Gets my vote for headline of the week. +1 subby

I always find it funny that you always read about these super old people and they all drink and/or smoke yet Dr.s are always saying that those things are bad for you.Obviously these old farts know something the Dr.s don't.

Don't go skydiving.

+1 headline
-2 for not mentioned lawns and getting off them.

DrZiffle: Don't go skydiving.

Dammit. Beat me to it.

/shakes tiny fist

Thegreaser: I always find it funny that you always read about these super old people and they all drink and/or smoke yet Dr.s are always saying that those things are bad for you.Obviously these old farts know something the Dr.s don't.

Genetics, let me show them to you.

sboyle1020: Thegreaser: I always find it funny that you always read about these super old people and they all drink and/or smoke yet Dr.s are always saying that those things are bad for you.Obviously these old farts know something the Dr.s don't.

Genetics, let me show them to you.

Agreed my mothers side has excellent longevity and most smoke and drink. My fathers side even the healthy habit folks die of heart problems early. Go figure?

TheGreatGildersleeve: sboyle1020: Thegreaser: I always find it funny that you always read about these super old people and they all drink and/or smoke yet Dr.s are always saying that those things are bad for you.Obviously these old farts know something the Dr.s don't.

Genetics, let me show them to you.

So it still doesn't matter, you say.

Well it's entirely luck of the draw. You can be healthy all your life and never drink or smoke and die early. And you can have someone like this who drinks and smokes and makes it to 108.

At least he didn't molest children. Or did he?

Sgygus: If you have never hoped you would still be alive tomorrow, you have never lived.

As opposed to all those people hoping they die in their sleep?

I'll remind my wife about this guy the next time she complains about me lighting up a cigar . . .

Thegreaser: I always find it funny that you always read about these super old people and they all drink and/or smoke yet Dr.s are always saying that those things are bad for you.Obviously these old farts know something the Dr.s don't.

And isn't it funny when you read about smokers dying at 45 of lung cancer? No it's not.

Not saying I should tell anyone how live or behave.

/Loves excessive drinking...
//But people who rely on anecdotes for criticism of doctors or scientists are part of what is wrong with the human race.

Thegreaser

I always find it funny that you always read about these super old people and they all drink and/or smoke yet Dr.s are always saying that those things are bad for you.Obviously these old farts know something the Dr.s don't.

It's just like when people make things up on the Internet.

Maine men know that life in the woods of Maine toughens the muscles and stretches the sinews.

/or so I hear

nohit: Thegreaser: It's probably just a testament to how strong their bodies are. Kind of like the bacteria that survive antibacterials. Hey! Maybe they're the next stage in our evolution!

Of course, by the time they prove their hardiness by living to a ripe old age, it's too late for them to procreate, so it'd be difficult to specifically select on this. :-)

Wonder if he's been ridin' a BMW lately...

sboyle1020: TheGreatGildersleeve: sboyle1020: Thegreaser: I always find it funny that you always read about these super old people and they all drink and/or smoke yet Dr.s are always saying that those things are bad for you.Obviously these old farts know something the Dr.s don't.

Genetics, let me show them to you.

So it still doesn't matter, you say.

Well it's entirely luck of the draw. You can be healthy all your life and never drink or smoke and die early. And you can have someone like this who drinks and smokes and makes it to 108.

Im pretty sure that if you stay miserable you will live forever.

nohit: Thegreaser: It's probably just a testament to how strong their bodies are. Kind of like the bacteria that survive antibacterials. Hey! Maybe they're the next stage in our evolution!

Of course, by the time they prove their hardiness by living to a ripe old age, it's too late for them to procreate, so it'd be difficult to specifically select on this. :-)

If they are, we and farmer's markets everywhere are doomed.

does he buy green bananas?

Is his name Vern?

In other news, I cannot wait for LOST to come back.

Saberus Terras: nohit: Thegreaser: It's probably just a testament to how strong their bodies are. Kind of like the bacteria that survive antibacterials. Hey! Maybe they're the next stage in our evolution!

Of course, by the time they prove their hardiness by living to a ripe old age, it's too late for them to procreate, so it'd be difficult to specifically select on this. :-)

If they are, we and farmer's markets everywhere are doomed.

Cialis, Levitra, and Viagra are all about letting them procreate. Just with young and nubile hotties instead of the old chicks their age. The pay-off might be the same for the species, in terms of increasing average age - but the young guys would be out of luck for fathering kids.

Was he also being chased around by the neighbor's cat?

/IT'S SO LONELY IN THE STATE OF MAIIIIIINE!

okami36: Wonder if he's been ridin' a BMW lately...

Ew.

MightySapphire: okami36: Wonder if he's been ridin' a BMW lately...

Ew.

LOL

5th grade jokes FTW

What 'my main man' may look like after getting worked over



Oh, Maine...

/Came to make a Lobo reference.
//Lost interest

Patroclus

Wow...Talk about a band I haven't heard in a really long time.

One of my favorites:

Three geezers are sitting on a park bench, commisserating about thier various maladies.

The 70 year-old says, "I'm miserable. I wake up at 7:00 every morning, and it's ten-thirty before I can produce a bowel movement."

The 80 year-old says, "You think you got it bad. I wake up at 6:00 every morning, and I'm lucky if I get anything going before lunchtime."

The 90 year-old chimes in, "Whatever, I have a BM every morning at 8:00, on the dot."

The other two, in unison, "What's the problem with that?"

"I don't wake up 'til nine."



Veal. Waitress. Week.

cigar smoking doesn't have nearly the cancer risk of cigarette smoking because you don't inhale.

So Rush Limbaugh will probably live to 100+ just like this guy.

I'm not sure if I would do well as a really old person. Right now I can confidently walk out of my house with a reasonable expectation of returning. At 100 I'd be expecting to die every 5 minutes.

Big deal. My grandma is already 109.

Thegreaser: I always find it funny that you always read about these super old people and they all drink and/or smoke yet Dr.s are always saying that those things are bad for you.Obviously these old farts know something the Dr.s don't.

All you need is good genes. That is why Keith Richards has used every chemical under the sun, smokes, drinks, wenches, looks like he was mummified years ago, and is still alive. Genetics.

You don't hear about all the people who drink and smoke and die young because, you know, they died at age 45 and nobody makes the news for that.

Thegreaser: .......Obviously these old farts know something the Dr.s don't.

Yea, they busted their asses hauling wood, plowing fields, pulling traps all day when they were younger. My 75 year old neighbor works his property from sun up to sun down while I sit at a desk and make money. He'll probably out live me, and I'm not that old. (His Mom made it to 100).

The Angry Hand of God: Patroclus

Wow...Talk about a band I haven't heard in a really long time.

Haha. Worth revisiting if its been a while, for sure.

okami36: Wonder if he's been ridin' a BMW lately...

Not a bad ride...



BUT he'd probably prefer to go 'round the block with this instead...



/not sure he would make it all the way
//good way to go!

tieruoidhadsf: Big deal. My grandma is already 109.

But she has the body of a ninety year-old.

/obligatory

Here in Ames, IA, we have Neva Morris, world's 3rd oldest person, who is 114. Born here 1895 and still living here.

/at least she was when I fetched her Wiki page 2 minutes ago
//all right, she went to Chicago back when it was a toddlin town
///but she came back

Chinchillazilla: Barrett Nichols passed up the chocolate cake, patting his stomach and saying he's been eating too much lately.

Dude, how many more chances are you going to get? Just eat all the cake you want.

John Gustafson: You're supposed to be smoking filter cigarettes.
Grandpa Gustafson: I'm 94 years old. What the hell do I care?