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The Amazing Story behind the 256 Year-Old Man

environmentalgraffiti.com — According to the 1933 obituaries in both Time Magazine and the New York Times, Li Ching-Yun was reported to have buried 23 wives and fostered 180 descendants by the time he died at the age of 256.

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  • rtknox00, on 05/04/2008, -11/+46As my good indian friend pointed out Li Ching-Yun is older than Lord Krishna himself, who lived till he was 120
    • megamod, on 05/04/2008, -16/+24I was hoping for a more conclusive story than that...it was so open ended....hey I heard he had a 50 inch penis which would break the current record by 30 inches...but there's no proof I'll leave that for you to decide whether it was true or not.
      • debuggercll, on 05/04/2008, -12/+7I have the proof in my pants.
        • Jwoey, on 05/04/2008, -1/+42you've been carrying around this dead guy's penis all these years?
        • PabloMac, on 05/04/2008, -4/+3That's gotta hurt.
        • pandikukka, on 05/04/2008, -4/+2@ jwoey
          You are awesome man!! that just cracked me up big time
        • worldchanger, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1the things people do for attention...
    • source1984, on 05/04/2008, -7/+2does your Indian friend have the keys to the cupboard?
      the the idiot above me, megamod, typical digg user with his penis obsession.
    • fermcg, on 05/04/2008, -0/+55hexadecimally talking, 256 is just 100
      • scbysnx, on 05/04/2008, -0/+7when I first read the headline I figured it was a hexadecimal play
      • oxdeltaxo, on 05/04/2008, -5/+1good ol' base 16.
      • bigbchew, on 05/04/2008, -1/+6in binary terms, he is 10000000
      • Stonekeeper, on 05/04/2008, -0/+3It's a shame we have 8bit ages. I mean, this guy died when his age wrapped back to 0. Shame.
    • bugsy187, on 05/04/2008, -11/+4You think that's weird? I can't believe they removed the word gullible from the dictionary.
      • Zebceponaf, on 05/04/2008, -0/+11uh..please try harder than that next time.
    • elnerdo, on 05/04/2008, -2/+36Eh, this is no big deal, really. I was talking to my dad the other day, and he told me about my great-uncle who actually lived to be OVER 9000!!!!!!!!!
      • 1timeuser, on 05/04/2008, -1/+49000?!
      • rootbeerinacan, on 05/05/2008, -1/+1I hope you're sarcastic, otherwise, I'd stay away from your dad.....
    • sanman, on 05/04/2008, -0/+2Sounds like an Old Wives' Tale
      • atezun, on 05/04/2008, -0/+5Can't you read! It's clearly an old man's tale.

        /sarcasm
    • poseitom, on 05/04/2008, -3/+3buried
    • Herostratos, on 05/04/2008, -3/+3That's nothing. Some people in the bible lived to be 900 years old. I don't know if it's true but I'll leave you to draw your own logical conclusions.

      (If you don't immediately dismiss these claims as ***** you are likely unable to draw any logical conclusions though).
      • shunpike, on 05/04/2008, -0/+2some ancient Mesopotamian kings lived for 77,000 years - EACH... this guy (and the bible guys) got nothing on them in terms of age!
      • worldchanger, on 05/05/2008, -1/+1so, because you don't believe it, we should immediately dismiss it as bs, otherwise we can't be logical?
        I see. so ... who gave you the monopoly on logic again? I must have missed that memo.
    • fatdog789, on 05/04/2008, -2/+2I myself am almost 2.5 million years old. I started as a monkey, but evolved over time...some of my droppings eventually became Adam and Eve.
      • misguidedmonkey, on 05/05/2008, -0/+0THAT"S BLASHPHEMY!!! YOU"RE GOING TO HELL MONKEY BOY.
        • 5xSTUN, on 05/07/2008, -0/+1But he's going to the special MONKEY HELL where every piece of poop he flings at passersby flies back and hits him in the face, and the bananas never get ripe.
  • amanilaenvelope, on 05/04/2008, -9/+121Highlander.
  • KuntaKinte, on 05/04/2008, -6/+532this man now has his own show: "Larry King Live"
    • Daniel591992, on 05/04/2008, -3/+128He also has his own band he likes to call "The Rolling Stones"
      • brstilson, on 05/04/2008, -2/+13He also does regular commentaries about everyday life on the 60 Minutes program under his pseudonym "Andy Rooney."
    • sovereign3, on 05/04/2008, -11/+128This man is also a candidate for President of the United States: John McCain.
    • goomba323, on 05/04/2008, -12/+25I hate Larry King. Worst....interviewer....ever.
      • Lanlost, on 05/04/2008, -9/+38your moms larry king

