In accordance with his wish that there should be no crying, a hearty meal was served of his favourite dishes: warm potato and herring, and cabbage with home-made sausage....
Oksana, one of the relations with whom he lived, said he had led an active life to the last, helping around the house, whether it was making dumplings or tending the chickens....
"He didn't find himself a mate because he was a short man and never had money," Oksana believes.
ADDED: Commenter ricpic writes another poem (and wins the title — it's been fought over you know! — of Poet Laureate of the Althouse Blog):
The commies came, the commies went,
Hryhoriy hardly noticed;
Earthbound, barefoot, his life was spent
Sausage, not Stalin, focused.
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No doubt that's why he lived so long.
Damn! Im gonna live too long :(
Why do married men die younger than single men?
They want to.
Broke? Check!
Short? Check!
and fat too?
Hellfire, I'll live to see Obama's grandkid become President!
If I wear shorts on my 120th birthday, Prof. Althouse's 3rd clone twice removed will negatively blog about it!
"He didn't find himself a mate because he was a short man and never had money," Oksana believes. "Well, that and being the only gay in town."
I meant to say, "RIP."
There's chickens out back right this instant, crowing to keep warm. I'll probably live forever.
"He loved to get outside and would run barefoot through the grass."
Life is good.
The world's oldest man, lives!
Q: Why do husbands die before their wives?
A: They want to.
The commies came, the commies went,
Hryhoriy hardly noticed;
Earthbound, barefoot, his life was spent
Herring, not belly lox, focused.
I'd hate to be the world's oldest man. It seems like all they do is die.
The commies came, the commies went,
Hryhoriy hardly noticed;
Earthbound, barefoot, his life was spent
Sausage, not Stalin, focused.
Mel Brooks died? Gosh!
The reason he lived so long was that he was a cousin of Mister Mxyzptlk -- he would only die if someone tricked him into saying his name backwards. It took this long. (In Mr. Mxyzptlk's case, of course, he didn't die, he simply returned to the fifth dimension, and stopped bothering Superman.)
Well done, ricpic. Especially enjoyed the revision.
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"...he was a short man and never had money,"
That makes one out of two for me. I've got the no money thing working and I suppose it's not too late for me to take up moderate vodka drinking. I'm going to start grubbing for potatos and cabbage... catfish and squirrel sausage and I just may break the short old bachelor's record but it's hard to believe I'm not even halfway there.
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