Winning Words 6/18/13
“Forty is the old age of youth, and fifty is the youth of old age.”  (French Proverb)  This proverb reminds me of the saying, “You’re as young as you feel.”  The young are often trying to appear older, and the old are trying to appear younger.  Like the song goes, “It’s a strange world, Master Jack.”  Did people care about their age before there were calendars?  If someone told you to act your age, what would you be doing?    ;-)  Jack

 FROM MICHIZONA RAY:  I would continue with little regard to the non-specific command. How does one provide a good answer to a bad question; or in this case, a useful response to a poor directive? Does such a command better identify how the other would behave in that circumstance of time? And then, what would that have to do with me and my life in this circumstance of time? Oh, I forgot, we're all supposed to be the same, act the same, think the same.====JACK:  I don't whether or not you're acting your age....but you are being you.  And that's good!

 FROM WALMART REV:  I told myself earlier on to enjoy every life stage I find myself in...whether I have or not, I don't really know, but it feels like I have... thinking now that I'm in the final stretch, prepared to greet humbly but with gracious expectancy my Creator!====JACK:  You sound like Paul writing to the Philippians.

 FROM FACEBOOK LIZ:  i pay no attention to "numbers."====JACK:  How do you play the lottery without using numbers?

 FROM RI IN BOSTON:  Act my age?  "Acting" usually means to assume a role in a performance.  So you can expect me to carry on as though I am younger than my actual years.  If someone told me, "Live your age", then I'd be sitting on a park bench leaning on my cane.====JACK:  Teenagers long to be older than they really are.  When, if ever, does that feeling pass?

 FROM RS IN TEXAS:  If someone told me to act my age, I hope I would be playing golf   ..........probably not real well, but playing.====JACK:  Don't you wish that you could shoot your age on the golf course?  For 18 holes, not 9.

 FROM ME IN NEWPORT BEACH:  Living down to the fun of my youth.  Hopefully, at no one else's expense.  Pretty much my goal in life====JACK:  Isn't it interesting how the description of fun changes as the person's age changes?

 FROM TAMPA SHIRL:  Do you think that people real change as they age?  Just in observing my friends and family it seems like they all keep up their interests and activities just as they did when we were all young. ====JACK:  I think that evolve is the word.  The people I've met and the experiences I've had along the way have had a major influence on me...and, yet, there's a basic something that seems to hang on.

 FROM BLAZING OAKS:  OR SOME SAY 50 IS THE NEW 30!  THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT WE ARE MUCH MORE ACTIVE AND HEALTTHY IN OLD AGE, THAN USED TO BE TRUE.  HOW DO YOU "ACT" 83??! I REFUSE TO SIT IN A ROCKING CHAIR AND ROCK AWAY THE DAY...IN FACT MY NIECE (JAN'S YOUNGEST, 54) AND I ARE OFF TO THE GOLF COURSE TO PLAY 18 HOLES ON  A BEAUTIFUL DAY.  I AM BLESSED, AND I KNOW IT!!!====JACK:  I remember a time when I tried to see how fast I could play 18 holes.  I ran from shot to shot.  I don't think that that would interest me anymore.  But maybe you're in better shape than I am.

 FROM SBP IN FLORIDA:  I imagine age was “measured” by “bones”, failing sight, diminishing agility, gray hair and beards and the like,,,,,,Much like now...only we put it on an age-range scale...or where we are on the bell curve of life. As Popeye said, “I yam what I yam...”and though “time’s winged chariot {is} hurrying near..”,I feel much as I remember as a child.... wanting/trying to do to keep up and/or surpass.......  with some success and some deferred gratification. Life is good! Another TG WW.====JACK:  Do you think that Methuselah really had 969 candles on his birthday cake?

 FROM GUSTIE MARLYS:  Jumping rope!  Ha!====JACK:
Call the Army, call the Navy
So-so's gonna have a baby.
Wrap it up in tissue paper,
send it down the elevator,
(Rope turned double time)
Boy, girl, twins, triplets, boys, girls, twins, triplets, etc.
--(Whichever the jumper misses on is the number of babies she's going to have.)
 ====MARLYS:  I never did that one--we did Johnnie over the ocean--Johnie over the sea--Johnie broke a bottle and blamed it on to to me--I told Ma--Ma told Pa--Johnie got a licken so Hee hee hee.  How many ???  did he get--1-2-3-and so on.  We did others too.   It was always fun.  I never did master the Double Dutch tho.

FROM OUTHOUSE JUDY:  I would be playing with Barbies and swinging on a swing.====JACK:  Your response reminds me of this song.
Would you like to swing on a star?
Carry moonbeams home in a jar?
And be better off than you are?
Or would you rather be a mule?
A mule is an animal with long, funny ears
He kicks up at anything he hears
His back is brawny and his brain is weak
He's just plain stupid with a stubborn streak
And, by the way, if you hate to go to school
You may grow up to be a mule

 FROM KF IN MICHIGAN:  At the drive-through window at Taco Bell the cashier asked me if I would like a 'senior's drink' with my order - so I guess I'm older than I feel ; )====JACK:  My laugh for the day.  When my mother was 85, the clerk asked to see her ID to prove that she should have a senior discount.