# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-60-post-a-lot-and-have-a-sick-sense-of-humor-log-in-here/679450/101 "2014-01-23T20:00:37Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > I don’t know what we should name our group, but if we wanted a membership oath, I’d be partial to: > > (Spoken really fast:\*\*) _Do you promise to covet property, propriety, plurality, surety, security, and not hurt the state, say ‘what’?_ Definitely the one to top. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![harmonicamoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/65b543/32.png) [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-60-post-a-lot-and-have-a-sick-sense-of-humor-log-in-here/679450/102 "2014-01-23T20:34:52Z")
**Zeldar** , my neighbor to the North, you have assembled a fine group here. And we are all in attendance. Do we have an agenda? Not putting on any pressure. Its just a question. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-60-post-a-lot-and-have-a-sick-sense-of-humor-log-in-here/679450/103 "2014-01-23T20:40:47Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > _Peorgie Tirebiter, he’s a spy and a girl-delighter…_ > > I don’t know what we should name our group, but if we wanted a membership oath, I’d be partial to: > > (Spoken really fast:\*\*) _Do you promise to covet property, propriety, plurality, surety, security, and not hurt the state, say ‘what’?_ What? Take your stand. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-60-post-a-lot-and-have-a-sick-sense-of-humor-log-in-here/679450/104 "2014-01-23T20:45:33Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Since you’re a fan of OTR, you might wanna start Firesign Theatre with _Don’t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers_, since a principal character of that, George Tirebiter, is an OTR actor (and depicted at various points in his life). Possibly the greatest comedy record ever made, and I’ve heard lots of them. Still getting stuff out of it today, and I have the script. It contains a joke that spans two records. Bozos contains perhaps the first comedy about computer hacking, before hacking was even associated with computers especially. I remember the chill I got the first time I used a PDP-10 and saw “five jobs, two detached” on the console. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-60-post-a-lot-and-have-a-sick-sense-of-humor-log-in-here/679450/105 "2014-01-23T20:58:37Z")
> [@harmonicamoon](#): > > **Zeldar** , my neighbor to the North, you have assembled a fine group here. And we are all in attendance. Do we have an agenda? Not putting on any pressure. Its just a question. And it seems quite reasonable to ask, amigo. As we are moving into the 100 posts range it would seem that a point might be in order. If my motive for starting the thread might help it is that I was wanting to “touch base” with some of the people I keep seeing in other threads who always seem to be attracted to the same subject matter and who seem to express themselves with the right blend of irony, disdain, dismissive attitudes and (for lack of a better word or phrase) awe at the absurdity of some of the people attempting to be “fighting ignorance” by introducing more than was here before. That’s a long way to say “I was looking for company.” I’m open to any serious topics that folks our age (range) might think worth discussing with folks our age. No specifics yet, though. Want to be the first with an agenda item? Go for it! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-60-post-a-lot-and-have-a-sick-sense-of-humor-log-in-here/679450/106 "2014-01-23T21:10:35Z")
> [@harmonicamoon](#): > > **Zeldar** , my neighbor to the North, you have assembled a fine group here. And we are all in attendance. Do we have an agenda? Not putting on any pressure. Its just a question. I thought I’d check to see who all is in our merry band and here’s the cast list so far: Who Posted? Total Posts: 105 User Name Posts Zeldar 42 SerafinaPekala 8 Prof. Pepperwinkle 7 Vita Beata 5 RobDog 4 Chefguy 4 Voyager 3 Yllaria 3 harmonicamoon 3 silenus 2 johnpost 2 RTFirefly 2 panache45 2 Eutychus 1 FairyChatMom 1 Shodan 1 Clothahump 1 JuliaSqueezer 1 Fear Itself 1 Exapno Mapcase 1 Sailboat 1 Yorikke 1 Slithy Tove 1 jasg 1 Dr. Woo 1 movingfinger 1 kunilou 1 Boyo Jim 1 Lanzy 1 Rick Kitchen 1 dataguy 1 I’m counting 31 and as I said in the OP, > [@](#): > > I know there are at least 50 of you, likely way more than that, that I see over and over wherever I post, and I feel as if we are in some sort of “secret society” of weird geezers who have little to do but hang out here and pretend we have a life. ---
**Author:** ![SerafinaPekala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@SerafinaPekala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SerafinaPekala)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-60-post-a-lot-and-have-a-sick-sense-of-humor-log-in-here/679450/107 "2014-01-23T21:53:30Z")
Who’s pretending? If someone is keeping count of lo the many hours i spend online, they might not have a life either… Hellooooo… Zeldar the Great! _wavey smilie_ ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-60-post-a-lot-and-have-a-sick-sense-of-humor-log-in-here/679450/108 "2014-01-23T22:10:27Z")
> [@SerafinaPekala](#): > > Who’s pretending? > > If someone is keeping count of lo the many hours i spend online, they might not have a life either… Hellooooo… Zeldar the Great! _wavey smilie_ Ain’t it a fact! Every now and then the idea that the computer might crash, the power might go out, the board mght be down, or any number of dreaded events too wicked to name might come to pass, will burst into my consciousness and I have to ask myself, “what would you do?” And there are plenty of times I just don’t have a good answer. I try to remember what I would do before the internet, hell, even before computers, and it all involves effort. Who has time for that? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-60-post-a-lot-and-have-a-sick-sense-of-humor-log-in-here/679450/109 "2014-01-23T22:29:12Z")
I guess I’m in. I’m 64, and I find the humor in: You know what they say about sleeping dogs; you can’t trust 'em, and After four years, paint brown. ---
