# Holy CRAP! I had no idea how Strom Thurmond looked lately! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 12, 2002, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-i-had-no-idea-how-strom-thurmond-looked-lately/142197 "2002-12-12T04:15:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Chanticleer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/65b543/32.png) [@Chanticleer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanticleer)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-i-had-no-idea-how-strom-thurmond-looked-lately/142197/41 "2002-12-14T20:39:51Z")
If the truth be known, Id bet ya that Strom is older than the Grim Reaper. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-i-had-no-idea-how-strom-thurmond-looked-lately/142197/42 "2002-12-14T20:57:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Libertarian \* > \*\*Just out of curiousity, what exactly did you _expect_ a one-hundred-year-old man to look like? David Gallagher? \*\* Well, Dave Clark still looks pretty good, and I think he’s coming up on his third or fourth centennial this year. ---
**Author:** ![Tabithina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f04885/32.png) [@Tabithina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabithina)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-i-had-no-idea-how-strom-thurmond-looked-lately/142197/43 "2002-12-14T20:58:48Z")
[geek] _“Palpatine, I am your father…”_ Well, Palpatine had to learn his…erm…_political skills_ somewhere. 😃 [/geek] ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-i-had-no-idea-how-strom-thurmond-looked-lately/142197/44 "2002-12-14T21:40:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Miller \* > \*\*Well, Dave Clark still looks pretty good, and I think he’s coming up on his third or fourth centennial this year. \*\* 😃 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dumbguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@Dumbguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dumbguy)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-i-had-no-idea-how-strom-thurmond-looked-lately/142197/45 "2002-12-14T21:52:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jinwicked \* > \*\*If you squint real hard so your vision blurs, and pretend he’s purple, he looks like one of the California Rasins. \*\* Pretend? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-i-had-no-idea-how-strom-thurmond-looked-lately/142197/46 "2002-12-15T00:54:09Z")
The only memory I have of Strom is a video segment shown on Jay Leno’s Tonight Show taken during the Clinton Impeachment Hearings in the Senate. There was Strom picking his nose and intently examining the booger on the end of his finger. ---
**Author:** ![Boxer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47774/32.png) [@Boxer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boxer)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-i-had-no-idea-how-strom-thurmond-looked-lately/142197/47 "2002-12-15T04:10:15Z")
Civil service retirement plan won’t pay much for Strom’s retirement package, that’s for sure. Of course, his aides have been doing all the real work for years. Wonder if I will be around by 100. He was older than I am now on the day that I was born in 1954. In fact, he ran for president in 1948 6 years before I was born. Better people have probably lived shorter lives. Glad I don’t have to measure their worth. ---
**Author:** ![Blueapple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Blueapple](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blueapple)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-i-had-no-idea-how-strom-thurmond-looked-lately/142197/48 "2002-12-15T16:09:36Z")
Hahaha. That clip from The Daily Show was just great. I love watching Jon, always good to unwind from a long day. _Only the good die young…_ ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-i-had-no-idea-how-strom-thurmond-looked-lately/142197/49 "2002-12-15T17:01:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by matt\_mcl \* > \*\*Whom the gods love > Dies young; yet he lives—breathes—is conscious. > If any god loved this man, he should have died > More than ten, no, more than twenty years ago. He burdens the ground as he walks, already senseless > And witless, worth about as much as a stinking mushroom. > > - Plautus, _The Two Bacchises_ \*\* For what is life, if measured by the space, Not by the act? Or masked man, if valued by his face Above his fact? Here’s one outlived his peers And told forth fourscore years; He vexed time, and busied the whole state, Troubled both foes and friends, But ever to no ends; What did this stirrer, but die late? – Ben Jonson ---
**Author:** ![Madame\_Zelda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Madame\_Zelda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madame_Zelda)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-i-had-no-idea-how-strom-thurmond-looked-lately/142197/50 "2002-12-15T19:21:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Miller \* > \*\*Well, Dave Clark still looks pretty good, and I think he’s coming up on his third or fourth centennial this year. \*\* Sorry, I’m brand new to this (still have that new car smell), but…don’t we mean DICK Clark?!? Dave Clark (or any of his 5) appear to have aged normally, from what I can see. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-i-had-no-idea-how-strom-thurmond-looked-lately/142197/51 "2002-12-15T19:32:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hihorse \* > \*\*Sorry, I’m brand new to this (still have that new car smell), but…don’t we mean DICK Clark?!? Dave Clark (or any of his 5) appear to have aged normally, from what I can see. \*\* :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-i-had-no-idea-how-strom-thurmond-looked-lately/142197/52 "2002-12-16T16:54:38Z")
Thanks **Hihorse** , and welcome to the Straight Dope! 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-i-had-no-idea-how-strom-thurmond-looked-lately/142197.md?page=2)