Forget Viagra! - Male ballet dancer pirouettes at 88!

An 88-year-old man is set to star in his first ballet show after taking up dance at the age of 79. John Lowe, a retired teacher said: "It's a wonderful thing to do and I can't understand why more men don't do it." Perhaps Ming Campbell, the ex-Liberal Democrat leader could show the young turks in his party that age is NOT a barrier by prancing a bit. "There's nothing effeminate about it - you have to be incredibly fit to dance." Quite! "I see these people crawling around , hunched over smoking a cigarette - they should be doing ballet."

Now I heard Barack Obama telling a rally in South Carolina that education was more that just reading and writing. It included music, the arts, and sporting achievement. How about ballet too?

Fred Thompson! Are you up for it? Ron Paul too? How about Senator McCain? No president should be elected without first pirouetting each day!

CNN Video of John Lowe

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