A new year, a new list of dead people
Sir Edmund Hillary (http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/10/edmund.hillary/index.html)
Vampira from Plan 9 from Outer Space (http://laist.com/2008/01/11/vampira_goes_to.php)
Some more, since we're behind:
Prior Red Sox owner Buddy LeRoux (http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2008/01/09/buddy_leroux_was_part_owner_of_sox_real_estate_baron_at_77/)
CIA turncoat Phil Agee (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22571961/)
Jim Dooley, player and coach of Chicago Bears (http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/cs-080108chicagobearsjimdooley,1,6637909.story?ctrack=1&cset=true)
Johnny Grant, honorary mayor of Hollywood (http://www.dailynews.com/ci_7924618)
We're not behind..those people aren't famous enough to mention. If you gotta say more than the dead farger's name, then they fail the Dio test.
Come on, Dio. I'm sure I'd heard of Agee before. Fled to Cuba, and wrote a book about all the CIAs secrets.
Dooley got front page treatment on ESPN when he passed.
Johnny Grant had been present to emcee every star on Hollywood blvd for like 30 years.
Dio, you just got Hared!
I just got dick.
If when you say the motherfarger's name, no one know's who the farg that is, so you gotta say some other shtein to clarify, then the dead farger ain't shtein.
Quote from: Diomedes on January 13, 2008, 02:45:15 AM
I just got dick.
You don't know how jealous you just made Chuggie.
Don't get me wrong..post whatever marginally notable death you find...please, rush to tell us when the guy who made the first tater tot died.
Quote from: Diomedes on January 13, 2008, 08:48:42 AM
Don't get me wrong..post whatever marginally notable death you find...please, rush to tell us when the guy who made the first tater tot died.
Francis Nephi ("Neef") Grigg (http://db3-sql.staff.library.utah.edu/lucene/Manuscripts/null/Accn1753.xml/complete) - Dead in 1989, so you are safe.
Quote from: Cerevant on January 13, 2008, 09:58:11 AM
Quote from: Diomedes on January 13, 2008, 08:48:42 AM
Don't get me wrong..post whatever marginally notable death you find...please, rush to tell us when the guy who made the first tater tot died.
Francis Nephi ("Neef") Grigg (http://db3-sql.staff.library.utah.edu/lucene/Manuscripts/null/Accn1753.xml/complete) - Dead in 1989, so you are safe.
:-D good one
Former Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher and Phils pitching coach Johnny Podres. (http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-obit-podres&prov=ap&type=lgns)
Quote from: Cerevant on January 13, 2008, 09:58:11 AM
Quote from: Diomedes on January 13, 2008, 08:48:42 AM
Don't get me wrong..post whatever marginally notable death you find...please, rush to tell us when the guy who made the first tater tot died.
Francis Nephi ("Neef") Grigg (http://db3-sql.staff.library.utah.edu/lucene/Manuscripts/null/Accn1753.xml/complete) - Dead in 1989, so you are safe.
Well, he's still dead in 2008, so that's sort of evergreen.
Actor Brad Renfro, 25 years old. Probable OD. (http://ktla.trb.com/news/ktla-renfro,0,2362173.story?coll=ktla-news-2)
I only knew him as the main kid in Bully, but here's his IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000605/) listing.
Judah Folkman (http://www.boston.com/news/health/blog/2008/01/research_giant.html)
I'm sure Dio hasn't heard of him, but he is a bigwig in cancer research, and is solely responsible for 3 marketed anti-cancer drugs, and numerous others in development.
Too bad his parents went with an h instead of an s, he could've had the best name ever.
Quote from: Father Demon on January 15, 2008, 07:38:17 PM
Actor Brad Renfro, 25 years old. Probable OD. (http://ktla.trb.com/news/ktla-renfro,0,2362173.story?coll=ktla-news-2)
I only knew him as the main kid in Bully, but here's his IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000605/) listing.
wow, i'm pretty sure he's the little kid from the client.
Yep.
Just an update on Ike Turner...he died of a cocaine overdose (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080117/ts_nm/turner_dc;_ylt=Ah6uoQLO2iRHSUHSdNCHcCtZ.3QA). My grandmother died when she was 76...but I'm pretty sure it wasn't coke that did her in.
Well there's the old better to burn out then fade away, but I guess he burned out and faded away.
Carl Karcher - Founder of Carl's Jr.
(http://regmedia.co.uk/2005/05/24/paris_hilton.jpg)
"If it doesn't get all over the place, it doesn't belong in your face"
Chess champ Bobby Fischer (http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20080118_Chess_champ_Bobby_Fischer_dead.html)
Quote from: SD_Eagle on January 18, 2008, 07:55:03 AM
Chess champ Bobby Fischer (http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20080118_Chess_champ_Bobby_Fischer_dead.html)
I wonder if he had Aspergers. His anti-social behavior was almost cartoonish.
ex-Steeler Ernie Holmes (http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3202628)
Quote from: Cerevant on January 18, 2008, 08:30:00 AM
Quote from: SD_Eagle on January 18, 2008, 07:55:03 AM
Chess champ Bobby Fischer (http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20080118_Chess_champ_Bobby_Fischer_dead.html)
I wonder if he had Aspergers. His anti-social behavior was almost cartoonish.
Studied some of his games. Was an amazing chess player before he lost his marbles.
Quote from: Father Demon on January 17, 2008, 10:01:25 AM
Carl Karcher - Founder of Carl's Jr.
Is Carl's Jr separate from Hardees? Everything about them is identical except the name. I always figured that they were owned by the same company but had 2 different names for whatever reason. Merged with Hardess but kept their individual names maybe?
(pad post in attempt to get to new page without that skank on the first post)
(http://regmedia.co.uk/2005/05/24/paris_hilton.jpg)
The burger weighs more than she does.
And is probably a better lay.
I actually had a delicious angus cheeseburger for lunch today and somehow managed to say no to the fries.
What's wrong with me?
somebody in my office said yes to fries and no to a napkin and i found that out when i used the door knob...now i can't get this farging grease of my hand
Menstruation?
dessert?
Quote from: Jerome99RIP on January 18, 2008, 01:28:42 PM
Menstruation?
I'd think if that was the cause of the greasy door knob, SunMo would quite literally have blood on his hands.
Nothing like going down on the old lady and then coming up like a wolf who just ate a deer.
Especially the kissing part afterwards.
Mmmmmmmm, red wings. :drool
(http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg103/Sun_Mo/pukejpgw300h225.jpg)
Image hosted by tripod, eh?
Quote from: SunMo on January 18, 2008, 01:48:52 PM
(http://gallonchallenge.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/.pond/puke.jpg.w300h225.jpg)
ha?
Quote from: Sgt PSN on January 18, 2008, 11:11:09 AM
Is Carl's Jr separate from Hardees? Everything about them is identical except the name. I always figured that they were owned by the same company but had 2 different names for whatever reason. Merged with Hardess but kept their individual names maybe?
Basically it's Hardee's east of the Mississippi and Carl's Jr. west of the Mississippi.......similar to Acme vs Albertson's....
Georgia Frontiere, owner of the St Louis Rams (http://www.kmox.com/pages/1505462.php?)
I know this scores in GhoulPool...
Quote from: BigEd76 on January 18, 2008, 07:31:11 PM
Quote from: Sgt PSN on January 18, 2008, 11:11:09 AM
Is Carl's Jr separate from Hardees? Everything about them is identical except the name. I always figured that they were owned by the same company but had 2 different names for whatever reason. Merged with Hardess but kept their individual names maybe?
Basically it's Hardee's east of the Mississippi and Carl's Jr. west of the Mississippi.......similar to Acme vs Albertson's....
I know they're geographically split.
Acme and Albertson's look nothing alike though.
Quote from: MadMarchHare on January 18, 2008, 08:20:18 PM
Georgia Frontiere, owner of the St Louis Rams (http://www.kmox.com/pages/1505462.php?)
I know this scores in GhoulPool...
Good riddance. I hated watching that old bag parade around when the Rams won the SB.
Sam the Butcher (http://www.deadoraliveinfo.com/dead.nsf/mnames-nf/Melvin+Allan) from The Brady Bunch.
I've had my eye on him and Alice for a couple years, but they never crack my Top 30.
Suzanne Pleshette (http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hR-orOZKA0H0lJUYeJLS4nenaFwQD8U9DQ6O0)
Demon's on a roll.
No shtein. I hope this keeps up - of the four scored deaths at GP, I've hit three of them.
Heath Ledger (http://www.pagesix.com/)
QuoteActor Heath Ledger was found dead today in a Broome Street apartment, apparently from a drug overdose, PageSix.com has learned exclusively.
Heath was well known for his role in Brokeback Mountain, and he stars in the upcoming The Dark Knight Batman movie as the Joker.
He split last year from his partner, Michelle Williams, with whom he has a daughter, Matilda.
the new Joker - Heath Ledger
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,23095464-952,00.html
crazy.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/22/heath.ledger.dead/index.html
More on it.
What the farg?
apparently the apartment was owned by Mary Kate Olsen?
and they are now saying that the signs are pointing to a suicide
Yup, he was found in Mary Kate Olsen's apartment and he pretty much took a bottle of sleeping pills. Suicide.
It's Hollywood. In one's ghoul pool, you should always have a random 20 something actor because there's always one destined to off himself or OD every year.
the msn.com story i read said the times corrected their story and it was not mary kate or whoevers apt.
and that the police said it doesnt look like a suicide.
sucks because in a interview he mentioned how he was sleepless during the filming of batman. he would stay up all night because he wanted to really focus into the role and act like a crazy person or something. i guess it caught up.
Quote from: PhillyGirl on January 22, 2008, 05:47:27 PM
Yup, he was found in Mary Kate Olsen's apartment and he pretty much took a bottle of sleeping pills. Suicide.
Looks like it wasn't her apt after all. But he was naked and face down, which is pretty much how I'll probably go.
Quote from: paco on January 22, 2008, 10:26:42 PM
Quote from: PhillyGirl on January 22, 2008, 05:47:27 PM
Yup, he was found in Mary Kate Olsen's apartment and he pretty much took a bottle of sleeping pills. Suicide.
Looks like it wasn't her apt after all. But he was naked and face down, which is pretty much how I'll probably go.
Must.
Resist.
Urge.
To.
Mock.
Paco.
Well, word now is that it wasn't a suicide and that he was being treated for severe pneumonia for the past week.
How the farg does an otherwise supposedly healthy 28 year-old man die of pneumonia? In New York City?? In 2008???
Friggen preposterous.
Severe pneumonia would mean hospitalization, and wasn't he in London over the weekend filming?
I smell spin.
fargin Ledger just let a spoiler slip. I guess now The Joker dies at the end of The Dark Knight. :boom
Diomedes: Are you not entertained?
:CF is the mob!
Quote from: EagleFeva on January 23, 2008, 04:37:21 AM
fargin Ledger just let a spoiler slip. I guess now The Joker dies at the end of The Dark Knight. :boom
they are not finished filming? farg he could of at least waited til they were done
I am entertained only by the death itself. All the rest of this crap is so banal, I think I'll strip naked and die on the floor of severe boredom.
But hey, at least he was actually famous.
The Dark Knight is already in post-production. Filming has ended and it's scheduled for release on 7/18/08.
I should have put him on my farging death list simply because everyone I list is guaranteed to live forever. I've got a rager for The Dark Knight so of course, the one actor who might manage to bring a classic character to life decides to off himself. Dumb farging actors.
the joker is supposed to be a 2 movie character so i hope they get someone like depp to replace him.
Quote from: Magical_Retard on January 23, 2008, 11:45:25 AM
the joker is supposed to be a 2 movie character so i hope they get someone like depp to replace him.
Cameron Diaz wouldn't even have to wear make-up
(http://www.tribute.ca/tribute_objects/images/stars/Cameron_diaz.jpg)
Apparently, playing the Joker along with breaking up from his baby momma drove him to drugs/depression.
He'll probably get a bunch of nominations/awards for it that he otherwise wouldn't have gotten.
I hear Ashley Olsen used a strap on, while Mary Kate was performing auto-erotic asphyxiation on him.
Quote"I only do this because I'm having fun. The day I stop having fun, I'll just walk away. I wasn't going to have fun doing a teen movie again.... I don't want to do this for the rest of my life....I don't want to spend the rest of my youth doing this in this industry. There's so much I want to discover." - Vanity Fair (August 2000)
Well, I guess that goal got farged.
I think it would be funny if Heaven existed.
eric roberts is on cnn calling heath ledger a sweetie-pie
Quote from: FastFreddie on January 23, 2008, 12:22:28 PM
He'll probably get a bunch of nominations/awards for it that he otherwise wouldn't have gotten.
