I'll start with the obvious opener...

I was so sad to hear about this yesterday. Poor Hal Holbrook!

This isn't a rant, but this is one of my favorite Julia scenes and is the one I always think of when I think of her character.

We always loved her rants growing up. Dixie Carter was so closely identified with Julia Sugarbaker; the character was a natural for her.

One day during the DW run, my brother and I were watching some kind of Western movie, set in the gold rush or what have you, and she turned up in it as a saloon mistress or something like that. As soon as she appeared in the scene, my brother launched in: "Just because this is eighteen ninety, don't think that you can waltz in here with your hat and your cute little pistol and treat me like some kind of pet poodle..."

I went to a gay bar with some friends on sing-along night. It was great fun, though really loud. Most of the time, it was a loud mix of music in the background, people singing a few lines, and lots of people trying to talk over it all, but when that monologue/ tirade/ rant came on, everyone recited it (well, everyone who knew it - the rest said nothing).

Last year, an NPR blog posted The 'Designing Women' Game: Write Your Own Julia Rant, a kind of Madlibs game made in honor of the release of the first season of Designing Women on DVD.