Yes I have them too

Posted by Lotg on March 04, 2004

In Reply to: Senior moment? posted by Silver Surfer on March 04, 2004

: : : : : : : : : I didn't find this in the archives. Do we know its origin or am I forgetting again...

: : : : : : : : : WC

: : : : : : : : I think its ancestor was "Kodak moment," from commercials.

: : : : : : : I spend a significant amount of time with "seniors" at the "senior center" (Senior Centers are, I gather, a fairly common community in the US. They are apparently managed locally but use a lot of grant money so there is a lot of US government regulation.) Anyway, "seniors" use the expression "senior moment" to describe a lapse of memory e.g. temporarly forgetting a name or face or a word. I have never seen the phrase in print but it is so commonplace that it should turn up in places other than my experience.

: : : : : : I thought "senior citizens" was a relatively new term. But I looked it up last night and it dates back to 1938. I didn't hear it until the 1960s when all kinds of government money poured into my area of W.Va. and senior citizen centers started opening up. FYI -- I would prefer to be called elderly or old. "Senior" sounds dippy.

: : : : : Well, I would prefer to be called young, if it weren't for my concern for accuracy.

: : : : At our senior center we frequently refer to close associates as "geezers". It would appear that "geezer" is rather like the word [word removed in order to comply with Google's Publisher Policy] and is not PC for most people at most times and places.

: : : How about "wrinklies"?

: : ::Reminds me of a joke --"Whats the second best thing that comes out of a penis??????????.......The wrinkles! Sorry, the devil made me do it.

: 1938 is relatively new, geezer is not in any way offensive but the joke is. Just thought you needed straightening out. In any case I thought the resurgence in use of 'senior moment' was all down to Terry Wogan.

We also call wrinklies, gerries - equally unkind of course. As for the senior moments, well I prefer to call them blonde moments, but I'm hurtling headlong into a possible combo of blonde senior moments - yikes!!!

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