Snakes alive! I’m fifty-five!
Since my birthday posting last year revealed that I was born on this day in 1952, simple math reveals that today I’m as old as the speed limit for trucks with trailers on American highways:
I kinda like the sound of the double-nickel age. It has the resonance of rhyming slang used by British bingo callers:
11: Legs eleven; chicken legs.
22: Two little ducks.
33: All the feathers; two little fleas; ‘all the trees, Sherwood Forest, 33’.
44: Droopy drawers.
55: Snakes alive.
66: Clickety-click.
77: Sunset strip.
88: Two fat ladies.
On Tuesday I’ll be able to reap the benefit of having reached this grand old age, and claim my 10% discount for “seniors” at Ross Dress for Less when I buy my next pair of those light blue boxers I wrote about last year. I can’t stand the excitement!
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Happy birthday, Ian!
By Lisa B. on 02.03.07 9:26 pm
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