You know you are old when:

[Oso]

In the joking around during the grappling portion of the mma class I started going to, I comment that I'm going to pull an Andy Kaufman...and no one gets it...sigh...

[Eric Olson]

Your knees start making mysterious crackling sounds.

You reference classic Seinfeld episodes and the younger people in the room look befuddled.

[YouKnowWho]

- You start to use more palm than fist on your heavy bag.
- When you see a beautiful girl, you ask whether her mother is single.

[BoulderDawg]

God help us all but Andy has been gone for almost a quarter of a century now...so yeah if you can remember Andy Kaufmann then, more than likely, you're past 40...probably 50 or over.

[YouKnowWho]

You still remember that gasoline was 23 cents a gallon and restaurant only paid you $1.25 an hour for your dish washing job.

[Lama Pai Sifu]

When $.75 bought you a slice o'pizza and a soda.

Those were the days!

[TenTigers]

you can recite dialogue from Buggs Bunny cartoons,
and kids don't recognize them.

[ironfenix]

when you alter the numbers on your jeans to match what you wore in high school.

if you wish you were a rogue electrician or the worlds foremost expert on vintage pastries.

[YouKnowWho]

you can recite dialogue from Buggs Bunny cartoons,
and kids don't recognize them.

What's up doc? What's cooking?

[GunnedDownAtrocity]

when you know the temperature of the water when dropping the kids off at the pool.

[Kansuke]

When you have to train twice as long and still gas in half the time.

[David Jamieson]

You have a 76 thunderbird and you bought it new.

[Oso]

-When you see a beautiful girl, you ask whether her mother is single.

lol, ain't that the truth...



and, yea, I started to try to explain the whole wrestling thing with Andy but gave up...

[sanjuro_ronin]

-
- When you see a beautiful girl, you ask whether her mother is single.

LMAO !!
Too true, far too true !

[TenTigers]

when you try to call Shock Doctor to ask if they have a groin cup to fit in your Depends.

[SPJ]

- You start to use more palm than fist on your heavy bag.
- When you see a beautiful girl, you ask whether her mother is single.

I was going to say that do you have an older sister?

1. You forgot what to do next in the middle of long forms. And you have to start from the very beginning to remember.

2. When your fellow kung fu brothers in the 70's started to have students to teach in their own schools. and they asked you to endorse their opening, website or comment on their curriculum and videos.

3. When almost of all of your teachers passed away in the 90's, and you feel the need to write books and post videos.

4. When the teachers that inspired you were not there anymore, and you feel the need to post info and take forefront to inspire the young people in the next generation.

5. When you run out of breath, and you cannot finish the forms that you once have no sweat about.

6. when your radio is on the station that broadcasting 70' and 80' oldies.

7. when you have records of elvis, audiotape, 8 track, cd's in your garage.

8. when you start to have gray almost white beard and eyebrows.

9. when you search music videos of bee gees from the 70' on youtube.

---

:)

[brothernumber9]

You remember when you had to physically get up to turn a "UHF" dial on your TV to find what channel was playing "Action Theatre" on Sunday. And on that note, if you know who Bruce 'Le', or Bruce 'Lai' were.

[SPJ]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX6BiJla3cs&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmV0QlRTGPM

--

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=387oBRQ1j6o

my fav movie in high school.

:)

[MightyB]

I asked a couple of the more beautiful young sales reps we have working for us when they think that a guy's a little too old for them- both answered 32- needless to say, I walked away a little emasculated- I'm 34.

[TenTigers]

so whaddya do when the girls that are "in your age bracket" on match.com, are not anything you find attractive?
I mean, besides the blow-up doll.

[David Jamieson]

I asked a couple of the more beautiful young sales reps we have working for us when they think that a guy's a little too old for them- both answered 32- needless to say, I walked away a little emasculated- I'm 34.

ok, your first mistake was that you asked. lol.

[MasterKiller]

so whaddya do when the girls that are "in your age bracket" on match.com, are not anything you find attractive?
I mean, besides the blow-up doll.

