Being "historic" is a basic requirement for becoming one of the Official Curmudgeons. John West (who calls himself El Curmudgeon del Norte) and Tom Gildersleeve (El Curmudgeon del Sur) allowed me into their club a few ago when I was 'only' 63 mainly because I was assembling Volume I of the
#483 #492/497 screen saver and we were
arguing about vigorously discussing the cropping, color correction, etc. of the photos that they had contributed. Ernie Robart had also contributed some photos, and Roger Hogan was burning and marketing the CDs to raise money for #483. He originally described us as "Five Old Farts", but John, Tom and I over-ruled him and declared ourselves Curmudgeons instead.
See [
ngdiscussion.net] et seq for 'The Rest of the Story'.