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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Diane CBPFC on December 20, 2008, 03:20:30 PM

Title: Wanting gifts that make you seem like a dinosaur.
Post by: Diane CBPFC on December 20, 2008, 03:20:30 PM
I wanted a walkman for myself to listen to some books on tape (cassette). I had given my last one away with the books I had in the car at the time when visiting a relative who was bored in the hospital.

Anyway, most places don't even carry them anymore. In the end I was able to buy a red one that came with a nice set of headphones for only $9.99 because they are not very popular right now.

And while we are on the subject, aren't the salestaff very young this Christmas?



Title: Re: Wanting gifts that make you seem like a dinosaur.
Post by: peter on December 20, 2008, 04:41:45 PM
Its because you are getting on in life that the staff look so young.
I always think women pushing prams seem to be school children.
Title: Re: Wanting gifts that make you seem like a dinosaur.
Post by: The Peepmaster on December 20, 2008, 05:11:59 PM
Its because you are getting on in life that the staff look so young.
I always think women pushing prams seem to be school children.

How about buying Peter a book on tact and diplomacy.  ..0
Title: Re: Wanting gifts that make you seem like a dinosaur.
Post by: peter on December 20, 2008, 05:19:02 PM
Its because you are getting on in life that the staff look so young.
I always think women pushing prams seem to be school children.

How about buying Peter a book on tact and diplomacy.  ..0

I tried, I did not say that a certain person was old. Anyway i could do with a new shovel.
Title: Re: Wanting gifts that make you seem like a dinosaur.
Post by: Vulture on December 20, 2008, 05:25:41 PM
Its because you are getting on in life that the staff look so young.
I always think women pushing prams seem to be school children.

How about buying Peter a book on tact and diplomacy.  ..0

What are you on about, Peeps. That IS Peter being tactful!
Title: Re: Wanting gifts that make you seem like a dinosaur.
Post by: The Peepmaster on December 20, 2008, 06:16:44 PM
Because Diane gets involved in so many good causes, and works hard at everything she does, I find it difficult to think of her as elderly.
Title: Re: Wanting gifts that make you seem like a dinosaur.
Post by: Roger Kettle on December 20, 2008, 06:33:24 PM
"Anyway, I could do with a new shovel" is going to be my new catchphrase.
Title: Re: Wanting gifts that make you seem like a dinosaur.
Post by: Vulture on December 20, 2008, 06:45:31 PM
Because Diane gets involved in so many good causes, and works hard at everything she does, I find it difficult to think of her as elderly.

She's definitely NOT elderly - she still has (and uses) a lot of energy that a twenty-year-old would envy AND she has a child who's younger than one of my grandchildren!
Title: Re: Wanting gifts that make you seem like a dinosaur.
Post by: peter on December 20, 2008, 06:49:03 PM
Because Diane gets involved in so many good causes, and works hard at everything she does, I find it difficult to think of her as elderly.

She's definitely NOT elderly - she still has (and uses) a lot of energy that a twenty-year-old would envy AND she has a child who's younger than one of my grandchildren!

In the paper last week there was a seventy year old new mother so that does not help.
Title: Re: Wanting gifts that make you seem like a dinosaur.
Post by: Vulture on December 20, 2008, 07:08:27 PM
Its because you are getting on in life that the staff look so young.
I always think women pushing prams seem to be school children.

How about buying Peter a book on tact and diplomacy.  ..0

I tried, I did not say that a certain person was old. Anyway i could do with a new shovel.

This is going back a few posts but..... why do you need a new shovel, Peter?
Title: Re: Wanting gifts that make you seem like a dinosaur.
Post by: Diane CBPFC on December 20, 2008, 07:29:18 PM
I told you all how old I was two years ago when I was 42 and was hoping to find the meaning of life during that year (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy). I found the meaning of life and if anyone wants to know what it is I charge the same rate for this information as the Nomad (one quid) and I too finish off with a song.
Title: Re: Wanting gifts that make you seem like a dinosaur.
Post by: peter on December 20, 2008, 09:52:31 PM
Its because you are getting on in life that the staff look so young.
I always think women pushing prams seem to be school children.

How about buying Peter a book on tact and diplomacy.  ..0

I tried, I did not say that a certain person was old. Anyway i could do with a new shovel.

This is going back a few posts but..... why do you need a new shovel, Peter?

So I could dig a big enough hole to disappear into.
Title: Re: Wanting gifts that make you seem like a dinosaur.
Post by: Vulture on December 20, 2008, 10:00:10 PM
Its because you are getting on in life that the staff look so young.
I always think women pushing prams seem to be school children.

How about buying Peter a book on tact and diplomacy.  ..0

I tried, I did not say that a certain person was old. Anyway i could do with a new shovel.

This is going back a few posts but..... why do you need a new shovel, Peter?

So I could dig a big enough hole to disappear into.

OK. Now comes the really difficult question: what's the difference between a shovel and a spade?
Title: Re: Wanting gifts that make you seem like a dinosaur.
Post by: The Peepmaster on December 20, 2008, 10:01:53 PM
"Its because you are getting on in life" is going to be my new catchphrase.
Title: Re: Wanting gifts that make you seem like a dinosaur.
Post by: The Peepmaster on December 20, 2008, 10:02:53 PM
Its because you are getting on in life that the staff look so young.
I always think women pushing prams seem to be school children.

How about buying Peter a book on tact and diplomacy.  ..0

I tried, I did not say that a certain person was old. Anyway i could do with a new shovel.

This is going back a few posts but..... why do you need a new shovel, Peter?

So I could dig a big enough hole to disappear into.

OK. Now comes the really difficult question: what's the difference between a shovel and a spade?



You can't wash your hands in a buffalo?
Title: Re: Wanting gifts that make you seem like a dinosaur.
Post by: Joan on December 20, 2008, 10:15:56 PM
You are just a spring chicken, Diane, believe me!  :)

Title: Re: Wanting gifts that make you seem like a dinosaur.
Post by: Diane CBPFC on December 20, 2008, 10:52:10 PM
See, if you were my facebook friend you wouldn't have said that to me Vulture - yesterday my comment about life was: "Diane had a chicken swoop down and land on her head today."

Title: Re: Wanting gifts that make you seem like a dinosaur.
Post by: Vulture on December 20, 2008, 11:01:28 PM
Its because you are getting on in life that the staff look so young.
I always think women pushing prams seem to be school children.

How about buying Peter a book on tact and diplomacy.  ..0

I tried, I did not say that a certain person was old. Anyway i could do with a new shovel.

This is going back a few posts but..... why do you need a new shovel, Peter?

So I could dig a big enough hole to disappear into.

OK. Now comes the really difficult question: what's the difference between a shovel and a spade?



You can't wash your hands in a buffalo?

The reason I asked was: I thought a shovel was for 'shovelling' stuff up and transporting it somewhere else - coal from a coal-bunker to a coal-skuttle, for instance; and a spade was for 'digging' - as in 'digging a hole big enough to disappear in to'. Two very different uses!
Title: Re: Wanting gifts that make you seem like a dinosaur.
Post by: peter on December 21, 2008, 10:08:35 AM
Its because you are getting on in life that the staff look so young.
I always think women pushing prams seem to be school children.

How about buying Peter a book on tact and diplomacy.  ..0



I tried, I did not say that a certain person was old. Anyway i could do with a new shovel.

This is going back a few posts but..... why do you need a new shovel, Peter?

So I could dig a big enough hole to disappear into.

OK. Now comes the really difficult question: what's the difference between a shovel and a spade?


A shovel has sides to it and I already have a spade.