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(@spledeus)
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Sadly, as of 7:06 EST, I turned 40. My Aunt did give me this image on facebook:


I like that snoopy is smoking a pipe. With the transit so noticeably out of level it makes me wonder what is in that pipe.

 
Posted : September 2, 2015 6:39 am
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If you think 40 is old you have much to learn, grasshopper...

 
Posted : September 2, 2015 6:47 am
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I've got boots in the closet older than that....

BTW - Charles Schulz, Snoopy's creator, worked on a survey crew in his college years. The "surveyor" is a common theme in his cartoons. Sometimes his attention to detail is impeccable. I've seen Snoopy with a field book and plumb bob. I'm sure the "out of level" instrument was an intentional thing.

 
Posted : September 2, 2015 7:02 am
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spledeus, post: 334710, member: 3579 wrote: I like that snoopy is smoking a pipe.

I took up smoking a pipe for my 50th birthday, it gives me a prop to point at the neighborhood kids when I tell them to get off my lawn.

 
Posted : September 2, 2015 7:04 am
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I'll trade ya 😛

The only catches: you will be older, I won't tell you by how much......

 
Posted : September 2, 2015 7:29 am
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From experience (getting ready to turn 41)....you are officially now starting to get old and must now review your lifestyle if you want to maintain a youthful pace.

 
Posted : September 2, 2015 7:33 am
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Making me feel old, you young whippersnapper! I have a daughter 18 months older than you. Could have had kids a few years earlier but I wasn't the dumbest hick in the hay pile.

 
Posted : September 2, 2015 7:56 am
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imaudigger, post: 334730, member: 7286 wrote: From experience (getting ready to turn 41)....you are officially now starting to get old and must now review your lifestyle if you want to maintain a youthful pace.

I have been preparing. I have lost 30 pounds since the first of the year with just diet change. I now am looking at exercise. I enjoy walking in the field; I despise formal exercise, especially ab work.

 
Posted : September 2, 2015 7:57 am
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spledeus, post: 334740, member: 3579 wrote: I have been preparing. I have lost 30 pounds since the first of the year with just diet change. I now am looking at exercise. I enjoy walking in the field; I despise formal exercise, especially ab work.

When I was a kid, I spent the summer building a hiking trail for my parents (got paid $110).

They are in their late 60's and hike it every morning. It climbs 600' or so in elevation and the round trip is just under 2 miles.
They know that staying active is going to be the key to extending their abilities when they get older.

 
Posted : September 2, 2015 8:08 am
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Posted : September 2, 2015 8:14 am
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I have underware older than Spledeus!!

 
Posted : September 2, 2015 8:59 am
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40??? Dude you are still a baby! My oldest son is 46! :woot:(registered in VA and FL)
And besides , Bingo is fun ! (and shuffleboard too) 😉

 
Posted : September 2, 2015 9:32 am
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FL/GA PLS., post: 334761, member: 379 wrote: 40??? Dude you are still a baby! My oldest son is 46! :woot:(registered in VA and FL)
And besides , Bingo is fun ! (and shuffleboard too) 😉

We just moved into a community where Bocce Ball is a big deal. I just watched my first game last week.

 
Posted : September 2, 2015 9:53 am
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Thadd has been an old phart as long as I've known him, I'm 58 and I'm younger than he is! 🙂

 
Posted : September 2, 2015 9:55 am
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foggyidea, post: 334765, member: 155 wrote: Thadd has been an old phart as long as I've known him, I'm 58 and I'm younger than he is! 🙂

He probably meant his Grandson just turned 40. 😉

 
Posted : September 2, 2015 10:04 am
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No. I remember seeing some of his family pix a year or two back. He has a foxy young wife, like most surveyors do, but I don't believe there is a multiple-decade age gap between them.

 
Posted : September 2, 2015 12:29 pm
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BTO 1974

I met a devil woman............

 
Posted : September 2, 2015 2:27 pm
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spledeus, post: 334710, member: 3579 wrote: Sadly, as of 7:06 EST, I turned 40. My Aunt did give me this image on facebook:


I like that snoopy is smoking a pipe. With the transit so noticeably out of level it makes me wonder what is in that pipe.

I am also a Virgo! My birthday is on the 13th. But I have 5 years on ya... :party:

 
Posted : September 2, 2015 6:36 pm
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We Virgos have to stick together.....or does that violate the whole image behind Virgo?

 
Posted : September 2, 2015 7:23 pm
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Holy Cow, post: 334851, member: 50 wrote: We Virgos have to stick together.....or does that violate the whole image behind Virgo?

Nah...B-)

 
Posted : September 2, 2015 11:06 pm
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