Curl into a ball and cry yourself to sleep.

[David Jamieson]

so whaddya do when the girls that are "in your age bracket" on match.com, are not anything you find attractive?
I mean, besides the blow-up doll.

Buy a lot of brown paper bags?

[lkfmdc]

See how many of these lines you recognize

1. "What if Spartacus had had a piper cub?"

2. "Jane you ignorant ****"

3. "He does not have to shoot you now"

4. "Kill the gophers? We can do that!"

5. "If Woody had gone straight to the police, this would never have happened"

[Yum Cha]

You have no problem talking and charming young beautiful women at all.

Because everybody involved knows it all stops there....:(


Or, you're the guy they approach in a bar to ask the time because you're 'safe'

Or, you always find clothes you like on markdown.

Or, you talk about Mick Jagger, and people ask you who's that?

Or, you still keep the candle stub you burned when Jimi Hendrix died...

....I'm finding this rather therapeutic ...

[Yum Cha]

On topic, here's a riddle...

Where can you go for all the safe, casual sex you want...

(scroll down)



























The SEVENTIES!!!!!

[YouKnowWho]

I was going to say that do you have an older sister? 8. when you start to have gray almost white beard and eyebrows.
You must be younger than me.

- You start to shave your beard no matter how much you love it before.
- The only fun that you have left in your life is to brag about your past.
- You have visited all countries, all national parks in US, and you can't find any place that you want to take vacation this year.
- You spend most of your time trying to "maintain" your CMA ability than trying to improve it.
- You had too much sex in your life and you finally lost interest in it.

[Oso]

so whaddya do when the girls that are "in your age bracket" on match.com, are not anything you find attractive?
I mean, besides the blow-up doll.

no shizzit...I mean, I don't think I look quite my age except for the grey in the beard but dang...some of the one's that are in their low 30's look like they are 50...but, on the other side of the coin I have seen some really attractive women in their 50's...who say I'm too young :(

[TenTigers]

yeah, I'm gonna buy some Grecian Formula and go nab me some cougars!:D

[TenTigers]

See how many of these lines you recognize

1. "What if Spartacus had had a piper cub?"

2. "Jane you ignorant ****"

3. "He does not have to shoot you now"

4. "Kill the gophers? We can do that!"

5. "If Woody had gone straight to the police, this would never have happened"

"Would you like a walnetto?"
"Ed...kiss me goo'night"
"Book'em Dan-o!"
"Lily! I'm home!"
"Jane! Stop this crazy thing!"
"Hey Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!"
"Mister Weid's wesidence"
"There is nothing wrong with your television set."
"Picture if you will..."

[Mr Punch]

You have no problem talking and charming young beautiful women at all.

Because everybody involved knows it all stops there....:(


Or, you're the guy they approach in a bar to ask the time because you're 'safe'
...LOL, those are definitely me. It's not even the age: I don't even usually wear my wedding ring either but I think my whole being exudes marriedness... Dunno if that's a :) or a :o but it's certainly a :confused: !

:D

BTW, what's a cougar...? Isn't that like, a second-rate lion?

[TenTigers]

you know you're old when....
the tattoo of the great American Eagle you got on your chest in your twenties...
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
..........is now a pelican.

[Yum Cha]

Fire up the wayback machine Mr Peabody....

Hey Look, here comes Mr Greenjeans!

...Ok Kids, to sing along, just follow the bouncing ball!

[Lama Pai Sifu]

you can recite dialogue from Buggs Bunny cartoons,
and kids don't recognize them.

"Oh...so he's hiding in the stove, eh?"

"Now would I turn on the gas if my friend Rocky was hiding in the stove?"

"Well....you might rabbit, you might"

"Would I throw a lighted match in here if my friend Rocky was hiding in the stove?"

BAAM!

"Well, rabbit, you've convinced me. I go look for Rocky in the city."

