does she qualify for retirement tho?

November 29, 2005

THE OLDEST CREATURE ON EARTH IS VEGAN: (10/19/05): " She was hatched when

Queen Victoria was still a teenager... next month she'll be 175. Her skin

is wrinkled and she's carrying a few extra pounds, but there's still a

twinkle in the old girl's eyes. In fact she's in uncommonly good shape for

someone who was born before Victoria came to the throne. Harriet, a giant

Galapagos Land tortoise and the world's oldest living creature, celebrates

her 175th birthday on November 15. Experts at her home in Australia Zoo,

Brisbane, Queensland, reckon she will still be going strong in another 20

years.

" There's really not much of a precedent for such long-living reptiles, so

we're basing our estimate on the fact that she really shows no signs of

slowing down, " says Richard Jackson, head reptile keeper. And nothing

makes her happier than a bunch of flowers and a good scratch. Harriet dines

on a [vegan] diet of aubergines, courgettes, string beans, parsley, squash,

endives, carrots, tomatoes, bok choi and her favourite morning treat - pink

hibiscus flowers. "

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Don't need no politician

Tell me things I ought to be

Neither no optician

Tell me what I ought to see

No one tells you nothing

Even when you know they know

They tell you what you should be

They don't like to see you grow

November 29, 2005

175 years ! It's hard to imagine.