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

[Rumpy]

I thought Pat Robertson died years ago, but maybe I'm thinking of the other famous one.

Jerry Falwell, maybe (almost 20 years ago).

Yeah, maybe that's the one. Although I feel like there's another one I'm forgetting. Oh, I was thinking of Jimmy Swaggart, and I think his son succeeded him.

[Hyena]

Pat Robertson

It's unseemly to speak ill of the dead so I will only say that the world is a slightly better place today.

I'm not known for being seemly. Good riddance.

When I saw the link I was like, "Who the hell is gonna talk bad about Uncle Ben!? I will fight someone!" Then I remembered that was Cliff Robertson, and that he died a few years ago.

[Lassr]

Pat Robertson

It's unseemly to speak ill of the dead so I will only say that the world is a slightly better place today.

Another one down, and too many more to go...

[Kraken]

Some people make the world a better place when they're born, and others when they die. Two guesses which type Robertson was.

[stimpy]

[Alefroth]

I thought Pat Robertson died years ago, but maybe I'm thinking of the other famous one.

Jerry Falwell, maybe (almost 20 years ago).

Yeah, maybe that's the one. Although I feel like there's another one I'm forgetting. Oh, I was thinking of Jimmy Swaggart, and I think his son succeeded him.

Or Billy Graham? Focker lived to 100.

[Hrothgar]

Interesting. I had always heard that Robertson was the least scummy of the Televangelists. He said plenty of stupid stuff, but he was on TV nearly every day for 50 years. I know our church had partnered with some of his charitable ministries on disaster relief. He was a big supporter of Israel despite some using some antisemitic tropes and conspiracy theories years ago. I never thought of him as evil.

[Max Peck]

Being the least scummy of a scummy profession is a low bar. He reportedly accumulated a personal net worth of about $100 million by soliciting donations on TV nearly every day for 50 years. That alone is evil enough for me.

[TheMix]

Which is why "Well, the God I believe in isn't short of cash, mister" has always resonated with me.

[Rumpy]

I thought Pat Robertson died years ago, but maybe I'm thinking of the other famous one.

Jerry Falwell, maybe (almost 20 years ago).

Yeah, maybe that's the one. Although I feel like there's another one I'm forgetting. Oh, I was thinking of Jimmy Swaggart, and I think his son succeeded him.

Or Billy Graham? Focker lived to 100.

I think you've got it on the nose. That's definitely who I had in mind.

[Daehawk]

My family loved Billy Graham. Maybe I remember him wrong being a kid but I dont recall him being an ass or supporting bs. Im sure my view is clouded.

But the rest...my family would watch them every Sunday. I dont know why my family and so many others were deaf to the hate and rhetoric these moronic assholes spewed each time they opened their mouths. All they were were money grubbing sobs.

[Kraken]

My family loved Billy Graham. Maybe I remember him wrong being a kid but I dont recall him being an ass or supporting bs. Im sure my view is clouded.

But the rest...my family would watch them every Sunday. I dont know why my family and so many others were deaf to the hate and rhetoric these morn assholes spewed each time they opened their mouths. All they were were money grubbing sobs.

Billy Graham was the least objectionable of the TV preachers. One might argue that he did more good than harm, unlike Robertson, Falwell, Bakker, and their ilk who were in it purely for money and influence.

[Max Peck]

The internet concensus seems to be that Billie Graham accumulated a personal net worth of around $25 million. This is the point where I circle back to the "least scummy of a scummy profession" portion of the discussion.

[dbt1949]

We went and saw him in the Coliseum in Los Angeles. Of course we were high in the "bleachers" so he was the size of a pinhead. The Coliseum was full (over 100K).

[Max Peck]

Getting back to Pat Robertson, Wil Wheaton wrote some words:

The Wait

We aren’t supposed to speak ill of the dead, even when they were monsters in life who hurt countless people.

Okay. But nobody said we couldn’t write fan fiction.

It's harsh. But fair.

[Pyperkub]

Getting back to Pat Robertson, Wil Wheaton wrote some words:

The Wait

We aren’t supposed to speak ill of the dead, even when they were monsters in life who hurt countless people.

Okay. But nobody said we couldn’t write fan fiction.

It's harsh. But fair.

Love it!

[Octavious]

Guess he wasn't a fan?

[Daehawk]

Wil is a good man.Strange sentence. I still see him as young wesley crusher.

[RM2]

a great little story, now I will just leave it at that

[Kraken]

Another one down the karmic drain: James Watt

"While no one's death should be celebrated, he was the worst of MAGA before it was invented," tweeted David Donger of the environmental group Natural Resources Defense Council, referring to former President Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan.

Watt and his supporters saw him as an upholder of President Ronald Reagan's core conservative values, but opponents were alarmed by his policies and offended by his comments. In 1981, shortly after he was appointed, the Sierra Club collected more than 1 million signatures seeking Watt's ouster and criticized such actions as clear-cutting federal lands in the Pacific Northwest, weakening environmental regulations for strip mining and hampering efforts to curtail air pollution in California's Yosemite Valley.

[dbt1949]

Good riddance.

[Isgrimnur]

Breaking Bad Actor Mike Batayeh Dies At 52

Actor and comedian Mike Batayeh, most remembered for his role in Breaking Bad as the manager of Gus's renowned laundry, has died. He was 52. According to Variety, his relatives informed that Mike Batayeh died of a heart attack while sleeping in his Michigan home on June 1.

