A few weeks ago, I was wondering... well, if you call someone who is Eighty years old an Octogenarian; what would you call me?
Someone in his or her "Fifty's" as it were.
So, I looked it up. Then I tried to pronounce it.... ("!") Then I had the Computer pronounce it instead. Then I walked around the house muttering it to myself for a few hours and I still could not pronounce it!
This was when I realized that the reason I had never heard of the word before; was because if you can't say it; you forgot it!
A few years ago when I tried to stop swearing I inserted "ARRRGH!" for the expletive.
For my "Fiftieth" this year my Daughter knitted me the Jolly Roger Sweater you will soon see in this video.
Because sometimes, I still lapse into the "Pirate Voice" around the house...
( ...am I really admitting this in public?!)
GUESS WHAT! ...muttering to myself in the "Pirate Voice"
I managed to say it!
And here I am at the "Poetry-Pot-Luck-Luncheon-for-Voorhees -villian-Old-Fart-Poets" trying to popularize this silly word:
"Quinquagenarian":
Dennis says I have found My Calling and my Future Vocation!
(...well, maybe with a lotta practice and a good Agent.... )
:)
...I also posted it on youtube.com.
(...somehow I don't think the word "Quinquagenarian" is going to go "Viral" as they say....)
;)
obeedúid~
12/Apr/08
Someone in his or her "Fifty's" as it were.
So, I looked it up. Then I tried to pronounce it.... ("!") Then I had the Computer pronounce it instead. Then I walked around the house muttering it to myself for a few hours and I still could not pronounce it!
This was when I realized that the reason I had never heard of the word before; was because if you can't say it; you forgot it!
A few years ago when I tried to stop swearing I inserted "ARRRGH!" for the expletive.
For my "Fiftieth" this year my Daughter knitted me the Jolly Roger Sweater you will soon see in this video.
Because sometimes, I still lapse into the "Pirate Voice" around the house...
( ...am I really admitting this in public?!)
GUESS WHAT! ...muttering to myself in the "Pirate Voice"
I managed to say it!
And here I am at the "Poetry-Pot-Luck-Luncheon-for-Voorhees -villian-Old-Fart-Poets" trying to popularize this silly word:
"Quinquagenarian":
Dennis says I have found My Calling and my Future Vocation!
(...well, maybe with a lotta practice and a good Agent.... )
:)
...I also posted it on youtube.com.
(...somehow I don't think the word "Quinquagenarian" is going to go "Viral" as they say....)
;)
obeedúid~
12/Apr/08
