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I wonder what is the average age of all of is? I am 60. Does it appear that there are less and less younger heads?
-------------------- Preston McCall 112 Rim Road Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 text: 5056607370 Posts: 1552 | From: Santa Fe, New Mexico | Registered: Nov 1998
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Ray Chapman admitted in his birthday post that he felt like 17. Throw in my 18 and I'm guessing Si and OP around 22, so we're still a young group - it's all relative.....
-------------------- www.signcreations.net Sonny Franks Lilburn, GA 770-923-9933 Posts: 4115 | From: Lilburn, GA USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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I am 67 and still trying to catch up to Si!!!
He counts because he still does some work now and then.
I don't count because I dislike working nowadays.
(Well, I DID bring a dead scanner back to life yesterday and gave a couple of windshield wiper arms an attitude adjustment today. )
-------------------- Dave Grundy retired in Chelem,Yucatan,Mexico/Hensall,Ontario,Canada 1-519-262-3651 Canada 011-52-1-999-102-2923 Mexico cell 1-226-785-8957 Canada/Mexico home
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I was born 1958, but my clock runs at half of the regular time.
-------------------- Signs by Alicia Jennings (Mudflap Girl) Tacoma, WA Since 1987 Have Lipstick, will travel. Posts: 3812 | From: Tacoma, WA. U.S.A. | Registered: Dec 1999
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I was born in '68, but lately I really feel like the guy in "Grand Torino"-- "Get off my lawn..."
Jim, the guy who works for me, is 74- and will be hanging it up in Dec.- I have spent the last 17 years with him, so a lot of my "grumpy old man" attitude I believe has rubbed off from him...
-------------------- Michael Clanton Clanton Graphics/ Blackberry 19 Studio 1933 Blackberry Conway AR 72034 501-505-6794 clantongraphics@yahoo.com Posts: 1735 | From: Conway Arkansas | Registered: Oct 2001
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when i look at 18-30 hard bodied girls, i think iam 21, when i look in the mirror, i wonder how in the hell anyone can look that old in 21 years???? hahahahahahahahahaha
-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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45 this month! I feel like Im in my 20s but I can tell the body is not giving me quite the output it did back then. I nap more now
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Same here Joey. Looking thru 20 year old eyes. Who the h3ll is that old man in the mirror????
-------------------- Bill'n'Annie Davidson Heathcote, NSW, Aus. my Aussie wife, a Toohey's Old, my Holden Ute, Retired from the rat race! Posts: 309 | From: Heathcote, NSW, Australia | Registered: Nov 1998
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Chasing 18 year old girls is like a dog chasing a train...whatcha gonna do once you catch it? I'm 6 5 and my chase is about over, but thanks to the nice folks on Lettervile who continue to entertain us with new ideas and lots of humor,my family and my wonderful wife of 28 years,I'm looking for 6 6.
-------------------- Bill Wood Bill Wood, Sign Artist 3628 Ogburn Ave., NE Winston-Salem, NC 27105-3752 336-682-5820 Posts: 397 | From: Winston-Salem, NC | Registered: May 2006
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I'm 53 and still can't believe it. I still think like I did at 25, but the energy level has dropped off a little. I decided to get back to a regular routine of exercising after my ankle heals up from a tendon strain.
It takes longer to heal than it did a few short years ago! What's up with that? If that guy Tony Horton can do it in his 50's with this P90X routine, then I sure can.
Sign-cerely, Steve
-------------------- Steve Luck Sign Magic Inc. 2718-b Grovelin Godfrey, Illinois 62035 (618)466-9120 signmagic@sbcglobal.net Posts: 870 | From: 2718-b Grovelin Godfrey, Illinois 62035 | Registered: Dec 2004
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-------------------- aka:Cisco the "Traveling Millennium Sign Artist" http://www.franciscovargas.com Fresno, CA 93703 559 252-0935 "to live life, is to love life, a sign of no life, is a sign of no love"...Cisco 12'98 Posts: 3576 | From: Fresno, Ca, the great USA | Registered: Dec 1998
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Im 50 in four days. Not lloking forward to it at all. Have been flat out busy for past three months, working most weekends as well and feeling the strain now. Not able for the extra hours like I once was
-------------------- Kevin Gaffney Artistik Signs Kinnegad County Westmeath Ireland 044-75187 kevingaffney@eircom.net Posts: 628 | From: Ireland | Registered: Oct 2003
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I am over 17,000 years old...yes I am the reincarnation of Anka...one of the very first walldogs......Known for my simplicity and economy of line...cave work kept me busy back in the day...below is an example of some of my early cave work.