[Oso]

LOL, those are definitely me. It's not even the age: I don't even usually wear my wedding ring either but I think my whole being exudes marriedness... Dunno if that's a :) or a :o but it's certainly a :confused: !

:D

it's not that confusing.

women are attracted to men that can at least look like they are being the alpha male...if you have successfully convinced at least one woman that you are good enough to keep, then you are worth a second look...or maybe worth stealing...humans still have much of the original drives to continue the gene line as any 'lower order' animal. we are just much more creative in how we pursue the means to secure that progression.


BTW, what's a cougar...? Isn't that like, a second-rate lion?

'cougars' are older women, generally hot or at least sexy, who are most likely divorced from the ******* who cheated on them with the secretary...they have money from the divorce and have decided that their new goal is to teach some younger men a thing or two...hence the predadorty appellation.

[Yao Sing]

"M M M Max"
"This is the future: people translated as data."

"and will you please drop the vernacular!"
"that's a doiby"

"Let's roll, Kato!"

"routine 13 guys!"

Ok, now we're getting real old.

[Reverend Tap]

Is it bad that I'm finding quite a lot of these apply to me (or that, in terms of quotes, I can place so many) when I'm only 24? :confused:

[SPJ]

age is only a relative thing.

true, our body slows with all the wear and tear over the years.

however, we may always stay young at heart and mindset.

moving quietness with tai chi would focus and refresh or rejunvenate our mind and heart.

:)

[Lucas]

its bad when people almost twice your age are telling you that you are the oldest young person they know. :(

im 29 and I have people in their late 50s telling me im old, WTF.

[SimonM]

You listened to Nirvana and Pearl Jam back when they were cool.

[Lucas]

you cant name one performer on the radio unless its the 'classic' or 'oldies' station.

[TenTigers]

Every time someone compliments you,
they tag,"..for a guy your age" on the end of it.:(

[MasterKiller]

It's not the years, it's the mileage. -- Indiana Jones

[brothernumber9]

you actually played with lincoln logs, slinky, and tinker toys as a kid, and Ultraman and Johnny Socco's Flying Robot were the bees knees.

[Lucas]

you say things like 'the bees knees'

:p;)

[TenTigers]

you said things like"The bee's knees,"
and we said things like.
1.tuff
2.wicked
3.cool
4.boss
5.fukin A
6. Ace as all he11
7.groovy
9. slick
10.crazy (as in,"Like, crazy, man."
11. psychedelic
12.trippy
13. outtasight

:cool:

[Xiao3 Meng4]

the new one is "book," as in "that's so book!"


...crazy kids.

[TenTigers]

I started reading;
Classic comics for Children
Archie
Spiderman
Batman
Superman
Dr.Strange
Mad
Popular Science
etc.

and moved onto;
National Lampoon
Zap Comix
Heavy Metal
Playboy
EasyRiders
Omni
EastWest Journal

Now I read;
KungFu
IKF
BB
Fight
GQ
Newsday
NY Times
Wall St Journal
The Horse
perscription bottles
ingredients
directions for my pc or Ipod, or cellphone-which I can't understand

[TenTigers]

the new one is "book," as in "that's so book!"


...crazy kids.

I can't stand,
"Oh SNAP!"

my younger cousin used to say that 20 yrs ago-he was from da Bronx.
I didn't like it then. I don't like it now.

[TenTigers]

I hope you don't mind if we move our man, so that the two of us will have more room,
so that we may groove"

"You know, baby, This bamboo is longer, more flexible, and very much alive..":cool:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEUDRKRX1Eg

[brothernumber9]

"groovy" and "outtasight."

I am not that old. most of You ARE old.

I beleive my parents already had a color TV by the time I came around. Old for me was shows like Banana Splits and Lancelot Link Secret Chimp, Laugh-In, the Monkees, Get Smart. and Electric Company. Although I did love some of the much older shows, like Bozo the Clown, The Lone Ranger, and the old black and white Superman, Howdy Doody, and I Love Lucy among others.