        That's right.. I said it
        • PUNJABISINGH, on 05/04/2008, -14/+2you mom is larry kings mom, thats righ yeah..............................................yeah
      • Silentnite85, on 05/04/2008, -1/+4Thanks for that comment on LK comic book guy!
    • loganhid, on 05/04/2008, -12/+17One of his son is Chuck Norris
    • NoStoppingUs, on 05/04/2008, -7/+7YOUR MOMS SO OLD SH

      wait. what?
    • KargeOfTylenol, on 05/04/2008, -8/+9Wasn't he recently fired from his 200 year stint on The Price is Right?
    • carpeclunes, on 05/04/2008, -8/+3He is starring in a new Indiana Jones movie.
    • willk281, on 05/04/2008, -7/+8I see what all of you did there.
      • nmnnotmyname, on 05/04/2008, -1/+16If you overuse this phrase someone may slice off your testicles. Just letting you know.
        • Lewie, on 05/04/2008, -1/+4It's true, I've seen it happen.
          *shutters*
        • LRE13, on 05/04/2008, -1/+2And I've felt it. Phantom limb syndrome can be a bitch.
    • peterapokotos, on 05/04/2008, -1/+2I thought Larry Kind was Mr. Burns
  • yongke, on 05/04/2008, -50/+15You know, at first, I thought I was reading the onion, then I realized I was on environmental graffiti; and this story is relevant because he probably passed enough gas during his long lifetime to cause global warning.
    • BigKeg, on 05/04/2008, -0/+23what was it that he was warning the globe about?
    • Seth024, on 05/04/2008, -2/+8I don't think it's a coincidence that global warming started around 1750.
      • fuzzybeard, on 05/04/2008, -1/+1Probably from the Szechuan food he ate...
    • meesle110, on 05/04/2008, -0/+1you just can't enjoy anything can you?
    • fabiosir, on 05/04/2008, -0/+10So you like copying and pasting comments on different forums?
  • leontes, on 05/04/2008, -13/+8Johann van der Zee is his original name.
    • nihility, on 05/04/2008, -1/+12New Amsterdam...what a great ride while it lasted.
      • leontes, on 05/04/2008, -1/+1"The final decision will be made by mid-May, in time for the New York upfronts, where Fox will announce its new schedule. " from http://tinyurl.com/3vwwew (not a rickroll)
  • greenlight2001, on 05/04/2008, -6/+225Telling people he was 150+ years old probably sold him a lot of herbs (which is what he did to earn a living). Sensationalism sells and thus he was the marketing guru of his time. But I highly doubt he was anywhere beyond 100 years old at the time of his death.
    • empraptor, on 05/04/2008, -23/+1If you believe that he was selling herbs when he was congratulated of his 150th birthday, then you do believe he died beyond 100 years of age.

