Here's a good hint that Walter Breuning is up there in years: He was not accepted to serve in the Army in World War II, because he was too old at the time. It's rare enough these days to find WWII vets still around, but a man who was already too far past his prime to enter the battle?

That sounds pretty old. Yet, he's dispensing advice at the age of 113, while recognized as the oldest man and fourth-oldest person in the world.

Mr. Breuning lives in a facility called Rainbow Senior Living in Great Falls, Mont., that advertises an "Ask Walter" section on its website, www.rainbowalf.com. On Aug. 31, Rainbow Senior Living will broadcast some of his answers on their site.

Rather than a Dear Abby, it's more like Dear Great-Granddaddy. Mr. Breuning's certainly experienced. He was a railroad man for half a century. He's outlived his wife by 53 years. He must know something about how to live.

Rainbow's website says that Mr. Breuning is physically and mentally active. It encourages people to "ask him about his grandfather's experience in the American Civil War or what he was doing the day McKinley was shot."

Well, shoot, what American doesn't remember the moment of William McKinley's shooting on Sept. 6, 1901? (I was home watching TV, mad that my favorite cartoon was interrupted by the news, if memory serves correct.)

Because I am often confused by life and don't know where to turn for guidance -- ever since my favorite sounding board, acclaimed rapper Lil Wayne, went to prison on a weapons charge -- I've prepared a list of 20 questions to submit to "Ask Walter":

• Which is your favorite Roosevelt: Teddy, Franklin or Mark?

• Why does the "check engine" light come on automatically in every car I've owned, without anyone ever diagnosing the reason?

• When you were taking girls out on dates and only spending 25 cents or something for the evening, did they consider you cheap?

• Is Mellon Arena worth saving?

• Were you one of those people who said that television would kill radio when it came out, and then that motion pictures would kill television, and so on and so forth? Do you keep saying these things because one of these times you're bound to be right, and everyone will think you're some great seer?

• What do you think of white people who try to rap?

• You don't drive on Murray Avenue in Squirrel Hill occasionally, do you? I could swear the man I was driving behind yesterday drove like he was at least 113.

• How many minutes would you say you've spent flossing in your life? Isn't there something else you wished you could have done with that time?

• If they had steroids around when Babe Ruth was playing, how many more hundreds of home runs would Barry Bonds have needed to break his record?

• If my number of mental health days from work this year is in the double digits, and it's not yet September, do you think that's too many?

• Is Brett Favre really retired?

• You don't have to answer this if you think it's too personal, but how much did you lose during the Great Depression?

• If you could be stranded on an island with only one Jennifer, would you choose Aniston, Lopez or Antkowiak?

• Who's the best U.S. vice president of your lifetime? (Just a warning: If you say Dan Quayle, I'm disregarding all your other advice.)

• At the end of "Inception," was Leonardo DiCaprio supposed to be awake or dreaming?

• A century ago, how would people in Great Falls have reacted if they were told Pittsburgh was America's Most Livable City?

• If my golf buddy took a free drop from ornamental shrubbery instead of a penalty stroke, was he cheating me?

• When you're 113, what's still viable to put on your bucket list? Cinnamon-flavored applesauce?

• Who's been the best Pirates manager since Jim Leyland? (That's a toughie, I know.)

• Did you have a chance to buy IBM stock real low when it first came out and ignore it? I'd hate myself for the rest of my life, if I did that -- not that I'm saying you should.

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