[Oso]

I hope you don't mind if we move our man, so that the two of us will have more room,
so that we may groove"

"You know, baby, This bamboo is longer, more flexible, and very much alive..":cool:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEUDRKRX1Eg

that was hilarious.

[Yao Sing]

the new one is "book," as in "that's so book!"


...crazy kids.

Aha, you aren't old. Dig it, "book" means to leave. Never heard of it used as you posted.

Now excuse me, time to book. Later dudes.

[TenTigers]

yeah, it's splitsville for me too.
Catch ya on the flip-flop!

[Dale Dugas]

You know are you getting on when the music you rocked out to in High School is now being played on the Classic Rock station.

[TenTigers]

about twenty years ago, I new I was getting old when I saw kids in the record store looking at Beatle albums, because that's the band Paul McCartney from Wings, played in, and Jimi Hendrix, because he sounds like Robin Trower and Stevie Ray Vaughn.
Today's kids don't even know who Paul McCartney or Robin Trower and Stevie Ray Vaugn are! They look at Madonna the way we probably looked at Peggy Lee, and Micheal Jackson the way we saw Sinatra!:eek:
(ok, maybe Libirace)

[AJM]

Liberace! You are old!
Actually I predate transisters, stereo and color TV. We got our first TV in '62. A second hand Admiral black and white. It wasn't cheap either.

[BoulderDawg]

about twenty years ago, I new I was getting old when I saw kids in the record store looking at Beatle albums, because that's the band Paul McCartney from Wings, played in, and Jimi Hendrix, because he sounds like Robin Trower and Stevie Ray Vaughn.
Today's kids don't even know who Paul McCartney or Robin Trower and Stevie Ray Vaugn are! They look at Madonna the way we probably looked at Peggy Lee, and Micheal Jackson the way we saw Sinatra!:eek:
(ok, maybe Libirace)

Forget those guys. In class the other day I was talking with some students about music and mentioned that I was enjoying Linkin Park and Nine Inch Nails.....They said that's okay if you like "Old school". :D

Anyway you know you're getting old when the new president is younger than you are.

[mickey]

Yo AJM,

I never heard of transisters. You're into that?

I have heard of transistors though.


mickey

Oso,

You really need to get out more. While you are out there get "The warriors's Journey" dvd... the restored version of the Game of Death.


mickey

[Yao Sing]

You know are you getting on when the music you rocked out to in High School is now being played on the Classic Rock station.

Actually, they show up on commercials. Try explaining that to today's youth.


Liberace! You are old!
Actually I predate transisters, stereo and color TV. We got our first TV in '62. A second hand Admiral black and white. It wasn't cheap either.

I remember when transistor radios were cutting edge. As for TV, when the parents finally got color I got to put the old TV in my room. It was a 19" Zenith Commando with remote (4 buttons that when 'clicked' struck a steel bar, like a tuning fork, that sent a high pitched tone. On/Off/Channel Up/Channel Down).

[TenTigers]

how many matchbooks did you cram in the channel knob to keep it on channel?
did you have a UHF loop?
remember adjusting the vertical and horizontal controls?
I remember when my friend Danny Saltzman had a color TV and we would go over to his house after school to watch Marine Boy, 8th Man, and Green Hornet.
Cartoons were awesome on a color TV

[Zhang Yong Chun]

"Mister Weid's wesidence"."

Now I wanna wear a thin, black tie and do the Batusi... :)

[SPJ]

-when you find things simple are no longer simple

-when people say you are wise.

-when people say good stuff is the at the bottom of the wine bottle

-when you start to say I used to so and so

-when you say those were the good "old" days

-when you say that they dun make car or things like that any more

-when you join a country club

-when you start to worry about retirement

-when you have more pill/medicine bottles in your bathroom cabins

-when you have to refill so many meds and wait a long line in 24 hour pharmacy

-when you check your mails and bills only once a week

---

:eek:

[TenTigers]

when you start buying "Relaxed Fit" condoms.

[TenTigers]

How many times does 51 go into 19?






'Till the rufies wear off.

