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raymondh Loc: Walker, MI

whatdat Loc: Del Valle, Tx.

👍👍👍!!!

Michael1079 Loc: Indiana

Amen!

Especially to the 3rd one. I had to ask my wife today what an SMS was. She told me it was a text message. Why the heck don't they just say text message!

SteveR Loc: Michigan

Funny cartoons!! One thought. We didn't need the Elf on the Shelf to maintain good behavior before Christmas. We had "Santa Claus is Coming to Town," and we believed it!!

bittermelon

Alzheimer is not funny.

bittermelon

Michael1079 wrote:

Amen!

Especially to the 3rd one. I had to ask my wife today what an SMS was. She told me it was a text message. Why the heck don't they just say text message!

Well, SMS is only one kind of text message. So it's not accurate to substitute the two.

SteveR Loc: Michigan

bittermelon wrote:

Alzheimer is not funny.

I don't think the cartoon indicated Alzheimers, but memory in old age is not quite the same as it was when we were young. That's why they hawk dietary supplements for memory improvement for healthy, but older, people. We tend to joke about our infirmities. That's all it was doing.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

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When I was about 28 I threw my back out leaning over the sink while shaving.

My solution was simply to stop shaving.

ecblackiii Loc: Maryland

SteveR wrote:

I don't think the cartoon indicated Alzheimers, but memory in old age is not quite the same as it was when we were young. That's why they hawk dietary supplements for memory improvement for healthy, but older, people. We tend to joke about our infirmities. That's all it was doing.

You are right. Forgetfulness is a trait that everyone gets as they age. It is not Alzheimers.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

ecblackiii wrote:

You are right. Forgetfulness is a trait that everyone gets as they age. It is not Alzheimers.

It's not so much forgetfulness as it is increasing the time required to recall something. Eventually it takes so much time that days may pass before you come up with that word you thought you were thinking of.

ecblackiii Loc: Maryland

DirtFarmer wrote:

It's not so much forgetfulness as it is increasing the time required to recall something. Eventually it takes so much time that days may pass before you come up with that word you thought you were thinking of.

A distinction without a difference.

SteveR Loc: Michigan

DirtFarmer wrote:

It's not so much forgetfulness as it is increasing the time required to recall something. Eventually it takes so much time that days may pass before you come up with that word you thought you were thinking of.

Thank you. I feel better. I keep forgetting the word Providence for one.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

Actually I was driving to the supermarket and tried to remind my wife that we needed cereal. I just couldn't recall the word 'cereal'. Then a couple other words disappeared.

I went to the hospital and was diagnosed with a TIA. Fortunately it was nothing major and I recovered fully. I have no more problems with that word. However, my wife now thinks I'm old.

SteveR Loc: Michigan

DirtFarmer wrote:

Actually I was driving to the supermarket and tried to remind my wife that we needed cereal. I just couldn't recall the word 'cereal'. Then a couple other words disappeared.

I went to the hospital and was diagnosed with a TIA. Fortunately it was nothing major and I recovered fully. I have no more problems with that word. However, my wife now thinks I'm old.

Scary, but good news.

scoundrel Loc: Wytheville VA

ecblackiii wrote:

A distinction without a difference.

Not really. In one case, the memory is gone altogether. In the other, the memory is still there, but it is mixed up with a lt of other stuff and it takes a significant time to locate it and dig it out. Yesterday, I was reading a news item and forgot Obama's name, even though I could remember what he looked like, some of his policies, being a poll worker during his first election and even remembered one of the voter's taking a picture of her ballot after she voted.