R.I.P. The thread of death....celebrity or otherwise

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Fri Sep 09, 2022 7:49 pm

Doesn't seem 33 years ago..wow. Dude was like 42. Horrible disaster that as i recall could have been avoided. But shit happens in everyone's life. I hope he found peace from it and was able to move on.

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Sat Sep 10, 2022 7:33 pm

Alefroth wrote: ↑Thu Sep 08, 2022 11:29 pm
Jeff V wrote: ↑Thu Sep 08, 2022 10:40 pm
Unagi wrote: ↑Thu Sep 08, 2022 10:38 pm You are confusing Role with Duty.
Perhaps so! All I know is we fought 2 wars for the right to not give two fucks about the lot of them.
I figured you'd have a better understanding of why we fought those wars.

I didn't say it was the only reason, did I? But a reason it was.

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Mon Sep 12, 2022 2:15 pm

Sudy wrote: ↑Fri Sep 09, 2022 12:01 am The Kardashians are America's royal family.

I just saw this comment today. This morning, as some news program was talking about changes with the passing of the Queen, I compared the royal family to the Kardashians and my wife was not at all pleased by my suggestion that they are in any way similar.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Mon Sep 12, 2022 2:18 pm

I mean, it's true. The only reason the royal family is so famous is because Alfred the Great released a sex tape.

Sudy · Post by **Sudy** » Mon Sep 12, 2022 2:23 pm

coopasonic wrote: ↑Mon Sep 12, 2022 2:15 pm
Sudy wrote: ↑Fri Sep 09, 2022 12:01 am The Kardashians are America's royal family.
...I compared the royal family to the Kardashians and my wife was not at all pleased by my suggestion that they are in any way similar.

In defense of which family?

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Wed Sep 14, 2022 8:47 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Mon Sep 12, 2022 2:18 pm I mean, it's true. The only reason the royal family is so famous is because Alfred the Great released a sex tape.

If you know anything at all about Alfred the Great, you can appreciate the humor in this.

Pyperkub · Post by **Pyperkub** » Tue Sep 20, 2022 7:56 pm

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 17, 2021 1:39 pm Rush Limbaugh died, age 70.
Have nothing good to say about him.

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Wed Sep 21, 2022 1:12 am

I feel a relief in the force.

Brian · Post by **Brian** » Thu Sep 22, 2022 9:59 pm

Probably not a whole lot of Piledriver fans here but frontman Gord Kirchin passed away at 60.

Metal Inquisition got a lot of play on my car tape deck back in the day.
I still throw it in the rotation every now and then.

Defiant · Post by **Defiant** » Fri Sep 23, 2022 11:48 pm

Louise Fletcher has passed away. She played, among many other roles, Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, and Kai Winn on Deep Space Nine, has passed away.

https://deadline.com/2022/09/louise-fle ... 235126266/

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sat Sep 24, 2022 12:08 am

Defiant wrote: ↑Fri Sep 23, 2022 11:48 pm Louise Fletcher has passed away. She played, among many other roles, Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, and Kai Winn on Deep Space Nine, has passed away.

https://deadline.com/2022/09/louise-fle ... 235126266/

I just came to post this.. My wife enjoyed her work. I down right hated her on Deep Space Nine. She was so good at making me hate her lol. RIP. Probably a really nice woman in real life.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Sat Sep 24, 2022 12:13 am

Nurse Ratched was one of the all-time best villains. Fletcher had a great career and, it seems, a mostly happy 88 years of life. RIP

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Sat Sep 24, 2022 12:14 am

Most of her career she seemed to play bad guys. She was a babe in her younger days, like the Exorcist. A fine actress.

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Sat Sep 24, 2022 12:17 am

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 24, 2022 12:14 am Most of her career she seemed to play bad guys. She was a babe in her younger days...

Maybe so, but that was Ellen Burstyn in The Exorcist.

Edit: I see she WAS in Exorcist II.

Hrdina · Post by **Hrdina** » Sat Sep 24, 2022 12:18 am

Yeah, she was amazing as Kai Winn. She even managed to elicit some sympathy in a few episodes, but never for very long.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Sat Sep 24, 2022 12:18 am

Oops! I always get those two mixed up.

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Sat Sep 24, 2022 12:21 am

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 24, 2022 12:18 am Oops! I always get those two mixed up.

You were right, she was in the second one.

Hrdina · Post by **Hrdina** » Sat Sep 24, 2022 12:33 am

Jaymann wrote: ↑Sat Sep 24, 2022 12:17 am
dbt1949 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 24, 2022 12:14 am Most of her career she seemed to play bad guys. She was a babe in her younger days...
Maybe so, but that was Ellen Burstyn in The Exorcist.

