[TXnMA]

“.... Preening 80-year olds are so last century and should just be ignored because, they aren’t as intelligent as the coming generation. …”

I'll gladly put this 81-year-old mind up against anyone -- including most Mensa members.

Of course, I started reading at three (first recognized word: "Churchill"). And, on my first standardized aptitude/achievement test, (7th grade) was reading at the mid-year college sophomore level.

I still do crossword puzzles without pen or pencil every night before bedtime. Have only failed to complete six (one letter not filled in -- intersections of two proper nouns) in the last dozen years...

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I suppose that's what the author of the above would call, "Preening"... '-)

In response, I'd quote Walter Brennan's character: "No brag -- jest facts!"

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[Reily]

All I was doing was pointing out that this kind of thing has been said by “the youth” about the old for 1000s of years. I am sure even before there was a written language to articulate it in. Nothing to take personal.

[Mears]

You must be perplexed when the word “humility” is mentioned in those crossword puzzles.

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