"throw in a few bottles of good Scotch, a few cigars, and he cudda done 105"
Good for him !
Whats a glass of whiskey and a few ciggies compared to a freegin grenade and a war?
"throw in a few bottles of good Scotch, a few cigars, and he cudda done 105"
My kind of guy ! :-)
Oddly, My Great Grandad had a glass of whiskey a day as well as one or two wines and lived to 96.
He also used chewing tobacco and a pipe.
Ate butter/eggs/and lard daily.
LOL, grandpa smoked two cigars a day and never went without bacon and eggs for breakfast - sure ‘nuf killed him at 98.
"Unhealthy" lifestyle
NHS Refuses Senior Aspirin For Headache
The guy sounds like a slacker to me. I had smoked over 300,000 cigarettes before I got out of my 30's.
His body was so toxic that cancer couldn’t survive in it. Just a case of being so mean that you repel evil. :-)
TO
ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE
1920s, 30’s, 40’s, 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s, and the 00’s
First, we survived being born to mothers
Who smoked and/or drank while they were Pregnant.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing,
Tuna from a can and didn’t get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-base paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles,
Locks on doors or cabinets and when we rode
Our bikes, we had baseball caps not helmets on our heads.
As infants & children,
We would ride in cars with no car seats,
No booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes no brakes.
Riding in the back of a pick-up truck on a warm day
Was always a special treat.
We drank water
From the garden hose and not from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends,
From one bottle and no one actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread, real butter and bacon.
We drank Kool-Aid made with real white sugar.
And, we weren’t overweight.
WHY?
Because we were
Always outside playing...that’s why!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day,
As long as we were back when the
Streetlights came on.
No one was able
To reach us all day. And, we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of soap box scraps
And then ride them down the hill, only to find out
We forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes
A few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo’s and X-boxes.
There were no video games, no 150 channels on cable,
No video movies or DVD’s, no surround-sound or CD’s,
No cell phones,
No personal computers, no Internet and no chat rooms.
WE HAD FRIENDS
And we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth
And there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt,
And the worms did not live in us
Forever.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays,
Made up games with sticks and tennis balls and,
Although we were told it would happen,
We did not put out very many eyes..
We rode bikes or walked to a friend’s house and
Knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just
Walked in and talked to them.
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team.
Those who didn’t had to learn to deal
With disappointment.
Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law
Was unheard of.
They actually sided with the law!
These generations have produced some of the best
Risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever.
The past 90 years
Have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility,
And we learned how to deal with it all.
If YOU are one of them?
CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others
Who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the
Lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives
For our own good.
While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know
How brave and lucky their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house
With scissors, doesn’t it ?
The quote of the
Month is by Jay Leno:
“With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control,
Mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms
Tearing up the country from one end to another,
And with the threat of swine flu
And terrorist attacks.
Are we sure this is a good time
To take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?”
Macallan doesn't compare with Talisker (:: sniff ::), but the secret is to play in the arena of fine single malts, and I'll grant Macallan that.
It's not called the "Water of Life" (usquebaugh) for nothing.
Side note: When Bogart went to Africa to film the African Queen, he and producer John Huston drank scotch continuously, and never got sick. Katherine Hepburn, Lauren Bacall, and the rest of the crew there all were constantly sick from the bad water, bugs, heat and everything else.
Just shows to go ya.
I'm not advocating self destructive behavior such as homosexuality (which we in our health conscious society nearly advocate), but in moderation even if you like steak, smoke, drink, and yes carry a few extra pounds, it's not going to make a big difference in your outcome. You were born coded in every cell of your body with a likely outcome. 80% is genetic, the other 20% the choices you make unless you are excessive.
But that's not what the health food, green food, exercise, vitamin, protein, sport apparel, gym/fitness center, athletic shoe, sports consultants, sporting media, sporting organizations are going to tell you because after all, according to them, if you give them some more money you will live forever, be sexy, cancer free, fit and a sexual tyrannosaurus if you buy their muscle shake powder.
10 a day??? I once read a book on how to quit smoking, written by an ENT doctor. The last page said something like “and after all this you still can’t quit, keep it at 10 a day or under - that won’t hurt you”.
Kind of like cigarettes alone is not a cause of death. Just another surprise from the Medical authorities... Okay, he will eventually die from cigarette smoking - at 101 maybe...
If you listen to both the medical community (that changes its opinions every few years) or the government, you definitely will die from one of their pet causes...
Just think how long he would live if he never smoked or drank!!!!!!!!!
Sure, let’s take one anecdotal example, enshrine it as truth divine and ignore a mountain of statistical evidence that say otherwise.
The world is not flat no matter what some people believe.
Well, emphysema runs on both sides of my family. Bummer.