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Bettie Page, legendary pinup queen, dies at 85
EW.com ^ | Dec 12, 2008 | Mike Bruno

Posted on 12/12/2008 7:23:23 AM PST by Malone LaVeigh

Bettie Page, the 1950s pinup credited with helping to spark the next decade's sexual revolution, died in Los Angeles yesterday from pneumonia. She was 85.

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To: Izzy Dunne

A true natural beauty. No bolt on implants, no trout pout. Just pure gorgeousness! RIP Mis Bettie.


21 posted on 12/12/2008 7:42:56 AM PST by Wonderama Mama (Socialism is great until you run out of someone elses money - Margaret Thatcher)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Better looking than Marilyn Monroe. Unfortunately,she couldn’t act at all.


22 posted on 12/12/2008 7:50:52 AM PST by Dr. Ursus (( commander of the simian host))
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To: Wonderama Mama
A class act, back when we all weren't so saturated with sex by the TV and movies that the well-presented slyness of her suggestion was beyond erotic. Ahhh, youth. (Mine, that is.)

If you modern boys want a good idea of it, go rent Disney's Rocketeer. The hero's girlfriend was purposly modeled on Betty to try and capture the era for the film.

23 posted on 12/12/2008 7:53:30 AM PST by 50sDad (-/\/\/\- Obama's coming; be a Resistor!)
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To: nmh
Lemme ask you something......

How miserable does ones life have to be that they can't look at something EVER and have something nice to say? Is their life that miserable and full of envy or is it some type of mental illness that makes them desire conflict and seek out conflict.

I am sure glad my life is not that miserable.

24 posted on 12/12/2008 8:04:47 AM PST by envisio (If you ain't laughin yet... you ain't seen me naked. =8^O)
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To: envisio
How miserable does ones life have to be that they can't look at something EVER and have something nice to say? Is their life that miserable and full of envy or is it some type of mental illness that makes them desire conflict and seek out conflict.

Some people have sticks lodged so far up their rectum, that they see something sleazy in an innocent cheesecake shot. It's best to ignore such people- their own attitudes about life are their own worst punishment.

On a different note, the librarian at my law firm is the spitting image of Betty Page (just shorter).

25 posted on 12/12/2008 8:08:32 AM PST by Citizen Blade (What would Ronald Reagan do?)
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To: Malone LaVeigh

A good reminder that no matter how young you are, no matter how beautiful, it all comes to an end.


26 posted on 12/12/2008 8:11:08 AM PST by all the best
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To: Malone LaVeigh
Thankfully the good ole fashion pin-up is not a totally lost art. Here is something more recent. Isla Fisher. http://bp0.blogger.com/_9WP1azXfKng/SFPlHdgSB0I/AAAAAAAAAM4/nTOEDgpiDCM/s1600-h/IslaFisher.jpg
27 posted on 12/12/2008 8:16:37 AM PST by NavyCanDo
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To: Malone LaVeigh

She was Bettie who until I saw the movie about her on HBO.

She really was a natural beauty....


28 posted on 12/12/2008 8:19:44 AM PST by Kimmers (Always go straight forward. If you meet the devil, cut him in half and go between the pieces.)
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To: envisio

Lemme ask you something......
How miserable does ones life have to be that they can’t look at something EVER and have something nice to say? Is their life that miserable and full of envy or is it some type of mental illness that makes them desire conflict and seek out conflict.

I am sure glad my life is not that miserable.


Whether someone acts and looks like a SLUT, years ago or today - makes no difference to me. The slut look is the slut look.

I’m not “miserable”. Just stating FACTS.

The slut look appears to be timeless.

What I find sad is that this woman left behond a CHEAP reputation and a legacy of half dressed images. That’s nothing to be proud of.

Then again, there are people like you who probably have hopless sex lives - get off on this. Thankfully we have a solid marriage. My spouse doesn’t need to make money looking like a dime store slut for attention of money.


29 posted on 12/12/2008 8:25:30 AM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: nmh

It may have been a little unkind to call a recently dead woman a slut, especially on a thread where people have gathered in her memory.


30 posted on 12/12/2008 8:30:20 AM PST by LongElegantLegs (Deplore the profligate scattering of corpses!)
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To: Kimmers
She really was a natural beauty....

True. Bump

31 posted on 12/12/2008 8:33:29 AM PST by Centurion2000 (To protect and defend ... against all enemies, foreign and domestic .... by any means necessary.)
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To: NavyCanDo

Dang the link didn’t work. One more try. If it doesn’t work - cut and paste

http://bp0.blogger.com/_9WP1azXfKng/SFPlHdgSB0I/AAAAAAAAAM4/nTOEDgpiDCM/s1600-h/IslaFisher.jpg


32 posted on 12/12/2008 8:35:33 AM PST by NavyCanDo
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To: nmh

You sure like using the word ‘slut’ a lot. Ever thought of adding a ‘the ripper’ suffix to your name?


33 posted on 12/12/2008 8:36:30 AM PST by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: Centurion2000

and she did it all without surgery.....


34 posted on 12/12/2008 8:38:06 AM PST by Kimmers (Always go straight forward. If you meet the devil, cut him in half and go between the pieces.)
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To: nmh
I love scantliy clad women, you are absolutely right. I could look at them all day.

But I won't bite. I know you are just trolling for someone to argue with.
35 posted on 12/12/2008 8:43:51 AM PST by envisio (If you ain't laughin yet... you ain't seen me naked. =8^O)
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To: windcliff; onedoug

ping


36 posted on 12/12/2008 8:48:28 AM PST by stylecouncilor (I'm a loner Dottie; a rebel.)
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To: reagan_fanatic
In an interview published in Playboy magazine in 2007, Page expressed mixed feelings about her achievements. "When I turned my life over to the lord Jesus I was ashamed of having posed in the nude," she said. "But now, most of the money I've got is because I posed in the nude. So I'm not ashamed of it now. But I still don't understand it."

Very, very sad

37 posted on 12/12/2008 8:56:29 AM PST by rogercolleridge
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To: nmh
What I find sad is that this woman left behond a CHEAP reputation and a legacy of half dressed images. That’s nothing to be proud of.

Talk about cheap. Your comments on the occasion of Bettie Page's death at age 85 are a good illustration of that.
38 posted on 12/12/2008 9:02:05 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life ;o)
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To: envisio; LongElegantLegs
How miserable does ones life have to be that they can't look at something EVER and have something nice to say?
and
It may have been a little unkind to call a recently dead woman a slut, especially on a thread where people have gathered in her memory.

Thank you gentlemen. I was in (or just got out of) the Navy when she was in her heyday. I scandalized my mom and sister by having Bettie's pics up on the wall of my room. She WAS one Helluva hottie and I know she permeated a lot of juvenile - and not so juvenile - minds.

A heartfelt R.I.P. to her memory.

39 posted on 12/12/2008 9:02:42 AM PST by Oatka ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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To: Lost Highway

Rest in peace Bettie.

40 posted on 12/12/2008 9:05:20 AM PST by frithguild (Can I drill your head now?)
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