Digital BW, The Print

OK, I'm going out on a rotting limb here, but I think, in these  
rhetorically inverted times, that "old fart" (originally implying a  
muttering old gasbag) may have taken on less a pejorative tone and  
given us a term that possibly provides us with a touch of humor and  
warm, fuzzy feelings. Not having "elder" or "statesman" meaning  
anything like what they did 40 years ago is an extremely sad  
commentary on the latter, and a wildly "denialistic" nature to the  
former.

This 55 yr old still has the emotional maturity of a 30 year old (not  
today's 30 yr old, but that of 1980, providing the 30 yr old had no  
nose candy problems), but the body of a 75 yr old wracked with  
slipping discs, arthritis, odd tingling in the extremities, weird  
accumulations of fat where muscles -- or at least near concavity-- 
were de rigueur.

But we do tend to learn, optimistically, from earlier attempts, at  
least if we can find our notes, lest the cranial clutter obscure the  
path to having answers directly at hand.

Gary


> Message: 9
>    Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 22:29:42 -0000
>    From: "Tyler Boley" <tyler@...>
> Subject: Re: Imageprint RIP/2200/2400/4800
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Danny  
> Culbertson" <danculb@b...>
> wrote:
> ...
>
>> Dan (uh.. the elder "statesman?")
>>
>
> ok, bad choice of words, some here probably have a few years on us,  
> and statesman, in this
> day and age, is clearly a derogatory title.
>
> They say it wasn't in the olden times of lore.
>
> So make up something...
>
> Tyler
>



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