Fifty-Plus Club for SteamGeezers

[J. Wilhelm]

The final scene with the last robot holding the battered old watering can caring for it all and Joan Baez singing.......I'm starting to well up now thinking about it

This film is way before its time (global warming, save the planet, recycling etc etc)

So much for the ruffty-tuffty biker builder in me eh?

~SeVeN~

I don't know.  Kind of goes hand in hand with the late 60s hippie movement IMHO.  Perhaps like so many bikers around here you're an old hippie treehugger at heart  

[Prof. Cecily]

I think the first sci-fi movie I watched in the cinema that moved me as a youngster was Silent Running (1972) with Bruce Dern, huey duey and louie.

Still a classic IMHO and even now can bring a tear to my eye 40 odd years on.

~SeVeN~

Good morning,ladies and gentlemen.
Silent Running!
It's been years since I thought of that film.

I remember taking my father to see 2001 when I was in my first year at Uni.
He kept on and on about the peculiar odour of burning leaves in the cinema...

I remain yours,
Prof. Cecily

[Banfili]

Leaves?? Those leaves!

[barb dwyer]

ha, ha.

ermagerrd. took me a full day to get that.

[J. Wilhelm]

ha, ha.

ermagerrd. took me a full day to get that.

Leaves?? Those leaves!

Yeah, you know?  The ones that smell like a cross between a skunk and a fart 

[Rory B Esq BSc]

You know you're getting older when you go to a '40's weekend' and you're the only person there who can play period music or you chat to people about playing on the tanks and trucks in the forest between your farm and the village you went to school in (and see a car only 13 numbers before the one your dad had).

[ClockworkRaja]

I maybe 50 but i don't consider myself a geezer.... yet. LOL

[Sir Henry]

I maybe 50 but i don't consider myself a geezer.... yet. LOL

I think I see the problem:

From Wikipedia,
Geezer is a term for a man. It can carry either the connotation of age and eccentricity in the UK, or that of self-education such as craftiness or stylishness (not so much). In the US the term often refers to a cranky old man.

And then again, there's the 'diamond geezer':

From the BBC,
Diamond geezer. London slang. Cockney accent usually, I suppose - 'diamond geezer!' 'Geezer!' It's dialect pronunciation in London for a 'guiser' - that's G-U-I-S-E-R - in other words, somebody who puts on a guise, a kind of mummer, if you like, a kind of travelling player. So that's where the word comes from.

But the modern usage in London and further afield - a geezer is, well, it means 'he's one of us'. An older person tends to be a geezer. You wouldn't usually call a child or a young man a geezer. It tends to be an older person. A geezer is your mate. It's somebody reliable, solid, a trustworthy person. And 'diamond' in front of it is, well, diamonds of course are wonderful things, they're special things, they're valuable things, so a diamond something, is a very special something. So, a diamond geezer is a reliable person who's really a very special person. So you add all that up, and you get an equivalent in 'he's a good sort', 'he's an OK chap', 'he's a great bloke', 'he's a good feller', 'he's a hero' - these are the glosses for diamond geezer.

But because it appeared in a 2005 film staring David Jason, 'Diamond Geezer', there is a touch of the eccentric and the maverick about it. Here, we're talking about a thief who's charming and cheeky and everybody loves him really, he's got a heart of gold, he's a good sort, he's not really a bad guy - he's a diamond geezer.

And then there was my source of inspiration, the Ginger Geezer:

'Ginger Geezer' by Vivian Stanshall

I'll stick to the UK definition, cheers.

[Maets]

Today I join the Sixty-Plus Club! Leaving the fifties behind and off I go.  They say 60 is the new forty.  I hope that is true.

[Sir Henry]

Many happy returns (in your time machine, obviously)!

[Banfili]

Maets, I hope so too - recently hit 62!

[Countessa Lenora]

I can't believe it, but it's true, I'm now an official member of the Fifty-Plus SteamGeezers!

I don't feel a day over 29 

[Sir Henry]

I can't believe it, but it's true, I'm now an official member of the Fifty-Plus SteamGeezers!

I don't feel a day over 29 

Many happy returns and welcome to the Club where only the tried and tested may join. 

And may you never have to suffer a comment like my daughter's yesterday: "I saw a picture of you ten years ago - you used to be skinny! "
"Yes dear, and here's a dictionary; see if you can find the word 'diplomatic'..."

[SeVeNeVeS]

I can't believe it, but it's true, I'm now an official member of the Fifty-Plus SteamGeezers!

I don't feel a day over 29 

I know how you feel, 51 in a few months, mentally still 20, if only my body could keep up with my mind........ ouch, that aches, should that be making that grinding noise? etc etc.....

Fart jokes anyone? Childish I know but what the hey?
Billy Connolly Tells Just About the Funniest Story Ever

[Maets]

I can't believe it, but it's true, I'm now an official member of the Fifty-Plus SteamGeezers!

I don't feel a day over 29 

happy birthday and welcome to the club.

[Rockula]

I can't believe it, but it's true, I'm now an official member of the Fifty-Plus SteamGeezers!

I don't feel a day over 29 

zzzzzzz....What...what's that...New member you say...round of drinks from the bar....welcome......mmm mmm...zzzzzzz (Snoring sounds).

[creagmor]

Fifty? Oh to be seventy again. Will hit 74 in Dec. I still feel like I did in my fifties, except for stamina. I like to think it's my curiosity that keeps me young. "Wine, women, and song? It's not the first two that do ya in; it's all that blasted singing!"

[Countessa Lenora]

Thanks everyone for the gracious and often hilarious welcome!

Just so happens I'm going to see Billy Connolly in October. Can't wait!

[walking stick]

Joke I'm sure you'll appreciate.

I didn't feel old when I started thinking the policemen looked too young, it was when I started thinking that the judges did.

[Lady Toadflinger]

My problem is that the Doctors look too young!! Trust my health to a kid?!!

[Maets]

Today I hit 61.  Time marches on.

[SeVeNeVeS]

Happy Birthday Mr Maets! I'm only 10 years your junior, yep, time marches on, where does it go and so quickly it seems?

Many happy returns good sir.

[markf]

I watched the Wild Wild West tv series each week when it was first broadcast on CBS when I was a 10 yr old in 1965, so I'm definitely 50+ eligible.  Maybe 50++ depending on the numerical constant to be applied to the +. markf

[Prof. Cecily]

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
A very happy belated birthday to you, Maets!

61? Old enough to know better, young enough not to care!

I remain yours,
Prof. Cecily

[Banfili]

I hit 63 the day before Christmas - don't feel a day over 40 (most days!)