primitives scratch their heads on whether any of them will be alive in 2061

[BattleHymn]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018828706

Wed Jan 6, 2016, 07:50 AM
Star Member raccoon (24,091 posts)

Do you expect to see Halley's Comet when it returns in mid-2061?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halley's_Comet

I doubt if I will; I'll be a centenarian by then.

I saw it in 1986, though.

Wed Jan 6, 2016, 07:56 AM
liberal N proud (50,219 posts)
1. I would be 102 so doubt it

I doubt any of you will make it past 75, with the way you neglect and abuse your bodies.

Fri Jan 8, 2016, 05:30 AM
Star Member MrScorpio (64,012 posts)
25. I'd be 99

I don't know if I'd want to live that long.

What is the life expectancy of a pineapple, anyways?

Fri Jan 8, 2016, 11:15 AM
bikebloke (5,128 posts)
27. One way of the other.

I'll be 106, with a few decades to go before I start slowing down. Otherwise, I'll catch it in the next reincarnation...unless I'm a bat or a mole.

Sorry, but that would be a promotion from being a primitive. 

Sat Jan 9, 2016, 01:25 AM
Star Member Joe Shlabotnik (5,355 posts)
32. No way in hell I'm making 90

50 and I'll be lucky.

After a string of ancient decrepit primitives check in, the OP asks:

Wed Jan 6, 2016, 04:53 PM
Star Member raccoon (24,091 posts)
16. Any whippersnappers want to respond to this? nt

Do you know where you are? 

Wed Jan 6, 2016, 01:33 PM
Star Member CaliforniaPeggy (117,793 posts)
10. Nope--I expect to be dead by then! n/t

Calpig crawls out of her casket to chime in.  Serious question- when they set Calpig's face after she's dead, will they stitch her mouth shut, or leave it gaping, as it always was in life?


Then, my favorite exchange:

Wed Jan 6, 2016, 09:29 PM
Star Member 3catwoman3 (3,579 posts)
20. I would be 110.

Possible. My dad made it to 90, and my mom is currently 93 and sharp as a tack. We'll see.

Fri Jan 8, 2016, 03:55 PM
Reter (1,663 posts)
28. Sure it's possible, but 110 would be a super-centurion

A super-centurion is uber-rare. There are currently less than 100 in the world out of 7 billion people. 90 and 93 are relatively common.

Super Centurion!  It sounds like a trim package on a Buick.   

Fri Jan 8, 2016, 11:12 PM
Star Member 3catwoman3 (3,579 posts)
31. Centurion...

...or centenarian?

Remember- they are the smartest people in the world!

[Big Dog]

Fri Jan 8, 2016, 11:15 AM
bikebloke (5,128 posts)
27. One way of the other.

I'll be 106, with a few decades to go before I start slowing down. Otherwise, I'll catch it in the next reincarnation...unless I'm a bat or a mole.

Posting on DU, he's either a (moon)bat or a mole already...

Or is this a coded CC shoutout?

[BattleHymn]

Posting on DU, he's either a (moon)bat or a mole already...

Or is this a coded CC shoutout?

That's a good question.  Let me run the phrase through the Super Centurion Disgronifier and see what I get:

[Big Dog]

That's a good question.  Let me run the phrase through the Super Centurion Disgronifier and see what I get:

 

 

[fatboy]

Response to raccoon (Original post)

Wed Jan 6, 2016, 05:50 PM

jakeXT (10,307 posts)
18. If it weren't for Alzheimer's, I might remember to do it in my 80's/nt

Jake, The word is out that the Big Guy in Omaha wants to have a word with you. Seems he doesn't much care for low post pikers moving in on his turf.

[BannedFromDU]

     It just goes to show you how two groups of people can be on totally different wavelengths. While all of the DUmmies ponder about and aspire to super-old age, I walk around wondering why they don't die sooner. Like, today.

[Carl]

The amazing part is that while all being old,white hippy retards from the 60s they are still sure it is the GOP that is dying out. 

[miskie]

I suspect Ill be alive - Ill be 91 - Unless there is some sort of accidental death, the odds of my survival to that point are in my favor.

[Patriot Guard Rider]

Response to raccoon (Original post)

Wed Jan 6, 2016, 05:50 PM

jakeXT (10,307 posts)
18. If it weren't for Alzheimer's, I might remember to do it in my 80's/nt

[Big Dog]

I suspect Ill be alive - Ill be 91 - Unless there is some sort of accidental death, the odds of my survival to that point are in my favor.

I'll be alive, unless I die.

[98ZJUSMC]

     It just goes to show you how two groups of people can be on totally different wavelengths. While all of the DUmmies ponder about and aspire to super-old age, I walk around wondering why they don't die sooner. Like, today.

Within the next five minutes would be wonderful.

[BattleHymn]

I'll be alive, unless I die.

H5.  That's the funniest thing I've read all day.