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Surprise! You're Dead, 2007
seawolf17 Feb 23 2007 08:36 AM |
Don't know what happened to the Dead Thread '07, so I figured I'd just restart it, courtesy of a song title from the first Faith No More album.
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Edgy DC Feb 23 2007 08:42 AM |
The first thing I thought of on was a comedy routine from the eighties about how ugly the Celtics were as a team.
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KC Feb 23 2007 08:52 AM |
It'll be interesting to see what the reason was, apparently he was just
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Johnny Dickshot Feb 23 2007 09:07 AM |
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You guys probably don't know who Bob Norris was, but when I went to school, he was a running back and kick returner who made Rich Gannon look good and a guy I kinda knew around campus. We used to call him "Fumbler Norris" although his ironic nickname by the sports information office was "Bullet Bob"
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Edgy DC Feb 23 2007 09:16 AM |
Wow.
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Frayed Knot Feb 23 2007 10:32 AM |
**Dortch pulled out one of the guns and told everyone to "say your prayers." **
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Edgy DC Feb 23 2007 10:39 AM |
Or Bugs Bunny cartoons.
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Centerfield Feb 23 2007 10:56 AM |
James Reif was my wife's good friend's cousin. The family is devastated. He was a father of four, one of the boys celebrated a birthday last week.
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ScarletKnight41 Feb 23 2007 10:59 AM |
That is so horrible :(
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DocTee Mar 01 2007 11:06 AM |
Pulitzer prize winning historian Arthur Schlesinger, 89.
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SteveJRogers Mar 07 2007 07:43 PM |
[url=http://nydailynews.com/entertainment/story/503132p-424376c.html]Captain America killed off![/url]
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metirish Mar 08 2007 12:10 PM |
For those you watched "are you being served" on PBS will know John Inman.
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cooby Mar 08 2007 08:26 PM |
I love that show
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Johnny Dickshot Mar 09 2007 08:00 PM |
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I don't know why, but this news saddens me more than the typical classic rocker death might, I think.
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Methead Mar 09 2007 08:33 PM |
Yeah, that does hit close to home... wow.
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cooby Mar 09 2007 08:45 PM |
Why, when I hear the song "more than a feeling" in my head, do I picture Henry Winkler walking?
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cooby Mar 09 2007 08:52 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Mar 09 2007 08:56 PM |
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Johnny Dickshot Mar 09 2007 08:56 PM |
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Rockin' Doc Mar 09 2007 09:05 PM |
I have an awful lot of good memories of high school and college linked to the music of Boston's first two albums.
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Edgy DC Mar 09 2007 09:28 PM |
Boston alway tasted plastic to me.
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Johnny Dickshot Mar 10 2007 11:42 AM |
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Pretty Mama, let me show you sweet delight.
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KC Mar 10 2007 11:58 AM |
I don't think I've ever heard all of the third album, but I liked the second one
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Edgy DC Mar 10 2007 12:41 PM |
Teresa G. was my vacation romance. "Bad Time" was the song I associated with it.
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DocTee Mar 10 2007 01:25 PM |
Their debut was the best-selling first album in history. They held that distinction for more than twenty years, until Hootie and the Blowfish's Cracked Rear View toppled it.
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seawolf17 Mar 10 2007 01:27 PM |
The first album is one of those discs where you know every single song, even though you don't realize it. It's classic in that respect, but the CD hasn't made its way out of the case and into any of my various players in years.
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KC Mar 10 2007 01:33 PM |
Not unlike (to me) Rumors.
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Frayed Knot Mar 10 2007 02:40 PM |
Like most suburban white teens at the time, I owned that debut record, played it a lot, and heard it just about everywhere while it was new.
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KC Mar 10 2007 03:01 PM |
Frampton's dying next.
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Frayed Knot Mar 10 2007 03:12 PM |
He better not cuz you & I once got yelled at for discussing Frampton on a Met board.
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cooby Mar 10 2007 03:20 PM |
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no worries though he's not the sweet faced strawberry blond any more
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KC Mar 10 2007 05:52 PM |
I don't remember that, FK ... but lol
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Edgy DC Mar 10 2007 10:34 PM |
Oddly enough, Mayo himself comes alive no more: On February 23, 2004, Mayo was touring with Frampton in Basel, Switzerland, when he had a heart attack and died promptly. Frampton said after his death, "Bob was like a brother to me. I have lost a close personal friend and a talented, professional, and outstanding musician."http://bobmayo.net/mp3/Bob%20Mayo%20solo.mp3
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Johnny Dickshot Mar 11 2007 09:19 AM |
"Bob Mayo with the congestive heart failure, Bob Mayo."
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Frayed Knot Mar 11 2007 09:34 AM |
"I don't remember that, FK ... "
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metsmarathon Mar 11 2007 02:27 PM platypus down |
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/11/comedian.dead.ap/index.html
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cooby Mar 14 2007 04:41 AM |
From Staff Reports (LH Express)
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Johnny Dickshot Mar 14 2007 07:25 PM |
Turns out Brad Delp was a suicide. Locked himself in the bathroom with two charcol stoves (?!), taped notes to the door.
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Benjamin Grimm Mar 22 2007 02:00 PM |
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Edgy DC Mar 22 2007 02:13 PM |
We started a local chapter of the Calvert DeForest Fan Club as smartass high school seniors.
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Benjamin Grimm Mar 22 2007 03:36 PM |
I met him back in 1983 (I think.) My encounter with Calvert is related on page 2 of the Brush with Greatness thread, now in the Featured Archives.
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DocTee Mar 22 2007 06:35 PM |
During one Late Show skit, there was a look back at all who had died the preceeding year, including a feature on Bud. Shortly later he appeared yelling "I'm not dead you bastards"
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Johnny Dickshot Mar 22 2007 06:40 PM |
I saw him perform as an opening act for juggling comic Michael Davis in 1984. I'm still not entirely sure whether reading off cue cards was his act, or just the only way it could be pulled off. Whatever, it wasn't very good I have to say.
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soupcan Mar 26 2007 07:31 AM |
Those of us that grew up in the area should remember Jerry. I remember that he always seemed to have a Band-Aid somewhere on his face.
