Aged Well

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1. Just found out five minute before.

   https://pagesix.com/2021/12/31/betty-white-dead-at-99/?utm_campaign=iphone_nyp&utm_source=pasteboard_app

   17 days short of a century.

   1. I know, right?

2. Thank you Betty for keeping us well entertained with your talent and years of much laughter you given to our lives.

   1. She reminded me of my own FOB Swedish great-grandmother … who made it to 93 yo … living alone … until she fell and broke her hip. Yerda had a devilish sense of humor … droll, and dry, like I try to be … fiercely independent, yet friendly and charming.

      1. Think of my mother also, who had a stroke one month after her 99th birthday. Being the “daughter on call” was a challenge and took a toll, but I will always be grateful for the time she was with us. If nothing else, her grandchildren will always remember “elbows off the table”, and “you’ll never learn any younger”. They were truly gifted by having their Granny with them when they were well into adulthood.

3. No disrespect intended.

   1. “No disrespect intended”.

      You mean for the headline? Well, she actually did age well. Perfectly apropos.

   2. Happy New Year Kate. Stay safe and stay warm. All the best to you and the pups.

      Nothing wrong with that story headline IMO. She did age well and her body of work proves it. Classy and talented woman.

      bill

4. Who doesn’t love Betty White?
   She truly is a Golden Girl!

5. *Sigh*
   Goodbye, Golden Girl. Say hi to the rest of your besties up there.

6. She was excellent as Sue Ann on MTM.

   1. Sue Ann Nivens: Mary, dear – do you have any idea what happens when you let Veal Prince Orloff sit in an oven too long?
      Mary Richards: No, what?
      Sue Ann Nivens: He dies.

      That sequence still cracks me up.

7. As my father was known to say, she had already turned a hundred years old. When you turn one, you’re not beginning your first year of life, you’ve already lived it. She was about to begin her 101st year.

   1. So for a whole year you are zero years old. On January 18 she would have been 100 years and one day old.

      1. What IJ means is you’re in your first year. My daughter’s mother whined when she turned 29 she was in her “thirtieth year”.
         Betty was in her 100th year but did not get to finish it.

         1. Yes, she was 99 349/365 out of 100, give or take some hours.
            I had been planning a toast of vodka and hot dogs on the 17th.
            I think I still shall.

            I used to watch Password with my grandmother. Make that a double toast.

      2. I have long described the year from birth to that first anniversary the zeroth year. (I don’t think it’s going to catch on.)

         1. More correctly it’s (0,1].

   2. Don’t be one of those pedantic people.
      Join the rest of us and enjoy when the odometer rolls from all 9’s to all 0’s.
      (was more enjoyable in the non-digital, mechanical era)

      1. I’ve still got the windup dashboard clock from the first car I saw do that.

   3. After you pass your first birthday you are in your second year. It is why obits say he/she dies in their ??? what ever year. If you have celebrated 80, you are now in your 81st year.

8. I generally don’t like gushing over hollywood types, but in this one instance I’ll make an exception.

   Funny, sharp as a tack and with a sunny, positive demeanor, Betty White was a national treasure. RIP

9. I recall Betty making some comment about the term ‘grow a pair’ meaning toughen up. I’m sure you all know her response to that term.

10. RIP Betty White

    She held the Guiness Book of World Records for the title of longest-running showbiz career, regardless of gender.

    As diehard fans know, Betty wasn’t just a pretty face — she was a whip-smart comedian, and often a raunchy one at that, and was known as a Hollywood trailblazer. Asked what was one regret she had in her career that she didn’t do, she quipped: “Robert Redford”

    https://www.ask.com/entertainment/betty-white-facts

    1. Whatever that may say, it’s wrong. George Burns started in showbiz at birth working in Vaudeville. George lived to a 100+ and had a career that started at the age of seven singing in saloons, ferryboats, and the occasional brothel. Before there was anything known as an Entertainment industry. Before Chaplin, before Keaton, there was Burns, already a veteran. Lived Jan 20 1896 to March 3, 1996. Career includes academy awards, radio hall of fame, Television hall of fame, author of ten books, multiple records, movies, sitcoms, and drama.

       The man was an icon, did everything, before there was anything, and Betty was nice, but she arrived when there was an industry established, and is not the champion.

       1. From the piece:
          “She held the Guiness Book of World Records for the title of longest-running showbiz career, regardless of gender.”

          And:
          “Betty earned the title of “Longest TV Career for an Entertainer (Female)” for her more than 70 years in showbiz.”

          Key word is “TV” — guess the article’s contradiction is evident. I failed to pick up on that having read the piece in its entirety. I apologize and I stand corrected. Thank you Jane.

       2. From the obit she has the longest television career. She was in TV when it was still experimental. Then a short hiatus during WWII. Then back on when you could count the number of TV owners on one hand.

       3. The longest “TELEVISION CAREER.”
          Betty White’s career in that medium lasted from basically it’s invention to the very end of 2021. No one will ever be able to say that.

11. I believe she posed nude once or twice. All broads should do that. Lol.

12. Sid V

    have you ever been to a nude beach? Not everybody is cut out to pose nude, no doubt!

    1. Which is why in my 42 years here in Vancouver I have never visited Wreck Beach. I had surmised that there would be too many wrecks on that beach.

       1. One afternoon, while I was at UBC, I was driving along Marine Drive. I found out where the trail to WB started. I’m sure that there wasn’t an empty parking space a kilometre or more on either side.

          I kept driving as I wasn’t the least bit interested in finding out more…..

13. 100 is a gimmee.

14. God speed Ms. White. You were much loved.

15. Betty White knew how be slyly a dirty girl at heart. I liked that about her through out her career. Lot’s of funny sitcom moments as well. Too bad she did not make 100. So close but I’m sure she will be remembered by all for the laughter she left behind for us in her work. RIP.

    bverwey

    1. Yup.
       I particularly liked her in some celebrity Comedy Central Roasts.
       She could take it as well as dish it.

       RIP Betty, you will be missed.

16. Sue-Ann Nivens joins Lou Grant, Ted and Georgette Baxter (Georgette Franklin), Murray Slaughter, Rhoda Morgenstern, Phyllis Nystrom, all reunited on the set of the Happy Homemaker in the sky for Christmas.

    https://youtu.be/Bwkxx9YDJBE?t=979

    I didn’t care much for her politics, but I certainly enjoyed her comedy.

    RIP Betty White.