[nitpick]Also it's Mayer[/nitpick]

I hope they roll him up in a poppin' fresh crescent roll with a big old slice of American cheese. Then he'll be a longpig in a blanket.

And feed him to some orphan children. Survivors of Child Molesters.

Walter Cronkite is dead at 92. IMO, the last of a breed that we will never see again in our skills bereft, be-pretty-or-be-unemployed TV media.

Uncle Walter was a journalist first and a television personality second. His reporting carried a gravitas that cannot be denied. His reaction to the news of the successful moon landing was so incredibly human and honest that the image will never be erased from my mind.

Although he hadn't been seen regularly on TV for a couple of decades, he will be forever missed.

He was far and away THE VERY BEST journalist in television history.
RIP, Walter.

Elliott Smith

As was his reaction when announcing the death of President Kennedy.

RIP Mr Cronkite. You were the best.

Sir Bobby Robson has died today,at the age of 76.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/8177945.stm

In an age where British football is increasingly mercenary and petulant,he stood out for the old school where loyalty and dignity and sportmanship were qualities to be admired. The British game has lost one of its senior statesmen,and the northeast of England mourns the passing of one of their heroes.

aw. :(

Well damn, my teenage years are disappearing.

Writer and Director John Hughes, director of The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, and many more, dead at 59.

I second that, shawnee.

Don't ask for whom the bell tolls and all that.

In memoriam (chicks cannot hold they smoke, that's what it is.) :)

Chick. Chicka chickahhh.

Excellent! :thumbsup:

Not this one.

Just heard this on the news.
Damn.
RIP and all that, John Hughes. Too young to die.

He gave my my first female crushes (Ally Sheedy and Molly Ringwald).
I still say "vodka" the same way Sheedy did in The Breakfast Club.

Bueller? Bueller?

Defining moments of my teenage life, Mr. Hughes. Thank you.

/lawn. off. now.

Heard in the news:

Looks like his wife isn't to happy about it.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009...used_coke.html

What bullshit. If it was an overdose or if he was high at the time of death, that's one thing. But trace amounts? Who cares?

What are they going to say when they do mine? "Traces of cheeseburgers were found in his system. Cheeseburger use caused or contributed to the development of heart disease".

There may be 'teachable moments' in celebrity deaths. But invading privacy in order to stretch the facts is wrong.

Absolutely. :)

Now, now. He is basically a de facto public figure. You know the rules of our media. Anything goes if you live in the eye of the public, and even if you don't.

in this day and age people (errr news media) crave on anything bad in a persons life. then again, don't even get me started on the ffffmessed up judicial system......

Les Paul has passed. He was 94.

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/20...-dies/?apage=2

RIP Mr Paul. You were an innovator.

(I hope dead people have internet access.)

I just grabbed this line and I like it:

From here.

Bruce has put up a Les Paul thread in Entertainment featuring some of the man's inimitable quotes. I dropped my reminisce there as Les Paul indeed deserves his own thread. :-)

I liked that post, Els. What a neat man he was, indeed.

Ted Kennedy--some of the tributes I saw today saddened me deeply.

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/26/kennedy-tribute/

Senator Kennedy was an advocate for higher education.

http://chronicle.com/article/Sen-Edw...ongtime/48175/

Not that I'd do it, but he really deserved a thread of his own. I'm a lot surprised someone didn't do it yesterday.

I expected a lot of criticism and hateful words, so I didn't bring it up.

He was a champion for what he thought was right - for that, I respected him.

Wow, Kennedy was why I was able to go to college...despite effin Reagan.

There once was a senator from Mass
Who wanted a new piece of ass
He lucked out and found one
He fucked up and drowned one
And now his career's in the past.

May he rest in peace.

I am grateful for the break from the MJ death droning from the media.

Hey, I'm a champion for what I think is right, and you don't respect me. What's up with that?

T Kennedy was in the US Senate. You're just some asshole on a message board.

He didn't say he respected Ted Kennedy for being in the Senate. He said he respected him because he was a champion for what he thought was right.

I've spend decades doing political outreach, walking districts to gather signatures, registering people to vote, organizing protests, petitioning elected officials, and I ran for public office.

I didn't come from a rich or politically influential family. If I had, I might be in the U.S. Senate too.


For the record, I'm no more of an asshole than you, him, or anyone else on this board.

When did I ever say I didn't respect you ( gets nervous about someone finding an old post of mine made in anger or frustration)

Remember who helped you a few times with your marketing and logo designs??? Uh, yeh that was me. You may be an asshole, but that is a different issue.

radar....generally speaking were are all just some asshole on a message board. Think of him like a modern aristotle of the cellar.

I suspect that Ted Kennedy was less abrasive than you.

At one time, I would have said P12 sandpaper was less abrasive than you. But you seem to have mellowed lately. Fatherhood rounding off the rough edges?

Classic, I was just playing around with you. Than I got the A-sshole bomb dropped on me. :)

What am I now? 80 grit? 300? Super-fine wet/dry 600?

:D I'm not sure I've seen a large enough sample to quantify. You don't post as much since you've been back.

60 max! :-)

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Mickey Mantle. Cried when I heard it. Cried even more when I listened to Bob Costas' eulogy. He was my favorite hero.:yeldead:

Patrick Swayze

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movi...yze/index.html

Bummer :(

fuck, I was trying to find an update on him a couple of days ago and there was an eerie dearth of stories.... i so wanted to be Baby.....

No one puts Baby in a corner.

I hate fucking cancer.

i wouldn't've cared if I was put in a corner. so long as i got the rest of it....

Patrick Swayze, eternal memory.

haven't been this pissed off about a celeb death since Mercury. I'm really sad :(

RIP Patrick Swayze...you were my first love and you will be missed by my fantasies

I don't think I'll ever get past the way Lennon died...

But yeah. Point Break rocks. Best movie of all time.

Despite excruciating pain he refused painkillers.

RIP, Patrick.

I'm pretty sad about this.

I think Patric Swayze dying is sad, but I was more deeply saddened by the losses of John Lennon, John Ritter, Rodney Dangerfield, and George Carlin.

Why did Patrick Swayze die?
It was Monster fault. :mad:

NOOOOO!!! :sniff: