{"id":4257,"date":"2005-12-06T00:18:22","date_gmt":"2005-12-06T04:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2005\/12\/06\/if-george-wallace-is-50-im-re"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:54:21","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:54:21","slug":"if-george-wallace-is-50-im-really-getting-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2005\/12\/06\/if-george-wallace-is-50-im-really-getting-old\/","title":{"rendered":"if george wallace is 50, i’m really getting old"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Precisely a year ago, I <\/FONT>wrote<\/FONT><\/A> my first <\/FONT>double-dactyl<\/FONT><\/A> to celebrate <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the 49th birthday of the double-weblogging, oenophile lawyer from <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Pasadena, <\/FONT>George M. Wallace<\/A>.   Having just re-read that poem, <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“Another Forty-Niner, I have sworn <\/FONT>off double-dactyls.  I have not, <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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however, sworn off <\/FONT>sending the very best birthday greetings to a <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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weblog-made friend, who has finally joined us quintogenarians.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"joker <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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So, best wishes, George, for another half century (or more) of <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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artsy fooling around in your Forest<\/EM><\/A>, and artful lawyering over <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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declarations & exceptions<\/FONT><\/A> (and stallions).  I know you and the <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Mrs. will be sharing a very good bottle of wine tonight.  Your <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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pisano from Schenectady adds his own “Salud!” to a truly <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Gianduian<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A> Barrister, and hopes <\/FONT><\/FONT>your advanced age won’t <\/FONT>slow <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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down your posting any time soon.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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a “young” friend<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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turns 50 — <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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just how mama must have felt<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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cute waitress –<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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no protest when we say<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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we’re getting old<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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        dagosan<\/EM><\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A>  <\/EM><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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update<\/FONT><\/STRONG> <\/EM>(9AM): <\/EM>George may be aging, but today’s <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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post at Fool in the Forest<\/A> <\/EM>shows he hasn’t lost his <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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stuff.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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                                                                                              \"50mphN\"<\/FONT><\/EM><\/DIV>
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Precisely a year ago, I wrote my first double-dactyl to celebrate the 49th birthday of the double-weblogging, oenophile lawyer from Pasadena, George M. Wallace.   Having just re-read that poem, “Another Forty-Niner, I have sworn off double-dactyls.  I have not, however, sworn off sending the very best birthday greetings to a weblog-made friend, who has finally […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-16F","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12886,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4257\/revisions\/12886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}