      In order for you to assert that he died before reaching 100, you should say that it's a different person who had his 150th birthday in 1827 since Li died in 1933, 106 years later.
      • greenlight2001, on 05/04/2008, -1/+17The Chinese have a lot of mysticism built into their belief system... I'm sure it didn't take much to convince them he was 100, or 150 or whatever... those people love that kind of ***** and so they will believe it without much fanfare. As for the 'evidence' people have showing he was really that old, I'd take that with a grain of salt.... paperwork dating back to the 1600's isn't high on my list of hardcore evidence.
        • thelif, on 05/04/2008, -4/+3I hear *insert civilization here* have concrete proof and scientific evidence behind their belief system.
        • empraptor, on 05/04/2008, -11/+2I wasn't trying to say that Li lived to be 256. I was just pointing out that your statements contradict each other. I don't see why I'm being dugg down for your stupidity.
          • elnerdo, on 05/04/2008, -1/+3Except, you just misread him. He didn't contradict himself. He said that the guy CLAIMED to be 150+ years old, but that he probably wasn't much over 100 by the time of his death.
            No contradiction exists. You're being dugg down for your OWN stupidity.
          • empraptor, on 05/04/2008, -1/+1lmao read the ***** article, elnerdo. You too, greenlight. If you had read it you'd know it's dumb to suggest the article derived the 150 year old statement directly from a dead guy.
        • empraptor, on 05/04/2008, -1/+1Really it's not a hard concept to grasp. You're getting the 150 years old figure from the article which got it from a record of his 150th birthday. The article states that this implied his birthday was in 1677. That dates the record in question at 1827. He died in 1933.

          If he was lying about his age in 1827 in order to sell herbs as you suggested, he would have been well over 100 by 106 years later as he should have been old enough to gather and sell herbs and not look like a teenager when he lied.

          If you want to claim that Li was nowhere near 256, I think it makes more sense to say that the record is of another person with the same name or that the records were fogeries.

          But no, you suggested that the same exact person who died in 1933 was alive in 1827 in order to lie and sell *****. And in the same comment you assert he was not over 100 when he died.

          You either didn't read the article or didn't think this through.
          • elnerdo, on 05/05/2008, -1/+1Emraptor, you're reading WAYY too far into his comment. Greenlight never said that he was 150 years old, and never suggested that he was alive in 1827. Greenlight is saying that the article's not true. Rather, he'd been lying about his age for his entire life, and the records are a misunderstanding.
          • empraptor, on 05/05/2008, -1/+1greenlight wrote "Telling people he was 150+ years old probably sold him a lot of herbs (which is what he did to earn a living)."

            To me, it seems he got the 150 figure from the article. And there's only one place that figure is used. Rest follows as I have written.

            All I wanted to point out was that he should revise his comment to say it was a completely different person claiming to be 150 yo back in 1827. I fail to see your point elnerdo. He was wrong.
          • greenlight2001, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1@ emprator
            DUDE! Let if ***** go! I was making a point that by him telling people he was 150+ years old, he probably sold a lot more herbs because people would attribute his herbs to his supposed long life. He was LYING to sell herbs, but since the Chinese have a pretty open belief to such things, they easily accepted it. You're being a douchebag trying to defend something that you should just let go.
          • empraptor, on 05/06/2008, -1/+1@greenlight2001
            I could say the same thing about you. All you had to do was read my first comment and read the article to see that your first comment contradicted itself instead of trying to assert that you were right. From my point of view, you are the douchebag since it seems you didn't even read the article properly.
          • elnerdo, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1I don't see what you're getting at, greenlight. If there was an article stating (blatantly false) "Bush orchestrated the 9/11 attacks on the WTC", it would make sense for me to make the comment: "Bush did not orchestrate the 9/11 attacks on the WTC".
            Based on your logic here, my comment 'doesn't make sense' because I got the '9/11 attacks on the WTC' part from the article, and the article says that Bush orchestrated the attacks.
            Greenlight didn't say "150+ IN 1827" In fact, greenlight didn't mention 1827 at all. I'm fairly certain that based on the context of greenlight's comment he fully disagrees that the man said that he was 150+ in 1827. In no place does greenlight suggest that he believes that the man said in 1827 "I am over 150 years old".
          • empraptor, on 05/07/2008, -0/+1Why, then, choose 150 after reading the article? The article states "By his own admission he was born in 1736 and had lived 197 years." And 100+ would have been impressive enough those days.

