Mae West: Expectancy

MAE WEST [1893 — 1980], often called "a cougar," lived to celebrate her 87th birthday — — at a time when the life expectancy of a Caucasian born in the United States during the 1890s would have been about 47 — 50 years old.
• • During the 1700s, the life expectancy in Western Europe had been about 47 years old.
• • Taking that into account, Catherine II [2 May 1729 — 17 November 1796], the empress who ruled Russia (reigning for 34 years from 1762 — 1796), enjoyed an extraordinary life for 67 years.
• • In the middle of the 1500s, at the start of the first available continuous series of national mortality estimates, life expectancy in Great Britain was still only in the mid-30s.
• • Taking that into account, Queen Elizabeth I [1533 — 1603] would have certainly outlived many Englishwomen born during the 1530s when the monarch died at 69 years old.
• • This pithy prologue aims to prepare you for the asinine raving below. Ready now?
• • According to British nitwit William Langley: The rules of engagement are getting tougher for the Cougars — — those women of a certain age who prowl the urban habitat, sinking their varnished claws into conspicuously younger men. A scientific study, published last week, warned that such females face a lower life expectancy, although the big surprise is that any research was necessary. Take Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great, and Mae West. All were notorious for their taste in toyboys. And here's the clincher: they're all dead! ...
• • Obviously, The Telegraph cannot afford to pay real journalists any longer. Pity.
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• • Article: "The cougar's taste for toyboys could be her undoing"
• • By: William Langley
• • Published by: The Telegraph [UK] — — www.Telegraph.co.UK
• • Published on: 15 May 2010
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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