Edit: I see she WAS in Exorcist II.

Ha, you posted that update while I was responding to you.

RM2 · Post by **RM2** » Tue Sep 27, 2022 8:27 pm

former NJ governor Jim Florio dead at 85

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/2 ... 5-00058795

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Wed Sep 28, 2022 9:15 pm

Coolio passes at 59, suspected cardiac arrest.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Wed Sep 28, 2022 9:32 pm

Skinypupy wrote: ↑Wed Sep 28, 2022 9:15 pm Coolio passes at 59, suspected cardiac arrest.

Well thats out of the blue. I remember the 90s with him and Snoop Dog always in the news and releasing music. RIP. Days are passing on.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Wed Sep 28, 2022 10:24 pm

He must have inherited heart disease. He was still fairly young.

Rumpy · Post by **Rumpy** » Wed Sep 28, 2022 11:16 pm

Hopefully he's passed on to the gangster's paradise.

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Thu Sep 29, 2022 8:06 am

Gosh, I hope not.

He “spent most of his life, living in the gangster paradise. “

It was not an actual paradise.

Rumpy · Post by **Rumpy** » Thu Sep 29, 2022 10:40 am

Whatever, it's a play on words. I'm not being literal. And It's the sentiment that counts.

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Thu Sep 29, 2022 2:11 pm

Rumpy wrote: ↑Thu Sep 29, 2022 10:40 am Whatever, it's a play on words. I'm not being literal. And It's the sentiment that counts.

I'm sorry - I'm just being silly about it - please don't take it too seriously. I hear ya.

Rumpy · Post by **Rumpy** » Thu Sep 29, 2022 3:30 pm

It's the paradise that counts

Dramatist · Post by **Dramatist** » Thu Sep 29, 2022 3:59 pm

Skinypupy wrote:Coolio passes at 59, suspected cardiac arrest.

He’ll always be remembered for voicing Kwanza-bot on Futurama. RIP Coolio.

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Alefroth · Post by **Alefroth** » Thu Sep 29, 2022 9:11 pm

Hope he was able to take that Fantastic Voyage.

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Thu Sep 29, 2022 9:47 pm

Daehawk wrote: ↑Sat Sep 24, 2022 12:08 am
Defiant wrote: ↑Fri Sep 23, 2022 11:48 pm Louise Fletcher has passed away. She played, among many other roles, Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, and Kai Winn on Deep Space Nine, has passed away.

https://deadline.com/2022/09/louise-fle ... 235126266/
I just came to post this.. My wife enjoyed her work. I down right hated her on Deep Space Nine. She was so good at making me hate her lol. RIP. Probably a really nice woman in real life.

She was good in True Blood as well.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Thu Sep 29, 2022 9:53 pm

She wasn’t in True Blood.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Sep 29, 2022 9:57 pm

Coolio being dead is another of those deaths that feel weird cause he was young and a big part of my life and times. Not a huge fan but he was around and heard a lot of him.

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Thu Sep 29, 2022 9:57 pm

I could have sworn it was her playing the grandma in early seasons of the show.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Thu Sep 29, 2022 9:58 pm

Nope. That was Lois Smith.

Rumpy · Post by **Rumpy** » Fri Sep 30, 2022 12:48 am

Daehawk wrote: ↑Thu Sep 29, 2022 9:57 pm Coolio being dead is another of those deaths that feel weird cause he was young and a big part of my life and times. Not a huge fan but he was around and heard a lot of him.

Yeah, I'd consider him to be one of the defining sounds of the 90's. Gangsta's Paradise came out in 95, which is crazy because it doesn't seem like that long ago. I don't normally like Rap, but there was something musical and melodical about that song that made it cross boundaries. Then again, I do find a lot of that type of music much better from the 90's and earlier on. Now a lot of what you get is sampled from a lot of earlier music, which IMHO feels like cheating. Half the time when I hear that stuff, I'm left wondering what song it's supposed to be, as I don't hear any defining characteristics of their own, and all it does is become super confusing. Sampling a few bars, I don''t mind, but lately I've been hearing whole choruses and riffs being sampled.

Alefroth · Post by **Alefroth** » Fri Sep 30, 2022 1:33 am

Umm...

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Fri Sep 30, 2022 1:49 am

Sudy · Post by **Sudy** » Fri Sep 30, 2022 2:02 am

hepcat wrote: ↑Thu Sep 29, 2022 9:58 pm Nope. That was Lois Smith.

Old people are fungible.

McNutt · Post by **McNutt** » Fri Sep 30, 2022 9:12 am

Coolio's other big hit was Fantastic Voyage, which heavily sampled the 1980 Fantastic Voyage song by Lakeside.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Fri Sep 30, 2022 10:09 am