If Only She'd Had More Time ...
The World's Oldest Persontm has passed away at the tender age of 115. From the Times:
Two things:
1) Well, I guess we finally know who watches Jerry Springer. He's captured that all important 110+ demographic that advertisers covet.
2) It's always sad when someone dies, but people we're actually posting comments to this item on Facebook talking about what a tragedy it is that she died. I mean, really? The woman was 115 years old, for crying out loud. How much longer did you want her to go?
I'm not trying to be insensitive here, but dear lord. Newsflash: people die. It happens. It sucks, particularly when you're close with them, but it happens. When they die at 5, 10, 20 years old, it's really sad. When someone else kills them, it's really sad. When they live through the Spanish-American War, outlive all their relatives and die 107 years later, it's not as sad.
Although she liked her bacon crispy and her chicken fried, she never drank, smoked or fooled around, Gertrude Baines once said, describing a life that lasted an astonishing 115 years and earned her the title of oldest person on the planet.--snip--
In her final years, she passed her days watching her favorite TV program, "The Jerry Springer Show," and consuming her favorite foods: bacon, fried chicken and ice cream. She complained often, however, that the bacon served to her was too soft.
Two things:
1) Well, I guess we finally know who watches Jerry Springer. He's captured that all important 110+ demographic that advertisers covet.
2) It's always sad when someone dies, but people we're actually posting comments to this item on Facebook talking about what a tragedy it is that she died. I mean, really? The woman was 115 years old, for crying out loud. How much longer did you want her to go?
I'm not trying to be insensitive here, but dear lord. Newsflash: people die. It happens. It sucks, particularly when you're close with them, but it happens. When they die at 5, 10, 20 years old, it's really sad. When someone else kills them, it's really sad. When they live through the Spanish-American War, outlive all their relatives and die 107 years later, it's not as sad.
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