The Grim Willard

(”Dot attributes her longevity to pretending to swim at the gym, all her friends in her mahjong circle, and a barely disguised disdain for the daughter-in-law that has changed her bed pan with minimal complaint for the past five years.”)
In a reckless and unnecessary display of the disregard the Sunshine State media have for its main import, the staff of Florida Today woke up with the collective goal of reminding old people how close they are to death. Of course they veiled it with what would be considered news if the whole world was a shopping mall at 6 a.m.
Two of the oldest people in the world have died on the same day. Mary Josephine Ray, who was certified as the oldest person living in the United States, died Sunday at age 114 years, 294 days… just hours before Daisey Bailey, who was 113 years, 342 days, said L. Stephen Coles, a director of the Gerontology Research Group, which tracks and studies old people and certifies those 110 or older, called supercentenarians.
Or, in layman’s terms, “burdens.” Gosh, what are the odds that two people, clinging disgustingly to life a good 30 years longer than the contracts of nature stipulate, would die? Well, considering they were pushing it already, and this was probably their year to buy the prune farm, the odds are about 365 to 1. You’d have much better odds of winning a monopoly game against your retarded neighbor and your narcoleptic uncle, but I think we can safely take this out of the “holy shit” column.
What’s with the day count there, Broshua? Six year-old spawn have that annoying tendency to break their ages into the smallest fraction their abortive brains can fathom, and even they don’t give a shit exactly how many days they lived. The Rat’s Ass Line Graph on age versus caring has to bell deeper than Kathy Bates’ tits in About Schmidt (etiquette demands you warn a brotha before you unleash that shit on his eyes). I am amused by the thought of “tracking” gerries, though. We tagging these blue hairs before releasing them into the wild? Is the process humane? I don’t care, I just want to know if in my daydreaming the old lady should be screaming.
“She just enjoyed life. She never thought of dying at all,” [granddaughter] Katherine Ray said. “She was planning for her birthday party.”
Of course the dementia was so advanced she was planning her Sweet 16, but you know. Just once I want to hear a survivor say, “She was a hateful old cunt, and her diapers needed changing thrice daily. She ate two pounds of red meat a day, by the way, slathered in that canned Frito’s cheese dip. We would use the diapers as missiles to keep the gangs of skinheads at bay, and you know what? I’m glad she’s gone.” Also, as Willard Scott deteriorates into mega-senility, I think we should give him a new segment called Smucker’s Jam Presents Finally: Televised Obituaries For the Criminally Long-Lived. Let’s take a look at the back of the Smucker’s jar, eh?

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- Edith Booker finally made the pearly escalator trip at the age of 103, so ripe she fertilized her tomato garden by leaning out her second story window. Sharp as a tack ’til the very end, she could tell you how to make a sweet potato pie without even looking at a recipe, how about that? What’s her secret for looking so great in the casket? Welp, she used Crisco baking grease as facial cream, just one example of her addled sensibilities paying off in the end. Some 63 years ago, Edith told her family, “Life begins at 40,” and I, Willard Scott, have the honor of finishing that sentence for her.
- Millionaire George Vasquez was famous for saying, “You can have my life when you pry it out of my cold dead hands,” and folks, his inheritors finally managed it. Aged a whopping 111, he enjoyed riding his exercize bike every day and insisted on cutting the family turkey every Thanksgiving right up until his last, even after he lost a testicle to the electric knife his palsied hands couldn’t hold back in 2005. What. A. Trooper. Am I right?
- Leonard A. Garfield soiled his last diaper yesterday, ubiquitously completing the 108 year cycle he began in infancy of sitting around ineffectually with a shit-sack strapped too high on his waist. Garfield was first seen in the Macy’s Day Parade in 1984, and he’s still earning his lasagna to this day. Where am I? “Just read the – -” what teleprompter? Oh. Well, rest assured, the late Leonard Garfield will never have to “do mondays” ever again. Where’s my free Goober Grape? You hear about this stuff? You get the peanut butter AND the jelly in one jar! What’s next? Flying cars?


(”Trust me, it’s sterile. The only raping here is Marlboro prices. Criminal! Hahaha! Bend over.”)
(You can strap me into the elaborate torture chair from Monsters Inc, but you can’t keep me from shitting my pants!)

(The part of daily mass Father Palmieri dreaded most was the queue to kiss the Holy Cock Ring. It creeped him out how Benedict always took of his goofy hat and got all confortable. )
(”And thus did the tanks of Seaworld run red with the lifeblood of the Orca, and the Israelites were blessed by God for putting the Killer Whale to death with a season and a half of great harvest, until a Rapist Chinchilla in San Diego had its way with a toddler.” Book of Eatme 12:31)
(Sean Duffy: Leave him alone, Liberal Media, because he will lumberjack your ass then celebrate by banging his hot wife. She’s had 5 kids, and the rest of you ladies are straight slackers. Also, if you look like retards for questioning his past, it gets a lot harder to slam his iffy politics.)
(Like most women, way less fun than advertised upon closer inspection)
(That means you, bitch. You know who you are. You and your booger-eating spawn.)
(When Georgia O’Keefe met Courtney Love, the painter went into a horrified stupor. When she awoke, she found she had painted this. The artistic release failed to soothe her.)