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Johnny Dickshot Mar 26 2007 07:33 AM |
He was 74? Wow.
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Frayed Knot Mar 26 2007 08:08 AM |
I still remember some of his quips:
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HahnSolo Apr 04 2007 07:44 AM |
Eddie Robinson, football coach at Grambling for 56 years, dead at 88.
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Frayed Knot Apr 04 2007 11:44 AM |
So now I guess the college football world will mourn his passing after spending most of his career avoiding playing against his teams and ignoring his accomplishments.
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Centerfield Apr 04 2007 12:11 PM |
Nicely said FK.
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soupcan Apr 05 2007 08:15 AM |
[url=http://sports.excite.com/news/04052007/v5413.html]I'm guessing Jack Tatum will not be a pall bearer[/url]
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Frayed Knot Apr 05 2007 08:22 AM |
There's sometimes a tendancy for people to mentally think of the suddenly paralyzed as being exactly as they were before except for the ability to use their limbs. But there are all kinds of health problems which can develop from paralysis (particularly higher up) and those folks frequently don't tend to live real long or real well afterward.
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Edgy DC Apr 05 2007 08:38 AM |
I guessa lot depends on how high up the paralysis occurs. Teddy Pendergrass lives on.
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SteveJRogers Apr 05 2007 05:47 PM |
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Campenella lived what, another 40, nearly 50 years after his car accident as well.
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Willets Point Apr 08 2007 07:58 PM |
Johnny Hart, 76, famous for creating a comic strip about cavemen who are fundamentalist Christians. It seems appropos that he pass on Easter Sunday since he frequently published his most Christian comics on this day.
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cooby Apr 08 2007 08:05 PM |
Wow. I did not know that when I read the funnies this morning. One of the ones I quietly enjoyed
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Benjamin Grimm Apr 09 2007 07:03 AM |
I hated BC. I guess I liked it years ago, but I was very put off by its more recent preachiness.
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Willets Point Apr 09 2007 11:31 AM |
The Christian stuff didn't bother me as much as the fact that it wasn't funny.
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Benjamin Grimm Apr 09 2007 11:32 AM |
I also didn't like how "Fat Broad" was always getting pleasure out of pounding on snakes.
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cooby Apr 09 2007 06:14 PM |
I give it points for not raising my blood pressure by simply accidentally sliding my eyes over it
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Benjamin Grimm Apr 09 2007 06:50 PM |
It didn't raise my blood pressure either.
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Willets Point Apr 09 2007 08:15 PM |
What low expectations we have for our comics.
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cooby Apr 10 2007 05:23 PM |
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While averting my eyes today I see we are now doing our taxes accompanied by a blizzard of post it notes. What a tool. Thank god she's in the upper corner of our comics page where I can almost ignore it.
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Edgy DC Apr 11 2007 06:41 PM |
It's hard to understand, but Hart was hardcore, and he maintained not one but two leading strips. He once had a subtle worldview but his humor just got retrograde*, and he go just got insane about the same time his Christianity became an overt part of the strip, and it'd be wishful thinking to say they weren't related. It's almost like he knew peeps would get pissed by him wearing Jesus on his sleeve, so he grew a huge chip on his shoulder to inure himself.
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Gwreck Apr 11 2007 10:10 PM |
[url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/books/11cnd-vonnegut.html?hp]Kurt Vonnegut.[/url]
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Johnny Dickshot Apr 12 2007 05:16 AM |
Oh geez.
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TheOldMole Apr 12 2007 08:58 AM |
Here's a Vonnegut reminiscence:
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Johnny Dickshot Apr 12 2007 09:22 AM |
Fun.
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TheOldMole Apr 12 2007 09:24 AM |
Little known, and not sufficiently explained. What's the story?
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Johnny Dickshot Apr 12 2007 09:40 AM |
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Slapstick imagines a future in which Wilbur Swain becomes president of the United States running on a platform to unite people by randomly issuing them new middle names based on a combination of numbers and words.
I tried imagining all Mets who've worn a particular number to be members of the same tribe too.
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Johnny Dickshot Apr 12 2007 12:00 PM |
Join a family:
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metirish Apr 12 2007 12:05 PM |
Daffodil-18
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Benjamin Grimm Apr 12 2007 12:22 PM |
Call me... Pachysandra-11
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Edgy DC Apr 12 2007 12:41 PM |
Raspberry-9, yo.
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Kid Carsey Apr 12 2007 01:18 PM |
Chipmunk-5
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TransMonk Apr 12 2007 01:23 PM |
Helium-4...it makes so much sense.
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sharpie Apr 12 2007 01:28 PM |
Strawberry-14. Too bad I couldn't be Strawberry-18.
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A Boy Named Seo Apr 12 2007 08:47 PM |
That one bummed me out more than I thought it would.
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GYC Apr 12 2007 09:18 PM |
Pachysandra-18
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MFS62 Apr 12 2007 09:40 PM |
I am Sulfur-4.
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Johnny Dickshot Apr 14 2007 10:18 PM |
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Just when you thought you'd heard enough about Hos:
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Methead Apr 15 2007 02:09 PM |
I'm late to re-naming party, but I'm a Strawberry-5.
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sharpie Apr 15 2007 05:25 PM |
So, Methead, as Strawberry-14 we are cousins.
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Rockin' Doc Apr 15 2007 06:05 PM |
I was positive that I had responded to this thread previously, but I don't see it.
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Benjamin Grimm Apr 19 2007 04:34 AM |
Kitty Carlisle Hart, 96, star of Broadway and To Tell the Truth.
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A Boy Named Seo Apr 20 2007 11:54 AM |
This was from my hometown paper, but I don't know where that thread made off to so it goes here. Pretty amazing.
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Gwreck Apr 23 2007 08:32 AM |
[url=http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Obit-Yeltsin.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin]Boris Yeltsin[/url].
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metirish Apr 23 2007 08:53 AM |
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I remember this well,it was a laugh...
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iramets Apr 23 2007 09:19 AM |
In Russia, Alarm clock turns off YOU
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Frayed Knot Apr 23 2007 09:47 PM |
Author David Halberstam - in a car crash.
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Edgy DC Apr 23 2007 09:50 PM |
Spring of 2007.