            But yes, his original comment seemed wacky to me because it seemed to me that his choice of the figure wasn't arbitrary and that he was thinking of a portion of the article that refers to specific point in time.

            That 9/11 example seems poorly constructed. Shouldn't you portray yourself citing some arbitrary figure or construction material in an argument which seems to come from the article that seems to refer to something specific in the article?
        • empraptor, on 05/04/2008, -2/+1lol I wouldn't babble too much about Chinese mysticism and how gullible people are there. Chances are, you live in a nation where good portion of the people believe in superheroes parting seas or rising from their graves or talking to animals.
    • tama00, on 05/04/2008, -4/+121. Fake your 100 years older than you really are.
      2. Sell herbs that make you live longer
      3. Profit!
      • daRoach, on 05/04/2008, -0/+12My 100 years are older than your 100 years.
        • breadfred, on 05/04/2008, -0/+1Yeah, and it shows. You are all wrinkly.
    • nmnnotmyname, on 05/04/2008, -0/+1Wow, he must have been the best for a really long time!
    • ReDoEr, on 05/04/2008, -1/+7anyone who believed he was 150 must have been smoking a few of those herbs.
    • Emnsta, on 05/04/2008, -1/+7You have no proof. That makes you sensationalist, yelling, "FAKE!!"
    • mcla0181, on 05/04/2008, -7/+1Prove that you love your mother.

      Prove there is no god.

      Prove that there's no life on other planets.

      (point... lots of things don't have proof... dumbass)
      • Emnsta, on 05/04/2008, -1/+3On the contrary, you just proved to me that you are indeed a dumbass
    • ZenMojo, on 05/04/2008, -1/+8Brings me to the reasonably believable story of a farmer in England who was said to have lived to be 156. How did he live to that age? Well, as he explained to the King when he was invited to dinner, he worked on the farm every day of his life and ate mostly wheat and vegetables.
      How did he die at that age? Well, that night they served pork, cow eyes, beer, and sweets.
      To claim there's "no way he lived past 100" is kind of laughable since there's no reasonable way to limit a person's age. Explorers from Europe who visited the Americas claimed that the average age of the locals was much higher and some men lived well past 100 years. The United States is 40th in life expectancy behind several 3rd-world countries. You can't claim that advances in science override poor eating habits, indulgence, and plain stupidity. So I believe the man could have lived to be 150 years old thanks to calorie restriction and an active lifestyle. 256 is probably a very big joke.
      • Herostratos, on 05/04/2008, -0/+1Reminds me of a story of a farmer in england who saw satan dance with a witch on halloween. Yes, people saw that frequently. Yet we dismiss these claims as ludicrous. Just like we should dismiss your claim here.

        As for the aging of the body: The cells will split only a certain amount of time - 38 i think. When a cell splits into two new, the two new cells inherit the old limit - minus one. So if a cell that has never split before splits again, the new limit will be 37. And when those split - 36 etc. In the end your cells won't split anymore, and your injuries will never heal, your old cells will slowly wither and die etc.
      • FalkenAX3, on 05/04/2008, -0/+1Two words, processed food.
  • fin01, on 05/04/2008, -13/+57insert obligatory comparison between John McCain and this guy's age
    • Jus7in, on 05/04/2008, -3/+5Insulting anyone by comparing them to McCain (besides Bush and HRC) is pretty low, man.
    • bfrank72, on 05/04/2008, -1/+8McCain was at this guy's birth, man.
  • tomjm5000, on 05/04/2008, -3/+48This is utter *****, though I too would make the story about some ancient chinese elder if I were making it up... they have a cinematically well-established reputation for living indefinitely.
  • dontclickhere06, on 05/04/2008, -8/+1My grandpa!
    • alclone, on 05/04/2008, -2/+2So I take it you are Chinese...

