Nov. 13 - Formula for Estimating the Probable Years Remaining
Formula for Estimating the Probable Years Remaining* Take the last two numbers of the yearyou were born and subtract it from 100.For example, 100 minus 50 equals 50.Divide that number by 2.Add a year...
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flatterer! what a great idea-- and your marvellous turn with outliving yourself makes it! of course I had to play, who can resist--I get 99.5, which sounds about right, though as a 'late-bloomer' I...
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Loved. Very clever and charming. I love this idea. I especially like how the speaker has outlived herself, and the end line with "person in your condition." made me laugh, thanks
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hmmm...i think i got stuck on about 21...i might have to recalculate...or drink more wine fun stuff indeed
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This poem cries out for the reader to become included in it, which makes it extraordinary. Ever wry, Greta, it is simply delightful.
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This is so much fun! I too am already deceased! Please pass the booze and put the music on! This should easily find a home somewhere - great fun, Greta!
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I get 77 - my present age. If I suddenly stop posting, you'll know why. (No points for us recovering alcoholics?)Don't get what of Toni's inspired it - did you make up the formula or what?
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she had the phrase (probable) years remaining in yesterday's poem, a bit of an obsession with me also, though I don't worry about it. Remember, readers, the result is years remaining, not life span,...
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Oh Greta, you're so witty. And hilarious! This is so much fun. Perhaps, like me, you will find yourself already deceased, in which case, hurrah! You have outlived yourself. Yes, yes, I want to outlive...
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No idea about home. Suggestions?
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I get 59 more years. 107?! I already subtracted for beer. What do I have to do to get off this mudball at 100--move to Colorado?
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Funny Gretathis was great fun - especially with all the little 'asides' - and outliving oneself is wonderful!enjoyed,Jude
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This is exceptionally clever. you have outlived yourself
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The AMA Journal will include an occasional poem.
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JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association Annals of Internal Medicine The American Journal of Nursing Yale Journal for the Humanities in Medicine Touch-the Journal of Healing (Is that still...
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oh yeah-a medical journal would be a great place to locate this.
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Thanks for the recommendations! I fear a medical journal will see right through my hackneyed math and medicine! Better someone with less analysis and a more macabre sense of humor! Bellevue or maybe...
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I second, or third or fourth, The Sun!
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