GET OFFA MY LAWN, YOU LITTLE BRAT!!!
Oh, and Happy Birthday!
Wow, 48? Geez, what’s it like all the way up there? I mean, 48? That’s sounds so ooooooold. Gosh, I hope you’re still able to have some kind of fun on your birthday. Maybe a game of checkers or something??? I can hardly imagine being that, well, middle-aged.
Salem, clinging to 47 for another 6 months 
Happy Birthday!
I don’t mean to show disrespect to en elder, but…
You posted “on Saturday, 19 August, I will be 48 years old.”
But your thread is titled “I am 48 today”, and was posted at 0352 this morning, Pacific time.
I’m not sure off-hand what time zone Saudi Arabia is in, but wasn’t it still the 18th at the time? Or am I missing something?
Oh, and since it’s now just after 7 PM here in California,
Happy Birthday!
48 trips around the sun. Congrats.
Thank you all for the kind words. Now I am off to school to add some energy to a class of twenty sleepy twenty year-olds.
Happy Birthday, Paul. Sincerely.
You young’uns are so cute. (also sincerely)
Day-umm, you really are getting old!
Hell, I won’t be 48 until December!
However, as you contemplate the graying hairs, creaking joints, fading memory, growing wrinkles, failing eyesight, waning hearing, aches, pains and a myriad of other indignities of your advancing years, take comfort in the thought that old age is just Mother Nature’s way of rewarding us for not dying young. 
:o 
:dubious: 
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And Happy Birthday!
They say you’re as old as you feel.
So, how old is that?
For me it changes, some days I’m on my death bed others I’m still a teenager looking for trouble. Either way I’m in good health. How bout you?
Happy Birthday “old man”
~JB 44
I’m 48, Paul.
Hey, you’re still cute.
Happy Birthday! Wow, 48, huh? You must feel old! He he he.
(Says the guy who will be 48 in 2036.)
::Uses broom to sweep the latest whippersnapper out of thread::
I’m an experienced 48-year-old, Paul (3/4 of the way to 49). It’s really not bad. Just odd that that number and I are in any way associated. I’m just a kid, really. Happy to be among a bunch of other kids…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
GT
OMG There are alot of OLD PEOPLE here.
What’s that smell?
Paul, have you started looking for an Official Old People’s Car yet? Oldsmobiles stopped production recently, you better buy one while they are still around.
A very Happy Birthday to you, sir!
/turning 40 in November.
//very excited about it.
///why not, it’s not like I can stop it from happening or will it to Go Away.
Happy Birthday Paul!
1958 must have been one of those karmic years. My brother, my first husband, and my (latest? ) hubby all turn 48 this year. July 7th, Sept. 5th and Sept. 9th.
After a long day in the morgue mostly autopsying people who are younger than we are, all three of us over-45 pathologists like to turn to eachother and say:
Beats the alternative.
What? Autopsying people who are older than you?
I guess…
No, silly. Getting older sucks, but it beats dying young.
Younger.
Younger than 48, anyhow.
Getting old isn’t so bad. Just don’t do it alone. (Jake, who’s 65)
yeah… I turned 48 on May 29th. In addition to Michael Jackson, we 1958’ers also share our age with Madonna, Sharon Stone, Prince, Bill Watterson, and lots of other people.
96? Nah… I figure I’m about 2/3 done at this point.
Well, Onan is wild-caught, and was over 18 months in age when I rescued him about two years ago. All we can say for sure is he is between three and seventy. To say that another way, he has between 67 and zero years of life expectancy.
I have arranged for a stipend to be given out of my estate to whoever takes my pets after my death. I hope that covers it.
Happy birthday, Paul! Welcome to the age at which people are their most handsome.