[AJM]

I'm more concerned with how many times fifty six goes into fifty five.:D

[Shaolinlueb]

when the kids form class see your cobra logo (from gi joe) belt buckle and don't know what it is.

[David Jamieson]

I'm more concerned with how many times fifty six goes into fifty five.:D

That depends on your supply of blue pills. :D

[Yum Cha]

How many times does 51 go into 19?






'Till the rufies wear off.

Lets see, 51 into 19 = 2.68 points of resistance.

hmmmm, will take some extra influences to get it down to even...

less a fair alcohol factor = Less 1.0 resistance
Hammering her with Long Island Ice Teas = less 1.5 resistance

takes us to 1.18

Exceptional martial artists Physic = 1.0
Unfortunately, your physic = .18

takes us to 1.00 points of resistance..

Rich Bastart, like limo and private jet rich, not peasant gentry = 1.0

Ok, so basically, as we all know 51 goes into nineteen NONE, Nada, Zip. (nod in agreement lads, you know I'm right...)

HOWEVER -
Decrease resistance with exceptional amounts of alcohol, have an exceptional physic and be a filthy rich *******, and you might just be in for an even chance....

But that begs the question WHY?!

[YouKnowWho]

You

- lost interest in arguing even if you know that you are right.
- no longer care about your beautiful forms. You spend all your time in front of a heavy bag.
- can't care less when people said that your punch feel like an "external" boxer and not an "internal" XingYi guy.
- start to feel that the word "style" no longer has meaning to you.
- no long care about slow speed training. Everything that you do is in lighting speed.
- have a strong desire to run down from the south rim of the Grand Canyon, across the basin, and up to the north rim, a total of 3,000 feet drop and 50 miles in distance.

[David Jamieson]

In our 20's we are constantly worried about what other people think about us.

In our 40's we have learned to accept ourselves and we no longer worry about what others think about us.

In our 60's we realize that nobody was thinking about us in the first place.

Somewhere between not caring what others think and realizing that no one think about you is when you start to get old.

But old is really when you have no idea that you are old and take to crapping yourself and eating, speaking and sleeping like a 2 year old.

mmmmm that's some nirvana right there!

[Eddie]

when you rememer CHiPs... and this video makes you feel nostalgic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSzEmPEnYxo

http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3261241344/tt0075488

[David Jamieson]

Hated the fact that those were kawasakis.

they should have been electraglides.

then the show wouldn't have been such a hairmodel tuss and fuss.

lol

[Eddie]

when Danny Crane was still TJ Hooker http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlIu05rdOf4&feature=related

street hawk was the coolest dude in the world http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCItnKrXvMM&feature=related

and buck rogers was still not even floating in space http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qok-MJ8r38U

[David Jamieson]

The problem with streethawk was that it DIDN"T have Heather Locklear.

Buck Rogers , meh, so so.

[ingchao]

how many matchbooks did you cram in the channel knob to keep it on channel?
did you have a UHF loop?
remember adjusting the vertical and horizontal controls?
I remember when my friend Danny Saltzman had a color TV and we would go over to his house after school to watch Marine Boy, 8th Man, and Green Hornet.
Cartoons were awesome on a color TV

And....
Wrapping tinfoil around the antenna and putting another TV on top of the broken TV.

[Eddie]

Buck Rogers was the MAN!

Actually Buck Rogers was dubbed in Dutch back then, so for some reason i coukd relate more to him. Back then I thought america was just the big city thats a few miles away frm my old town.

[bakxierboxer]

The problem with streethawk was that it DIDN"T have Heather Locklear.

Or, just noticing that sweet young thang Heather Locklear is now 47........

[Corwyn]

simple, You know you're old when

You become invisible to teenage girls.

