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You don't hear people saying that anymore....

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I had it in memory as "It's good to be alive, in nineteen fifty five."
Bur according to Google, it was ....1985, being a reference to George Orwell's 1984.
Whatever, you don't hear people saying that any more :|

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“Glad it’s still fun in twenty twenty one”. :lol:

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I'm still partying like it's 1999!

...and I still miss the guy who wrote that song. :(
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When I'm 64. I wish I was!

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I think that was Eccles who said 'It's good to be alive in 1985.'
(Sorry to the non UK people, Eccles was in the Goon show played by Spike Milligan.
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Orwells' Novel Nineteen Eighty-Four was released in 1949.

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I was released in 1946, people can read me like a book, but I never became famous.
The only thing that I predicted for the future was that sending all the manufacturing to cheap labour countries was a very bad idea. :doh:

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Ironically, I was diagnosed with a cataract in 2020.

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20/20 vision, eh?
Assuming that's not a joke, are you booked for surgery, Paul?
Takes about ten minutes, and you can see it all happen before your very eyes.
As a bonus, when the light catches the plastic lens right, you have a twinkle in your eye.

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Airspeed wrote:
05 Jul 2021, 02:32
20/20 vision, eh?
Assuming that's not a joke, are you booked for surgery, Paul?
Takes about ten minutes, and you can see it all happen before your very eyes.
As a bonus, when the light catches the plastic lens right, you have a twinkle in your eye.
:lol: No mate, it's not a joke. Having repeatedly put it off because of the pandemic restrictions, I finally decided to get it fixed. I'm going to my pre-surgery assessment next week where, amongst other things, they are going to measure my left eyeball. Presumably that means popping it out and running a tape measure around it. :-O

Seriously, I'll be damned glad to get it done, whenever it's scheduled. :agree:

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