All that wander are not lost, to quote my brother Alan's sig. But you knew
that : )

Jim

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 6:35 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:

> At 06:53 PM 3/5/2013, Jim Felder wrote:
>
>> Well, if David is indeed 62, and not just telling us that to garner all
>> the
>> moderator authority he can, he can get himself a Golden Age Pass (google
>>
>
> He kin prove it!  He's got a copy of the night letter the Navy sent
> his father, saying "mother and daughter doing well."  Dad was a mite
> perplexed about the daughter part since he'd already heard from a
> neighbor.  Not to mention that they could more or less have shouted
> from the roof of the hospital to where he was in the shipyard, so
> sending a cut-rate overnight telegram seemed a bit odd in
> itself.  But sacred are the ways of the Navy, long may they sail.
>
> But just as he attained his majority in New York State at a time when
> the only additional privilege afforded him was to go into debt,  so
> has he already had a Golden Eagle pass since 1991...same idea with
> possibly slightly better perks, but for crips and feebs.  He's a
> feeb, or rather as someone writing about a 19th-century scientist
> once very kindly put it, "he lost his way in life".  So there goes
> all that hard-won authority. ;-)
>
> Yrs,
> d
>