I felt old the day a (younger) friend of mine said, “Did you know Phil Collins was in a band before he went solo?”
I found the nearest wall ans started banging my head against it.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA Oh gosh, that’s a good one.
He was ?
eunoia, isn’t that really one and the same thing, when you get right down to it?? 
This verse isn’t old. It’s the music from a Metropolitan Life television commercial which is pretty recent. Definitely less than a year old. Some text showed some of the plan benefits on the screen while this song played in the background. IIRC the full song went like this
*When I get older losing my hair
Many years from now
Will you still be sending me a Valentine
Birthday greetings, bottle of wine?
If I’d been out till quarter to three
Would you lock the door?
Will you still need me, will you still feed me
When I’m sixty-four?*
Seems like a health insurance plan for an aging population was what it was advertising. Neat tune though.
Enjoy,
Steven
My grandmother still has one surviving rotary dial phone and my sister who is 20 has no idea how to use it.
I saw an eight-track recorder in an antique/pawn shop on Spadina a year ago…
I just got ‘sirred’ by a nice lady in her 30’s. It may be time to shave off the (mostly gray) beard. It adds about 15 years…
I always thought it was “a joker’s dream…”
Oh well.
Hey, I heard the same thing about Peter Gabriel…!
;)[sup]– Peter who?[/sup]
Mtgman: That was actually kind of nice poetry for a commercial.
Yea, someone should see if they could make a full-length song out of it. Who knows it may become a hit and make them famous. Heck, they could become bigger than Jesus!
Enjoy,
Steven
Hell, I still experience surprise and chagrin when I think about that (and this from someone who remembers the Jackson Five saturday morning cartoon).
Or am I confusing surprise and chagrin with horror and despair?
Mtgman:
OH! You mean Glass-FET’s??
Try working in the TV news / broadcasting business. There’s a PERMANENT generation gapp all the time. There’s a group of us who remember sitting and watching Kennedy’s funeral and Neil Armstrong’s walk on the moon. However, the vast majority of my coworkers just barely remember Reagan’s Presidency and frequently get confused by what I think are standard, normal pop-culture references.
It’a always fun to see a spikey haired pierced and tatooed 22 year old “training” a 55 year old engineer in how the “new stuff” works, though. - Even though I’m going to be that 55 year old engineer here in about 14 years.
Sheesh!!
And “Fever” was by Peggy Lee. 
Games without frontiers.
Walls without tears…
Ethilrist, I have the same beard. Grecian For Beards is an EVIL WICKED RUSE !!! :eek:
I keep it on to create the illusion that my face isn’t fatter than it used to be.
Ok gang. To quell anyone’s feelings of being perceived as old, I think I have hit the high (or low) point of feeling such.
I’m 42 (ancient), luckily through some miracle of genetics I look much younger. I also take really good care of myself in general, so people don’t expect me to be quite my age. And I’m single (not trolling!) so the youth personna is there.
I was working for one of the dreaded “start-ups” a couple of years ago. Small office, open floor with cubicles. Our admin was getting everyone’s information for whatever records she needed to start keeping. Very informal, she’s simply yelling the questions out to each person as she needed the info.
She gets to me. “Hey, Parmachene, what’s your date of birth?”
Me: “February 19, 1960” I tell her.
Dead silence for about 15 seconds…
Her: “Wow, you’re the same age as my mother.”
Needless to say, I was dubbed “old man” for quite some time.
Pardon me while I go put on my Perry Como albums now.
Bingo!
I’ve been a miner
for a heart of gold.
And I’m getting old.
Ironically, by Neil Young
Actually, I just turned 116 last Friday. Now THAT’S old!
What? You don’t believe that?
Infidels…
Why, when I was a youngster we had METAL rollerskates that CLAMPED onto your shoes! Hmmph. Top That!
GrumbleGrumbleSnort…
Jake, how many of those metal roller skates did you take apart and nail to a 2X4 to make a skateboard?? My mother had a conniption fit when we did that!
And I’ll be 49 next month. January 23. In case anyone wants to send me chocolates…
My situations kind of weird. I’m pushing forty, and I’m an old school punk rocker type. Been one since the seventies thank you very much. Anyway my ex step step daughter who’s 17 is getting into the comercial boy-band punk thing. I try to tell her how much this music sucks, and that there’s a whole world of real punk rock out there in the underground, but she just tells me how I’m old and I don’t understand punk rock these days
Makes me wonder how old I’m gonna feel when my five month old son is her age and I’ll be 55 