Age 40, any good news?

[Boy Wonder]

Hello Chester! Nice...... is there a smiley face thing for envy?

Cougar.... also known as the Mountain Lion.... very apt!

[Longdogs]

I'm meeting Chester on Sunday.. if i get him he's going to need a better name, so anyone got any suggestions? He's Scottish, so maybe something tennis-related or something in Gaelic! (Btw i am not calling him Andy, though i am a big fan).

p.s. BW, lions are lazy buggers, let the lionesses do all the work.

[Fairyfeet]

What's wrong with his name? He looks like a Chester.

[noel]

When women become 40 they can become a 'cougar' which may be fun for a couple of years!

What does a bloke become? A "badger" perhaps, reflecting the streaks of white hair?

[Hes]

ha ha! Good term. I was putting up an exhibition on Saturday with a group of 10 older women (most in their late fifties/sixties) and we asked the young stone carver who has a studio nearby if we could borrow some of his breeze blocks to make pedestals. I've never seen anything like it. He's young and very fit and quite good looking and the women were all over him. He did ok out of it and went away laden down with cake and biscuits but he did seem a bit embarrassed. I now see how women are no different to men when they are in groups...if we'd been on a building site they'd have been shouting and whistling! I'd like to point out that I was hefting the breeze blocks about and not taking part in the adulation

What does a bloke become? A "badger" perhaps, reflecting the streaks of white hair?

[Longdogs]

What's wrong with his name? He looks like a Chester.

I agree, he does.. it's just that the name holds bad associations for me. When i worked in New Zealand in 2002 we had a patient called Chester, a Scottie terrier who was a prize winning show dog. He was apparently Scottie royalty and his owner's wanted to cash in on this by using him as a stud. The only flaw in their lucrative plan was that Chester was 100% homosexual.. a bitch in heat did nothing for him. Undeterred, they asked us to do artificial insemination every time Chester's services were required. It fell to me to do this task on a regular basis, on account of me, for reasons i know not, getting the largest and quickest samples (and it was my first time ). In the end Chester would start dry humping at the mere sight of me gloving up. I am not proud of this and it is not what i went to vet school for! So every time i hear the word Chester i am reminded of these events which have scarred my psyche.. even driving round the Chester ring road is stressful. So there is no way in hell i am having a dog of that name in my house for the next 13 years.. it has to change!!

[shaunaneto]

Now there's a post I wish I hadn't read. :w00t:

[Hank]

Now there's a post I wish I hadn't read. :w00t:

Agreed. I went to school with a lad who reckoned his grandad's job used to be "wanking off pit ponies" (his words not mine). Apparently you don't want a randy horse down a mine. Makes sense I suppose. Anyway, it was a good incentive to pay attention in school lest I ended up on that particular career path.

[Longdogs]

Agreed. I went to school with a lad who reckoned his grandad's job used to be "wanking off pit ponies" (his words not mine). Apparently you don't want a randy horse down a mine. Makes sense I suppose. Anyway, it was a good incentive to pay attention in school lest I ended up on that particular career path.

I feel sure that pit ponies were castrated and that dear old grandad was in fact a pervert!

[shaunaneto]

Careful now Longdogs, stones and glass houses from where I'm standing. :wink: