Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for May 17, 2010

That’s the oldest joke in the book..

Does have a surprisingly long life.

That’s okay– I don’t smoke.

The folks at the all-you-can-eat fried couch potato bar and grill will roll over in their graves when they hear this.

And they had to do it in Britain because they’ll NEVER get the funding here.

New England, Britain, I guess it’s about the same…heh

Here’s to a short , but happy life .

@steverino: I stopped at the age of 12.

I’m with you, Jim!

If it’s so obvious, why is it such a popular lifestyle? The cynicism may be misplaced.

Used to be that was the way to live.

Eddie is a contradiction to the Brit’s findings.

Good luck for another 21 years!

After smoking for 25 years (3 packs a day) I quit because cigarettes went up to ¢50 per pack. Wish someone would pay me for my 25 year study. I guess capitalism is it’s own reward.

I’ve heard anecdotal evidence that getting shot in the head can shorten your life too. I wonder how many millions of tax dollars it’ll take to study that for a couple of decades to prove it!

plus4, you’re right. I can think of several such studies about topics that most of us wouldn’t think twice about.

so the studies that said wine is good for you or chocolate is good for you or… were funded by wine makers, chocolate makers… who’d ‘ve thought…

Sixty year study shows that cartoon cats can sleep sitting up.

From an old, old “Frank and Ernest” strip:

“A recently-completed $5 million government study shows that you can make pretty good money from a $5 million government study!”

(I’m paraphrasing a bit – it’s got to be almost 40 years now.)

I do all but one of those things so I should be ok.

silence woke the cat?

Cap’n’s cat ronald. Silence is a rare thing for him.

I read an article like that not long ago. A study showing that kids are obese through a lack of exercise and eating between meals too much. Aren’t you thrilled with what our tax money goes to?

Can you imagine the HOO-HAH if the opposite results were reported?

Actually, Eddie does only two of the four: smoking and drinking. I’d like to see you wrestle lahbstah traps out of the water regularly, and while we don’t see him eat much, his diet (as a generic fisherman) is probably high in fish which is “reported” to be good for heart health. And BTW, I take second to none in my disdain for the Nutrition Nazis.

What I find surprising is that if you do all of those bad things it only shortens your life by an average of 12 years. Granted that’s a lot of time, but if the life-expectancy in the UK is something like 75 years old you’d still live to be 63….Then again, at my age it’s easy to say I’d rather life fast and die young. I’m sure when I’m 62 I really won’t feel like dying yet…

http://latenightmusings.com/2010/05/14/little-orphan-annie–rip.aspx

plus4 is NOT right, because that is NOT science.

I was smoking a pack and a half of unfiltered Pall Mall’s a day when I quit in June of 1968. I have never regretted it.

And if it ain’t researched, it ain’t true! But in this country, why bother – they can’t afford to teach science in schools and nobody believes any of the findings anyway.

Hey Wyatt – I’m 62 and looking forward to many more years of dancing – which I will do til I drop.

Last nooz tube seen was 6/09/08.

History is being made

I’m 72 and still enjoying pizza and chocolate and gin too- but it ia all about moderation. I do an hour of mostly free weights (5-15#) every other day and I hope to continue to keep myself on track. I’m always looking for activities for the alternate days ;-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~and yes, the “studies” we hear on the news are usually just as lame as that one, while they still want more taxes :-(

Moderation must be in the state of Bliss. Everyone says we need to be in it.

If we must exercise moderation in all things, does that apply to moderation also?

WELLLL!! DUUUUU!!

Right up there with the $2 million study a couple of years ago that came to the conclusion there was a link between drugs and crime.