Mikebatzel is a quarter century

I see you are 25 today. Happy Birthday Mike!

 

Happy B-Day Mike and many more

 

Happy birthday, Mike! You were born after I graduated from high school and you are a quarter century old. Heavy sigh . . . . .

 

happy birthday!

 

Happy B-day Mike, I too enjoyed being 25. It is so long ago now that of course I only remember the "good times"!

 

I was thinking of ties and dress shirts, but I'll bet I've got some dress socks that might be that old! I know my wing-tips are well over that age.

 

Wooo Hoooo! 25! I'm no longer a high risk driver! Should see my insurance rates drop substancially.

Thank you all. It's been a very good 25 years so far. to the next 75, I say bring it on!
I have truly enjoyed getting to know you all over the past year and a half and converse about a common intrest. I hope to share many more birthdays with you all before I'm done.

 

Happy Birthday!

 

Happy Birthday!

 

Hi Mike, HAPPY BIRTHDAY and your officially 1/2 the way there to becoming an "Old Fart." I was first cristened as one by a little girl riding her bicycle which had a thumb-bell on it. I was sitting outside my home in my car working on a Crossword Puzzle while eating an order of Chicken Planks and Hushpuppies-drinking Rootbeer, from Long John Silvers)-when this young lady came up to me smiling and called me an "Old Fart." To which I replied: "Thank You." The young lady didn't quite know how to react because her comment didn't irritate me in the least and I thought it was quite funny-that at the approximate age of 38-or-39-I was called an Old Fart. Anyway, she just continued to smile and then peacefully rode her bike away from the area. I didn't give it another thought and peacefully continued to dine on my cuisine-as well as to enrich my brain with a bit more knowledge.

 

Happy Birthday!!
If you're not an "old fart" then are you a "young fart"? That doesn't sound right.

 

Again, thanks to all of you. I'll get to "old fart" status some day, but not yet. It turned out to be a great day. I recieved from my mother one of those Sony Reader's. A great gift, I couldn't help but download six books right off the bat. I ended the night geating WAY to drunk at the local watering hole. As soon as the DJ got wind and announced it, I was flooded by free drinks and women all night.

 

Happy b'day matey.

 

I sympathise, Carl. The wife and kids have recently christened me "Fat Old Git".
I'm 11.5 stone..............then again, I'm only 5' 5".

 

That is what in "non-Brit" speak? About 161 pounds? If so that isn't all that bad if it isn't all carried around your belly

I myself am a touch under 6'3" and have weighed over 220 pounds since I was in my late teens. Now as I approach my 60th birthday this year I am embarrassed to admit that I am closer to 260 lbs, which is what? 18.5 stone?

I just invested in a mountain bike which I have put a "crusier seat" on, and with its suspension on the front forks perhaps I will be able to get off some of the excess baggage! I have had so many knee operations in the past years, that the "medicos" won't talk about any more for me at my age (3 on the right, 2 on the left). I started gaining weight as soon as I couldn't walk worth a dang, my knees didn't go to hell because I was packing the extra poundage. It was the other way 'round.

I hope the low impact of riding a bike around will help dump some of the excess.

 

Sorry- never did cope with metrication!
Yes, it's 161 lb. Yes, it's all in me spare tyre....
For those not lucky enough to be British -
16 Ounces (oz)= 1 Pound (lb)
14lb= 1 Stone (st)
8 st=112 lb= 1 Hundredweight (Cwt)
Sounds even scarier now, eh?

 

Hi Lou, Clint, Gordon ;-))

Gordon, heh heh, im only about 3-4 inches taller than you are and weigh more-even though it's much much less than I have weighed in about 25 years ;-))

Clint, good weight for someone half a foot taller than than I.

Lou, though im not at my ideal weight yet--probably within the next several months? but not a bad total for such a time period. My Dad most of his earlier life weighed at about 125-130-ran track for his High-school before enlisting in the Army Air Corps for WWII-then quickly gained about 10-15 pounds thanks to Army Chow. I think his top weight was 145??? but not bad for about 40 or so years of effort ;-) Me?? if I walk past a Bakery-the pounds slip back on but-I have a weapon to fight it with-I stay fairly strict on a daily calorie intake of from between 1,000 to about 1,800 a day. I lose slowly but-that's OK too as long as I lose and not gain.