WORLD'S OLDEST MAN DIES

by Dansk 13 Replies latest jw friends

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  Dansk

  This just in on BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3147888.stm

  Made me smile to think that had this guy been a JW he'd have been around through all the Watchtower's doctrinal changes.

  Dansk
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  Flowerpetal

  The article said he was an optimist. I think optimism increases longevity.
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  Dansk

  Good point, Flowerpetal:

  Born on 23 March 1889, he attributed his own longevity to healthy eating and being an optimist.

  He'd never have made a JW - everything they spout is pessimistic!

  Dansk
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  TresHappy

  I still think I want to live to be 100. Now I can shoot for 114.
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  Special K

  Hey Dansk.. I see the beards gone now..

  so... what I learned from reading about this oldest man dies at 114..

  1. be optimistic.

  2. eat meat

  3. eat rice

  4. drink milk everyday

  5. don't drink alcohol

  6. raise silk worms..

  7.Don't be a J.W... too stressful..

  Okay.. I got it all written down Dansk.. thanks a biggy bunch..

  ps. .. Can you imagine the world history that man lived through.. AMAZING..

  special k
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  Perry

  "He hates vegetables but loves to eat meat and drink milk," his daughter once said.

  She said his favourite meal had been boiled rice mixed with bits of chicken meat.

  I think I remember that he also quit smoking when he was 102. Good thing :-)
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  SanFranciscoJim

  World's oldest man dies aged 114

  News headline revised:

  "World's Oldest Man Dies Aged 114 - Governing Body to Replace Him in Guinness Book of Records"
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  lisavegas420

  You said your birthday is 3 / 23 / 1889
  which means you are 114 years old and about:

  27 years 7 months older than Walter Cronkite, age 86
  31 years 2 months older than Pope John Paul II, age 83
  35 years 3 months older than George Herbert Bush, age 79
  42 years 6 months older than Barbara Walters, age 72
  44 years 8 months older than Larry King, age 69
  50 years 11 months older than Ted Koppel, age 63
  54 years 3 months older than Geraldo Rivera, age 60
  57 years 3 months older than George W. Bush, age 57
  62 years 4 months older than Jesse Ventura, age 52
  66 years 7 months older than Bill Gates, age 47
  71 years 5 months older than Cal Ripken Jr., age 43
  77 years 3 months older than Mike Tyson, age 37
  81 years 4 months older than Jennifer Lopez, age 33
  86 years 9 months older than Tiger Woods, age 27
  93 years 3 months older than Prince William, age 21
  

  and that you were:

  112 years old at the time of the 9-11 attack on America
  110 years old on the first day of Y2K
  108 years old when Princess Diana was killed in a car crash
  106 years old at the time of Oklahoma City bombing
  105 years old when O. J. Simpson was charged with murder
  103 years old at the time of the 93 bombing of the World Trade Center
  101 years old when Operation Desert Storm began
  100 years old during the fall of the Berlin Wall
  96 years old when the space shuttle Challenger exploded
  94 years old when Apple introduced the Macintosh
  94 years old during Sally Ride's travel in space
  92 years old when Pres. Reagan was shot by John Hinckley, Jr.
  90 years old at the time the Iran hostage crisis began
  87 years old on the U.S.'s bicentennial Fourth of July
  85 years old when President Nixon left office
  83 years old when Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was shot
  80 years old at the time the first man stepped on the moon
  79 years old when Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated
  76 years old during the Watts riot
  74 years old at the time President Kennedy was assassinated
  70 years old when Hawaii was admitted as 50th of the United States
  68 years old when the Soviet satellite Sputnik 1 was launched
  64 years old at the end of the Korean War
  56 years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima
  52 years old at the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
  45 years old in the year radar was invented
  40 years old when the American stock market crashed
  37 years old in the year of the first talking motion picture
  26 years old at the time of the sinking of the Lusitania
  25 years old when the First World War began
  23 years old at the time of the maiden voyage of the Titanic
  17 years old during the great San Francisco earthquake
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  Dansk

  lisavegas,

  Great extra info!

  Special K,

  The photo was taken last year while I was still a dub - but, yes, the beard went last night and my hair is much shorter than in the picture.

  Enjoyed all your comments

  Dansk
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  Badger

  NO WAY! I'm watching his show on ESPN2 right now.

  Oh, sorry, that's the world's STRONGEST man.