With at least 210 years between them, they're keeping it young...

February 18, 2010 7:52 AM

A little triumph of the human spirit.
posted by flapjax at midnite (25 comments total)

This clip, with 1,734,427 views at the time of this posting, will surely have been seen by some (many?) Metafilter readers. If you are one of the people who have already seen this, I extend my sincerest apologies, and I hope you won't think any less of me. God bless you.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 7:55 AM on February 18, 2010

I need to run out and get some orthopedic wingtip shoes, brb.
posted by Jon_Evil at 8:02 AM on February 18, 2010

You GO Gran!
posted by Mike D at 8:05 AM on February 18, 2010

Ahh, old people.
posted by jckll at 8:07 AM on February 18, 2010

Aww. Cute. MJ would smile.
posted by cashman at 8:10 AM on February 18, 2010

Thank you for posting this, it's lovely.
posted by mareli at 8:17 AM on February 18, 2010

They're not that much older than I am.
posted by Obscure Reference at 8:19 AM on February 18, 2010 [1 favorite]

LOLOAPS
posted by The Ultimate Olympian at 8:22 AM on February 18, 2010

Never thought I would derive joy from watching old men grab their crotches. Live and learn. I hope I enough moxie to grab my crotch when I am seventy-something.
posted by cross_impact at 8:23 AM on February 18, 2010

1,734,427 views but none of them were mine. Thanks for posting.
posted by stupidsexyFlanders at 8:23 AM on February 18, 2010

In the early days of my marriage, whenever Mrs. Beese reminded me of a household chore that still needed doing, I would, for what I hoped was comic effect, imitate an alter kocker by making a dismissive "leave me alone already" hand gesture accompanied by a phlegmy "Ehh!" sound.

Gradually over the following decade, it stopped being a "bit" and became my natural reaction to any sort of domestic chiding. I was no longer a pretend old grouch; I was now the genuine article. The mask had become my true face.
posted by Joe Beese at 8:29 AM on February 18, 2010 [9 favorites]

I know what you mean, Joe Beese. I've been using phrases like "kids these days" and "as the young people say" since I was in high school. It gets a less ironic every year.
posted by lore at 8:53 AM on February 18, 2010 [2 favorites]

Anyone else find they're incapable of getting into or out of a chair or a car without accompanying the act with a grunt of some description? I'm only 35. I'm not in pain when I'm doing those things. But I'm grunting all the same.
posted by The Ultimate Olympian at 9:16 AM on February 18, 2010 [1 favorite]

Shit I need to take my game up a notch now if I'm going to be that awesome when I'm 70.
posted by ChrisHartley at 9:20 AM on February 18, 2010

good for them!
posted by HuronBob at 9:21 AM on February 18, 2010

A big triumph for modern medicine.
posted by gottabefunky at 9:29 AM on February 18, 2010 [1 favorite]

Anyone else find they're incapable of getting into or out of a chair or a car without accompanying the act with a grunt of some description? I'm only 35. I'm not in pain when I'm doing those things. But I'm grunting all the same.

YES. I picture little speech balloons with things like "herm" and "hmph."
posted by gottabefunky at 9:34 AM on February 18, 2010

One thing I find interesting about this clip is how it highlights the anatomical convergence of men and women as we age. Wherever we start out from, most of us are going to wind up with thinning hair, whiskers, saggy boobs, too much belly and not enough ass.
posted by drlith at 9:39 AM on February 18, 2010

I picture little speech balloons with things like "herm" and "hmph."

That's the very lexicon I've slipped into. And there's nothing funky about it, gottabefunky.
posted by The Ultimate Olympian at 9:43 AM on February 18, 2010

Lord help me, I didn't want to like that.

But I did.
posted by Shohn at 9:54 AM on February 18, 2010

Stop dancing on my lawn.
posted by panboi at 10:01 AM on February 18, 2010 [1 favorite]

I no longer feel old, because I'm still young enough that I don't yet have the "fuck it, who cares, it's fun" attitude this required. \o/
posted by davejay at 11:04 AM on February 18, 2010

A big triumph for modern medicine.

My mom is 76 and pretty racked up with arthritis. But whenever she catches herself complaining too much, she tells me about when she was a kid, and the "old" people in her family--younger than she is now--who couldn't do much more than wrap up in a shawl and pull their chairs close to the stove or fireplace to spend the day there. She won't be dancing to Billie Jean, but she's a big fan of modern medicine nonetheless.
posted by not that girl at 11:27 AM on February 18, 2010

"...Tripoli was an avid ballroom dancer and loved to fox trot, swing, tango and rumba. Bourhenne was also a swing dancer.

Carroll's talent is in music. The songwriter and pianist learned to dance in the 1950s when he was part of a singing group, the Four Guys. The group was interracial, which Carroll said was extremely rare for the time...."
Meet your three old dude "Billie Jean" dancers: http://www.ocregister.com/news/carroll-232693-threesome-dance.html
posted by big scary freak at 4:55 PM on February 18, 2010

That was great haha. Even when the world seems to be cruel, cold, and totally fucked up its good to see that people are still having a good time. Thats what life is all about :)
posted by LZel at 4:59 PM on February 18, 2010