# Strom turns 100! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 4, 2002, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strom-turns-100/140516 "2002-12-04T20:41:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Soup\_du\_jour](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Soup\_du\_jour](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soup_du_jour)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strom-turns-100/140516/1 "2002-12-04T20:41:41Z")
After numerous years in the senate, our good friend Mr Strom Thurmond, Republican from South Carolina, is finally hitting the century mark! Happy Birthday! Also, he’s retiring from his senate seat when this term ends! Yipee! No more Strom! Good news all around! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Skerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Skerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skerri)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strom-turns-100/140516/2 "2002-12-04T20:50:51Z")
Yup. No more Strom. What in the hell are we going to joke about now? 😃 Skerri South Carolinian for 28 years now… ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strom-turns-100/140516/3 "2002-12-04T21:15:09Z")
I understand he likes older women . . . I’m planning on setting him up with Leni Riefenstahl . . . ---
**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strom-turns-100/140516/4 "2002-12-04T21:26:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > \*\*I understand he likes older women . . . \*\* I understand exactly the opposite. Isn’t he married to a beauty queen 1/4 his age? ---
**Author:** ![Quintas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/48db29/32.png) [@Quintas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quintas)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strom-turns-100/140516/5 "2002-12-04T21:26:12Z")
Huh? He’s always dated MUCH younger women. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strom-turns-100/140516/6 "2002-12-05T00:47:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Quintas \* > \*\*Huh? He’s always dated MUCH younger women. \*\* That’s because he needs the blood of a virgin to keep his \*ss going. He drinks it. ---
**Author:** ![Slainte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Slainte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slainte)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strom-turns-100/140516/7 "2002-12-05T00:52:16Z")
That would be funny, if it wasn’t true 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Slainte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Slainte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slainte)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strom-turns-100/140516/8 "2002-12-05T00:58:01Z")
> [@](#): > > Their engagement was a surprise — the couple had been so circumspect. Moore, just out of college, was 44 years Thurmond’s junior. > > They married in December 1968. By 1971, Thurmond was boasting again: At age 68, he had become a father for the first time. Her mother’s namesake, Nancy Moore Thurmond, was born March 30, 1971. Three other children followed — Strom Jr. in 1972, Julie in 1974, and Paul in 1976. [From here](http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/4643362.htm). ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strom-turns-100/140516/9 "2002-12-05T01:00:53Z")
Wouldn’t you love to be able to sit down with someone that age and just…talk about everything that he’s seen in the 20th century? He was nine years old when _Titanic_ went down, fer crine out loud. What spooks me about Thurmond is that I’m afraid he’d start gaily recounting “Great Lynchings of My Boyhood,” or some such… :eek: ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strom-turns-100/140516/10 "2002-12-05T02:06:15Z")
He was first elected to public office as a state senator in _1933_. He ran for President, at age 46, against _Truman_. Man. That cat is _old_. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strom-turns-100/140516/11 "2002-12-05T02:25:43Z")
What I want to know is, who names their child “Strom”? Is that supposed to mean something? ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strom-turns-100/140516/12 "2002-12-05T02:34:51Z")
There was a good article about him and his birthday in this week’s _Economist._ Happy birthday, you old bigot. I mean it. ---
**Author:** ![irkenDoom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c2a13f/32.png) [@irkenDoom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irkenDoom)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strom-turns-100/140516/13 "2002-12-05T03:00:43Z")
Actually **Eve** , IIRC, I swear to God itself, on Strom’s 96th birthday, I watched a news article in which he stated “I may be ninety-six years old, but I still like the young women!” I think he was with a couple of Playboy Bunnies. Heh, lucky for me, too, as I had to write a report about Thurmond for Government class during my senior year in high school. I needed to include a quote, and I just so happened to be watching the news that day… I got extra credit for originality on that one. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![I\_am\_Sparticus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@I\_am\_Sparticus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_am_Sparticus)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strom-turns-100/140516/14 "2002-12-05T04:14:36Z")
Only the good die young.