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

[Lassr]

I watched them a lot as a child.

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[Blackhawk]

Tom Smothers

Tom Smothers, half of the Smothers Brothers and the co-host of one of the most socially conscious and groundbreaking television shows in the history of the medium, has died at 86.

The National Comedy Center, on behalf of his family, said in a statement Wednesday that Smothers died Tuesday at home in Santa Rosa, California, following a cancer battle.

He had yo.

[Daehawk]

Another shame. Grew up with them. Such nice guys and funny and talented. Another piece of my life is passing and it feels strange every time. And a bit scary. RIP Tommy.

[dbt1949]

One of my all time favorite comedians. RIP

[Kraken]

His mother always liked him best.

[Blackhawk]

[Isgrimnur]

Founding Dixie Chicks member Laura Lynch killed in car crash in Texas

An upright bass player, Lynch founded the band alongside three other women in 1989, including sisters Martie Maguire and Emily Strayer, according to the band's biography on Country Music television. The group recorded three albums together before Lynch left and was replaced by Natalie Maines, creating the current trio of Maines, Maguire and Strayer.

[Rumpy]

Always got so mesmerized when they started doing the yo-yo tricks. They made it look so easy.

[Daehawk]

Always got so mesmerized when they started doing the yo-yo tricks. They made it look so easy.

Yep. ive probably hit myself in the head wit ha yo yo more times than i remember thanks to them. I wonder what kind of yoyo Tommy used. I always likekd the duncan butterfly but i dont think he used them. they were big and heavy but damn they could spin well. His looked like a normal yoyo. I should ge ta yoyo. Got nothing in life to do mught as well yoyo. My trouble was the string always got tighter and tighter on my finger till it hurt and cut off circulation and became hard to remove.

Founding Dixie Chicks member Laura Lynch killed in car crash in Texas

I saw this. I could not for the life of me place her until I read she was with them in the beginnings and had left before they hit it big. Must smart to be in a bad a while then leave right when they hit it big. You must wonder what had happened if you'd stayed or if you were the cause of their lack of hits.

[Daehawk]

According to this article from last Dec they had just got back on the road. And now just a year later Tommy is gone

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Tom and Dick Smothers never expected to be back on camera again at this point of their lives. They especially didn't think they'd be appearing on CBS, the network that famously cancelled their top-rated show back in 1969 – the show that turned prime time TV upside-down.

[Rumpy]

Always got so mesmerized when they started doing the yo-yo tricks. They made it look so easy.

Yep. ive probably hit myself in the head wit ha yo yo more times than i remember thanks to them. I wonder what kind of yoyo Tommy used. I always likekd the duncan butterfly but i dont think he used them. they were big and heavy but damn they could spin well. His looked like a normal yoyo.

I might be wrong on this, but I think there might be different yoyo with different properties that make it easier doing certain tricks. But I was always amazed when they'd do the walk the dog trick.

[Daehawk]

We lost 103 entertainers this year. Im not sure who is showcased in this video as I haven't seen it myself yet.

Its a Jane Pauly hosted video.

[Rumpy]

"The uploader has not made this video available in your country"
Damned geoblocking.

[Max Peck]

AP's tally for 2023:

A look at the more than 100 influential figures who died this year

[Isgrimnur]

‘Speed Racer’ Actor Christian Oliver and His Two Young Daughters Killed in Caribbean Plane Crash

Oliver, whose real name was Christian Klepser, was 51. His daughters, Madita Klepser and Annik Klepser, were 12 and 10, respectively. Pilot Robert Sachs also died in the crash. They were the only passengers aboard the plane.

The aircraft was a small, one-engine plane owned and piloted by Sachs. It crashed one nautical mile west of Petit Nevis, a small island in the Grenadines, Thursday afternoon. The plane left from the J.F. Mitchell Airport in Paget Farm, Bequia, an island in the Grenadines, around 12:11 p.m. bound for St. Lucia as its final destination.

“Moments after taking off, the aircraft experienced difficulties and plummeted into the ocean,” the Royal St. Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force wrote in a statement. “Fishermen and divers from Paget Farm went to the scene of the incident in their boats to render assistance. The SVG Coast Guard was informed and quickly traveled to Paget Farm, Bequia, to lead in the rescue efforts.”
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Oliver had dozens of credits to his name from the 1990s through the 2020s. He most recently appeared in last year’s “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” and played the racecar driver Snake Oiler in “Speed Racer” (2008). He also had roles in “Sense8,” “Inspector George Gently,” “The Baby-Sitters Club,” “Saved by the Bell: The New Class” and more.

[hepcat]

Damn, David Soul has left us. That wasn't on my watch list. I'll have to watch Salem's Lot tonight in memory.

edit: whoops, he apparently deserved his own thread elsewhere.

[McNutt]

They all do, Hep. They all do.

[hepcat]

I’ll be lucky to have mine mentioned on the back of a Bazooka Joe gum wrapper.

[Skinypupy]

edit: whoops, he apparently deserved his own thread elsewhere.

I'm consistently fascinated by who is deemed worthy of their own individual RIP thread around here.

[Smoove_B]

I'm consistently fascinated by who is deemed worthy of their own individual RIP thread around here.

It's not that I don't think people deserve their own threads, its just that OO is already low-volume with a few dozen people posting. If we started new threads here to memorialize every single RIP, this forum would be a solid wall of memorial posts rather quickly.

