Tom,
I'll defer to you on the calendar age thing but I think you're really one of
those born on the 29th and actually are 17 1/2.
You know ... at least in your case ... the older you are the faster you get.
I really enjoy the old salts like Bill Burke who admits to 81, Wally Parks
and Don Francisco both a few years older than that, and then the kids like
Fred Larsen. And they talk about people being "the worlds oldest
teen-ager," just look what we have to look forward to. There are several
others who will not admit to their years for some reason and you would never
know exactly how old they really are. Certainly not their actual age.
Wes
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> From: "Thomas E. Bryant" <saltracer@awwwsome.com>
> To: FastmetalBDF@aol.com
> CC: speedtimer@earthlink.net, dhaller@techline.com,
land-speed@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: goodguy, YES ........ geezer, NO !
> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 18:16:12 -0800
>
>Turned 70 February 28! Those are the external years, I still feel like a
>kid inside and I still like toys.
>Tom
>
>FastmetalBDF@aol.com wrote:
>>
>> Absolutely Glen , I will think of you as GlenGeezer from now on
>> ....... Let' s
>> see who will admit to being the oldest on this list .......... you ,
Tom
>> Bryant ,
>> Wes Potter , both the Ardun----s , maybe Jim Dincau , the Doug in
the
>> Ditch
>> or the Hayseed in Nebraska , just a guess from what I can recall
reading
>> since last November ......... wonder how many guys / gals over 60
???
>> I don' t mind admitting MY age ....... I was born November 19
,
>> 1935 .
>> Saw first oval track races 1946 ....... graduated high school 1953
>> ....... first
>> drags 1955 ( took 'em a while to get here in New England ) , and
moved
>> to southern California in late 1956 , which is when I first got to
>> Santa Ana .
>> No kidding , let' s see who the elder statesman is ' round here
.......
>> Skip
>> can only lay claim to being the " elder statesman of Bastrop " . How
>> about
>> we have to buy the most senior citizen of this list a drink in Wendover
, if
>> he / she is there ....... if NOT we' ll toast to that person , and
have
>> that drink
>> ourselves ! ( I only drink soda myself ! )
>> Waiting and wondering ........ any of you guys hang around with
Ab
>> Jenkins
>> ........ or Amelia Earhart ?
>> Bruce ..... yeah, I had to wear knickers in first grade ......
>> Ferguson
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