BS: Life expectancy quiz.

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: Lepus Rex
Date: 01 Jul 02 - 08:04 PM

I dunno about this test. I went back and messed around with the test... Put in things like 7ft tall, 70lbs, and 2ft tall, 900lbs. Didn't change a thing.

So, looks like my "dead by 40" dreams aren't crushed just yet! :D

---Lepus Rex

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: Hrothgar
Date: 01 Jul 02 - 05:11 AM

Yes Jerry, to "kark" means to die. Also spelt "cark."

Described in the Macquarie Dictionary as a shortened form of "carcass."

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Jun 02 - 02:45 AM

The quiz didn't ask about gene-linked diseases like early-onset Alzheimer's. But it's kind of a good idea - we might as well do all we can to maximise health; better a healthy 80-year-old than a miserable draggy-aroundy one.

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 30 Jun 02 - 01:26 AM

That's odd. The test says that i died three days ago.

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: mack/misophist
Date: 29 Jun 02 - 11:10 AM

Somewhere in his work, R A Heinlein says the only way to insure immortality is to choose the right grandparents.

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: GUEST,DW at work
Date: 28 Jun 02 - 06:30 PM

Wow, with my stress levels and the amount I smoked, I should have died 3 years ago.

Maybe I should have married. I wouldn't live any longer, it would just feel like it.

DW

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Jun 02 - 05:36 PM

WWould you buy life without death
eternally healthy
and bypass the pearly gates?

It will be the most wealthy.
who are the most stealthy.
Picture an immortal Bill Gates.

Could science deliver
would you donate your liver
so Bill can avoid his last breath?

Should it be secret,
would you want to know
the ways we have to cheat death?

It is not what we need
but the rich may succeed
as immortal gods' of greed.

What if dictators
could live forever
and pass on their evil seed?

Can we crack the code
to become immortal
and live up to 800 years?

I bet that we could
but doubt that we should,
live for 200 leap years.

Is life without death
worth the expense?
Does it go against nature's rhythm?

They'll give it a try
they won't be denied
the chance to take it with'em.

Soon gene therapy
is all that they'll need.
It has nothing to do with clones.

They won't live forever
But ties would be severed
and they'd find themselves alone.

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: EBarnacle1
Date: 28 Jun 02 - 04:55 PM

As long as I can make it manana, I'll be happy!

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 26 Jun 02 - 09:04 AM

Most of my family have popped their clogs of cancer in their 60's so ermmmm I'm not holding out on the 89.4 the quiz told me. But the next 68 years could be fun!!!!!!

cat x

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: annamill
Date: 26 Jun 02 - 08:38 AM

Aren't humans fun! More interesting than any other creature. Can't help but love 'em.

Annamill

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 26 Jun 02 - 08:15 AM

Hrothgar: "Karking?" That's a new one to me... is that like "Checking Out," or "kicking the bucket?"

A few years ago, I went to visit my Aunt and Uncle who were living in the same residence my Mother now lives in. While we were sitting in the social room, a woman came wheeling down the hallway at a break-neck clip, and pulled into the room (right over my Uncle's foot.) She no sooner had interrupted our visit than she dozed off. She'd doze off for a minute or two and then wake up and start talking. My Aunt knew the woman and asked her to tell us how old she was, because she'd just had her birthday. The woman said, "A man asked me how old I was, the other day and I told him I'm 106. He said, you don't look a day over 100!" Vanity never dies. And good for her. And the guy who complimented her. She clearly was feeling good about only looking 100 years old. :-)

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: Mr Happy
Date: 26 Jun 02 - 06:33 AM

fat b'st**d,

only 'til 8.30pm?

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: fat B****rd
Date: 26 Jun 02 - 05:22 AM

2030 if I stop lying. I mean the year 2030 not the age.

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: Mr Happy
Date: 26 Jun 02 - 04:57 AM

i get the result 75yrs even if i put in the lowest and highest possible weights, ie

0.1lb & 999lbs

i'll not be buying the book

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: Hrothgar
Date: 26 Jun 02 - 04:30 AM

Gee, Jerry R, if you didn't have all those long-lived relatives, this system could have you karking it about now. You had better watch your personal habits!

:-)))

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: Gloredhel
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 06:37 PM

90.6, yeah, that's about right, I guess. Now I know why my parents stress the importance of planning for retirement--I'll still have a third of my life left by the time I want to stop working! (Mental note: ask Dad how retirement plans work. Thank God there's an accountant in the family!)

