Vichy-Frenchman Jean-Marie Le Pen, 96.
A pleasant way to kick things off, for a change.
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The world would be a better place without his ideas/ideals.
But he wasn’t the first and he won’t be the last.
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Yes, unfortunately, he reproduced.
Apples and trees.
Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul, and Mary)
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Only Paul Stookey remains.
Anita Bryant, singer and O.G. homophobe dead aged 84.
Someone you would have to convince me wasn’t already dead.
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I had never heard of her. News of her death has cleared up a joke from Airplane! for me.
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I’m blanking on which one?
When all the passengers are getting sick, Dr. Rumeck comments that he “hasn’t seen anything like this since that Anita Bryant concert.”
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There was a time when being Miss America was relevant, and every American knew who Anita Bryant was. And then she delivered the most culturally significant message of the 70s: “Breakfast without orange juice is like a day without sunshine!” You can’t argue with profundities like that.
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I always conflated her name with Anita Baker in that joke and didn’t understand why they took that shot at her.
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She also delivered this famous gem:
“If gays are granted rights, next we’ll have to grant rights to prostitutes and people who sleep with St Bernards. And to nail biters.”
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Was that what won her the Miss Oklahoma crown?
That’s not even vintage hot.
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It was Oklahoma, remember?
