Napping. Not just for seniors anymore.
For years, I’ve resisted the temptation to sneak off to nap for a half-hour or so. Not wanting to appear senior before my time, I put napping up there with drinking before noon and wearing white in winter. It wasn’t worth the guilt.
Gifts for that Senior in Your Life
When you’ve lived as long as most seniors, you’ve got everything ó and then some. Here are some helpful hints for gifts seniors will never buy for themselves.
Here’s how to get President George W. Bush to send a personal Birthday Greeting to someone you love. Ex-presidents Clinton, Bush, Reagan, and Ford, too. It’s a nice gesture, but watch out! It can cause BIG TROUBLE.
ETC…
Yes, You Can Afford to Retire in Costa Rica
Where else can you find great climate, $50/mo healthcare coverage, a 2/bed, 2/bath home for $300/mo in a paradise where the natives just love Americans?
If you ever want to get away from it all and return to the friendlier world you knew as a kid, I suggest that you visit or retire to Florida’s Madison County. Its comfort and ease are akin to that first deep breath you take as you step off a jet-following a particularly harrowing flight.
Boomers, now joining our ranks by the millions, hate to be called “seniors.” After years of worshipping at the altar of youth, getting that “Welcome to AARP” letter freaks them. Poor things. I have some suggestions on what to call these aging whippersnappers.
Retirement Community Not End of the World
Is this the end of the road? The final step before The Last Roundup? Living in the land of “Early Bird Specials,” shuffleboard, and shuffling octogenarians, Frank takes a look at his new home “On Top of the World.”
My wife, Carolyn, and I are three miles up, falling, tumbling, soaring through space at 174 feet per second ó 120 mph or “terminal velocity.” Read why two old goats jumped from a perfectly good airplane last week.
TRIVIA
For the seventh straight year, Suddenly Senior brings you yet another way to see how mindless you’ve become in your dottering 50+ age. Now, where did you put your glasses?
Hey Jude, Take A Walk In Strawberry Fields. Just how good is your failing memory about the Fav Four.
Stars In Your Eyes Trivia Quiz
Yet another chance to prove that you’re “Older than Dirt.” Remember Liz Taylor’s love life, Brando’s “Stellaaaa,” old Blue Eye’s marriages?
Welcome Back to the ’50s: Yet Another “Older Than Dirt” Trivia Quiz
OK, OLD TIMER. You think you remember it all, the Korean War, McCarthy, Elizabeth’s coronation, Khrushchev’s shoe, Elvis, fins, Sputnik, hula hoops and Barbie dolls. Let’s see how good you really are!
Remember the Titters & Terrors of Yesteryear?
Take a stroll down radio’s memory lane. This “Older Than Dirt” Suddenly Senior Trivia Quiz will show you how much you remember!
Geezer Test! Are You “Older Than Dirt?”
Forgetting things, lately? Here’s your chance for redemption. Twenty questions that will prove once and for all whether you’re older than dirt.
“Older Than Dirt” Trivia Quiz for a Dreary Fall Afternoon
What do Sparkle Plenty, Lou Costello, Fibber McGee, Trigger, Doris Day, Black Jack Chewing Gum, 10¢ War Bond Saving Stamps, and Pinocchio have in common? They’re all part of this week’s Suddenly Senior Trivia Quiz. See how YOU do.
TV Cop-Outs: Another “Are You Older Than Dirt?” Quiz
How’s your memory today? We won’t even ask you to recall long-gone radio personalities. (Maybe next time!) Just a few famous TV cops from the ’50s to last season’s NYPD Blue. Just the facts, Ma’am.
Your chance to prove that your memory’s (almost) intact.
Here’s another chance to prove that your memory’s (somewhat) intact. Victory Gardens, telephone party lines, blue bulbs, old Studebakers, and how “The gals will all pursue ya.” It’s all here in the 2003 search for those “Older Than Dirt!”
3rd-and-a-Half Annual Trivia Quiz
We know how you did on the 3rd Annual quiz. Here’s your chance to redeem yourself and prove that all those who say that your memory’s gone are only half right.
We know how you did on the 3rd Annual quiz! And you thought that you knew something. Ha! This one tests your memory of old ads from the ’40s and ’50s. Prove that you still have a bit of memory left.
It’s the 5th Annual Geezer Test. Are You ‘Older Than Dirt?’
If you can’t remember your current phone number but know the earned run average of a 1940s baseball player or your 2nd-grade teacher’s name, this is the quiz for you!
“Horses & Horrors” Another “Older Than Dirt” Radio Quiz
Remember “Gangbusters?” How about “The Inner Sanctum?” If these jog your brain cells, you should do well on this new Suddenly Senior quiz.
