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by jardinier 1 view

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On Monday April 10, I will turn 65 years of age and become eligble for the Australian Age Pension.

Naturally I will expect to be treated with the respect and reverence due to an authenticated senior citizen. :)

[Hey, we really do need a greater range of emoticons.]

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by jardinier

to describe our ambivalent relationship.

Perhaps you can help me out here.

Thanks for your good wishes.

by maxwell edison

You said that you are at a loss for words to describe our ambivalent relationship.

So am I. But it is interesting, to say the least. Don't you think?

by oneamazingwriter

to express joy about your birthday. I mean this from the bottom of my itsy bitsy heart. Thank God there is someone older than me!!

(Really...I hope it's a great day for you.)

Are you planning anything special? 65 is a hallmark.

by jardinier

Nope. I don't celebrate birthdays or Christmas.

But I have received some lovely greetings from femail friends in other countries.

All my life I have had this "feeling" or intuition that I will live to about 85.

Assuming that my marriage plans which many peers know about come to fruition, 2006 will almost certainly be the beginning of the best period of my life.

by faradhi

I hereby change your name from jardinier to OldGezzer. ;-)

Just kidding. Happy Birthday. :^O

by stargazerr

If its numbers we are talking about ....

Hope you have a grrrrrreat day Jules ... A very Happy Birthday 2 days in advance :D

Now to find that excel sheet that I am building to keep accounts of birthdays of all TR peers.

]:)

by av .

In case you didn't know, 65 is the new 45. Heres wishing you a happy and healthy year and many more to come.

by longwayoff

Many happy returns - you have reached the "old enough to know better and too young to care" phase. Hope you enjoy everything!

by jardinier

to wish the bloody hell I knew at 16 what I know now.

Oh those golden opportunities lost forever through naivety and ignorance. :(

by old guy

such a milestone. I look forward to it. Hope you have a great Birthday Monday. Just think how much you can milk this for. Age can come in real handy when you need it to. :)

by old guy

physical aspect you are entirely correct. There are certainly more aches and pains and a few restrictions that happens. Ah, but there are some things you can pass off because "I'm gettin' old!!!" Sometimes you can get out of doing some of the little more strenuous things and let the kids do them instead. ;-)

And, here in the US you can be in the AARP at 50 and get discounts and stuff.

by old guy

"Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know "why" I look this way. I've traveled a long way and some of the roads weren't paved." - Unknown

by deepsand

kudos for surviving so relatively intact.

Of course, since you're Down-under, I've no idea how difficult that is there, but it's an accomplishment up here.

May the future be kind.

by cuteelf

Extra Happy Birthday to you, Jard.

I want to say thanks for being around, and having experienced some of the neatest stuff in the world.

Write a book, k?

Cute

by jardinier

I have written an erotic science fiction novel, a segment of which is published in my blog. If you want to read the naughty bits, please contact me and I will email you a sample.

Not so long ago I contacted a female peer because of a common interest in AI. Upon her request, I sent her Chapter 1 of the novel. There was a quick reply to the effect that after reading Chapter 1 she had to take a cold shower. I emailed her the whole novel and have never heard from her since. (Perhaps she froze to death after taking too many cold showers).

I started writing my autobiography in 1972, updating every five years or so. Currently it is 10 years behind the times.

As it was written on various typewriters and the pages cannot be read accurately by OCR sofware, I am in the early stages of transcribing it to a Word Document.

Thanks for your nice comments.

Julian

by maecuff

I have a cane that hangs on the door knob in my office.. you wanna borrow it? I use it to physically abuse my employees, but I'm sure it comes in handy for the old and feeble..

by jardinier

You were the first to wish me a happy birthday. I think that gesture pretty much speaks for itself.

Yes it is interesting. What point would there be in having a discussion with someone who holds identical views?

Let me put it this way. If we didn't respect each other's views -- or the right to hold those views -- we probably wouldn't bother making the effort to flame each other.

My genuine best wishes to you Max in your sincere endeavour to live your life according to the principles you have chosen.

by mjwx

Happy Birthday (it may say the 9th but we know its really the 10th) even though its a monday.

"old people shouldn't be treated as equals. They should be studied, and have their nutrients extracted for personal use." - Homer Simpson :)

Welcome to senior citizenship, feel free to complain about us young whipersnappers all you like.

by jardinier

The next milestone to aim for is the Biblical three-score-years-and-ten.

