Dead Celebrities 2020
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Guys, let's take old generation racism out of the dead folks' thread. You can always create its very own! Thanks.
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
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@dvoraen said in Dead Celebrities 2020:
Im done with this year. That man fought hard for a long time.
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I'll take deaths that break your fucking heart for $1000
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Eh, shit.
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@dvoraen said in Dead Celebrities 2020:
Who died of cancer today?
Right.
I'll take dead celebrities for 800.
That's our daily double!
ETA: Too soon?
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My little inner nerd is sobbing. There were so many nights Jeopardy was the only thing that made me feel good about myself.
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No comments about Connery and Trebek together a la the SNL skits?
I loved Alex appearing in X-Files as a MIB.
I have a waggish sense of humor.
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@Misadventure
I was just rewatching that skit. It remains one of the funniest things SNL has produced in my lifetime.Trebek hits me hard. Dude was a constant presence in my life for as long as I can remember through 'Jeopardy!' and somehow comforting through all strange times.
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This hurts more than I expected it to. I'm trying to comfort myself with reminders that dying at home, surrounded by friends, and probably being given the best painkillers money can buy after having lived eight decades is one of the best ways to go, but... still. I didn't know Alex Trebek, so it's not like this is a personal loss, but it feels like a cultural one; like American society as a whole is diminished by his absence.
Oof. Great, now I'm going to work crying.
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@GreenFlashlight said in Dead Celebrities 2020:
This hurts more than I expected it to. I'm trying to comfort myself with reminders that dying at home, surrounded by friends, and probably being given the best painkillers money can buy after having lived eight decades is one of the best ways to go, but... still. I didn't know Alex Trebek, so it's not like this is a personal loss, but it feels like a cultural one; like American society as a whole is diminished by his absence.
Oof. Great, now I'm going to work crying.
Don't feel bad about this. Your reaction, I mean, not about him dying.
I was in one of the worse depressive cycles of my life and just starting to come out of it when Robin Williams committed suicide. He'd always been a part of my life, either from all the hilarious kids movies he did in the 90s to growing up watching Nick at Nite reruns at my grandparents' house to listening to his standup on college roadtrips.
And somehow my dumb garbage depression brain latched onto the idea that he meant so much to so many people and so it just wasn't right or fair that I got better and he did not. You'd think my favorite uncle died by the way I reacted and it made no sense to anyone except my husband, who listened to me ramble about it for a month.
Feel your feelings. They're the thing that make us human, even when they're weird or embarrassing or other people don't get it. It's okay.
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Michael Bondesen.
I realise this won't ring any bells outside Denmark, but that's a rather bloody huge cultural icon having gone on ahead.
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@L-B-Heuschkel said in Dead Celebrities 2020:
I realise this won't ring any bells outside Denmark, but that's a rather bloody huge cultural icon having gone on ahead.
Not to change the subject, but "having gone on ahead" is the most beautiful euphemism I've ever heard for it. Thank you for sharing it, and I'm so sorry for your loss.
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"Excuse the hell out of you. He's a bag of dicks. I'm a carefully curated box of cocks." -- to @GirlCalledBlu upon being misrepresented.
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@Coin Here's hoping God collected him using his feet rather than his hands, right? (Gallows humor reference to the infamous "Hand of God" goal)
Delete the Hog Pit. It'll be fun.
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It's absolutely bonkers to me that freakin' Diego died and it's not an enormous thing in the media. I found out from a random post after several hours.
In football (soccer!)-loving countries he was basically a living God. No pun intended.
- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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@Arkandel It is a huge thing in media, it's everywhere. But probably not in the US where he was never that famous, I assume.
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@Goblin I mean, it was running on a scroll bar at the bottom of the CNN channel in prime time?
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