130? That stretches the realm of plausibility in my opinion.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20100310/twl-woman-130-wants-age-old-guinness-rec-3fd0ae9.html
QuoteWoman, 130, Wants Age-Old Guinness Record
Wednesday, March 10 11:35 am
SkyNews © Sky News 2010
A woman from Georgia is staking a claim to be the oldest person in the world.
Officials say Antisa Khvichava, who lives in a remote mountain village, will be 130 on July 8.
The Georgian authorities have petitioned the Guinness Book of Records to include her as the oldest person.
"Antisa Khvichava was born in the 19th century, and she is amazing," said Giorgi Vashadze, head of Georgia's Civil Registry Agency.
"We have the necessary documents to prove it."
The authorities have Ms Khvichava's Soviet-era passport registration, which shows her date of birth, and her pension book issued in the 1960s.
Although she was born in 1880, the pensioner only retired in 1965.
She was shown on TV two days ago - on International Women's Day - being congratulated by her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and enjoying a glass of wine.
The matriarch, a resident of the Tsalenjikhi region, remains in good health, according to reports, and still plays backgammon and drinks vodka.
If Mrs Khvichava is accepted for the Guinness Book of Records, she will take the title from a 114-year-old who lives in Japan.
Can't trust Russians.
But does she have a big horn sticking out of her head?
Pffft, aren't you supposed to be a Christian?
QuoteAnd Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah: (22) And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and Methuselah begat sons and daughters: (23) And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: (24) And Enoch walked with God: and he [was] not; for God took him. (25) And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech: (26) And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters: (27) And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.
:P
Well if it can be proven, that's amazing. I'm skeptical, though.
Wasn't there allegedly some guy in 18th-century Britain who lived to be 152? Doesn't mean it's true, of course, but I just mean more extreme claims of longevity have been made.
Quote from: Caliga on March 15, 2010, 12:06:35 PM
Wasn't there allegedly some guy in 18th-century Britain who lived to be 152? Doesn't mean it's true, of course, but I just mean more extreme claims of longevity have been made.
Old Tom Parr
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Tom_Parr (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Tom_Parr)
Now, the Brits, them we can trust.
Quote from: Caliga on March 15, 2010, 12:06:35 PM
Wasn't there allegedly some guy in 18th-century Britain who lived to be 152? Doesn't mean it's true, of course, but I just mean more extreme claims of longevity have been made.
Oldest post flood claim I've heard is Li Ching-Yuen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Ching-Yuen) who lived to be 199 or 256, depending on if he was born in 1734 or 1677. Records are disputed on this
Secrets to long life
* Tranquil mind
* Sit like a tortoise
* Walk sprightly like a pigeon
* Sleep like a dog
I am one million years old. Beat that claim you fuckers.
Quote from: The Brain on March 15, 2010, 12:43:46 PM
I am one million years old. Beat that claim you fuckers.
I am one million and one years old.
I am the beginning and the end.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on March 15, 2010, 08:46:38 AM
130? That stretches the realm of plausibility in my opinion.
She is still mad about her son getting killed in the Russian Revolution.
She was born in 1880 and retired in 1965? Yeah, that kind of stretches the credibility of it. I can understand a tycoon working until 85, but a worker with a pension?
Quote from: DGuller on March 15, 2010, 02:22:11 PM
She was born in 1880 and retired in 1965? Yeah, that kind of stretches the credibility of it. I can understand a tycoon working until 85, but a worker with a pension?
Heroine of Socialist Labour!
Quote from: DGuller on March 15, 2010, 02:22:11 PM
She was born in 1880 and retired in 1965? Yeah, that kind of stretches the credibility of it. I can understand a tycoon working until 85, but a worker with a pension?
Some people just like to work and keep doing as long as they can.
A few years back there was a story in the Boston Globe about a lawyer who was 102 and still running his own law firm in Boston with his son and one of his grandsons. I think his son was getting ready to retire but the dad had no intention of doing so. I realize he doesn't count as a "worker with a pension"... but still, damn.
Idiots, all of you. Everybody is 13.7 billion years old.
You guys need to come up with a different name or spelling for one of the two Georgias, as it is too confusing.
I suggest using the country of Georgia's local name, then : Saakartvelo.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on March 15, 2010, 05:15:16 PM
Quote from: DGuller on March 15, 2010, 02:22:11 PM
She was born in 1880 and retired in 1965? Yeah, that kind of stretches the credibility of it. I can understand a tycoon working until 85, but a worker with a pension?
Some people just like to work and keep doing as long as they can.
In Soviet Union? So that's who it was?
Quote from: Habbaku on March 16, 2010, 02:49:20 AM
I suggest using the country of Georgia's local name, then : Saakartvelo.
How did we manage to get Georgia out of that?
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on March 16, 2010, 01:10:21 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on March 16, 2010, 02:49:20 AM
I suggest using the country of Georgia's local name, then : Saakartvelo.
How did we manage to get Georgia out of that?
Quite a few of those weird disconnects: Magyorszag/Hungary, Suomi/Finland, Nippon/Japan, Hellas/Greece, off the top of my head.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on March 16, 2010, 01:10:21 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on March 16, 2010, 02:49:20 AM
I suggest using the country of Georgia's local name, then : Saakartvelo.
How did we manage to get Georgia out of that?
Judging by a fascinating (and hopefully accurate) Wikipedia article, we didn't.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Georgia
Considering Geogia is currently in full on nationalist mode I will say 'doubtful'
Quote from: Barrister on March 16, 2010, 01:16:23 PM
Nippon/Japan,
That one sounds like a simple misunderstanding.
Greece apparently comes from the name of a town in Greece which sent colonists to Italy.
http://www.dolphin-hellas.gr/Greece_Hellas.htm (http://www.dolphin-hellas.gr/Greece_Hellas.htm)