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The dude from 3 different centuries
I was just about to post this in Health and Fitness. Then I thought, heh heh...
I love stories like this. Why?
Because I've always thought being old is the coolest thing you can be! Why?
Because that's the opposite of what the media tells us...
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Germany's oldest man thrives on beer and cigars
May 29, 2003
from themercury.co.za
Duesseldorf: Hermann Doernemann, the oldest man in Germany, turned 110 on Tuesday saying the only exercise he ever believed in was walking to the corner shop to buy beer and cigars.
Mentally still alert, though now restricted to a wheelchair and his eyesight failing, Doernemann marked his birthday at his daughter's home surrounded by four generations of offspring, including great-grandchildren Nick, 2, and Noelle, nearly 1.
"If I had known I was going to live this long I would have taken better care of myself," he said in a statement through his daughter, Rita Klein, 63.
After all, besides drinking and smoking all his life, he was wounded in the arm in the war - World War 1, that is.
He was the runt of his family, born in Essen in 1893 as the youngest of eight children, all of whom have long since died.
Kaiser Wilhelm II was in power when, as a boy, he helped his father repair saddles, reins and bits for teams of horses used in nearby coal mines.
He remembers when his family house was wired for electricity when he was eight years old.
The Berlin Wall had come down before he turned 100. At that age he was still spry enough to fetch his own beer and cigars from the corner shop.
He worked as an electrician for four decades before finally retiring in 1959.
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I love the line: "If I had known I was going to live this long I would have taken better care of myself"
This guy has one foot in the 19th century and one foot in the 21st century!
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