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Steve Maly




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PostPosted: Mon 12 Dec, 2005 5:34 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Happy Birthday Patrick!

You might ask for assistance when falling on your sword--at your age, you might just miss! Razz

Seriously, welcome to the 40-something Clan! Remember: You're only as old as you feel! Funny how I feel 80 on Monday mornings... Wink

Cheers!

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PostPosted: Mon 12 Dec, 2005 6:03 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Mon 12 Dec, 2005 7:23 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Hope you had a great 40th, my friend !

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PostPosted: Mon 12 Dec, 2005 7:35 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Buck up, Patrick!

Remember, Leonidas was well over 40 when he led the Spartans at Thermopylae and look what he went on to ....

Oh, that's right... Eek!

Well, just remember, it wasn't being old that killed him!!! Laughing Out Loud

Happy Birthday!

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PostPosted: Mon 12 Dec, 2005 7:39 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

[quote="Gordon Frye"]Patrick, you're still a pup. Big Grin An pretty wise and experienced pup, but a youth never the less! Eek!

I'm still two years shy of half-a-century, and I have no intentions of quiting any time soon. I figure that when I can no longer sit a horse (even if in the mean time I have to climb up into the saddle by standing on my walker, or be hoisted a-la those silly movies from the '30's) then it will be time to call it quits. But I figure that a horse's legs will do what mine can't in 30 years or so, leaving me to keep on shootin'! After all, don't we need more stove-up old cowboys to keep these Utes... er, "youths" rather, in line? Cool

Oh, Gordon when you need a walker you might just consider one of those really small ponies instead: More like a large dog in size than a horse and house broken or with a horsy diaper !

Patrick; Happy birthday and I'm 4 years away from 60 Eek! Just HIT 56 last week Eek!
So for some reason 40 " DOESN'T IMPRESS ME MUCH ! " as in the Shania Twain song. Razz Laughing Out Loud

But then it's mostly your health that makes the difference: I remember a semi famous person up here ( Jackrabbit Robinson ) who was still competing doing cross country skiing at the age of 106 ! I'm sure that when he hit 40, not knowing he would live to 109 or something, he may have been feeling a bit blue about it.

( Edit: Oh, almost forgot HAPPY BIRTHDAY. Big Grin )

You can easily give up your freedom. You have to fight hard to get it back!


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PostPosted: Mon 12 Dec, 2005 7:58 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Patrick,

Falling on your sword is the easy way out. Just remember that getting old isn't for sissies, I'm 55 and can still do pushups in full harness, you can too. Happy B-day and many more.

Bill

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PostPosted: Mon 12 Dec, 2005 8:02 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Thank you all.

I'll admit that I like turning forty more than I liked turning twenty. I look at where I was then and where I am now and I wouldn't go back for anything.

However, I have to say that '05 has just plain sucked, at least the last half. It's been one thing after another: financial, medical, personal, and it keeps getting "better" by the day. This is the first year where I'll really be glad to see it end and '06 better be an improvement. I've told my friends they'd better make sure it is or I'm lining them all up against a wall. Big Grin

Still, I'm a lucky man in many ways and I'm thankful for what I have so I won't be selling tickets to a pity party anytime soon.
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PostPosted: Mon 12 Dec, 2005 8:20 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Patrick Kelly wrote:
Thank you all.
Still, I'm a lucky man in many ways and I'm thankful for what I have so I won't be selling tickets to a pity party anytime soon.


Good show, Patrick! That's the spirit!

I can attest to the fact that 40 isn't so bad. After all, Aragorn was well into his 80's when he marched on the black gate and gave that speech! Razz

(I thought you might enjoy the comparison!)

--Doug

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PostPosted: Mon 12 Dec, 2005 10:31 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Many happy returns, patrick! Set the sword aside. Either you (if you survived) or its inheritor would just have to clean it anyway.

Wink

Cheers!

P.S. You're only 40?
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PostPosted: Mon 12 Dec, 2005 11:58 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Tue 13 Dec, 2005 1:02 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Surprised HA! So our Kansas Viking try to find a shortcut to Valhalla,
i think i know why Big Grin

Congratulation Patrick! it's now you starts to take your longship on a trailer. Laughing Out Loud

Frid o Fröjd!
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PostPosted: Tue 13 Dec, 2005 2:08 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Happy Birthday Patrick !

40 is not that old and it's especially young for someone who, like you, has already accumulated so much knowledge in the world of swords and medieval history. I hope I could tell the same for me in five years.

Congratulation and enjoy the day !

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PostPosted: Tue 13 Dec, 2005 6:29 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Happy Birthday - Trooper Love!!! Big Grin Big Grin
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PostPosted: Tue 13 Dec, 2005 6:38 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Congratulations!

On the bright side, you are soon old enough to run for president!

Elling, just turned 25

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PostPosted: Tue 13 Dec, 2005 6:58 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Happy

Happy Birthday Patrick

This gives me hope, there may yet be life after 30... Wink
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PostPosted: Tue 13 Dec, 2005 7:10 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Happy Birthday Patrick! Big Grin

40 isn't really that old. Both of my parents are in their mid fifties and they still have enough life in them to yell at TV game shows and do 5 laps at the mall afterwards! Razz

And for the love of God don't fall on your sword! If you were gone, that would be one less person to rip into my replies. Laughing Out Loud

Anyways have a great one!

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PostPosted: Tue 13 Dec, 2005 7:14 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Happy Birthday Patrick, Just remember age is a state of mind and life begins at 40. At least that’s what all the really old people say. (just kidding) Enjoy.

Congratulations.
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PostPosted: Tue 13 Dec, 2005 7:59 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Happy Birthday Patrick, you young whipper snapper, welcome to the age where your body starts doing strange things to you, like long hairs growing from your earlobe, eyebrows that grow like bangs towards the top of your forehead, while hairs from up above your forehead fall down past the up turned bangs. Laughing Out Loud Eek!

Oh to be 40 again! Well Patrick being halfway to 80 aint so bad, hell I am halfway to 96.

Now remember sonny, respect your elders.

Razz


In all seriousness Patrick, I wish you a most wonderful birthday my friend!


Bob
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PostPosted: Tue 13 Dec, 2005 9:32 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Happy Birthday Patrick! And since now one else mentioned it (or I missed) it:

as Indiana Jones wrote:
It's not the years; it's the miles!


And for anyone familiar with Terry Pratchett:

Gordon Frye wrote:
I'm still two years shy of half-a-century, and I have no intentions of quiting any time soon. I figure that when I can no longer sit a horse (even if in the mean time I have to climb up into the saddle by standing on my walker, or be hoisted a-la those silly movies from the '30's) then it will be time to call it quits.


You haven't made any mention of tying a hemroid ring to the saddle. Until you do that you haven't even caugth up with Cohen the Barbarian, and that means you still have plenty of years left in you. Laughing Out Loud

-Grey

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PostPosted: Tue 13 Dec, 2005 10:12 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Greyson Brown wrote:

You haven't made any mention of tying a hemroid ring to the saddle. Until you do that you haven't even caugth up with Cohen the Barbarian, and that means you still have plenty of years left in you. Laughing Out Loud

-Grey


When that happens, I'll join the infantry and carry a fence rail the rest of my life... Big Grin

Cheers!

Gordon

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