Over the Hill & on a Roll: Laugh Lines for the Better Half of Life
By Bob Phillips
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After selling more than 300,000 copies, Over the Hill and On a Roll gets a well-deserved face lift. The jokes never get old, even if readers do! They’ll enjoy laughing at insights, checking their recall ability, and taking the history quizzes created by bestselling jokester Bob Phillips. He teases and tests: You know you’re over the hill when…
- Opportunity knocks but your hearing aid’s turned off.
- Ninety percent of your dreams are reruns.
- You remember when “hardware” only referred to a store.
Packed with wisdom and fascinating facts, Over the Hill and On a Roll celebrates the passing of time and pokes fun at what lies ahead. The perfect birthday, anniversary, retirement, or friendship gift.
Bob Phillips
Bob Phillips, PhD, is a licensed counselor and the director at large for Hume Lake Christian Camps, one of the nation's largest youth camping programs. He is the best-selling author of over forty books.
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Over the Hill & on a Roll - Bob Phillips
Over the Hill
& on a Roll
Bob Phillips
HARVEST HOUSE PUBLISHERS
EUGENE, OREGON
Unless otherwise noted, Scripture quotations are taken from the King James Version of the Bible.
Scripture from the New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Cover by Dugan Design Group, Bloomington, Minnesota
Cover illustration © Dugan Design Group
OVER THE HILL & ON A ROLL
Copyright © 1998 by Bob Phillips
Published by Harvest House Publishers
Eugene, Oregon 97402
www.harvesthousepublishers.com
ISBN 978-0-7369-2916-5
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, digital, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.
Printed in the United States of America
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CONTENTS
Over the Hill? On a Roll?
1. You’re over the Hill When…
2. Name-the-Year Quiz No. 1
3. Wisdom of the Ages
4. Bald Is Beautiful
5. Name-the-Year Quiz No. 2
6. Midlife Crisis
7. Maturity
8. Name-the-Year Quiz No. 3
9. Smiles
10. Old Age Happens
11. Name-the-Year Quiz No. 4
12. Get in Shape
13. You Know You’re Growing Old When…
14. Name-the-Year Quiz No. 5
15. Memory Madness
16. Middle-Age Crazies
17. Name-the-Year Quiz No. 6
18. Grandparents
19. Old-Timers
20. Name-the-Year Quiz No. 7
21. Grins
22. Fountain of Youth
23. Name-the-Year Quiz No. 8
24. Oldies but Goodies
25. Time to Retire
26. Name-the-Year Quiz No. 9
27. Sage Advice
28. Ageless Verse
29. Name-the-Year Quiz No. 10
30. A Laugh a Day Keeps the Wrinkles Away
Name-the-Year Quiz Answers
Over the Hill?
On a Roll?
During the 1970s, there was a very popular phrase among college young people: Don’t trust anyone over 30.
Some people today think that 35 is middle age. Others believe that midlife crisis starts at 40. The question is, How can you tell if you’re getting older? How can you tell if you’re over the midway point of the hill of life? Here are some of the clues to this most difficult question.
The first clue is your belief that printers are using smaller type these days. You have to use a magnifying glass to read anything. On top of that, they’re making print type so fuzzy that you have to hold it at arm’s length to get it into focus.
Another clue is that people seem to be talking softer than they used to. You have to get people to keep repeating what they said, only a little louder. Many times you find yourself nodding your head in agreement with people even though you have no idea what they said.
You may be growing older if you think staircases are steeper these days and everything is farther than it used to be. Have you gotten to the point where you believe clothiers are making suits and dresses that shrink, shoelaces are harder to reach, snow is heavier, schoolkids are younger, food is more fattening, and other people your age are much older? That may be a clue.
Another way to tell if you’ve gone over the hill is a change of interests. Do you find yourself interested in early-bird specials and doggy bags? Have terms like arthritis, cellulite, crow’s-feet, varicose veins, sunspots, and pacemakers entered your vocabulary? Have products like Poli-Grip, Geritol, Preparation H, Depends, and stewed prunes become household items?
When you begin noticing stretch marks, multiple chins, wrinkles, and folds—and your belt buckle is disappearing—it might be a sign that changes have occurred. A confirmation is when your upper arms hang and shake as you walk and your derriere drags on the ground.
When you put on your makeup with a trowel and your hair turns gray or even blue . . . you’ve probably gone over the hill. That is the time when you wish you could have some of Dick Clark’s cells put into your body.
You can tell if you’re over the hill when you put tenderizer in your oatmeal.
You can tell if you’re over the hill when you get more get-well cards than junk mail.
You can tell if you’re over the hill when your favorite exercise is a good brisk sit.
You can tell if you’re over the hill when you begin using words like spry, plasma, salt-free, and fast temporary relief.
You can tell if you’re over the hill when it takes a half-hour to wake up your leg.
You can tell if you’re over the hill when you attend seminars on death planning, nutrition education, and grief therapy.
You can tell if you’re over the hill when you believe that regularity is more important than popularity.
You can tell if you’re over the hill when you talk to yourself and then complain of hearing voices. What you don’t realize is that it’s okay to talk to yourself, and it’s okay to answer yourself. It’s when you disagree with the answers that you’ve got a problem!
You’re most likely over the hill if you can remember the following:
• When hardware used to refer to a store and not computer equipment.
• When enter
was a sign on a door, not a button on a computer keyboard, and chip
was a piece of wood.
• When fast food was what you ate during Lent, and it used to be that people married first and then lived together.
• When rock music
took place while grandma sang a lullaby in a rocking chair, and kinky was for hair.
• When closets were for clothes and not coming out of, and aids were helpers in the principal’s office or pills to help you when you were on a diet.
• When grass was for mowing, Coke was a refreshing drink, and pot was something you cooked in.
To write a book like Over the Hill & on a Roll is no easy task. It takes a great deal of persistence. In fact, I never knew the word defeat
—along with thousands of other words I never knew the meaning of.
Actually, I come from a family of writers. My sister wrote books that no one would read. My brother wrote songs that no one would sing. My mother wrote plays that no one would see. And my father wrote checks that no one would cash.
When I first started writing, I contacted one publisher for encouragement and asked, What is the best way to get started writing?
He said, From left to right.
I then showed him my material and said, I’ve always wanted to be a writer in the worst way.
He looked at my manuscript and said, I think you’ve succeeded.
I knew that this man was unable to see true genius, so I mailed my manuscript to another publisher. Weeks went by and he never responded. Finally I got upset and sent him a letter asking him to read and publish my book immediately, or else return it, because I had other irons in the fire. My manuscript came back with a note that said, I have read your book and advise you to put it with the other irons.
I decided to ignore the publishers’ negative comments and sent copies of my manuscript to several other book editors. I got the following replies.
Many thanks for your book; I shall lose no time in reading it.
Your book is fine. The only trouble is that the covers are too far apart.
Your book is out of this world, and I think that is the best place for it.
Your book is not to be lightly cast aside. It should be thrown with great force.
After being turned down by numerous publishers, I decided to write for posterity. I finally convinced a publisher to print some of my books. He took the risk and ended up publishing a number of my books. To date, the combined total of my books is over 5 million copies. If you don’t believe it, come up to my house and count ‘em.
In spite of all the