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 04:43 PM

Jeez -- I came up at 94.6. And me on the wrong side of 200 lbs. But I take my vitamins, garlic & parsley tabs as well as E and selenium (taken together, by the way, and not at the same time as your other vitamins). Curmudgeon smokes, but he avoids it around me. Got some long-lived ancestors on Dad's side of the family -- probably makes up for the other side of the family. Life is stressful, but hey, I've learned to cope with that and come out smiling on the other side. Gardening, walking, and running around at my p/t job -- better than sweating over machines (though my free weights get lots of use).

The most sedentary I get is typing away here at Mudcat or reading during a de-stressification bubble bath with my alloted margarita. (Hey, with all that vitamin C, cactus & lime juice, margaritas are health food, right?)

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: Deda
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 04:12 PM

88 plus -- but there are a number of questions missing, and I don't actually know my grandparents' ages when they died -- except my paternal grandmother was well into her 90s and quite senile -- but she lived on her own reasonably well and healthy until her late 80s.

I could actually live to be a great-grandmother! And my kids will be saddled with supporting me, unless I start making more money and not dawdling around on the 'cat!

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 04:03 PM

Bloody right about no accuacy-they don't know what I know! 87.5 years-I'll be bloody lucky! But I wouldn't mind, more time for music.

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: Mrrzy
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 04:02 PM

I'll make it to over 90 and I don't lead a good life... yikes! But that's with grandparents of over 95... all I need to is avoid wars, I guess. Nobody in my family has died of natural causes at an age under 95 in at least 2 generations, but the Nazis knocked out most of Mom's side and terrorists got Dad... can bad luck run in families?

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: The Walrus
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 04:02 PM

A life expectancy of 80.4 years (Should I book for early November 2036 now?) - that's not bad going, neither of my parents (nor many of my Mother's siblings) reached 65.

What makes me think this test might be partially wishful thinking?

Walrus

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: 53
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 03:49 PM

Mine is 86.6 which ain't to bad these days and times. Bob

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 03:19 PM

Great news! I should be around for decades after Lepus Rex is dead.

I'm looking forward to a Lepus Rex-free planet.

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: Amergin
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 03:07 PM

Your life expectancy is 88.2 years

LOL....it did not take into account things like depression...and other mental health related illnesses..

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 02:40 PM

91.4. I think there's been a mistake here. My Father died at 94, my Mother just celebrated her 95th birthday with 3 birthday parties, and just stopped driving this year... drove her Father's milk truck making deliveries at 13. I think that the youngest anyone has died on my Mother's side of the family (other than one of her brothers who was accidentally electrocuted) was 93 or 94. Same with my Grandparents who died well into their 90's, with the exception of my Mother's Mother who died on the operating table through gross negligence on the part of the surgeon. I just turned 67 and it is really weird to think that if I live a couple of years longer than my parents, I may still have a third of my life left. Personally, I can't take credit for any of it...

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: SharonA
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 01:53 PM

79.6 for me. Considering that my mother dropped dead of a massive heart attack a couple of months before her 80th birthday, that sounds about right. But waitaminnit... I only eat turkey bologna, not the nondescript stuff! Does that count as bologna?

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: mack/misophist
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 09:38 AM

I've known a number of people in their 80's. Thank the stars I'm going to die young.

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: kendall
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 09:01 AM

a stone is 14 pounds, a kg is 2 pounds

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: Hrothgar
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 08:17 AM

86.

That's a shame, because I wanted to shoot my age a golf, which would entail living to nearly 120.

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: allie kiwi
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 06:47 AM

90.4 *grin*Maybe music makes the soul want to keep the body alive longer? But I have to admit guessing my weight. Any idea how many pounds in a kg? Or yet - I know how much I weigh in stone (8 stone 2) ... but what is that in pounds??

Allie
the imperically challenged

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: alison
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 04:45 AM

you and me both.... 89.4 !!!!


lol

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 03:52 AM

WOW apparently I am going to live til I'm 89.4 years old!!!! Role on the next 68 years!!!!! AAAARRRGGGGHHHH I can't imagine living THAT long! Oh well if I am happy and surrounded by people I care about (pretty much like now!) then I suppose I don't have a problem with that.

