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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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

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

I feel a relief in the force.

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.

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/

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.

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

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

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.

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

Oops! I always get those two mixed up.

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.

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.

former NJ governor Jim Florio dead at 85

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

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.

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

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

Gosh, I hope not.

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

It was not an actual paradise.

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

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.

It's the paradise that counts

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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Hope he was able to take that Fantastic Voyage.

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.

She wasn’t in True Blood.

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.

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

Nope. That was Lois Smith.

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.

Umm...

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

Old people are fungible.

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