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I thought of Rod Stewart's "Maggie May" when I read your posting, Johnnie . It also happens to be one of my alltime favourites by him. In fact, when I had the occasion to use a pen name, I became Maggie Finn.

I think I've discovered Leonard's youngest fan.
Sadie is the 3 year old daughter of a colleague at work.
Sadie loves 'So Long Marianne'
and asks her mum to play it on the cd player
and play it again
and again



and again


Fortunately Sadie's mum is a fan (otherwise they wouldn't have had the song in the first place!!)


I suggested that she is weaned on to Dear Heather...... but then again, probably not


Pete

Well I was 50 this year but I shall be counting backward now...My husband doesn`t like dyed hair and I`m trying to cover the greys up!!!!!

I continue to be 39. It suits me. It tells the world that 3 into 9 will go and 3 9's are only 27 and 3 added to 9 is even younger at 12.

39 is a very useful number. ( I wanted to use 42, but Marvin had already used it)

I may bequeath it to my heirs.

Byron
I wanted 39 but it seems you have claimed it

did you also realise that 39 is palindromic after 2 stages?

if you reverse the digits and then add to the original number and then reverse the total and add to that total you reach a palindromic number which in this case happens to be 363 which could be represented by 36 +3 which brings you back to 39.

of course, you knew this when you claimed it

I'll have to make do with 36
yours jealously
Pete

but Pete, I really am going to be 36 next year, but now you've claimed it, does that mean I'll be 37 then, or will I have to stick with being 35?

I am gonna be 88 then 8 is my lucky number it flows so well. I don't really like the number 9 it has an air of arrogance about it.

Paula wrote:I am gonna be 88 then 8 is my lucky number it flows so well. I don't really like the number 9 it has an air of arrogance about it.

Just try to avoid being 99 or 999. Skip those birthdays.

How? Well, don't ask, do!!!!

Cheers for now

Tom

Tim
I will loan you 36 for one year. Look after it well..don't do anything silly with it as I want it back in one piece.

The invoice is in the post

Paula
You are quite right about the arrogance of 9. Stick with 88 and you won't go too far wrong, especially because 88 is already palindromic.


Pete

I subscribe to the idea that everyone has two ages, their chronological age and their "inner" age. Some people can be chronologically 20, but be middle aged "inner".
I am 54, but I think my inner age is somewhere around adolescence.
Rob.

Rob wrote:Some people can be chronologically 20, but be middle aged "inner".

Once I was twenty, but
"I was so much older, then,
I'm younger than that now."

I have managed to reach the half century - it's been a fantastic journey!!
I am new to this forum, and would like to share with you the moment in time that I first encountered the amazing LC.

Among his sibblings, my good friend John, had identical twin sisters - I loved them both - as you do when you are 16/17 years of age.
So there we were, a group of impressionable teenagers on a peacefull Sunday afternoon playing each other our favourite records of the time.
LC's 'Joan of Ark' came on - not only was I mermorized by the song, but the vision that accompanied it left a lasting and deep impression opon me, because as one twin sat upright on the sofa, her sister was laying accross her, head in lap, having her hair gently brushed. I thought I'd died and had gone to heaven. Later in the album came 'Sisters of Mercy' - which became my name for them.

Our little group grew appart, but some 10 years later I was sat on a London transport double decker bus, when Linda, one of the twins happened to get on, and, not recognising me, sat in the seat in front. Without thinking, I started singing softly into her ear the la la's to 'Joan of Ark' without turning around she joined in. God knows what our fellow passengers thought! Anway, we ended up having a few drinks together. Sadly, though, Linda told me her sister had been killed in a tragic car accident.

I still see my friend John from time to time, old friends, like LC, are the best Friends. Linda, by the way, lives happly ever after, married with three childern to a Mr Cain, they have a son called Leonard - not so sure John realises the significance of it, and I have never mentioned it.

Thanks for the songs Leonard Cohen. Thanks to God for allowing me the memories.

stevieone x

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Hi this is my 1st post, I am 24 and I have been in to Leonard Cohen for 2 or 3 years now, I got in to his music through other artists I like namechecking him and covering his songs (Jeff Buckley, Ian McCulloch), a couple of years on and Leonard is my favourite artist, like nothing else I have ever heard. I am surprised there are a few people around my age that are in to LC, most people of my age have never heard of him.

Hi Murf, please feel free to visit this forum any time and participate in
whatever actions these beautiful people are going to take.
I myself found them a year and a half ago or so and I'm really amazed
by how time has flown since then and how easily I got to feel absolutely well
among these men and women, these big girls and boys.
With this my post I want as well to say "Thank You",to all of you who have
made me and my computer become friends after all (one thing at least HE would have never guessed). Where are you from anyway, dear Murf?

Hoping to be coming to Hydra ,

Yours, Caroline