself was considered a swear word. I've been sent to my room, I've been beat with a leather strap, and I've gone without dinner for passing gas.
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
quote: Can't help noticing that in the the listing of ages, mine is the only one that warrants CAPS
Well, stephen -- if I wasn't so old and lazy, I'd do a forum search to help me remember exactly how old you are -- but I've forgotten, so I just thought that would cover it. I know only that we determined you were OTB (older than Bob)
FG
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Drakester, In fifth grade data and graphing terms, your age is the outlier.
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
Elizabeth,
My age is only one of many demographic characteristics marking me as an "outlier."
(Still old and still in the way)
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
quote:Well, stephen -- if I wasn't so old and lazy, I'd do a forum search to help me remember exactly how old you are -- but I've forgotten, so I just thought that would cover it. I know only that we determined you were OTB
I think I gave out my age in dog years pretty recently. Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
♫ I've got a sad story to tell ya. I'm sure that it will be a hit. This morning I went to the bathroom And stepped in a big pile of Shaving cream! Be nice and clean! Shave every day and you'll always look keen! ♪
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
(chant)
Hello operator, Give me Number nine, And if you disconnect me I'll kick you in the Behind the fridgerator, There was a piece of glass, Miss Lucy fell upon it, And broke her big fat Ask me no more questions, Tell me no more lies,
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
More Questions:
The following is the chorus of a well-known recording by a member of the original cast of "Lost in Space."
quote: Fish heads, fish heads, rolly poly fish heads. Fish heads, fish heads, eat them up, yum!
Which cast member was it? And what name were they recording under at the time?
***
What exactly was it that Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout wouldn't do?
***
Exactly what does Ogden Edsel think "aren't much fun?"
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
Dana is making me young again. I wonder if that means that, vampire-like, I am sucking the youth out of her (metaphorically speaking of course, you dirty minded people!)!!!
Or, since this clique is really about the perpetual immaturity of all of us who are members, the point is not one's chronological age, but one's ability to imitate a six year old.
Here are some some real test items to prove your belongingness to this group:
1) Did you have kids/do you want kids primarily so that you have an excuse to buy all the cool toys? And go to Disney movies?
2) Do small children think you are their age and invite you to "play" whenever they see you.
3) Does going into the dark scary basement at dkw's house actually scare you? Especially knowing that there's a closet called "the axe murderer closet" down there.
4) Do you give names to and ascribe personalities to inanimate objects like automobiles and blow driers?
5) Did PeeWee's Playhouse make perfect sense to you?
6) Was your first exposure to poetry and history via the Rocky & Bullwinkle show?
7) When acting your age, do you actually feel as if you are acting?
8) Do you still sometimes think that boys/girls have cooties and that this is a perfectly logical explanation for much of the behavior you observe?
9) How many nightlights do you actually own?
10) Do you ever lose your choo choo of thought?
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
quote: 7) When acting your age, do you actually feel as if you are acting?
ding ding ding!!!!
Posted by littlemissattitude (Member # 4514) on :
1) Did you have kids/do you want kids primarily so that you have an excuse to buy all the cool toys? And go to Disney movies?
Excuse? I didn't know I needed an excuse to buy toys or go to Disney movies. (I watch "The Princess Diaries" every time it comes on TV - should I blush when I admit that? )
2) Do small children think you are their age and invite you to "play" whenever they see you.
Of course.
3) Does going into the dark scary basement at dkw's house actually scare you? Especially knowing that there's a closet called "the axe murderer closet" down there.
Never having been in dkw's house, I have to answer this one in more general terms. Yes. And I have fondly terrified memories of the basement in my grandma's house.
4) Do you give names to and ascribe personalities to inanimate objects like automobiles and blow driers?
Well, yes. My previous car's name was Kitty (and she actually answered to it). My current car's name is Baby, but she isn't quite trained to answer to it yet. Oh, and doesn't everything have a personality?
5) Did PeeWee's Playhouse make perfect sense to you?
I have to admit I never watched.
6) Was your first exposure to poetry and history via the Rocky & Bullwinkle show?
Undoubtedly. And I learned how to spell "encyclopedia" from Jiminy Cricket.
7) When acting your age, do you actually feel as if you are acting?
Oh, yeah.
8) Do you still sometimes think that boys/girls have cooties and that this is a perfectly logical explanation for much of the behavior you observe?
Absolutely.
9) How many nightlights do you actually own?
