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Re: Here's the list
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#362010 - 12/31/16 02:26 AM
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Reading through user forums I found Alan Thicke died two weeks ago too. He was an iconic 80's dad on sitcoms and some movies, yet I see no mention about him everywhere.
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Check again, he's on there...
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#362015 - 12/31/16 03:52 AM
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> Reading through user forums I found Alan Thicke died two weeks ago too. He was an
> iconic 80's dad on sitcoms and some movies, yet I see no mention about him
> everywhere.
Just a bit above Carrie Fisher. Unless they spotted their goof and edited the article sine you've seen it...
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Re: Check again, he's on there...
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#362016 - 12/31/16 04:34 AM
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> > Reading through user forums I found Alan Thicke died two weeks ago too. He was an
> > iconic 80's dad on sitcoms and some movies, yet I see no mention about him
> > everywhere.
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> Just a bit above Carrie Fisher. Unless they spotted their goof and edited the article
> sine you've seen it...
They knew we were really thinking about Alan Rickman when we clicked on that...
The real Alan Thicke link
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Re: Here's the list
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#362018 - 12/31/16 04:38 AM
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> battle with life
There are things I'd like to say about that phrase, but I'm not up to the challenge just now. Might come off as antagonistic. Or worse, optimistic.
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What's missing from the list...
[Re: Qun Mang]
#362021 - 12/31/16 06:01 AM
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... is all the names of people whose lives were cut short from hard-core drugs.
And keep in mind, especially A-listers, they like to down play that part unless it's brutally obvious, like with Prince. When first responders try to kick down the door, and an avalanche of used needles and empty heroine bottles is barricading the door shut... well... then that's going be a part of the press release. I know, Prince died of opioids... same family, different dealer.
Sad but true, but even Carrie Fisher was addicted to cocaine right up until the end. Do 60-year-olds have heart attacks? Sure, some, but cocaine addiction in her case couldn't have been helpful. She's gone, so why soil her name in the press. I get that.
George Michael, heroine. Died peacefully in his sleep the articles say, yes, overdosing on heroine. If Hugh Hefner were to die in the night, we'd all buy the whole "peacefully in his sleep" crap, but not a 53-year-old for shit sake. If a 53 year old dies in bed in the middle of the night, he's either been caught by a jealous husband, clutching at his own chest in agony, coughing up blood, or blitzed out of his fucking mind... but he's not peacefully dying in his sleep.
So at the same time, great opportunity to say, don't mess with hard drugs, people. You die. Heroine, cocaine, Meth. Fuck that!
Even Nancy Regan! Died freebasing crack cocaine while snap-chatting pictures of her cooch. Naw. On that one she was just old as dirt. So don't do dirt either. It's also bad for you, too.
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Re: Here's the list
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#362022 - 12/31/16 06:29 AM
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> > battle with life
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> There are things I'd like to say about that phrase, but I'm not up to the challenge
> just now. Might come off as antagonistic. Or worse, optimistic.
It was odd phrasing, yes, and I suppose not really well thought out. I just meant that all of us will die at some point and for these people their time was in the year 2016. Nothing more than that.
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Re: Check again, he's on there...
[Re: Tomu Breidah]
#362024 - 12/31/16 07:42 AM
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> Just a bit above Carrie Fisher. Unless they spotted their goof and edited the article
> sine you've seen it...
I could have sworn it wasn't there when I checked, not even the picture. Maybe I mistyped "Allan" though. If he was known in Mexico for his role on "Growing Pains" and "Not Quite Human", I knew he must be known a lot more over there.
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Re: What's missing from the list...
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#362028 - 12/31/16 12:15 PM
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> Sad but true, but even Carrie Fisher was addicted to cocaine right up until the end.
[citation needed]
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Re: Check again, he's on there...
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#362040 - 12/31/16 06:05 PM
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> > Just a bit above Carrie Fisher. Unless they spotted their goof and edited the
> article
> > sine you've seen it...
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> I could have sworn it wasn't there when I checked, not even the picture. Maybe I
> mistyped "Allan" though. If he was known in Mexico for his role on "Growing Pains"
> and "Not Quite Human", I knew he must be known a lot more over there.
