SENIOR MUSE SOUNDS OFF FOR OLD TIMERS SAKE
In 1984, members of the Oxford Library Club for Retired Professional People were especially looking forward to hearing a guest speaker on “Old Age, Absent-Mindedness, and Keeping Fit.” Unfortunately, the speaker forgot to show up. –excerpted from the book 1,000 UNFORGETTABLE SENIOR MOMENTS
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MAY being OLDER AMERICANS MONTH, and ME being an older American, I’ve decided to post a post predicated on passing on — make that on passing along — hoary words of wisdom concerning a subject I’m surpassingly qualified to write about, namely …. ….hmmm….uh….ah…. longevity (ha ha — you thought I forgot what I was going to write about, didn’t you?).
Actually, I must admit to being a bit of a senior citizen-slouch when it comes to longevity — at least, compared to this guy:
And of course, that there this guy is himself a slouch compared to this here this guy:
Methuselah, as all my bible-believing brethr’n and sistern know, was said to have lived 969 years (Genesis 5:27), so you might think this song is my inspiration to keep marching on:
But (and I quote) “Who calls that livin’ when no gal’s gonna give in to no man what’s 900 years?”
So there you have it from Bobby Darin singing the lyrics of Ira Gershwin. Or you can take it from Senior Muse quoting the words of Oscar Wilde: “The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is not young.”
mlrover 8:03 am on May 19, 2019 Permalink |
It Ain’t Necessarily So is one of my favorites.
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mistermuse 9:46 am on May 19, 2019 Permalink |
Thanks. It so happens that it’s one of my favs too.
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calmkate 9:18 am on May 19, 2019 Permalink |
love it .. our resident ‘expert’ on longevity ❤
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mistermuse 9:53 am on May 19, 2019 Permalink |
….and the longer my longevity, the more expert I get (and the less levity I beget).
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calmkate 10:30 am on May 19, 2019 Permalink
lol you have a way with words old man 🙂
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mistermuse 12:20 pm on May 19, 2019 Permalink
Some say you’re only as old as you feel. If so, I’m only about 120 years old.
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equipsblog 2:08 pm on May 19, 2019 Permalink |
You must have read my mind. I think that at least a dozen times a day (or is I think it for the first time, a dozen times a day?)
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mistermuse 5:35 pm on May 19, 2019 Permalink |
Well, there’s being “only as old as you feel” — and then there’s this:
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Eliza 4:15 pm on May 19, 2019 Permalink |
Imagine being young for eternity??
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mistermuse 6:11 pm on May 19, 2019 Permalink |
Being old, I find it hard to imagine. But innocence is for the young, and who am I to throw a sour note into their song?
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Rivergirl 8:29 pm on May 19, 2019 Permalink |
I’d like to live to 969 years old… if only to piss off the Social Security office.
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mistermuse 11:34 pm on May 19, 2019 Permalink |
If the extreme right wing ever gains control of all branches of government, it may not matter how long you live — there probably won’t be a Social Security office (but not to worry; charity will take care of you).
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Richard A Cahill 12:22 pm on May 20, 2019 Permalink |
I’ve always thought the world’s oldest man (or woman) to be the ultimate temp job, Sr. Muse.
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Elizabeth 5:00 pm on May 20, 2019 Permalink |
I have laughed about a song that promises “I will love you until you’re 70.” Then what? Thanks for the opening laugh.
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mistermuse 8:08 pm on May 20, 2019 Permalink |
My wife and I are both past 70, so the answer is to do it again for the next 70 (if a bit less energetically).
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Elizabeth 5:57 pm on May 21, 2019 Permalink
Too perfect!
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America On Coffee 9:19 pm on May 20, 2019 Permalink |
Incredible!!
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America On Coffee 9:20 pm on May 20, 2019 Permalink |
Video not available.
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mistermuse 7:55 pm on May 21, 2019 Permalink |
I don’t know which video you mean. The first is METHUSELAH, the second is GIVE ME THAT OLD TIME RELIGION, and the third is IT AIN’T NECESSARILY SO. If you can’t get the latter two, there are many other versions. If you can’t get METHUSELAH, the name is really all you need to know, so it ain’t necessarily worth the trouble of trying to find a substitute.
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America On Coffee 1:38 am on May 23, 2019 Permalink
Bobby Darin and Methuselah. I found Methuselah and its a great video as well as the old time religion which the world and I really need. Thank you mistermuse for all of your inspirings. Have a great week!
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mistermuse 11:58 am on May 23, 2019 Permalink |
The OLD TIME RELIGION clip is a scene from the 1960 movie INHERIT THE WIND based on the notorious 1925 “Scopes Monkey Trial” of a Tennessee schoolteacher for teaching evolution. It’s a great film (starring Spencer Tracy) and I highly recommend it.
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Silver Screenings 4:49 pm on May 26, 2019 Permalink |
146 years! Good grief!
Also, I love a post that includes “Inherit the Wind” and Bobby Darin. Nicely done.
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mistermuse 10:53 pm on May 26, 2019 Permalink |
INHERIT THE WIND was on TCM again last night. Since I hadn’t seen it in several years, I watched it again and enjoyed it as much as ever (though I think Gene Kelly is a bit miscast as the reporter).
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Silver Screenings 1:00 am on May 27, 2019 Permalink
Agreed. I want to like Gene Kelly in that role, but I never quite buy it.
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mistermuse 11:24 am on May 27, 2019 Permalink
Fortunately, Spencer Tracy, Fredric March and the rest of the cast are so spot-on that Kelly’s off-key performance can be given a pass (though not by much).
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mistermuse 3:33 pm on May 27, 2019 Permalink |
Bobby Darin is all but forgotten today but was one of the great singers of his tragically short time in the spotlight.
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Silver Screenings 3:35 pm on May 27, 2019 Permalink
I could listen to him all day, and I have.
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D. Wallace Peach 1:36 am on May 27, 2019 Permalink |
Getting old ain’t for wimps, but a sense of humor goes a long way.
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mistermuse 11:32 am on May 27, 2019 Permalink |
You got that right, Diana. If I didn’t have a sense of humor, I probably wouldn’t have any sense at all!
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Don Ostertag 1:32 pm on June 20, 2019 Permalink |
Growing old is better than the alternative – not growing old any longer.
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mistermuse 7:05 pm on June 20, 2019 Permalink |
I said that to an old relative in a nursing home years ago, and she said “How do you know — we don’t know what the alternative is.” Now that I’m old myself, I must admit there’s a sense in which she was right. Nonetheless, I plan on living to reach 100 if it kills me.
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