He was just awarded a spot in the Pro Bowl.
The NFC will start without a safety, and the AFC will start without a tight end?
No, a defensive lineman that would line up in the joker position.
Quote from: Sgt PSN on January 23, 2008, 02:04:15 PM
No, a defensive lineman that would line up in the joker position.
Ban?
Yes please.
Wait, Eric Roberts?
Slim Whitman isn't dead.
Quote
On Monday, The Tennessean (tenneseean.com), a news outlet based in Nashville, reported Whitman's death on its web site. Based on that report, I issued a death bulletin and updated wa-wd.com to reflect his death. That report, however, was in error. The Tennessean subsequently withdrew it, and yesterday, they published a retraction, which includes a quote from Whitman confirming that he is still alive:
http://beta.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080123/ENTERTAINMENT06/80123065/1864/TUNEIN
Stop the presses, people!
Christian Brando (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080126/ap_on_re_us/obit_brando_5) (Good riddance?)
jesus christ what the hell is wrong with people. good riddance indeed
Richard Darman - Bush's man who made him break the "No New Taxes" pledge
Suharto - ruthless dictator finally dies
Both Ghoulpool (http://www.ghoulpool.us) scores
Chief Priestess of the Mormons, Gordon_B._Hinckley (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_B._Hinckley).
waaaaahhh, i've never heard of him!! what makes him famous!?!?!?
homeboy was on my list.
#1 on my ghoulpool list: Greek Orthodox Archbishop Christodoulos. (http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKL2850514420080128)
#1 on mine as well. Finally off the schneid.
#1 on three lists, and the other two people had him Top Five. How in the farg did I miss him?
Quote from: Diomedes on January 12, 2008, 09:52:12 AM
If you gotta say more than the dead farger's name, then they fail the Dio test.
o_rly?!?!
Quote from: Diomedes on January 27, 2008, 10:42:49 PM
Chief Priestess of the Mormons, Gordon_B._Hinckley (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_B._Hinckley).
nm
off the nuts, all of you suckas
What a waste... (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=511139&in_page_id=1811)
Great story, too.
Ha. Sounds like an awful Bond movie subplot.
nothing about that movie sounds awful.
I'm only upset because that would've been at least 135 points in GP.
It's not like I was gonna be hitting that anyway....
Chicago guitarist Terry Kath (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Kath)
Yeah, so he died over 30 years ago, but today would have been his birthday, and the way he died is legendary.
I like dead Butz and I can not lie... (http://www.ghoulpool.us/?p=210)
Jerome Brown would have turned 43 today.
Memorializing people's deaths is pretty retarded.
Quote from: FastFreddie on February 04, 2008, 08:07:01 AM
Jerome Brown would have turned 43 today.
Unlikely..he would have found some other way to kill himself and his innocent snowflake babynephew well before now. Prickbone.
Quote from: rjs246 on February 04, 2008, 08:09:00 AM
Memorializing people's deaths is pretty retarded.
Unless it's your own, of course.
Sheldon Brown (http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/sheldon-brown-1944-2008-14433)
RIP Happy Crappy.sort of
some General Hospital actress (http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/tv/1401ap_obit_kepler.html?source=mypi)
***golf clap****
for omitting her totally unremarkable name
(http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/dayart/aponline/58801.36Shell-Kepler.sff.jpg)
She didn't really die...she changed her name and went on Jeopardy!
the guy that chased Dr. Richard Kimble (http://www.cbc.ca/arts/tv/story/2008/02/04/barry-morse.html)
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the spiritual guru whose pupils included the Beatles and Clint Eastwood, has died at 91. (http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g9MUBXBQ5Si28xQHK_ZYDxoA48xQD8UKF7F80)
Heath Ledger's death officially attributed to accidental OD:
QuoteThe six drugs found in his system were oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam, and doxylamine, the medical examiner's office said.
The drugs are the generic names for the OxyContin painkiller, the anti-anxiety drug Valium, Xanax, an anti-anxiety drug, and the sleep aids Restoril and Unisom. Hydrocodone is another name for the better-known Vicodin.
It's a shame, and TV makes drugs look so cool too.
Drugs are cool. Only weak lame-o Romes overdose on them. It's Darwin.
pot + pills = ok
alcohol + pills = ok
pills + other pills = no
Shut up, pillhead.
Whoa, that's a lot of hooch. Didn't anyone tell the guy not to mix all that shtein? This is why it's so important to always go to the same pharmacy....
Poor attempt by Ledger at a Darwin Award.
I love combining Ambien with Vicodins or Percs, you get some pretty good halucinations
Roy Scheider (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/movies/11scheider.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin)
wow, that sucks.
I didn't know he was that old already...or that sick.
Quote from: BigEd76 on February 10, 2008, 10:14:09 PM
Roy Scheider (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/movies/11scheider.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin)
They should play the Jaws music when they're lowering the casket
They're gonna need a bigger casket.
I think we're gonna need a bigger boat...
Congressman Tom Lantos (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7239334.stm)
#1 name on my ghoulpool waiver wire list. Dammit.
Natural selection is a wonderful thing (http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN1458780620080214?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews&rpc=22&sp=true)
The biggest footnote in rock-n-roll history (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Halpin)
Quote
Noted for enjoying fifteen minutes of fame—quite literally—on November 20, 1973 (then 19 years old), during a concert by The Who at the Cow Palace in suburban San Francisco.
About seventy minutes into the show, drummer Keith Moon, whose fondness for drugs and alcohol was legendary, began to falter during "Won't Get Fooled Again," fell off his drum stool, and passed out. As the house lights went up, Moon was carried offstage by roadies, who placed him in a shower in an attempt to revive him. Their efforts worked. An injection of cortisone got him back onstage after approximately a thirty minute delay.
The show continued with "Magic Bus." The percussion of the song's opening verses consisted only of Moon hitting two wooden blocks against one another. However, when the drums were actually required, Moon only played for a few more minutes before passing out again. He was carried off—this time not to return. Reportedly, Moon had swallowed four times the amount of tranquilizers offered to him by a fan while remarking, "Of course I can take it. I'm Keith farging Moon!"
The remaining three band members, frustrated, briefly began ad-libbing, then played "See Me, Feel Me", sans drums, with vocalist Roger Daltrey adding a tambourine for percussion. The song received a huge response, and Townshend thanked the crowd for putting up with a three-quarter-strength band. Instead of leaving the stage, though, Pete asked the crowd, "Can anybody play the drums?" He repeated the question, adding forcefully, "I mean someone good!"
At this time, Halpin and his friend were at the left edge of the stage, and his friend, Mike Danese, began noisily telling the security staff, "He can play!" In truth, Halpin had not played in a year, but Danese made enough of a commotion that he had attracted the concert's promoter, Bill Graham.
"Graham just looked at me and said, 'Can you do it?' And I said "Yes," straight out. Townshend and Daltrey look around and they're as surprised as I am, because Graham put me up there." [5][6]
Halpin was given a shot of brandy for his nerves before sitting at his first drumset since leaving Iowa.
"Then I got really focused, and Townshend said to me, 'I'm going to lead you. I'm going to cue you.'"
Townshend introduced him as "Scot", and went straight into the riff of "Smokestack Lightning". This was a very loose blues jam, Halpin's drum work fitting in well enough, and it shortly became "Spoonful". Less successful, however, was his contribution to the more complex "Naked Eye", and he failed to provide the contrasting tempos despite Townshend attempting to give him instructions. Halpin did not look at all flustered, though, and established a steady beat throughout. The show ended after "Naked Eye", and Halpin took a center-stage bow with Daltrey, Townshend, and bassist John Entwistle. Afterwards, he was taken backstage (with his friend) and given a Who concert jacket, which Halpin said was stolen later that evening.
Halpin died on 2/8/08, at the age of 54.
This guy certainly doesn't pass the
Dio test, but it's a really cool farging story.
Howard the Duck creator Steve Gerber (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080216/ap_on_en_ot/obit_steve_gerber)
Larry Davis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Davis_%28criminal%29)
and if you don't know who he is
AMERICAN HERO
Why is he a hero?
Because he's good at murder?
He killed corrupt cops, in theory. That would be heroic.
Wasn't he also a crack dealer?
And a murderer of other crack dealers?
I don't care who you are dealing for, being a crack dealer makes you an automatic non hero, as does killing others for money or drugs, regardless of how bad those people are.
WilliamF. Buckey, 82 (http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/02/conservative-wi.html)
Quote from: Father Demon on February 27, 2008, 11:34:52 AM
WilliamF. Buckey, 82 (http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/02/conservative-wi.html)
He's a Republican, so according to consensus on this board, was a hateful racist. Thus, this should be in the good riddance thread.
Quote from: FastFreddie on February 27, 2008, 11:36:25 AM
Quote from: Father Demon on February 27, 2008, 11:34:52 AM
WilliamF. Buckey, 82 (http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/02/conservative-wi.html)
He's a Republican, so according to consensus on this board, was a hateful racist. Thus, this should be in the good riddance thread.
He was also an intellectualist, which is against so many on this board. Again, more points for the Good Riddance argument.
Robin Williams did a killer impersonation of Buckley.
He's probably a little bit easier to impersonate now.
Quote from: FastFreddie on February 27, 2008, 11:36:25 AM
Quote from: Father Demon on February 27, 2008, 11:34:52 AM
WilliamF. Buckey, 82 (http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/02/conservative-wi.html)
He's a Republican, so according to consensus on this board, was a hateful racist. Thus, this should be in the good riddance thread.
well...yea
Boyd Coddington, the hot-rod innovator whose creations won the coveted Grand National Roadster Show's America's Most Beautiful Roadster (AMBR) trophy a record six times, died Wednesday morning of undisclosed causes. He was 63. (http://deathbeeper.com/4139223.html)
Seen this dude on TV a bunch.. I don't think he was sick...
Myron Cope died today.
Buddy Miles died
http://www.miamiherald.com/776/story/436557.html
Mike Smith (Dave Clark Band), less than 2 weeks before induction into the Rock n Roll HOF
Jeff Healy (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080303/wl_canada_afp/entertainmentcanadamusicus_080303015555)
motherfarger that sucks
Wow, that does suck. It was cool to see him play guitar. Weird thing is that his name hasn't entered my brain in years, and I decided to take a look at his wikipedia entry yesterday for no good reason. Guessing it looks a bit different today. Geez.
He was a score in Ghoulpool, believe it or not. 111 points, moving 3rd place into first place.
Wow, that does suck. I liked his music too.
On a side note..anyone else remember that he had a cameo in "Roadhouse"?
Quote from: Father Demon on March 03, 2008, 10:18:56 AM
He was a score in Ghoulpool, believe it or not.
He had some sort of cancer, right? The true nerds in ghoulpool research that shtein.
Quote from: FastFreddie on March 03, 2008, 10:32:34 AM
Quote from: Father Demon on March 03, 2008, 10:18:56 AM
He was a score in Ghoulpool, believe it or not.
He had some sort of cancer, right? The true nerds in ghoulpool research that shtein.
Correct. Tumors on his legs and lungs, plus that eye cancer he had since being 1 year old.
He was totally not on my radar though.
Quote from: PhillyGirl on March 03, 2008, 10:22:40 AM
Wow, that does suck. I liked his music too.
On a side note..anyone else remember that he had a cameo in "Roadhouse"?
"You play pretty good for a blind white boy'
"I thought you'd be bigger"
Quote from: FastFreddie on March 03, 2008, 10:32:34 AM
Quote from: Father Demon on March 03, 2008, 10:18:56 AM
He was a score in Ghoulpool, believe it or not.
He had some sort of cancer, right? The true nerds in ghoulpool research that shtein.
He had closely monitored retinoblastoma, and had overcome several other bouts of cancer. He just wasn't predictable enough.
Gary Gygax (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Gygax)
Quote from: Geowhizzer on March 03, 2008, 05:51:41 AM
Jeff Healy (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080303/wl_canada_afp/entertainmentcanadamusicus_080303015555)
mother farger you guys catch everything... http://www.antimusic.com/news/08/march/04Jeff_Healey_RIP.shtml (http://www.antimusic.com/news/08/march/04Jeff_Healey_RIP.shtml)
Quote from: Cerevant on March 04, 2008, 02:20:30 PM
Gary Gygax (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Gygax)
That is coincidental, considering the lot of us are currently engaged in a silly RPG.
If not for Gary Gygax, this kind of stuff might never have gotten legs.
Getting it out of the way....
Patrick Swayze Diagnosed with Cancer (http://www.cnn.com/people/article/0,,20182300,00.html)
Quote from: paco on March 05, 2008, 07:39:56 PM
Getting it out of the way....
