Comments on: Gettin’ Old http://www.oliverwillis.com/2005/12/06/gettin-old/ Like Kryptonite To Stupid Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:42:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Elayne Riggs http://www.oliverwillis.com/2005/12/06/gettin-old/#comment-14661 Elayne Riggs Mon, 12 Dec 2005 04:12:49 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=1035#comment-14661 Wow, happy belated, Oliver! You share a birthday with lots of people I know and love, including my husband! Wow, happy belated, Oliver! You share a birthday with lots of people I know and love, including my husband!

]]> By: trevorwells http://www.oliverwillis.com/2005/12/06/gettin-old/#comment-14660 trevorwells Wed, 07 Dec 2005 07:12:22 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=1035#comment-14660 Happy Birthday Oliver !!!!! I just turned 34 last month so relax and enjoy what's left of your twenties. Mine are gone forever and they were all wasted bro. God Bless. Happy Birthday Oliver !!!!! I just turned 34 last month so relax and enjoy what’s left of your twenties. Mine are gone forever and they were all wasted bro. God Bless.

]]> By: Zappa http://www.oliverwillis.com/2005/12/06/gettin-old/#comment-14659 Zappa Wed, 07 Dec 2005 06:12:54 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=1035#comment-14659 Happy Birthday - Hope it was grand; you are the junior of most that visit your blog - so please respect your elders. I have to go take my teeth out now - catch you later. Z Happy Birthday -
Hope it was grand; you are the junior of most that visit your blog – so please respect your elders.
I have to go take my teeth out now – catch you later.

Z

]]> By: nursepam http://www.oliverwillis.com/2005/12/06/gettin-old/#comment-14658 nursepam Wed, 07 Dec 2005 04:12:33 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=1035#comment-14658 Happy Birthday Baby! ;^) From my perspective you are terribly young. I find this heartening because you are so bright. I can totter safely off into my dotage knowing that people like you will continue to stir the pot and keep the faith. Happy Birthday Baby! ;^) From my perspective you are terribly young. I find this heartening because you are so bright. I can totter safely off into my dotage knowing that people like you will continue to stir the pot and keep the faith.

]]> By: Dkelsmith http://www.oliverwillis.com/2005/12/06/gettin-old/#comment-14657 Dkelsmith Wed, 07 Dec 2005 02:12:03 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=1035#comment-14657 Happy Birthday, Oliver. I turned 34 on the 29th of November myself. I hope you have a Happy Birthday, and I wish you all the best in the upcoming year. Happy Birthday, Oliver. I turned 34 on the 29th of November myself. I hope you have a Happy Birthday, and I wish you all the best in the upcoming year.

]]> By: White Whale http://www.oliverwillis.com/2005/12/06/gettin-old/#comment-14656 White Whale Wed, 07 Dec 2005 01:12:58 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=1035#comment-14656 Frolisch Geburstag(Happy Birthday). Don't beat yourself up about getting older. Just think of this as your mid-mid life crisis. YOu will think once I am thirty I am not young but not old. My father had his midlife crisis and told me that people in thier twenties really don't know shit, and when I asked him why he surrendered that they just don't know how shitty things are at 48. Live it up while you can, lord knows that I turn 25 this month and already feel you have to force the fun alittle. Jeez Happy Birthday Oliver Frolisch Geburstag(Happy Birthday). Don’t beat yourself up about getting older. Just think of this as your mid-mid life crisis. YOu will think once I am thirty I am not young but not old. My father had his midlife crisis and told me that people in thier twenties really don’t know shit, and when I asked him why he surrendered that they just don’t know how shitty things are at 48. Live it up while you can, lord knows that I turn 25 this month and already feel you have to force the fun alittle. Jeez
Happy Birthday Oliver

]]> By: Mouse http://www.oliverwillis.com/2005/12/06/gettin-old/#comment-14655 Mouse Tue, 06 Dec 2005 23:12:44 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=1035#comment-14655 The second thing that goes is the memory...I don't remember what the first thing is. Happy Birthday Oliver...be happy. The second thing that goes is the memory…I don’t remember what the first thing is.

Happy Birthday Oliver…be happy.

]]> By: Oliver Willis http://www.oliverwillis.com/2005/12/06/gettin-old/#comment-14654 Oliver Willis Tue, 06 Dec 2005 22:12:01 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=1035#comment-14654 Thanks all, though I was more conservative at 8 than I am now... Thanks all, though I was more conservative at 8 than I am now…

]]> By: tony http://www.oliverwillis.com/2005/12/06/gettin-old/#comment-14653 tony Tue, 06 Dec 2005 21:12:36 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=1035#comment-14653 happy birthday you old timer it only gets better after the 3-0 it'll make you gain abotu 20 lbs though so watch out for that. happy birthday you old timer

it only gets better after the 3-0

it’ll make you gain abotu 20 lbs though so watch out for that.

]]> By: rhys http://www.oliverwillis.com/2005/12/06/gettin-old/#comment-14652 rhys Tue, 06 Dec 2005 21:12:31 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=1035#comment-14652 zambo, I'm 36, more liberal now than I was 25 (I was libertarian then), and my brain works just fine. It is because my brain is working that I'm a liberal, not a conservative. I always interpreted that quote differently. To me, it's real meaning is what is radical now will be normal later. So, what you have fought long and hard for in your youth, you should be conservative in preserving your older years, lest some extreme right-wing lunatic try to take it away from you. Example: liberals fought long and hard for a better deal for workers, anti-trust laws, medical care for all, pensions, anti-pollution laws, etc. Until recently, those issues were considered resolved and finished. The "conservative" thing to do is not to mess with a system that now works. But the lunatics keep trying to find ways to undo all the good that has been done. That makes them the radicals, not us liberals. Many happy returns Oliver. May you keep poking the lunatics in the eye with the truth for many more years. zambo, I’m 36, more liberal now than I was 25 (I was libertarian then), and my brain works just fine. It is because my brain is working that I’m a liberal, not a conservative.

