[quote name=\'Kevin Prather\' post=\'227985\' date=\'Oct 7 2009, 02:20 PM\'][quote name=\'dale_grass\' post=\'227982\' date=\'Oct 7 2009, 11:14 AM\'][quote name=\'JMFabiano\' post=\'227966\' date=\'Oct 7 2009, 10:58 AM\']I recall Rue McClanahan appearing on some game show ... she told the story that most fans of TGG and of Rue, period, all know.[/quote]
For those of you who don't know, it's a shortened form of a portmanteau of her parents' first names.
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That's how her actual first name, Edda, came about. Rue is just short for her middle name, Ruth.
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Yep, that's it. And wasn't it hyphenated?