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To: Paved Paradise
You're not really supposed to take articles like this seriously. This is where you're supposed to post rabbits with pancakes on their heads and kittens nursing lion cubs. But I know many, many old tall guys and I much prefer them to old short men because (wait for it...wait for it) they've seen more! Get it?

In reference to your dog observation, large dogs have shorter lives because they do all the work and technically small dogs are, in fact, rats and therefore disqualified.

You're welcome.

19 posted on 06/09/2010 12:31:39 PM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: Deb

I’ve never heard of a condition called “higher heart”. Why would short people be at risk of getting it? Does the heart know where it goes?


21 posted on 06/09/2010 12:37:40 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Throw the bums out in 2010.)
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To: Deb; Paved Paradise

“The study’s “major limitation is a failure to take into account confounding factors,” he says. “It’s much easier to measure somebody’s height than it is to measure lots of other environmental factors that could affect height.”

Nutrition is the most important environmental factor that influences both height and heart health, Lauer adds, but everything from air pollution to employment status to hydration could play a role.”


23 posted on 06/09/2010 12:41:41 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: Deb; shibumi; humblegunner; Jet Jaguar; Slings and Arrows; Eaker; Markos33; LongElegantLegs; ...

“In reference to your dog observation, large dogs have shorter lives because they do all the work and technically small dogs are, in fact, rats and therefore disqualified. “

ROFLMAO ping.


31 posted on 06/09/2010 1:19:39 PM PDT by Salamander (You don't know what's going on inside of me. You don't wanna know what's running through my mind.)
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To: Deb

LOL!


32 posted on 06/09/2010 1:21:19 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Deb

Oh my gosh, you did not have to say, “Get it?” You are really funny and I just loved your entire post. Thanks!!! Meanwhile, you reminded me that laughing and enjoying life probably have way more to do with longevity than stature.


48 posted on 06/09/2010 6:12:27 PM PDT by Paved Paradise
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