BS: Life expectancy quiz.

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: 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: 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: 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 - 06:33 AM

fat b'st**d,

only 'til 8.30pm?

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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