**Author:** ![SerafinaPekala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@SerafinaPekala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SerafinaPekala)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-60-post-a-lot-and-have-a-sick-sense-of-humor-log-in-here/679450/110 "2014-01-23T23:24:03Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Ain’t it a fact! Every now and then the idea that the computer might crash, the power might go out, the board mght be down, or any number of dreaded events too wicked to name might come to pass, will burst into my consciousness and I have to ask myself, “what would you do?” > > And there are plenty of times I just don’t have a good answer. I try to remember what I would do before the internet, hell, even before computers, and it all involves effort. Who has time for that? 😉 And then we feel like [this](http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/5855/480713622.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-60-post-a-lot-and-have-a-sick-sense-of-humor-log-in-here/679450/111 "2014-01-23T23:30:07Z")
I’m 73 and closing in on 74 in March if I live that long. I’m as good a nap taker as you’re likely to find. In fact, naps have sort of cut into SDMB time lately. If you’ll let me play I’ll do better. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-60-post-a-lot-and-have-a-sick-sense-of-humor-log-in-here/679450/112 "2014-01-23T23:38:13Z")
> [@](#): > > My all time favorite is Vincent Price in Three Skeleton Key. Speaking of which … > **[Abandoned cruise ship filled with cannibal rats headed for British shore](https://www.nydailynews.com/2014/01/23/abandoned-cruise-ship-filled-with-cannibal-rats-headed-for-british-shore/)** > > An abandoned cruise liner teeming with inbred cannibal rats is adrift in the Atlantic Ocean and possibly about to run aground on Britain’s coastline, according to a new report. The Lyubov Orl… ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-60-post-a-lot-and-have-a-sick-sense-of-humor-log-in-here/679450/113 "2014-01-23T23:40:38Z")
> [@SerafinaPekala](#): > > And then we feel like [this](http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/5855/480713622.jpg) Caramba! They took my picture while I wasn’t looking! ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-60-post-a-lot-and-have-a-sick-sense-of-humor-log-in-here/679450/114 "2014-01-23T23:44:25Z")
> [@AskNott](#): > > I guess I’m in. I’m 64, and I find the humor in: > > You know what they say about sleeping dogs; you can’t trust 'em, and > > After four years, paint brown. > [@LouisB](#): > > I’m 73 and closing in on 74 in March if I live that long. I’m as good a nap taker as you’re likely to find. In fact, naps have sort of cut into SDMB time lately. If you’ll let me play I’ll do better. Good to see y’all! Make yourselves at home. Bring mischief and pranks! Or take a nap. Your call. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-60-post-a-lot-and-have-a-sick-sense-of-humor-log-in-here/679450/115 "2014-01-23T23:45:36Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Speaking of which … > > [Abandoned cruise ship filled with cannibal rats headed for British shore – New York Daily News](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/abandoned-cruise-ship-filled-cannibal-rats-headed-british-shore-article-1.1588832) I can’t help wondering if Michael Jackson’s Ben is the leader of the pack… ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-60-post-a-lot-and-have-a-sick-sense-of-humor-log-in-here/679450/116 "2014-01-24T00:32:57Z")
OK, I am now officially 60. It’s painful, but I’m thinking that’s due to shoveling the snow off the driveway yesterday… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-60-post-a-lot-and-have-a-sick-sense-of-humor-log-in-here/679450/117 "2014-01-24T00:40:02Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > OK, I am now officially 60. It’s painful, but I’m thinking that’s due to shoveling the snow off the driveway yesterday… > > 😃 HBTY ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-60-post-a-lot-and-have-a-sick-sense-of-humor-log-in-here/679450/118 "2014-01-24T00:48:05Z")
Well, I just turned 59, is that close enough? I’m in the same year now that will see me turn 60. As for a weird sense of humor, I run the Death Pool. And I like watching YouTube videos in which crazy people pop large pimples. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-60-post-a-lot-and-have-a-sick-sense-of-humor-log-in-here/679450/119 "2014-01-24T00:59:44Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Well, I just turned 59, is that close enough? I’m in the same year now that will see me turn 60. > > As for a weird sense of humor, I run the Death Pool. And I like watching YouTube videos in which crazy people pop large pimples. No better creds needed, Death Mistress! And the age thing is just a ballpark figure to indicate that most likely you won’t be expecting acne cures here. Of course, your interest might fit in if it’s presented with a certain detachment as if the zits weren’t really yours. ========================= I’m of the opinion that this welcoming thread may be getting a bit fat. So maybe it’s time for some of y’all to start a new one with a bit more of a topic or an agenda (as **harmonicamoon** was hinting at). I’ve been hogging the posts in this one and I want to be more of a participant than an owner. As a way to identify the new thread(s) as continuations of the Geezer Group, maybe one of the gang names you liked best could be in the title. If we only had the acronym worked out it wouild be simpler, but hey, we have some level of creativity, right? If your new thread(s) can’t draw the right crowd, just come back here and link to the new one(s). How’s that for an idea? ---
**Author:** ![SerafinaPekala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@SerafinaPekala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SerafinaPekala)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-60-post-a-lot-and-have-a-sick-sense-of-humor-log-in-here/679450/120 "2014-01-24T01:07:39Z")
That works for me! Im only slightly funny in the wee morning hours tho, so dont expect anything out of me tonight! My 2 brain cells tire easily as the day wears on … [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=5) [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=7)