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Johnny Dickshot Apr 24 2007 08:28 AM |
That's too bad about Halberstam. He was en route to do an intrerview with YA Tittle.
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Edgy DC Apr 24 2007 08:39 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Apr 24 2007 06:53 PM |
Almost sounds like a euphemism.
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Benjamin Grimm Apr 24 2007 08:49 AM |
I wonder if he was using Jon Corzine's driver.
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SteveJRogers Apr 24 2007 06:43 PM |
His death got some play on ESPN interestingly enough, mostly for Summer of 49 and The Teamates.
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iramets Apr 24 2007 07:03 PM |
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An awful lot of late Vonnegut is terrible. Did you read his latest? It almost caused me pain--the only good sentences were when he quoted his old stuff. He was also a pretty good short story writer--I have a copy of CANARY IN A CATHOUSE, which has most of the stories later collected in 'WELCOME TO THE MONKEYHOUSE' that are amazing.
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iramets Apr 24 2007 07:11 PM |
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I was disheartened in reading the Summer of '49, because there were assertions all over the place that simply weren't so (BillJames caught some of these, but I caught still others). A very sloppy job. I'd read badly researched baseball books before, of course, but the dishearteneing part was that I'd credited him in his political books (like The Best and the Brightest) with doing solid research. Now, I'm no longer so sure.
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Edgy DC Apr 24 2007 08:03 PM |
It's funny, in telling his stories, he digs deep enough to get the minute and human details that everybody missed, and missed the matters of public record that everybody knows (or can find out from numerous sources).
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Edgy DC Apr 24 2007 08:04 PM |
I guess part of his problem was trusting ballplayers' memories. Still another part was trusting his own.
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Rockin' Doc Apr 24 2007 08:09 PM |
Summer of '49 was a pretty good read, mistakes and all.
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Nymr83 Apr 24 2007 08:12 PM |
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I saw "Author Halberstam dead at 70-whatever" and got scared....i have a teacher with that last name who is probably that age and i'm sure has been published at some point (publishing counts more than teaching in academia after all) fortunately she is well.
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SteveJRogers Apr 25 2007 03:11 PM |
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Can you guys elaborate on some of them? Was he ever called on his mistakes?
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sharpie Apr 25 2007 03:22 PM |
They get into some of that in this article:
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Batty31 Apr 26 2007 05:19 PM |
Bobby "Boris" Pickett..famous for the "Monster Mash" I saw one of his final performances this past October while I was at a horror convention. He appeared to be in good health when I saw...I had no idea he was sick with leukemia.
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Frayed Knot Apr 28 2007 06:31 AM |
Jack Valenti - from the result of a stroke a few weeks back.
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Iubitul Apr 28 2007 07:23 AM |
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Wow - I didn't know that - nice.
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Frayed Knot Apr 28 2007 02:03 PM |
Valenti was in the Kennedy motorcade about 6 cars back that day.
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Edgy DC Apr 28 2007 03:09 PM |
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Vic Sage May 01 2007 04:49 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on May 01 2007 05:17 PM |
Aquamarine-16, here. What a euphonious appellation!...gay, but euphonious.
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MFS62 May 01 2007 05:04 PM |
Tom Poston, sometimes called this generation's "everyman".
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Benjamin Grimm May 15 2007 12:40 PM |
Jerry Falwell, dead at 73.
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Johnny Dickshot May 15 2007 01:17 PM |
Radd, I missed your KV rundown but I've read Bluebeard and Galapagos often enough to suggest they are easch worth reading, Bluebeard especially.
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MFS62 May 16 2007 05:35 AM |
Jerry Falwell dead:
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Vic Sage May 16 2007 01:20 PM |
Jerry Falwell's hit parade...
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SteveJRogers May 19 2007 04:25 PM |
Quick question, wouldn't it be better for a seperate thread for member family members/friends and save this thread for noted personalities?
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Edgy DC May 19 2007 05:04 PM |
Sorry to hear of it Steve.
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SteveJRogers May 19 2007 08:09 PM |
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Heh, just ran that line by my mother and she retorted that he did do good works in his life. Gotta love the devouts who think that any good a man does can wipe away a lifetime of hatefull comments. Maybe I listen to her so much is why I went so overboard on the Rivera argument last year.
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Willets Point May 20 2007 07:33 PM |
Bill Clinton dead of injuries suffered in North Carolina.
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Johnny Dickshot Jun 04 2007 01:09 PM |
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seawolf17 Jun 04 2007 01:39 PM |
Somehow, I missed this last week. Stunning.
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Willets Point Jun 04 2007 02:51 PM |
I watched that show when I was a kid and I thought he was hilarious.
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sharpie Jun 04 2007 03:15 PM |
With Reilly and Paul Lynde both dead we are bereft of openly gay 1970's game show contestants.
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HahnSolo Jun 04 2007 03:25 PM |
^^^
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Edgy DC Jun 04 2007 04:55 PM |
The partners of the great ventriloquists generally live forever silenced in the Vent Haven Museum.
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Willets Point Jun 04 2007 04:57 PM |
That must be the creepiest museum. Except maybe this one.
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Edgy DC Jun 04 2007 05:55 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jun 05 2007 08:14 PM |
Creepier than you may think. Berger had arranged his figures so that they looked out all the windows until local residents complained.That comes from "Hey, Let Me Outa Here!" an essay in Cullen Murphy's outstanding 1995 collection, Just Curious. There's something surreal and ghastly about a ventriloquist dummy. In its life on stage it serves as a source of entertainment, but in its private life, we all know, it is an all-too-willing slave of dark forces, a characteristic displayed in movies like Dead of Night (1945) and Magic (1978) and in television programs like The Twilight Zone and Night Gallery. At the Venthaven Museum there are some six hundred of these beings, clustered together in mobs of sixty to a hundred or more. Some of them have human hair or teeth. Virtually all their masters are long since dead, yet here sit the dummies, intact and immortal, though torn forever from their original voices. One dummy on display was found amid the rubble of a German house destroyed during the Second World War. Four others, from the turn of the century, were washed ashore after a shipwreck, the only survivors. On the walls, arrangements of photographs show the great ventriloquists of yore getter older and frailer; the agelessness of their partners seems to mock them. A ventriloquist who came to the museum with me pointed out a certain figure and said, "The first time I saw him sitting there, I nearly broke down. He belonged to a friend who had just died in an accident." A visitor to Vent Haven whose thoughts do not somehow touch on death is probably not human.
