arrowsmith

Agreed, but put spaces after your periods (full stops for some of you). Reading that felt like looking at one of those optical illusion posters.

It will likely be Tobin of Newark - already a Cardinal.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflexive_pronoun Read this, please.

Or that he hasn’t been outside in literally years.

Man, he fucking showed you.

Indeed. But they seem to be terrible at it.

I’m honestly impressed we’ve had two deaths due to misadventure. A suicide makes sense. We just need a homicide for the triple crown.

I don’t agree. He just looks like a person with false teeth who doesn’t have them in. As for puzzled and annoyed: he’s in a car in L.A. He’s wealthy and relatively young and will probably live with this disease for years to come.

Mustn’t forget the carpentry.

Once again your ability to be obtuse is astounding. I acknowledged your point about there being child soldiers. By 1945 Germany had lowered their conscription age to 16. The idea that the Nazi’s were forcing all of the 12 year olds in the Reich to fight is inane and a pointless contribution to this conversation. My point, which you obviously missed, is that Germany was regularly conscripting 16 year olds, and, as such, the original point of there still being veterans alive in 2040 is not at all far fetched. You and @Sir Creep should get together and make matching troll jackets.

I suppose this is semantic. At 110 you are quite old, but among the oldest is rather a difficult category to place. The 50 current oldest living people are well over 110. It is important to remember that there are many women veterans of WWII. The assumption that the last veterans will be men is erroneous.

Not even among the oldest. 110 year olds don’t really break the mold in terms of old age. Germany was regularly enlisting 16 year olds by the end of the war. So, someone born in 1929 living until 110 would die in 2039. Two of the last surviving WWI veterans made it to 110 and enlisted at the end of the war. This will assuredly be the case for the last WWII vets. This is discounting the “child soldiers”, who would have likely been partisans and typically not part of a regular army. The issue of who counts as a veteran or not will make pinning down the last WWII soldier near impossible.

What else is on the 110 club site?

Exactly what he’ll look like when they inevitably find him dead on the john.

Not necessarily, an overdose, or even a drunk driving fatality, which can be traced to someone else’s malfeasance, are often prosecuted.

Peter La Cock - what an unfortunate moniker.

An impossible scenario. The delegates have already voted and certified Harris and Walz. The convention is just for show.

Fair enough. An interesting question. I doubt very much that anyone is so pleased with any of their state politicians that they’re sad to lose them. I certainly never have been. That being said, there are a spare few out there that if they were my representative in some way I would be frustrated to lose them - I’ve just never been lucky enough to actually have one. State pride is a peculiar thing. I would say most states either don’t have much of it at all or, if they do, it’s a tad more limited. I’m from a very populous state originally and from a rather rural area. I love my home state, but I feel little to no kinship with the people from the main population center and wouldn’t give two shits either way if someone admirable from there got a promotion or stayed in place. Perhaps that would be different if I felt like they were from part of the state I was connected to. Other states probably have a bit more corporate pride. I think it is most likely that, if someone felt like they were really being served by someone rather than just ‘liked’ them, a person would be frustrated to lose someone capable and effective because they’re lucky enough to have someone to feel that way about.

I’ve never really considered it before, but I can’t imagine anyone being so frustrated about someone they liked not being chosen that they don’t vote for the ticket. That being said the actual chosen VP candidate could influence a vote. I knew someone who was thinking voting for McCain before he picked Palin.

Is your point that his radiation exposure has caused his immortality? Perhaps worth looking into.

The gap in years is incredible. Of course the missing years line up with being the right age to have fought in WWII. Really makes you think about how many of them didn’t come home to have careers.

Is that Fred Haise with him in the fourth photo?

I’m never getting those two minutes back.

Um. No. 1. No souse is referred to by a number besides first and second. 2. These designations are based on protocol (this is why governors’ spouses are referred to as first). They are not based on presidential succession. 3. Every time you post I respect you less.

@Sir Creep, when you get trashed you should put your phone in a time lock safe. If even just for us.