Day drinking is awesome isn't it?

Yes.

The bar is also a very safe place to be at noon on a Wednesday.
Unless the Reaper singles you out, there is sure to be someone slower,

I figure it's like encountering a bear in the woods...I don't have to be faster than the bear (or the Grim Reaper), I just have to be faster than you:)

rich

Well, better watch veloci though; he was training to run a sub-5:00 mile this past winter. Not sure if he achieved it but I suspect he was pretty close. :)

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"Anyone can be who they want to be IF they have the HUNGER and the DRIVE."

What he doesn't seem to have spotted is that the grim reaper isn't chasing you, he's waiting at the finish line! Speed doesn't help.

Well, I guess this depends on how you look at it; in some cases of extreme injury, the person comes very close to death but some people fight it off (and great physical conditioning would def help here) whereas the majority succumb to their injuries. This is what I've heard from combat medics and nurses in AFG and IRQ. So, in these cases, you could say that the reaper was chasing these guys/girls and caught many of them but not all. OTOH, you could say that the reaper just waits until people die, with no "chasing".

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"Anyone can be who they want to be IF they have the HUNGER and the DRIVE."