You are Old, Father William
Aug. 12th, 2004 08:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
madbakerTen points for identifying the source of the header. No points if you cheat and use Google.
I've got a lot more grey in my goatee than I did even a year ago. It's particularly noticeable under the fluorescent lights at work. Boy, is that a morale-booster at 6 AM.
A cow-orker suggested that I could shave it off if I wanted to look younger. Yeah, but then I'd get carded again...
What I'm reading: Martha Wells, Wheel of the Infinite
I've got a lot more grey in my goatee than I did even a year ago. It's particularly noticeable under the fluorescent lights at work. Boy, is that a morale-booster at 6 AM.
A cow-orker suggested that I could shave it off if I wanted to look younger. Yeah, but then I'd get carded again...
What I'm reading: Martha Wells, Wheel of the Infinite
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Date: 2004-08-12 09:08 am (UTC)You are old, Father William, the (can't remember what goes here) says,/
And you've grown most uncommonly fat. Yet you (something about flipping backwards through a doorway or some such), pray how do you manage that?
"In my youth..."
Wow, I used to know a lot more of this! I must be getting old! ;)
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Date: 2004-08-12 09:21 am (UTC)Middle aged, remember?
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Date: 2004-08-12 09:21 am (UTC)and your hair has become very white
And yet, you insist that you stand on your head
Do you think, at your age, it is right?
In my youth, Father William, the young man replied
I thought it would damamge the brain
But now, I am certain that I have none
So I do it again and again.
That's as much as I can pull out of my head at the moment.
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Date: 2004-08-12 09:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-12 09:24 am (UTC)I rather like the silver myself.
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Date: 2004-08-12 09:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-12 10:14 am (UTC)Alice, of course!
Date: 2004-08-12 09:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-12 09:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-12 09:39 am (UTC)Re: And the answer is........
"The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them"
by Robert Southey (1774-1843)
give my points to Martin Gardner, without whom...
Re: And the answer is........
Date: 2004-08-12 12:55 pm (UTC)Annotated Alice rocks - with the original Tenniel illustrations! It's my favorite edition.
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Date: 2004-08-12 10:07 am (UTC)Catch-22
Date: 2004-08-12 11:03 am (UTC)You young puppy, you. I wear the white in my beard proudly.
Re: Catch-22
Date: 2004-08-12 11:12 am (UTC)Suck it up!
Date: 2004-08-12 02:08 pm (UTC)Or you could just try lightening your hair... :)
Re: Suck it up!
Date: 2004-08-12 02:14 pm (UTC)Anyway, it's more fun to complain about it than it is to do something.
Re: Catch-22
Date: 2004-08-12 03:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-12 12:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-12 12:36 pm (UTC)Calvin: You're right, people are scum.
Hobbes: True happiness is only achieved through the wanton indulgence of animals.