On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 21:33 -0500, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Thursday 29 November 2007 6:39:32 pm Rick Stevens wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 07:49 +0900, John Summerfield wrote: > > > Rick Stevens wrote: > > > > Even one "tens of decades" would make you over 100 years old, John. > > > > You sure seem spry for a centarian! ;-) > > > > > > Whoops. I guess the rest puts it in the right timeframe. > > > > > > > > > My prospects of reaching one centenary aren't bad, my grandmother did > > > and my parents are in their late 80s. Don't think I want two though. > > > > "Do you wear boxers or briefs?" "Depends." > > > > I just reached 1/2 of a "tens of decades". Four score and ten. Five > > decades. Fifty years. Mom's 78. I may make it...but I'm not betting > > on it. ;-) > > A minor point, but in this context a score is twenty. Being four score and ten > would make you 12 years older than your mother. Or has she spent a lot of > time traveling at the speed of light? Aw, sh**! Right. Two score and ten. Jeeze! Hoist by my own petard! There was a quantum mechanic named Breen Who had the fastest machine on the scene He drove fast as light And with no cops in sight He'd blueshift the red lights to green ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - - CDN Systems, Internap, Inc. http://www.internap.com - - - - God is real...........unless declared integer or long - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
