When was the last time you were at a beach?

Where is that?

Where? Why my dear chap, that's the longest freshwater beach in the world. Let me clarify (this is going to take a while, the poor old brainbox ain't as nimble as she once was . . . . . . . . . ) 
PS That's the claim. But we have been living up to our necks in everyday BS for some time now, so unless there are certain unstated riders present on this claim (sorry, no riding on the beach) it is a little hard to swallow for a thinking dude. Perhaps they mean the longest sandy freshwater beach. Surely Lake Baikal must have extensive beaches - anyone been there, seen that, done that?
This post was edited by Stemmata949 at December 22, 2020 12:50 PM MST

Ocean or lake. My pic is a Lake Erie beach.

Ah, I think I detect subtle innuendo here - so you DO go over and put your head in the sand - right.

I can't decide whether to comment or just show you my middle finger.

Sssh! Don't you know what happens to Spunky Seniors who can't remember things? 

Perhaps I should tie that response to the las time I didn't look like an orca in a bathing suit - that was 30 years ago. :) 

I admire Orcas, they are very intelligent and social, and exceptionally attractive in their own element. But yes, the years inevitably take their toll don't they. I'm always looking for things I've lost track of, or am trying to recall to mind some event that happened sixty years ago - I think it was sixty, or I could be thinking of something else of course.   

LOL ... Orcas are beautiful, but they do spend their lives in the ocean and not lying in the sun on the sand. :)  Sometimes I search my mind for something I know I knew at one time.  I can wrack my brain and not be able to think of a name or a word and then, sometimes hours or even a day later, apropos of nothing, it pops into my head.  I have concluded that I haven't forgotten anything, it's just that much of it has to be called up from the archives.  Perhaps, what I need is more RAM.

The remembering game of which you speak is playing out here too. It seems to have fallen of its own accord into the same parcel of brain exercise as the crossword and sudoku, which I do regularly - the crossword, that is, I rarely complete the advanced level sudoku, but the easy version I can finish. The remembering comes with TV as much as anything, and most often the names of actors. But when the name won't come, and the running through the alphabet trick doesn't work, as sometimes happens, then as you say, the answer usually presents itself in its own good time.   

I do two crossword puzzles a day and make a valiant attempt at the Sunday puzzle in the New York times.  Most weeks, I can get about half-way through and maybe twice a year, I can complete it.  I also like doing word jumbles.  I stay far away from Sudoku - I have no head for math at all.

Is that (what they used to call) a Wire-haired Fox terrier? I say that because I once had the acquaintance of such a creature owned by a celebrity, then later by my Grandmother - of course, that was back when you could mail a Christmas card for three ha’pence – one and a half old pence that is, equivalent to five-eighths of a new penny, that is 0.625p.  

This post was edited by Stemmata949 at December 22, 2020 12:50 PM MST

It sure is a wired hair fox terrier, she was the cutest dog I ever owned, You have a good eye, You're probably the only person that's ever noticed she a wired fox terrier from that little picture.  :)