I'm an Adult Now- does this ever make me feel old.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I was looking through canoe.ca as I often do and I saw an article that mentions TPOH (The Persuit of Happiness, for those uninclined) were working on new songs and planning a tour- story. Then I noticed that the story mentions that the song I’m an Adult Now is 20 years old, it can’t be. I’m not that old, okay, I realize that I am getting there, but I’m an Adult Now is 20 years old? It isn’t like the rest of my life hasn’t conspired to kick me in the cubes in the last week, I don’t need to confront my aging as well.

I still feel like a cheese eating high school boy…

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haha you’ll die soon

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I can only hope.

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I always feel like an adult when I realize I voluntarily eat vegetables - and like them. Yay broccoli! Yay brussel sprouts!

Susan

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I like my veggies now as well. I alway thought that was a sign of maturity and not of getting older.

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OK, I had a small panic over time perhaps passing faster than I thought but it seems like this just didn’t get airplay where I grew up until 5 or 6 years after it was released so I can feel much much much less freaked by it only being 15 years since I listened to it and uh that still freaks me the hell out because it sure doesn’t feel that long.

Gee, thanks :wink:

But hey, thanks for reminding me about a song I really liked. I should check out their other suff. This could be your good deed for the week.

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That is what I keep telling myself.

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I remember being impressed that Moe Berg was literate enough to use the words “Iberian Peninsula” in a song.

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The other day I was cruising down the road listening to a station that doesn’t normally play old rock music.

For whatever reason, (It was a Sunday morn slow day I guess) the DJ decides to play Dio: “A Rainbow in The Dark.”

I of course turned up the radio as loud as it would go because this used to be one of my favorites as a teenager.

When the song was done playing; I’ll be damned if the DJ didn’t come on the radio and say these words, which practically sent a shiver down my spine:

“…If you turned that song up when it started playing; consider yourself officialy OLD!..”

:mad:
:smiley:

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I read the title of the OP, and I got TPOH song stuck in my head. Chuckled to myself, brought back some memories. I was still a kid when it came out, but I still liked it, and into my teenage years I listened to more TPOH (once upon a time, I thought “Cigarette Dangles” was just the sexiest song)…

Then I read the OP, and sat back with a heavy thug.

And I’m only 27. :frowning:

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Though my husband has been described at times as looking like a heavy thug, at least in the muscular sense, he’s sleeping soundly in our bedroom right now.

The magic word is thud.

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“I can stay out all night anytime that I want
But there’s not many nights that I do”

Yeah, Lady Chance and I are going through these things periodically as we close in on 40. We’ve been a couple for 19 years. The kids in high school weren’t born when we got to college, etc.

Urgh.

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grrrr - all you “twentysomethings” complaining about how old you’ve gotten. :stuck_out_tongue:
Hearing anything by Yes or The Guess Who and remembering what I was doing when the song first hit the charts is the definition of “getting old”

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Alice Cooper’s first big hit - “I’m Eighteen” - came out the year I turned eighteen!

Does anyone even remember that song anymore?

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When I noticed that the Playboy centerfold models had birthdays DECADES after mine, I started shopping for canes and colostomy bags.

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I had no idea that song was 20 years old. I think I first heard it sometime around 1989.

I feel really old thinking of things that are now 20 years old, mainly because I’m old enough to vividly remember things that are 20 years old. However, after reading the OP, my mother called me at work to sing “Happy Birthday” to me.

It doesn’t matter that I’m 35. I asked her how old I have to be for her to stop singing to me and she said, “I’ll be in my grave.” At least one day a year, I can feel like I’m 8. :smiley:

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The day I felt old was the day our college intern told us his birth year: 1981–the year I graduated from high school.

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At a local high school, last Friday was eighties day. The girls are wore the same outfits I wore in high school as costumes. Dangit, what ever happened to sixties day?

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I’m an Adult Now? Nope, never heard of it. Must have been before my time.

Enjoy,
Steven

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All I remember of that song is that it made me laugh my ass off. That, and the title lyric. Which I belt out from time to time when me and the estranged have to fetch one of life’s wild pitches that we would have ignored when we were 15. And when I admire a smokin’ hot lady and realize her parents may not even have known each other when I graduated from high school.