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Old 01-11-11, 10:31 PM
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DWI:-Driving While Incontinent
FWIW:-Forgot Where I Was
GHA:-Got Heartburn Again
...IMHO:-Is My Hearing-Aid On?
LMDO:-Laughing My Dentures Out
LOL:-Living On Lipitor
OMSG:-Oh My! Sorry, Gas.
ROFL/CGU:-Rolling On The Floor Laughing/Can't Get Up
SGGP:-Sorry, Gotta Go Poop
TTYL:-Talk To You Louder
WAITT:-Who Am I Talking To?
WTFA:-Wet The Furniture Again
GGLKI:-Gotta Go, Laxative Kicking In
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Originally Posted by bragi "However, it's never a good idea to overgeneralize."
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Old 01-11-11, 10:39 PM
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Shifty put up a partially overlapping list a few weeks back: https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...ts-for-seniors
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Originally Posted by B. Carfree
Shifty put up a partially overlapping list a few weeks back: https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...ts-for-seniors
That's ok. Most of us are senile enough that we had forgotten it. But.....um......Doohickie, you aren't even 50 yet. What's your excuse?
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Old 01-12-11, 12:15 PM
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Originally Posted by bragi "However, it's never a good idea to overgeneralize."
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Originally Posted by Bud Bent
That's ok. Most of us are senile enough that we had forgotten it. But.....um......Doohickie, you aren't even 50 yet. What's your excuse?
Ya know, the first thing to go when you get old is your memory. The second is.... um... what was I saying?

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Old 01-12-11, 03:42 PM
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Texting? What's that? I have a flip phone thats used for phone calls only.
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No....it's not, my 20 year old son laughed, that qualifies it as sick and twisted!

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I was a reluctant convert to texting but do a lot of it now, simply due to the fact that it's the default means of communication for my godsons and younger relations. One exception is my 15 year old cousin, who actually likes to talk with me on the phone (he hardly texts anyone) and prefers skiing to snowboarding. I think he popped out of a time warp somewhere.
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Old 01-18-11, 02:22 PM
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Texting For Old Folks

Originally Posted by rnorris
I was a reluctant convert to texting but do a lot of it now, simply due to the fact that it's the default means of communication for my godsons and younger relations. One exception is my 15 year old cousin, who actually likes to talk with me on the phone (he hardly texts anyone) and prefers skiing to snowboarding. I think he popped out of a time warp somewhere.
My wife and I have found that texting is the only way to communicate with our 17-year old daughter. All other methods result in emotional outbursts or sullen silence...

I didn't even know that my phone COULD text until recently. Who knew? I thought it was a phone.
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