Gone but not forgotten, RIP celebrity thread

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...will the Palm Bearers moon walk the coffin to the grave?

I knew he was flamboyant but I didn't imagine he'd want people carrying palm trees at his funeral.

[Reply #81 on:]

Lol - just the leaves (fronds?), not whole trees!

Not only can you do the whole honor guard salute thing with them as the the coffin (urn, vase, or whatever) passes by, while you're waiting for it to arrive you can fan the assembled masses to help them keep cool.

As they say...

A palm in the hand is...  worth  a poke in the eye with a sharp frond just waiting to happen!

Or is it "With fronds like these who needs anemones."?
I forget.

Don't hate me, Trinity.  I'm just the messenger.

[Reply #82 on:]

Sorry...

[Reply #83 on:]

Did anyone else died yet?

[Reply #84 on:]

do you think that shitty comedians like jay leno will cram up about michael jackson or will we have to put up with a whole new onslaught of shitty jokes about him?

Did anyone else died yet?

off the top of my head, bea arthur, j.g. ballard, pat hinkle, andrew wyeth, don galloway, billy powell (the pianist for lynyrd skynyrd), and farrah fawcett.

[Reply #85 on:]

Still can't believe Michael Jackson died, what is it with super talented singers always dieing young? I only have is HIStory double CD but I enjoy it...

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RIP Billy Mays, this week has been a bitch

[Reply #87 on:]

Famous people are dropping like flies.

[Reply #88 on:]

Taking all bets! Who will die next?

[Reply #89 on:]

   Taking all bets! Who will die next?

You know, that's such a good idea that it really ought to have its own thread!


P.S.  Who was Billy Mays?

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P.P.S  Nevermind. In the time it took no one to even bother replying I was able to look him up on wii-pee. Also I was thinking of a different Billy. (Shears, of Sgt. Pepper's fame).

Don't hate me, Trinity.  I'm just the messenger.

[Reply #90 on:]

BILLY MAYS? BILLY MAYS? BILLY MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYS!!!!!!

i felt worse hearing about billy dying than i did about michael jackson.

[Reply #91 on:]

Prince is alive, everybody!

[Reply #92 on:]

so is Jeff Goldblum

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BILLY MAYS? BILLY MAYS? BILLY MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYS!!!!!!

i felt worse hearing about billy dying than i did about michael jackson.

Me too. With Jackson it was less a bad feeling than it was a "well that's one less freak in the world" feeling.

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Ahhh I loved pitchmen!!! But ya, shitty week, I hope a young slutty celeb finally bites one next, some good news for once.  Ah just kidding, kind of.  Just too many people with actual talent shouldn't be going, worthless trash should!

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karl malden's bit the dust, too. fantastic actor, with a career that was more than half a century long.

[Reply #96 on:]

BILLY MAYS? BILLY MAYS? BILLY MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYS!!!!!!

i felt worse hearing about billy dying than i did about michael jackson.

I know what you mean, for a guy who watches a lot of daytime TV, I saw Billy pretty much every day until his passing, and the "Billy Mays here" made it sound like he was my friend, plus he had a kickass beard

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RIP Walter Cronkite

I've seen archive footage of some of his reports, like the JFK assassination.  He was a good reporter.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090718/ap_on_re_us/us_obit_walter_cronkite


he's one of his reports  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K8Q3cqGs7I

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BILLY MAYS? BILLY MAYS? BILLY MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYS!!!!!!

i felt worse hearing about billy dying than i did about michael jackson.

I know what you mean, for a guy who watches a lot of daytime TV, I saw Billy pretty much every day until his passing, and the "Billy Mays here" made it sound like he was my friend, plus he had a kickass beard

If he was really your friend, wouldn't he just say "Billy here"?

[Reply #99 on:]

No, his first name was Billy Mays. His last name was Schlegel

[Reply #100 on:]

 http://www.ottawacomedy.com/fusionbb/custompb/lye.php

so long Barth

[Reply #101 on:]

Rest in peace, John Hughes.

[Reply #102 on:]

RIP Adam Sandler...

[Reply #103 on:]

Err... I'm looking at CNN.com and I don't that's true, coldangel 

[Reply #104 on:]

Oh, I know.

[Reply #105 on:]

Rest in peace, John Hughes.

Tis a shame not a lot of people knew he made some of the best movies of the 80's. Long live forever Mr. Hughes! RIP.

[Reply #106 on:]

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. By far my favorite John Candy movie.

[Reply #107 on:]

Agreed Coldangel. Did it make even you, cry?
Thanks for getting my hopes up about Adam Sandler, and expertly dashing them

[Reply #108 on:]

Hey, who removed hilarious satire?

[Reply #109 on:]

Agreed Coldangel. Did it make even you, cry?

Nope.

[Reply #110 on:]

sucks about John Hughes, RIP

[Reply #111 on:]

Patrick McGoohan.I guess his number(6) was up.RIP.

[Reply #112 on:]

I was going to say "I thought he died ages ago" but then I found out I was thinking of someone else — the guy from The Avengers, Patrick Macnee, who, on further investigation, is not dead yet at all!

Don't hate me, Trinity.  I'm just the messenger.

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RIP Ted Kennedy.  He died tonight due to brain cancer.  He's up there with his brothers JFK and RFK, now.

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/national_world&id=6983196&rss=rss-kabc-article-6983196

[Reply #114 on:]

I thought he was already dead.

[Reply #115 on:]

No, he was just pickled

[Reply #116 on:]

RIP Ted Kennedy.  He died tonight due to brain cancer.  He's up there with his brothers JFK and RFK, now.

Somehow I doubt that.

[Reply #117 on:]

RIP Ted Kennedy.  He died tonight due to brain cancer.  He's up there with his brothers JFK and RFK, now.

Somehow I doubt that.

Because you don't believe in stuff like "up there"?

Right on, my man.

[Reply #118 on:]

More becuase he was self important drunk who used his family's fame to get away with killing his girlfriend and keep a cushy job in the Senate.

[Reply #119 on:]

More becuase he was self important drunk who used his family's fame to get away with killing his girlfriend and keep a cushy job in the Senate.

I thought everyone went to Hades when they died.