i think someone forgot to carry the one or something.

Or they were thinking in terms of reverse dog years or something.

Pffff... overachiever.

In geologic terms, they got it almost exactly right!

This seems at first to be a comment on the unpredictability of life, but it actually just shows how clueless doctors were a century ago. In that respect, they're just like the doctors of today.

If you knew a garage mechanic whose understanding of his subject was as deep and thorough as a doctor's knowledge of the human body, you wouldn't let that guy near your car.

Nothing against the M.D.'s; they're smart and knowledgeable. Just not nearly to the extent the work requires.

I wonder what she'll die of

105 year without drinking? I would have taken the 12 hours.

I always try to remember stories like these when some 'professional' with a string of letters after his or her name uses words like "never, always, definitely, hopeless". Pal, you are only human, keep predicting the future, quit trying to guarantee it.

Yeah, I'm pretty cynical. Wanna fight about it?

Well. we are living in the last days.

She must be the best guitar player ever

//too obscure?

See, I told you she was going to die.

Captain Horatio Mindblower: This seems at first to be a comment on the unpredictability of life, but it actually just shows how clueless doctors were a century ago. In that respect, they're just like the doctors of today.

If you knew a garage mechanic whose understanding of his subject was as deep and thorough as a doctor's knowledge of the human body, you wouldn't let that guy near your car.

Nothing against the M.D.'s; they're smart and knowledgeable. Just not nearly to the extent the work requires.

To be fair, mechanics don't work on cars while they're going around the track, either.

The doctor who delivered her must be one of those born-again nutjobs.

13,750,000,000 years == 6000 years
76650 hours == 12 hours

They didn't tell her which 12 hours she was going to live.
she assumed the first 12, they could have meant the last 12.

Leeds: The doctor who delivered her must be one of those born-again nutjobs.

13,750,000,000 years == 6000 years
76650 hours == 12 hours

or a farktard libtard who has to find a way to bash religion every chance they get.

you have been reported to www.attackwatch.com

enjoy!

tenpoundsofcheese: Leeds: The doctor who delivered her must be one of those born-again nutjobs.

13,750,000,000 years == 6000 years
76650 hours == 12 hours

or a farktard libtard who has to find a way to bash religion every chance they get.

you have been reported to www.attackwatch.com

enjoy!

Calm down, psycho.

Also, this headline makes my head hurt.

tenpoundsofcheese: Leeds: The doctor who delivered her must be one of those born-again nutjobs.

13,750,000,000 years == 6000 years
76650 hours == 12 hours

or a farktard libtard who has to find a way to bash religion every chance they get.

you have been reported to www.attackwatch.com

enjoy!

Are you allowed to advertize for your smut-site on fark? I think you'll get banned for trying to get free advertizing for your website, cheese-farker.

It's not important the amount of time, it's what you do with it. This gal took 12 hours and lived an entire 105 years in it!

petre: It's not important the amount of time, it's what you do with it. This gal took 12 hours and lived an entire 105 years in it!

I think she went to Narnia.

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Obviously. Can't imagine why anyone would think otherwise, Dr. Mindblower. Ok, yeah, I mean I can't imagine why anyone would think like you. Care to enlighten us, or are you just going to leave that steaming pile of opinion you state as fact laying there in the middle of the floor and move on?

So much for my career in punditry!

It would be interesting to know how many doctors she had who she outlived, or who are now retired.


Captain Horatio Mindblower: Nothing against the M.D.'s; they're smart and knowledgeable. Just not nearly to the extent the work requires

This is true of a lot of things nowadays. Try finding someone in 1906 who could do the simplest repair on a laptop, or someone today who'd make a competent President.

Wasn't the life expectancy for most babies in 1905 about 12 hours?

AiryAnne: Wasn't the life expectancy for most babies in 1905 about 12 hours?

Probably for one out of three babies, yes.

Worst doctor ever?

OR

BEST doctor ever?

Discuss.

You go, girl!

FTA: "An evergreen pensinoer has defied the odds..."

Is this a British thing? I've never heard of a pensinoer.

'Another member of our family lived to 102, so there must be something in the genes that keeps us going past 100.

Nah, just chock it up to not drinking and the seaside air. You can push more of an agenda that way.

Sometimes people use too many commas, sometimes they don't use enough.

She was about 10 during the 1st World War.

By the time World War 2 ended, she was 40.....older than most people who post here.

By the time she was 60, they had sent a man to the moon and averted a Cuban missle crisis.

Amazing to think about the amount of progress, innovation, and world events that went on during this woman's own life time, and what's more amazing is that she was probably at her most attractive and hittable back in the 1930s.

So she has spent most of her life dried out

jingks: 105 year without drinking? I would have taken the 12 hours.

As would MY grandmother, who made it over 100 without apparently missing a cocktail...at least since they repealed Prohibition.

She flew biplanes out of Boston before they paved the runways, was a multiple-sport athlete, widowed in WWII, raised her kids on her own, remarried in her 80's to a man who snuck her five o'clock gin and tonics into her hospital room.

I'll miss the grand old lady.