Joan Rivers was pronounced dead at 1:17 p.m. Thursday at a NY hospital. Her daughter, Melissa Rivers, made the announcement just moments ago.
Rivers, 81, stopped breathing while undergoing a routine outpatient endoscopy procedure at a NY clinic on August 28. The clinic is now under investigation by NY state health officials. Rivers reportedly experienced laryngospasm (tightening of the larynx) which cut off oxygen to her brain during the outpatient procedure. Doctors don’t know how long her brain was deprived of oxygen.
From NY Daily News:
She was surrounded by close family and friends, Melissa Rivers said in a statement.
The “Fashion Police” host, who was staying in a private room at the Mount Sinai Hospital, was dependent on machines to stay alive eight days after going into cardiac and respiratory arrest, sources said.
The 81-year-old star’s room was filled with flowers, and her hair and makeup were done as Melissa Rivers pondered her life-and-death choice.
Melissa made the decision to remove the life support, the source said. Joan Rivers was “being kept comfortable” in her new room after leaving the intensive care unit Wednesday, her daughter said.State health officials are now probing the Upper East Side clinic where Rivers became unresponsive during an Aug. 28 medical procedure.
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Wasn’t she just moved OUT of of ICU?
Best wishes to her family.
I didn’t know she was that damn old though… I thought she just had another Debrah Hershey face.
My brain has not fully processed Robin Williams’ death yet
It doesn’t seem real to me
I was still a bit surprised about Joan’s passing
I feel sum kinda way bout this pic…
t’s a shame, they Know they should have bean on high alert, JOAN is 81 ANYTHING,the smallest thing would have been and was a disaster.
My heart goes out to Melissa
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doc put me in the hospital please
She was undergoing a routine endoscopy on her throat at a CLINIC at 81 I don’t think any surgery should be done in a clinic
Barbarah**
for real 
my thoughts are w/her daughter and grandchild.
RIP Joan
Do yall believe that death comes in 3’s?
I wondered if she had the cold or flu? I remember at one point in NYC anesthesiologists were not putting anyone under who had a cold because people were dying like this. If you insisted, you had to sign a waiver stating that you under you can die and they will not be held responsible
My sincere condolences to the family & fans. I do love that she was done up for her Sundown.
Good style.
This is heartbreaking. May she RIP
She was moved from ICU because they couldn’t do anything else for her. The family had her made up and had her room decorated so family and friends could pay their last respects.
She died on BeyDay
Rip Joan
Rivers reportedly experienced laryngospasm (tightening of the larynx) which cut off oxygen to her brain during the outpatient procedure.
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*shivers*
WoW.
Do yall believe that death comes in 3?s?
Ma’am!
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Isn’t she the third.
Robin, Lauren and now Joan
RAZZ be like:
says:
Wasn’t she just moved OUT of of ICU
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She was moved to a private room, but was still on life support.
RIP Joan.
VDot says:
RIP Joan
Do yall believe that death comes in 3?s?
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no, of course not. ppl are born and die all day everyday all across the globe. death, like life, comes in the thousands everyday.
I have that last Fashion Police for the Emmys and vmas she was hilarious on that episode. She slammed herself just as had as she slammed celebs….
RAZZ be like:
says:
Wasn’t she just moved OUT of of ICU?
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yep. permanantly.
Child
Think Imma pass on these tonsils being taken 
yep. permanantly.
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I can’t with you no more
Think Imma pass on these tonsils being taken
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I won’t let them take my 6 wisdom teeth out because I’m terrified of being put under
This pic tho.
She was undergoing a routine endoscopy on her throat at a CLINIC at 81 I don’t think any surgery should be done in a clinic doc put me in the hospital please
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depends. some of these upper east/west side boutique clinics are high post but a endoscopy is not a surgery. I had one a few months ago.
all they do is look inside your stomach. Joan was just old and probably had all sorts of scar tissue from prior procedures.
death, like life, comes in the thousands everyday.
