Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Always Check Snopes!

Well, I apologize. I was duped. And by my own mother!

The clip I posted yesterday was not a 92 year old Ginger Rogers. It was,  in fact, a 75 year old Sarah "Paddy" Jones dancing with her Salsa instructor. Here's the Snopes link: http://www.snopes.com/photos/arts/salsadance.asp

 (Snopes is a terrific hoax debunking website. I use it often. Apparently, not often enough.)

Still, at 75, Sarah "Paddy" Jones moves much better than I can at 50. Who am I kidding? Much better than I could at any time of my life.

Here is the real Ginger Rogers who passed away in 1995 at the age of 83.


And here is a real Ginger Root, which can aid digestion. (It just came up in my search for Ginger Rogers, so  thought I'd...honestly, I don't even know.)