"Donal" wrote:
46.
My hair is thinning.
My eyesight is going.
Sometimes I prefer to just go to sleep.
It's really awful!

Whippersnapper! I'm 56; but after an evening at my kendo dojo, I feel
about 76. And the next morning, I'm up to about 86. Thank God for
ibuprofin!

To add insult to injury, when I moan and groan at bedtime, instead of
offering to give me a little massage, my wife just laughs at me!

Frank

Frank complained: To add insult to injury, when I moan and groan at =
bedtime, instead of
offering to give me a little massage, my wife just laughs at me!

It's the laughter that keeps you young. Besides if she didn't laugh you =
wouldn't think she cared.

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"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax
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"katysails" wrote:
Frank complained: To add insult to injury, when I moan and groan at
bedtime, instead of
offering to give me a little massage, my wife just laughs at me!

It's the laughter that keeps you young. Besides if she didn't laugh you
wouldn't think she cared.

True; but you're taking all the fun out of my delight in *complaining*
about her.

So, if her laughing at me keeps me young, and the kids keep me young,
and enjoying life keeps me young, and what-all else keeps me young, I
must be winding down toward my teen years along about now!

Frank exclaimed:=20
So, if her laughing at me keeps me young, and the kids keep me young,
and enjoying life keeps me young, and what-all else keeps me young, I
must be winding down toward my teen years along about now!

Ain't life grand?!?!?!
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katysails
s/v Chanteuse
Kirie Elite 32
http://katysails.tripod.com

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax
and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein

On 17 Mar 2004 16:40:08 -0800, (Frank Maier) wrote
this crap:

Whippersnapper! I'm 56; but after an evening at my kendo dojo, I feel
about 76. And the next morning, I'm up to about 86. Thank God for
ibuprofin!

To add insult to injury, when I moan and groan at bedtime, instead of
offering to give me a little massage, my wife just laughs at me!

She doesn't laugh at me, you wuss!





Pathetic Earthlings! No one can save you now!

your boyfriend doesn't count.

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"Horvath" wrote in message
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On 17 Mar 2004 16:40:08 -0800, (Frank Maier) wrote
this crap:

Whippersnapper! I'm 56; but after an evening at my kendo dojo, I feel
about 76. And the next morning, I'm up to about 86. Thank God for
ibuprofin!

To add insult to injury, when I moan and groan at bedtime, instead of
offering to give me a little massage, my wife just laughs at me!

She doesn't laugh at me, you wuss!





Pathetic Earthlings! No one can save you now!

Frank Maier wrote:
Whippersnapper! I'm 56; but after an evening at my kendo dojo, I feel
about 76. And the next morning, I'm up to about 86. Thank God for
ibuprofin!

Ah so... honorable kendo... that's where you pay to join a club where
little guys with lightning quick reflexes smack you with a stick.

Martial arts are great for keeping in shape, never was into kendo but
did a few other things. I do Pilotes once in a while with my wife's
class and they are amazed that I can do everything they can. They're
used to guys wimping out halfway thru.


To add insult to injury, when I moan and groan at bedtime, instead of
offering to give me a little massage, my wife just laughs at me!

No, she's not laughing *at* you, she's laughing near you.

Regards
Doug King

DSK wrote:
Frank Maier wrote:
Whippersnapper! I'm 56; but after an evening at my kendo dojo, I feel
about 76. And the next morning, I'm up to about 86. Thank God for
ibuprofin!

Ah so... honorable kendo... that's where you pay to join a club where
little guys with lightning quick reflexes smack you with a stick.

Ya know, I don't really mind (and kinda expect) being pounded by
25-year-old (semi)professional Japanese police dojo kenshi when they
visit. What really hurts is when some 85-year-old visiting sensei, who
can barely walk into the dojo, pounds the crap outa me, whacking me
three or four times before I can even get my shinai (stick) over my
head for an initial attempt to hit him. And my hits always seem to
fail to connect with him. Old *******s! Wait 'til I'm 85; then I'm
gonna kick some ass.

And, aging sexist that I am, I further admit that I dislike getting
the **** beat out of me by a woman who's about 4'8" and weighs maybe
85 lbs. in her armor! And of course, when we're done, she's gracious
enough to give me a coupla pointers about my (laughably poor)
technique. Yeah, thanks. grump

But it's great aerobic exercise and you get to hit people with a stick
while yelling at them at the top of your lungs! Try that at your place
of employment!

Big fun!

Frank Maier wrote:
But it's great aerobic exercise and you get to hit people with a stick
while yelling at them at the top of your lungs! Try that at your place
of employment!

Big fun!

Oh yeah, it is. But at work, I not only get to hit people with sticks, I
chase them with pipe wrenches. Although I've been told that I've
mellowed quite a lot over the lst ten years....

I used to go to a lot of martial arts tournaments, and kendo was always
interesting. Not many people into it. Supposedly the various disciplines
of hand combat, or improvised arms, were able to counteract a sword, but
it seemed doubtful.

Regards
Doug King

DSK wrote:
....snip...
I used to go to a lot of martial arts tournaments, and kendo was always
interesting. Not many people into it. Supposedly the various disciplines
of hand combat, or improvised arms, were able to counteract a sword, but
it seemed doubtful.

Lots of kendo and iaido here in the Seattle area; but yeah, it's
pretty sparse nationally except for a coupla other hot spots like L.A.
and New York, and for some reason unknown to me, the Toronto area.

My sensei also trained in aikido and once demonstrated a whole buncha
bare-hand-against-sword moves for us. He then mentioned that he
wouldn't wanna actually hafta try 'em in real life. Luckily, not too
many people carry swords around nowadays.

Whole lotta guns on the streets, tho...

Frank