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:eyeroll: This heffa. I hear ya tho
I can’t lie, I start counting ’em up – Like I know such and such’s mama passed last week, ol dude’s bro was shot. So
we should be good for now. 
RAZZ be like: says:
Wasn’t she just moved OUT of of ICU?
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They said they were moving her to make her more “comfortable”. Nvr good news coming when they say that…..
I won’t let them take my 6 wisdom teeth out because I’m terrified of being put under
Then gotta sign all those papers
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Exactly. Just aint natural
Awww my Robin
RIP Joan
i guess now is not the time to crack a joke so ima just
Wasn’t she just moved OUT of of ICU?
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They said they were moving her to make her more “comfortable”. Nvr good news coming when they say that…..
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Yup.
“comfortable” = You bout to go
depends. some of these upper east/west side boutique clinics are high post but a endoscopy is not a surgery.
Suppose to be more high tech
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I think they can do small endoscopy surgeries tho
She was undergoing a routine endoscopy on her throat at a CLINIC at 81 I don’t think any surgery should be done in a clinic doc put me in the hospital please
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depends. some of these upper east/west side boutique clinics are high post but a endoscopy is not a surgery. I had one a few months ago. all they do is look inside your stomach. Joan was just old and probably had all sorts of scar tissue from prior procedures.
by User Friendly on Sep 4, 2014 at 3:36 pm
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Which is why it should’ve been Done in a hospital they had to sedate her and she’s 81.. Too much risk. doc should’ve know better
Yeah, uhh them 2 wisdoms I was born wif …. I will dies wif
Dentist bish want me dead
San ah make ya dance says:
yep. permanantly.
IKR!
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I can’t with you no more
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endoscopy is not surgery, my mum had one when they found her stomach cncer
won’t let them take my 6 wisdom teeth out because I’m terrified of being put under
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my son had four taken out, he wasn’t put under though. my baby was a champ about it.
he’s better then ME!
i guess now is not the time to crack a joke so ima just
by ShadeQueen46 on Sep 4, 2014 at 3:38 pm
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Joan would lurve it… She cracked on herself as hard or harder than she did anyone else
I just found a website for graph paper templates.
was just about to go buy some too.
Long time no font, had to log in and show respect RIP Joan Fashion Police will never be the same
Best day was getting one of my wisdom teeth pulled
Mouth was hurting so bad I breathed a sigh of relief when they numbed me
Damn. They were just saying on the news that they were investigating the place. Joan is one of those mean old folks that you never envision dying.
VDot says:
Think Imma pass on these tonsils being taken
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I won’t let them take my 6 wisdom teeth out because I’m terrified of being put under
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They didn’t put me under. and I felt every tooth being pulled.
“comfortable” = You bout to go
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endoscopy is not surgery,
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Ok whatever but if they need to put a 81 yr old under they should do it in a hospital..it ain’t like her insurance wouldn’t pay…or like she couldn’t afford it
my son had four taken out, he wasn’t put under though. my baby was a champ about it.
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Two Big Brother contestants have had grandparents die this season. I’m a little upset… Cooper just submitted an audition tape.
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She twitted this on Aug 3
These folks around here are tore up bout Joan now
San ah make ya dance says:
Two Big Brother contestants have had grandparents die this season. I’m a little upset… Cooper just submitted an audition tape.
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She twitted this on Aug 3
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I think she made a death joke a couple of days before she went in to surgery
Fashion Police will never be the same
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They just gonna have to retire that show…..yes they can have some sort of fashion commentary show but not call it Fashion Police
Wasting time says:
These folks around here are tore up bout Joan now
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They must be white
cause chile ……
If I saw twitted one more time
So was so vibrant; like a Aunt you saw on Thanksgiving etc etc
I put Drake back on!
Y’all memba that fight between Joan and Fredricka on CNN?
