who here is over 35?

[calidris]

(And that was actually a huge tip...  )

BTW, I'm not Bernard or JA or Kenny or Steve Miller either...

[Hmoll]

(And that was actually a huge tip...  )

BTW, I'm not Bernard or JA or Kenny or Steve Miller either...

Nunatax??

[wynnbear]

I miss the avatars. 

Then there are all these new names to associate with old names.

I'm so confused.   

[calidris]

Nunatax??

Yep

[Hmoll]

Yep

Took me long enough!

[Tash]

oh my god the spam of this forum has just elevated by 500%!

[Nina_too]

oh my god the spam of this forum has just elevated by 500%!

C'mon, Tash, one man's spam is another guy's lunch meat!

[athykay]

You just need to get to know us and us you.

[Bluethroat]

38 in a week. I usually attempt to drink as many beverages as my age to celebrate. It's getting easier as the years go by.

[alice oliver]

happy birthday bluethroat.  are you from over on the other side, too?

[offenbach]

I will just say that I am "mature"!

O

[calidris]

Hey, we've got another bird in here 

Hi, Bluethroat! 

[chickering9]

38 in a week. I usually attempt to drink as many beverages as my age to celebrate. It's getting easier as the years go by.

I don't know how I could have missed that clue. 

[pianodoc]

Oh, that would be me too.... (plus 10 years last August)

pleased to meet you all.

Yes, I've gotten to know about ibuprofen, and glucosomine, and torn rotator cuffs...

[realitytest]

And let's talk about hot flashes and arthritis and periodontal disease too.  Then we really will scare off the kiddos like Tash! No one that age wants to know What Lies Ahead...or rather, they don't identify with the ancients who 've gotten there.  One foot in the grave,   "as old as my Mom" (=not quite people)  kind of thing.  

rt

P.S. Tash, we ARE still people - but we will try to keep the Mental Pause threads to a minimum.  Why scare you?

[chickering9]

"...Mental Pause..."

Hey, I have that, too! 

[athykay]

My advice to you: Floss, floss, floss!

[Tash]

And let's talk about hot flashes and arthritis and periodontal disease too. Then we really will scare off the kiddos like Tash! No one that age wants to know What Lies Ahead...or rather, they don't identify with the ancients who 've gotten there. One foot in the grave, "as old as my Mom" (=not quite people) kind of thing.

rt

P.S. Tash, we ARE still people - but we will try to keep the Mental Pause threads to a minimum. Why scare you?

oh my god........

btw i'm not a kid, i'm 19 on thursday!

*goes and watches disney cartoons*

[Ed Thomas]

Tash, you are too young to be watching Disney cartoons.  They are written for folks 35 and older.    
Happy incoming birthday!

I always use my real name to post because at my age, remembering that is enough of a challenge.

[calidris]

Tash, you are too young to be watching Disney cartoons.  They are written for folks 35 and older.    

Ah, that's why they give me nightmares!   Thanks for the info! 

[FrankM]

One more cross-over from PW here. 

(Not to worry. I have no intention of becoming a regular, if ever, poster to the Non Piano Board. I had more than my fill of that on PW.)

[Tash]

well i like disney cartoons, they remind me of my childhood- i was snow-white

[ted]

I am Ted and Ted2 on all piano forums and I am fifty-seven.

[pianodoc]

Oh, yes... I forgot to add that this time when I got my new set of glasses, I finally accepted what the Dr. told me and got the bifocals..

Anybody had LASIK, or similar procedures?

[donjuan]

well i like disney cartoons, they remind me of my childhood- i was snow-white

hey, those old disney movies like Pinnochio, Dumbo, or Sleeping beauty have a dark side to them, especially when you compare it to the sugary stuff we have nowadays like Lilo and Stitch, or the Emperors new Groove. (jeez, what crap!)

There is nothing more disturbing than Alice in Wonderland.  Whenever I watch that one I always feel like the 5 year old kid who lost their mommy in the supermarket. 

donjuan

[willcowskitz]

donjuan has a good point. The reason for this change is also simple: commercialism reduces risks to the minimum, thus making safer pictures that are practically incapable of shocking potential sequel watching children.

[ted]

I remember seeing Fantasia as a child and many kids were taken out of the theatre crying during Night on Bare Mountain. Many classical fairy tales are macabre, frightening and often grossly violent. Fairy tales to me have always appeared distinctly grown-up, depicting as they do, symbolic manifestations of archetypal fears, pictorial representations of good and evil and so on. I suppose they are no worse than the rot small children are exposed to these days with television, but that is hardly a meritorious comparison.

[Edgar]

...
i'm 48. ...

Me TOO!

[realitytest]

Ted

Many classical fairy tales are macabre, frightening and often grossly violent. Fairy tales to me have always appeared distinctly grown-up, depicting as they do, symbolic manifestations of archetypal fears, pictorial representations of good and evil and so on.

Quite true!   You must have read Jung.  I was shocked when I learned German, as one of the first things I chose to work on was the Grimms' Fairy Tales, figuring I'd have a feel for them.  Wow, are they different in the original.  American kids haven't a clue about the real Hansel and Gretel.   Hansel takes not a twig, but a finger bone (of a chiild who has already been eaten)  to trick the witch.  And  after she is trapped in the hot oven, it describes  her "grausam" screams that go on and on.

Come on, can you guess what it means?  "Grausam" = gruesome.  English IS a Germanic language with lots of Latin (and other) cognates added.  That's why English has the largest vocabulary of any language on Earth (about 1,000,000 words!).

rt

[realitytest]

P.S. I despise with all my heart what the modern Disney studio (not at all like Walt) have done with children's classics like "the Jungle Book" and "the Little Mermaid".  Kipling and Anderson were not mere ethnographers but authors and artists.  How dare a commercial outfit wholly reinvent great works ?  Thiis also insures they will never be read in the original.  One of my pet peeves.  To turn the brilliant and tragic allegory of the little mermaid (a lot to do with Christianity) into that treacly bit of crap is unforgiveable.

Might as well do an animated version of  "the Passion" with Bugs Bunny in the lead...and then since the ending is too saaaaad,  have all the disciples come out as Ninja's defeating the whole Roman Legion and rescue Jesus!

rt

[athykay]

I thiink you've got an Oscar winning script there - the Passion of Bugs?~!

[QueenBee]

over 35+ a decade as of Beethoven's birthday!

As for Disney, I refuse to put my money down to watch what is essentially the same story over and over again.....Hero, villian, Barbie, wise cracking side kick....

What ever happened to Mary Poppins,  Peter Pan etc....?

[Tash]

yeah disney's gone down the drain these days. go the classics they rock my socks!
i do however love lilo and stitch. and all the pixar movies, finding nemo's the best!

[Shellb]

I am going to be having myself one of those *milestone* birthdays in a couple weeks... one that has a zero on the end of it and somehow involves AARP.  ACK!!!!  I am SO not sure if I will live through it.  I'm hoping the hype is worse than the reality. 

P.S.  these identity guessing games are quite amusing!