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World's Oldest Person Dies at 116 in Tennessee
FOXNews.com ^ | December 11, 2006

Posted on 12/11/2006 8:45:01 PM PST by URist

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The world's oldest person has died.

Elizabeth "Lizzie" Bolden was 116 when her time came today in a Memphis, Tennessee, nursing home. She'd lived there several years, but relatives say she spoke very little after a stroke two years ago.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: blackgold; death; earth; elliemay; flattnscruggs; granny; jethrodbodine; missjane; moonshine; mrdrysdale; oldest; person; texastea; unclejed
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To: URist

Being the worlds oldest person is scarey - the prognosis isn't good! Those folks are dropping like flies. The government ought to set up a new federal department to save us from this malady.


21 posted on 12/12/2006 9:33:45 AM PST by TexasRepublic (Afghan protest - "Death to Dog Washers!")
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To: URist

Some fellow who is in the medical research field recently said on late night radio that there is a bit of a standing joke going on now.

Some folks are taking bets about whether the first person who will live to be over 1000 has been born yet or not.

Trouble is, I don't want to live until I'm a thousand if every morning I wake up and my back feels like it's 217 years old!!


22 posted on 12/12/2006 9:41:55 AM PST by djf (They have their place. We have our place. WAKE UP!! They want to turn our place into their place!!!)
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To: marsh_of_mists

Wow. Her entire family must have had 5 kids a piece and started young for those statistics!


23 posted on 12/12/2006 9:44:07 AM PST by RockinRight (Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. He's a Socialist. And unqualified.)
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To: OESY

I have a suggestion - before you make a case that moderation on FR is inconsistent, why don’t you first notify the moderators of a post you find objectionable? We ain’t psychic and we can’t patrol every thread.


24 posted on 11/24/2007 11:24:08 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator
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To: Sidebar Moderator
I have a suggestion - before you make a case that I should first notify the moderators of a objectionable post, why don’t you first read what I sent you? I ain’t psychic and I can’t know you wouldn't read the two URL citations I sent.

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25 posted on 11/24/2007 2:13:31 PM PST by OESY
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To: OESY
I have a suggestion - before you make a case that I should first notify the moderators of a objectionable post, why don’t you first read what I sent you? I ain’t psychic and I can’t know you wouldn't read the two URL citations I sent.

I deleted the post in question upon your notifcation. So what is your issue?

26 posted on 11/24/2007 6:19:27 PM PST by Sidebar Moderator
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To: Andy from Beaverton

She never looked lovelier.


27 posted on 12/02/2007 7:38:17 AM PST by Turret Gunner A20 (Tolerating intolerance is not a "value," it's self-destructive stupidity.)
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To: URist

If I were the second oldest person I’d be pretty nervous right now..........Heck, I’d probably even quit smoking.


28 posted on 12/02/2007 7:42:49 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (Visions of sugarplums dancing in your head are probably caused by bad drugs.....)
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To: URist

Born in 1891. In her late 20s when America entered WWI. Was 50 when Pearl Harbor was bombed. 90 when Reagan took office. Amazing.


29 posted on 12/02/2007 7:47:09 AM PST by Mr. Mojo (“Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss.")
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To: URist

Fred Willard mentioned her name back in 1991.


30 posted on 12/02/2007 7:53:00 AM PST by SamAdams76 (I am 13 days away from outliving Walter Payton)
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To: URist
Think about it:

She was a teenager when there were no cars, no planes, no TV, no radio, no rolled toilet paper, the electric light bulb was just going into production.

As a teenager she probably meet Civil War Veterans, was a young adult during WWI, a middle aged woman during WWI and a old maid during the Vietnam conflict

Quite amazing

31 posted on 12/02/2007 7:55:20 AM PST by Popman (My doohickey is discombobulated)
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To: marsh_of_mists

Hey dumbass, why don’t you try starting your comment with something other than F—k.


32 posted on 12/02/2007 8:00:52 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: Yardstick

Well, aren’t some people squeamish? Would you have preferred “——”? Or maybe “$#@%!”? Or “BLEEP!”? Or how about, “Oh golly gee whillikers! Diddeldy-darneldy-doo!” I would think that after ONE YEAR a comment would have passed the statute of limitations, but apparently not. Don’t worry. The moderator removed it, so your innocent eyes are protected from the censored cuss.


33 posted on 12/02/2007 9:20:31 AM PST by marsh_of_mists
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To: Yardstick
dumbass

And no swearing!
34 posted on 12/02/2007 9:21:17 AM PST by marsh_of_mists
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To: marsh_of_mists

We have standards here, dumbass.

There is no statute of limitations on braindead F-bombing like that.


35 posted on 12/02/2007 12:07:26 PM PST by Yardstick
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