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"Bury me quick, you cocksuckers! I'm already ripe!"

Just a quick note to mention for all your Deadwood fans and armchair historians of the Old West that the real life Calamity Jane died of pneumonia today back in 1903. (Considerin' the situation you might want to take a fresh bottle to drink from.)

Here's a photo of the real deal.

Comments

Anonymous said…
Eooooh, such language.
/crumples to floor
8:10 AM
Mike Norton said…
Yeah, The Prig wouldn't have lasted long in Deadwood. The language would see him drop within the first few minutes of hitting town, and every time he woke up chances are what he'd fallen in would cause him to pass out again.
9:02 AM
SuperWife said…
heh...or around Calamity Jane for that matter. Ladylike decorum was completely lost on her. Jane could, as a former co-worker once noted about our former boss, use 'fuck' as a noun, a verb and an adjective, all in the same sentence. She was a woman before her time! One of my favorite lines of hers from DEADWOOD...

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Calamity Jane: Maybe I will have a fuckin' drink, for sociability's sake and 'cause I'm a fuckin' drunk.
Joanie Stubbs: What's your preference?
Calamity Jane: That it ain't been previously swallowed.
11:41 AM
Mike Norton said…
She's a classic.

As with you, I'm going to miss this cast when the show's gone.
11:56 AM
Doc Nebula said…
Ah, but which will we miss the most? Al? Merrick? Jane? The ineffable Steve the Drunk? The relentlessly politically incorrectly named Nigger General? Sol? Bullock? Dan?

It's a tough choice. I'm still missing Wild Bill, and it's been two years and change. I suspect, as you say, I'll miss them all. Even Richardson. Hell, even E.B. "I am imagining the pool which spawned you. I am filling it with rocks..." Heh. Great, great stuff.
12:45 PM
Mike Norton said…
I expect that the more fully fictional a character is the more likely he or she is to fall before this is all over. It'll be interesting to see how far along they'll take the characters who survived the entire period in the final section of the second movie. Will it be a visit with the final moments of each (a la Six Feet Under's conclusion) or a still shot and a text overlay (a la Animal House) - I can't imagine he'd finish up without providing capping events for each of the characters.

I wonder how many unofficial guides to Deadwood are being worked on out there even now?
3:52 PM
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