I was Charles Darwin’s Reptilian Love-Slave
Oh the choices, oh the choices. We could go on and on about Aaron Spelling, TV producer of “Dynasty,” “The Love Boat,” “Fantasy Island,” “Charlie’s Angles,” and “Beverley Hills 90210,” dead at age 83 from a stroke.
Or how about Anna Nichole Smith’s legal nemesis E. Pierce Marshall (67 from infection) who has been suing the woman on great breasts and poor taste over his father’s fortune? It is not clear what impact Marshall’s death will have on the battle. Will Anna Nichole send flowers?
The there’s Claydes Charles Smith, co-founder of Kool and the Gang, who died at age 57 from kidney disease. Think of Smith the next time you’re at a wedding reception and the DJ spins (uh, no one spins anymore) what has become an obligatory record, and a bunch of males in rented clothing and females in dresses they’ll never wear again lead the crowd in shouting, “Celebrate good times, come on!”
Well, for our most notable death we choose to go with Harriet who has died in Australia. Harriet is/was a Giant Galapogo Turtle who, in her brief life of 175 years, survived at least two personal tragedies. The first was being kidnapped by Charles Darwin and taken to England. (She was moved to Australia in 1841—yes, that’s 1841.) The second is a conflicted sexual identification. Harriet lived as a male for 124 years. (Someone in ODDland tells us how one sexes a turtle.) We ODDfellows are not sure we can reconcile these two events with her Brisbane zoo keeper’s attribution of her longevity to “a stress-free life.” We think it was due to a vegetarian diet, good genes, and a very hard shell.
~~The ODDones for OurDailyDead.com
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