Getting older = Getting WORSE?!

[REoL]

Who ever said getting older means your abilities get lesser?

In High School, I was on the C-C team, and our home course was 2.8 miles, most of it on the streets, and the middle 1/3 was in the woods, brook included (sometimes more like a river). The best I could finish was dead last and at a time of 22:16 at best.

10 years after making that mark, I finally had the chance to part take in the Alumni Meet (it's huge), and with a cold, and a bad left knee, came in 18'th (out of 46), and got a time of 20:23, smashing my personal best from A DECADE AGO.

MORAL: Just because you get older, doesn't mean you can't get better.


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King REoL

REoL TOUGH: 6 Years, and going....

[Boingo the Clown]

Believe me. You will turn into an old fart eventually.

Sigh.

Way back in 1981 (!) my sister and I (and two others) set a county record for the 4 x 400 metre relay, breaking the old record by almost a minute (!). Somehow I don't think I will be able to duplicate that feat.

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[Ferrari]

You never know, until you try.

[Zack]

Why would you try to turn into an old fart?

[Ferrari]

I mean that how will Boingo know that he can't redo the feat, unless he tries.

I am already turning into an old fart! It's my birthday though! *sob*.
Wait, I should be happy, I get free drinks! Blue Lagoon, anyone?

Can't we all travel at the speed of light so time will freeze and we won't age? http://www.newdoom.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

[Boingo the Clown]

Unfortunately, time will only appear to slow down to a nuetral observer. We would percieve ourselves as aging normally.

I am just hoping that by the time I hit 50, boinics and tissue engineering will ensure that I can replace my aging body parts. Of course you know that only the rich will be able to afford to have their old organs replaced.

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[Dead Trouble]

Mine's apricot brandy.

Mm, I doubt Boingo could break that record http://www.newdoom.com/ubb/wink.gif

That being said, I went running through the local wooded park today and was sad to discover that I can no longer run as long as I used to be able to. Off to the gym with me tomorrow....



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[darknation]

"boinics and tissue engineering will ensure that I can replace my aging body parts. Of course you know that only the rich will be able to afford to have their old organs replaced."

OK everyone, start sending your donations to

The Dark Nation Bionic Penis Foundation
5 Vastcock Lane
Scotland
B1G D1CK

[Ferrari]

LOL

[Monkey]

Hey, Dead Trouble, Sence Boingo is a paranoid old fart, can you tell us what he looks like? I want to know so I can eternailly mock his disfigured (one can only hope) and wretched body.

[REoL]

Drink a lot of Diet Coke, or anything with a ton of sweetner called Astertame.

Aspertame, when digested, turns into Formaldyhide in the stomach. This stuff is used to preserve dead people, so it should work wonders on the living. That's why, at 28, I have trouble getting into casinos. http://www.newdoom.com/ubb/smile.gif


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King REoL

REoL TOUGH: 6 Years, and going....

[This message has been edited by King REoL (edited 10-10-2000).]

[REoL]

How do you know you CAN'T beat your old record? Do you still run, a lot?

I thought that decade old personal best was one I'll never hit again, and here it is 10 years later, and I destroyed it, with a cold and a bad knee to boot!

I consider the 30's the "Do or Die" decade. This is where I notice a lot of people go from fit, to flab. Hope I do well when I get there.


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King REoL

REoL TOUGH: 6 Years, and going....

[Da Man]

That equation is definitly wrong. For DooM it's Getting Older=Getting MUCH Better. I am sure everyone agrees.

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Its tough to be the man.
Going over to John Carmack's old fun house, taking a chance, hoping someone's home.

[REoL]

I don't know about that.
My Dad tried the game 7 years ago, and couldn't do E1M1 without a lot of directional assistance. http://forums.newdoom.com/ubb/smile.gif

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The John Smith Army
The Long Hair Army

REoL TOUGH: Has it been 7 YEARS already?! Jesus Christ....
http://members.aol.com/georgef551/REoL_TOUGH.html

[Davidoom]

It was better back then...the graphics were so dime then and I was a kid and the imps and demons scared the shit out of me http://forums.newdoom.com/ubb/smile.gif

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[Da Man]

Well you do have a piont there. But DooM has yet to enter the realm of abondanware, which most games by now have found a good home to seattle down in.

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Da Man is going to tell you a little story about pie.
Its tough to be the man.
Going over to John Carmack's old fun house, taking a chance, hoping someone's home.

[Davidoom]

True, but I've already seen two abandonware sites closed down for putting illegal games up...I'd love to see that though.

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[OldDog]

First:
NOTHING
IMPROVES
WITH
AGE

Second:
I´ll probably miss replying stupid threads.
Farewell, REoL old chum.

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