Cat x

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: Amos
Date: 25 Jun 02 - 12:13 AM

You're in the groove, Spawman. Keep up the good stress-shedding and you'll sing us all under!! LOL!!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: catspaw49
Date: 24 Jun 02 - 11:56 PM

I went past my age long ago. I can tell you though if I had ever believed when I was 20 that I would have lived even this long I would have taken better care of myself. I figure I can go another 20 or another 2 or maybe 30 or not at all........I just try to enjoy what I have while I have it.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: kendall
Date: 24 Jun 02 - 11:53 PM

According to my doctor, I'm in pretty good shape. Blood pressure 120/60 Cholesterol 211 triglyserides 204 H.D.L. 67 and LDL 101. I have an appointment on wednesday to see if the cancer is gone, and, either way, I'm going back to Johns-Hopkins to have a follow up exam. Think I'll plan on living a while longer; there's Old Songs, the Getaway, a performance with Gordon Bok and probably Dave Mallett. Yup, worth living for.

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: Jim Krause
Date: 24 Jun 02 - 11:36 PM

Yep, what's life without tobacco, caffeine, alcohol, and red meat? Why pretty soon, there'd be the end of the Folk Tradition as we know it. Just think of all those Uncle Dave Macon songs:

• Country Ham and Red-eye Gravy
• From Earth to Heaven (starts out mentioning whiskey, beer and wine)
• Gray Cat on a Tennessee Farm

There are probably more.
Jim

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: Mudlark
Date: 24 Jun 02 - 11:25 PM

Whoa! 92!! That's almost 30 years...oy vay! Maybe I'll be able to manage a B minor yet, even full bar chords...the sky's the limit! Open tuning, here I come....

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 24 Jun 02 - 11:22 PM

I went back and changed a few answers. Apparently flossing my teeth daily will prolong my life longer than quitting smoking.

I'm off to have a smoke and a floss.

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 24 Jun 02 - 11:13 PM

Does anyone know any good estate lawyers?

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Jun 02 - 11:07 PM

no beer, no charred burgers, no wine, no coffee....

that's not LIVING anyway!

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: Jim Krause
Date: 24 Jun 02 - 11:02 PM

Hey Lepus, c'mon over buddy and we can smoke us some real good seegars, drink coffe, and beer, pick a few tunes while the brats are burning on the grill.
Jim

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: Bobert
Date: 24 Jun 02 - 10:56 PM

Well, first time I took the quiz I was gonna live until 103 or until I dropped. So I took it with my left hand and came out 2 years dead and gone. So I flipped and coin, lost 2 out of three, so guess Iz been gone fir a while, which is a purdy darned good excuse for any posts my ghost might have made for which I'd now have to say, ahhhhh, "Sorry". So....sorry...

Think I'll take it again to see if it's worth going to bed.

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: Jim Krause
Date: 24 Jun 02 - 10:56 PM

Well I'll live to be 87. Only thing is, while I don't smoke cigarettes, never have, I do like a cigar once or twice a day. And a glass of wine with supper really makes a meal.
Jim

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: Lepus Rex
Date: 24 Jun 02 - 10:46 PM

74.4?! I (truthfully) answered TONS of the right "dead by 40" questions, and I'll live to be 74? God, I hope not. I'll be in REALLY bad shape by then, heh.

That's it: Tomorrow, I start smoking/drinking/tanning/drinking coffee/charring meat. Woo!

---Lepus Rex

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Jun 02 - 10:36 PM

87.6 years,...guess red meat doesn't hurt much...

(never smoked and drink only moderately and NEVER had a cholesterol problem)...maybe I'll fool 'em and make 99..

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: WyoWoman
Date: 24 Jun 02 - 09:34 PM

94.4. You're all stuck with me! Maybe I'll actually learn the Fs and the Bs (chords) by then!

WW

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: robomatic
Date: 24 Jun 02 - 09:31 PM

Fried bologna sandwich is worth a coupla years. Gonna get hung anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: Amos
Date: 24 Jun 02 - 09:30 PM

Looks like I can break 90 if I keep on lying like a trouper!! Yay!!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: annamill
Date: 24 Jun 02 - 09:23 PM

Oh Ian, we know that. Just for fun. Love, Annamill

Subject: RE: BS: Life expectancy quiz.
From: kendall
Date: 24 Jun 02 - 08:01 PM

89.9 good, I'll get even with my kids! LOL