# If you're over 60, post a lot, and have a sick sense of humor, log in here **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 22, 2014, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-60-post-a-lot-and-have-a-sick-sense-of-humor-log-in-here/679450 "2014-01-22T14:33:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2014, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-60-post-a-lot-and-have-a-sick-sense-of-humor-log-in-here/679450/241 "2014-01-26T16:26:45Z")
> [@SerafinaPekala](#): > > I love it! Ill stick that in my Useful Phrases bag! > > A lot of good ones come from movies and series too. > > [Mean Girls Quotes](http://thoughtcatalog.com/nico-lang/2013/02/40-mean-girls-quotes-that-make-everyday-life-worth-living/) > > [True Blood Quotes](http://trueblood.wikia.com/wiki/Top_10_list:Top_Ten_True_Blood_Quotes) > > ^^ might be deemed juvenile, but its good trashy fun! I’ll check those in a moment, but I just wanted to offer another fun (and hopefully harmless) trivia topic that oughtn’t take too much effort to do. Without divulging _exactly where_ you live (if you’re nervous about that sort of thing) at least tell us how far above sea level you live. The internet has an abundance of source material for that and this example from wikipedia (where else?) might serve as an example of what I mean: > [@](#): > > Nashville lies on the Cumberland River in the northwestern portion of the Nashville Basin. Nashville’s topography ranges from 385 feet (117 m) above sea level at the Cumberland River to 1,160 feet (350 m) above sea level at its highest point. So, my estimate from that data would be approx. 900 feet. How’s that sound? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2014, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-60-post-a-lot-and-have-a-sick-sense-of-humor-log-in-here/679450/242 "2014-01-26T16:34:52Z")
If we can use outside material as sources for our “neck of the woods” I’d have to go digging through _Justified_ for what’s been colorful for me the past few years. Those _Mean Girls_ and _True Blood_ things are fun, and potentially useful in the right circimstances, but I’m not familiar with either show. Just curious, does anybody have warm memories of Brother Dave Gardner? That boy was a beacon of Southern Bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![SerafinaPekala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@SerafinaPekala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SerafinaPekala)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2014, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-60-post-a-lot-and-have-a-sick-sense-of-humor-log-in-here/679450/243 "2014-01-26T16:37:01Z")
Ill have to google him, not familiar, Z. I live halfway between Chicago and St Louis, for reference and have relatives in both places. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2014, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-60-post-a-lot-and-have-a-sick-sense-of-humor-log-in-here/679450/244 "2014-01-26T16:50:49Z")
> [@SerafinaPekala](#): > > Ill have to google him, not familiar, Z. > > I live halfway between Chicago and St Louis, for reference and have relatives in both places. He was moderately successful in the 50’s (was a fairly regular guest on Jack Paar for instance) and had roughly a dozen LP albums. YouTube has a few clips and I have found audio at various places on the web, but [BROTHER DAVE GARDNER - “The Motorcycle Story” .](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FZt6N62T2E) will serve as an example of what I mean. (So Cowtown is not just a nickname for Chitown, like Music City is for Nashvegas?) ---
**Author:** ![SerafinaPekala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@SerafinaPekala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SerafinaPekala)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2014, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-60-post-a-lot-and-have-a-sick-sense-of-humor-log-in-here/679450/245 "2014-01-26T17:22:59Z")
lol@ “motorsickle” 😃 Nope, “Cowtown” is a whole nuther place! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2014, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-60-post-a-lot-and-have-a-sick-sense-of-humor-log-in-here/679450/246 "2014-01-26T17:32:32Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > If we can use outside material as sources for our “neck of the woods” I’d have to go digging through _Justified_ for what’s been colorful for me the past few years. Those _Mean Girls_ and _True Blood_ things are fun, and potentially useful in the right circimstances, but I’m not familiar with either show. > > Just curious, does anybody have warm memories of Brother Dave Gardner? That boy was a beacon of Southern Bullshit. I preferred [Jerry Clower](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AX9QoFhEhI). ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2014, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-60-post-a-lot-and-have-a-sick-sense-of-humor-log-in-here/679450/247 "2014-01-26T17:33:27Z")
Imported to Southern California from South Dakota, by my grandmother, making a plan for future actions “God willin’, and the creek don’t rise”. Always liked that one. She accidentally swallowed a fly in my presence as we were walking. “Was worse for him that it was for me!” ---
**Author:** ![SerafinaPekala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@SerafinaPekala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SerafinaPekala)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2014, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-60-post-a-lot-and-have-a-sick-sense-of-humor-log-in-here/679450/248 "2014-01-26T17:39:27Z")
I had a big extended family on my stepmother’s side in deep MO. She used to tell us at the dinner table, “Grab a root n growl!” (translation: dont be shy, help yerself!) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2014, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-60-post-a-lot-and-have-a-sick-sense-of-humor-log-in-here/679450/249 "2014-01-26T17:40:01Z")
