Miss Beazley
Bernice Beazley is a fictional character in the Archie Comics universe. She is the cafeteria chef of Riverdale High School. In a stereotype of high school cafeterias, Miss Beazley is portrayed as an awful cook (although Jughead Jones enjoys her cooking) who is curt and outspoken, even to the principal, Mr. Weatherbee. However, she is also portrayed as having a gentler side, especially toward the school custodian, Mr. Svenson.
Behind her back, kids will relentlessly talk about how her "exotic" dishes taste like rubber or glue. However, the students—especially Jughead—stand by her.
Miss Beazly seems to always be fighting with Mr. Weatherbee, who, although he is a heavy eater, still makes fun of Miss Beazly's cooking. A scrawny old woman, Miss Beazly attributes her thinness to a "fast food diet": "I fast from food!"
Although she is usually portrayed as cranky and sharp-tongued, she also has an emotional side which shown in an episode when she falls ill, and the school faculty decides that each of the teachers would bring in one of their best dishes to serve in the cafeteria instead of hiring a replacement cook. However, it turns out to be a disaster, as all of their creations fail miserably. In the final scene, a tearful Miss Beazly is shown sitting in bed holding a "Get Well Soon" card signed by every single student and staff member from the school.
Miss Beazley (dog)
Miss Beazley (October 28, 2004 – May 17, 2014) was a Scottish Terrier, belonging to former U.S. President George W. Bush and former U.S. First Lady Laura Bush.
Miss Beazley's father, a Scottish terrier named Clinton, was born on November 7, 2000. Clinton was the half-brother of the Bushes' first Scottish terrier, Barney. Miss Beazley's mother, Blackwatch Elizabeth, was bred by dog breeder Patricia Gilmore of Livingston, New Jersey. Gilmore would also breed Miss Beazley, a purebred Scottish terrier who was born in 2004.
Miss Beazley was adopted as a birthday present from President Bush to First Lady Laura Bush. She moved into the White House as a ten-week-old puppy on January 6, 2005, shortly before the beginning of President Bush's second term in office. The First Lady and her daughters, Barbara and Jenna Bush, named their new dog after a character from Oliver Butterworth's 1956 children's book, "The Enormous Egg."
Miss Beazley and the Bushes' first Scottish Terrier, Barney, became well known United States presidential pets. In 2005, Miss Beazley and Barney were featured in the White House Christmas video, A Very Beazley Christmas, for her first holiday in the White House.
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