September 12, 2009

"A modest woman who liked to watch the 'Jerry Springer Show' and eat fried chicken, bacon and ice cream. She refused to use dentures. 'I don't know how she does it. She only has her gums, no teeth.'"

Gertrude Baines, born in 1894 in Shellman, Georgia, has died. The new world's-oldest-person is Kama Chinen, 114. She's in Japan.

8 comments:

rhhardin said...

Modest stops meaning chaste around 19.

ricpic said...

Fried chicken, bacon and ice cream: three of the five main food groups.

OT - A million folks march on Washington and it doesn't rate a post?

daubiere said...

" Featured on local television newscasts when she cast her ballot, Baines, who is black, said she backed him "because he's for the colored." She said she never thought she would live to see a black man become president.

"We were hoping to have her until the next election," Exconde said.

oh that's ok, her being dead won't stop her from voting next time around with democrats and acorn in charge.

rhhardin said...

World's most modest garage sale.

traditionalguy said...

Georgia born women die hard.

Clyde said...

Like "Miss USA" and "Hugh Hefner's (grand-daughter-aged) girlfriend", "world's-oldest-person" is a title that seldom lasts more than a year.

WV: dthyl - the old grade of gasoline just above ethyl.

MadisonMan said...

I will be sad in 5 or so years when the oldest person living will have been born in the 20th century.

kentuckyliz said...

I am going to follow her longevity diet. Does it work with teeth?