# When I'm 64, and other reminders that you are old

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 27, 2018, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-im-64-and-other-reminders-that-you-are-old/826788 "2018-12-27T15:08:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2020, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-im-64-and-other-reminders-that-you-are-old/826788/342 "2020-03-14T18:45:57Z")

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> [@Ignatz](#):
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> Don’t miss 75-yo Kirk Douglas and 85-yo Alan Arkin in Netflix’s _The Kominsky Method_. I just binge-watched its 8 half-hour episodes. Lots of dialogue and _bon mots_ about that and life, etc. - “I urinate in Morse Code - dots and dashes.” and “I blame Bill Clinton. When oral sex ceased to be sex, our civilization fell.”
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> I’ve forgotten what I used to remember.

Thanks, AL Traina for correcting my faulty memory. It was Michael, not Kirk Douglas and he said blow jobs, not oral sex.

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**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-im-64-and-other-reminders-that-you-are-old/826788/343 "2020-03-20T19:49:49Z")

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I remember when people were scared of polio and keeping their kids away from each other. And now some people are saying we have never seen anything like this and who would have thought something like this could happen. Me, that’s who. Now get off my lawn you possibly contagious person!

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**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-im-64-and-other-reminders-that-you-are-old/826788/344 "2020-03-21T01:41:23Z")

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> [@Annie-Xmas](#):
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> Every forty years the world gets topsy turvy. It just does. I lived through the 1960’s, and I lived through 9/11/2001.
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> So we are on our way to the next big event circa 2040. You read it here first.

It’s happening sooner than you predicted.  
mmm

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**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-im-64-and-other-reminders-that-you-are-old/826788/345 "2020-03-21T01:56:42Z")

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Right about polio. In 1948 my sister was invited to play in the state high school band at the State Fair, and my mother wouldn’t let her go. And Mom was no scaredy-cat.

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