Patrick Swayze Diagnosed with Cancer (http://www.cnn.com/people/article/0,,20182300,00.html)
Don't tell me someone shot JFK also!
i heard that jon benet ramsay was murdered. murdered!
Quote from: Cerevant on March 04, 2008, 02:20:30 PM
Gary Gygax (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Gygax)
He had six kids and seven grandkids.
That's either +12 Progeny under current rules (the first child offsets yourself, bringing you to 0 Progeny), or +13 Progeny under the old rules
Quote from: FastFreddie on March 05, 2008, 07:43:39 PM
Quote from: paco on March 05, 2008, 07:39:56 PM
Getting it out of the way....
Patrick Swayze Diagnosed with Cancer (http://www.cnn.com/people/article/0,,20182300,00.html)
Don't tell me someone shot JFK also!
Cute. Yes, we all knew in Jan he had cancer. But today the news broke that they are giving him about five weeks.
Quote from: paco on March 05, 2008, 10:19:34 PM
Quote from: FastFreddie on March 05, 2008, 07:43:39 PM
Quote from: paco on March 05, 2008, 07:39:56 PM
Getting it out of the way....
Patrick Swayze Diagnosed with Cancer (http://www.cnn.com/people/article/0,,20182300,00.html)
Don't tell me someone shot JFK also!
Cute. Yes, we all knew in Jan he had cancer. But today the news broke that they are giving him about five weeks.
the National Enquirer had that "story"....everywhere else just confirms he has cancer...his doctors dispute the 5 week thing and say he's still working while undergoin gtreatment.
Quote from: PhillyGirl on March 05, 2008, 10:22:43 PM
the National Enquirer had that "story"....everywhere else just confirms he has cancer...his doctors dispute the 5 week thing and say he's still working while undergoin gtreatment.
You own the collectors edition of Dirty Dancing don't you?
The Roadhouse connection is spooky. If you're a dumb farg superstitious moron, that is.
Ha...I was thinking about that today. If I was in that flick, I'd be making the doctor's appointment ASAP.
Quote from: Diomedes on March 05, 2008, 10:40:13 PM
The Roadhouse connection is spooky. If you're a dumb farg superstitious moron, that is.
It was just on VS today. Not sure if that was planned or not.
Quote from: phillymic2000 on March 05, 2008, 10:36:19 PM
Quote from: PhillyGirl on March 05, 2008, 10:22:43 PM
the National Enquirer had that "story"....everywhere else just confirms he has cancer...his doctors dispute the 5 week thing and say he's still working while undergoin gtreatment.
You own the collectors edition of Dirty Dancing don't you?
actually, no...while its part of my job as a female to like the movie, I was never one of those who LOVED It and had posters of it in her room. I liked the huge 1980 NFC Champion poster and FLyers schedule and crap I pasted all over my walls in High School (when that movie came out). I also never owned it on VHS or DVD. Not really my cup of tea.
Quote from: Diomedes on March 05, 2008, 09:49:17 PM
Quote from: Cerevant on March 04, 2008, 02:20:30 PM
Gary Gygax (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Gygax)
He had six kids and seven grandkids.
That's either +12 Progeny under current rules (the first child offsets yourself, bringing you to 0 Progeny), or +13 Progeny under the old rules
(http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/dndkittehmorn128491548670347053.jpg)
lol at "morns"
Not famous by any means, but it struck me odd that an 86 year old took about
FOUR YEARS to die from an attack.... head injury, no less.....
Quote
Monday, 3 March
Giuseppe Di Stefano, operatic tenor (Italian), of complications from a head injury suffered in a 2004 attack, 86.
Ola Brunkert, ABBA drummer
QuoteBrunkert hit his head against a glass door in his dining room, shattering the glass and cutting himself in the neck. He managed to wrap a towel around his neck and left the house to seek help, but collapsed in the garden.
I figured that's how he'd go.
Anthony Minghella (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080318/ap_on_re_eu/obit_minghella)
Oscar-winning ("The English Patient") Director
Arthur C. Clarke (http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=149245&f=19)
I think he might have been on my list last year.
only two people in ghoulpool had him, and one was the jerk
Who?
I honestly thought Clarke had passed a few years ago. I guess there will be a few Sri Lankan houseboys out of work now.
Quote from: Diomedes on March 18, 2008, 07:51:07 PM
only two people in ghoulpool had him, and one was the jerk
Funny that you two are side-by-side in the standings now....
it's an honor to stand in batal beside him
Quote from: Diomedes on March 18, 2008, 06:40:18 PM
Arthur C. Clarke (http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=149245&f=19)
I am/was a big fan of most of his work, which is funny because It's somewhat fitting that at this moment, we can say he died tomorrow.
Ivan Dixon (http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/TV/03/19/obit.dixon.ap/index.html) (Kinchloe on "Hogan's Heroes")
Pro wrestling manager Gary Hart (http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2008/03/17/5028281.html)
(http://www.lefigaro.fr/medias/2008/03/19/2981bace-f5f2-11dc-8c9b-5b77ab3e7529.jpg)
Chantal Sebire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chantal_Sebire)
I don't suppose they had any trouble identifying the body.
looks like it was cold in that room.
Hit.
She looks like a patron in the bar in Star Wars.
Mos Eisley Cantina
stfu nerd
You'll never find a more wretched hide of scum and villiany...we must be cautious
Hive (http://www.starwars.com/databank/updates/news20011205.html). WTF, I thought you called yourself a Star Wars geek.
SD = pwn
id rather not have known that and be pwn than to have known it and self pwn
haha
Quote from: Cerevant on March 21, 2008, 11:15:13 AM
Hive (http://www.starwars.com/databank/updates/news20011205.html). WTF, I thought you called yourself a Star Wars geek.
Looks like I've been outgeeked
Quote from: SunMo on March 21, 2008, 11:16:39 AM
SD = pwn
Twice
I take my geekage seriously.
No shtein.
Not terribly famous, but a little scary for the "Russian Republic"
In the morning, Ilya Shurpayev (http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-03-21-russia-journalist_N.htm)
That evening, Gaji Abashilov (http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-03-21-russia-journalist_N.htm)
Open season on Russian journalists.
Quote from: Diomedes on March 20, 2008, 09:08:07 PM
(http://www.lefigaro.fr/medias/2008/03/19/2981bace-f5f2-11dc-8c9b-5b77ab3e7529.jpg)
Chantal Sebire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chantal_Sebire)
I don't suppose they had any trouble identifying the body.
what
the
farg!
Cancer sucks, eh?
founder of Popeyes' chicken (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Copeland)
The fifth Beatle (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7311581.stm)
I thought Billy Preston was the fifth Beatle.
They had a couple fifths I suppose.
Quote from: Diomedes on March 24, 2008, 11:07:28 PM
They had a couple fifths I suppose.
A ridiculous number of fifths, actually. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Beatle)
Let's face it, there were four Beatles, and even that is being generous to Ringo.
Skinny blonde white girl dies during boob job (http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/south/epaper/2008/03/25/m1a_cheerleader_0324.html).
Anybody have this famous cheerleader on their list?
take it easy Dio
I had a happy feeling for a moment when I saw the following words starting a banner headline on CNN: "Former first lady Nancy Reagan...."
But it was a blue headline, not a red one, so the rest of it read: "...endorses Sen. John McCain."
Goddamnit, no one cares about Reagan's housewife until she dies, alright!?Q!
farg!
Creator of the Egg McMuffin (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080327/ap_on_bi_ge/obit_peterson)
just reading that the cat that founded popeyes chicken is died
Must...not...respond...
Dith Pran, former New York times journalist and subject of the film "The Killing Fields." (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080330/ap_on_re_us/obit_dith_pran_2)
farg farg farg farg farg.
2 days too early. farger.
(http://blog.mrfire.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/laughing-jesus.jpg)
What's Ian Anderson doing here?
nm
Geo got the better line
British artist Angus Fairhurst - suicide at 41 (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080331/ap_on_re_eu/obit_fairhurst_1)
Sean Levert of the R&B group LeVert, 39 of an illness while in jail. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080401/ap_on_en_mu/obit_sean_levert)
Charleston Heston, He gone
and coming soon to the dead thread some polygamists
that belongs in the good riddance thread
A good score (http://www.ghoulpool.us/) for Charlton Heston. Nine players picked him.
every time that big white dude from kansas is on screen, i yell kahn!
Quote from: phillymic2000 on April 06, 2008, 12:29:51 AM
Charleston Heston, He gone
Dibbs on prying the gun from his dead hands.
and shooting him with it just to make sure
Soylent Green is PEOPLE!
The NRA, for all of their fanaticism and low-brow presentation and appeal to the lowest common denominator, is one of the few major organizations actually trying to protect our rights against our government's unending push to limit them.
It's run by monkeys, and their insistence on using one-off examples of scary situations where a gun saved the day is laughable, but in theory it is a good organization.
That is all.
Dicks.
there is simply no reasonable defense for allowing citizens to own assault rifles
farg the NRA
they could disband tomorrow and the United States would never come take our shotguns and pistols away from us.
they do offer good gun safety courses though, I'll give 'em that.
and if you want a list of likely KKK members, you could start with the NRA membership rolls and pare back from that..you'd get most of 'em
Quote from: Diomedes on April 08, 2008, 06:18:16 PM
there is simply no reasonable defense for allowing citizens to own assault rifles
but Iraq might invade the US
oh I love the "to defend us against our own government" argument best
like AR15s are gonna save the people of Lubbock from bombs...gimme a farging break
if the U.S. government wars against its own people (using what troops, I'm not sure...American troops attacking their own lands? come on...) then side arms aren't gonna do shtein
Protecting us from actual governmental attack isn't really the point now is it? We have a right, as citizens, defined from the first second of this country's life to arm ourselves. The wording of the right was to allow us to protect what was ours from a government trying to take it, but one way or another the NRA is just about the only organization protecting a right that should be granted to everyone based on the very document that founded the nation.
And besides, just because the US Army could flatten our homes at will we should lie down and accept that and hand over our rights in the process? I don't see the big bad Army stopping little untrained, under-armed iceholes in Iraq from fighting back... but give us our central air and SUVs and we're willing to accept anything.
I would personally accept a bayonette in my colon for a few painful minutes for a new Cadillac Escalade.
You really think without the NRA that the U.S. is gonna come take your shotguns rifles and handguns?
You really think we need AR 15s?
Gimme a break.
farg the NRA. Neither liberals nor conservatives want to give up their guns and we hardly need the NRA and their farged up "everyone should be armed to the teeth" garbage.
Quote from: Diomedes on April 08, 2008, 07:49:08 PM
You really think without the NRA that the U.S. is gonna come take your shotguns rifles and handguns?
You really think we need AR 15s?
Gimme a break.
farg the NRA. Neither liberals nor conservatives want to give up their guns and we hardly need the NRA and their farged up "everyone should be armed to the teeth" garbage.
You shouldn't pick and choose the rights that you defend. But mostly, you shouldn't get into internet fights. Instead, you should just understand that the internet is serious business.
(Say goodbye. -Sus)
Organizations that defend the Bill of Rights should be applauded and supported even if their stances occasionally provide us with reasons to dislike them or question their motives.
I'm not crazy about all of the ACLU's activities, but like rjs said, we have enough political whores trying to steal away with our liberties as it is, so it's nice that there's still a few organizations going who at least offer occasional resistance (however impotent that resistance might be).
Quote from: SunMo on April 08, 2008, 10:45:27 PM
Quote from: rjs246 on April 08, 2008, 10:11:37 PM
(Say goodbye. -Sus)
this better be a farging joke
No joke. And it's just a few days because I like the guy.
for that? after all that gets said around here...i mean c'mon
I've never considered the idea that the NRA and the ACLU are sibling organizations in any way.
My head asplode
(http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/f/f9/Internetseriousbusiness.jpeg)
Quote from: SunMo on April 08, 2008, 10:57:30 PM
for that? after all that gets said around here...i mean c'mon
http://www.concretefield.com/forum/index.php?topic=18105.msg595696#msg595696
Warning was given, and that's that. He knew what he was doing.
If you want to discuss it, PM me.
Quote from: Diomedes on April 08, 2008, 11:11:05 PM
I've never considered the idea that the NRA and the ACLU are sibling organizations in any way.
My head asplode
Yeah, strange when you think about it. Painful if you dwell on it.
Quote from: Diomedes on April 08, 2008, 11:11:05 PM
I've never considered the idea that the NRA and the ACLU are sibling organizations in any way.
My head asplode
Two of my best buddies are card-carrying members of both organizations. It makes a lot more sense that the standard Leftist vs. Righty argument in this country would have you believe.
