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Yikes! I'm 40 today
Today I can no longer deny that I'm middle aged. I was born in what they call the summer of love, a year that includes these events:
- Canada turned 100
- Charlie Chaplin opened his last film
- Martin Luther King Jr. condemned the Vietnam war
- Expo 67 took place in Montreal
- Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu got married
- The Beatles released Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
- The Rolling Stones appeared on the Ed Sullivan show
- The Toronto Maple Leafs won the Stanley Cup (and haven't won since)
- The world's first heart transplant took place
A brand new MK II Ford Cortina would set you back $749 and a new home would have been $24,600. You'd bring home some $7,000 a year, pay 5¢ for a stamp, and pay 33¢ a gallon (9¢ a liter) at the pump.
This is what a computer looked like in those days. Of course, that computer didn't connect to the Internet because there was no Internet.
Man am I old. Oh well. Happy birthday to me.
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Happy Birthday!
Are you were you'd like to be at 40?
Thanks Bene!
Yes, mostly. I certainly feel blessed.
Yea! Happy Birthday, Darryl :)
Happy 40th Darryl!!
I remember the day you were born...
"The Toronto Maple Leafs won the Stanley Cup (and haven't won since)"
You had to go and mention THAT, didn't you? And I was going to wish you a Happy Birthday...
HAppy 40th. Hope you received my e-mail.
Old? No way. But happy birthday anyhow.
'Tis all a matter of perspective, my friend.
Hope it was a fabulous day!
happy 40th birthday darryl!
you may feel old now but you will always be young at heart besides you are also the same age as me....