RIP Annette Funicello

Me too. I used to go around saying she was going to marry me…I think I was 3.

RIP Annette

:frowning:

There are a lot of pics of Annette available (many added within the last few hours) but I didn’t see that this one was out there when I did a Google image search. As noted at the FB link, I scanned it from a book I’ve had since I was a kid. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151583914972392&set=a.10150583978442392.441243.579072391&type=1&theater

Fucking Windows 8…

Oh. I always assumed that your user name came from a youthful excursion into objectivism that you came to regret after you had been here a while. I had no idea that you are not (remotely) youthful and it’s just your name after a car in front and back crunched it. :wink:

She was slightly before my time but I must admit she was hot, and I got to like her the more I heard her speak in later years in that little, but rich, voice that I hope she kept to the end. I find it vaguely creepy that she listened to what Uncle Walt told her to do, even after she was no longer under contract with Disney, but he was almost family. Whatever made her happy. She was, after all, Annette.

Hey, I am remotely youthful, in that I subscribe to the belief that if you haven’t grown up by the time you’re fifty, you don’t have to. But if you’ve followed my posts here over the years (and there is absolutely no reason to believe that I’ve pinged your radar here at all) you’d know that I’ve put in a fair amount of years on the planet. It occurred to me that by linking to my FB page I was blowing my cover, but then I realized I’m not under cover. Anyway, I love your imaginative theory about my user name.

Now get off my lawn!!

I noticed enough to think you didn’t sound like a Randian! But I barely remember my own posts, much less anybody else’s.

But back to the lovely and lamented Miss F.

I just remember her from the Skippy peanut butter commercials.

I see that nearly all of the original Mouseketeers are still live.

There were quite a few kids that appeared in the various seasons.

sigh, another piece of my childhood gone. It was so nice to see a child star mature to adulthood and go on to become someone inspiring.

I guess the last decade was tough for her:

On October 6, 2012, the CTV flagship current affairs program W5 profiled Funicello as an update on her after she had spent fifteen years out of the public eye. The profile revealed that her disease had severely damaged her nervous system; Funicello had lost the ability to walk in 2004, the ability to speak in 2009, and, at the time of the profile, required round-the-clock care to survive. In the profile, Holt and Fabares discussed Funicello’s current state, as well as the numerous medical interventions and treatments attempted to improve her condition

Back in the '50s, I was a huge fan of the original *Mickey Mouse Club, *and yes, the main topic of conversation was always the emergence of Annette’s breasts.

Too bad she lived with such a horrible disease, for so long. Well, at least her suffering is over now. RIP.

Annette Funchestpillows?

Multiple…starts with “M”

Scolerois…and an “S”

MS did her in.

uhhhh. One of those Hollywood TV magazines showed pictures of her when she was bed ridden. Could really have done without seeing that.

I was going to play off that but found there was actually something too tacky for me to say.

Daresay a lot of male Boomers grew up praying that they might someday see pics of Annette being bedridden. :wink:

I’m going to miss her titties too.