'Beverly Hillbillies' Star DEAD AT 81

[Wat_Tyler]

RIP Ellie May.

http://www.tmz.com/2015/01/02/donna-douglas-dead-beverly-hillbillies-elly-may-clampett/


She was TV wank fodder once upon a time.

 

[domroger]

I will always remember her double barrelled slingshot .
RIP

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

awww
She was one of my role models.
She was small, yet fierce.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Eighty fucking one?

 

[Beco]

RIP Ellie May.

http://www.tmz.com/2015/01/02/donna-douglas-dead-beverly-hillbillies-elly-may-clampett/


She was TV wank fodder once upon a time.

she went to the cement pond in the sky....RIP Ellie May

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Right.


Eighty fucking one.


I had no idea.

http://41.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lil7a3UAkr1qc1yc7o1_500.jpg

 

[Que]

RIP Ellie May.

http://www.tmz.com/2015/01/02/donna-douglas-dead-beverly-hillbillies-elly-may-clampett/


She was TV wank fodder once upon a time.

Once upon a time?

You know she is not 81 years old in re-runs, right?

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Once upon a time?

You know she is not 81 years old in re-runs, right?

*chuckle*


Yeah, I got that.


Somehow.

 

[Wrong Element]

Right.


Eighty fucking one.


I had no idea.

I guess I always assumed she was younger when the show began -- more in her early 20s than her late 20s.

Of course, that still would have made her an old woman. The notion that the major cultural sex symbols of my youth are now legitimately old is hard to fathom. Raquel Welch will be 75 later this year.

 

[dirtwrench]

Donna Douglas, aka Elle May was one of several ladies that helped many of us thru puberty. She was a talented actress and I am sure will be greatly missed by many. I hope she knew how many young men (ok, boys) were in lust with her for years.


May she rest peacefully.

 

[Que]

I guess I always assumed she was younger when the show began -- more in her early 20s than her late 20s.

Of course, that still would have made her an old woman. The notion that the major cultural sex symbols of my youth are now legitimately old is hard to fathom. Raquel Welch will be 75 later this year.

Because I first saw her in re-run, it is hard to grasp that she was older than Raquel Welch.

Kind of the same thing about old black and white movies. When I first became enamored with them they were 35-50 years old. Those movies are 70-85 years old now. now.

I can't believe how man people under 30 that I have asked have never seen Casablanca. much less Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I though 80 was the new 50.



I guess all those infomercials are pitching crap.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Because I first saw her in re-run, it is hard to grasp that she was older than Raquel Welch.

Kind of the same thing about old black and white movies. When I first became enamored with them they were 35-50 years old. Those movies are 70-85 years old now. now.

I can't believe how man people under 30 that I have asked have never seen Casablanca. much less Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

They no longer have any patience for extended dialog and witty exchange. You've seen them post. Even 4_est knows 2+2<>81...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

I guess I always assumed she was younger when the show began -- more in her early 20s than her late 20s.

Of course, that still would have made her an old woman. The notion that the major cultural sex symbols of my youth are now legitimately old is hard to fathom. Raquel Welch will be 75 later this year.

Donna Douglas, aka Elle May was one of several ladies that helped many of us thru puberty. She was a talented actress and I am sure will be greatly missed by many. I hope she knew how many young men (ok, boys) were in lust with her for years.


May she rest peacefully.

Because I first saw her in re-run, it is hard to grasp that she was older than Raquel Welch.

Kind of the same thing about old black and white movies. When I first became enamored with them they were 35-50 years old. Those movies are 70-85 years old now. now.

I can't believe how man people under 30 that I have asked have never seen Casablanca. much less Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

Barbara Eden is 83, Dawn Wells is 76, Tina Louise is 80 . . . and '55 Chevys turn 60 next year.


I'm not that far behind them.

I though 80 was the new 50.



I guess all those infomercials are pitching crap.

Maybe 50 is really as old as our parents made it look after all.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

She had a very kind and attractive face, seemingly right up to the end.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

...
Maybe 50 is really as old as our parents made it look after all.

I don't know. When I tell the guys I work with how old I am they freak because they think I'm a lot younger. Then again, I experienced that shit with some older guys at an international tournament in Mexico when I was telling them about my experience and teachers and they were bragging about how tough the tournaments were in New Jersey and how good and tough it made them. When they found out that I was competing in their division, they freaked and went to the tournament board to complain that they were being sand-bagged. Turns out, they just weren't that good. They actually moved like old guys. Life in Jersey must be harder than life in KANSAS.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

I don't know. When I tell the guys I work with how old I am they freak because they think I'm a lot younger. Then again, I experienced that shit with some older guys at an international tournament in Mexico when I was telling them about my experience and teachers and they were bragging about how tough the tournaments were in New Jersey and how good and tough it made them. When they found out that I was competing in their division, they freaked and went to the tournament board to complain that they were being sand-bagged. Turns out, they just weren't that good. They actually moved like old guys. Life in Jersey must be harder than life in KANSAS.

Heh.


The kids on the last stimulus job were kinda scared of me.


"Have you seen him? He's crazy. He puts all that shit in by himself."


I guess it's just how bad you want it.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Young men are not what I remember them being, but then I've been working since I was 13...


:shrug:

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Ever so often, something I say reminds me of my grandfather.


I get a really good laugh out f me when it does.


He didn't watch television, and I am getting to that point also.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

My grandfather grew up without television.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Mine never owned one.


He did like "Gunsmoke", however.


He also never mentioned movies.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I don't recall the grandparent's TV, or stereo for that matter, ever being on.

He did get a projector and some silent movies as a gift. He seemed to like those. I liked them when the film was played backwards...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

There was the Victrola and a bunch of Caruso on 78.


In the secretary, there was an turn-of-last century printing of the complete works of O. Henry and a 1916 or 1918 five volume set of the Encyclopedia of the Automobile". It had amazing descriptions of phased-out-of-existence technology which would be a boon to anyone trying to work on one of those machines today.


I have no earthly idea what became of that stuff.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Treasure's lost...

Like Paradise, or Island.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

I plundered a few.


Now I'm waiting out the next generation.


Then I shall wait out Junior.