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66, so far, healthy, God willing, i'll get to 90 like my neighbor Ernie...
-------------------- John Lennig / Big Top Sign Arts 5668 Ewart Street, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada bigtopya@hotmail.com 604.451.0006 Posts: 2184 | From: Burnaby, British Columbia,Canada | Registered: Nov 2001
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SANDY, groucho marx said this and most know what womanizer he was!!!! "the old saying youre as old as you feel," should be change to youre only as old ...AS WHO YOU FEEL!!!!
-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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-------------------- dennis kiernan independent artist san francisco, calif, usa Posts: 907 | From: san francisco, ca usa | Registered: Feb 2010
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Old enough to finally be smart enough to buy a lawnmower that is big enough!!!
-------------------- Michael Gene Adkins The Fontry 1576 S Hwy 59 Watts OK 74964 Posts: 845 | From: Watts, OK USA | Registered: Jun 1999
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Darn, we all be getting up thar. I think we should all invest in a large Montana Ranch and make it our "Letterville Retirement Center".
-------------------- Signs by Alicia Jennings (Mudflap Girl) Tacoma, WA Since 1987 Have Lipstick, will travel. Posts: 3812 | From: Tacoma, WA. U.S.A. | Registered: Dec 1999
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Somehow I got it in my head last year I was 57,..when I did the math on my last birthday I figured out I had somehow added an extra year last time I did my math,...seems I get to be "57" twice,... thats what happens when ya lose track of time or is it????? and all them young ladies in the hall at college blush and grin when they think I'm winking at them,...I don't have the heart to tell them I'm blind in that eye,.....
-------------------- fly low...timi/NC is, Tim Barrow Barrow Art Signs Winston-Salem,NC Posts: 2224 | From: Winston-Salem,NC,USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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I went to my sign supply house to pick up some poster and lettering enamel last week. The young man at the counter was new and he looked at the can as he rang it up and asked me what I used the stuff for? I told him I hand-lettered signs and he looked at me like I was from Krypton. He said he never knew people could do them by hand. I asked him how he thought signs were made and he said he always thought they were done with a computer and in vinyl. He was truly mystified.
I then showed him my book of pictures and it was like he thought I was nuts to try that. He asked where they taught the skill and I told him in the only place any more is in the Big House. He was clueless what that meant. Another guy came up to order something and he recognized me. We started talking about when he had done his last hand-job and he said years ago. The young man at the counter then asked me where we get the brushes. I told him from his company and he couldn't believe they actually sold little long bristled brushes. I showed him in their catalog. He said he wanted to learn how to letter. The other customer and I looked at each other and shook our heads. I am amazed it has come to this. Not only is it a dying art, but it appears to be a completely forgotten one at that! Oh well. We wonder why younger folks are not learning the trade? I guess they simply do not care to tackle something so skill set.
Now I have truly become a grumpy old geeser. You would think there would be some young people who would want to pick up the skill, but guess it is dead. Oh well. Back to banging out some one inch helvetica on a glass panel in reverse....
-------------------- Preston McCall 112 Rim Road Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 text: 5056607370 Posts: 1552 | From: Santa Fe, New Mexico | Registered: Nov 1998
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Preston, If you consider hand lettering a dying art than what Ive got to say is ' you should get out more '
There are tons more hand letterers as well as pinstripers in this world right now then there ever was. Of course most of them are into vehicle art and not signage and I totally understand that, at least from my standpoint.
-------------------- HotLines Joey Madden - pinstriping since 1952 'Perfection, its what I look for and what I live for'
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SO far, I win the prize (until the Diaz boys get on here) 37 soon to be 38!
-------------------- Nikki Goral Image Advantage Signs 4050 Champeau Road New Franken, WI 54229 920-465-4500 "Finish every day and be done with it. Tomorrow is a new day."-Ralph Waldo Emerson Posts: 928 | From: New Franken, WI (East Green Bay) | Registered: Jun 2007
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