Good god, Bob Dole's mother-in-law died....

[Dookus]

She was almost as old as Churchill's parrot - 102.

Condolences to Liddy, but damn, that's old.

[Race4Peace]

1. Daaaaaaahhhhh-aaaaammmmmnnnnnnn

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. Wow!

I'd love to live that old, if I could still be in control of my faculties.

I love talking to people of very advanced age - their life history and mine so different. imagine people being born before airplanes were common (or in her case, just invented), nowhere near as many cars, most of the country had no electricity, people who might remember teddy roosevelt - imagine that - people who's fathers could have been civil war veterans, they'd certainly have memories of WWI, the roaring twenties, the depression...

So many people don't put down their stories, and that's very sad.

[montana_hazeleyes]

3. Some of my favorite memories

are of my grandmother telling me about experiences in her lifetime.
She sat in a train in the east bay and watched S.F. burn down during the "06 quake. Then measles broke out all over in the stopped train!
Let's see,she would have been 17 at the time.