At 102 years old, Nora Hardwick proves that you really are only as old as you feel… no matter how the rest of you looks. This great-great-grandma just posed nude for a calendar to help raise money for the Ancaster Athletic football team in Ancaster, Lincolnshire.

But don’t worry: she didn’t let it all completely hang out.

“They draped a bit of pink cloth around my shoulders, but at my age I just don’t have the model body to be taking it all off,” she told The Telegraph, a U.K. newspaper. “It was all very tastefully done. You couldn’t see any of the bits or anything.”

Apparently Mrs. Hardwick’s children — who range from 62 to 80 years old — applaud their Mum’s decision. Know what? I do too. As far as I’m concerned, having lived past 100 years old entitles Mrs. Hardwick to do just about anything she wants!

As a lover of history and cultural geography, I like to think of myself as a fairly open-minded person. The kind who tries, if not embracing other viewpoints, then at least making room in my own perspective for them.

Then there are times when, despite my best efforts, I just can’t help thinking that some cultures are so radically different from my own that I’ll never in a thousand years be able to comprehend them.

Take, for instance, the traditional Hindu marriage ceremony of P. Selvakumar and his new bride. That’s her in the picture. As you may have noticed, she’s a bitch… and I mean that in the literal sense. That’s right: he married a dog.

It seems that 15 years ago or so, Selvakumar stoned two dogs to death then hung them in the tree. Now, on the advice of an astrologer, he’s atoning for his crime by wedding a stray dog selected for him by his family.

After the wedding, the happy couple shared a meal. Sort of. Selvakumar joined his family for a feast. The dog ate a bun.

Unfortunately, there’s no indication where the happy couple is registered, so I guess I won’t be sending them matching water bowls.

A Belgium resident, tired of the bickering between Flemish and Walloon politicians, decided it was time for the whole country to go… to the highest bidder on eBay. The listing read, “For Sale: Belgium, a Kingdom in three parts … free premium: the king and his court (costs not included).”

Of course, the winning bidder would also have to take on the country’s $300 billion national debt, but they’d save a fortune with free delivery.

Officials at eBay pulled the auction after someone actually bid $14 million.

Happy birthday wishes to Winnie Langley on her 100th birthday… and her 170,000th cigarette.

Ms. Langley began smoking just days after WWI broke out in June 1914. She was seven — that’s right, 7 — years old at the time. Since then, she’s smoked five cigarettes a day, a habit she says many people took up around that time to help them calm their nerves.

Smoking wasn’t considered a nasty habit back then as it is these days. “There were not all the the health warnings like there are today when I started. It was the done thing.”

Langley has outlived her husband, Robert, as well as her son, Donald, who passed away two years ago at age 72.

She has no intention of quitting, either.

As to why she’s never suffered any of the health problems attributed to a long-time smoking habit, Langley says the answer is simple: she’s never inhaled.