Jul.22.2008 So I think I killed Estelle Getty
I don’t write about The Golden Girls too often so I find it a little alarming that mere moments after I post a video involving the show, Estelle Getty dies.
Note: Estelle Getty isn’t pictured above but come on, it’s a current-ish Golden Girls pic, how can I not run it?
Actress Estelle Getty has died at the age of 84. Her son, Carl Gettleman, says the co-star of the TV show “The Golden Girls” died early Tuesday at home in Los Angeles.
Gettleman says she suffered from advanced dementia. The diminutive actress spent 40 years struggling for success before landing the role of a lifetime in 1985, playing the sarcastic octogenarian Sophia on “The Golden Girls.”
She was old and apparently crazy. That sucks. What sucks even more is that I apparently have the power to kill off The Golden Girls by just writing about them. Which is a cool power, in theory, until you realize what a small niche it is. Like yeah, it’ll be pretty great to kill Bea Arthur by posting a photo of her with some snarky writing attached, but this seems to have a limited appeal at best.
In related news…You’re Next, Rue McClanahan. Don’t think I forgot.
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May.15.2008 9 year-old girl has her twin in her stomach
Twins are kind of creepy in general. It’d bother me to have a carbon copy of myself out there in the world, probably because it would create like a black hole of awesome that would deprive part of the world of any additional awesomeness lest the world collapse on itself. Where was I? Oh yeah, some little girl had her undeveloped twin in her stomach.
A 9-year-old girl who went to hospital in central Greece suffering from stomach pains was found to be carrying her embryonic twin, doctors said Thursday.
Doctors at Larissa General Hospital examined the girl and surgically removed a growth they later discovered was an embryo more than two inches long.
“They could see on the right side that her belly was swollen, but they couldn’t suspect that this tumor would hide an embryo,” hospital director Iakovos Brouskelis said.
Andreas Markou, head of the hospital’s pediatric department, said the embryo was a formed fetus with a head, hair and eyes, but no brain or umbilical cord.
I kind of always assumed every twin secretly wants to kill their counterpart and go “THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE” so I’m not really surprised by this. I assume the surviving twin would become some sort of Highlander, all-powerful and potentially immortal.
Whatever though this isn’t really news. Not only because this happens in one out of every 500k live births, but also because like, who hasn’t had an undeveloped fetus in their stomach? I don’t know where I’d be if I didn’t eat an aborted fetus a day. Probably much less unstoppable, I’d presume.
