What age did you lose your marbles?
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Topic: What age did you lose your marbles?
Posted By: laplace
Subject: What age did you lose your marbles?
Date Posted: February 18 2009 at 03:34
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While we're lowering tone and asking questions the dignified wouldn't answer... ------------- FREEDOM OF SPEECH GO TO HELL |
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: February 18 2009 at 04:12
I'm not quite insane yet, but I feel I'm getting there. I think I'm 21 now, so it will hopefully happen by the time I'm 25.  "Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must live." - Charles Bukowski |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: February 18 2009 at 04:24
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I almost lost my marbles about two years ago, I hope to finally lose them soon enough. 25 approximately myself. ------------- 
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Posted By: limeyrob
Date Posted: February 18 2009 at 04:56
| 9. Although the jury is out as to whether they were stolen from my schoolbag |
Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: February 18 2009 at 05:02
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'What age did you lose your marbles?' Just before I found myself...maaaaan. -------------  Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb. |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: February 18 2009 at 05:06
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I vote for 49 because this is my current age and I'm finally becoming increasingly normal. |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: February 18 2009 at 05:39
Sanity? I've heard this term before.  I think I swallowed all my marbles when I was about 1. But the good thing about being insane is I always have the voices in my head to keep me company. I just wish the CIA would stop trying to steal my thoughts.  ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 18 2009 at 07:06
Speaking of the toy and not my sanity, I'd have to say around 9. Watching Laugh In as a kid probably started the loss of sanity and then when I discovered Monty Python, it was all over. I'm guess all of that probably occurred about the time I quit playing with marbles. Coincidence or not?  Also of note, I now have Marbles on CD and DVD which are discs and can be rolled or spun.  ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: February 18 2009 at 07:07
I know I'm perfectly sane, because my cat tells me so on a regular basis  And furthermore, wibble wibble, macaroni artichoke and a side order of armoured personnel carrier for my inflatable carboard banana please. Thank you, your grace.  Wibble -------------  Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 18 2009 at 07:09
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Seeing as you are in allegedly in South England, that makes perfect sense to me.
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: February 18 2009 at 07:14
That's the thing Slarty - the Pilgrim Fathers were the only sane ones & they left southern England with everyone's marbles; of course, the irony is, over the years, we regained our marbles & you chucked yours in the harbour in Boston with all the tea  ------------- Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Pnoom!
Date Posted: February 18 2009 at 07:22
| 16. |
Posted By: heyitsthatguy
Date Posted: February 18 2009 at 08:41
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virginity? I hardly know 'er! ha ha ha! still haven't, still not giving a sh*t ahahahaha read thread wrong, curse you parallel threads I still stand by my point however, except marbles I never had -------------  |
Posted By: omri
Date Posted: February 18 2009 at 08:51
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I can't vote in this poll. I was born insane and it's not getting any better.
Actualy I promised my self I would never grow up and up to now (45 years) I kept my promise very well. ------------- omri |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 18 2009 at 09:29
I always new there was something fundamentally wrong with this country but until now didn't know what it was. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Jim Garten wrote:Posted By: TheCaptain
Date Posted: February 18 2009 at 11:30
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It probably started a little before 16 (the same time I got into prog. coincidence?). Now I feel like I have very few marbles that I lose track of occasionally but I usually recover them.
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: February 18 2009 at 12:11
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Halfway through disc two. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: February 18 2009 at 12:42
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I can't seem to recall for some reason.
(That was too easy, maybe I'll come back with something wittier or honest.) ------------- You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all. |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: February 18 2009 at 15:21
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Never had them in the first place...
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: February 18 2009 at 15:56
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Toys in the attic.
Truely gone fishing.
Perhaps I'm the sane one and everyone else is crazy...yeah yeah...*bites into armchair* What lovely lumps in these potatoes Johnson, say has the mrs. been on holiday all this time?
Yee-ha-ha Whahoo-boink-seven-Asia minor-bipplequip-blarglmat-fishkills.
