| loquitur |
09-13-2009 04:09 PM |
World's oldest person just died.......
She was 115 years old. And rather than characterizing this article about her, let me just quote it:
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LOS ANGELES - Gertrude Baines, who lived to be the world's oldest person on a steady diet of crispy bacon, fried chicken and ice cream, died Friday at a nursing home. She was 115.
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Staff at Baines' nursing home described her as a modest woman who liked to watch the "Jerry Springer Show" and eat fried chicken, bacon and ice cream. She refused to use dentures.
"I don't know how she does it. She only has her gums, no teeth," said Susie Exconde, the nursing director who found Baines dead in her bed at about 7:25 a.m.
Witt, Baines' physician, said that when he visited her earlier this week, she only complained that her bacon was soggy and arthritis was causing pain in her right knee.
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If I watched Jerry Springer regularly my brain would melt. And I can't even imagine what would happen to me if I lived on bacon, fried chicken and ice cream. Ol' Gert must have been made of very very strong stuff indeed. |