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TheOldMole Jun 05 2007 01:27 PM |
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MFS62 Jun 13 2007 02:08 PM |
LOS ANGELES -- Don Herbert, who as television's "Mr. Wizard" introduced generations of young viewers to the joys of science, died Tuesday. He was 89. Herbert, who had bone cancer, died at his suburban Bell Canyon home, said his son-in-law, Tom Nikosey.
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seawolf17 Jun 13 2007 02:28 PM |
A terrible loss for science. Loved, loved, loved that show as a kid. Honestly, though, I thought he was already dead.
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MFS62 Jun 13 2007 02:31 PM |
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I wonder how many kids who got into science after watching his show were instrumental in getting us into space. Later
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Benjamin Grimm Jun 13 2007 02:35 PM |
I don't think I ever saw his show. (That's probably why I had nothing to do with putting anyone in space.)
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OlerudOwned Jun 13 2007 08:56 PM |
Somewhere, Bill Nye and Beakman bow their heads in respect.
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Batty31 Jun 13 2007 09:30 PM |
I never saw his show and had no idea who he was when I heard the news.
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Edgy DC Jun 14 2007 07:40 AM |
Kurt Waldheim, UN General Secretary with some ugly shit in his closet.
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Johnny Dickshot Jun 14 2007 07:49 AM |
Can't think of him without thinking also of Gilbert Gottfried's routine: which begins "The other day I bumped into Kurt Waldheim..." and which morphs into Gilbert doing Waldheim explaining away his sins: "My wife and I were getting our picture taken and who walks into the frame? Adolph Hitler! Can you believe that!?!"
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DocTee Jun 14 2007 07:50 AM |
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Is it just me or is the sky bluer this morning? Is the sun shining brighter and warmer? Is the grass greener? Good riddance to bad rubbish.
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Farmer Ted Jun 29 2007 06:41 PM |
Is there a movie that Joel ever liked?
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Johnny Dickshot Jun 29 2007 08:01 PM |
I always thought Seigel was a softy. Not Gene Schalit soft, but generally easy to please.
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MFS62 Jun 30 2007 11:45 AM |
I almost got added to this list a little while ago.
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smg58 Jun 30 2007 12:20 PM |
Glad you're still here.
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Edgy DC Jun 30 2007 01:09 PM |
Damn. Carry your medicine.
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Nymr83 Jun 30 2007 01:13 PM |
thats pretty scary, you gotta carry that medicine around.
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MFS62 Jun 30 2007 01:47 PM |
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Thanks, guys. But if you think that's scary, think of how scary it would be for folks to read an email that was from someone who is dead. I like Edgy's idea of someone else sending it out. Later
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Edgy DC Jul 05 2007 08:02 AM |
Bill Pickney was the last original Drifter and a former Negro League pitcher.
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Johnny Dickshot Jul 11 2007 10:52 AM |
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RIP
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Iubitul Jul 11 2007 11:27 AM |
There goes our archive....
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soupcan Jul 11 2007 11:50 AM |
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metirish Jul 11 2007 01:57 PM |
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right after we moved too....
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Rockin' Doc Jul 11 2007 09:53 PM |
Lady Bird Johnson passed away in her Austin, Texas home this afternoon of natural causes. The former first lady was 94 years old.
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Edgy DC Jul 11 2007 10:02 PM |
Strangely, across the Potomac in Arlington, there's been a Lady Bird Johnson Memorial Park for about 15 years.
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Benjamin Grimm Jul 12 2007 05:18 AM |
I guess they somehow knew that one day she'd be dead.
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RealityChuck Jul 12 2007 12:31 PM |
No surprise -- he was 102 -- but the great character actor Charles Lane died on Tuesday.
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cooby Jul 13 2007 08:15 PM |
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MFS62, I just saw this! I'm glad you are okay! Hire a yard boy!
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metirish Jul 25 2007 01:43 PM |
Just to keep up to date.
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HahnSolo Jul 25 2007 02:11 PM |
She's survived by her son and vast amounts of eye makeup.
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metirish Jul 25 2007 02:31 PM |
Her son is a preacher in NYC....
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sharpie Jul 30 2007 07:45 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jul 30 2007 07:55 AM |
Iconic Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman
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Edgy DC Jul 30 2007 07:51 AM |
Snyder was the last butt-smoking talk show host.
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Frayed Knot Jul 30 2007 08:14 AM |
Dan Akroyd (as Tom Snyder) interviewing Mick Jagger (as Mick Jagger) was one of
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Willets Point Jul 30 2007 09:39 AM |
For some reason I got Tom Snyder confused with Tom Hayden (of SDS fame). I guess I don't know who Tom Snyder was.
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sharpie Jul 30 2007 01:04 PM |
Busy day for dying: Former 49er coach Bill Walsh.
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Edgy DC Jul 30 2007 01:15 PM |
Wow.
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G-Fafif Jul 30 2007 01:16 PM |
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Alan Pottasch, the marketing executive responsible in great part for the Pepsi Generation:
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sharpie Jul 31 2007 09:11 AM |
Bad week for foreign film directors: Michaelangelo Antonioni.
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Edgy DC Jul 31 2007 09:16 AM |
Franco Zeffirelli, please call home.
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sharpie Jul 31 2007 10:23 AM |
Well, there's already been one Italian. It's Jean-Luc Godard who should be worried.
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Frayed Knot Jul 31 2007 10:36 AM |
Michaelangelo Antonioni always sounded like 4 people to me.
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Willets Point Aug 02 2007 06:17 AM |
Tommy Makem, 74, Irish singer and song writer. Saw him play several times in my youth with the Clancy Brothers and as a duo with Liam Clancy.
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Edgy DC Aug 02 2007 07:37 AM |
Just as that fourth field is blooming again, huh? "What did I have?" said the fine old woman
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metirish Aug 02 2007 08:18 AM |
R.I.P. Tommy Makem.
