Unofficial Tex Murphy

I broke 200!

Sure, it's not 300 like Jen. Or even 123200 like Jim, but it's still a milestone...

I was just about to make a topic about all you posts and how I think your trying to take over the top posts spot.

I actually think so too ...

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i dont think so at all, do i

U know i dont even know my total while tying this.

Even if I wanted to take over the top posters spot, which I'll admit I wouldn't mind, I'd have to post two posts per one of Jim's non-stop for the next few months. I don't think it's realistically possible.

But I can try...

Listen, all of you! I'll be old and gray and one foot in the grave before ANY of you (except the Cubmeister) get past my number of posts! Wait a minute! I AM old and gray and one foot in the grave!!!

Oh well, Maybe there's hope for y'all yet!

How does one go about having 1 foot in the grave? Are you standing on the edge and dangling the foot sort of OVER the grave, or maybe you're sitting down, sort of hanging it in about half way?

I ask because a grave is typically 6 feet deep (at least around these parts...), and you'd have to be mighty tall to only have 1 foot in there.

Have I missed the point?

It's clearly a metaphor. One foot in the grave most likely means something like "I take too much Geritol and howdja like THAT!?"

Remember Jim, anyone who have both feet firmly planted on the ground, ain't going anywhere

-Fred

One Foot In The Grave reminds me of the Brit sitcom of the same name (which is both a good and bad thing... good because it had some great moments, bad because it went on and on and I got fed up with some of the reptitiveness)

I was familiar with the metaphor, I guess I was just making a bad joke.

I've never seen the show, although I do know what you mean about some Brit comedies, and even US comedies running into the same thing over and over again.

Oh I assumed you were familiar with the metaphor, Andy, I just tried making a even poorer joke subverting the metaphor's meaning to my own sinister ends.

I so rarely get to use the word 'sinister' in a conversation...

-Fred

Wow, I got joked on my joke.

I must have REVENGE...

I sinisterly sinistered a sinister once. It was sinister! I love that word. That is a great word. Oh yeah ..

::clicks his post clicker:: nother one for the count.

Your sinister jokes are clearly sins!!! Evil, twisted, demented, cruel, but funny! Thanks, guys. You're the greatest!

"One foot in the grave" could be more easily understood this way. If the average male lives to be 75, then, at 60, I am 80% dead! OMG! I can't believe I thought of anything so sinister! (I love that word, too, TM.)

Did you know that sinister actually means "left-handed"? The current meaning has to do with superstitions and prejudices of the speakers of Latin (from which this word comes). For the ancient Romans, like many other cultures, the right side was considered a position of honor and trust (compare "right hand man"), but things associated with the left side in general and the left hand specifically were seen as suspicious, untrustworthy, or "sinister".