Comic Phyllis Diller has died, aged 95. I remember first seeing her on television in the late 1960's; she always cracked me up. I have never forgotten one of her funniest lines -- she said she couldn't wear a mini-skirt because her legs didn't go all the way up.
She always wore outrageous clothes, apparently to hide her figure, which was actually quite shapely, so she could make fun of her appearance. I also remembered her wild, spiky blonde hair.
I went to YouTube to look at some videos of Diller, and I was amazed at how not wild her hair looked. It looked positively conservative compared to some heads we see nowadays. She was just 40 years ahead of everybody else.
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