# Misao Okawa watch
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misao-okawa-watch/686428
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 18, 2014, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misao-okawa-watch/686428 "2014-04-18T17:18:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2014, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misao-okawa-watch/686428/1 "2014-04-18T17:18:49Z")
The world’s oldest living person, Misao Okawa, is currently number 10 on Wikipedia’s list of (confirmed) oldest people ever, and in ten days (God/goddess/G\*d/Og/Kaml willing) will take the number 9 spot. Over the next year, she could even move up to number 5. Go Misao! We’re rooting for you!
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### Author:  [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2014, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misao-okawa-watch/686428/2 "2014-04-18T23:04:13Z")
I had to read your OP another time. At first I thought you were wishing death on her competitors/telling her take out the competition. Oh, not the 10th oldest _currently_ living. Carry on!
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### Author:  [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2014, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misao-okawa-watch/686428/3 "2014-04-30T00:39:00Z")
That’s how you read that? Well, I enjoy a good supercentenarian cage match as much as the next guy, but that’s not what is happening here. Ms. Okawa is the oldest living person, and the tenth oldest (verified) of all time. Only now, she’s number nine … number nine … number nine.
Go go Misao! You’re just about six weeks away from taking the number eight spot!
(BTW, When _Revolution 9_ came out, she was already 70 years old!)
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### Author:  [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2014, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misao-okawa-watch/686428/4 "2014-04-30T00:43:35Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#):
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> I had to read your OP another time. At first I thought you were wishing death on her competitors/telling her take out the competition. Oh, not the 10th oldest _currently_ living. Carry on!
That’s how I read it at first too. Why does he hate those other old people so much?
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### Author:  [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2014, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misao-okawa-watch/686428/5 "2014-04-30T00:52:43Z")
My first five words were, “the world’s oldest living person”. Did you just start reading from the middle? 🙂
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### Author:  [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2014, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misao-okawa-watch/686428/6 "2014-04-30T13:45:16Z")
Only one man in the top ten. Women are really kicking ass at this longevity thing, aren’t they?
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2014, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misao-okawa-watch/686428/7 "2014-04-30T15:29:36Z")
There can only be one Oldlander.
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### Author:  [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2014, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misao-okawa-watch/686428/8 "2014-06-13T21:14:38Z")
Go go Mis-a-o!!!
Ms. Okawa has cracked the elite eight. Again, let me emphasize, she didn’t need to kill Besse Cooper (with whom she is now tied) to reach the number eight spot for oldest (verified) human being ever. She just needed to claw her way past Besse’s already dead corpse. So … let’s not be so morbid about this!
Misao is now gunning for the number seven spot, which is less than three weeks away!
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### Author:  [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2014, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misao-okawa-watch/686428/9 "2014-06-14T01:38:12Z")
Everyone who was alive when she was born is now dead.
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### Author:  [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2014, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misao-okawa-watch/686428/10 "2014-06-14T02:00:32Z")
Where would be a link to the oldest people, living and dead? There was a local woman who died about three years ago, who was 113, and at the time was said to be the 30th oldest living person.
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### Author:  [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2014, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misao-okawa-watch/686428/11 "2014-06-14T02:40:36Z")
> **[Oldest people](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldest_people)**
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> This is a list of tables of the oldest people in the world in ordinal ranks. To avoid including false or unconfirmed claims of old age, names here are restricted to those people whose ages have been validated by an international body dealing in longevity research, such as the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) or Guinness World Records (GWR), and others who have otherwise been reliably sourced.
> The longest documented and verified human lifespan is that of Jeanne Calment of France (1875–1997)...
😃
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### Author:  [@DataX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DataX)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2014, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misao-okawa-watch/686428/12 "2014-06-14T03:02:15Z")
> [@Loach](#):
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> That’s how I read it at first too. Why does he hate those other old people so much?
Me too - actually I think the whole death thing and “God willing” just caused me to jump to conclusions - so I blame it on myself and not the writer.
Actually I was expecting this to be about a new brand of Japanese Watch
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2014, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misao-okawa-watch/686428/13 "2014-06-14T03:21:39Z")
> [@Lakai](#):
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> Everyone who was alive when she was born is now dead.
You’d think she’d be the obvious suspect.
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### Author:  [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2014, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misao-okawa-watch/686428/14 "2014-06-16T00:29:08Z")
> [@Lakai](#):
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> Everyone who was alive when she was born is now dead.
That’s one of the prerequisites of being the world’s oldest living person. Actually, it’s the only one.
> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> You’d think she’d be the obvious suspect.
Well played.
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2014, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misao-okawa-watch/686428/15 "2014-06-16T01:15:28Z")
The amazing thing is that now, in 2014, there are still 5 people alive who were born in the 1800s.
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### Author:  [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2014, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misao-okawa-watch/686428/16 "2014-07-03T21:21:11Z")
Our favorite 19th century baby is now number seven on the list of oldest (verified) people ever. She’s also the second oldest Japanese person ever, and in two months would be the oldest. Good luck Misao! Long life to you! (That’s an “empty compliment” as your fictional countryman Pooh-bah once put it, but for a different reason.)
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### Author:  [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2014, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misao-okawa-watch/686428/17 "2014-07-03T22:26:58Z")
> [@Seanette](#):
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> [Oldest people - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldest_people)
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> 😃
How come Morley Safer isn’t on that list?
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### Author:  [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2014, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misao-okawa-watch/686428/18 "2014-07-04T18:44:14Z")
Picture, or it ain’t so!
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2014, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misao-okawa-watch/686428/19 "2014-07-04T18:58:37Z")
It seems weird that her husband died 83 years ago.
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### Author:  [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2014, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misao-okawa-watch/686428/20 "2014-07-04T19:10:34Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#):
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> How come Morley Safer isn’t on that list?
Seriously? It’s going to be 2041 before a guy born in 1931 is a supercentenarian.
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