Just one L in his name (Alan), but as Tom pointed out the link to his news page points to Alan Rickman instead.
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Re: What's missing from the list...
[Re: MooglyGuy]
#362042 - 12/31/16 06:08 PM
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Re: What's missing from the list...
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#362050 - 12/31/16 07:17 PM
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> http://www.forbes.com/sites/nextavenue/2...n/#6411e72954f5
Thanks. That's pretty much what I expected:
> Don’t Blame Cocaine
> In stories about Fisher’s death, media outlets have widely
> noted that she had a history of illicit drug use, including
> cocaine. This has fueled speculation that the drugs played
> a key role in her heart attack.
> But that’s highly unlikely, said Dr. C. Noel Bairey Merz,
> medical director of the Women’s Heart Center at Cedars
> Sinai in Los Angeles. “Drugs and alcohol are not risk
> factors for heart attacks with a few exceptions: young
> people who are doing a lot of cocaine, or the freebasing;
> while doing that, they can have a coronary spasm and a
> heart attack and die,” she said. “That was not Carrie.”
> (Bairey Merz has no personal knowledge of Fisher's
> health, she acknowledged.)
So, yeah - while the doctor in question might not have known Fisher's health personally, I find it to be in reprehensibly bad taste to start casting aspersions on a dead woman's habits, especially considering how lucrative "coming forward" with a "first-hand account" would be for just about any jackass trying to make a buck.
Unless someone takes the "once an addict, always an addict" attitude towards things - which I can understand - suggesting that "she was an addict up to her death" just comes off as trying to smear a dead person, because after all, corpses can't defend themselves. Absolutely ghoulish, and the people responsible should be ashamed of themselves. But then again, shame seems to be both desperately needed and in rather short supply among many of the people who post here.
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Annnnd... William Christopher closes the list
[Re: Qun Mang]
#362123 - 01/01/17 11:04 PM
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Re: Annnnd... William Christopher closes the list
[Re: Qun Mang]
#362138 - 01/02/17 04:49 AM
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And as an odd side note, I believe that Wayne Rogers, AKA Trapper John, died on New Years Eve 2015...
Hot Lips, BJ, Hawkeye, Klinger & Radar better watch out this year!
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Re: Here's the list
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#362144 - 01/02/17 10:28 AM
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Re: Here's the list
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#362146 - 01/02/17 12:12 PM
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> > Reading through user forums I found Alan Thicke died two weeks ago too. He was an
> > iconic 80's dad on sitcoms and some movies, yet I see no mention about him
> > everywhere.
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> Another death not listed there is Andy "Thunderclap" Newman, who died on March 30th,
> best known for the song "Something in the Air".
I suppose Tyrus Wong, Bambi artist, doesn't count as a celebrity.
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Re: Here's the list
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#362164 - 01/02/17 07:47 PM
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or so I've heard...
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Re: Here's the list
[Re: Qun Mang]
#362172 - 01/03/17 01:03 AM
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What about all the sci/tech deaths last year?
- Andy Grove
- Erich Block
- Seymour Papert
- Ray Tomlinson
- John Ellenby
- Joe Sutter
- Vera Rubin
- Bill Campbell
- Marvin Minsky
- Harry Kroto
- Tom Kibble
- Jay Wright Forrester
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But deys wudint on dat there tellyvijin [nt]
[Re: Vas Crabb]
#362182 - 01/03/17 03:05 AM
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> What about all the sci/tech deaths last year?
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> Andy Grove
> Erich Block
> Seymour Papert
> Ray Tomlinson
> John Ellenby
> Joe Sutter
> Vera Rubin
> Bill Campbell
> Marvin Minsky
> Harry Kroto
> Tom Kibble
> Jay Wright Forrester
They weren't on TV. 
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Re: What's missing from the list...
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#367084 - 06/21/17 07:47 PM
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> > Sad but true, but even Carrie Fisher was addicted to cocaine right up until the
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> [citation needed]
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Re: What's missing from the list...
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#367088 - 06/21/17 10:24 PM
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The fact that they contradict themselves between the url and subtitle before you even read the first word of the article should be enough for nobody to ever read TMZ again.
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