From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Mon Jun 14 1999 - 09:24:02 MDT
> > This is exactly the opposite of what I remember seeing; it's my memory
> > that researchers found that curmudgeonly, selfish, outspoken people
> > lived longer. Thus, the stereotype of an old man yelling "You kids get
> > off my lawn!" He's still around, while the nice old lady who baked
> > everyone cookies is presumably not.
Cliches exist for a reason. Does anyone have a vague sense that ectomorphs
tend to be more serious, perhaps a little less approachable than big teddy
bear, huggy, ho ho ho endomorphs? Perhaps crusty curmudgeons tend to be
ectomorphs and lived longer for a reason not at all directly connected with
their orneryness.
Or, the cooky baking nice old lady perished of adult onset diabetes and
atherosclerosis aggravated by devouring far too many cookies? {8^D spike
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