Shakespeare said a rose by any other name would surely smell as sweet. Well, not so when you're referring to Rose Nylund. No one is more sweet (smelling or otherwise) than Betty White. I was eleven years old when I fell in love with Betty, proving that I was an old soul from the beginning. While most young girls were swooning over Zach and A.C. Slater, I was taking comedic cues and reveling in the witty repertoire of Rose, Blanche, Dorothy and Sophia, four senior citizens in Miami. Rose Nylund is arguably one of the best television characters ever created. Played by a comedic genius, her St. Olaf stories and bits of "wisdom" are classic and thanks to the Hallmark channel's back-to-back reruns of The Golden Girls, I often spend hours laughing along with my favorite Golden Girls of the 80s.
It's educational too... Click to see Rose explain what gerkonanaken is.
Loved by so many, even though she was absent from television for several years, a Facebook campaign ignited her fan base of millions into voting her to host Saturday Night Live for the first time at age 88. Since then she's been in Super Bowl commercials, feature films with Sandra Bullock and Sigourney Weaver, another hit television show, Hot in Cleveland, about to enter its second season as well as traveling the talk show circuit drinking shots of vodka with David Letterman and playing beer pong with Jimmy Fallon. Everyone's favorite grandmother, she's sweet as pie with a cunning wit and proves she still has what it takes to make us laugh and fall in love with her all over again.
Monday she celebrated her 89th birthday with her colleagues and friends and was as vibrant as ever. The envy of every 9-year-old in America, Betty was serenaded by Justin Bieber. As she blew out the candles on her enormous cake she remarked "I had a chance, and I blew it!"
With the last campaign such a success, there is a new Facebook campaign to make Betty's birthday, January 17th, a national holiday. I vote yes! I for one would celebrate with my fellow golden girls by nibbling on some vanskapkaka and playing a little GoWackaNoggin.
Happy Birthday, Betty! And many more!
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Great one, Ang! I watched this show on A&E and have it saved on my dvr. :-)
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