Ok whatever but if they need to put a 81 yr old under they should do it in a hospital..it ain’t like her insurance wouldn’t pay…or like she couldn’t afford it
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celebs (and rich ppl) go to these types of places for most procedures to maintain anonymity but trust me, they are set up like a hospital inside with doctors and nurses and purell and everything.
however, an endoscopy is an outpatient procedure. its putting a camera down your throat to look at your belly.
death is inevitable and not necessarily a bad thing, a consipiracy, or due to somebody’s malice. she was 81 and lived better than most of us put together.
hell, her face was already embalmed anyway. she was ret to go.
brain was deprived of oxygen.
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so pretty much if she pulled through she would be disabled …
chile 
Hope this wasn’t done on purpose hunty
You know what
I would give it till tomorrow but either E! is on the line with EJ or EJ manager calling E! right now for that Fashion Police spot
@DYMUND
“Jerry aka Mr. Burns said they will NOT be selling Sam practice jerseys. He must make the team and “be there for a while”…”
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They goin have Sam gay azz on the team just to sell more jerseys. Watch what I say.
@V DOT
““comfortable” = You bout to go
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When’s the last time you really cried?
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Ugh… why you made me really think about this?
purell and everything.
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death is inevitable and not necessarily a bad thing, a consipiracy, or due to somebody’s malice. <——-
This kinda stuff is crazy. Girl at church… not even 40… went in for a colonoscopy (and something else simple) early this year and never woke up. Tore everybody’s hearts to pieces.
for Melissa
Im bout to see RIP all up and down instagram
I need RIP to be retired
jeniefrumdabloc says:
These folks around here are tore up bout Joan now
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They must be white
cause chile ……
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Mail lady come running down the hall talking bout first Betty White now Joan Rivers!!!
I was shook cause I LOVE Betty White.
Ugh… why you made me really think about this?
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So whats the answer?
@user it must not be set up the way ur saying cause they said they ain’t noticed she wasn’t breathing for “several” minutes and that had she been in a hospital under the supervision of an anesthesiologist a machine would have alerted a dr sooner..giving her a better chance said clinic is now under investigation .. U just like to be the opposite if erry thang I say… Ifn I say the sky is blue you like…Nerp
My sincere condolences….
She was funny! She took risks…
RIP.
Betty White now Joan Rivers!!!
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My
just skipped a beat. NOT MY BETTY WHITE 
I’m going home and watching an episode of Golden Girls 
at Purell being an industry standard for hospitals
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i heard Momma Dee was singing at the fune
duh duh duh duh duh duh duhhhhhhhhh IT DOESN’T MATTER
Jerry would sell his own heart if he could turn a profit and get some attention.
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@man
I wouldnt put it past that old fart to arrange a hit on his own player so Sam could “get on” … but really, is any hetero man gonna sport that shyte?!?
@DYMUND
“Jerry aka Mr. Burns said they will NOT be selling Sam practice jerseys. He must make the team and “be there for a while”…”
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They goin have Sam gay azz on the team just to sell more jerseys. Watch what I say.
You wasn’t 14 years ago !
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FVCK all that. Did you know that you get $6,300 a week to be on the practice team! $25,200 a MONTH. I looked at Mr. Time this morning and said go out there and try for the Giants and chit! WE could have been living all these year and have full coverage! He said I’m too old and slow now
I wonder if they will probe her body like an animal a la Whitney Houston and Michael Jackson
talmbout this scar is for such and such surgery
Long Time Lurker says:
jeniefrumdabloc says:
cause chile ……
Glad when coworker said Betty White’s death was a FB joke.
These folks around here are tore up bout Joan now
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They must be white
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Mail lady come running down the hall talking bout first Betty White now Joan Rivers!!!
I was shook cause I LOVE Betty White.
