Sunday, January 14, 2007

Sweet Bird Of Youth!

Oscar Wilde: "To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable."


10 comments:

  1. Funny and true of a lot of us, I think! But then, you can never get your youth back physically... and I keep trying to maintain a youthful mentality!

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  2. Mentality is only thinking, and we can think anything while we're actually mired in something else. I try to keep a youthful attitude, too, but the kids under 12 don't believe it! Probably not the kids under 21!

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  3. #1. If you would be able to get back your youth, some asshole would work you to death, AGAIN, for low-pay! #2. Exercise---I sit-up in bed at least once each day! #3. I NEVER got up early, always worked nights(and actually enjoyed it!)#4. Respectable? Come on now, since when did THAT become profitable??? When was the last time anyone paid you any attention when you were nice, and "respectable", huh?

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  4. A wise old poff, he was.

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  5. Haven't heard "poff" in a long time. Maybe I hang around with the wrong people? Or the wrong country?

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  6. Ha. I don't do those things anyway, so I'm not so sure Mr. Wilde Man is correct on that one. But then again, maybe that means I age faster....

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  7. Of course he was right! You're just admitting you'll have an even harder time getting it back after you've had time to lose it! At present, you ARE young, my dainty!

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  8. Ah, so that's how it works. How very depressing. Can't we get insurance on that or something?

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  9. I have returned! Ok, the exercising thing isn't too bad, but screw that 'getting up early' part...

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  10. tiphanie--that's why people get tight with God. It's a form of insurance (people think). If it works, it must not work until the last minute, though.

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Abandon hope, all ye who enter here! (At least put on your socks and pants.)