Re: unsubscribe (not really, but...)

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On Thursday 29 November 2007 6:39:32 pm Rick Stevens wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 07:49 +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
> > Rick Stevens wrote:
> > > Even one "tens of decades" would make you over 100 years old, John.
> > > You sure seem spry for a centarian!  ;-)
> >
> > Whoops. I guess the rest puts it in the right timeframe.
> >
> >
> > My prospects of reaching one centenary aren't bad, my grandmother did
> > and my parents are in their late 80s. Don't think I want two though.
>
> "Do you wear boxers or briefs?"  "Depends."
>
> I just reached 1/2 of a "tens of decades".  Four score and ten.  Five
> decades.  Fifty years.  Mom's 78.  I may make it...but I'm not betting
> on it.  ;-)

A minor point, but in this context a score is twenty. Being four score and ten 
would make you 12 years older than your mother. Or has she spent a lot of 
time traveling at the speed of light?

-- cmg


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