[Smoove_B]

The Unabomber:

Ted Kaczynski, the convicted terrorist known as the Unabomber, was found dead in his prison cell early Saturday, according to a Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesperson. He was 81.

Kaczynski was found unresponsive in his cell around 12:30 a.m. ET and transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

Kaczynski was previously in a maximum security facility in Colorado but was moved to a federal medical center in Butner, North Carolina, in December 2021 due to poor health.

[dbt1949]

Twelve hours later he blew up.

[Daehawk]

Hate to talk ill of the mentally challenged but he was smart enough to do what he did and the world is better now that he isn't in it.

[Dramatist]

The Unabomber:

Ted Kaczynski, the convicted terrorist known as the Unabomber, was found dead in his prison cell early Saturday, according to a Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesperson. He was 81.

Kaczynski was found unresponsive in his cell around 12:30 a.m. ET and transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

Kaczynski was previously in a maximum security facility in Colorado but was moved to a federal medical center in Butner, North Carolina, in December 2021 due to poor health.

Your Karma clog theory is making more and more sense.


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[McNutt]

Hate to talk ill of the mentally challenged but he was smart enough to do what he did and the world is better now that he isn't in it.

Was he mentally challenged or just weird and evil?

[Jaymann]

Hate to talk ill of the mentally challenged but he was smart enough to do what he did and the world is better now that he isn't in it.

Was he mentally challenged or just weird and evil?

Read his manifesto and all will become clear.

[Kraken]

Well I learned tonight that he was the Unabomber because his FBI code was UNABOM for "University and Airline Bombing" -- he had threatened to bomb airliners.

[Max Peck]

He did more than threaten to bomb airlines. One bomb exploded on an airliner in flight and another targeted the head of United Airlines.

[Isgrimnur]

John Goodenough, Nobel laureate and battery pioneer, dies at 100

Nobel laureate John Goodenough, a pioneer in the development of lithium-ion batteries that today power millions of electric vehicles around the globe, died on Sunday just a month short of his 101st birthday.

The American was “was a leader at the cutting edge of scientific research throughout the many decades of his career," said Jay Hartzell, President of the University of Texas at Austin where Goodenough was a faculty member for 37 years.

Goodenough was 97 when he received the 2019 Nobel Prize for Chemistry - along with Britain's Stanley Whittingham and Japan's Akira Yoshino, for their respective research into lithium-ion batteries - making him the oldest recipient of a Nobel Prize.
...
Goodenough also was an early developer of lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cathodes as an alternative to nickel- and cobalt-based cathodes. LFP is rapidly overtaking more-expensive nickel cobalt manganese in electric vehicle batteries, experts say, because it uses materials that are more abundant and sustainable at much lower cost.

He was born on July 25, 1922, in Jena, Germany, to American parents.

[Daehawk]

Geez I started the read the name and for a sec thought it was going to be John Goodman..sheesh.

[Smoove_B]

For my friends (and hopefully future neighbors) across the border, I offer my genuine condolences over Sue Johanson:

Sue Johanson, the beloved Canadian broadcaster who in her golden years enraptured a generation with straightforward sex advice, has died at age 93, a representative confirmed to CBC News on Thursday.

Johanson died in a long-term care home in Thornhill, Ont., just north of Toronto, surrounded by her family, the representative said.

The broadcaster was best known for hosting the Canadian call-in radio and then television program Sunday Night Sex Show, which led to a successful U.S. spinoff called Talk Sex With Sue Johanson.

RIP, legend. Totally not being sarcastic, she was legendary.

If she seems familiar to you (as an American) and you're not entire sure how you know her, perhaps you saw her on Conan. I'm going to spoiler it just to keep some decorum in this thread.

Spoiler:

[Daehawk]

hahaha that had me rolling. A perverted MacGyver lol. And Tom Selleck and Big Show lol. BS is 31 and TS is 58. 2003 ep.

RIP. She is the Dr Ruth of Canada.

[Smoove_B]

Lisa Marie Presley dies at 54 after hospitalization

Apparently it was a bowel obstruction:

A small bowel obstruction is a blockage in the small intestine, often because of things like scar tissue, a hernia or cancer. Without surgery, it can cause bowel tissue to die or perforate, leading to death.

[Daehawk]

lots die from that. Seems such a waste.

[hepcat]

Sinead O'Connor at 56.

Hate her or love her, she had an amazing voice. She struggled with mental health issues here entire life though. Sad to see her go so young. It wouldn't surprise me if the cause of death was suicide.

I know Nothing Compares 2 U was her break out, but I dare anyone to listen to Troy and not recognize a great talent. It starts slow and pensive, but by the end the emotion is raw and palpable.

Spoiler:

[LordMortis]

Wow. Didn't see that coming. Also didn't know she was only two years older than me. That means she was crazy young The Lion and the Cobra came out given how mature the album felt.

[TheMix]

That's rough. I loved her early stuff. Troy is one of my favorite songs. Easily in the top ten. Her voice was a force of nature. So amazing.

Edit: Apparently I'd never actually seen the video for Troy. Song gives me chills. I am continuously amazed at how effortless she made it all seem. From soft and subdued to knocking pictures off the walls, one breath to the next.

[Unagi]

Omg this is sad news.
She was an incredible singer.

“I’d kill a dragon for youuuuu!!!!”

Damn.


“The Lion and The Cobra” was really my only focus, but my god that album is amazing.