Optimism

[noharleyyet]

Berlin — Actor and singer Johannes Heesters has given up smoking for love -- at age 106.

"I did it for love, for my wonderful wife," Heesters, who is better known as "Jopie" in Germany where he has spent most of his 90-year career, told the German entertainment magazine Bunte. "She should have me as long as possible."

Dutch-born Heesters, who will turn 107 on Sunday, has been married to German actress Simone Rethel, 61, since 1992. Heesters said he quit smoking three weeks ago.

 

[WV Hunter]

If I am still alive at 107 I am going to take up heavy drinking and smoking and bang chicks at least 45 years younger than me :hump:

 

[Big Fin]

Yeah, they told my great-grandfather that drinking would kill him, too.

Sure enough, it did......... he died in 1982 at the age of 102.

 

[tarheel]

Yep. My maternal grandfather the same. Died in '82 at the age of 95; drank his whiskey to the end.. My mom and aunt hired a live-in caretaker when he was 93; she lasted one night. Seems Papa tried to put his best moves on her and made no bones about his desires.

 

[scottymack]

Great-Grandpa smoked his pipe and drank his scotch until he died at 100.

 

[Bucnutz.wis]

"I did it for love, for my wonderful wife," "She should have me as long as possible."

Bloody cradle robber...

 

[noharleyyet]

Bloody cradle robber...

He was only 38 years past the statute of limitations for contributing to a minor.