Age [was: SNAFU]

[Wilson Gray]

Jon writes:

"... elderly ... (i.e., even older than I am now) ..."

Good one!


I've heard? / seen? somewhere the following variant:

"Elderly: ten years older than the observer"


I can recall when high-school kids struck me as being roughly the same
age as my parents. Nowadays, I'm continually being shocked to discover
that people whom I regard as high-school kids are, in fact, the
*parents* of high-scholl kids.

-Wilson
–––
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain

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