Freddie should be shot by the NRA for calling his friends his "best buddies"
I belong to both. If I'm in the woods and rednecks farg with me I show 'em my NRA card and off I go. Same thing goes for my ACLU card only that works on vacation in Key West.
http://www.accesshollywood.com/article/9054/monk-star-stanley-kamel-found-dead/
i can't think of any situation where you would ever have to pull out an ACLU card.
Quote from: rjs246 on April 08, 2008, 05:58:32 PM
The NRA, for all of their fanaticism and low-brow presentation and appeal to the lowest common denominator, is one of the few major organizations actually trying to protect our rights against our government's unending push to limit them.
My Step-Dad is an NRA lifer...Most of those iceholes like the Patriot Act...(& Bush).
Quote from: phattymatty on April 10, 2008, 03:59:40 PM
i can't think of any situation where you would ever have to pull out an ACLU card.
after being arrested while protesting the war, it's nice to have their number to call for some emergency legal advice/support
the guy that made the "Chicken Dance" popular (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Kames)
Good. I'm surprised someone didn't take him out for that a long time ago.
Ex-Eagles Linebacker Bob Pellegrini (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Pellegrini)
Former Boston Braves outfielder Tommy Holmes (http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-obit-holmes&prov=ap&type=lgns)
Danny Federici, 58, of the E-Street Band (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080418/ap_on_en_mu/obit_federici)
John Marzano found dead in his home this afternoon. Only 45 years old. Thats some crazy shtein.
Quote from: SD_Eagle on April 19, 2008, 03:53:34 PM
John Marzano found dead in his home this afternoon. Only 45 years old. Thats some crazy shtein.
Either they're being hush hush about the autopsy results or they really WERE inconclusive.
It shows that he didn't die from the fall down the stairs, but they don't know why he did yet.
Any thoughts on that?
SIDS
F-
I'm thinking heart attack or drugs of some sort...or a combination of both of those.
He was hyper as all hell on DNL on thursday. They were at the wac before the Flyers game and he was playing to the crowd and doing flyers chants and shtein. coke overdose...maybe.
Yup, I saw that. He was screaming lets Go flyers at random times...like mid-sentence and stuff.
But at the same time, stuff like that could be from a brain aneurysm or some shtein like that.
Haha. PhillyGirl is a doctor and shtein.
Quote from: PhillyGirl on April 21, 2008, 10:18:08 AM
But at the same time, stuff like that could be from a brain aneurysm or some shtein like that.
or meth
No, just know someone who died of one and he was all farged up and we thought he was on drugs before he died because of it.
RIP Kenneth Keith
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/phillygossip/Kenneth_Keith_Kallenbach_dies_in_local_hospital_Stern_show_reports.html (http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/phillygossip/Kenneth_Keith_Kallenbach_dies_in_local_hospital_Stern_show_reports.html)
Back in the funny Stern says, I remember this dude trying to blow smoke out of his eyeballs until he puked. It made me laugh every time. Him and hank will finally be reunited.
Albert Hoffman, Grand-daddy of LSD, 102 (http://deathbeeper.com/9511022.html)
I know there were a few scores on this one on GhoulPool.us... time to go score it out!
I totally rule.
DC Madam offs herself.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4765743&page=1 (http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4765743&page=1)
Quote from: phattymatty on May 01, 2008, 04:03:01 PM
DC Madam offs herself.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4765743&page=1 (http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4765743&page=1)
i think it was a setup like in Michael Clayton
Word. The way that she offed herself was by opening her mouth.
This bitch got assainated.
King of Cool, Irvine Robbins dead at 90.
Co-Founder of Baskin Robbins. (http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-robbins7-2008may07,0,3080340.story)
What the hell - it's the off season...
http://www.napavalleyregister.com/articles/2008/05/16/news/local/doc482dd5626d76f161005272.txt
If you ever drank wine, this guy gets some of the credit.....Gibson will need time off to get over this, though.
Quote from: JackStraw on May 16, 2008, 03:08:35 PM
What the hell - it's the off season...
http://www.napavalleyregister.com/articles/2008/05/16/news/local/doc482dd5626d76f161005272.txt
If you ever drank wine, this guy gets some of the credit.....Gibson will need time off to get over this, though.
I'll be damned.. someone had him in the Ghoulpool (http://www.ghoulpool.us). I never heard of this guy, and I certainly wouldn't have known about it unless Tamra told me, or it was posted here.
The Power Of Concrete Field (TM)
No one important's died young in a while. Boo.
Tell me about it....
wrong. i've been to mondavi's vineyard several times and he was a very important person in the booze world.
No question he's famous. But he wasn't young.
Mmmm...Opus One. Way over-priced anymore, but that's some good shtein.
CNN is reporting that Ted Kennedy has been rushed to the hospital... This could lift me into 6th place...
(http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w196/smcarney/kopechne-enl.jpg)
Hit.
"Stroke like symptoms..."
a) Sweet.
b) Dammit for me not picking him!
I don't get the Ted hate.
They're now reporting a seizure.
He's like Jerome Brown, except he meant to kill his passenger, and didn't die in the process.
They were both getting head at the time of the crashes too. Which is nice.
Quote from: MadMarchHare on May 17, 2008, 03:26:32 PM
He's like Jerome Brown, except he meant to kill his passenger, and didn't die in the process.
poty
Quote from: Rome on May 17, 2008, 03:28:00 PM
They were both getting head at the time of the crashes too. Which is nice.
This one was better.
no
Actually, yes. It was.
no
I picked this guy because he's a hardcore alcoholic who got so drunk the Finnish Senate dismissed him on medical leave.
While checking to see if he'd died yet (no such luck), I came across this story, and laughed my ass off. Thought I'd share it.
QuoteLike many testosterone-driven males, the question "Who is the toughest man in the world?" intrigued me from the day I first picked up a comic book and first viewed pro wrestling. After all, as youngsters, weren't The Green Lantern and Andre The Giant the real deals?
C'mon. Weren't they?
I remain intrigued.
By luck, in 1993, as a grown man visiting an old haunt – Denver – I saw a newspaper ad for something called "The Ultimate Fighting Championships." I figured my friend, famed wrestling promoter Zane Breslov, must somehow be involved. I was right. One phone call later I was the proud owner of two complimentary tickets to UFC 1 at McNichols Arena.
The night was magic. From the second Gerard Gordeau and massive Samoan Teila Tuli took to the cage, I was hooked. I somehow had to get involved.
Three years later, along with Craig Hragyil and Sean McCulley, I was co-owner of "Extreme University," a cardio kickboxing and mixed martial arts gym in Mission Viejo.
One of the wrestlers I worked with was a 6'5", 300-pound Finnish monstrosity by the name of Tony Halme. Tony had a short yet successful run in the World Wrestling Federation (as it was known at the time) as "Ludvig Borga." Having also held the dubious title of Finnish Heavyweight Boxing Champion, Tony was at loose ends, looking for something to do. My notion of what a real fighter was in those days – my pre-educated period – was simple:
Whoever looked the most intimidating was, in fact, the toughest.
And, based on that criteria, Tony was undoubtedly the toughest man on the planet.
I had a somewhat regular dialogue going with then (Ultimate Fighting Championships) booker Art Davie, and I began to pitch Tony to him. And pitch him. And pitch him.
I finally broke down Art's defenses when, entirely without conviction, Art said (and I paraphrase): "I'm either going to look like a visionary genius or a complete idiot. ... Let's try him!"
So Tony was booked for a four-man tournament to be held May 30, 1997, in Augusta, Ga.
Jason Fairn, who had lost an infamous battle of hair-pulling to Guy Mezger at UFC 4, was booked as Tony's opponent.
It was at about this time that the Internet rumors began. (Understand this: The wrestling world has been Internet savvy for much longer than, say, most Microsoft executives.) And, online, the stories were wild:
Tony was wanted for murder in several countries! Tony single-handedly had destroyed entire gangs in maximum security! Tony was kicked out of WWF for being too tough backstage!
In short, Tony was a homicidal maniac.
Which, of course, is pure gold.
•••
Fairn apparently read about Tony and dropped out. A second opponent, whose name I forget, was booked, but he experienced an apparently legitimate injury in training and had to withdraw. This, of course, fueled the chatter, and the Internet reports turned from far-fetched to blistering.
My promoter friend, Art Davie, called, saying he was having a hard time finding an opponent for Tony. But by now, he too had caught the fever, and he was dedicating to seeing our boy make it to the Octagon (that's MMA talk for "the ring").
Art ultimately did come up with an opponent. (I do remember his name – more on that later).
So now, let's check in on Tony's training. Art had first made the booking more than a month in advance of the show. My business partner, Sean McCulley, and his brother Justin (of current UFC fame) had set up a tough yet manageable 30-day training program for Tony. The problem was simple: Tony was not showing up. For any sessions. Ever.
There was always a good excuse: Making a movie. The drive to Costa Mesa and Mission Viejo was too long (Tony lived in Venice). Beating up a grizzly bear. Whatever.
I tried to remain optimistic. Tony assured me in his Dolph Lundgren-as-Ivan Drago ("Rocky IV") accent: "I will kill anybody!" Or, if you prefer: "Eye vill keel eneebuddy."
I still loved this man.
About a week from fight time, we finally got Tony to agree to train, at Gene LeBell's and Gokor Chivichyan's famed Hollywood academy. Sean, Craig and I made the trip to witness firsthand the carnage. We arrived at the same time as Tony and were immediately impressed by the crazed band of teenage Armenians essentially beating the snot out of each other.
In one corner, one of Gokor's instructors was teaching the defense of the Flying Arm Bar. Tony saw this and said "No vun cud ever get mee in dat."
Tony stood in for the instructor. Then, a 14-year-old maniac took flight and caught Tony's arm. Tony's defense was to muscle the kid, and we all heard a loud "pop!" Grimacing in pain, Tony dropped the kid. I said, "Well I guess that's that; I'll call Art and cancel out." Tony's response, and to this day I have to give him credit for this, was: "Oh, dees?" (holding up his nearly limp arm) "Dees ees notheeng more dan a scratch."
So, after an aggregate training time of five minutes, the fight was on.
•••
Part II
QuoteTony took off to Augusta three days before the fight. We were to join him the next day. Sean, who at the time understood the game far better than Craig and I, opted out of the trip. But not before convincing me that things weren't looking good for the home team.
Figuring our primary advantage – well, our only advantage – was psychological, I called Tony and instructed him to stay in his room. I told him that if he had to leave his room, he was to growl menacingly. Nothing more. (That's the exact opposite of how we instruct our new fighters these days, insofar as non-fighting conduct is concerned.)
By the time Craig and I got to Augusta, the buzz was at a fever pitch. Our strategy had worked. Everyone was deathly afraid of Tony Halme! (Including, we heard, his opponent ... some wrestler guy.) We heard later that Tony's own mother, after seeing his interviews, tried to get her boy to scratch!
That afternoon, we go to the pre-tapes, which are set up in one of the hotel's meeting rooms. Tony, again to his credit and thinking like a pro wrestler, asks me: "Should I shoot the interview, or work eet?"
"Ludvig, work it" is all I can say.
The pretape producer, a nice, mild-mannered woman in her 20s, asks Tony if rumors of his past are true. Tony refuses to answer, on the grounds it may incriminate him (further).
She asks Tony what he thinks of his opponent. "He ees a leetle smurf."
She asks his plans for the fight. "I veel reep his arm off," Tony answers, deadpan.
"Wow," she answers, "what if that doesn't work?"
"Then I veel reep heez head off!" A unique strategy, to be sure. Needless to say, Tony Halme-homicidal-maniacal-paranoia is running high.
The next morning, Craig asks Tony if he wants to train. Yes indeed, he does. He wants to go to the local Gold's Gym to lift weights. Craig gives me a funny look. So, off we go to Gold's. Tony's cranking out 600-pound-plus squats (always a good idea the day before a fight) and up comes a young girl. She addresses Tony: "Ain't you Looodwig Borga?"
So Tony and his new girlfriend exchange pleasantries, he does a few more heavy squats, and it's off to Applebee's for lunch. After polishing off a giant slab of ribs, Tony opts for the double hot fudge sundae. I question him about his dietetic choice just the day before his UFC debut and the answer comes, "I haff bean dieteeng berry hard. Now eet ees time to eat for energy!"
OK, Tony.
•••
Fight Day!
Tony's forgotten his mouthpiece. Craig and I go to Tony's opponent's manager, of all people, to borrow an extra. We watch the manager and the opponent do some light training. Hey, this guy looks pretty good. Despite the fact that he's barely 200 pounds, has a receding hairline and is supposedly scared half to death by our boy, this guy looks pretty good. Craig and I make an assessment: We're in trouble.
