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The origins of the card game Old Maid trace back to the 17th century, with players trying to form pairs out of all of their cards until someone—the loser—is left with the lonely, unmatched, single old maid. In the past 130 years, retail card decks have been produced specifically for Old Maid, always featuring illustrations of the dreaded losing card. In reviewing these decks that span three centuries, it's interesting to see how the Old Maid has evolved over the years and how the more things change, the more they stay the same. More »
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The answer, as found in a new study, is actually pretty obvious. More »
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Love the neon hair and glamour shots, but the one with the bong looks Photoshopped. More »
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Sally Gordon was born in 1909, has worked all her life, and has no plans to retire. Also, she has excellent taste in hats. More »
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Why are "women of a certain age" having a cultural moment? Maybe because they've survived all the bullshit. More »
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In this week's compilation of pop culture crap, Whoopi Goldberg is high on live TV, Mary Matalin fights with husband James Carville, and Janice Dickinson joins the cast of Celebrity Rehab. More »
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Ernestine Shepherd is basically a walking, talking, muscular representation of the idea "it's never too late." More »
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Actress Harriet Walter has curated an exhibit at London's National Theater called "Infinite Variety," which celebrates something we seldom see in magazines or advertising: "the beauty of the aging female face." More »
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Newsweek's Raina Kelley, who turns 40 next week, writes, "I don't want to be 40, but, as my dad says, what's the alternative?" In these uncertain times. Kelley is looking to a "model for how to live life": Madonna. More »
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In this week's compilation of pop culture crap, a woman celebrates her 105th birthday at a male strip club, Barbara Walters gets scary, and Chaz Bono opens up about sex reassignment. More »
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Wok Kundor is 107. She is currently on her 22nd marriage to a man 70 years her junior. But she also has her eye on another potential hubby, who she considers a backup, in case No. 22 bails. [CNN] More »
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• 79-year-old Susie Mann was diagnosed with terminal intestinal cancer. Instead of giving up, Mann has decided to live out her "bucket list," and go hang-gliding, skydiving, swimming with the dolphins, and hiking the Grand Canyon on a donkey. • More »
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Even though Jerrie Thrill is in her 90s and hooked up to an oxygen tank, she is still beating away on her drums (and wearing sweet heels!). Click through to watch a wonderful tribute by Allee Willis. [BuzzFeed] More »
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Last night on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, a very grumpy Janeane complained about coffee, bitched about Twitter, grumbled about male footwear and generally sounded like a crotchety old lady. If only she'd screamed, "Get off my lawn!" Instead, she sniped, "I was born in the 1920s." Clip mashup, left. More »
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An 86-year-old woman, Elizabeth Maropoulos, was walking home from church on Sunday morning in her NYC neighborhood when she was accosted by a mugger half her age. Instead of just turning her purse over to him, she attacked back, "Once I realized he was coming after me, I went kick, kick!" she said. "I wasn't scared." The assailant, 44-year-old Earl Wearing, did manage to knock Maropoulos down and get her purse, but was nabbed soon afterwards and arrested. Apparently Maropoulos has a rep in her 'hood for being someone not to be fucked with. A bartender in her local bar said, "She's taken swings at [troublemakers] and chased them with a broom. She's out there at night directing traffic and bouncing." [NY Post] More »
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It's time for another installment of Pot Psychology, the advice column in which everyone's problems are solved with an "herbal" remedy. (Remember, kids: Don't do drugs!) In this episode, we're takin' it to the streets, or rather, the park, to seek out those in need of our valuable insight. Rich, tiny pianist Gavin McInnes, and I answered questions about how to make gay friends and what to do with flaccid peens. (Bear with us, our microphone situation got messed up, and the audio is a little fuzzy.) Got a burning question? Send it to tips@jezebel.com with "Pot Psychology" in the subject line. (Please keep them short; they're verrrry hard to read when stoned.) More »
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Joan Rivers stopped by The View this morning. She's always a lot of fun, even when she's making crazy, old lady racial statements (like today when she said her Chinese translator had a "stupid name"). But what really made me wince/laugh was when she complained that she's slept with all the same men Barbara Walters has, and then some. Clip above. More »
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Our favorite salty old lady Doris Lessing is still all grumpy about having won the 2007 Nobel Prize for literature, calling it a "bloody disaster." She says that all the attention has been less than constructive, "All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed." The 88-year-old also says that she's no longer writing because she no longer has the energy. Or maybe she's simply just fed up with it all, after her latest work Alfred and Emily, a fictionalized biography of her parents, received mixed reviews. [BBC, Telegraph] More »
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