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My Wife and I are Turning 40 Tomorrow...

Posted on 12/15/2007 6:16:49 AM PST by big truck

We met in college. I was from Pennsylvania, she was from Oregon. We both worked in the cafeteria.

Somehow the topic of birthdays came up - she was born in December, so was I. She was born on the 16th, so was I. She was born in 1967, so was I. She was born at 10:40 am (pacific time), I was born at 1:58 pm (eastern time). Given the time change, she is 18 minutes older than I am. Any freeper advice as we crest the big hill tomorrow?


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KEYWORDS: bigwhoop; genx; oldfogeys; overthehill; thisaintnews
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To: big truck

I turn the big 4-0 in 14 months. But hey, 40 is the new 20, so drink like it!!! have fun!


121 posted on 12/15/2007 7:41:35 AM PST by rintense (Thompson/Hunter 2008!)
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To: big truck

Enjoy your youth.

[From a Freeper who just turned 50, whose wife is about to turn 50, after 20 wonderful years of marriage. Anyone younger than us is by definition young.]


122 posted on 12/15/2007 7:42:12 AM PST by tom h
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To: big truck
Given the time change, she is 18 minutes older than I am. Any freeper advice as we crest the big hill tomorrow?

Think of it this way ... for 18 minutes you'll have the chance to ravage an "older" woman! That can be fun!

123 posted on 12/15/2007 7:42:28 AM PST by TheRightGuy (ERROR CODE 018974523: Random Tagline Compiler Failure)
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To: mplsconservative

My wife actually weighs less than she did in college, and that’s after three kids!

I tell her she looks like she’s twenty something. She does have a little touch of gray around the temples, but I figure that’s just from living with me. I prefer that she not color her hair, not use much (if any) make up, and forget about her weight. She’s 5’and 95 lbs, still looks great to me...


124 posted on 12/15/2007 7:44:12 AM PST by big truck
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To: big truck

Congrats, to both of you! Praise God, for a stable marriage, healthy family and and happiness overall. Now, you will start cringing as you remember every cool thing that happened 20 years ago seemed like yesterday.


125 posted on 12/15/2007 7:45:33 AM PST by rabidralph
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To: big truck

There are doctors who take care of that....


126 posted on 12/15/2007 7:45:33 AM PST by Hildy (You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep cause reality is finally better than your dreams)
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To: Paved Paradise

Sage advice. Thanks.


127 posted on 12/15/2007 7:45:39 AM PST by big truck
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To: big truck

When I turned 40 some 30 years ago my wife had a small party and I was presented with a toilet with black lillies planted in it.

You’re over the hill, it’s all downhill now.


128 posted on 12/15/2007 7:45:54 AM PST by dalereed (both)
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To: Hildy

True enough, but they would have to pay me! I still remeber the shots of novacane in a particularly delicate part of my anatomy - made my toes curl backwards and touch bottoms of my feet! Then the scent of smoke eminating from a place where no smoke should ever be eminating from!!! No thanks -I’ll pass.


129 posted on 12/15/2007 7:50:32 AM PST by big truck
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To: big truck

Not a joke really. Just wondering if you were born before the candles burned out.

(sorry for the build up and let down)


130 posted on 12/15/2007 7:51:53 AM PST by uncitizen
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To: big truck

“Any freeper advice as we crest the big hill tomorrow?”

Cyanide...


131 posted on 12/15/2007 7:55:02 AM PST by dakine
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To: ShadowDancer

Grandma...you are showing your age...


132 posted on 12/15/2007 7:56:05 AM PST by dakine
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To: big truck; tubebender
For three days a year, we are the same age, then my birthday comes and I'm a year older again.

Our "baby girl" will be 30 next year. ;)

133 posted on 12/15/2007 7:57:20 AM PST by SouthTexas (Have a Merry and Blessed Christmas.)
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To: Uncle Ike; Tijeras_Slim; Constitution Day; Ezekiel; aculeus; dighton
Do whatever it takes to resist the temptation to run out and buy a Lawrence Welk album.... ;~)

I'm 47.

The other day I stumbled across and was listening to mp3s of Singers Unlimited.

Came *this close* to saving them to the iPod, but sanity prevailed at the last minute.

134 posted on 12/15/2007 8:04:36 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: big truck

Thanks. Looks like a lot of good stuff happened December 16th 1967.


135 posted on 12/15/2007 8:06:35 AM PST by gopheraj
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136 posted on 12/15/2007 8:20:06 AM PST by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: big truck

40? If you book a hotel room for a romantic interlude, don’t get the room with the mirrors.


137 posted on 12/15/2007 8:56:53 AM PST by Jeff Chandler ("Liberals want to save the world for the children they aren't having." -Mark Steyn)
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To: big truck
Hey Big Truck,

Happy birthday to you both. Let me know how it goes. I turn the big 4-0 next September.

As far as advice, I haven't got any real great words of wisdom. Have some champagne, do something really goofy (like go cosmic bowling or play mini golf). Dance in the grocery store and REALLY embarrass your kids or something.

As far as the age thing goes, I always keep the words of Gene Simmons in mind: "Any day above ground is a good day."

And don't forget cake.

138 posted on 12/15/2007 9:00:42 AM PST by RepoGirl ("Tom, I'm getting dead from you, but I'm not getting Undead..." -- Frasier Crane)
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To: big truck

Congratulations to you both! Perhaps you might do something you both used to do when you were younger, but don’t do (or don’t do very often) anymore??? Something to remind you of the past, but yet mark a “new” beginning... Don’t look at it as “cresting the hill”... You know they say that 40 is the new “20”. ;)


139 posted on 12/15/2007 9:06:54 AM PST by LibertyRocks ( I'm a redhead & a FRedhead! LOL)
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To: dakine

I don’t even qualify age wise for posting on this thread, you doddering old man.


140 posted on 12/15/2007 9:59:35 AM PST by ShadowDancer ("To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.")
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