[bakxierboxer]

Remembering your family's first tv (the first in the neighborhood).... that massive (taller than your 5-year-old self) highly finished walnut(?) Dumont Console with the 8" b&w screen that actually received ALL 4 of the available channels....
(one of which was channel 5 - "the Dumont Channel" at that time)

[SPJ]

You

- lost interest in arguing even if you know that you are right.
- no longer care about your beautiful forms. You spend all your time in front of a heavy bag.
- can't care less when people said that your punch feel like an "external" boxer and not an "internal" XingYi guy.
- start to feel that the word "style" no longer has meaning to you.
- no long care about slow speed training. Everything that you do is in lighting speed.
- have a strong desire to run down from the south rim of the Grand Canyon, across the basin, and up to the north rim, a total of 3,000 feet drop and 50 miles in distance.

agreed that not caring about the beauty of the forms

or whatever works or effective may not necessarily look beautiful.

agreed that no bothering to argue any more.

:)

[taai gihk yahn]

you have less time to train because it's the holiday break, as opposed to having more time to train because it's the holiday break...

[m1k3]

You listened to Nirvana and Pearl Jam back when they were cool.

You listened to the Dave Clark 5 back when they were cool. :eek:

[TenTigers]

"This Diamond Ring doesn't shine for me anymore....."




uh-oh....

[AJM]

simple, You know you're old when

You become invisible to teenage girls.
It's worse when the twenty somethings call you sir.

[SimonM]

you have less time to train because it's the holiday break, as opposed to having more time to train because it's the holiday break...

I hear that.

I need a vacation from this interminable holiday!

[AJM]

Remembering your family's first tv (the first in the neighborhood).... that massive (taller than your 5-year-old self) highly finished walnut(?) Dumont Console with the 8" b&w screen that actually received ALL 4 of the available channels....
(one of which was channel 5 - "the Dumont Channel" at that time)
Wow. You got 4 channels. We got one in the country and 3 in the city. The ghost was so bad on on the 8" philco my great grandmother had at the country house I could'nt make out a thing.

[Yum Cha]

Wow. You got 4 channels. We got one in the country and 3 in the city. The ghost was so bad on on the 8" philco my great grandmother had at the country house I could'nt make out a thing.

And don't forget the pair of plyers (vice grips when they came out) for changing the channel because the knob was broken.

[AJM]

Hahaha... That was our 19" Admiral.

[bakxierboxer]

Wow. You got 4 channels. We got one in the country and 3 in the city. The ghost was so bad on on the 8" philco my great grandmother had at the country house I could'nt make out a thing.

Country?
Thus was in the "suburbs"... of NYC. (late 40s/early 50s)
"Commuter"-range, like Fairfield County, Ct.
As with so many other things, NYC was the "hub" of all the activity.

[AJM]

Country was anything outside of nolo in the fifties.

[Yum Cha]

Country?
Thus was in the "suburbs"... of NYC. (late 40s/early 50s)
"Commuter"-range, like Fairfield County, Ct.
As with so many other things, NYC was the "hub" of all the activity.

NYC the Hub? Ha! I grew up hearing tales of woe from migrants heading west for California on route 66!

[bakxierboxer]

NYC the Hub? Ha! I grew up hearing tales of woe from migrants heading west for California on route 66!

In those days, LA had very few high-rise buildings and was laid out in a rather "open" manner... lots of space around buildings, etc. and very little traffic.
There were even times during the day that you could drive completely across LA on 495, 110, or 101 without seeing another car.... freeways were truly "free" of tolls and traffic. It was even possible on some occasions to drive across town on surface streets without incurring any real time penalty.
The choice was mostly governed by whether or not you wanted "blow out" any carbon build-up. :D

[TenTigers]

here's a bittersweet one-
a former student walks into my school and wants to rejoin, with his 14 yr old son.
I ask him, how old was he when he was in my school?
Fourteen.
(sigh)

ah, but he has been a boxing instructor for the past ten years at the local Boxing academy, so I get a new boxing coach, as well as two students!:cool:

[AJM]

That's win win.:D

[David Jamieson]

when these are your words to live by:


"As you get older,Never pass up a bathroom,
never waste a hard on, and never trust a ****,"(sic)

Jack Nicholson

:p