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TheOldMole Aug 02 2007 04:14 PM |
Oh, all the money that e'er I spent,
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TheOldMole Aug 02 2007 04:16 PM |
Bergman shattered me. He was such an important figure in my developing selfhood. Antonioni was a passing to be honored. Tommy Makem's death made me cry.
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sharpie Aug 06 2007 12:05 PM |
Note should be made that Lee Hazlewood died over the weekend. He wrote "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'" and sang, along with Nancy Sinatra, one of the weirdest songs of the period, "Some Velvet Morning" as well as the minor hit "Sweet Summer Wine."
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Willets Point Aug 06 2007 12:13 PM |
Not to be confused with Joseph Hazelwood, captain of the Exxon Valdez, nor country musician Lee Greenwood, writer of the mawkish "God Bless the USA". These are the first two people I thought of when I saw the name.
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SteveJRogers Aug 12 2007 11:07 AM |
[url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20051312,00.html]Merv Griffin, 82[/url]
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MFS62 Aug 12 2007 11:49 AM |
Some memories of Merv:
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SteveJRogers Aug 12 2007 12:17 PM |
His show was honored on the Seinfeld episode: [url=http://www.tv.com/seinfeld/the-merv-griffin-show/episode/2402/summary.html?tag=ep_list;title;161]The Merv Griffin Show [/url]where Kramer found the entire old set and converted his apartment accordingly.
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Mr. Zero Aug 12 2007 06:41 PM |
[url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/6941392.stm]Tony Wilson[/url], founder of Factory Records, 24 hour party person.
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SteveJRogers Aug 13 2007 05:59 PM |
[url=http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aQH5T61ejTQ8&refer=us]Brooke Astor, 105[/url]
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TheOldMole Aug 14 2007 06:51 AM |
Did she ever have an awful last part of her life.
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Johnny Dickshot Aug 17 2007 09:34 AM |
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His albums with Clifford Brown are dyn-O-mite
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Edgy DC Aug 17 2007 09:41 AM |
Wasn't Roach the one that OldMole (where is the Mole?) said he saw play the entire drum part from "Take Five" as a solo?
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Farmer Ted Aug 20 2007 10:14 AM |
Queen of Mean
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Edgy DC Aug 20 2007 10:27 AM |
Is that Steinbrenner's Howard Rubenstein?
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MFS62 Aug 20 2007 04:29 PM |
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Based on her reputation and nickname, there are some who might say that was impossible; she didn't have a heart. Later
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SteveJRogers Aug 30 2007 06:37 PM |
[url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1568463/20070829/ramones.jhtml]CBGB Founder Hilly Kristal Dead At 75[/url]
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Willets Point Aug 30 2007 07:24 PM |
Burning Man meets a premature death due to arson.
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Willets Point Aug 30 2007 07:30 PM |
Michael Jackson passes away.
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TransMonk Aug 30 2007 09:47 PM |
Wow, I didn't know he was so well known. I had the opportunity to have a few of the beers he had given a good review to about 9 months ago. It had his name on label.
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metirish Sep 06 2007 07:15 AM |
Luciano Pavarotti now singing on the big stage in the sky....Dead at 71.
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soupcan Sep 06 2007 07:18 AM |
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That Pancreatic Cancer is a death sentence man.
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soupcan Sep 06 2007 07:22 AM |
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My estranged younger brother attends that 'festival' every year. There was more than a slim chance that he was the one responsible for this. Apparently someone else burned the 'man' before he could get to it.
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Edgy DC Sep 06 2007 07:26 AM |
How stupid must firefighters feel trying to extinguish that?
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Willets Point Sep 06 2007 09:02 AM |
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There are just so many levels of irony to that story. Arrivederci Pavarotti.
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sharpie Sep 06 2007 09:05 AM |
My 2 degrees of separation from Pavarotti: He slept with my ex-girlfriend's sister.
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Johnny Dickshot Sep 06 2007 09:08 AM |
I spent 25 minutes reading the Burning Man website and I still don't know what it is.
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Willets Point Sep 06 2007 09:15 AM |
Basically a bunch of "artistes" go to the desert and camp out for a week and they all try to art projects, get stoned, and have nightly raves. On the last night they burn a giant effigy of a man. This year some dude set fire to it four days early and despite it being his "art project" and "expression of freedom" the corporate honchos in charge of Burning Man had him charged with arson.
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seawolf17 Sep 06 2007 09:20 AM |
What? Art, pretentious? Stunning.
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soupcan Sep 06 2007 09:23 AM |
As I understand it it - it is a week long expression of creative freedom. Or some such nonsense.
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metirish Sep 06 2007 09:33 AM |
Nekid tug-of-war......
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Edgy DC Sep 06 2007 09:46 AM |
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Maybe this old chestnut will fly.
Moon listed some of the most common no-show excuses, among them oversleeping, forgetting to request time off work, faulty van-borrowing arrangements, a shortage of ochre body-paint, and the last-minute realization that transportation to the Burning Man festival requires money. "As of a few weeks ago, or even a few days ago, there were 30,000 people who honestly planned on coming," Moon said. "In every case, however, there were, well, you knowshit happened." Although Burning Man festivals have had no-shows in the past, Moon said he's never witnessed absenteeism on this level. "You have to figure out a way to get here, stock up on water and extra clothing for the cold nights, and make sure you have adequate shelter," Moon said. "Apparently, the advance planning it takes to arrange those three basic things was more than anyone could handle. Sorry to be on this uptight trip, but check out the playa. Not a single nude dude in a homemade papier-mch tribal mask as far as the eye can see." Although Burning Man is billed on its web site as a "temporary community dedicated to radical self-expression and radical self-reliance," it became evident that the no-shows were more capable of the former than they were of the latter. Los Angeles silkscreen artist Goldi Trewartha was among the tens of thousands of Burning Man devotees who stayed home this year. "Yeah, I was supposed to go with Ari and Shel, but they couldn't score [Ecstasy] in time for the trip, and I forgot my bartering beads at my friend Marnie's place in Los Feliz," Trewartha said. "Oh, and I forgot to get a dog sitter." Added Trewartha: "Shel made this great suit out of old stuffed-monkey pelts and duct tape, and he was going to hop up and down on this old trampoline he found. But his ex, Nikki, made him babysit [their daughter] Gaia while she headed out to Big Sur for a few days. I love Nikki, but sometimes she can be real flaky." Chaz Bullard, a University of Vermont undergraduate and veteran mud person, had multiple excuses for his failure to attend the Burning Man festival. "I totally spaced that August is 8, and I wrote down 9 in my sketchbook," Bullard said. "Oh, and I got evicted. Yeah, fuckin' Dyl up and ditches me, right, and I'm stuck owing $700, because he wasn't on the lease." Bullard added that he contracted hepatitis from his ex-roommate's tacos.
