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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Apr 25, 2008, at 11:14 AM, Roy Morgan wrote:
> On Apr 25, 2008, at 10:22 AM, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:
> > > Why, shucks, I remember when I was 55, I . . .

> > The story is told of one of the British statesmen who was still in
> > office at
> > the age of 100. ... "Ah .. to be
> > seventy again!"
>
> A similar thing is reported on this side of the pond:
>
> At:
> www.lawandeverythingelse.com/id55.htm
>
> "...I've read a number of biographies of Justice Holmes and four or
> five volumes of his letters. It was never a secret that he liked
> burlesque, pretty women, and racy French novels. When he was eighty
> and spotted a pretty woman, he said, "Ah, to be seventy again!"  ... "

But you see, we do not have to be, um, out of action at merely  
seventy. It is reported that Hunzakut men and women produced offspring  
in their eighties.