[kj] Feeling Old

fatpotanga gathering@misera.net
Fri, 29 Aug 2003 16:13:54 +0100


1985 was the year I got into the joke.
I bought Nightime from WH Smith in Altrincham the day after I first saw them
on the Tube... 
I was 15 and didn't have beard with grey bits.
In fact, I still don't
in truth, I just look stupid if I don't shave.
Not enough 'natural resources'


> From: PRAEst76 <praest76___@dsl.pipex.com>
> Organization: PRAEst76's cheesecake emporium
> Reply-To: gathering@misera.net
> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 15:32:57 +0100
> To: Alexander Smith <gathering@misera.net>
> Subject: Re: [kj] Feeling Old
> 
> Alexander  Smith sed...
> 
>> Here is the 2003 year's list:
> 
>> The people who are starting college this fall across the nation were born in
>> 1985.
> 
> You know... I bought my first album in 1985. It was the Ghostbusters
> soundtrack album. I bought it on tape. Lost the case about two weeks
> later, two years later I moved to the other side of the country and
> the tape lay in my cousins garage until I reclaimed it about six years
> ago while looking for their dog who had run in there in a strop after
> I refused his sexual advances. Since then it's sat with the rest of my
> cassette collection in the wicker bookcase in the bathroom. Last night
> I dropped it in the bath and fucked it up. If it doesn't work anymore
> I may have it gilded and mounted as a tribute to my past... or
> something.
> 
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> PRAEst76
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