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Some things to ponder as we grow older
email from friend | 8/25/2021 | unknown

Posted on 08/25/2021 4:09:27 AM PDT by sodpoodle

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1 posted on 08/25/2021 4:09:27 AM PDT by sodpoodle
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To: sodpoodle

Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer you get to the end, the faster it goes.


2 posted on 08/25/2021 4:10:38 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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especially when you spend more time in the bathroom vs. the kitchen;)


3 posted on 08/25/2021 4:14:09 AM PDT by sodpoodle (Life is prickly, carry tweezers.)
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Might want to add 88 year-old Willie Nelson to the list.


4 posted on 08/25/2021 4:19:21 AM PDT by WinMod70
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Willie’s drug of choice is marijuana, he’s still alive. His best friend Waylon’s drug of choice was cocaine. Waylon died a long time ago.


5 posted on 08/25/2021 4:26:16 AM PDT by 38special (I should've said something earlier)
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To: tired&retired

And ignore the fake news.


6 posted on 08/25/2021 4:44:03 AM PDT by MulberryDraw (The COVID risk is about the same as the flue.)
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To: sodpoodle

You are just asking to be “fact-checked” aren’t you. Stay safe out there.


7 posted on 08/25/2021 4:46:33 AM PDT by Purdue77
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To: sodpoodle

:-)


8 posted on 08/25/2021 5:00:35 AM PDT by xenia ("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." George Orwell)
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To: sodpoodle

Jesse Owens, 67, Arthur Ashe 49, Jim Fixx 52...

George Burns 100, Bob Hope 100, Winston Churchill 90...


9 posted on 08/25/2021 5:04:37 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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Not that I argue with your point at all, but I think a LOT of people will argue that Pele’ was the greatest soccer player ever. He’s still living, 80 years old.


10 posted on 08/25/2021 5:10:34 AM PDT by McGarrett (Book'em Danno)
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To: sodpoodle

Winston is a brand name invented by RJ Reynolds in the 50’s.

And cigarettes will kill the idiots who smoke them.


11 posted on 08/25/2021 5:25:08 AM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
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And cigarettes will kill the idiots who smoke them.
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I never tire of watching the facial expressions on people called “Foodies” when I tell them there’s a problem to consider regarding food: It will kill you!


12 posted on 08/25/2021 5:33:57 AM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat ("It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins." Ben Franklin)
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Also Jim Fixx, famous author of a best selling book about running, died of a heart attack at 52


13 posted on 08/25/2021 6:21:04 AM PDT by blue state conservative
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And breathing is slowing killing. Every one you take is one less from your total.


14 posted on 08/25/2021 6:35:22 AM PDT by Deepeasttx ( Sensitivity/diversity training sessions are just reeducation camps without walls....for now.)
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A small percentage, yes. I’m at anti-smoking as the next guy but I have to admit that after doing a lot of research it turns out that cigarette smoking is not as deadly as we’ve been made to believe. Just as covid-19 is not as deadly as a lot of Karen’s out there think it is.


15 posted on 08/25/2021 6:36:13 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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Men dying young, "ran" in his family.

Pun-intended.

16 posted on 08/25/2021 6:36:29 AM PDT by HotHunt
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To: stinkerpot65

The brand is named after the town where R. J. Reynolds started his business which is Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Winston-Salem NC

Winston, founded in 1849 as the county seat, was named in 1851 for Major Joseph Winston, a Revolutionary War hero.

Salem (from the Hebrew shalom, meaning “peace”) was laid out in 1766 by Moravian colonists in the center of their Wachovia land tract; it was incorporated in 1856, when the land was sold to outsiders.

This is tobacco growing country


17 posted on 08/25/2021 6:49:51 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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I’m as anti-smoking as the next guy but I have to admit that after doing a lot of research it turns out that cigarette smoking is not as deadly as we’ve been made to believe.

Or, it could just affect some people differently. Some people get lung cancer and die having never smoked. Some people smoke and don't get lung cancer. Life is like a lottery sometimes.

18 posted on 08/25/2021 6:50:30 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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Yep. And the science is very clear. Secondhand smoke is very deadly - to cats.


19 posted on 08/25/2021 6:53:08 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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I worked with a group of lung doctors for a while. Every afternoon, one of them, with an office next to mine, would call patients to inform them the lung cancer/emphysema/COPD tests were positive. 99% were old, idiotic smokers.

Invariably the doctor would hang up and mumble, “It’s not my fault you smoked for 30 years”

It’s true not all smokers die from smoking, but a high percentage do.

I don’t personally tell people not to smoke. Their stupidity is not my problem.


20 posted on 08/25/2021 8:36:09 AM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
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