Arkan Posted June 28, 2009 Posted June 28, 2009 http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2009-0...it_N.htm?csp=34 David Carradine Ed MacMahon Farrah Fawcett Michael Jackson Billy Mayes Death is working overtime on celebs this month "Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger." - Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials "I have also been slowly coming to the realisation that knowledge and happiness are not necessarily coincident, and quite often mutually exclusive" - meta
Walsingham Posted June 28, 2009 Posted June 28, 2009 Thank God I'm a talentless nobody. "It wasn't lies. It was just... bull****"." -Elwood Blues tarna's dead; processing... complete. Disappointed by Universe. RIP Hades/Sand/etc. Here's hoping your next alt has a harp.
Slowtrain Posted June 28, 2009 Posted June 28, 2009 I've really been enjoying Pitchmen on the Discovery Channel this season. It's going to be weird watching it this Wednesday. I don't know if I'll be able to. Notice how I can belittle your beliefs without calling you names. It's a useful skill to have particularly where you aren't allowed to call people names. It's a mistake to get too drawn in/worked up. I mean it's not life or death, it's just two guys posting their thoughts on a message board. If it were personal or face to face all the usual restraints would be in place, and we would never have reached this place in the first place. Try to remember that.
Darth InSidious Posted June 28, 2009 Posted June 28, 2009 Thank God I'm a talentless nobody. Would it be in terribly bad taste for me to say "so were they"? This particularly rapid, unintelligible patter isn't generally heard, and if it is, it doesn't matter.
Nihilus5078 Posted June 28, 2009 Posted June 28, 2009 I wonder who will be the next , David Letterman maybe . Probably not, but what of it! David Carradine Ed McMahon Farrah Fawcat Michael Jackson Billy Mayes
Blarghagh Posted June 28, 2009 Posted June 28, 2009 Also, Shih Kien, a very famous japanese actor, mostly known for playing villains in like every wuxia film, and for playing Han from Bruce Lee's Enter The Dragon. Not a legend so much in the western world, but a legend nonetheless.
Rosbjerg Posted June 28, 2009 Posted June 28, 2009 I turned 25 and survived, so I'm not complaining.. but yes, it's a shame that these people died, especially David Carradine - I quite liked him. Fortune favors the bald.
Calax Posted June 29, 2009 Posted June 29, 2009 I wonder who will be the next , David Letterman maybe . Probably not, but what of it! Nah, Letterman is to young, Larry King next IMO. Victor of the 5 year fan fic competition! Kevin Butler will awesome your face off.
Gorth Posted June 29, 2009 Posted June 29, 2009 Political discussion moved to separate thread. Let me know if a different thread title for that one is better. Enough thread hijacking for today “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
GreasyDogMeat Posted June 29, 2009 Posted June 29, 2009 Poor Farrah Fawcett. Dies on the same day as MJ and gets completely ignored. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRtNeSOGkvI
Blarghagh Posted June 29, 2009 Posted June 29, 2009 Yes I noticed as much. I travel a lot by train and here in holland there are a bunch of free newspapers given out in the train. At 7 am I picked up a newspaper which had Farrah Fawcett on the frontpage, and by 8 am I was handed an updated one which had MJ on the frontpage and Farrah Fawcett was pushed to page 13. I thought that was pretty rough.
Trenitay Posted June 29, 2009 Posted June 29, 2009 Billy Mays is the saddest death of them all. Hey now, my mother is huge and don't you forget it. The drunk can't even get off the couch to make herself a vodka drenched sandwich. Octopus suck.
Volourn Posted June 30, 2009 Posted June 30, 2009 I so love how the masses have somehow enshirned Micheal Jackson as some type of heroic saint sinc ehis death after over a decade of slamming him with possibly true or false accusation of liking little boys, and other nefarious misdeeds. Silly hypocrites. As for the other celebrities. Meh. Unimportant. Though, Mr. Carradine was cool in some of his movies. KUNG FU! DWARVES IN PROJECT ETERNITY = VOLOURN HAS PLEDGED $250.
~Di Posted June 30, 2009 Posted June 30, 2009 I know this probably doesn't mean much to most of you... hell, other than vague memories of reruns during my childhood it doesn't mean much to me either... but Gale Storm, who played the lead in the 1950's tv series My Little Margie, also died last week. Talk about a celebrity roll-call up yonder...
