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steve2470

(37,457 posts)
Sat Aug 22, 2015, 11:47 AM Aug 2015

I turn 57 tomorrow, what should I do ?

If it's illegal, immoral or fattening, I'll have to take it under advisement.

All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening.
"The Knock at the Stage Door" in Reader's Digest (December 1933); also in A Dictionary of Catch Phrases : British and American, from the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day (1986) by Eric Partridge and Paul Beale, ISBN 041505916X, ISBN 9780415059169


https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alexander_Woollcott
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I turn 57 tomorrow, what should I do ? (Original Post) steve2470 Aug 2015 OP
You should CELEBRATE! femmocrat Aug 2015 #1
thanks! nt steve2470 Aug 2015 #2
Go for the gusto Art_from_Ark Aug 2015 #3
lol steve2470 Aug 2015 #4
Eat high quality ice cream. roody Aug 2015 #5
hey that's a great idea actually steve2470 Aug 2015 #6
That's my favorite Ben and Jerry's ice cream as well. Tobin S. Aug 2015 #7
Nope... Wounded Bear Aug 2015 #15
You should do something that you've never done before. Tobin S. Aug 2015 #8
...Also, buy some very rich whipped cream to go on your cake and ice cream. BlueJazz Aug 2015 #9
Here ya go. Do whatever you want. hobbit709 Aug 2015 #10
Party like you're 27 LiberalEsto Aug 2015 #11
Sing a song! oldandhappy Aug 2015 #12
My wife and I were 57 once DFW Aug 2015 #13
I was just thinking the same thing! redwitch Aug 2015 #31
Do what YOU want! IF you can benld74 Aug 2015 #14
Open an Ashley Madison account. Kaleva Aug 2015 #16
adopt a kitty. KMOD Aug 2015 #17
thank you sis! nt steve2470 Aug 2015 #25
Do a tandem skydive. Amazing! nt Logical Aug 2015 #18
Freak Out! blogslut Aug 2015 #19
Take a really large breath Mnpaul Aug 2015 #20
Make a list of your non-painful joints. Gidney N Cloyd Aug 2015 #21
Relax and enjoy the ride seveneyes Aug 2015 #22
57 eh? Well here's my bucketlist for inspiration. GOLGO 13 Aug 2015 #23
I saw my son and his girlfriend last night, and had a lovely steak dinner steve2470 Aug 2015 #24
I hope you had a very happy birthday... Stellar Aug 2015 #26
A Murder She Wrote marathon! nt valerief Aug 2015 #27
Hey, '58 was a good year! hamsterjill Aug 2015 #28
Listen closely gratuitous Aug 2015 #29
Smoke some weed. Yavin4 Aug 2015 #30
Party with Madonna? MrMickeysMom Aug 2015 #32
From a 74 year old: First of all, stay 57 for a year. trof Aug 2015 #33

Tobin S.

(10,418 posts)
8. You should do something that you've never done before.
Sat Aug 22, 2015, 01:18 PM
Aug 2015

It will make the occasion memorable and you might discover a new enjoyable activity.

 

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)
9. ...Also, buy some very rich whipped cream to go on your cake and ice cream.
Sat Aug 22, 2015, 01:21 PM
Aug 2015

I can't buy it myself. It's lucky if it gets to my house unopened.

oldandhappy

(6,719 posts)
12. Sing a song!
Sat Aug 22, 2015, 02:00 PM
Aug 2015

Dance outside, howl at the moon, take yourself out for something tasty, call your mom, be grateful.



Happy Birthday!

redwitch

(14,954 posts)
31. I was just thinking the same thing!
Mon Aug 24, 2015, 05:00 PM
Aug 2015

And as George Burns once said "Oh to be 70 again!" I'll be 59 next month. 57 looks good to me know although I wasn't happy to be turning another year older then either.

Enjoy Steve!

GOLGO 13

(1,681 posts)
23. 57 eh? Well here's my bucketlist for inspiration.
Sun Aug 23, 2015, 06:29 PM
Aug 2015

1. Smoke a Cuban cigar in Cuba

2. Punch a Texas Ranger in the mouth. Not a MLB Ranger the one that rides a horse.

3. "Canada has refused Our demands. Gather the troops.

4. "Maybe if you do more cocaine the hallucinations will go away."

5. Join the church of Satan.

6. "That BC Rich guitar you got in 1989, that's still in your basement that you never learned to play? Continue to ignore it. Your almost 60 for Christsake! You think your Keith friggen Richards?"

7. Join the church of Perpetual Exception.

8. "I find myself on the planet Ogo, part of an intellectual elite, preparing to subjugate the barbarian hordes on Pluto. But even though this is a totally convincing reality for me in every way, nevertheless Ogo is actually a construct of my psyche. I am mentally divergent, in that I am escaping certain unnamed realities that plague my life here. When I stop going there, I will be well. Are you also divergent, Steve2470?"

9. Accept the fact that you will never make it in porn.

10. "Sometimes I fear immortality has driven me insane. I'm bored, Steve2470. Cosmically, sexually... Last week I made love to a giant panda. No reason, Steve2470. Do you hear me? I had no goddamn reason at all. It wasn't even a goddess in disguise, or anything. I merely saw it, took it, discarded it. There was no joy in it. Just a hollowness, for the entire act. The same hollowness I feel now. I long for death but fear I cannot die."

steve2470

(37,457 posts)
24. I saw my son and his girlfriend last night, and had a lovely steak dinner
Mon Aug 24, 2015, 11:39 AM
Aug 2015

I had vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce too YUM!

No drama on my birthday and seeing my son = big success in my book!

Thank you all for your kind thoughts and suggestions!


Steve

hamsterjill

(15,224 posts)
28. Hey, '58 was a good year!
Mon Aug 24, 2015, 12:42 PM
Aug 2015

Don't ever forget that!!! Go and do something fun and shameless.

Happy Birthday one day early!

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
29. Listen closely
Mon Aug 24, 2015, 02:13 PM
Aug 2015

You'll hear me laughing that you're nearly a month older than me! There's fewer and fewer of those people every year.

trof

(54,256 posts)
33. From a 74 year old: First of all, stay 57 for a year.
Mon Aug 24, 2015, 06:17 PM
Aug 2015

Don't rush things.
58 will come before you know it.

Hydrate.
Everybody says that's good for you, although we didn't use to and we seemed to get along OK.
It couldn't hurt.

Wear comfortable shoes with good arch supports.
In 10 years your feet will thank you.

Support Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination.
If you're polled or see an online poll, go for Trump.
It's driving the repugs nuts (nuttier?) and that's always a good thing.

The quote is from Alexander Woollcott.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alexander_Woollcott

Happy Birthday!
trof




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