Craig and Tony do some light pummeling in the dressing room. This, at least, Tony seems to know how to do. All right, maybe we're good after all. Craig counsels Tony, "Look, your opponent is a wrestler. Whatever you do, don't run straight at him." A classic Tonyism in response: "He eez a little smurf. I will reep heez head off!" OK, now he's believing his own press. I'm relieved, though; maybe a little confidence will go a long way. Nonetheless, Craig once again admonishes Tony not to run straight forward. "If you do, he will take you down and choke you."
Tony tells us not to worry. "I veel never tap. He can keel me and I veel never tap." ("Tap" is MMA and wrestling lingo for "giving up.")
Fast forward. The bell rings. Heeding Craig's instruction, Tony does not run straight at his opponent – he positively lumbers straight at him, in what can only be described as extreme slo-mo. Telegraphing his murderous intent, Tony raises his right hand high, fist cocked. His opponent lowers a fist, level and shoots: Boom! Solid takedown. Three or four blows rain upon Tony's nearly prone carcass and, demonstrating excellent instinct, Tony flips to his belly. His opponent has barely sunk a rear, naked choke when Tony quickly and deftly taps out. his swan song on the canvas.
We're on the way back to the dressing room. Tony glares down at me and growls "He is a quick leetle smurf."
"Tony," I say, "that little smurf just kicked your (rear)."
Tony Halme is a legitimately scary, strong guy. And he must have at least some boxing skill. I have little or no doubt that wherever it is he's been, he's done some damage along the way. He is also a truly colorful and charismatic guy. He was a star in the old WWF and went on to become, among all things, an elected member of the Senate in his home country of Finland.
Maybe he just wasn't suited for mixed martial arts. Or, maybe, it was the luck of the draw.
For me, it was an indoctrination.
TORONTO: John Rutsey, a co-founding member of Canadian rock band Rush has died from complications from a lifelong battle with diabetes.
Rutsey, who left the group after recording their first album in 1974, died last week in Toronto, his family said in a newspaper announcement Tuesday. He was 55 years old.
Rutsey co-founded Rush with lead singer Geddy Lee and guitarist Alex Lifeson in 1968 in Toronto, but left the group for health reasons. He was replaced by drummer and lyricist Neil Peart just before the group's first U.S. tour.
= Pete Best. Yeah, he has a claim to fame, but he won't be missed.
Neil Peart is a god.
Quote from: MadMarchHare on May 19, 2008, 09:06:01 PM
I picked this guy because he's a hardcore alcoholic who got so drunk the Finnish Senate dismissed him on medical leave.
While checking to see if he'd died yet (no such luck), I came across this story, and laughed my ass off. Thought I'd share it.
That article forgot to mention that the guy he lost to was Randy Couture
Randy Couture
that simply cannot be this douchebag's real name
Quote from: Diomedes on May 21, 2008, 08:50:24 PM
Randy Couture
that simply cannot be this douchebag's real name
When I saw this, I thought you were posting that Randy Couture had died, and it floored me.
don't know who he is..no joke
obviously some kind of mma god or something
Sorry Deamon, didn't mean to mislead you.
Quote from: Diomedes on May 21, 2008, 10:54:19 PM
don't know who he is..no joke
obviously some kind of mma god or something
Randy Couture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Couture)
He was their heavywieght champ for several years. I think he was the oldest person ever to win one.
So ghoulpoolers should look to add him in the next couple years when the roids start kicking in.
Dick Martin of 'Laugh-In' (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080525/ap_on_en_tv/obit_martin)
Weak. When in the hell is Ariel Sharon going to die. shtein.
Teen actor Rob Knox (Harry Potter movie, I think) was stabbed to death, outside a bar in London, while trying to protect his little brother from a knife attack.
Yea... I don't know who he is, either.
Quote from: rjs246 on May 25, 2008, 08:30:16 AM
Weak. When in the hell is Ariel Sharon going to die. shtein.
He'll probably hang on until after we're all gone, just out of spite.
Sydney Pollack (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080527/ap_on_en_mo/obit_sydney_pollack_2)
Harvey Korman (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080529/ap_on_en_tv/obit_korman)
From the Pelle Lindbergh (almost) files...Canucks player Luc Bourdon.
http://www6.comcast.net/articles/sports-nhl/20080529/Canucks-Bourdon.Killed/
British drummer MICKEY WALLER who played on hit tracks for THE ROLLING STONES and JIMI HENDRIX has died of liver cancer. He was 66.
Waller found fame as one of the most sought after session musicians of the 1960s, working with artists including Chuck Berry and Little Richard and later becoming a regular fixture in the Jeff Beck Group. (http://www.showbizspy.com/news/05292008/drummer-to-the-stars-waller-dies)
The man whose parents' battle to save him from a nerve disease was told in the movie "Lorenzo's Oil" died Friday at his home in Virginia, having lived more than 20 years longer than doctors had predicted.
Lorenzo Odone, who doctors had predicted would die in childhood, died one day after his 30th birthday, said his father, Augusto Odone.
He died because of food stuck in his lung. Proof that inahling your dinner isn't a good thing to do.
So the dude lived 20 years longer than expected because of this tragic disease, then died from inhaling food? Wow, his life sucked.
Oh, come now. There's the 60 something year old woman who lived her entire life in an iron lung, only to die because the power went out last week. (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/a-lifetime-in-an-iron-lung-courage-in-the-face-of-a-cruel-disease-836775.html)
Yves Saint Laurent - fashion fag, dead. (http://www.ghoulpool.us/?p=244)
This one hurts - it moved me out of first place in Ghoulpool (http://www.ghoulpool.us).
I didn't put this together earlier... bad month for Star Trek alum:
Thursday, 15 May
Alexander Courage, TV & film composer ("Star Trek" theme), 88.
Sunday, 25 May
Joseph Pevney, TV director ("Star Trek"), 96.
Wednesday, 28 May
Robert H. Justman, TV producer ("Star Trek"), of complications from Parkinson's disease, 81.
I'm surprised none of you jumped on this one already.
Bo Diddley (http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/02/diddley.obit/index.html)
MMH scored on that one. I thought I did when I heard the news, but it turns out he was on my short list that didn't make the cut.
I suck.
i thought i had him too but i have bb king.
Quote from: Sgt PSN on June 02, 2008, 01:07:33 PM
I'm surprised none of you jumped on this one already.
Bo Diddley (http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/02/diddley.obit/index.html)
Bout farging time, too.
There goes my dream of seeing a Bo Knows reunion special.
Quote from: General_Failure on June 02, 2008, 10:50:52 PM
There goes my dream of seeing a Bo Knows reunion special.
You'll just have to live with the original. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GPxkpjCvWI)
jim mckay died. he was good.
Anyone have Paul Newman? If not, you might want to add him the next time you get a chance. (http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9180D7G0&show_article=1)
Quote from: FastFreddie on June 11, 2008, 01:12:46 PM
Anyone have Paul Newman? If not, you might want to add him the next time you get a chance. (http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9180D7G0&show_article=1)
Yeah, these rumors came out in February, which he has categorically denied. However, recent pictures don't look too good for him - I'd say he's almost a goner. I'd take him as my WW pick, but I have a better one (I hope).
Steve Jobs?
Ted Kennedy?
Miley Cyrus?
you win
Mitch Frerotte, 43 (Penn State / Buffalo Bills)
http://www.nypost.com/
Tim Russert-heart attack
Funny thing was the giant ad that popped up I Heart NY
yea just saw that. total shock. sad to see him go.
He was really a hell of a news guy
WOW.
Way too young. Great news guy...what a shame. He's been at his best this election year so far.
Its also a shame he's not going to be around to see it to the end.
That's pretty surprising. He was a good, fair journalist who went after both sides when needed.
Sad news.
Quote from: PhillyGirl on June 13, 2008, 03:49:11 PM
He's been at his best this election year so far.
Its also a shame he's not going to be around to see it to the end.
that and see his son on fathers day
It's a shame. But the guy was 58, and overweight...that's begging for a heart attack.
Quote from: ice grillin you on June 13, 2008, 04:15:15 PM
Quote from: PhillyGirl on June 13, 2008, 03:49:11 PM
He's been at his best this election year so far.
Its also a shame he's not going to be around to see it to the end.
that and see his son on fathers day
a given, I agree. Sad. :(
Never cross the Clintons!
New York, NY (Sports Network) - Emmy Award-winning sportscaster Charlie Jones, whose voice is most associated with the National Football League and NBC's Summer Olympics coverage, has died at age 77. (http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/scorecard/othernews.asp?articleID=234886)
most words ever posted in attempt to ring a bell
still don't know who he is, or care
Shocking about Russert. Always liked the guy.
(http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/original/MatthewsRussert_6.13.JPG)
check out matthews rockin the phils jawn.
(russerts wife on left, matthews on right)
If Matthews replaces Russert, that's an enormous reduction in the watchability of Meet the Press.
Quote from: QB Eagles on June 13, 2008, 07:52:28 PM
If Matthews replaces Russert, that's an enormous reduction in the watchability of Meet the Press.
that.
Seriously, who could actually replace him and NOT reduce watchability?
(http://bigpicture.typepad.com/writing/images/jessica_alba_xin.jpg)
Quote from: Diomedes on June 13, 2008, 07:09:42 PM
most words ever posted in attempt to ring a bell
still don't know who he is, or care
the guy that does most of the talking on this clip (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Qh4NTPAB4CY)
Quote from: FastFreddie on June 14, 2008, 07:42:28 AM
Seriously, who could actually replace him and NOT reduce watchability?
There isn't anyone.
I think they will try nunerous temporary fillins. Russert worked for Democratic Officials but you would never know it as he rolled up his sleeves at the start of the show and grilled every guest... politely. I wouldn't mind (and I may prefer it) if a polical insider got the job as long as they tasked their guests with a "take no prisinors style" and can think outside the box a bit.
It would be interesting to see how the old house leader "Newt" would do. I'm not saying they should hire him but he might make for a very informative and thought provoking show.
They have to take their time and try lots of people. The new person will be unfairly compared to Tim and they need to let the dust settle to give the new person a fair shot at winning over a spoiled audience. :'(
Quote from: fansince61 on June 16, 2008, 04:12:03 PM
I think they will try nunerous temporary fillins. Russert worked for Democratic Officials but you would never know it as he rolled up his sleeves at the start of the show and grilled every guest... politely. I wouldn't mind (and I may prefer it) if a polical insider got the job as long as they tasked their guests with a "take no prisinors style" and can think outside the box a bit.
It would be interesting to see how the old house leader "Newt" would do. I'm not saying they should hire him but he might make for a very informative and thought provoking show.
I'm doubtful of his ability to put his opinions aside and be objective, but there's no doubt of his intelligence and grasp of the issues.
Also not sure of his interviewing skills. He does have a teaching background, but not sure if it would translate.
I agree that the best option would be to have a rotating try out, as it were. But they don't have forever to try different people..ratings matter.
lots of options, all of which suck (http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080617/D91BQSAO0.html)
Wouldn't surprise me to see Tom Brokaw take it, at least for the short term.
Two words:
Rosie. O'Donnell.
Dead in 1966 while sitting in front of the TV. Found in 2008. (http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/2008/05/16/woman-sat-dead-in-front-of-tv-for-42-years-86908-20419070/)
QuoteA police spokesman said: "So far, we have no idea how it is possible that someone officially reported missing so long ago was not found before in the same apartment she used to live in.
"When officers went there, they said it was like stepping into a place frozen in time.
"The cup she had been drinking tea from was still on a table next to the chair she had been sitting in and the house was full of things no one had seen for decades. Nothing had been disturbed for decades, even though there were more than a few cobwebs in there."
Ouch. This one sucks. Normally, I'm a fleshpophead about death. But I hate to be the first to report this death.
George Carlin, dead at 71 (http://uk.reuters.com/article/mediaNews/idUKN2339172520080623)
And, in his honor, here you go:
S H I T
P I S S
large, hairy thing
F U C K
C O C K S U C K E R
M O T H E R F U C K E R
T I T S
Dude. This is not cool.
You're right. It belongs in the good riddance thread. Farger hasn't put on a decent show in at least twenty years.
Very bad things need to happen to you.
Mister Conductor will be missed.
I still remember sitting in my room with my friends listening to Seven Deadly Words and laughing my face off.
Rest in peace, George.
Quote from: George Carlin
When you're born into this world you're born into a freak show, when you're born in America you have a front row seat.
Quote from: Rome on June 23, 2008, 09:11:35 AM
I still remember sitting in my room with my friends listening to Seven Deadly Words and laughing my face off.
Rest in peace, George.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BTyzTJTNhNk
Having listened to all of his albums and seen all of his shows, my hunch is either he doesn't give one shtein he is dead, or he is happy to be there. Was nice having him around.