      How much do you sell WoW gold?
    • subterfuge, on 05/04/2008, -0/+2the guy's secret to long life: “Keep a quiet heart, sit like a tortoise, walk sprightly like a pigeon and sleep like a dog.”

      you know what they say: computers run out of hard drive space long before they make the big crash!
      • nmnnotmyname, on 05/04/2008, -0/+1My question: Exactly what herbs was he selling.
    • fabiosir, on 05/04/2008, -0/+1You think you're better than me? It's go time!
  • spiritflare1, on 05/04/2008, -7/+107i wish i could upgrade to 256 like him.
    • dondara, on 05/04/2008, -3/+66Hold out for 512
    • DephexTwin, on 05/04/2008, -2/+103The reason he finally died is because God stores our ages in an 8-bit integer.
      • shakin, on 05/04/2008, -0/+62So then he didn't die, he rolled over to zero. I guess that's what reincarnation is.
        • DephexTwin, on 05/04/2008, -0/+1You have a good point, but does that mean that we don't reincarnate unless we reach the age of 256?
          • shakin, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1That depends on how many bits you are.
      • krebcycle, on 05/04/2008, -1/+14i thought he stored it in seconds starting from january 1st 1970
        • foltaggio, on 07/11/2008, -0/+2We're going to die in January 2038? Oh no!
        • nmnnotmyname, on 05/04/2008, -0/+2Damn, when will they learn?
      • nmnnotmyname, on 05/04/2008, -0/+4We're going to have to get the latest version of Universe and recompile.

        Hope we don't get caught in dependency hell...
      • freshgrease, on 05/04/2008, -2/+3Explains why God no longer allows people to live very long. Before the Great Flood, people supposively lived many centuries. Flood comes, wipes out almost everybody, and now we have shorter lives. He recompiled the human race....6 billion people in 16-bit integers would have caused a MySQL overload. Damn you 486 servers!
    • petard, on 05/04/2008, -1/+28you need at least 2048 for vista!
    • N256, on 05/04/2008, -0/+3Already in head of you.
      • knight666, on 05/04/2008, -0/+2That has to be the first time your name was relevant for anything.
    • ZenMojo, on 05/04/2008, -0/+6When they finally legalize cloning, I'm going Quad-core.
    • ho0ber, on 05/04/2008, -1/+1I'm worried I'll be capped at 5 bytes... but as long as I just roll over I guess it would be okay.
      EDIT: Someone beat me in a sub-thread :(
    • ritter99, on 05/04/2008, -0/+1Shall I buy it now or shall I wait for the upgrade?
    • ithejosh, on 05/04/2008, -0/+1Does anyone else think about starcraft on this comment... max upgrades on a custom map is 255.. :D
  • ericthegreat, on 05/04/2008, -4/+146There are no real details in this article. "some guy may or may not have lived to be 250 years old" That's pretty much all it says.
    • joshuagreen, on 05/04/2008, -3/+10Indeed, there is very little substance in this article.
    • grimward, on 05/04/2008, -5/+2Therefore, to the burymobile robin! *cues batman theme as he presses the bury: inaccurate ***** button*
    • Scottievm, on 05/04/2008, -0/+1Yeah I came to the end and was still waiting for the supposed "amazing story."
  • h4mx0r, on 05/04/2008, -3/+326Next up: the 512 year old man!
    • talonstriker, on 05/04/2008, -4/+60How long till the 1024 year old man, I wonder?
      • Lynxpro, on 05/04/2008, -3/+72Anyone should be satisfied with just 640 years.
        • achoi, on 05/04/2008, -0/+5640 years ought to be enough for anyone
        • atezun, on 05/04/2008, -0/+2unfortunately you have to install LIFE sticks in identical pairs.
      • celkin, on 05/04/2008, -2/+13You man the Gigayear-old man?
        • subterfuge, on 05/04/2008, -6/+31024 would be the kiloyear-old man . . .
        • celkin, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1*mean

