# RIP Bea Arthur **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 25, 2009, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bea-arthur/494343 "2009-04-25T20:13:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![medstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@medstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medstar)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2009, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bea-arthur/494343/41 "2009-04-26T21:53:58Z")
> [@Myrrajh](#): > > Here’s a link. > > [http://www.etonline.com/news/2009/04/73212/](http://www.etonline.com/news/2009/04/73212/) > > Loved her as Maude…“God will get you for that, Walter.” My favorite line from her was from “History of the World, Pt. One”: “Oh, a bullshit artist”. She had a great delivery.😃 ---
**Author:** ![dotchan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@dotchan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dotchan)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2009, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bea-arthur/494343/42 "2009-04-27T02:00:02Z")
Does it make me a bad person that my first thought was: “Oh, no, Deadpool will be so depressed!”? I don’t even read those comics God my life is sad ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2009, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bea-arthur/494343/43 "2009-04-27T02:05:13Z")
> [@dotchan](#): > > Does it make me a bad person that my first thought was: “Oh, no, Deadpool will be so depressed!”? That was actually my first thought too. Then I felt bad. But still made the comment, repeatedly. ‘Deadpool Mourns’ was how I pointed out the link to the story. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2009, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bea-arthur/494343/44 "2009-04-27T02:50:18Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > Apparently she had cancer (she was also 86). And Rue McClanahan last saw her nearly two years ago, when she started to get frail. Bea didn’t want folks to see her frail and ill, not even her friends. A tough old broad, and a professional’s professional as well. You don’t find many of her kind around acting nowadays. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2009, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bea-arthur/494343/45 "2009-04-27T04:09:34Z")
My chorus is rehearsing for our June show, music from the '80s. One of the pieces that we just got tonight is a medley of TV theme songs from that decade. It includes the theme from \*Golden Girls. \* Some of us got a little teary-eyed when we got to that song. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2009, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bea-arthur/494343/46 "2009-04-27T04:20:06Z")
“Thank you for being a friend…” RIP, Pussycat. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Lady\_Venom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9fc348/32.png) [@Lady\_Venom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lady_Venom)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2009, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bea-arthur/494343/47 "2009-04-27T17:34:13Z")
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