Kevin's Watch

By unpopular demand, a new Age poll with updated categories.

Reveal yourselves!

--A

Hrm

Consider me revealed. That's the first time in the month or so since I turned

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sometimes peeling back a layer of black merely leads to more black

that I've had to tick that box category. I won't lie. It was painful.
Wish I was still doing ocean swims, I'd be at the spring chicken side of the group.
Of course my advantage would be nullified by the fact that chickens aren't great swimmers; not the ones I know anyway.

Where do the years go.

Shaun das Schaf wrote:Consider me revealed. That's the first time in the month or so since I turned

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sometimes peeling back a layer of black merely leads to more black

that I've had to tick that box category. I won't lie. It was painful.
Wish I was still doing ocean swims, I'd be at the spring chicken side of the group.
Of course my advantage would be nullified by the fact that chickens aren't great swimmers; not the ones I know anyway.

Same here, Shaun, my first number has changed too

Did you hear the story about Scipio Africanus and the chickens? He was on his way to Carthage on the boat and they did the usual good luck thing, threw food to the chickens, but they would not eat, which implied that the Romans would lose the war. Apparently he said "If they won't eat, let them drink" and threw them into the sea. I reckon they were just seasick The Romans won of course.

Iolanthe wrote:Did you hear the story about Scipio Africanus and the chickens? He was on his way to Carthage on the boat and they did the usual good luck thing, threw food to the chickens, but they would not eat, which implied that the Romans would lose the war. Apparently he said "If they won't eat, let them drink" and threw them into the sea. I reckon they were just seasick The Romans won of course.

No I haven't heard that story and it is a great story, so long as you weren't one of the poor chickens! I agree they were probably seasick. And damn, if they threw me overboard every time I couldn't face my dinner, I'd be a much better swimmer by now.

Thanks, Av! And thanks for the stickying-unstickying housekeeping, too.

I've got another 5-ish years before I have to change groups again. Whew.

Shaun das Schaf wrote:Consider me revealed. That's the first time in the month or so since I turned

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sometimes peeling back a layer of black merely leads to more black

Happy to see some new categories for those of us who got lumped into a too-inclusive top end in prior polls.

Still a geezer patrol member, but now have something to aspire to.

I'll admit to being a member of one of the [currently] tied leading categories...

Still firmly within the 20-29 range.

Menolly wrote:I'll admit to being a member of one of the [currently] tied leading categories...

........and I'm a definite minority.

If you had told the 22 year old Vader back in '92 he'd live another twenty years he'd laugh straight in your face.

40-49.

Vader wrote:If you had told the 22 year old Vader back in '92 he'd live another twenty years he'd laugh straight in your face.

Huh. You are exactly 20 years older than me. I see my group is tied for population density. I'd be interested how many of my generation were introduced to Donaldson by one of the older generations, as I was.

aliantha wrote: I've got another 5-ish years before I have to change groups again. Whew.

Yep, me too.

Is my group under-represented or what? That's probably just Syl and I in there.

--A

my people rule!

any idea who the youngest and oldest now are?

Iolanthe wrote:Did you hear the story about Scipio Africanus and the chickens? He was on his way to Carthage on the boat and they did the usual good luck thing, threw food to the chickens, but they would not eat, which implied that the Romans would lose the war. Apparently he said "If they won't eat, let them drink" and threw them into the sea. I reckon they were just seasick The Romans won of course.

That was actually Publus Claudius Pulcher, and he lost that battle at Drepana during the First Punic War (Scipio being in the Second).

The Romans actually routinely got their asses kicked. They just always came back bigger and stronger.

I changed groups last month. 50.

[Syl Embattled] wrote:

Iolanthe wrote:Did you hear the story about Scipio Africanus and the chickens? He was on his way to Carthage on the boat and they did the usual good luck thing, threw food to the chickens, but they would not eat, which implied that the Romans would lose the war. Apparently he said "If they won't eat, let them drink" and threw them into the sea. I reckon they were just seasick The Romans won of course.

That was actually Publus Claudius Pulcher, and he lost that battle at Drepana during the First Punic War (Scipio being in the Second).

The Romans actually routinely got their asses kicked. They just always came back bigger and stronger.

Damn! My only excuse is that I "remembered" that from my Roman History lessons in 1969. Thanks for putting me right, Syl.

Yeah, Roman Civ for me a couple years ago. The professor thought that was the funniest story ever (Classics profs being a rather weird sort, in my experience, which might explain why I almost went for a Classical Studies minor).