Want To Live Past 100?
Drink a pint of whiskey a day.
Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Jan 07, 2011 at 12:09PM
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Seattleite Barney Chichester died on Monday at the age of 104. One hundred and four!
How did he live so long?
The Seattle PI’s Big Blog reports: “When asked his secret to long life, he often joked it was an apple a day, plus a ‘pint of whiskey,’ said his son.”
He also wrote this poem a few years back.
I’m 99 and life’s routine.
I’m on a plan which keeps me lean.
At breakfast bran and then at noon
I’m allowed a wrinkled prune.
I don’t really have anything to add except that this man is my hero and may he rest in peace. Read the full story here.
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