Dead Celebrities 2021 Edition
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Basil Poledouris.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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He/Him
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@tinuviel you're getting dangerously close to a Ramona Flowers vibe here.
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Norm Macdonald This one really sucks, IMO.
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@zombiegenesis Oh shit! I didn't even know he had cancer. This makes me sad.
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Remember him for his sharp wit. Even about cancer!
"I'm pretty sure, I'm not a doctor, but...I mean if you die, the cancer also dies at exactly the same time," Macdonald said. "So to me, that's not a loss. That's a draw."
"It's not like cancer goes home to fuck my wife afterwards."
- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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I never really found him that funny, but I have to admit that that's some damned good dark humor.
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Sir Clive Sinclair, inventor and pioneer of affordable home computers and probably the worst electric car ever. I remember snickering with my friends when typing out 5318008 on the first pocket calculator, courtesy of him.
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One of my childhood heroes
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Jane Powell, 92. Singer, dancer, MGM star. One of the few people who could keep up with Fred Astaire.
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@tnp said in Dead Celebrities 2021 Edition:
Jane Powell, 92. Singer, dancer, MGM star. One of the few people who could keep up with Fred Astaire.
Goddammit. Royal Wedding and 7 Brides for 7 Brothers are two of my favorite musicals!
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@too-old-for-this said in Dead Celebrities 2021 Edition:
Goddammit. Royal Wedding and 7 Brides for 7 Brothers are two of my favorite musicals!
Interesting bit of trivia about Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. The story is basically based on the Roman legend 'the Rape of the Sabine Women' (which is actually an inaccurate translation as the Latin root doesn't imply sexual assault but kidnapping). In fact, the song 'Sobbin' Women' makes allusions to it. Sobbin' = Sabine.
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@tnp I'm aware. They use the story as the reason for why the Pontipee brothers go into town to kidnap all their girls. XD Milly herself is reading from it the night the menfolk all try to make up excuses for going into the house to see their respective ladyfriends! Its part of the reason why Milly gets so mad at him when they get back, he tries to pass the buck to her by saying it was really HER idea since she had the book.
...I may have watched the movie a bit too much. >.>
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@tnp said in Dead Celebrities 2021 Edition:
which is actually an inaccurate translation as the Latin root doesn't imply sexual assault but kidnapping
(It's not so much an inaccurate translation as it is the word has evolved, so it was accurate when it was translated but isn't now... which is arguably making it an inaccurate translation. Carry on.)
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@tnp said in Dead Celebrities 2021 Edition:
the Latin root doesn't imply sexual assault but kidnapping
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Ehhh, it's not a wildly divergent evolution of the word in this case. The Romans were kidnapping the women to marry them, the Romans weren't going to take no for an answer when it came time for the marriage ceremonies, and the Romans were definitely going to consummate the marriages, so the Rape of the Sabines still is an accurate title for the historical event.
Ceterum autem censeo Carthaginem esse delendam
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@ominous There's some vague debate as to whether they were kidnapping, or "kidnapping". But that's way beyond the scope of this thread.
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@tinuviel said in Dead Celebrities 2021 Edition:
But that's way beyond the scope of this thread.
Please take discussion on word etymology, thank you.
This thread is only for dead people and velociraptors.
(The conjunction in the sentence above is meant to be read disjunctively.)
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