Comments on: Cut It Out http://www.mostlyanecdotal.org/2007/02/17/cut-it-out/ Did I tell you the one about the . . . Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:47:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Norm http://www.mostlyanecdotal.org/2007/02/17/cut-it-out/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Norm Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:57:55 +0000 http://www.mostlyanecdotal.org/2007/02/17/cut-it-out/#comment-5 <p>It's really rather nice being considered an old phart. You can get away with shit you'd never have gotten away with if you were younger. A second childhood so to speak.</p> It’s really rather nice being considered an old phart. You can get away with shit you’d never have gotten away with if you were younger. A second childhood so to speak.

]]> By: Winston http://www.mostlyanecdotal.org/2007/02/17/cut-it-out/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Winston Sun, 18 Feb 2007 11:22:54 +0000 http://www.mostlyanecdotal.org/2007/02/17/cut-it-out/#comment-4 <p>That was a somewhat courageous thing you did. Or foolish, depending on perspective. I have lost the "high-frequency tones" myself, but of course, that translates into the accumulation of much experience, knowledge, and wisdom. I have seen the virtual finger spinning near a head or two. And I have heard the whispers and seen the eyeballs roll toward the heavens.</p> <p>There is always one of these at work in such cases: the sage, the wacko, or the old phart. It is a struggle at times to figure out which one is in charge and which one is at the ready with the Xacto knife.</p> That was a somewhat courageous thing you did. Or foolish, depending on perspective. I have lost the “high-frequency tones” myself, but of course, that translates into the accumulation of much experience, knowledge, and wisdom. I have seen the virtual finger spinning near a head or two. And I have heard the whispers and seen the eyeballs roll toward the heavens.

There is always one of these at work in such cases: the sage, the wacko, or the old phart. It is a struggle at times to figure out which one is in charge and which one is at the ready with the Xacto knife.

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