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110YO Flossie + SNL skit = Internet gold

Flossie Dickey, center, visits with her great granddaughter Sarah Williamson, right, at Cheney Care Center. Dickey will turn 110 on Thursday, Feb. 18. (Jessie Tinsley/SR file photo)

It was a wild birthday for Flossie Dickey. And not just because it was her 110th. The Cheney resident’s birthday celebration was marked with a wave of local attention: A front-page feature in the trusty S-R. Coverage on local news stations. An honorary airman designation at Fairchild Air Force Base. And that one morning-show live shot. You know the one. “Are you excited for your party?” KHQ reporter Nichole Mischke said. “Not one bit,” answered an unsmiling Flossie. The 3 1/2-minute clip of white-haired Flossie, hunkered down behind a “Good Morning Spokane” coffee cup and stubbornly refusing to play along with a cheerful Mischke, zoomed around the Internet with infectious speed, culminating in a “Saturday Night Live” skit over the weekend/ Shawn Vestal , SR. More here.

Question: Would you like to live to be 110?

* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "Huckleberries Online." Read all stories from this blog