Omelette Posted June 30, 2009 Posted June 30, 2009 Billy Mays is the saddest death of them all. Indeed it is. I am more upset over his death than anyone else. :/
Slowtrain Posted June 30, 2009 Posted June 30, 2009 Billy Mays is the saddest death of them all. Indeed it is. I am more upset over his death than anyone else. :/ Me too. Notice how I can belittle your beliefs without calling you names. It's a useful skill to have particularly where you aren't allowed to call people names. It's a mistake to get too drawn in/worked up. I mean it's not life or death, it's just two guys posting their thoughts on a message board. If it were personal or face to face all the usual restraints would be in place, and we would never have reached this place in the first place. Try to remember that.
Slowtrain Posted June 30, 2009 Posted June 30, 2009 Billy Mays Notice how I can belittle your beliefs without calling you names. It's a useful skill to have particularly where you aren't allowed to call people names. It's a mistake to get too drawn in/worked up. I mean it's not life or death, it's just two guys posting their thoughts on a message board. If it were personal or face to face all the usual restraints would be in place, and we would never have reached this place in the first place. Try to remember that.
LadyCrimson Posted June 30, 2009 Posted June 30, 2009 When John Cleese goes, I'll be in mourning for a week. “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts
Oerwinde Posted June 30, 2009 Posted June 30, 2009 Stan Lee will be my big one. The guy is almost 90, I hope he's one of those guys who lives to like 110, but I know it won't happen. The area between the balls and the butt is a hotbed of terrorist activity.
Killian Kalthorne Posted June 30, 2009 Posted June 30, 2009 Wil Wheaton... Just because... "Your Job is not to die for your country, but set a man on fire, and take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe."
Walsingham Posted June 30, 2009 Posted June 30, 2009 I got really upset when I found out Bill Hicks was dead. "It wasn't lies. It was just... bull****"." -Elwood Blues tarna's dead; processing... complete. Disappointed by Universe. RIP Hades/Sand/etc. Here's hoping your next alt has a harp.
Gorgon Posted June 30, 2009 Posted June 30, 2009 (edited) Stan Lee will be my big one. The guy is almost 90, I hope he's one of those guys who lives to like 110, but I know it won't happen.What for, Stan Lee created some of the mythology of Spiderman and fantastic 4, and countless other well known superheroes. For this limited to moderately impressive accomplishment he somehow managed to become even more famous than the artists who actually made the comic books. What is the big deal about Stan Lee, other than the fact that he is still alive. With the exception of some iconic fantastic four and even less spiderman the writing is pretty bad. Edited June 30, 2009 by Gorgon Na na na na na na ... greg358 from Darksouls 3 PVP is a CHEATER. That is all.
Calax Posted June 30, 2009 Posted June 30, 2009 Stan Lee will be my big one. The guy is almost 90, I hope he's one of those guys who lives to like 110, but I know it won't happen.What for, Stan Lee created some of the mythology of Spiderman and fantastic 4, and countless other well known superheroes. For this limited to moderately impressive accomplishment he somehow managed to become even more famous than the artists who actually made the comic books. What is the big deal about Stan Lee, other than the fact that he is still alive. With the exception of some iconic fantastic four and even less spiderman the writing is pretty bad. He became Iconic because while he did only come up with the basics for most of the marvel heroes, he was the driving force behind most of the best story lines in the early days, and he made the business successful again after the war genre moved out. He's basically responsible for comics as we know it today (in terms of writing and story). I think part of it is that he's the person people go to to figure out exactly what Marvel characters should think (since they all pretty much come from his brain). Also he has a great sense about self parody (see "So you want to be a Superhero" or whatever reality show that was, and the various robot chicken clips), and is a generally likeable guy. Particularly in an industry where some guys can be total jackholes about things (Alex Ross won't draw anyone who was created after the silver age, Dan Way bans people for asking why he only writes five sentances in a book, Greg Land traces porn and says he doesn't...) Victor of the 5 year fan fic competition! Kevin Butler will awesome your face off.
Meshugger Posted June 30, 2009 Posted June 30, 2009 "Some men see things as they are and say why?""I dream things that never were and say why not?"- George Bernard Shaw"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."- Friedrich Nietzsche "The amount of energy necessary to refute bull**** is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it." - Some guy
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