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maddiemom

(5,106 posts)
22. I think I'm in love.
Thu Aug 9, 2012, 04:21 PM
Aug 2012

"Dad," are you divorced or otherwise free? I'm a 67 year old "younger woman.

This message was self-deleted by its author [View all] friendly_iconoclast Aug 2012 OP
Yep! He tells it like it is/was and might be! Well said!!! n/t RKP5637 Aug 2012 #1
I wish my 67-year old father was as enlightened Animal Chin Aug 2012 #2
Don't worry Animal if what this man's dad said comes true you can believe it will change southernyankeebelle Aug 2012 #3
DEMOCRATIC Party, southernyankeebelle catbyte Aug 2012 #9
I get corrected often. I just forget. So I know you all know what I mean. I guess I'll just use southernyankeebelle Aug 2012 #13
Democrat is a noun. Republican is also a noun. JDPriestly Aug 2012 #19
Thank you. I want to tell you when I was a kid we had to break down sentences. I can't southernyankeebelle Aug 2012 #25
I never got diagramming sentences either. English classes in general were the bane of my Egalitarian Thug Aug 2012 #27
Diagramming that was it. I hated school so much. Wow I'm impressed with your accomplishments. southernyankeebelle Aug 2012 #28
That's a whole 'nother story, but I was in IT from '89 - 03. Today I work mostly with animals, Egalitarian Thug Aug 2012 #32
Wow that is an interesting job to work with horses. At least you don't get any talk back (LOL) southernyankeebelle Aug 2012 #35
It's so much more rewarding than the never ending fight to do a good job within the Egalitarian Thug Aug 2012 #47
Wow sounds like you really are enjoying your life. I quit work about 6 yrs ago. southernyankeebelle Aug 2012 #48
Sorry that you feel that way. maddiemom Aug 2012 #31
Opposite for me, but my GF just loved diagramming sentences. I think it's partly personality and Egalitarian Thug Aug 2012 #33
DemocrATIC is the adjective. Please don'temcourage this disrespect. maddiemom Aug 2012 #24
You know what I will use it the way I want. I am a DEM. Deal with it. It isn't being southernyankeebelle Aug 2012 #26
Wow, your attitude is pretty hostile maddiemom Aug 2012 #29
P.S. You were very pleasant to everyone else making the same observation.de the same observation. maddiemom Aug 2012 #30
Thank you maddiemom. I am not a troll and I did respond before I read this reply. But southernyankeebelle Aug 2012 #38
This message was self-deleted by its author southernyankeebelle Aug 2012 #37
You forgot the comma after "Above all else" ... Fantastic Anarchist Aug 2012 #43
I'm also 67... maddiemom Aug 2012 #23
Thanks for sharing that! MineralMan Aug 2012 #4
He's a wise man MrScorpio Aug 2012 #5
There's nothing new under the sun.......... TheDebbieDee Aug 2012 #6
I've got an 83 y.o. pop as well Semi_subversive Aug 2012 #7
Your Dad's last paragraph refers, I think, to 1937 when coalition_unwilling Aug 2012 #8
Romney, will make the 8 years of Bush trivial. Romney, will turn this RKP5637 Aug 2012 #12
Minor correction to both of you: that "SPENDING" on WWII reversed. n/t ieoeja Aug 2012 #15
Yes, I could have and should have been more explicit. Thought 'spending' was understood. But coalition_unwilling Aug 2012 #40
coalition_unwilling Diclotican Aug 2012 #17
"USSR had been more or less overrun by the summer of 1941" - well, someone forgot to coalition_unwilling Aug 2012 #39
coalition_unwilling Diclotican Aug 2012 #41
The American humorist Mark Twain once wrote that 'God created war coalition_unwilling Aug 2012 #42
coalition_unwilling Diclotican Aug 2012 #46
they won't raise ANY taxes. pay for anything? shirley you jest. pansypoo53219 Aug 2012 #10
I never jest. And don't call me Shirley. Brigid Aug 2012 #34
Your dad is my hero. Brigid Aug 2012 #11
The National Parks point strikes a chord with me Floyd_Gondolli Aug 2012 #14
The National Parks xxqqqzme Aug 2012 #16
friendly_iconoclast Diclotican Aug 2012 #18
ahhh... wise words indeed handmade34 Aug 2012 #20
A wise, wise man. WinstonSmith4740 Aug 2012 #21
Yes, I remember this. Brigid Aug 2012 #44
I think I'm in love. maddiemom Aug 2012 #22
Thanks! ananda Aug 2012 #36
Your dad is tapping into the same rhetoric I think I'm hearing lately...he's listening Sheepshank Aug 2012 #45
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