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I was about to say Betty White dead
chile 
Ole contrary azz……
.. U just like to be the opposite if erry thang I say… Ifn I say the sky is blue you like…Nerp
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She a leo I believe
San ah make ya dance says:
Child
Think Imma pass on these tonsils being taken 
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I’m NOTHING on having any surgery near my airway
I’d rather get strep every winter.
felinelurker says:
I wonder if they will probe her body like an animal a la Whitney Houston and Michael Jackson talmbout this scar is for such and such surgery
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girl they even talked about what Anna Nicole’s booty hole looked like. they said it was unremarkable.
the autopsy said MJ had peasy hair under his wigs and was rocking a George Jefferson bald pattern.
of course I paraphrased, but thts basically what it said. they really did use the term “unremarkable” for ANS tho.
Wow so sad to hear… Another one managing to die… Rip
Glad when coworker said Betty White’s death was a FB joke
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I’m gonna be on the floor when Betty go.
I cried for each and every one of them when they passes..
I watch the Golden Girls every day at least one episode and for years.
wonder if they will probe her body like an animal a la Whitney Houston and Michael Jackson talmbout this scar is for such and such
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I thought the standard was if the deceased was hospitalized for at least 48 to 72 hours prior to death and had a diagnosis they don’t do an autopsy….
I thought I read that could be wrong and it may vary from state to state
@ user, peasy?
She a leo I believe
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yeah you know cats be like “meh
”
I thought about trying to be more considerate of things but then I was like nah, fuk that.
I’m gonna be on the floor when Betty go.
I cried for each and every one of them when they passes..
I watch the Golden Girls every day at least one episode and for years.
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My heart stopped this morning when I saw that mess. I love all the Golden Girls but yall know that from the screen name
@ user, peasy?
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I think the term was tightly coiled. :confused: 4C or whatever the proper term is.
yeah you know cats be like “meh
”
I thought about trying to be more considerate of things but then I was like nah, fuk that.
I have convos with a cat everyday 
Just :stop: Don’t even try but Im a Gem so I do 
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Joan Jewish she will be in the ground by Saturday.
I think the term was tightly coiled. :confused: 4C or whatever the proper term is
Guess that’s an autopsy for ya
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And they said that to say what
@user, like, why we need to know that? Why we needed to know Whitney had dentures? So disrespectful!
Joan Jewish she will be in the ground by Saturday.
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Even if she weren’t. I think most yts have their obituaries typed and ready to go cause I swear it be in the paper the next day
So yall tryna tell me MJ didnt keep a fresh perm under his wigs…Yall tryna tell me he had cornrows for his wig clips
tightly coiled. :confused: 4C or whatever the proper term is.
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This was his Autopsy?
I tried to avoid all things pertaining to his death like that. Cause it was MJ. Its been 5 years though. Mayne I can take it now
felinelurker says:
@user, like, why we need to know that? Why we needed to know Whitney had dentures? So disrespectful!
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she did? she smoked up her teeth too?
thats terrible.
I wonder if they will probe her body like an animal a la Whitney Houston and Michael Jackson talmbout this scar is for such and such surgery
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So yall tryna tell me MJ didnt keep a fresh perm under his wigs…Yall tryna tell me he had cornrows for his wig clips
First thing I thought was no perm but 
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Ya’ll are going to get up off my boy Mike
I’m just sayin @San he never struck me as the fuzzy edges type of man
she did? she smoked up her teeth too?
thats terrible.
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You ain’t know.
When she was alive I they said she would lose them and her dentist just had a supply of Nippy teeth and would ship em to her.
I’m just sayin @San he never struck me as the fuzzy edges type of man
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@user, yep
girl they even talked about what Anna Nicole’s booty hole looked like. they said it was unremarkable.
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yeen finna convince me anybody checking folks ‘starfish’ in the afterlife! nope!
felinelurker says:
Why we needed to know Whitney had dentures? So disrespectful!
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Speaking of dentures, I asked for my grandma’s after she passed
My hating azz aunt talmabout “I put ’em up for you.” She didn’t. Bish ain’t want me to be great 
felinelurker says:
@user, like, why we need to know that? Why we needed to know Whitney had dentures? So disrespectful!
