The Great Old Ones: UMAers 40 & Over

[Scatter]

Maurice, so glad to know you're on the mend!!

[sirjames678]

Now I'm depressed that I looked at this topic...you're all a bunch of young-uns...I'm Sixty one years old! 

[Moonshadow]

Holy cow, Maurice, take it easy for awhile will ya? You sound like Evel Knievel with those busted ribs and arms! Seriously though, glad to hear your ticker checked out.

[tv horror]

Thank you Scatter and Moonshadow I am well on the mend , however I still don't glow in the dark worse luck. Now that would be cool!

[marsattacks666]

GO GLOW!

GO GLOW!!!, should be the next theme.

[Moonshadow]

I know all of my fellow great old ones will appreciate this tiki-style drive-in in Montclair, Ca:

http://critiki.com/location/?loc_id=526

It gets an 8.5 overall score from Cri-tiki:
http://critiki.com/location/?loc_id=526

Man would I love to check that place out!

[Scatter]

Me too!! I'm obsessed with Drive-ins, and this one is worth obsessing over!

[Pauspy]

50 in December, and I love having experienced both the delightful anticipation of having to wait for a weekly horror movie on TV, and the ability to collect and own them on DVDs

[Unknown Primate]

Maurice - The Indestructible Man!  Wow, you're a tough ol' Irishman!  Glad things are healing up for you.

For the first time in my life, I feel my age (55) - I think it's all catching up to me!

[tv horror]

You are right Mark, I'm a tough old boot. The funny thing is I use to be a real daredevil for in the past I wrecked houses and old factories for a living and came away unscratched. Yet I now find that my bumps now bring me more injuries , old age who needs it. Even my doctor never knew me until I turned fifty! Now I'm at his office nearly every couple of weeks, yeah I must have been very wicked in my past lives ha ha ha. Thanks for the concern.

[Unknown Primate]

Every doctor I see mentions how I must have really abused my body over the years - I mean, tell me something I don't know!

[Moonshadow]

You never realize when you're doing all those things to your body in your youth that there will be payback someday. I sometimes think it would be easier to list the parts that don't hurt!

[Sean]

I'm 44.  But I've put my body through hell.  Car crashes.  Football.  Fights, wreckless stunts  and general screwing around.  I met my wife AFTER all of that so we joke that I was once a stud---but she gets the schmootz left over after the craziness of my teens and 20s.

If anyone has ever seen North Dallas 40------I basically feel like Nick Nolte's character every day.

[Universal Steve]

Don't feel bad friends. Here is my story in a nutshell. I will be 55 in 14 days. I am a cancer survivor, I fell off a telephone pole and cracked my spleen. I was in intensive care for 2 days they thought I wasn't going to make it. I had a polynatal cyst when I was younger and I let it go. It grew up my spine over the years and had put poison through my body. I was rushed to the hospital and they called in all interns because the way it grew, you could only see it in medical books. They removed all the cyst and poisons. That is when I was 19.  When I was 22 I started to do cable tv. I told them about my defective ladder but it did not get replaced and on day while I was on it, it broke. I landed in the middle of the street from 18'. I landed with all my weight on my left hand. I shattered my knuckly and my finger is 15% disabled, So much so that in the winter I sometime have to shake it to get it to move. Then when I was 50, I had a heart attack and was dead for 2 minutes. They brought me back and here I am today at 54. I just had a toe removed because of a bone infection. I am still not cleared to go back to work. One suture won't heal. All this plus being born with asthma. Somehow I made it this far but it has been a rough trip. I must be like Boris Karloff "The Man With Nine Lives" but I am almost out of them so I am being careful and you should be too.  The old man is finished complaining about his aches and pains now. Thanks for listening to my brief bio.

[Unknown Primate]

Universal Steve Rocks!!  Seriously, dude, I need to stop complaining about my problems, which were mostly self-inflicted (but not, necessarily on purpose).  Here's to smooth sailing from now on, Steve - stay healthy, bruddah!