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Tuesday, June 12, 2007
9:50:00 AM EDT
Hearing Nothing at the moment

Kids, Take Notes


If you spend any amount of time wondering about what you should know before you're 50, then you're going to love this list of 50 Things You Need to Know By 50, by the folks at AARP, who know all about being 50 or older. It also include celebrity advice by folks like Kirk Douglas and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the latter of whom tells you how you can totally school the young kids at a pickup basketball game. That's worth the price of the link itself! (The link, by the way, is free.)

The thing I think you should know by 50? YOu should have started your retirement account when you were 21.


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  • #3 Comment from psychfun 
    6/14/07 10:20 AM Permalink
    Ha! Maybe if they all listen & don't play the lottery I can now win! HA!

    Heck, why wait until then to role play with sex...do it now people! I'd add...have more sex now then too. Hey later by the time they are 50 they will have it so that one won't mind actually having sex. They'll be in better shape than the current 50 yr olds of today...oh wait...maybe not with all the fast food & video games...they could be worse by then. HA!
  • #2 Comment from lilysparadise 
    6/13/07 1:19 AM Permalink
    Seeing that I'm past 50, the things that I wish I knew are now hindsight. But if I had to do it all over again, I would: 1) Marry for money, then love 2) Blow my College money on a trip to Europe 3) Buy a Ferrari 4) Have kids and let the Government look after them 5) Demand my inheritance before my parents became senile.
  • #1 Comment from monponsett 
    6/13/07 12:51 AM Permalink
    Kareem's fist bit of advice was "grow to be 7'2"."