> [@SerafinaPekala](#): > > lol@ “motorsickle” 😃 > > Nope, “Cowtown” is a whole nuther place! If BDG doesn’t put you off with his sound effects and his Butterfly McQueen voice at times, he has some comedy gold that still holds up – at least for me. One of his bits involves Little David (of Goliath fame) in which I have always enjoyed the double entendre where David goes to join his brothers as they are preparing to engage the _Philadelphians_😉 and one of them asks: Little David, why ain’t you with the sheep? David: Cause I’d rather fight. (Tareyton cigarettes had an ad campaign at roughly that time that went “Us Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch” complete with a black smudge under one eye. And of course there’s that Urban Legend regarding farm animals.) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2014, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-60-post-a-lot-and-have-a-sick-sense-of-humor-log-in-here/679450/250 "2014-01-26T17:44:55Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I preferred [Jerry Clower](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AX9QoFhEhI). Clower had his good stuff, for sure. Another Southerner of note was [Lewis Grizzard.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imZjCbRuZ3c) ---
**Author:** ![SerafinaPekala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@SerafinaPekala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SerafinaPekala)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2014, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-60-post-a-lot-and-have-a-sick-sense-of-humor-log-in-here/679450/251 "2014-01-26T17:47:40Z")
Yep I liked the commercials better than the shows at times! recall Dolly Parton/Porter Wagoner detergent ads? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2014, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-60-post-a-lot-and-have-a-sick-sense-of-humor-log-in-here/679450/252 "2014-01-26T17:50:46Z")
> [@SerafinaPekala](#): > > Yep I liked the commercials better than the shows at times! recall Dolly Parton/Porter Wagoner detergent ads? Don’t think so, but those were Dolly’s glory days. Tell me about the ads, if you can. ---
**Author:** ![harmonicamoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/65b543/32.png) [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2014, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-60-post-a-lot-and-have-a-sick-sense-of-humor-log-in-here/679450/253 "2014-01-26T17:53:46Z")
Good mornin’ troopers! Noticed some posts on music. Anyone watching the Grammy Awards tonight? I just saw that NPR was going to televise it. When I lived in the land of milk and honey, I never missed it. Haven’t seen it in many years. And have lost touch with current non-Latino music. But I think I will view it tonight thanks to NPR (I don’t have a tele). And as Eric Burdon once said, “If ya want to know the truth in life, don’t leave music out.” ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2014, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-60-post-a-lot-and-have-a-sick-sense-of-humor-log-in-here/679450/254 "2014-01-26T17:57:04Z")
DMark is a ruggedly handsome, swarthy, 24 year old stud, unfortunately trapped in an older, less flattering body. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2014, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-60-post-a-lot-and-have-a-sick-sense-of-humor-log-in-here/679450/255 "2014-01-26T17:58:24Z")
> [@harmonicamoon](#): > > Good mornin’ troopers! > Noticed some posts on music. Anyone watching the Grammy Awards tonight? I just saw that NPR was going to televise it. When I lived in the land of milk and honey, I never missed it. Haven’t seen it in many years. And have lost touch with current non-Latino music. But I think I will view it tonight thanks to NPR (I don’t have a tele). And as Eric Burdon once said, “If ya want to know the truth in life, don’t leave music out.” Mornin’, Amigo. Mind sharing which section of your “old country” you were from? Your English is too good for you to have spent all your life with Spanish to contend with. Since you asked, I will probably skip the Grammys. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2014, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-60-post-a-lot-and-have-a-sick-sense-of-humor-log-in-here/679450/256 "2014-01-26T18:00:02Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > DMark is a ruggedly handsome, swarthy, 24 year old stud, unfortunately trapped in an older, less flattering body. Long as it feels good enough to roll out of bed, I guess that’s good enough for this crowd. Welcome! ---
**Author:** ![SerafinaPekala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@SerafinaPekala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SerafinaPekala)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2014, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-60-post-a-lot-and-have-a-sick-sense-of-humor-log-in-here/679450/257 "2014-01-26T18:00:51Z")
Good mornin HarmonicaMoon! I dont have TV reception here in the cave but will be looking for links on YT later of the Grammy’s. Sorry, YT doesnt have the Dolly detergent commercials (“free towel in each n evry box!”) but[here’s an idea](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qt_ixpI8A0) of what they were like together. ---
**Author:** ![SerafinaPekala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@SerafinaPekala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SerafinaPekala)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2014, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-60-post-a-lot-and-have-a-sick-sense-of-humor-log-in-here/679450/258 "2014-01-26T18:02:12Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Long as it feels good enough to roll out of bed, I guess that’s good enough for this crowd. Welcome! And to quote Z: “If he fogs a mirror, he’ll do here.” ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2014, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-60-post-a-lot-and-have-a-sick-sense-of-humor-log-in-here/679450/259 "2014-01-26T18:04:19Z")
> [@SerafinaPekala](#): > > Good mornin HarmonicaMoon! I dont have TV reception here in the cave but will be looking for links on YT later of the Grammy’s. > > Sorry, YT doesnt have the Dolly detergent commercials (“free towel in each n evry box!”) but[here’s an idea](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qt_ixpI8A0) of what they were like together. Doesn’t it make you a little sad to see the trouble she went to to paint over all that beauty? ---
**Author:** ![harmonicamoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/65b543/32.png) [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2014, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-60-post-a-lot-and-have-a-sick-sense-of-humor-log-in-here/679450/260 "2014-01-26T18:05:21Z")
Mostly hung out in the West. CA, NV and Utah. Been south for 8 years now. Thanks for the English remark. I don’t speak it much here, and find myself translating Spanish to English to write on this MB. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-60-post-a-lot-and-have-a-sick-sense-of-humor-log-in-here/679450.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-60-post-a-lot-and-have-a-sick-sense-of-humor-log-in-here/679450.md?page=14)