CHERYL TIEGS IS 65!

[Strider]

Today is Cheryl Tiegs' birthday...she is 65. Cheryl Tiegs is now a senior citizen.

I am sorry, but it's gonna take some time to wrap my mind around that. You see, Cheryl Tiegs is a bona fide icon of my youth. She practically single-handedly gave birth to the popularity of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, which was a godsend for men stuck in the snowy climes in mid-February.

In fact, Cheryl Tiegs was probably the first "model" that registered in my conscious. Before her, they were mostly just nameless faces in various magazine ads and fashion layouts. Twiggy is the only other possible model I might have known by name, but her modeling career was practically over by the time I started becoming interested in girls.

Cheryl Tiegs, however, was right in her prime as I entered adolescence. I savoured each and every Sports Illustrated she appeared in and her Swimsuit Issue covers were very popular. Ask just about any American man who grew up at the time and I bet he had a Cheryl Tiegs picture on his bedroom wall, school locker, or dorm wall.

She was the 'poster queen' of the 70s...before Farrah Fawcett and Bo Derek and Brooke Shields, there was Cheryl.

Happy birthday Cheryl!

[ledzepfvr]

She's been a senior citizen for a few years now depending on which criteria you qualify it under. You can join AARP at 50, start taking discounts at 55, and collect social security at 62. So she's been there already.

But I know what you mean. People we grew up with and us too, are getting old. It sucks. Where does the time go.

I just hope I look half as good as she does at 65. I'm not looking forward to my birthday this year.

Happy Birthday Ms. Tiegs.

[DAS]

... I'm sorry, what were we talking about?

[Strider]

She's been a senior citizen for a few years now depending on which criteria you qualify it under. You can join AARP at 50, start taking discounts at 55, and collect social security at 62. So she's been there already.

But I know what you mean. People we grew up with and us too, are getting old. It sucks. Where does the time go.

I just hope I look half as good as she does at 65. I'm not looking forward to my birthday this year.

Happy Birthday Ms. Tiegs.

Well, the AARP can do what they want, but there is NO WAY I am going to consider anyone in their 50s a 'senior citizen', discount or not. That is still too young, in my opinion.

When I was a kid, 65 was retirement age so that is what I and most people have usually considered the beginning of one's senior citizen years.