"Another Old Fart Unearthed !!!!!" Topic
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| Blutarski | 03 Feb 2018 11:21 a.m. PST |
Was browsing through an o-l-d copy of The Courier from 1974-75 and whose name appears???? ROBERT PIEPENBRINK Them's was the Days! B |
robert piepenbrink  | 03 Feb 2018 12:19 p.m. PST |
Pay no attention to him. I knew him back then, and he was more often sure than he was right. Rude, too. |
| wrgmr1 | 03 Feb 2018 1:28 p.m. PST |
We mellow with age. Also don't put up with crap. |
| robert piepenbrink | 03 Feb 2018 3:38 p.m. PST |
It was worse than that, I'm afraid. I'm frankly embarrassed by some of the earliest stuff I wrote. It's not the mistakes: everyone makes their share, and I was reasonably well-read by the standards of 1974. It's the parading around showing myself off in some obnoxious manner or another, often at the expense of people who'd shown me nothing but kindness. The facts and reasoning may be acceptable, but the manner of it was not. And by the time I understood this, at least two of the people I should have apologized to were dead. Which is why I try for a lighter touch these days. "Let my words today be sweet and tender, for tomorrow I may have to eat them." Anyway, them WAS the days. I don't know that I'd want to get together 20 wargamers in a barn and a farmhouse and push 4,000 30mm Napoleonics in a two-day game again, but I'm glad I got a chance to do it regularly in the Waybackwhens. |
| Blutarski | 03 Feb 2018 6:43 p.m. PST |
We were young back then, and sometimes rash. Fortunately, as wrgmr1 says … "we mellow with age". B |
| Big Red | 04 Feb 2018 8:52 a.m. PST |
With enough salt and pepper, crow doesn't taste too bad. Or so I'm told. |
| Winston Smith | 04 Feb 2018 9:43 a.m. PST |
 I was so much older then
I'm younger than that now.
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| Blutarski | 04 Feb 2018 2:55 p.m. PST |
+1 Winston "Wolfman Jack" Smith! "I was so much older then
I'm younger than that now." Whoa, that's one from the 8-track in my Wayback Machine ….. "My Back Pages", Bob Dylan. Funny you should reference a musical lyric. This thread got me thinking about the refrain from the Animals song, "When I was Young"… "When I was young, it was more important
Pain more pain
But laughin' much louder, Yeah" B |
| Narratio | 04 Feb 2018 8:17 p.m. PST |
1st Verse, 'The Logical Song' by Supertramp. Ah yes. The things I wrote for public consumption in the 80's and 90's often pop up to humiliate me. I try to bear the load. |
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