FADEAWAYS

     Let's start a new word-use fad. We'll call it "Fadeaways". You select some occupation, then make up some hopefully humorous way people in that profession "fade away". For example: Cowboys. Old cowboys never die.They just get de-ranged! Or, alternately, old cowboys never die.They just lose their range!

Old quarterbacks never die. They just pass away. (Craig Fleishman)
Old fishermen never die.They just smell that way. (Anon) Or...
Old fishermen never die. They just wade away. (Seryl L. Webb)
Old poultrymen never die.They just chicken out. (Al Bernstein)
Old accountants never die. They just lose their balance. (Charles Shaw)
Old anesthesiologists never die. They just run out of gas. (Sheria K. Martin)
Old insurance agents never die. It's against their policy. (Marian S. Schwartz)
Old procrastinators never die. They just keep putting it off. (C.P. Miscavish)
Old lawyers never die. They just lose their appeal. (Bob Talbert in Detroit Free Press)
Old actors never die. They just lose their parts. (Graffiti)
Old librarians never die. They just get renewed. (Agnes Halsey)
Old quilters never die. They just mend the pieces. (Marie Radeck)
Old psychiatrists never die. They just shrink away. (Jim Fiebig)
Old philosophers never die. They Kant. (Janet L. Kragen)
Old welders never die. They just pass the torch. (Nan Kemp)
Old truckers never die. They just semi-re-tire. (Arthur J. George)
Old daredevils never die, they just get dis-couraged. (Anon)
Old comedians never die. They just go to the 'old jokes' home. (Shelley Friedman)

and, of course, Old plagiarists never die. They just steal away. (Mary Ann Herman)