Dead Celebrities: 2017 Edition
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@Pondscum I checked this thread to make sure it wasn't Bruce Campbell.
I would've otherwise lost my damn mind.
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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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Preceded into death by his career, which he smothered to death on-air during the MDS telethon in 2007.
“Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.”
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@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
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.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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@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.
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Hugh Fuckin' Hefner y'all.
A legend has fallen.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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@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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@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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Ah man. Let's Make A Deal was such a big part of my life. Shame.
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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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@Lotherio Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the curtain on the right.
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@DownWithOPP
Boo. -
@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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That fucking sucks. Tom Petty RIP Man.
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Yeah.
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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.
