On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 21:33 -0500, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > 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? Ha! I would call that a major point! I'm at the boxers stage myself. I wonder why that happens?? Gotta think about that one and just when it happened? Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net <---down4now too ================================================ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list