The Reminder: My friend Kelly Greene will be reading from her New York Times’ bestselling book, The Wall Street Journal Complete Retirement Guide, at Wordsmiths Books in Decatur, GA this Saturday afternoon. The event starts at 1 PM and will be followed by food, drink, and general bonhomie. You don’t want to miss out on free bonhomie. If you go, please say hello. I’ll be the guy sitting up front saying, “Hey! That’s my friend Kelly.” Additional details here.
The Contest: Win a copy of Kelly’s book by completing the following sentence in your best old man/woman (or Charles Nelson Reilly on Match Game) impression in the comment section:
When I was your age, _____________
L’il Cayenne will draw a name out of the hat before the reading.
July 25th, 2007 at 9:19 am
I love the contest… thanks!
July 25th, 2007 at 9:53 am
I’ll get the ball started…
When I was your age, it was cool if our plaid underwear hung out of the bottom of our shorts and our pants were held up with these things called belts. It’s all true.
July 25th, 2007 at 10:45 am
When I was your age, there was no such thing as Google. If we wanted information for an essay or assignment we went to the library. (That’s spelt L-I-B-R-A-R-Y.)
July 25th, 2007 at 11:29 am
When I was your age, we had to carve our shoes out of corn cobs and mighty corporations were funded for under a dollar. We sold our teeth a penny a dozen and ate nothing but mush and gruel and occasional ice cream cones. We knew the value of a dollar, which we figured ran about 100 pennies. We knew air was precious and only breathed on Thursdays. I didn’t use the bathroom until I was 26.
July 25th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
Biblical law, smiblical law! Back in my day we had us a Consitution, we did. Why, I could blaspheme all day long without getting burned at the stake. I’d work on Sunday for the heck of it! Heady times, my boy. Now get back to your Old Testament and make sure your sister ain’t peekin’ in them learnin’ books, don’t need the Republican Guard stonin’ another one to death. Praise King George W. III!
Too pessimistic?
July 26th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
DJ, you have officially entered Get-Offa-My-Lawn! territory in matters of the Kids Today and their overly large pants.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:32 am
When I was your age, wait…I am still that age!
July 27th, 2007 at 10:25 am
iPods didn’t exist. We had to carry around cassette tapes (usually of REM, 10,000 Maniacs and Indigo Girls) and feed them into a Walkman if we wanted tunes to listen to while we were backpacking around Europe…
August 7th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
The ultimate say on When I Was Your Age, courtesy of YouTube.
August 8th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
So, TAFKADJ, who won?
August 8th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
The winner.