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    Dead Celebrities: 2017 Edition

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    • Monogram
      Monogram @Pondscum last edited by

      @Pondscum I checked this thread to make sure it wasn't Bruce Campbell.

      I would've otherwise lost my damn mind.

      MUSH-free since 02/2017

      This may or may not change in the future.

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      • Tinuviel
        Tinuviel last edited by

        Jerry Lewis, 91

        He/Him

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        • Pondscum
          Pondscum last edited by Pondscum

          Love Jerry Lewis. Rest in peace. x

          I don't want to be remembered. I want the nice words when I can hear them - Jerry Lewis

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          • The Tree of Woe
            The Tree of Woe last edited by

            Preceded into death by his career, which he smothered to death on-air during the MDS telethon in 2007.

            β€œReal magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.”
            ― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

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            • WTFE
              WTFE @The Tree of Woe last edited by WTFE

              @The-Tree-of-Woe said in Dead Celebrities: 2017 Edition:

              Preceded into death by his career, which he smothered to death on-air during the MDS telethon in 2007.

              I'm not sure if I've ever mentioned just how much I hate activists and their reality distortion fields.

              2006 Telethon: $61m
              2007 Telethon: $64m
              2008 Telethon: $65m <--- world economy melts down starting about here
              2009 Telethon: $60m
              2010 Telethon: $59m <--- last time Jerry Lewis hosts
              2011 Telethon: $61m
              2012 Telethon: $59m
              2013 Telethon: $60m
              2014 Telethon: $57m
              2015 Telethon: doesn't exist
              2016 Telethon: doesn't exist
              2017 Telethon: won't exist
              2018 Telethon: won't exist
              2019 Telethon: won't exist
              2020 Telethon: won't exist
              .
              .
              .

              Yeah, you can sure see the slump in the fortunes of the MDS Telethon until they kicked Lewis to the curb, followed by its meteoric rise without the Lewis albatross around their neck.

              Do I like what he did and said? No. Do I think he was right to do and say it? Not a fucking chance in Hell. Did it smother his career? Evidence indicates otherwise. He hosted three more telethons after the incident, telethons that made loads of money despite a world-wide economic catastrophe, and then--after he was shuffled at first aside, then off completely--the telethons went down into a death spiral until they were mercifully euthanized.

              The lesson to be taken from this? Only in social media land does one slur uttered in the heat of the moment get magnified into "ZOMG HE SO TOTALLY DESTROYED HIS CAREER FOREVERZ!" Sane people apparently recognized it for what it was: an unfortunate (and, I should stress, because I just know someone, somewhere is itching now to paint me as a homophobe, repugnant) slip; the kind that EVERY HUMAN BEING ALIVE has made in the past and will make again in the future when under stress.

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              • Tyche
                Tyche Banned @WTFE last edited by

                @WTFE I've seen cricket played and I agree with what he said about cricket.
                Maybe he should have said instead that cricket is a game for pussies. πŸ˜›
                I think at 82, he could say whatever the hell he wanted and the world could piss off.

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                • Auspice
                  Auspice last edited by

                  Hugh Fuckin' Hefner y'all.

                  A legend has fallen.

                  Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.

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                  • deadculture
                    deadculture @Auspice last edited by

                    @Auspice said in Dead Celebrities: 2017 Edition:

                    Hugh Fuckin' Hefner y'all.

                    A legend has fallen.

                    I hope he died from erotic asphyxiation

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                    • Monogram
                      Monogram @Auspice last edited by

                      @Auspice said in Dead Celebrities: 2017 Edition:

                      Hugh Fuckin' Hefner y'all.

                      A legend has fallen.

                      In honor of Hugh, all erections will be at half-mast.

                      MUSH-free since 02/2017

                      This may or may not change in the future.

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                      • Arkandel
                        Arkandel Admin @Monogram last edited by

                        @Monogram Please let @Ghost know his penis-sizing formula needs an optional debuff modifier.

                        • He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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                        • Auspice
                          Auspice last edited by

                          Monty Hall, Co-Creator and Host of β€˜Let’s Make a Deal,’ Dies at 96

                          Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.

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                          • TiredEwok
                            TiredEwok last edited by

                            Ah man. Let's Make A Deal was such a big part of my life. Shame.

                            "Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here." - ― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

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                            • Lotherio
                              Lotherio last edited by

                              Too soon but choosing the right door makes a big difference ....

                              I'm just a surge protector doing my job, sir.

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                              • TNP
                                TNP @Lotherio last edited by

                                @Lotherio Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the curtain on the right.

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                                  DownWithOPP Banned last edited by DownWithOPP

                                  Tom Petty, 66

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                                  • Bobotron
                                    Bobotron @DownWithOPP last edited by

                                    @DownWithOPP
                                    Boo.

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                                    • Jaded
                                      Jaded @DownWithOPP last edited by

                                      @DownWithOPP
                                      I...I really wanted this to be a hoax. Or some kind of lie. Really really wanted it to be.

                                      Really.

                                      Sigh.

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                                      • Kanye Qwest
                                        Kanye Qwest Banned last edited by

                                        That fucking sucks. Tom Petty RIP Man.

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                                        • Misadventure
                                          Misadventure last edited by

                                          Yeah. 😞

                                          I have a waggish sense of humor.

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                                          • Karmageddon
                                            Karmageddon @DownWithOPP last edited by

                                            This one depresses me a bit. So did Prince and MCA. When Lemmy died, I was surprised to not have been more bummed, but the thought that he was bedding all the virgins promised to Jihadists in the afterlife trumped any sadness over his passing.

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