Quote from: rjs246 on June 23, 2008, 09:17:41 AM
Quote from: George Carlin
When you're born into this world you're born into a freak show, when you're born in America you have a front row seat.
Link to the interview (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/01/george-carlin-reads-more-_n_89179.html)
I saw him live in Raleigh a few years ago, and even though he clearly was mailing it in, I still laughed my ass off multiple times. The good news for us fans is that there is a lot of material out there to be had from him. The bad news is that there won't be any more. Motherfarg.
RIP
Wasn't surprised when I heard it this morning because he was looking old and thin in his last HBO special. His material declined as he did, but he's still one of the funniest guys ever. He'll be missed....
Occupation: Fool(e)
I always put the "E" on the end just to piss off people.
Wilbur Hardee - founder of Hardee's - dead at 89 (http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/2008/06/23/daily17.html)
(http://ak.imgfarm.com/images/ap/Model_Suicide.sff_NY125_20080628234227.jpg)
What a waste. (http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080629/D91JMODG0.html)
Yes. Even right now.
Isn't that the second Russian supermodel in the past year? They'll be giving Alaskan king crab fisherman a run for their money soon.
Larry Harmon (aka Bozo the Clown)
Whitesnake guitarist Mel Galley died on July 1st (http://www.ghoulpool.us/?p=255)
Jesse Helms (http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/bal-helms0704,0,3905601.story)
here are some highlights of dirtbag scumfarg Jesse Helms' revolting life as a hero of the white southern USA:
I've been portrayed as a caveman by some. That's not true. I'm a conservative progressive, and that means I think all men are equal, be they slants, beaners or stillupfronts. - February 6, 1985
I've never heard once in this chamber anybody say to the homosexuals, 'stop what you're doing.' If they would stop what they're doing there would not be one additional case of AIDS in the United State.
All Latins are volatile people. Hence, I was not surprised at the volatile reaction. -- regarding protests to his visit to Mexico in 1986
The Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint that's thus far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic, and interfere with other men's rights.
University of Negroes and Communists - Helms' quip about University of North Carolina (UNC)
The New York Times and The Washington Post are both infested with homosexuals themselves. [The Post] caters to homosexual groups.
Just about every person down there is homosexual or lesbian
If ever a person belonged in this thread (http://www.concretefield.com/forum/index.php?topic=17788.180) that piece of shtein does.
Good riddance, indeed.
He was a fireball, wasn't he?
Seriously, it amazed me that he was able to serve six terms in the Senate. Even the suthruners should have been able to see through his load of BS.
Quote from: Rome on July 04, 2008, 12:19:40 PM
If ever a person belonged in this thread (http://www.concretefield.com/forum/index.php?topic=17788.180) that piece of shtein does.
Good riddance, indeed.
I try to leave politics out of that thread.
Quote from: Father Demon on July 04, 2008, 12:36:32 PM
He was a fireball, wasn't he?
Seriously, it amazed me that he was able to serve six terms in the Senate. Even the suthruners should have been able to see through his load of BS.
Lucille Ball was a fireball. James Brown was a fireball. Jesse Helms was a racist scumbag farg.
And it's now twice in as many days I have to say I think you are naive. It doesn't amaze me in the least that white southerners loved Helms.
Helms catered big to tobacco farmers. That's how his illustrious career was maintained. He was a worthless sack of shtein however, and I'm glad he's dead.
QuoteI was with some Vietnamese recently, and some of them were smoking two cigarettes at the same time. That's the kind of customers we need!
-- to a South Carolina tobacco industry event in 1996
Quote from: Diomedes on July 04, 2008, 01:35:13 PM
And it's now twice in as many days I have to say I think you are naive.
I've been getting schooled by
Dio.
Ex-Chargers Safety Terrence Kiel got drunk and drove himself into a wall. Ded.
Over/under on article headlines that said he Kiel'd over?
He fought the wall and the wall won
His favorite drink was a Harvey Wallbanger
< Ducks >
Quote from: FastFreddie on July 05, 2008, 03:14:05 PM
Ex-Chargers Safety Terrence Kiel got drunk and drove himself into a wall. Ded.
was it Purple DRANK?
Tony Snow
Quote from: FastFreddie on July 05, 2008, 03:14:05 PM
Ex-Chargers Safety Terrence Kiel got drunk and drove himself into a wall. Ded.
dont know why but this cracked me up
Link for Snow: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,381250,00.html (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,381250,00.html)
Also, Michael DeBakey: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Obit-DeBakey.html (http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Obit-DeBakey.html)
Renowned heart surgeon. Also scores points in GP.
renowned to doctors/medical industry people maybe, totally unkown to everyone else
Well....yeah. But he did invent the heart-lung machine, which made open heart surgery possible. His contributions were significant. Oh, and he scored points, so that's good enough for this thread.
I haven't looked..he scored points for you? I got some for Tony Snow, but so did damn near everyone else.
5 players got Michael DeBakey, and 8 nailed Tony Snow. I scored on both ;D
Ghoulpool (http://www.ghoulpool.us/?p=258)
Nah, just on Snow.
Bobby Murcer (http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080712&content_id=3120888&vkey=news_nyy&fext=.jsp&c_id=nyy)
Quote from: BigEd76 on July 12, 2008, 05:22:40 PM
Bobby Murcer (http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080712&content_id=3120888&vkey=news_nyy&fext=.jsp&c_id=nyy)
MadMarchHare had Murcer, too.
I sense the sleeping dragon is awakening. Bow down bitches!
anyone have george steinbrenner in their dead pool?
Probably. Is he dead yet?
he was all weekend at bernies on the golf cart last night
that cart thing worked out well for Ted Williams
pour one out for estelle getty
golden girls marathon, igys house, all day saturday.
Stop or My Mom Will Shoot will always hold a special place in my heart.
hopefully the cancer place
No. The boner place.
You must be confusing her with that stone cold fox Bea Arthur. Hubba hubba.
(http://blog.turntablelab.com/images/l_7208befcb6dd9cb486ac338906d9287f.jpg)
Quote from: FastFreddie on July 22, 2008, 02:52:22 PM
You must be confusing her with that stone cold fox Bea Arthur. Hubba hubba.
Naked pictures of Bea Arthur? Outstanding.
Airheads
I could have sworn it was from The Mummy.
Steve Buschemi wasn't in the Mummy sheesh
Well who the hell was the hairy little guy then? Ben Stiller?
Randy Pausch, famous cancer-haver on Oprah, died at 47 (http://blog.inc.com/the-browser/2008/07/randy_pausch_last_lecture_prof.html)
Quote from: Father Demon on July 25, 2008, 12:44:49 PM
Randy Pausch, famous cancer-haver on Oprah, died at 47 (http://blog.inc.com/the-browser/2008/07/randy_pausch_last_lecture_prof.html)
That speech was incredible. I saw it well before that Oprah episode, which most people did. That Oprah thing was a blip on the radar for this guy.
WCAU/NBC10's Edie Huggins (http://www.nbc10.com/news/17026230/detail.html?dl=mainclick)
edit: I'm so stupid.
Quote from: Father Demon on August 03, 2008, 08:17:16 PM
Michael Jackson suicide? (http://michael.jackson.swellserver.com/news/top_stories/musician-overdose.php) This was posted 8 minutes ago (when I posted this).
Or is this story a continuation of today's earlier rumors of his death (http://www.ghoulpool.us/?p=263) which were a hoax?
If he is indeed really dead, how strange that the rumor started by The Onion was on the same day?
You're stupid.
Quoteabout this web site. (this story was dynamically generated using a generic 'template' and is not factual. Any reference to specific individuals has been 100% fabricated by web site visitors who have created fake stories by entering a name into a blank 'non-specific' template for the purpose of entertainment. For sub-domain info and additional use restrictions: FakeAWish.com)
Damn - I wanted to scoop the world... I would have been MDS-Level famous!!
Adam Eaton in plane crash (http://adam.eaton.swellserver.com/news/top_stories/mblplane.php)
but hbionic's going to live (http://h.bionic.swellserver.com/news/top_stories/gerbil.php)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/04/books/04solzhenitsyn.html?hp)
gulag archipelago has been sitting on my bookshelf for about a year, i hear it's pretty incredible but i haven't gotten around to opening it yet.
Atlanta Braves announcer Skip Caray (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skip_Caray)
morgan freeman got in a car wreck and is in critical condition. anyone have him?
I read "serious" condition, which is not "critical." And since TMZ reported he was talking after the accident and I completely trust their reporting, he's going to be fine.
Are you wishing death on him because he's black? Racist.
Quote from: FastFreddie on August 04, 2008, 01:14:14 PM
I read "serious" condition, which is not "critical." And since TMZ reported he was talking after the accident and I completely trust their reporting, he's going to be fine.
Maybe he was just narrating the final scene?
Maybe it was like the scene in Sum of All Fears
That all depends. Did the passenger look like this?
(http://img2.travelblog.org/Photos/16132/55899/f/320609-Rockhopper-Penguin-0.jpg)
Quote from: FastFreddie on August 04, 2008, 01:34:02 PM
That all depends. Did the passenger look like this?
(http://img2.travelblog.org/Photos/16132/55899/f/320609-Rockhopper-Penguin-0.jpg)
more like This (http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&safe=off&q=+porsche+girl)
I'm going to not click on that and assume it's NSFW.
Robert Hazard (http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20080806_Robert_Hazard__Philly_rocker__dies_at_59.html)
Quote from: Susquehanna Birder on August 06, 2008, 08:57:47 PM
Robert Hazard (http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20080806_Robert_Hazard__Philly_rocker__dies_at_59.html)
He was going to do a show at my high school back in the 80s (CB West). Had to cancel due to lack of interest.
Quote from: MadMarchHare on August 07, 2008, 06:55:06 AM
He was going to do a show at my high school back in the 80s (CB West). Had to cancel due to lack of interest.
His, or the school's?
Bernie Mac (http://www.suntimes.com/index.html)
QuoteSouth Sider, comedian Bernie Mac dies at 50
Sun-Times Exclusive: Comedian Bernie Mac died at Northwestern Memorial hospital early Saturday morning, according to Sun-Times Columnist, Stella Foster. He was 50. Though the cause of death has not been confirmed, Mac had been hospitalized recently for pneumonia. Foster said that she received calls early Saturday morning from a close friend of the Mac family, confirming the reports of Mac's death.
stunned
Danny Ocean has to find a new loud black guy
Quote from: SD_Eagle on August 09, 2008, 08:46:30 AM
Bernie Mac (http://www.suntimes.com/index.html)
QuoteSouth Sider, comedian Bernie Mac dies at 50
Sun-Times Exclusive: Comedian Bernie Mac died at Northwestern Memorial hospital early Saturday morning, according to Sun-Times Columnist, Stella Foster. He was 50. Though the cause of death has not been confirmed, Mac had been hospitalized recently for pneumonia. Foster said that she received calls early Saturday morning from a close friend of the Mac family, confirming the reports of Mac's death.
stunned
Not one other media outlet has any news of this.
This same rumor floated around last week too.
''I ain't scared of you muthafargas!''
Its now being picked up everywhere else.
RIP
He is now reunited with his career.
HA!
almost funny...his career was doing fine, is the only problem with that joke
Quote from: General_Failure on August 09, 2008, 09:38:12 AM
He is now reunited with his career.
I laughed, unfortunately.
he was funny in...
He was funny in Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood.
Yeah, he was hilarious as a loud, self-loathing black cop in that one scene.
That movie is a hidden jewel in the crown of cinema, I should add.
He was funny in "The Original Kings of Comedy" and did OK in "Bad Santa". "Mr 3000" sucked though. And he had that small part as the car dealer in "Transformers".....
People still die of pneumonia? I mean, other than aids patients and 90-year olds whose immune systems are in end game and cannot fend off anything any longer.
What's next? Dysentery? Where's my Oregon Trail game?!
I think more is going to come out.. a Hollywood insider I know told me last week that he was very sick, and "they were calling it pneumonia" but she said she was hearing there was something else involved. She didn't know what, but it wasn't simple pneumonia. All third hand....
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on August 09, 2008, 01:36:55 PM
People still die of pneumonia? I mean, other than aids patients and 90-year olds whose immune systems are in end game and cannot fend off anything any longer.
What's next? Dysentery? Where's my Oregon Trail game?!
Well, he had sarcoidosis, which is an inflammatory disease of the lung. That probably brought on the pneumonia, and prevented him from fighting it off.
sarcoidosis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcoidosis)
Quote from: MadMarchHare on August 09, 2008, 02:04:29 PM
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on August 09, 2008, 01:36:55 PM
People still die of pneumonia? I mean, other than aids patients and 90-year olds whose immune systems are in end game and cannot fend off anything any longer.
