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     Cyberpope wrote --   
      
   > I blame the governmemt: they began using "gender" to ask if male or female   
   because certain staff were afraid of the word "sex."    
      
     I can understand that.   
      
   > Or like the teenage boy who was looking at the question "Sex?" & thought   
   "Well, I'd like to F, but I guess I should be honest & put that I only M"   
      
      ROFLOL   
      
   > So you're a big o' 71 now, eh? Quite young, still. . .   
      
     Yep.   
     When I was a kid I was sometimes referred to as "Little Joe" (long before   
   Bonanza was on TV) when discussing my brother or I for whatever reason.    
     When I think of him he is still "Big Joe" to me.   
      
   > Most of my real-life friends are closer to 80 or 90. . .   
      
      I've always enjoyed talking to older people, regardless of my age.  (At   
   one time a "older" person could have been 20, 30, 40, etc years old.  As I   
   get older there are fewer older people to talk to).   
      I sometimes think I was born out of time.  I have always been more   
   interested in the time from around 1900 than the years I was living in.     
      Still am.  I would much rather listen to music from the 20s and 30s than   
   anything "modern" as an example.  That goes for films, books, radio, etc.   
      I could easily live a life as it was in say the 1930s and '40s.   
       
   > Back when you could say "one of each" & not cause confusion.   
      
     Yep.   
     Like your earlier comment to let the kid decide what they are.   
      
   > So you're a multiplicate uncle, eh?  Any family yourself? (wife, kids,   
   > grand'uns, etc?)   
      
     Not that I know of.  wink wink     
     I came close to getting married a couple of times but came to my senses.    
   :)   
      
   > Did your parents consider you a "mistake" or a "surprise"?   
      
     Maybe a bit of both.  :)   
      
   > Nearly 50 & doing manual labour/yardwork, eh? Fun times we live in, eh? :P    
      
     My work life in the past was mostly what would be termed manual labour   
   and outside.   
     I have always been active.  I walk/bike wherever I need to go.   
     I am also very independent.  I never ask anyone to take me somewhere or   
   pick me up.  I come/go as best as I can.   
     I don't like be dependent on others.  Never have.   
      
   > But we understand plenty, because we know the truth & we watched it go   
   wrong. . . powerless against a juggernaut of ignorance sweeping our respective   
   national populations. . .   
      
     ==sigh==  Yep.   
      
   > (Once married my wife fired the cleaning folk, saying she's trust her own   
   job better anyway)   
      
     I'm the same way as she is.   
      
   > I'm actuallky not a danger or problemn at all; I'm just more aware than   
   most. .   
      
     That sir is what makes you dangerous...   
     One must remember these are the days of bread and circuses.  Being well   
   fed and entertained to take you mind off things.  Pay no attention to that   
   man (or group) behind the curtain.   
      
   > Our early history is filled with sots, who essentially said "*hic* f--- it,   
   let's do it!"   
      
     And now there are so many groups giving money to the pols to do the will   
   of the giver and not the people.     
     But then we are drifting into modern politics...   
       
   > I'm especially impressed by how Mr. G. Washington was offered to be made   
   king(absolute ruler) of his new country, & he lit into the people, reminding   
   them of why & his compatriots fought long & hard against the British.   
      
     At the time the idea of an elected president was a radical and unproven   
   idea.   
     From the earliest days there were hierarchical kings, who held all the   
   power and gave out some to various members of the nobility.   
     "Elect our leaders?  That's a crazy idea".   
      Joe   
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