Q: Doctor, I’ve heard that cardiovascular exercise can prolong life. Is this true?
A: Heart only good for so many beats, and that it…. Don’t waste on exercise. Everything wear out eventually. Speed up heart not make live longer; that like say you can extend life of car by driving faster. Want live longer? Take nap.
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It’s harder to tell navy from black.
Everything old is new again, but if you wore it before, you’re too old to wear it the second time around.
Your kids are becoming you – and you don’t like them, but your grandchildren are perfect!
Yellow becomes the big color – hair, teeth, nails.
Going out is good; coming home is [...]

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When an old man died in the geriatric ward of a nursing home in North Platte, Nebraska, it was believed that he had nothing left of any value. 
 
Later, when the nurses were going through his meager possessions, They found this poem. Its quality and content so impressed the staff that copies were made and distributed to every nurse [...]

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I pulled into the crowded parking lot at the Local shopping center and rolled Down the car windows to make sure my Labrador Retriever Pup had fresh air.
She was stretched full-out on the back seat And I wanted to impress upon her that she must Remain there.
I walked to the curb backward,  Pointing my [...]

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