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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    07/18/09

    In reply to Don't Rain On Cronkite's Parade, Old Man!
    Aaron: great day. Job well done.
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    Image of teenypanini teenypanini
    07/18/09

    In reply to Don't Rain On Cronkite's Parade, Old Man!
    i wonder what his favorite decade was?
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    07/18/09

    @teenypanini: Think of all the different phases of music fandom he must have gone through...
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    Image of ChillbearLatrigue ChillbearLatrigue
    07/19/09

    @DahlELama: I understand that he didn't care much for music. More of a talk radio guy.
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    07/18/09

    In reply to Don't Rain On Cronkite's Parade, Old Man!
    Dude was born before Nabokov, Borges, Hemingway, Beckett, and Faulkner -- all men who led long lives but who nevertheless seem to belong to an age well past. Yet Mr. Allingham would have been their most senior contemporary. Amazing to ponder.
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    Image of Claire Buoyant Claire Buoyant
    07/18/09

    @skahammer: That got me to thinking: the dude's lived in three centuries. Three. Fucking. Centuries. How many people can say that?

    (Of course by the same math everyone here can say that we've lived in two centuries, but that just sounds like pointless self-aggrandizement, whereas it actually means something when applied to this guy.)
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    Edited by Claire Buoyant at 07/18/09 8:50 PM Claire Buoyant was starred Claire Buoyant was unstarred
    Image of ChillbearLatrigue ChillbearLatrigue
    07/18/09

    @skahammer: Good references. I was trying to come up with some of my own, but I like your list. It would be something that if I were in this man's family I would want to read.
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    07/19/09

    @ChillbearLatrigue: Skill with references is what a life of courting sexy, glasses-wearing librarian girls will get you.

    Well, that and a bunch of overdue fines.
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    Image of ChillbearLatrigue ChillbearLatrigue
    07/19/09

    @skahammer: Yeah, but they're impressed by the overdue fines. They think you're a rebel.
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    07/19/09

    @ChillbearLatrigue: But re-shelve one little book about Sweden in the Switzerland section and watch the hell you catch.

    Sexy librarians: So alluring, yet so complicated. Truly my greatest weakness.
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    Image of anyonecanwhistle anyonecanwhistle
    07/18/09

    In reply to Don't Rain On Cronkite's Parade, Old Man!
    A nice post for this Saturday!

    Some scientists now say we are "meant" to live around 150 years, we're just too good at shaving off the years by doing - well, doing what depends on who you talk to.
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    Image of Claire Buoyant Claire Buoyant
    07/18/09

    @anyonecanwhistle: But how many of these scientists themselves have lived to 150? Seems that doing things to shorten our lives is just part of how we're wired, even for scientists.
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    Edited by Claire Buoyant at 07/18/09 8:59 PM Claire Buoyant was starred Claire Buoyant was unstarred
    Image of anyonecanwhistle anyonecanwhistle
    07/18/09

    @Claire Buoyant: Maybe science is making those lives shorter!
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    Image of jasonelias jasonelias
    07/18/09

    In reply to Don't Rain On Cronkite's Parade, Old Man!
    He didn't look a day over 87.
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