Hippies were not the only counterculture group to miss the Burning Man festival. Portland-area Linux user and self-described cyber-conceptualist "Free" Lance Kaegle explained his absence in an instant message from his studio. "I was organizing this boss techno-art project called 'Off The Grid,'" Kaegle wrote. "We were going to set up computer terminals in various parts of the playa and have people use them. Then we'd feed the binary data from those terminals into this fractals program that [Silver Lake, CA software designer] Ricky [Thomas-Slater] wrote. Those fractals would be sent, on the fly, to a group of exiled Buddhist monks I befriended online. The monks would transform the fractals into a temporal sand painting, the making of which we would webcast live to everyone on the playa." Added Kaegle: "But I had to stop working on the monk thing to finish up this Pam's Country Crafts web site I'm working on. I really need the money." While most absences were accidental, a few were not. Doug "Crazyroot" Pycroft, a former smoothie-stand employee, has a history of missing countercultural events. "I thought about going, but then I decided I don't need some dudes pushing their rules down my throat," Pycroft said. "That's the problem with these things. If they're so nonconformist, how come you gotta obey some fascist wearing a lanyard just to use the Port-A-John? Same reason I refused to go to [The Church Of The Subgenius'] X-Day back in '98. Hell, I ditched the very first Lollapalooza one hour in." As a cloud of sand whipped across the desolate playa, Moon could only shake his head. Although the weeklong festival traditionally culminates in the igniting of the Burning Man, a 50-foot-tall wooden structure strapped with fireworks and other incendiaries, Moon wondered aloud whether he and the handful of other staffers should even bother. "I guess we could burn what we've built, but it would just feel anticlimactic with no one around to watch," Moon said. "You gotta look at the bigger picture here, folks. You shouldn't think of Burning Man as a burden. Burning Man is about being part of a community. Unfortunately, it's a community of people who can't get up before 1 p.m."
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Benjamin Grimm Sep 06 2007 09:55 AM |
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Was she an Opera Annie?
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Frayed Knot Sep 06 2007 10:36 AM |
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And was he really a "tenner"?
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sharpie Sep 06 2007 10:44 AM |
The gf's parents were big opera supporters and would have singers over to their house frequently. I think the sister was a bit of an Opera Annie (I didn't know her all that well -- she was a few years older than we were). The gf telling me about this was the first I had heard of Pavarotti as he wasn't known much outside the opera world at the time -- soon thereafter he became a household name.
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Edgy DC Sep 07 2007 01:59 PM |
Madeleine L'Engle.
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sharpie Sep 07 2007 02:51 PM |
She'd also had Alzheimers for many years.
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Edgy DC Sep 07 2007 02:55 PM |
Did you date her sister also?
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sharpie Sep 07 2007 07:48 PM |
No but I have dealt with her agent who told me about her condition about 5 years ago.
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Edgy DC Sep 07 2007 08:49 PM |
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Your new name is Mr. Two Degrees --- dropping names and connections like the Old Mole at a Woodstock reunion.
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Edgy DC Sep 08 2007 07:20 AM |
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TheOldMole Sep 08 2007 08:37 AM |
Ah yes...it was me that told Hendrix to play the Star Spangled Banner.
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sharpie Sep 11 2007 01:07 PM |
Joe Zawinual, a Miles Davis sideman and, most notably, the leader of Weather Report.
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Benjamin Grimm Sep 11 2007 01:17 PM |
And Jane Wyman, the only woman who married Ronald Reagan but didn't serve as First Lady.
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DocTee Sep 23 2007 07:50 AM |
Marcel Marceau, annoying mime.
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Benjamin Grimm Sep 23 2007 08:46 AM |
Alice Ghostley, 81, Esmerelda of Bewitched.
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Frayed Knot Sep 23 2007 09:24 AM |
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Any last words?
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Nymr83 Sep 23 2007 09:27 AM |
No.
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TheOldMole Sep 24 2007 10:04 AM |
Should we commemorate his passing with a moment of noise?
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Frayed Knot Oct 01 2007 09:40 PM |
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Now THAT's funny! Al Oerter (71 if I heard correctly). Long time Long Island resident and a Grumman Aerospace employee - back in those days when the 'shamateurism" of track & field meant guys needed real jobs - was the four-time Olympic discus gold medalist (1956, 1960, 1964, 1968)
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Edgy DC Oct 02 2007 07:24 AM |
Didn't he come out of retirement and qualify for the Olympics in the eighties?
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Frayed Knot Oct 02 2007 08:23 AM |
Yes - in 1980 I think.
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Mendoza Line Oct 02 2007 04:53 PM |
He made the 1980 team, but missed out on competing because of the US boycott.
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metirish Oct 18 2007 10:18 AM |
Deborah Kerr dies at 86
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Edgy DC Oct 18 2007 10:23 AM |
Deborah Kerr:
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Frayed Knot Oct 18 2007 12:01 PM |
Joey Bishop - 89
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Edgy DC Oct 18 2007 12:04 PM |
Stealing the show from Deborah Kerr.
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Benjamin Grimm Oct 18 2007 12:14 PM |
If asked, I would have guessed that both Bishop and Kerr were already dead.
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sharpie Oct 18 2007 12:15 PM |
Wonder if Deborah Kerr was ever a guest on the Joey Bishop Show.
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HahnSolo Oct 18 2007 12:28 PM |
As a youngster, here's where I first heard of Joey Bishop...
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Benjamin Grimm Oct 18 2007 12:42 PM |
I think for me it was the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts.