After that it will be a downhill run all the way to my first century. :^0

by dmambo

to congrtulate you on the actual day of the celebration. What could be better than to reach such a milestone on a Monday?!?

Keep breathin' (That was George Burns' secret to a long life)

by ciderick

Just kidding - hope you had a good birthday (sorry I am late - didn't look at the site yesterday)!

Here's to another year of 'interesting' posts!!!;0)

by dawgit

in Europe (Germany particularly) it's considered bad luck to wish one a 'Happy Birthday' before the actual birthday. But now it is your day so 'Sch?ne Gru?' und 'Herlichen Gl?ckwunsch zum Geburtstag!' aus Deutschland :-)

by jdclyde

(emoicons, need one with a long white beard! :D )

Happy Birthday Jules.

I am a little late to this party, but it was a loooong weekend of celebrating my twin boy's birthday and all day sunday was recouperation! lock-in lan party for them, 10 of their friends and two of mine! 8am can sometimes feel like a long way off!

So, anything special you are going with your big day? Taking today off?

(After I get done posting this, I will catch up with what everyone else has had to say)

by rob mekel

As they say wisdom comes with the years. (or was it wishdom :D )

Hope you will get to 110 or even more :D :^0
[i]No, no, no, mustend say that. [/i]

[b]Jules Happy Birthday, make it a fine 1 [/b]

Rob

by jamesrl

Co` latha breith sona dhuibh!

My own surname is Gaelic, and its a word that translates in either Irish or Scots Gaelic.

James

by jellimonsta

Hey Mr. Kipling, just wanted to let you know that I could not see your page due to exceeding your bandwidth limit! :(

by deepsand

Geocities tried to flood me; blcoking them all resulted in the page taking forever to load & be rendered.

Neil, you should be ashamed.

by jardinier

Every day of my life (except Sundays when certain eating places are closed) I speak to Koreans, Vietnamese and Chinese.

I also speak with persons from Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. The rest of Asia is covered by the various check-out persons at supermarkets.

I can speak six words of Mandarin (with excellent pronunciation I am told), and can say "Hello" in Korean, Japanese and Hindi.

I will save that link for various femail friends in other countries.

From my harem of online ladies, I have received greetings from the USA, China, Argentina and the Philippines. One nice lady from the Philippines telephoned me twice and at least heard the sound of my voice on the recorded message.

Cheers to you all
Julian

by Member 25348569

What browser are you using and do you have your systems properly locked down? No?

I'm sorry. I really didn't have any problems with the site so I posted up the URL.

Ooops!

by jardinier

So if anyone is having problems, they must be using THAT (unmentionable) browser.

I think that would class as sacrilege, but I will forgive you because of the nice messages which you posted.

by jellimonsta

I am using Opera 8.54, but I did not have any problem displaying the page, once it had some bandwidth to spare again. :p

by rob mekel

Using I.E. 6 and no problem on displaying nor any under or whatever popping up screens.
Maybe some security elsewhere in the LAN does the trick? :D

Rob

by dawgit

better not go there. It actually means 'Greetings'. but, when said a little grin, to the right frau, at the right time..... ;-) well one never knows.

by rob mekel

Sch?ne, gru?t dich
:) with the right smile ... well you know where that can lead to :0 :) ;)

Rob

by jardinier

was a little bit sh*tty because my body is fighting off some nasty, and I flaked out at 9 pm.

HOWEVER, it was a REALLY GREAT day because off all the nice comments posted here, as well as e-cards, real cards and emails from various members of my Internet harem from the USA, China, Ethiopia, Argentina and the Philippines.

A lovely creature in the Philippines even phoned me.

All-in-all -- a really great day. :) :) :)

by mickster269

Because if I live longer than this computer I am on now, it will be a moral victory.

I do think this particular box is audtioning to be installed as the Server on the 9th level of Hell.

by deepsand

Using FF 1.5, I still see at least some pop-unders slipping through.

If you would, visit PollStar.com & let me know if you experience such there.

Thanks.

by itgirli

Let me be the last (boy I should check in more often) to wish you a most happy birthday and a healthy year!

by m_a_r_k

Are you like wine, getting better with age? Or like milk, getting sour with age? :^0

by jardinier

I went through a cynical phase in my forties, when I was so disillusioned with the human race that I appointed myself as an honorary animal.

I am quite easy going now, and it is mainly in TR discussions where I exhibit that side of me which has a short fuse.

My detractors at TR would quite likely not believe it was the same person if they met me OUTSIDE cyber space.

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