What's next? Dysentery? Where's my Oregon Trail game?!
Well, he had sarcoidosis, which is an inflammatory disease of the lung. That probably brought on the pneumonia, and prevented him from fighting it off.
sarcoidosis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcoidosis)
Yup, was about to post that.
The only other place I've heard of that was on House.
It could be Lupus.
Isaac Hayes found dead in his home (http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/08/10/hayes.obit/index.html)
RIP Chef
Further proof that exercise will kill you.
a true pimp...what a genius he was...pour one out for him tonight
off the top of my head some of the great hip-hop songs that borrowed from the chef...theres hundreds more
biggie - warning
pe - black steel
group home - supastar
redman - tonights da nite
ghostface - malcolm
gangstarr - tons o guns
smif and wesson - stand strong
jungle brothers - behind the bush
biz - make the music
alkaholiks - mary jane
and the goat....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KutXyPEEbQs
and the og
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JdcrkpPpXo
Wow. If these things happen in threes, who's the next homeboy to kick the bucket?
paul newman
IGY.
Was "homeboy" not obvious enough? Should I have used "thug" or "non-cracker" to make a point?
Quote from: FastFreddie on August 10, 2008, 06:12:17 PM
Was "homeboy" not obvious enough?
when you say homeboy i see this
(http://800lbgorilla.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/026_lucky_nerd.jpg)
Sherman Hemsley is 70. Maybe it's his turn....
(http://www.isaachayes.com/soul_men.jpg)
wait, we forgot about Shia TheBeef's mangled finger that's on life support
Quote from: Wingspan on August 10, 2008, 06:45:08 PM
(http://www.isaachayes.com/soul_men.jpg)
Samuel L. Jackson should live in a bubble for a little while to let this pass over.
that picture is the johnstown flood of pimp juice
Quote from: ice grillin you on August 10, 2008, 05:54:32 PM
paul newman
looks like this one is a done deal. He's done w/ chemo and will die at home within the next few weeks
(http://videodetective.com/photos/064/000270_21.jpg)
R.I.P. Hammer
Leroy Sievers (http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/08/17/leroy.sievers.ap/index.html)
scores for me (and two others) on ghoulpool
Pervis Jackson, original member of the Spinners, dies of brain and liver cancer one week after diagnosis at age 70 (http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080819/ENT04/808190345)
So they do stop.
LeRoi Moore, the sax player from Dave Matthews Band....complications from an ATV accident in June
rjs is heartbroken
I used to like dave a lot back in 97-99, but then i realized i really just liked nitrous in the parking lot and drinking all day
Gene Upshaw (http://www.wjbo.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=104668&article=4127682)
I wonder if Troy Vincent takes over
It's either him or Brock Lesnar I suppose.
Stephanie Tubbs Jones, U.S. Rep from Cleveland area, suffered a severe aneurysm while driving Tuesday.
She was the first African-American woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress from the state of Ohio, and she fought for her ideals despite some criticism and opposition within her own ranks and in her district (specifically by being a proponent of free trade).
A special election will be held later this year to determine her replacement.
The aneurysm is a crazy thing. Like a ticking time bomb inside some people.
one of my co workers died of an aneurysm 2 years ago, she didnt show up to work which was very unusual. Her emergency contacts weren't answering after we tried to call her directly, finally her dad got the message, kicked in her door and found her lying there on the floor, still alive, but they thought the aneurysm happened around 3am. She died a day later, weird though in that she was perfectly healthy 9 hours before the last time we all saw her.
Yep, that's how quick it is. A friend of mine had one. It burst on Christmas morning. He got out of bed, did the persent exchange thing with the kids, and then went to take a shower. It burst then. He complained about a terribly stiff neck, had his kids go get him some Tylenol while he laid on the bed. When they came up with the pills, he was convulsing...and he passed away a few hours later in the hospital.
My grandfather's second wife was a lucky one, then. They were packing the car to go on vacation, and her's hit while grabbing something in the kitchen. She went from "Honey, I'm getting a headache" to dead on the floor in a matter of seconds.
Sho'nuff (http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117990885.html?categoryid=13&cs=1)
That's three.
Quote from: BigEd76 on August 21, 2008, 05:50:57 PM
Sho'nuff (http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117990885.html?categoryid=13&cs=1)
Man... that sucks. Great villian in one of my favorite movies of all-time.
(http://www.filmwad.com/fw_images/sho_nuff.jpg)
"Catches bullets with his teeth? Catches bullets... WITH HIS TEETH?! Negro please!!!"
RIP to the baddest mofo, low down around this town. The Shogun of Harlem!
Quote from: Diomedes on August 21, 2008, 07:38:30 AM
Gene Upshaw (http://www.wjbo.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=104668&article=4127682)
Apparently he had pancreatic cancer that was diagnosed on Sunday.
Find out Sunday; dead on Thursday. Wow.
They say that is the fastest killing cancer, but damn that's blowing through the toll booth and movin out.
We knew that Matt Stover was trying to oust him, but I didn't think he'd go so far as to give the guy inoperable cancer. Union business can be ruthless.
Speaking of which, is the media waiting until the body is cold before discussing the impact this will have on the negotiations to replace the dying CBA? I haven't heard a peep about that issue.
My Union sources tell me that preparations have already begun for a bloodless transition of power at the highest levels.
Rest In Peace, big fella...
(http://www.weeklydavespeak.com/media/photos/dmb_gorge_2007/WeeklyDavespeak%20-%20DMB%20-%20Gorge%202007%20-%2017.jpg)
Quote from: EagleFeva on August 21, 2008, 08:07:20 PM
Quote from: BigEd76 on August 21, 2008, 05:50:57 PM
Sho'nuff (http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117990885.html?categoryid=13&cs=1)
Man... that sucks. Great villian in one of my favorite movies of all-time.
(http://www.filmwad.com/fw_images/sho_nuff.jpg)
"Catches bullets with his teeth? Catches bullets... WITH HIS TEETH?! Negro please!"
RIP to the baddest mofo, low down around this town. The Shogun of Harlem!
He was also Lord Bowler on
The Adventures of Brisco County Jr., a great TV cult classic that died too early a la
The Night Stalker.
Kevin Duckworth
Quote from: rjs246 on August 26, 2008, 11:14:27 AM
Kevin Duckworth
Amazing. He looked to be in great shape.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3553879 (http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3553879)
Duckworth article
Dr. Dre's 20-yr old son found dead
i guess he forgot about dre
Probably because he's been in the lab, with a pen and a pad, trying to... nevermind.
wait isnt writing out lap lyrics only something igy can do?
Yes. Because we're scared to death and scared to look.
Steve Jobs
Oh, wait...nevermind. (http://gawker.com/5042795/bloomberg-runs-steve-jobss-obituary)
Don LaFontaine (http://www.kget.com/entertainment/entertainmenttonight/story.aspx?content_id=7652482c-fc83-4276-bbfc-9c2ae1e970b5), the "in a world where..." movie trailer voiceover guy.
Is there a Geico jinx? Can Joan Rivers pleeeease be next?
The Snowman is dead (http://deathbeeper.com/0378821.html)
Now Amos Moses was a Cajun
He lived by himself in the swamp
He hunted alligator for a living
He'd just knock them in the head with a stump
Ha ha! Gotta' lot of laughs from that man. He could pick a guitar like no body's business.
RIP Jerry Reed
Killer Kowalski (a couple of days ago)
a sports one from a few days ago:
Don Haskins (http://www.usatoday.com/sports/basketball/2008-09-07-haskins-obit_N.htm?csp=34), coach of the 1966 Texas Western team that broke color barriers and beat Kentucky for the title
Former UFC Middleweight Champ Evan Tanner (http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/news?slug=ys-mmaweektanner090808&prov=yhoo&type=lgns)
Quote from: EagleFeva on September 09, 2008, 10:58:48 AM
Former UFC Middleweight Champ Evan Tanner (http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/news?slug=ys-mmaweektanner090808&prov=yhoo&type=lgns)
QuoteTanner had trekked into the desert on a journey to "cleanse" himself, according to Douglas Vincitorio of Tanner's management team. "He went out to the desert to do a 'cleansing' as he called it. Kind of like 'Survivorman.'" These short trips were not new to Tanner, said Vincitorio. It is something that he has done numerous times over the years.
"What we were told is that (Sheriff's officials who found Tanner) believe his motorcycle had run out of gas, so he went to walk out in like 115- to 118-degree heat," Vincitorio said. "He was miles away from his camp. That's where the helicopter found him. Right now, they just think that he succumbed to the heat."
That's good stuff, right there.
Abe Vigoda tracker
http://www.abevigoda.com/ffb.php (http://www.abevigoda.com/ffb.php)
He looked like he was 110 years old when he was on Barney Miller in the 80's.
Quote from: shorebird on September 09, 2008, 02:01:51 PM
He looked like he was 110 years old when he was on Barney Miller in the 80's '70s.
Fish will live forever.
supposedly Kim Jong Il suffered a stroke and is ill
(or maybe it was one of his stunt doubles)
He's 89 now...
(http://www.talkhoops.net/image%20folder/AbeVigoda.jpg)
Quote from: Geowhizzer on September 09, 2008, 02:19:06 PM
Quote from: shorebird on September 09, 2008, 02:01:51 PM
He looked like he was 110 years old when he was on Barney Miller in the 80's '70s.
Fish will live forever.
Ha! Guess I must have been thinking about re-runs.
He was crazy funny on that show.
Why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why won't any of the motherfargers on my list die?
Just bagged another, solo shot
Sherrill Headrick (http://www.kansascity.com/385/story/791186.html)
Nicknamed "Psycho", actually played most of a game with a broken vertebrae in his back.
I hate you.
David Foster Wallace (http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/books/AP-Obit-Wallace.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin)
Supposedly a good writer but I don't read
Quote from: BigEd76 on September 14, 2008, 05:16:38 PM
David Foster Wallace (http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/books/AP-Obit-Wallace.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin)
Supposedly a good writer but I don't read
Young, and a suicide. Would have been great points.
PINK FLOYD MEMBER RICHARD WRIGHT DIES AT AGE 65
edit: with link: http://deathbeeper.com/1497821.html
Died of cancer.
Sorry to see Richard Wright go. Very underrated as a member of Pink Floyd and was treated like shtein by Roger Waters.
If you have Dark Side Of The Moon, play the track "The Great Gig in the Sky" in his honor. :(
Not dead yet, but could be soon....
Travis Barker and DJ AM....in a plane crash in SC. Both in a burn unit in Georgia in critical condition. The other 4 people on the plane...dead.
Mickey Vernon (http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3607455)
Paul Newman checked out.
Quote from: EagleFeva on September 27, 2008, 10:02:44 AM
Paul Newman checked out.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26913988/
And for the first time in months I score some farging points.
(http://content.bt.com/distribution/btvision/universal/images/movies/im1/Slapshot_im1.jpg)
This will always be the image I associate with Newman (Cool Hand Luke, after he eats 50 hard boiled eggs in an hour, for those young-uns [and IGY who says anything made before Star Wars is unwatchable]).
(http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:Qg9hxLmbkkcJFM:http://pages.prodigy.net/johnmariani/040912/194194.1020.A.jpg)
(http://jaguar.it.miami.edu/~chris/formal_methods_in_the_movies/CoolHandLuke.jpg)
What we got here.......is faiiiilure to communicate.
Quote from: MDS on September 27, 2008, 10:46:28 AM
(http://content.bt.com/distribution/btvision/universal/images/movies/im1/Slapshot_im1.jpg)
greatest hockey movie ever made, just barely beats out Mystery Alaska
slapshot is perhaps the greatest sports movie ever made and maybe one of the top 10 comedies of all time.
Quote from: MDS on September 28, 2008, 12:42:30 PM
slapshot is perhaps the greatest sports movie ever made and maybe one of the top 10 comedies of all time.
I have never been so proud of you. Congrats Toddy
Quote from: MadMarchHare on September 28, 2008, 08:29:50 AM
This will always be the image I associate with Newman (Cool Hand Luke, after he eats 50 hard boiled eggs in an hour, for those young-uns [and IGY who says anything made before Star Wars is unwatchable]).
(http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:Qg9hxLmbkkcJFM:http://pages.prodigy.net/johnmariani/040912/194194.1020.A.jpg)
My favorite part of that movie was the bit where he had to keep digging/moving the hole for the different bosses. Sometimes I feel something like Luke in that way.
Former Phil pitcher Kevin Foster, 39, of cancer (http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3642624)
he finished ahead of Brad Brink in the "really? he was on that 1993 team?!" contest
Damn, I remember the both of 'em.
