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"Meet your favorite sassy ol&amp;#039; Floridian, after The Golden Girls, obviously: Snooty the manatee. I might be projecting a little here but bear with me; Snooty is basically Dorothy Zbornak if she&amp;#039;d given up on the senior citizens&amp;#039; dating game and decided to stay at home/in a large tank eating cabbage instead of cheesecake. (Snooty is actually a male manatee, but that&amp;#039;s a minor quibble, OK?) Snooty just celebrated his 66th birthday and held a blowout rager at his place, the South Florida Museum [via WFLA]. Local news reports that between 4,000 and 5,000 partygoers showed up to play bingo, look through old photo albums, and enjoy &amp;quot;an outdoor festival.&amp;quot; There was also an amazing birthday cake made from &amp;quot;cabbage, strawberries, pineapple, sweet potatoes and beets&amp;quot; \u2014 it looked a little bit like an Edible Arrangement gone horribly wrong, but I&amp;#039;m sure Snooty loved it.  The South Florida Museum&amp;#039;s CEO Brynne Basio offered an impassioned birthday toast for Snooty, who was paying attention even though it looked like he was napping at the bottom of his pool. &amp;quot;Snooty is an ambassador not just for manatees, but for all endangered species,&amp;quot; Basio said. &amp;quot;By raising awareness that Snooty has reached such an old age in his protected environment, we are showing the world that manatees and other threatened animals can grow much older than they currently are. If we work together to protect their natural environment, we could help to increase the life expectancy of manatees in the wild.&amp;quot; P.S. if you&amp;#039;re not already wasting your day playing Kim Kardashian&amp;#039;s embarrassingly addictive iPhone game, you can ruin any semblance of productivity by watching the museum&amp;#039;s Snooty Cam. Follow Alex on  Twitter. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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