Hey...hands off my tin foil pants! The gov't isn't stealing my scrotum's thoughts anytime soon thank you very much... ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: February 18 2009 at 17:35
 ... That reminds me of something: Roger Waters was 36 when the album on which he sang these words was released. In the same song another line appeared:They must have taken my marbles away
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Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: February 18 2009 at 17:56
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21-22 was a pretty rough time for me.
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Posted By: BroSpence
Date Posted: February 19 2009 at 01:20
| People tend to ask if I'm ok. I have a funny way of connecting random stuff together, or just being an oddball. Its just how I'm wired, but I can mostly control it. Its been like this since I was able to think and act individually (as in not a tiny baby. My guess is around the age of 2?) |
Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: February 19 2009 at 03:28
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If you suspect you're crazy, you most likely aren't. As for me, I'm perfectly normal.  ------------- 
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: February 19 2009 at 04:25
I can fully subscribe to that for myself. I definitely never had any -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: February 19 2009 at 04:30
| I must confess I never heard this expression, "losing one's marbles" before this thread. Also, I'm still not sure what it means. |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: February 19 2009 at 04:52
"Marble" has lots of meanings; here a dictionary definition: mar⋅ble–noun
Origin: 1150–1200; ME marbel, dissimilated var. of OE marmel (in marmelstān marble stone) < L marmor < Gk mármaros, akin to marmaírein to sparkle  When people speak of someone losing their marbles they usually refer to 11, which I will repeat here:
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: February 19 2009 at 05:19
^ thanks! 
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Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: February 19 2009 at 05:55
That's what the line "They must have taken my marbles away" in Pink Floyd's "The Wall" means; in that song many other phrases that mean being insane appear, like "toys in the attic". ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: pianoman
Date Posted: February 19 2009 at 05:59
| Im 16 and I think im starting to go crazy! Its probobly from listining to too much post rock and pink floyd... |
Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: February 19 2009 at 06:28
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One of it's legs is both the same ------------- Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb. |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: February 19 2009 at 06:30
That's the sparrow!  Do you know the one about the frog? The one about the telephone pole? Good stuff!  |
Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: February 19 2009 at 06:35
Ah! A fellow ornithog...Orthono...twitcher. ------------- Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb. |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: February 19 2009 at 06:36
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"Why is a raven like a writing desk?", to ask a famous riddle from literature. ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: February 19 2009 at 06:41
''No, I give up'' Alice replied. ''What is the answer?'' ''I haven't the slightest idea'' said the Hatter. ------------- Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb. |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: February 19 2009 at 06:53
| Edgar knows this one. |
Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: February 19 2009 at 06:59
Nevermore! ------------- Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb. |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: February 19 2009 at 07:04
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Lewis Carroll, who wrote "Alice in Wonderland", was often asked about the solution but said he had no idea either. He gave two possible solutions to it though in his preface to "The Hunting of the Snark". 1) Because both can produce a few notes, although they are very flat, and are never put with the wrong end in front. (OK, in the case of the raven it is "nevar" instead of never"). 2) Because Poe wrote on both of them. But he pointed out that they were an afterthought. ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: February 19 2009 at 14:04
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Probably when I was born. I've never had any marbles. I've never fit in any group (not even here do I fit anywhere) and have always been odd. So the closest I have been to having Marbles has been when I bought Marillion's album... ------------- 
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Posted By: weetabix
Date Posted: February 19 2009 at 17:56
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Yo !!!! We was so po' we couldn't afford no marbles.......... |
Posted By: The Pessimist
Date Posted: February 21 2009 at 18:25
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I lost them the same time I lost my virginity. Something fishy going on there, I know it.
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 21 2009 at 20:16
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I found your virginity over there in the corner of this thread. I think the marbles are over in the opposite corner...
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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: February 21 2009 at 20:43
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My wife tells me all the time that I was born crazy, so... ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: June
Date Posted: February 22 2009 at 07:07
| 25 Whichever marbles I won back I'm losing right now at 28. |
Posted By: The Pessimist
Date Posted: February 22 2009 at 07:22
Well both of them can go screw themselves. I don't want them back If they come crawling back to me I'll tell um where to stick it.------------- "Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value." Arnold Schoenberg |