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Default OT: Getting old - WAS: There's Hope for Us Yet Down Under

Kwyjibo wrote:

>"Chookie" > wrote in message

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>>"Ms Leebee" > wrote:
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>>>My husband grew up in Melbourne, and remembers his dad loading up
>>>the car with an assortment of pots to get Chinese takeaway .. how
>>>foreign it all seems .. like the dark ages .... but this was
>>>probably the early 80's.
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>>Makes you feel old, dunnit?
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>>I felt old today when looking up the Voyager missions for DS1 and
>>discovering that we've just passed the *25th* Anniversary of the
>>Voyager 1 Saturn Encounter! And I thought about how Gen-X Voyager
>>is...
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>I felt decidedly old a few weeks ago when I realised that I went to see the
>movie 'Top Gun" 20 YEARS AGO!!!
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I can remember, in the 1960's, going with my brother in the billycart
and a couple of saucepans to get Chinese. People in those days were
still suspicious of Chinese restaurants, which were accused of
substituting rabbit for chicken. A generation earlier they were accused
of substituting cat!

You people are all just youngsters! I can remember watching the first
moon walk in 1969, so there...

Christine