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She Doesn’t look a day older than 98
OLDEST LIVING PERSON -
BESSE COOPER!
Congratulations Besse on turning.
Oh, turning 116.
Cooper, whose maiden name was Brown, was born on Aug. 26, 1896, in northern Tennessee — the same year as comedian George Burns and writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.
The person with the longest human lifespan ever recorded was Jeanne Calment, of France, who was born in 1875 and died in 1997 at the age of 122.
Cooper isn’t really sure why she’s lived so long, but has her theories, she told The Walton Tribune.
“I mind my own business,” she said, “and I don’t eat junk food.”
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I wonder what she considers junk food? Eating healthy to her might be brisket with buttered rolls and buttered vegetables and a glass of milk, followed by Kozy Shack tapioca pudding.
She’s in a NURSING HOME – not really the Mecca for edamame and kale soup. Let’s not leave hipsters with the impression that she’s talking about Chik-Fil-A.
Things that happened in 1896 -
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Old Besse has been worried ever since.
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TexMark
August 27th, 2012
“Up your’s Moochelle and Bloomburger, I’ll eat what the fook I wanna eat and tell that sorry ass O’Bama to keep his mits offa my healthcare!” – Besse
Stirrin the B.S.
August 27th, 2012
Northern Tennessee, huh? If the Brit was familiar with the shape of the state, he’d know that it’s divided into west, central and east – but I’ll cut him some slack. Besides this is about Besse, not geography. Keep eatin that fried chicken and collard greens covered in bacon and grease sweetie!
Stirrin the B.S.
August 27th, 2012
Oops, I said Brit. I meant yankee. My bad.
Tim
August 27th, 2012
God Bless Her!
She’s experienced the most technologically exciting 116 years in History!
Also the deadliest, but let’s not think about that.
kono
August 27th, 2012
She’s beautiful.
MM
August 27th, 2012
Eating healthy, which she didn’t say, and not eating junk food are two entirely different things.
Junk food are shelves of crap in 7-11s, fast food and 85% of any supermarket. When you look at an ingredient list and there’s lines of really long chemical names, you’ve got some junk food in your hand. OTOH a buttered roll and brisket sounds like healthy eating to me.
I had a guilty pleasure for years, a sausage, egg McMuffin once in a while. That was until I read the ingredients one day-easily 50 lines, tiny print, of chemicals.
dapenguin in OIHO
August 27th, 2012
she looks much younger than Ron Paul
Roscoe P. Soultrane
August 27th, 2012
She announced that she plans to spend the rest of her days “opening a jar.”
Roman Polanski
August 27th, 2012
@Kono: “She’s beautiful.”
YOU LIE!
Plague Louse Local 519
August 27th, 2012
@Tim: “She’s experienced the most technologically exciting 116 years in History!
Also the deadliest, but let’s not think about that.”
We respectfully disagree with that last bit.
Tim
August 27th, 2012
@PLL519
It wasn’t the deadliest?
Huh. I been misinformed.
TexMark
August 27th, 2012
Bless her heart. She’s prolly field dressed more wild game than O’Bama has fake Twitter followers. You go gurl!
kono
August 27th, 2012
@RP…..R.I.P. creep.
Besse Cooper
August 27th, 2012
Good news, gang! I just turned 2:48!
House of Kell
August 27th, 2012
Happy Birthday, young lady! I’d say “many, many more” but I really don’t need my ass whooped by someone 116 years old…might be embarassing!
House of Kell
August 27th, 2012
Polanskis’ an ASSHOLE!
Toaster
August 27th, 2012
God bless her, if she had been born in the UK she might have been a victim of their Liverpool Care Pathway (aka euthanasia).
Aunt Liz
August 27th, 2012
Aww God bless her. The old gal looks pretty darned good!
ruble
August 27th, 2012
Sweet lady. She looks awsome. How amaazing would it be to listen to some of her stories? Go for the record young un!
shockuhzulu
August 27th, 2012
Congratulations Besse on turning 31 years older than I would ever wish to live. I hope that prune juice is still working for you!
jclady
August 27th, 2012
@Stirrin the B.S. — While Bessie was born in Northern Tennessee, she’s been in Monroe, GA since 1917. I think that speaks volumes for the wonderful lifestyle promulgated in the great state of GA.
@TexMark — please rethink the “bless her heart” comment. For us Southerners, this is not perceived as a compliment.