What the hell is renal cell carcinoma? Off to the google I go...
kidney cancer I'd imagine...report back mmkay?
Yep; you're right on Doc.
Sounds like the pancreatic cancer like Upshaw had in the sense that by the time you find out its too late to do anything.
the word 'renal' give it a way
people on dialysis have renal (kidney) failure
Carcinoma was a pretty good hint, too.
Well we knew it was cancer, so of course that.
Kim Chan (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/arts/television/10chan.html?ref=obituaries)
Played the Ancient in the Kung Fu, the Legend Continues series. Also the Chinese takeout cook in The Fifth Element. And damn near every other movie needing an old Chinese guy who looked wise.
Say it ain't so, Uncle Benny!
Four Tops frontman Levi Stubbs dead at 72 (http://deathbeeper.com/4265622.html)
and
Jack Narz, a victim of the game show scandals in the 50s, is dead at 85 (http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/deathsobituaries/story/34668B6F64664C80862574E50050EDDF?OpenDocumentLongtime%20game%20show%20host)
that Mr. Blackwell guy that does the Worst Dressed lists (http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx/?news=335392>1=28112)
Dolemite (http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2008-10-20-rudy-ray-moore_N.htm)
Another pro wrestler - SD Jones (born in West Indies, but billed from Philly) - died (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Delivery_Jones). Age 63 from a stroke.
That's a special delivery, fer sure.
RIP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUOIbaCfxQE&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUOIbaCfxQE&feature=related)
the director of "Deep Throat" (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27409867/)
of course the porn guy dies from a stroke
Studs Terkel
good man
my liver
Insofar as it's a part of you, bad man.
Quote
Descendents Co-Founder Frank Navetta Dies
Frank Navetta, co-founder and original guitarist with the influential punk-pop group the Descendents, died Friday. Navetta played guitar with the band during its first six years, writing and performing on the band's 1979 debut single 'Ride the Wild/It's A Hectic World,' the 1981 EP 'Fat,' 1982's classic 'Milo Goes to College' and parts of 1985's 'I Don't Want to Grow Up.'
"We're very sorry to announce that founding member of the Descendents, and close friend Frank Navetta passed away on October 31, 2008 after becoming ill over the course of a few days," reads an announcement on the band's official website. "This is obviously a huge loss for the Descendents family. His contribution to the band, and to music in general can not be overstated. Frank will be truly missed. We will share information about memorial services when we find out."
Navetta, drummer Bill Stevenson and bassist Tony Lombardo formed the band, with vocalist Milo Aukerman joining on in 1981. Before exiting the band in 1985 and moving to Oregon to become a fisherman, Navetta penned such early Descendents favorites as 'My Dad Sucks,' 'Parents,' 'Statue of Liberty' and 'Marriage.'
Wow. Well, that sucks.
Michael Chrichton (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton)
McCain-Palin 2008 (http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/News/Speeches/Read.aspx?guid=6d126e21-5857-40c3-96e2-4f504e27e22c)
Quote from: rjs246 on November 05, 2008, 01:12:10 PM
Michael Chrichton (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton)
I loved Chrichton's work. I remember watching Westworld as a kid and having the crap scared outta' me. Yul Brenner played a great part in that movie. At the time, it was one of the best movies I'd ever seen. Cowboys and Sci-Fi, it was a great combo.
(http://msnbcmedia4.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/081110-dog-hmed-12p.hmedium.jpg)
Gus, the world's ugliest dog
Former Indians pitcher and broadcaster Herb Score (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081111/ap_on_sp_ba_ne/bba_obit_score)
Mitch Mitchell
Pete Newell (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gNZeYSpqZFMqHVxF383f52JVZ7rgD94GUPOO0)
Which doesn't even begin to get me back in the running, I might add. Damnit all to hell.
never heard of him
Quote from: Diomedes on November 17, 2008, 10:18:23 PM
never heard of him
He's big time (http://www.ghoulpool.us/?p=287) in college basketball. One of the biggest, in fact.
Yeah, I gathered as much when I read the headline. I suppose the cat is out of the bag: I don't watch college basketball.
Quote from: Diomedes on November 18, 2008, 10:12:12 AM
Yeah, I gathered as much when I read the headline. I suppose the cat is out of the bag: I don't watch college basketball.
UCONN's going to win it all again!
with any luck, yes.
I grew up in Storrs. Put that in your files.
Eww, I've been to Storrs.
Tiffany Sloan, Miss October 1992 by suicide on November 1st. 35 years old.
(http://www.bundy-world.de/lang3/tiffany-sloan.jpg)
MC Breed (http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b70336_mc_breed_dead_37.html)
Quote from: BigEd76 on November 24, 2008, 09:42:27 PM
MC Breed (http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b70336_mc_breed_dead_37.html)
QuoteThe Michigan hip-hopster best known for the 1993 hit "Gotta Get Mine," featuring Shakur, died of kidney failure Saturday at the age of 37.
:o
congrats you outlived a rapper
Don't use drugs.
Quote from: MadMarchHare on November 25, 2008, 07:05:08 AM
Don't use drugs.
...unless, of course, they're the kind that can stop your kidneys from failing.
Not dead yet, but Patrick Swayze (http://www.skynews.com.au/showbiz/article.aspx?id=282354) has days to weeks left to live.
Hold out until January 1st, dude....
Ted Rogers, the main communications guy in Canada (and Blue Jays owner) (http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/12/02/rogers-obit.html?ref=rss)
My 15 YO nephew, just laid down in front of a freight train this morning.
Who the farg suicides' by freight train. Jesus Christ.
Well that'll ruin the holidays for your family, jesus fargin christ
and the guy who cleans the train tracks
Sorry, I was going to leave this be, but I can't
What a stupid little shteinhead. farging angst-ridden woe-is-me little retard ass muther-farger.
Oh, God, my life is sooooo bad. I have:
-Parents who care about me, want the best for me, and make a reasonable wage.
-Go to a private school (the little farger scored in the top 1% of the SATs as a FRESHMAN).
-Gotten invited by senior girls to the prom as a freshman.
Yeah, so his answer to all that is to off himself so his parents and extended family can be devastated. Selfish little prick. I hope there is a Hell, so the little icehole can suffer an eternity for the pain he's putting his parents through.
P.S. I just got to try to explain this to my 7 year old. Yay me. Little muther farger.
At least I have you iceholes to vent to, so I don't have to end my marriage spilling this to my wife. Thanks.
I thought you might like to see your marriage die in flames?
I like seeing my kids everyday more.
Alright, how about your wife dies in a fire?
Best of both worlds?
Hey, that's my line!
Nah, she's coming around. We'll have in rounded into shape sooner or later.
was he emo
all 15 year olds are emo
What's emo?
If that means emotionally disturbed, no one had any idea this was coming. Caught us all off guard.
But as Dio said, what HS kid isn't a little farged up.
I'm sorry to hear your troubles MMH.
Weird, but I had a cousin...didnt really know him who hung himself last year. He was 15 living in Tijuana with his family. Apparently he didnt show any signs of anything but I'm assuming he was also EMO.
I read his suicide letter, my dad got hold of a copy, and it basically told his mom to not blame herself...its not her fault, that he was going to a better place, he didnt ask to be brought into this piece of shtein world, etc....
I smell goth/emo type...like I said, didn't know him...but I guess you have to pay attention at that age...
Odetta
Sorry to hear that MMH. I'm sure the kid wasn't thinking through the consequences, though. 15 year olds tend to make big mistakes...this was just a permanent one. Sucks that the family has to have this hanging over their heads every year during the holidays.
[group hug]That sucks MMH. One of my best friends growing up killed himself about 12 years ago. I felt really bad for his parents because they were such nice people. He was in the same boat whereas his parents were well off, he was very smart, got girls etc. This guy was always a little nutty so I guess we should have saw it coming. It was about a girl (crazy one) and I'll bet there's a good chance your nephews death was over a girl.[/group hug]
I think MMH's views on 15-year-olds committing suicide are spot on.
Quote from: FastFreddie on December 03, 2008, 10:17:04 AM
I think MMH's views on 15-year-olds committing suicide are spot on.
I can't tell if you're being serious or sarcastic. And, either way, I'd have to agree with you.
That sucks man. Every year around the holidays, crap like this happens to people. Three years ago a guy I knew who drove a truck delivering pesticides blew his brains out with a shotgun in his mothers kitchen because he had gotten a DWI coming home from a Christmas party. It was a real nice present for his mom. I guess people get wrapped up so much in themselves and whats wrong with them they don't think about how what they do affects others close to them. Kinda' selfish if you ask me. I don't pretend to know anything about your nephew, but I always thought the guy I knew took the cowards way out.
Quote from: MadMarchHare on December 03, 2008, 06:43:51 PM
Quote from: FastFreddie on December 03, 2008, 10:17:04 AM
I think MMH's views on 15-year-olds committing suicide are spot on.
I can't tell if you're being serious or sarcastic. And, either way, I'd have to agree with you.
No, I agree with you. In general, I believe suicide to be an incredibly selfish act committed by only the most asinine of cowards. There are rare exceptions, but not for a 15-year-old.
I don't know how you can stand in judgement over a 15 year old kid who killed himself. Like he knows that the hell he's doing. He's 15. And now he's dead.
Congratulations on your theories of selfishness and cowardice.
That's exactly my point. He's only begun to understand how much life can suck. Save the offing of oneself until you have a more complete knowledge of it.
Being farged in the head doesn't have any age qualifiers.
He's movin' on up... to the sky... (http://celebritydeathbeeper.com/8430221.html)
Paul Benedict, age 70.
Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Alexy II (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081206/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_obit_alexy_ii_10)
Actress Beverly Garland (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081207/ap_en_tv/obit_beverly_garland_5)
Bettie Page (http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20081211_ap_1950spinupmodelbettiepagediesinlaat85.html)
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/us_world/2008_Notable_Deaths.html
I just submitted my 2009 Death List. I'm not as proud of it as I have ben of past lists, but I think I'll be much more likely to score some points this year.
farg celebrities.
Just reviewed your list - I think you're going to get a lot of points this year. And Bravo for your last pick - well done.
If anyone else is interested, here's (http://www.ghoulpool.us/?page_id=279) this year's info for Ghoulpool.
Slingin' Sammy Baugh (http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3776838)
Former Astros closer Dave Smith (http://houston.astros.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20081217&content_id=3720365&vkey=news_hou&fext=.jsp&c_id=hou)
elton brands shoulder
See ya slingin Sammy. A near immortal who really changed the game forever
Quote from: BigEd76 on December 17, 2008, 11:27:58 PM
Slingin' Sammy Baugh (http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3776838)
score
Still dead in 2008, but would have celebrated his 59th birthday today: David Johnston (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_A._Johnston).
QuoteJohnston was the only geologist with the USGS to correctly predict the nature of the eruption.
LOL @ this guy - so he knew how it was going to explode, but got owned by it anyway. Suicide?
Mark W. Felt, Deep Throat (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081219/ap_on_re_us/obit_felt_9)
Majel Barrett-Roddenberry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majel_Barrett)
Former Pirate and Yankee pitcher Dock Ellis, who pitched a no-hitter under the influence of LSD. (http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-obit-ellis&prov=ap&type=lgns)
Less famous, but former Dodger Nick Willhite (http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AuBQkdlVX0_nLe65m1VchqOpu7YF?slug=ap-obit-willhite&prov=ap&type=lgns) also passed.
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Majel Barrett-Roddenberry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majel_Barrett)
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Less than 10 days before her death, on December 9, 2008, Roddenberry Productions announced that she would be providing the voice of the ship's computer once again, this time for the 2009 motion picture relaunch of Star Trek. Sean Rossall, a Roddenberry family spokesman, stated that she had already completed the voiceover work, approximately December 4, 2008.
That will be kinda spooky.
James Bevel, MLK-era civil rights leader that farged his daughter (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/19/AR2008121903432.html)
Dammit, another from my GP'09 list bites it.
Quote from: MadMarchHare on December 20, 2008, 04:18:04 PM
James Bevel, MLK-era civil rights leader that farged his daughter (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/19/AR2008121903432.html)
Dammit, another from my GP'09 list bites it.
Ditto. I had him as well.
Lansana Conte (http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/12/23/guinea.president.dead/index.html)
And now all of West Africa collapses into war. But hey, at least I got 78 points, and in the money.
Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter dead at 78 (http://www.newsday.com/iphone/ny-obpint1226,0,3229292.story)
7 scores on Ghoulpool, including Dio and Phatty... they'll get scored tomorrow.
Eartha Kitt (http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081225/D95A1BH00.html)
John Costelloe (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081225/ap_en_tv/sopranos_actor_suicide) ("Johnny Cakes" in Sopranos)