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Betty White has died

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One of my Favorite Betty White jokes is that she never created a Facebook account to connect with friends, she said "At my age if I want to connect with old friends I need a Ouija board".

My eldest daughter was born in 1985. When my wife went into labor, we drove in my pickup truck to the local hospital. Before she went into active labor in the early hours of the morning, we shared her hospital bed and watched an episode of “The Golden Girls” together. I treasure that sweet memory.

My SO and me are regularly (at least once per year) watch "The Golden Girls" (or better she watches, while I fall asleep too soon). I now - despite sleeping through a lot of episodes have watched the series many times and I still love to visit old friends.

I would have wished for her to reach her 100st birthday - and for me to not have this year end with another passing away after 3 members of the family already gone.

Stay well out there and let's hope for a better 2022.

This is a stupid anecdote, but I'll share it anyways.

A while ago, I was scrolling through random old shows that are streaming and thought, "Huh, I haven't actually seen a re-run of the Mary Tyler Moore show in probably 30 years." So I check one out from 1972 - the year I was born, and there's Betty White! I had totally forgotten she was in it!

Then I think, wait, how old was she then? 50?? Holy cow. She was older than I am today (49) when I was born. Wow. Mind boggling. I wonder if I'll be around in 2072?

So sad to see her pass. But it goes to show the truth of the expression: "100 years: All new people."

Betty White was older than sliced bread.

It's literally true!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliced_bread

She was also old enough to have been inconvenienced as an adult by the USA's ban on the sale of sliced bread.

We just realized that Betty White was a senior citizen (over 65) for the entirety of my partner's life.

Thank you for being a friend

Back in the 1990's there were heroin bags in New York labeled "Betty White". That was a tribute to her fame I suppose. Since then, I would think of drugs when her name came up.

Just came across a cannabis strain called Betty White while researching lineage of another strain.

Interesting drug lore, and it seems it was called "Betty" all the way 75.

I wonder which came first, calling it just Betty or Betty White?

Quite sad. She was almost 100

I have many wonderful memories growing up watching the golden girls. She will be missed

https://archive.fo/M8blf

Does anyone else always get hit with a captcha from here?

Why not use https://archive.org?

Do you use iCloud’s privacy feature for safari? I have been having this issue ever since I turned that on.

I think of archive.org as "for important things" and tend to use archive.is etc. to make non-paywalled links.

The internet dies if archive.org and wikipedia go down within the same month.

Loved her (and everyone I guess) on Match Game. Watch classic Match Game if you get the opportunity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl0DouB45Tw

Keep laughing in heaven Betty

Not many people could say they appeared on a daily TV show in 1949, let alone hosting one! (Betty out-lasted two male co-hosts.)

Very awesome that she was doing what she loved until the end, and probably more popular then she had ever been.

a shame it happened so close to her birthday

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