Couldn't agree more ...
Posted on 01/06/2022 4:56:06 AM PST by Kaslin
For later.
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Stop wiping your whole body with pastrami before visiting - you'll notice that the animals ignore you.
Regards,
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I cannot understand the celebrity worship some people have. Clicked on the story hoping to find I am not the only one. Thank you.
I do not celebrate her demise, but she sure as heck was not my grandma figure! MY grandma was not raunchy, liberal, or anything like Ms. White. She was a God, fearing, hard working, loving woman.
I never like golden girls and thought it was disgusting. BUT, being a blazing liberal I can see why Hollywood is praising her as a saint.
“Remember her great line in Lake Placid.”
We watched that movie the other night for that line alone. Our friend is a huge Golden Girls fan and bought tickets for the upcoming Betty White movie. She was at our place when we saw the news of her passing and she wept out loud.
She’d never seen Lake Placid so we put it on. When White said that line she laughed so hard we thought she’d wet herself.
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My father was born in 1908 my mother in 1912 Both died 30 years ago Both grandfathers were dead before I was born Mom’s Mom died when I was 8 Dad’s when I was 17 ...
Haha, this has been an issue with me as well, especially dogs. I can’t go for a walk in a place where people are walking their dogs because all the dogs want to come say howdy to me. One gal I ran into with her two dogs got really angry once - the dogs were frisking around my feet and she was calling them and they flat-out ignored her. This is a dubious distinction because people do get disconcerted and angry.
Once I was at the zoo and my companion and I were just sitting on a bench near an antelope exhibit containing a group of about 20 animals. The animals were being fed and photographed by some people at one end of the exhibit. As soon as we sat down, all the antelope turned as one and ambled over to our side of the exhibit, even though we weren’t handing out treats or even really looking at them. Everyone started to notice and there was some anger expressed. It was such a sight that I rose from my bench and went to the railing of the enclosure. All those animals staring up at me! Feeling waggish, I began to make a speech to them: “My people! I know you’re all wondering why I’ve called you here today!”
A former roommate had that effect on birds, both domesticated and wild - once he went into a bird store and some of the birds in the store were owners’ pets and not for sale; they were at large in the store. He was standing at the counter and felt something on the cuff of his trousers, and looked down to see a little parrot climbing up his leg. The owner was amazed and said he’d never seen his parrot behave that way before. (The animal wasn’t trying to eat him, it wanted some petting.)
I’ve experienced a lot of wild animals seeming to like me. They’re unpredictable and dangerous and so I can’t really be friends with them, but it’s nice to have them around. Sometimes - particularly with the jays - I feel they are “looking out” for the house. They always let me know when Mr K (not the one on this forum) is heading home from work: They will start saying “Thank you! Thank you!” in their scratchy voices. (My budgies call Mr K “Thank You” because they hear me saying it to him all the time; when they see something interesting or scary out of their window, they start calling out: “Thank you! Thank you!” to get our attention.) You should hear the jays when he goes to the feed store to get stuff for our pets! They get really excited then because they know he’ll likely bring them some corn.
I have a lot of stories about hummingbirds who are very interesting wild animals. It takes a while to make friends with hummingbirds.
No, I will not accompany you on your hunting trips.
Anyway, it’s always nice to know I’m not the only one with this “problem.”
Of course, karma is a tricky thing. I’m not sure whether this effect is that they can sense your groovy, friendly vibes - I’ve seen animals be great pals with human hunters, too. In fact, I was led to the body of a man who had committed suicide (long story) by some antelope who were behaving in an unusual manner when I was out for a drive in Eastern Colorado once. I ended up talking to the man’s mom (again, this is a fantastically long story) and she said he had shot many an antelope.
Animals may feel cozy with hunters because the human hunter is such an important part of nature. (Also hunters will leave feed out to attract wild critters, so maybe it’s that!)
That old Betty vibrated at a high rate doesn’t necessarily mean she was warm or nice, however. I’m sure she had her nasty streak. Animals seldom gravitate toward people who are just sweet and passive and that’s it.
Died 4 days after the booster. Prayers for her family and friends.
She’s not like anyone’s grandma. She deliberately chose to not have children because she didn’t have time due to her career.
She was an actress in sitcoms. H/T to her good deeds with dogs.
Her repetitive “funniness” was, “Hey, look at me, I am an old lady who uses bad language and raunchy humor!” How wonderfully original and funny!
Right....and when I watched Golden Girls I couldn’t stand her....stupid a$$....
Like her or not, White was an icon. I feel the same way about her passing as I will about people like Shatner - they’ve always been around and their passing is another reminder of changing times.
Which, frankly, I hate seeing because virtually nothing is getting better.
I never realized you'd lived so long. Thanks be to God for that.
+1
She was phenomenal in Hot In Cleveland, made in her late 80s, early 90s.
LOL, thanks for the morning chuckle!
I believe that was denied by her agent and others. Who knows though? It’s not like we trust them to tell the truth about anything.
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