Originally Posted by
DnvrFox
Well, I was hoping that someone would respond, "In the Indian culture, 'Old' is respected and highly valued," but no such luck. Please take my OP with a bit of tongue-in-cheek. Sometimes I don't realize that my posts come across as serious, when I didn't mean them that way!! Is there a smiley for tongue-in-cheek?

As a matter of fact, there is... don't know that I've ever seen it used though.
http://pc.net/emoticons/smiley/tongue_in_cheek