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she did? she smoked up her teeth too? thats terrible.
by User Friendly on Sep 4, 2014 at 4:14 pm
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Oh her sister in law outed her dentures to the Enquirer years and years ago…gave them a pic with em siting on a messy baffroom sink beside a crack pipe and some foil
jeniefrumdabloc says:
Ya’ll are going to get up off my boy Mike
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I’m sorry Jenie My people are from Gary we automatically have a love for MJ
yeen finna convince me anybody checking folks ‘starfish’ in the afterlife! nope!
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I just re-read that MJ report and it was pretty bad. like really bad. Im not about to look up the Anna Nicole one but I think they look at everything during an overdose death. you know addicts will find all sorts of places to shoot up.
“Vickie Lynn Marshall was a 39-year-old white female who died of acute combined drug intoxication. Abscesses of buttocks, and viral enteritis were contributory causes of death. “
who said they had a supply of Nippy nubs
who?!?!?
@dat, those could’ve been any body’s teef.
I’m just saying…
i also refuse to belee that Nippy’s teef was ‘smoked’ yet Cherrelle still had hers! (po’ Alexander O’Neal didn’t fare as well though
)
Speaking of dentures, I asked for my grandma’s after she passed
My hating azz aunt talmabout “I put ‘em up for you.” She didn’t. Bish ain’t want me to be great 
How DARE yall leave her without her teeth!
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Abscesses of buttocks, and viral enteritis were contributory causes of death. “
@dot, what this mean?
Abscesses of buttocks, and viral enteritis were contributory causes of death
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felinelurker says:
@dat, those could’ve been any body’s teef. I’m just saying…
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but the crackpipe and the foil was definitely hers tho, huh?
SR please give us a new post before it gets any worse!
“I had to google to see”
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#nomoresurch
do dis mean
….her booty was ‘rotten’? 
I gotta go!
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@user, I’m just saying, her sil would’ve reported anything for a dollar
And no, not a stan!
How DARE yall leave her without her teeth!
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they give everybody new pearly whites at the pearly gates
San!
I just re-read that MJ report and it was pretty bad. like really bad
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I just
myself. I’m just at the part where they said he had tatted lipstank, eyebrows and hairline. And his nose job scars. 
What else to come 
Rip Joan
im leaving. my daughter in here singing ghetto ass songs and embarrasing the family name.
she is trying to teach my office manager twee lee lee
tweedie bop tweedie bop, ya bref stank 
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im leaving. my daughter in here singing ghetto ass songs and embarrasing the family name.
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Lawd, that’s what she get!!!! Yes!
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*slaps my booty awake* and “speaks life” to it!
I think the term was tightly coiled. :confused: 4C or whatever the proper term is.
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They did say he had the genatalia of an ADULT male
Just uncircumcised 
They did say he had the genatalia of an ADULT male
Just uncircumcised 
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I was just about to font this! Can’t believe yall got me looking at this
I blame UFO!!!
Said frontal was bald and the rest tightly coiled
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*lip quiver* they tryna make it sound like he look like fred sanford by the head
no :newpost” for me
…if’n i gotta choose tween old folks gone home or sick babies, i’ll take the old folks 
no :newpost” for me
…if’n i gotta choose tween old folks gone home or sick babies, i’ll take the old folks 
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I don’t blame you. We went from celebrating life to…
they tryna make it sound like he look like fred sanford by the head
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I just don’t think it recovered after it caught on fire during that Pepsi commericial. He used to have some bomb azz wigs tho. That one in “You Are Not Alone” ?
Prince had to have that hair do 
just don’t think it recovered after it caught on fire during that Pepsi commericial.
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uh, do it for the ones you
? …cause 
Anesthesia is not good for the sick and elderly, it sucks the proteins out your red blood cells and your cells contract.