I always interpreted that quote differently. To me, it’s real meaning is what is radical now will be normal later. So, what you have fought long and hard for in your youth, you should be conservative in preserving your older years, lest some extreme right-wing lunatic try to take it away from you.

Example: liberals fought long and hard for a better deal for workers, anti-trust laws, medical care for all, pensions, anti-pollution laws, etc. Until recently, those issues were considered resolved and finished. The “conservative” thing to do is not to mess with a system that now works. But the lunatics keep trying to find ways to undo all the good that has been done. That makes them the radicals, not us liberals.

Many happy returns Oliver. May you keep poking the lunatics in the eye with the truth for many more years.

]]> By: TomY http://www.oliverwillis.com/2005/12/06/gettin-old/#comment-14651 TomY Tue, 06 Dec 2005 20:12:53 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=1035#comment-14651 You share a birthday with Ira Gershwin, Stephen Wright, and Elian Gonzalez! Many happy returns! You share a birthday with Ira Gershwin, Stephen Wright, and Elian Gonzalez! Many happy returns!

]]> By: Fuming Mucker http://www.oliverwillis.com/2005/12/06/gettin-old/#comment-14650 Fuming Mucker Tue, 06 Dec 2005 20:12:07 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=1035#comment-14650 ...I'm 45, Oliver. You think you're pissed now--just wait another 20 years! All the low-level toadies who're assistants now will be making headlines then. …I’m 45, Oliver. You think you’re pissed now–just wait another 20 years! All the low-level toadies who’re assistants now will be making headlines then.

]]> By: JD http://www.oliverwillis.com/2005/12/06/gettin-old/#comment-14649 JD Tue, 06 Dec 2005 19:12:55 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=1035#comment-14649 Happy birthday. Since I am older than dirt, I feel comfortable referring to you as a youngster. Have a great one ! Happy birthday. Since I am older than dirt, I feel comfortable referring to you as a youngster. Have a great one !

]]> By: MichaelFB http://www.oliverwillis.com/2005/12/06/gettin-old/#comment-14648 MichaelFB Tue, 06 Dec 2005 18:12:20 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=1035#comment-14648 Since the alternative to having birthdays is not being able to have them anymore, quit yer bitchin', youngster. And Happy Birthday! Since the alternative to having birthdays is not being able to have them anymore, quit yer bitchin’, youngster.

And Happy Birthday!

]]> By: begoniabuzzkill http://www.oliverwillis.com/2005/12/06/gettin-old/#comment-14647 begoniabuzzkill Tue, 06 Dec 2005 18:12:17 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=1035#comment-14647 At least you will soon know: each morning when you wake up and something new hurts..........you are not dead! Love to you Oliver! Happy Birthday! At least you will soon know: each morning when you wake up and something new hurts……….you are not dead!

Love to you Oliver!
Happy Birthday!

]]> By: cypher http://www.oliverwillis.com/2005/12/06/gettin-old/#comment-14646 cypher Tue, 06 Dec 2005 18:12:10 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=1035#comment-14646 Relax, you have two years on your life clock before you need to start running. Relax, you have two years on your life clock before you need to start running.

]]> By: Dugger http://www.oliverwillis.com/2005/12/06/gettin-old/#comment-14645 Dugger Tue, 06 Dec 2005 17:12:48 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=1035#comment-14645 First comes forgetting where you parked your car. Then rampant, uncontrolled ear hair growth. Then you find yourself lingering in elevators to hear the ends of songs. Then one day, there's a knock on the door and its ol' 'Grim' come-a-callin. Dugger, 28: The end of the beginning or the beginning of the end? First comes forgetting where you parked your car. Then rampant, uncontrolled ear hair growth. Then you find yourself lingering in elevators to hear the ends of songs. Then one day, there’s a knock on the door and its ol’ ‘Grim’ come-a-callin.

Dugger, 28: The end of the beginning or the beginning of the end?

]]> By: Frank_D http://www.oliverwillis.com/2005/12/06/gettin-old/#comment-14644 Frank_D Tue, 06 Dec 2005 17:12:12 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=1035#comment-14644 You mean you're not even half as old as I am? No wonder you're a left wing nut! Happy Birthday, Oliver! You mean you’re not even half as old as I am?

No wonder you’re a left wing nut!

Happy Birthday, Oliver!

]]> By: Quaker in a Basement http://www.oliverwillis.com/2005/12/06/gettin-old/#comment-14643 Quaker in a Basement Tue, 06 Dec 2005 16:12:45 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=1035#comment-14643 Hooray for you, you puppy. Have all your favorite stuff today. Hooray for you, you puppy.

Have all your favorite stuff today.

]]> By: BD http://www.oliverwillis.com/2005/12/06/gettin-old/#comment-14642 BD Tue, 06 Dec 2005 16:12:19 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=1035#comment-14642 Thirty is when the fun really starts. I think. Happy Birthday, and welcome to 28. Thirty is when the fun really starts.

I think. Happy Birthday, and welcome to 28.

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