**Note: This post was originally published on 4/27/09, but was taken down due to technical difficulties and censorship from a certain communist government. I apologize that the timeliness of this post has been diminished, but I love you guys too much to not give you the gift of some of Bea Arthur’s finest moments.
Once, my mother, sister and I were sitting around our kitchen table, trying to determine which Golden Girls character we would be. After we quickly labeled Maggie as Rose, my mother turned to me and said, “You’d be Blanche. The slutty one.” Well, thanks, Sophia, but, according to several “Which Golden Girls Character Are You?” online tests, I am actually less of the charming, Southern belle who can tie cherry stems into knots that would make a sailor green with envy, and more of the “witty, sarcastic substitute teacher who can best hookers in a prison cell.” That’s right, ladies and gentleman, by authority of an online character test, if I were a Golden Girls character, I would be none other than Dorothy Zbornack. So it is with incredible sadness that I say good-bye to Bea Arthur, who was not only a brilliant comedienne:
a talented singer:
and an award-winning actress:
but also a lady who knew how to go out on top. I hope to one day learn Bea’s secret for using foul language to portray class. What a lady!
Also @KeanuReeves, you can thank Bea Arthur for your trademark, as she clearly originated, “Whoa.”
2 Comments
May 6, 2009 at 9:57 pm
xoxo
May 7, 2009 at 4:31 am
Hey there
Enjoyed you blog, and I have read a few of the other ones as well. Take a look at my blog: drmyers.wordpress.com; a tribute to Bea Arthur (http://drmyers.wordpress.com/2009/04/26/hey-we-looked-you-over-and-were-inspired-thanks-bea/).
I’d love to dialog with you about perhaps placing a link there so my readers could take a look at what you’re doing.
Again, keep up the suburb work!
Thanks,
Aaron Myers
Twitter.com/aaronmyers
Ceoexchange07@gmail.com
Drmyers.wordperss.com