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ABCF
05-15-2005, 11:20 PM
"It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims." ... Aristotle
T. Daves
05-16-2005, 12:13 AM
It is unbecoming of young people to play cops and robbers, or cowboy and injuns,or soliders.......... the dumbbutts of the world.
Wylycoyte
05-16-2005, 12:21 AM
"Im driving as fast as I can!"

-Ron Jeremy
andy
05-16-2005, 01:57 AM
in Aristotle's day, an "elderly" man was 40 years old. :-)
Wylycoyte
05-16-2005, 03:18 AM
in Aristotle's day, an "elderly" man was 40 years old. :-)


Wrong once again.

Lifespan average was 30-ish due to high infant mortality. Those who lived got the normal 3 score and 10, unless they died of violence or disease along the way.

3 examples:

http://www.watson.org/~leigh/drama.html

Aristotle himself only lived to be 62 with his teacher, Plato, only 60. Perhaps they should have been playwrights as opposed to philosophers...the above examples lived longer.

Before posting anything in future, it might be wise to recall the works of John Creasey. His first Western contained flying coyotes because he hadn't done his research and thought coyotes were birds.
ABCF
05-16-2005, 12:42 PM
His first Western contained flying coyotes because he hadn't done his research and thought coyotes were birds.

Waitaminute, are you saying that coyotes are not birds? :duck: :nyah:
Wylycoyte
05-16-2005, 12:52 PM
Waitaminute, are you saying that coyotes are not birds? :duck: :nyah:

This coyote's giving you the bird! :D
andy
05-16-2005, 06:35 PM
they DID die of vi0lence or disease. that's the point. I WASN'T wrong.
Wylycoyte
05-16-2005, 07:37 PM
If a young man dies of violence, does that mean that the rest of his peer group who survive to be a year older are "elderly"?

Very strange.
krept
05-16-2005, 07:41 PM
Well, I guess now that we talking about it... what do they consider "natural causes" in order to determine what is elderly?
lucille
05-16-2005, 07:44 PM
Those who can no longer fight off flying coyotes......
Aslan
05-16-2005, 09:18 PM
flaming coyotes gather no moss...
:devil:
T. Daves
05-16-2005, 10:09 PM
Your only as old as you feel. Well I felt myself and I a'int old yet.
ABCF
05-17-2005, 08:31 AM
"Society is like a stew. If you don't keep it stirred up, you get a lot of scum on top."

"Only the half-mad are wholly alive."

"There was a time when men loved ideas... Now, they get by with slogans."

"Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners."

"The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms."