> Howard, I think you need to spam all of your old coot friends who are connected to the internet. You can regale them with stories of the far off land of Rink and then you can book a trip for them to this realm. Who knows, you might even be able to make a profit if you work it right.
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> Seriously, though, I think it would be fun to have more people like Howard on here.
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> Fer"I might be in the upper half of the demographic here with all of these 80s babies"rick
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> > Recent discussions seem to indicate that I am the oldest person to post on this forum. I may even have several decades on the next oldest. That got me wondering why there aren't more old coots on here. People over 60 are one of the fastest growing segments of the population that logs onto the internet. Rinkworks is not hard to find and us old coots have more time to play with our computers. Trading barbs, comments, opinions, jokes, etc. with younger people is a great way to hang on to your youth. It seems like every time I log on, I get a geography lesson. Geography and other cultures, the topography and geology of farflung places are among the things that interest me. Retired people tend to travel a great deal, and the things I learn here greatly enhance travels. So where are all the other old coots?
> > How"Who flung those places so far?"ard

I don't get the coots, either. My mom, who is by no means and old coot (and I don't consider the Great and Honorable Howard an old coot, either, so there, but anyway), and who has been working on computers for twenty-some years because she's a travel agent, and who is easily the single smartest woman I know, acts like her computer will reach out and bite her if she presses the wrong key. She can figure out how to fly someone from LAX to DFW to ZBL to PRQ to AZZ and back four times, but she is stymied by e-mail. It's very frustrating to see this amazingly intelligent woman cringing in terror because the eBay police might be after her because she's not sure if she paid for something or not. Where does this fear of technology come from?????