"What's the matter with 'em?" said the oldster. "Why do they call each other

Besides, the oldsters had been there, drinking since early dawn, and, some of them, since the night before.

"He'll be the boy for the clean job," said the oldsters to one another, and waited their time until they could set him to his work.

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While Mrs Diner and I scanned the oldster menu at length for things that offered some reason for optimism, they were way ahead of us.

They're just going to assume any oldster who's opted to have his or her checks delivered to a child or grandchild who helps them manage their financial affairs is too crazy to buy a gun.

But watching the video it's hard not to conclude these kids are moving to the groovin' (as us oldster used to say).

Furious with loudmouth Paul, oldster Andy snarled: "In my world it's a punch to the throat, he's down, gone, finished I walk away." Wow, what a guy.

''Started going bald in me 20s, still got colour in what's left though, and all me own teeth.'' ''Life's half spent before we know what it's about,'' mused the oldster.

The quick-thinking oldster said: "A few years ago my wife ran off with a policeman, and I thought you were bringing her back." He got off free.

By design, all of this oldster eccentricity softens the film's limit-pushing PG-13 violence, which turns uncomfortably dark in several places and relies on the bullet-spraying overkill so common in the genre,.

It's your floppy, scraggy earlobes that really mark you as an oldster, which means cosmetic ear surgery is the next Next Big Thing.