92-year-old character actress Frances Bay passed away a few days ago in Los Angeles. Bay had been fleeing the scene of a liquor store robbery screaming, “COPS AIN’T SH*T!” when she blew a tire and rolled her Camaro. I’m kidding of course, it was pneumonia.

The former Canadian radio actress played a number of memorable characters over the course of her career, including Happy Gilmore’s grandma, the marble rye lady from Seinfeld, Fonzie’s grandma Nussbaum, a few roles in David Lynch films, and of course Razor Clit in Scuzz Party. Bay has no immediate survivors (according to her wikipedia page, she had one son, Josh, who died when he was 23, but it appears to be uncited).

Could it be that Frances Bay was in her hospital bed, barely holding on, when she saw a commercial for Bucky Larson, and that was what finally killed her? I have no evidence, but I’d say it’s quite likely.

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A supreme court judge in Canada, no doubt wearing a flannel robe and banging a gavel made of denim, has ruled that using a Happy Gilmore-style golf swing “breaches a duty of care” on the golf course.

In the case, the plaintiff sued after the defendant tried to impress his golfing buddies during a bachelor party outing that included beer, tequila, and marijuana. On the 16th hole, under the influence, Travis Hayter whipped out his “Happy Gilmore shot,” which the court defined in 2008 as “running from five to ten feet behind the ball and hitting it on the run.”

The ball leapt up and struck the plaintiff in the wrist, then in the chest, causing permanent damage to the radial nerve. The plaintiff no longer was able to return to his former work as a woodsman* on account of the incident. [THR]

A woodsman?  That’s a job? I thought that was what you call someone too drunk to get a job.  It’s still unknown whether the case will have legal implications in the U.S., but it’s going to set Canadian stereotypes back 30 years.  This is like a Mexican suing because he could no longer sleep under a giant sombrero and got laid off from the chihuahua farm.

*a “woodman”, meanwhile, is the common industry term for a male porn actor.