Sophia : I can't believe it. Esther Weinstock is dead.
Dorothy : Oh I'm so sorry Ma, How'd it happen?
Sophia : [Sarcastically] She was fighting an oil rig fire in the Gulf of Mexico, [agitated]
Sophia : SHE WAS 88.
Rose : Well it's good that she kept fighting right up to the end.
The above exchange from an episode of Golden Girls, featured one of it's star characters, Sophia Petrillo played by Estelle Getty. Estelle has passed away today in her home in Los Angeles. She was 84. Sophia: Rose, just remember, you're smarter than people say you are. You've got good sense, and you know what you're doing.
Rose: Oh, Sophia.
Sophia: Blanche, you're a slut.
Blanche: Oh, Sophia.
And finally,
Sophia: In Sicily, we never went to the doctor. We went to the Widow Scarpelli. Whatever you had, she had a cure for it. She was most famous for her green salve to cure earaches. One day, she gave some to Salvadore, the village idiot. He misunderstood the directions and put in on his pasta instead.
Dorothy: Well, I guess if you’re an idiot with a hearing problem, you do things like that.
Sophia: Actually, it turned out ok. The stuff tasted great, so Salvadore decided to market it. At first, things didn’t go so well. Ear Salve on Pasta wasn’t very appetizing-but once he changed the name to pesto sauce, it sold like hot cakes!
Dorothy: Ma, you’re making this up!
Sophia: So what? I’m old, I’m supposed to be colorful.
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