Two.
10) Do you ever lose your choo choo of thought?
What was that I was going to write here. Funny, I know I was thinking about something. Now, what was the question again?
Edited to add (to avoid double posting):
quote: The Marsha Brady Fan Thread The David Cassidy Fan Thread
Not a Marsha Brady fan...but I can claim to have, in 9th grade (when the show was initially really popular), shared a stage not only with Marsha Brady, but Greg Brady and Mike Brady, or at least the the actors who portrayed them. I was taking a drama class at the time and they were the presenters of the awards at Shakespeare Festival. Not that I won an award; I was in Elizabethan costume and part of the pageant at the beginning of the awards ceremony.
And not a big David Cassidy fan, either...all I can say is, what about us Bobby Sherman fans? Huh?
*can't believe she just admitted that*
[ June 15, 2004, 01:17 AM: Message edited by: littlemissattitude ]
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
Liz...
miss susie was a steamboat the steamboat had a bell the steamboat went to heaven miss susie went to hello operator give me number nine if you disconnect me I'll kick you in the behind the refridgerator there was a piece of glass miss susie stepped upon it and fell on her big ask me no more questions tell me no more lies the boys are in the bathroom zipping up their flies are in the meadow bees are in the grass
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Thanks, Mack!! I couldn;t remember what came before the hello part. You rock! Way to be perpetually immature. When we meet, maybe we can do one of those hand things:
Cross, down, when Billy was young(clap clap) He learned to suck his thumb(clap clap) Thumb Billeola Thumb Billeola Half past one Cross, down, when Billy was two...
OK, who can finish?
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
That's the ax murderer room Bob. Sheesh, you can't expect the poor guy to live in a closet!
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
Is that the groaning I heard when I went to dkw's downstairs shower???
Farmgirl
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
Yeah. Thanks Liz, I just got memories of my bus trips to day camp when I was seven.
('course, that was in 1987...)
*flees*
Posted by Bob the Lawyer (Member # 3278) on :
Ms. Stout would not take the garbage out.
I didn't know there was a fish heads - lost in space connection. And the name of the band is on the edge of brain and I can't seem to convert it to type. Clearly this is going to bother me all day. How is it I know all the lyrics but can't remember the band?
I'm too young to be loosing my memory like the rest of you!
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
Yeah, I wouldn't want your memory loosed, either.
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
quote: miss susie was a steamboat the steamboat had a bell the steamboat went to heaven miss susie went to hello operator give me number nine if you disconnect me I'll kick you in the behind the refridgerator there was a piece of glass miss susie stepped upon it and fell on her big ask me no more questions tell me no more lies the boys are in the bathroom zipping up their flies are in the meadow bees are in the grass
Hmm, I learned a different ending to that:
Flies are in the buttermilk, Bees are in the park, The teachers in the teachers' room Kissing in the dark.
Posted by Christy (Member # 4397) on :
There are quite a few versions of Miss Susie (Suzie). I learned, flies are in the meadow bees are in the park the boys and girls are kissing...
although I also seem to remember bees are in the grass, but there must be another line.
[ June 15, 2004, 01:11 PM: Message edited by: Christy ]
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
Yeah. I can't remember that last line. Dang it. Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
So my daughter says she has never, ever heard this song:
Every party has a pooper, that's why we invited you. Party pooper, party pooper.
Is this a sign of age, or am I just weird? Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Ela, Age, I'm afraid. Now, the kids sing Happy Birthday like this:
Happy Birthday to you Cha cha cha happy Birthday to you Cha cha cha
And there are no party poopers anymore because of the new trend(and I would like to kick the trendsetter's behind) of "gift bags." OK, gift bags sound good. Some candy, a pencil. Nope. Now, gift bags have become the way to compete with your child's friends as to whose gift bag was the best.
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
Never mind gift bags...What about the "my birthday party is more elaborate than yours" trend? I think the goal is to see whose parents can spend the most money on what used to be a fairly mundane activity in your home. Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Yes, Ela, the whole party scene is out of control. We had a sleepover for my daughter's tenth. It was very nice, and the girls pretty much entertained themselves. We made tie-dyed t-shirts, and their shirts were the prize.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
"It is never too late to be what you might have been." George Eliot
In truth, that is how I feel at this time in my life. I feel strong, I feel ready to change and grow. Is it just change that we confuse with immaturity?
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
Maybe it's just that we don't want to grow up and act our age...
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