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MFS62 Oct 21 2007 12:08 PM |
Maybe Fred "the Hammer" Williamson finally got close enought to him to hit him:
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sharpie Oct 29 2007 08:21 AM |
Country star Porter Wagoner. Lenny was at the MSG show referred to in the article.
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DocTee Oct 30 2007 09:38 PM |
Robert Goulet, national anthem-phucker-upper.
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Valadius Oct 30 2007 10:10 PM |
One of Robert Goulet's ESPN commercials:
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Edgy DC Oct 31 2007 07:38 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Oct 31 2007 09:00 PM |
Building an after-career, playing against his empty suit, old-leading-man-living-in-the-past image, he was better than, say, George Hamilton, not up to the level of Leslie Neilsen.
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Valadius Oct 31 2007 05:56 PM |
Sam Dana, 104, was the oldest living former NFL player:
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Rockin' Doc Oct 31 2007 07:05 PM |
valadius - "Sam Dana, 104, was the oldest living former NFL player"
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Valadius Oct 31 2007 08:07 PM |
He actually played alongside Lou Gehrig at Columbia.
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Edgy DC Nov 03 2007 12:38 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Nov 03 2007 06:41 PM |
Ryan Shay, ass-kicking marathoner, goes down with his boots on. I was confusing him with Ryan Hall, who is the greatest American hope in a generation or two.
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soupcan Nov 03 2007 01:12 PM |
I'm stunned haring about Shay. Seemingly no health issues. I'll be interested to see what the autopsy reveals.
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SteveJRogers Nov 04 2007 07:04 AM |
[url=http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071101/ap_on_re_us/obit_tibbets]Paul Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay[/url]
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Edgy DC Nov 04 2007 12:23 PM |
Ryan Hall, meanwhile, destroyed what looked to be the most competitive field in US history, winning by over two minutes in what was only his second full marathon.
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seawolf17 Nov 04 2007 08:21 PM |
Lillian Ellison, better known as The [url=http://sports.yahoo.com/top/news?slug=ap-obit-fabulousmoolah&prov=ap&type=lgns]Fabulous Moolah[/url].
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MFS62 Nov 05 2007 10:04 AM |
No big surprise. Its been a while, BUT:
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Edgy DC Nov 05 2007 11:46 AM |
That's a good story. It's about 20% over-written but better than most of the feature writing in local papers.
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MFS62 Nov 05 2007 12:03 PM |
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Its my local paper, and you would go nuts at some of the sportswriting when they cover local high school teams. Here's one I paraphrased, but you'll get the idea: New Fairfield 3 Brookfield 0 The Rebels beat the Bobcats yesterday. The goals were scored by Pat Murphy (2) and Chris McMullen. The writer usually leaves out some important things, like the sport they were playing (was it soccer, field hockey, ice hockey or lacrosse?) and even whether it was the mens or womens teams. I gring my teeth daily. Later
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John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 05 2007 12:50 PM |
We all thought Stork was brain damaged.
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soupcan Nov 05 2007 12:56 PM |
Agreed.
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Edgy DC Nov 05 2007 01:08 PM |
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Part of what I like about the article. That's well insinuated, but he resists the urge to go off on a tangent.
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Valadius Nov 09 2007 12:34 PM |
There's only one survivor of the Titanic left. The second-to-last survivor has died at 96.
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Edgy DC Nov 09 2007 12:37 PM |
That last survivor is looking pretty suspicous.
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MFS62 Nov 10 2007 06:43 AM |
Norman Mailer.
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Edgy DC Nov 10 2007 07:42 AM |
Lean over on a bookcase
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Valadius Nov 10 2007 09:09 AM |
Paul Norris, co-creator of Aquaman:
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Benjamin Grimm Nov 15 2007 01:06 PM |
Not a surprise, since she had been in steady decline for several weeks, but my grandmother died this afternoon, two months and one day shy of her 97th birthday.
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Edgy DC Nov 15 2007 01:09 PM |
Condolences, my brother.
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Rockin' Doc Nov 15 2007 04:30 PM |
Sorry to hear of your grandmother's passing. My sincerest condolences to you and your family upon her passing.
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A Boy Named Seo Nov 15 2007 04:38 PM |
Sorry to hear, Yance.
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metirish Nov 15 2007 04:50 PM |
Condolences Yancy, born 1910, what an age and life.
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Valadius Nov 15 2007 04:53 PM |
My condolences.
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SteveJRogers Nov 15 2007 05:05 PM |
Same here. My condolences to you and your family.
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MFS62 Nov 15 2007 05:18 PM |
Condolences to you and your family.
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smg58 Nov 15 2007 05:30 PM |
Deepest regrets and best wishes for you and your family in this tough period.
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Benjamin Grimm Nov 15 2007 05:41 PM |
Thank you everyone!
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Kid Carsey Nov 15 2007 06:28 PM |
Sorry for your loss, Yance.
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DocTee Nov 15 2007 06:40 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Nov 15 2007 08:48 PM |
97! Wow-- I'd be happy if my I reached that inversed.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 15 2007 07:09 PM |
Sorry to hear the news, YSG. 97 is excellent.
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seawolf17 Nov 15 2007 07:23 PM |
Sorry to hear the news; my thoughts go out to you and your family.
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Benjamin Grimm Nov 15 2007 08:13 PM |
Yes, she had a long life and over 96 years of pretty good health. She was a remarkable woman and all of the condolences are greatly appreciated.
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soupcan Nov 15 2007 08:13 PM |
97.
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Valadius Nov 16 2007 07:09 AM |
[url=http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AknUXC.okfI3n9EoE0x8hVERvLYF?slug=ap-obit-nuxhall&prov=ap&type=lgns]Joe Nuxhall[/url], 79.
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Nymr83 Nov 16 2007 02:38 PM |
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i was just going to post that. NuxHall was the youngest player ever in MLB, 15 years old when he appeared in 1 game in 1944.
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SteveJRogers Nov 16 2007 05:46 PM |
Ironically nicknamed "The Old Lefthander" during his long broadcasting career with the Reds.
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cooby Nov 17 2007 09:26 AM |
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Yancy, I am so sorry, please accept my condolences
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Iubitul Nov 17 2007 05:50 PM |
Yancy - please accept my heartfelt condolences on your loss.
