💥 ARE YOU OLD? 💥

[nimelennar]

@jsroberts

Meanwhile I’m just one of those cancers you can’t get rid of.

Benign, I hope?

[chgoliz]

@zfirphdn

Which would explain why the birthday wishes are for “Mr” XantheStone. But doesn’t actually prove XantheStone as a Ms or Mr I guess

The many references to the baby she birthed is a pretty good clue!

[zfirphdn]

@chgoliz

The many references to the baby she birthed is a pretty good clue!

Oh yeah, that’s right! Well, I just didn’t want to assume anything—but I was forgetting that!

[anon33466019]

Now now, I think we all saw that documentary with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Make no assumptions.

[jyoti]

So I’m late back to this party, but geez @slybevel, what @Stynx @chgoliz @zfirphdn said! Thanks for having my back, y’all.

[Medievalist]

1: Yes.
2: My grandfather, who I remember well and fondly, was born in the 19th Century and died at age 78.

1: No!
2: In 2015, I repeatedly thrashed multiple people well under thirty years old in various kinds of armored combat sports. And some of them I didn’t get to thrash because they ran away.

[chgoliz]

@Medievalist

1: Yes. 2: My grandfather, who I remember well and fondly, was born in the 19th Century and died at age 78.

Four of mine, as well! And two only missed it by a couple of years. (Full disclosure: I had a lot more than the usual 4.)

[Ulysses]

I’m 55, motherfucker. You decide.

[anon33466019]

Anyone that uses motherfucker in casual conversation isn’t old.

[j9c]

@japhroaig

I am starting a new life in five days

Aw c’mon, don’t leave us all here guessing. This is just so… so cryptic. [quote=“japhroaig, post:127, topic:71190”]
all the things I can’t think of,
[/quote]
Given this extremely creative community here on the bOING bbs, if you ever need suggestions re The Things, we’ll all be happy to pitch ideas your way. Probably needs to be its own thread though, I think.

[jsroberts]

I wonder if he’s forgotten to pack anything?

[j9c]

1. Yes… ish.

2. I can’t believe I’m actually seriously considering undergoing a colonoscopy. I have two very different friends (each of whom had bowel cancers caught in time, one ate a fantastically clean diet and one ate anything and everything) who are on my case about this. When I had real health insurance and a family practice physician, she looked at my family history and also said I should get one. In my 20s I was wearing black t-shirts, fraying jeans, living in a 3800-square foot warehouse full of rats, painters, musicians etc. in south Austin. Back then I thought colonoscopies were for 80-year olds or something.

3. I read books printed on paper. I prefer them that way. And I like to own books.

[TobinL]

@j9c

And I like to own books.

I wouldn’t have any space left in the house… which is why I am so glad Seattle has an awesome library and I can purchase some of the bigger tomes of stuff I can’t get there in digital format.

[anon33466019]

Last night I said goodbye to my mother in law, my sister in law, and had my last pint at the local watering hole. Today I am buying chains for my tires. Tomorrow I select the appropriate towel for my journey, and Saturday I ride!!

(to San Jose)

[zfirphdn]

@japhroaig

(to San Jose)

Do you know the way?

[XantheStone]

@slybevel

I believe @XantheStone is a Ms., if you don’t mind.

@Stynx

But, but, wasn’t it Mr Xanthe Stone birthday we should have celebrated yesterday?
[/quote][quote=“zfirphdn, post:159, topic:71190”]
It appears to me that @XantheStone wrote “It’s my husband’s birthday today.” And then @jyoti wrote “A belated happy birthday for yesterday, Mr Xanthe Stone!”

Which would explain why the birthday wishes are for “Mr” XantheStone. But doesn’t actually prove XantheStone as a Ms or Mr I guess
[/quote][quote=“chgoliz, post:162, topic:71190”]
The many references to the baby she birthed is a pretty good clue!
[/quote][quote=“jyoti, post:165, topic:71190, full:true”]
So I’m late back to this party, but geez @slybevel, what @Stynx @chgoliz @zfirphdn said! Thanks for having my back, y’all.

Well this appears to have been sorted out in my absence. Well done peoples. To make it clear, yes I am a Ms (or Mrs, don’t care either way) and the other half is a Mr. He usually prefers Adodo online, but here I like the idea of him being called Mr Xanthe Stone.

[anon8420928]

@Ulysses

I’m 55, motherfucker. You decide.

@japhroaig

Anyone that uses motherfucker in casual conversation isn’t old.

I’m getting off his lawn in any case.

And thanks to the legion who chimed in to correct me. I did welcome it, after all.

[anon33466019]

if you will forgive my impetuousness, i do believe Laird XantheStone is the proper title.

[XantheStone]

@japhroaig

i do believe Laird XantheStone is the proper title

But his ancestry is Chinese, not Scottish.

[anon33466019]

that hardly matters
anyone can rock tweed and a deerstalker.