How Old Is That Tyrannosaurus Rex?
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Museum Guide: "70,000,003 years" Visitor: "Wow. How can you be so precise?" Museum Guide: "They told me it was 70,000,000 years old when I started working here."
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
That joke was old when Tyrannosauri were visitors, not exhibits. :rolleyes:
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
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That joke was old when Tyrannosauri were visitors, not exhibits. :rolleyes:
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
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If it wasn't still funny it wouldn't be an old joke. It would just be an old story. So old jokes are good, they've stood the test of time!
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To quote the Joker (in The Killing Joke) "It doesn't have to be good to be a classic."
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To quote the Joker (in The Killing Joke) "It doesn't have to be good to be a classic."
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One of my T-shirts says: You don't have to be senile to be demented - but it helps. I had it may for my 60th birthday. By Norwegian health terminology, you are senile from age 60.
Dementia and senility are inevitable wrinkles of the brain. I think Norwegian health recognizes this. We have no choice but to carry on. "Use or lose it." Jokes were mastered by Henny Youngman (my favorite wit). "Everytime I ask what time it is, I get a different answer." "A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn't pay his bill, so he gave him another six months."
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day" Badfinger
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Dementia and senility are inevitable wrinkles of the brain. I think Norwegian health recognizes this. We have no choice but to carry on. "Use or lose it." Jokes were mastered by Henny Youngman (my favorite wit). "Everytime I ask what time it is, I get a different answer." "A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn't pay his bill, so he gave him another six months."
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day" Badfinger
In (Norwegian, and I believe in all/most countries) medical terminology, 'senile' by itself means nothing but 'of old age'. For definition purposes, they drew the line at 60 years: From that age, you are senile. You have a higher likelyhood of catching a number of diseases and other medical conditions, including dementia, but not that you are actually suffering from all of these old-age problems. In everyday Norwegian talk, 'senile dementia' has been shortened down to 'senile', which is misleading. The medical establishment always refer to 'dementia', which may also occur before you turn 60. 'Old age dementia' can be referred to as 'senile dementia', but lots of doctors try to avoid that term, to try to move people over to use the medically correct term for the mental disorder(s), dementia. I believe the same is the case in English. Hospitals have child wards for your patients, and senile wards for patients of old age. 'Child' says nothing about the medical condition, nor does 'senile'. You may find patients with lots of different plagues in the child ward, and the same holds for the senile ward. Of course: Dementia is more prominent in the senile ward than in the child ward - and so is a lot of other plagues. That is why they (sometimes) have a separate senile ward, with special competence in handling those old-age, senile, related health problems.
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In (Norwegian, and I believe in all/most countries) medical terminology, 'senile' by itself means nothing but 'of old age'. For definition purposes, they drew the line at 60 years: From that age, you are senile. You have a higher likelyhood of catching a number of diseases and other medical conditions, including dementia, but not that you are actually suffering from all of these old-age problems. In everyday Norwegian talk, 'senile dementia' has been shortened down to 'senile', which is misleading. The medical establishment always refer to 'dementia', which may also occur before you turn 60. 'Old age dementia' can be referred to as 'senile dementia', but lots of doctors try to avoid that term, to try to move people over to use the medically correct term for the mental disorder(s), dementia. I believe the same is the case in English. Hospitals have child wards for your patients, and senile wards for patients of old age. 'Child' says nothing about the medical condition, nor does 'senile'. You may find patients with lots of different plagues in the child ward, and the same holds for the senile ward. Of course: Dementia is more prominent in the senile ward than in the child ward - and so is a lot of other plagues. That is why they (sometimes) have a separate senile ward, with special competence in handling those old-age, senile, related health problems.
Understood. Very interesting. Thanx. My parents were in their 80's and 90's when they passed and both had some form of dementia. The doctors referred to it as simply age related dementia and in my mother's case it was both age and medicine related dementia. The word senile was never used.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day" Badfinger
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Dementia and senility are inevitable wrinkles of the brain. I think Norwegian health recognizes this. We have no choice but to carry on. "Use or lose it." Jokes were mastered by Henny Youngman (my favorite wit). "Everytime I ask what time it is, I get a different answer." "A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn't pay his bill, so he gave him another six months."
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day" Badfinger
:) :-D :laugh: Rodney Dangerfield works best for me. We're a lot alike, but I get no respect only at home.
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:) :-D :laugh: Rodney Dangerfield works best for me. We're a lot alike, but I get no respect only at home.
