MSN Music to ex-customers: So you thought you bought that song for life, eh?

> You know what they say ... Life begins at 40.

They lie.

tc, you're over 45? You don't look a day older than 46.

Quoting:> You know what they say ... Life begins at 40.

They lie.

Thanks for the heads-up. I'm counting the days to 40.

Quoting: I'm counting the days to 40.

Counting backwards doens't make you younger.

Counting forward doesn't seem to help, either. And I've been doing it for almost 40 years now.

I was there when Jesus had his moment of doubt and pain

/me must be the youngster in the room

>Counting backwards doens't make you younger.

Damn.

"Patton's taken Palermo!"

Damn.

> Life begins at 40.

40? pfft.

There is an old, well known Chinese saying that life begins at 70!

you know the OLD saying about one being older than dust?

Well I was around when dust was still rock...EH.

I'll wait for 40 thanks. I've got 3 years to wait.

But i do remember Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Green Jeans too!

I'm very glad to hear 45 is not old.

Could someone repeat that in my good ear?

Huh? Oh sorry, wrong Moose.

Hey Rocky, watch me pull a AARP membership application out of my......



hat.

'scuse the pause...I was mulling over the options of where THEY might stick said application.

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> AARP

Another PAC created to lobby Washington for special favors. Abominable.

I bet I'm older than everyone here, except maybe Dinotrac: I remember the November '88 Internet worm, in person, and realizing that the megacorp I worked for would have had some problems with it, had they actually possessed an internet connection. The lack of connection seemed weird to me, as it was a major defence contractor. We had to wait until late '89 to FTP racy pictures from http://ftp.washington.edu

Why, I argued with Serdar Argic in soc.history, that's how old I am.

@phsolide:

I remember that, too. Our sysadmin closed off the external Internet connection for the VAXcluster, leaving us with only Bitnet for email.

Help help, the thread is getting smothered in geekbeards.

At the time of the First Worm, I was playing paper/tape/JCL jock as it were, in an IBM mainframe shop.

No connection to the INTERnet. I found that out by having two of the big-time suits, one systems programmer and the network guy, all in the operations room yelling over the fans about whether or not we were vulnerable. The suits required a detailed explanation why not, which was my introduction to the network guy who a year later I was working with.

I think a good part of my hearing loss was because of those #$%^& fans. I still get a heavy sense of familiarity whenever I go into a raised-floor area.

I was managing IPX/SPX over ArcNET. No Internet connection. Biggest virus threat was boot sector floppy viruses.