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Part of my Heritage

Merry Christmas from TYFBAF!

 The Girls have had some great Christmases, haven't they? Like remember that time that Santa held them at gun point at Rose's work?

 Or Stan was broke/in trouble/in bankruptcy and then realized the "True Meaning" of Christmas when he helped out at a soup kitchen? Good times, good times.

 And how could we forget that time the girls all sat on the couch in colour co-ordinated outfits, with colour co-ordinated presents? Ah yes!

 Lest we forget the time Blanche wanted to Ho Ho Ho it up for Santa! Rose put an end to that holiday party though (I think she was jealous).

If only all our Christmases could be so Golden!

5 Little Facts- Rue McClanahan

• Rue was born Edie-Rue McClanahan. She dropped the "Edie" after she was sent a letter from the US Army letting her know she had been conscripted (apparently she had been mistaken for a boy regularly in her youth, thinking her name was "Eddie").
• Rue has been married 6 times, her ex-husbands are; Tom Bish, Norman Hartweg, Peter DeMaio, Gus Fisher, and Tom Keel. Her sixth husband, Morrow Wilson, was married to her until her death, however they had been estranged since 2009.
• Was a vegan and dedicated animal rights activist.
• She kept every outfit she wore while on "The Golden Girls" and used a majority of them for her everyday wear away from the show.
• Rue was born Feb 21st 1934, in Healdton, OK and died June 3rd 2010, in New York, NY.

Golden Quote of the Day

Picture it, Sicily...

Sophia: Picture it, Sicily 1922. It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times -- it was Sicily 1922: A beautiful young woman with breasts not unlike Brigette Nielson, except hers moved when she skipped, she comes walking down a picturesque country road when suddenly a yellow Rolls Royce pulls up and blocks her path! The Rolls Royce moves on and the girls finds her pepperoni is missing; she has no pepperoni to bring to her family's table, she gets hysterical. She starts to run. She runs through the field, the meadow, over the hill until she comes to a raging river filled with pepperoni swimming up stream!

Dorothy:Ma, pepperoni swimming up stream??

Sophia:Yeah, I know it's odd. Pepperoni is a land meat -- but there it was.
She leans into the river, grabs an arm full and races home to feed her family. When she tells them the story they think its an act of God. As it turned out a disgruntled pepperoni stuffer had blown up the factory in a neighbouring town and caused pepperoni to rain down over a hundred square miles, which is where the old saying "it's raining cats and pepperoni" comes from. Is this helping anyone yet because this sure feels like an ending to me...

Rue's Broadway Debut

Our dearest Blanche... er, I mean Rue, got her Broadway start in a play that no one has ever heard of, Jimmy Shine. The year was 1969 and a young Dustin Hoffman had just starred in The Graduate, and then for some reason taken a role in this play (nobody ever heard of). It apparently did well (considering nobody's ever heard of it) and our lovely Rue had a co-starring role as Sally Weber, the girl who Jimmy is in love with.

The play sounds dull. If singing lions aren't trying to kill each other, or green woman aren't dangling from the ceiling I just ain't interested! The only reason I brought this up at all? To share these pictures!

Sexy, sexy all the way.

*Special trivia: Rue actually did co-star in the flying green woman show, playing Madam Morrible in May 2005*

Golden Matryoshka Doll

I am so jealous of the person who owns this!

I love Russian Nesting Dolls, I have a few sets of my own. But these, these magnificent things would be the apex of any collection! Can I tell you how much I love that Dorothy is the biggest and Sophia the smallest! Blanche's cleavage! Rose's pearls! Sophia is even wearing that ugly yellow sweater of hers! Jealous!

Here's a regular set (for those who have no idea what these are A.K.A. Big Losers)

Golden Quote of the Day

Rose: I just found out I'm the most boring on alive!

Sophia: Did something happen to Regis Philbin?

Golden Quote of the Day

Blanche: Tell me something, girls. Am I competent in what I do?
 
Rose: Based on the sounds from your bedroom, I'd say you're damn near spectacular!