[McNutt]

Blame me. I hate catch-all posts with a passion. I'd like to see individual threads about shows rather than dig through the catch-all Netflix post or whatever. I think the amount of content is getting smaller because of these types of posts. I'd rather have 10 RIP threads in the home screen than one. It's not about who deserves it, but not having to go back pages in a super thread to find the one thing you wanted to discuss.

[Jaymann]

I'm consistently fascinated by who is deemed worthy of their own individual RIP thread around here.

It's not that I don't think people deserve their own threads, its just that OO is already low-volume with a few dozen people posting. If we started new threads here to memorialize every single RIP, this forum would be a solid wall of memorial posts rather quickly.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

[Smoove_B]

You say that like it's a bad thing.

If EBG becomes a wall of RIP, then that will definitely be something.

[Z-Corn]

I sure learned my lesson the one time i posted a new RIP thread and a Known Asshole on this board took me to task publicly for it.

I never start threads here and I'm completely uninclined to do so now.

[Daehawk]

I started this thread exactly because I was being told there were too many single threads of stuff on OO.

[Rumpy]

Not to mention that when someone does get one, it feels completely arbitrary.

[Isgrimnur]

You say that like it's a bad thing.

If EBG becomes a wall of RIP, then that will definitely be something.

Don't tempt me.

[Isgrimnur]

I sure learned my lesson the one time i posted a new RIP thread and a Known Asshole on this board took me to task publicly for it.

I never start threads here and I'm completely uninclined to do so now.

As the top poster, you have my sanction to start any thread you want.

[Smoove_B]

Don't tempt me.

I am but a fly on the wall; the forums are whatever we make them and if that's our destiny, so be it.

[hepcat]

When Mark Wahlberg kicks it, you have my permission to bury that news in Random Randomness.

[Sudy]

This seems to come up a lot.

If you think someone deserves their own thread, they deserve it. It's about what they meant to you, or what significance you think they had. We don't need formal rules because we have civility and most of us have known each other, no matter how superficially, for years if not decades.

If we want to make a drive against catch-all threads, the community has the ability to do that. Just... create new threads for topics that you think warrant more in-depth/isolated discussion. Blackhawk for example does this all the time. As mentioned, within reason I don't think we have to worry about the forum being flooded with superfluous content. But please, use clear subjects and update them as needed (or if the original poster is no longer active, create a continuation thread).

[hepcat]

Things are getting heated. Issie, can we get a couple flamingoes in here to calm things down?

[coopasonic]

Things are getting heated. Issie, can we get a couple flamingoes in here to calm things down?

Preferably dead, in honor of the thread.

[hepcat]

Damn, that’s cold, coop.

[Punisher]

Question.
Is there a functional reason why we shouldn't post multiple thread's?

If not, i wonder if we could make some more subforums?
So an RIP forum. Main thread is sticky with just a list of names. Then anyone can add individual threads.

A TV subforum. Sticky threads for each main privider then posts for individual shows.

A movie subforum. Not sure if we'd need a sticky, just posts for each movie.

I think this could also serve to organize the site even more.

[hepcat]

I think it’s primarily because they fear what subforums I would try to create.

[Punisher]

I wouldn't prefer it but if it means getting something like i mentioned id back your Golden Girls sub forum.

[Kraken]

Question.
Is there a functional reason why we shouldn't post multiple thread's?

If not, i wonder if we could make some more subforums?
So an RIP forum. Main thread is sticky with just a list of names. Then anyone can add individual threads.

A TV subforum. Sticky threads for each main privider then posts for individual shows.

A movie subforum. Not sure if we'd need a sticky, just posts for each movie.

I think this could also serve to organize the site even more.

I like this idea, especially for TV and movies. I like organization. I would like to see sports threads go away. But we're such a small and ever-shrinking community that I wonder if it's a good idea to splinter our interaction.

[Punisher]

Question.
Is there a functional reason why we shouldn't post multiple thread's?

If not, i wonder if we could make some more subforums?
So an RIP forum. Main thread is sticky with just a list of names. Then anyone can add individual threads.

A TV subforum. Sticky threads for each main privider then posts for individual shows.

A movie subforum. Not sure if we'd need a sticky, just posts for each movie.

I think this could also serve to organize the site even more.

I like this idea, especially for TV and movies. I like organization. I would like to see sports threads go away. But we're such a small and ever-shrinking community that I wonder if it's a good idea to splinter our interaction.

I'd assume that people would still read and post in other forums and if not, I'd be surprised if they did now.
I know that I generally ignore any sports post because i just dont follow sports. If the forums were organized differently id still svoid them but still keep going to EBG to see if there are any new posts that interest me.

[Isgrimnur]

Things are getting heated. Issie, can we get a couple flamingoes in here to calm things down?

Preferably dead, in honor of the thread.

Spoiler:

Thousands of flamingos die in drought in central Turkey (2021)

Thousands of baby flamingos have died at Turkey's Lake Tuz in the past two weeks from a drought that environmentalists said was the result of climate change and agricultural irrigation methods.

Drone footage of the large saline lake in Turkey's central province of Konya showed dead flaminglets lying partially buried in dried mud. Lake Tuz is home to a flamingo colony where up to 10,000 flaminglets are born every year.

Turkish Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, Bekir Pakdemirli said around 1,000 birds were thought to have died but denied that agriculture was to blame.