          I know. I'm correcting myself..
      • Clark3934, on 05/04/2008, -2/+25Who would ever need a whole 1024 years?
        I can store my whole life on a 512 year disk without any problems.
        /1999
      • Jeffler, on 05/04/2008, -0/+11The story on him will come out in 2048.
      • krebcycle, on 05/04/2008, -1/+3guess it depends on when he was born
      • brstilson, on 05/04/2008, -4/+2Will he call himself a "Kilobytarian" at 1024, or a "Kibibytarian" at 1000?
    • egthareal, on 05/04/2008, -12/+3HAhahahhahahaa I get it. You mean that he is actually a man made of RAM sent back in time, but it was a dimm sent back from 1994 . It was highly advanced for the time but when it was sent back to 1933 they read the inscription on it upside down and mistook the last letter. "MAR" soon became "MAN" and was given a proper burial. As for his wives and descendents he was a special limited edition Kingston Mormon dIMM that wold work with your 16bit soundblaster card "aka his wives"

      Moral of the story is don't trust a midget with a time machine. Or the magazine named Time because it's probably run by a midget who owns a time machine. Hence the name.

      • nmnnotmyname, on 05/04/2008, -1/+4Yeah...



        OR it's just the next power of 2 :P
      • nicktheawesome, on 05/04/2008, -0/+2At no point in your rambling, did you even come close to an intelligent thought. I award you no points, may God have mercy on your soul.
    • j3ff86, on 05/04/2008, -1/+7But 256 years ought to be enough for anybody!
  • tehjarvis, on 05/04/2008, -6/+17*****. Just like the Count of St. Germaine

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_of_St_Germain
    • moonym, on 05/04/2008, -7/+2a link to a wiki article, super credible
      • SilverStandard, on 05/04/2008, -0/+1There's a section in Wikipedia called bibliographies, you should check it out.
  • kh99, on 05/04/2008, -4/+41I think someone misinterpreted his age as a hexadecimal number.
    • nmnnotmyname, on 05/04/2008, -1/+2FF is not a valid integer, what else were they supposed to do?
      • nellshini, on 05/04/2008, -0/+1FF is 255, 100 is 256. Still could be a valid mistake.
  • Shawn4168, on 05/04/2008, -2/+177Hmm...looks like humans were only programmed to have 8-bit ages. This guy got past 255 and he started bugging out.
    • SwedishNinja, on 05/04/2008, -0/+5He reached the kill screen.
    • Lynxpro, on 05/04/2008, -2/+1...and he defied Alzheimer's by using bank-switching memory.

      He also rocked the Player/Missile Graphics, and his right testicle was nicknamed "Antic", his left testicle "GTIA", and his wang was called "Pokey". The replacement part nicknamed "Amy" he could never get working. He also didn't go into 80 column mode until the time of his discontinuance.
    • SixOrSoPapers, on 05/04/2008, -0/+3The Amazing Story behind the 0 Year-Old Man.

      /C
      • foltaggio, on 07/11/2008, -1/+1You mean a newborn baby?
      • nmnnotmyname, on 05/04/2008, -0/+1I thought it was "Arithmatic Overflow: The Story of behind the 0 Year Old Man"
    • karolisonline, on 05/04/2008, -0/+8and the BSoD appeared...
    • blackjack75, on 05/04/2008, -0/+2Actually the oldest human _proven_ to have lived on this earth was 122.
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldest_people