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G-Fafif Nov 18 2007 03:26 PM |
Condolences on your grandma, Yancy. A great run, it sounds like, and as Dizzy himself put it, it ain't braggin' if you can back it up. Near 97, no doubt she could.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 20 2007 08:18 AM |
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His tombstore should read:
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Willets Point Nov 20 2007 09:04 PM |
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Edgy DC Nov 20 2007 09:13 PM |
Housewives are morons.
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Willets Point Nov 20 2007 09:14 PM |
Morons ... and dangerously crazy as well.
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seawolf17 Nov 26 2007 09:34 AM |
[url=http://www.metalsludge.tv/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1388&Itemid=42]Kevin DuBrow[/url], frontman for Quiet Riot.
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Fman99 Nov 27 2007 08:30 AM |
RIP to [url=http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3129406]Sean Taylor,[/url] Washington defensive back.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 27 2007 09:56 AM |
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Instead of a moment of silence, we should have a moment of noize. Quiet Riot had to be the stepping-in-shittiest band of the entire MTV era. They were smart enough to dust off a few cool but underknown cover tunes and lucky enough to pioneer the ridiculous glam-metal era before hair became too important (they were out-glammed in like 5 seconds and never heard from again). DuBrow in the iconic "Noize" video appears to be losing his hair but in subsequent vids looks like he OD'ed on Monoxodil. Was he murdered? I recall reading where he was known to routtinely trash his former bandmates & shit.
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Edgy DC Nov 27 2007 10:06 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Nov 27 2007 07:41 PM |
Before they exploded, Quiet Riot could brag that Randy Rhoads was a member.
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Valadius Nov 27 2007 12:51 PM |
Dr. Robert Cade, inventor of Gatorade, died at 80.
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Benjamin Grimm Nov 27 2007 01:16 PM |
Hey, his name rhymes with the thing he invented!
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Nymr83 Nov 27 2007 04:07 PM |
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from the article
what flavors are we missing out on??
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Valadius Nov 27 2007 04:15 PM |
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Gatorade_flavors]Here's the list of flavors.[/url]
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themetfairy Nov 27 2007 04:21 PM |
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Biceps flavored Gatorade? I'm not too sorry about missing out on that one....
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Nymr83 Nov 27 2007 04:41 PM |
Apple-ice sounds good.
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MFS62 Nov 27 2007 05:36 PM |
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I think we all have our own idea of what it might be. Now, about how they obtain it.... Later
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DocTee Nov 27 2007 05:53 PM |
Citrus Cooler kicked ass. Can't find it anymore.
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cooby Nov 27 2007 06:14 PM |
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They all taste like Biceps to me
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Benjamin Grimm Nov 28 2007 07:23 AM |
Yet another death in my family, this time it's our cat, Phoebe, age 17. She died peacefully this morning after a couple of days of steep decline.
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seawolf17 Nov 28 2007 07:36 AM |
You know your pet is not likely to outlive you, but it's still so hard to take when it happens. My mom had to put her cocker spaniel to sleep last week; it's such a hard thing to do.
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metirish Nov 28 2007 07:36 AM |
Very sorry for your families loss , that seems like a great age for a cat, is it?
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Benjamin Grimm Nov 28 2007 07:50 AM |
Yes, it is. I recently found some cat-to-human age calculators on the Internet, and the results varied a little, but it was safe to say she was roughly the equivalent of an 88- or 89-year-old lady.
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Centerfield Nov 28 2007 08:20 AM |
Yancy,
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themetfairy Nov 28 2007 09:05 AM |
My condolences on your losses.
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metsguyinmichigan Nov 28 2007 01:01 PM |
Yancy,
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MFS62 Nov 28 2007 05:27 PM |
Yancy,
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Rockin' Doc Nov 28 2007 08:18 PM |
Yancy, I'm sorry to hear of the passing of your beloved family cat. I wish you and your family a most joyous and happy December after all the losses you have had to endure in November.
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soupcan Nov 29 2007 07:32 AM |
Pets that have been with you for years are really tough to lose.
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Edgy DC Nov 29 2007 07:39 AM |
From me, also.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 29 2007 07:50 AM |
Me and Skipper send along condolences as well.
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Benjamin Grimm Nov 29 2007 07:55 AM |
Thank you all!
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Edgy DC Nov 29 2007 01:39 PM |
Congressional giant Henry Hyde joins Phoebe in the hereafter.
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Valadius Nov 30 2007 02:25 PM |
Evel Knievel dead at 69.
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Edgy DC Nov 30 2007 02:37 PM |
Kanye West: poison.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 30 2007 02:45 PM |
He's got some nerve dying of a disease and not a horrific rocketcycle wreck.
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Willets Point Nov 30 2007 02:47 PM |
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Good point. Once he learned it was incurable he should have set up a jump over Grand Canyon.
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Edgy DC Nov 30 2007 02:51 PM |
Second grade, every kid in my class was Superman for Halloween, and I was some dumb shit (a devil, I think).
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HahnSolo Dec 01 2007 07:50 AM |
At first I though Evel jumped out a window when he heard about the Milledge trade.
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Edgy DC Dec 12 2007 05:14 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Dec 16 2007 07:33 PM |
Ike Turner is now ineligible to sing for Quiet Riot, passing from this world at 76.
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Fman99 Dec 16 2007 07:08 PM |
NEW YORK (AP) -- Dan Fogelberg, the singer and songwriter whose hits "Leader of the Band" and "Same Old Lang Syne" helped define the soft-rock era, died Sunday at his home in Maine after battling prostate cancer. He was 56.
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Edgy DC Dec 21 2007 06:30 AM |
No surprise, but J. Russell Coffey passes at 109. He fought Gerry in World War I.
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Nymr83 Dec 21 2007 07:03 PM |
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There are now two known American veterans of WW1 left
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seawolf17 Dec 21 2007 07:22 PM |
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No, Julio Franco is not one of them.
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Nymr83 Dec 21 2007 08:22 PM |
julo franco, whenever you need an age joke, he's there for you.
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sharpie Dec 24 2007 12:38 PM |
Jazz great Oscar Peterson
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