      There's clearly a limit at 7 bits. When you reach 127 the counter goes back to -1 and you're back in daddy's testicles.
      • pkaocdigg, on 05/04/2008, -1/+0newborn(x,y)
        {
        signed int human = 0;
        }
  • rinote, on 05/04/2008, -9/+1Yeah, but who wants to live on rice and wine for two centuries, amirite?
    • krebcycle, on 05/04/2008, -0/+3i'm trying steak and wine, i'll let you know how it works out
    • Vet4Peace, on 05/04/2008, -0/+2Currently working with beer and cheeseburgers. I'll keep you updated.
  • 3leggedHorse, on 05/04/2008, -6/+5 Proof of a time traveler/alien.
    • illwil, on 05/04/2008, -0/+4Am I not proof enough?
      • headband, on 05/04/2008, -0/+1is your name john titor
        • illwil, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1No, but I like the way it sounds...John Titor. Hmm...I'll have to think about.
    • lukak, on 05/04/2008, -0/+1take off the tin hat dude, you just look silly.
  • ccxftw, on 05/04/2008, -5/+255I plan on living until I'm 1GB.
    • loganhid, on 05/04/2008, -18/+3epic my friend, truly epic
    • jhandfield, on 05/04/2008, -0/+28Is that in Western Digital gigabytes or Everyone Else (sans hard drive manufacturers) gigabytes?
    • ZenMojo, on 05/04/2008, -2/+8How sad is our medical progress? In the old days, I hear they usually lived long enough to get TB.
      • blackjack75, on 05/04/2008, -0/+3I thought that was hilarious (guess I was the only one).
  • BMANZZS, on 05/04/2008, -15/+4I know a guy that lived to 128 and another that lived to 512 as well.
    • Lazydriver, on 05/04/2008, -1/+1I know a guy who lived 1024 and 2048, respectively.
  • mchugh22, on 05/04/2008, -0/+21I want to know what herbs he collected.
  • RSS14, on 05/04/2008, -5/+32He must have seen a lot of crazy *****! If we theoretically compare his life span to yours, and you were to die today, but were born 256 years ago . . . You would have witnessed the American Revolution, The Civil War, War of 1812 . . . World War I, The Depression, World War 2, JFK . . . That is mind boggling !
    • innocentsinner, on 05/04/2008, -0/+32Damn. If you were a white, land-owning male and 256 years old today, you would have been able to vote in every American Presidential election.
      • ReDoEr, on 05/04/2008, -0/+14Wow. That would suck. I've only voted in five and I'm already disgusted with it.
      • Evi1d33d, on 05/04/2008, -0/+10He probably wouldn't have voted for Bush.
        • blackjack75, on 05/04/2008, -0/+1Do you think a land-owning, slave-owning white guy from 256 years ago wouldn't have voted for Bush? He's probably too liberal.
    • krebcycle, on 05/04/2008, -6/+7you might even have seen some things that weren't based around violence, poverty, and death
  • Syphon8, on 05/04/2008, -2/+11Even in the past, the Chinese based their lives around signed one byte integers.
    • zeptobyte, on 05/04/2008, -0/+4You mean unsigned.
    • nmnnotmyname, on 05/04/2008, -0/+2Well in that case he should've been -127 when he died.
    • Syphon8, on 05/04/2008, -0/+1Yes, I did mean unsigned. I waited too long to edit. :p
  • the_snitch, on 05/04/2008, -2/+6I want to either live to 2^7 (128), or 2^8 (256, like him). Anything else is a failure in terms of sweet binary powers.
  • patpl22391, on 05/04/2008, -2/+4So very doubtful.
  • jp12380, on 05/04/2008, -7/+1Umm yeah I would have to say that ummm no he was not that old.
  • loganhid, on 05/04/2008, -11/+19Li Ching-Yun dad is still alive and his name is Chuck Norris
  • Scaryclouds, on 05/04/2008, -8/+46Dumbest. Article. Ever.
  • ObiWanCalobi, on 05/04/2008, -4/+1No, see, all his information (birth-date, death-date, etc.) is right. It's just that he was born using one calendar system and was pronounced dead with another.
    His claimed age he said himself is a big, fat lie still though.
  • mradules, on 05/04/2008, -1/+7There is no story here. Must have made the front page on title reads alone.
  • loganhid, on 05/04/2008, -3/+8what kind of herbs was this guy smoking
  • Tamant, on 05/04/2008, -2/+2His herbs? Sounds more like crack
  • xmod3, on 05/04/2008, -13/+2I wonder how many Tibetans he killed in his lifetime?
  • Vodd9, on 05/04/2008, -8/+2"Mirror Mirror on the wall
    True hope lies beyond the coast
    You're a damned kind can't you see
    That the winds will change"
    • fabiosir, on 05/04/2008, -0/+1I sure hope you're Chinese.
      • Stevethegreat, on 05/04/2008, -0/+1Naah, Blind Guardian (the band he's referring too) were singing for elves and myths, but I don't think they're relevant to this. At least elves really lived for thousands years in the tale. Oh wait.....
  • Nhmarine, on 05/04/2008, -2/+5Stupid lack of birth certificates..... I wonder how many people actually beleive this crap.... It could be true, but there is no proof, and due to the overwhelming statistical evidence that even 100 is an extremely difficult age to reach, I choose not to have be gullible enough to think this story is truthful.
  • RamezaniK, on 05/04/2008, -5/+45He died at the tender age of FF.
    • Halukard, on 05/04/2008, -1/+8No, he died at age 100. You fail at hexadecimal skills.
    • krebcycle, on 05/04/2008, -0/+1it sounds better as 100000000
    • harmonik, on 05/04/2008, -0/+1somewhere between FF and 101
  • psykiv, on 05/04/2008, -2/+29I came here for 2^8 and other binary references. Thanks. I can leave now.
  • 666dorado, on 05/04/2008, -4/+6you never know. lot of people believe jesus christ rose from the dead.
  • Zlorp, on 05/04/2008, -3/+15living that long would suck balls.
    • stafa786, on 05/04/2008, -0/+4That depends on the condition of one's health.
  • Pedestrian101, on 05/04/2008, -2/+7Damn, my great great great great grandfather died at 255.
  • liuite, on 05/04/2008, -4/+4once we perfect cloning and stem cell research, we will live 125 years and then our clone can live another 125 years.
    • OhTheHumanity1, on 05/04/2008, -2/+6and how will we copy our consciousness?
      • Myonosken, on 05/04/2008, -2/+8Hes discussing whole human replicas that allow eternal life...
        ...and you question logistics?!
        • OhTheHumanity1, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1I'm just saying it doesn't do me any good to "live forever" if I have to die and be "reborn" only to start from scratch
    • zeptobyte, on 05/04/2008, -0/+3That's still only 250 years. He wins either way.
  • Yage2006, on 05/04/2008, -3/+1Oh lets see he sold herbs and claimed to be that old I say *****!
  • barroni, on 05/04/2008, -1/+5How do you get 255 candles on a cake
    • TekTrixter, on 05/04/2008, -0/+9very carefully... or a really big cake... or the cake is a lie?
  • subterfuge, on 05/04/2008, -1/+1823 wives? maybe it was the sex.
    • ZenMojo, on 05/04/2008, -1/+2What do wives have to do with sex? Besides, it says he "buried" them, it doesn't mean they were his.
      • JellyFish62, on 05/04/2008, -0/+3Most of the time you have sex with your wife. And why the hell would he bury other's wives?
  • roxycat, on 05/04/2008, -1/+17i think this is a case of the ol' "dread pirate roberts"
    • moonym, on 05/04/2008, -0/+2smashing literary allusion, sir
      • Tyrghast, on 05/04/2008, -0/+2Few people nowadays would associate that allusion with the book. However the movie version is quite entertaining.
      • roxycat, on 05/04/2008, -0/+1i am a ma'am and i own the book. :P
  • restlessmouse, on 05/04/2008, -2/+5I'll be lucky to live to 64... They call me "Commodore"
  • PurpleSfinx, on 05/04/2008, -1/+12That's what you get for using only 1 byte to represent your age.
    I hear he didn't die when he turned 256, just turned back into a baby.
  • apophenic, on 05/04/2008, -0/+2A short blog post with very little research :C
  • danjal, on 05/04/2008, -0/+1ah, why not, sure a good folk story to tell, so yeah, i'll go along with it..
  • MrSilverblood, on 05/04/2008, -0/+1I'd like to know how good the record keeping was for this man. Sadly we'll never know, and as much as I'd like to believe that we can live that long, I doubt this story is true.
  • URnotheonly1, on 05/04/2008, -0/+2I lived in Hawaii for a bit and I met a 90 year old man who started smoking pot, cigarettes and started drinking when he turned 70
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