Dead pool

Darqcyde · Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 10:21 pm Post subject:

Well, amongst other things, Clancy was a diehard GOP supporter and blamed 9/11 on "teh liberals" . . . so I wanted to emphasize that it's his works that I'll be missing.
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DeD CHiKn · Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 2:45 am Post subject:

Darqcyde · Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 8:20 am Post subject:

Glad I'm not the only one who disliked Clancy's views:

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DeD CHiKn · Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2013 5:16 am Post subject:

Fred Sanger

I had just prepared a gene I isolated to be sent off for sequencing this weekend too.

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Mikhail Kalashnikov
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WheelsOfConfusion · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 14002 Location: Unknown Kaddath

James Avery.

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Yeah :-/

mouse · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 20752 Location: under the bed

the professor has joined most of the rest
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mouse · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 20752 Location: under the bed

i can't believe no one has posted it yet:
pete seeger.

i'm tempted to blame stephen colbert for killing him - colbert won the grammy seeger was up for.
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Darqcyde · Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2014 10:43 am Post subject:

Today, the world was made a little sadder: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/02/philip-seymour-hoffman-dead-dies_n_4713623.html?1391366139
This story only just broke like 20 minutes before this posting, so no one really knows much at this point. Still, it is a loss.
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Darqcyde · Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2014 2:04 pm Post subject:

Sid Ceasar
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jwing · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 2268

Does the Hoffman fellow, Ms Black and Mr Ceasar count as the three? Y'know, when one celeb dies and then another, everyone looks for the third death to make a pattern.

(Shirley Temple Black, in case you hadn't heard)

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-harold-ramis-dead-20140224,0,2259309.story

Harold Ramis
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WheelsOfConfusion · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 14002 Location: Unknown Kaddath

He gone.

WheelsOfConfusion · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 14002 Location: Unknown Kaddath

Fred Phelps, founder of the Westboro Baptist Church.
It would be easy to celebrate the death of such an overwhelming asshat who dedicated most of his life to scamming clients out of money, harassing targets with barratry, waging cultural war against human beings for arbitrary reasons, trolling grieving families in their moment of need for the publicity and chance to sue people who react to such, and not least for raising an entire compound full of like-minded human wastes that do absolutely nothing productive for society at large but continually hurt individuals and families for the sake of worsening the general human condition.
It raises interesting questions about the utility of despising bad people, the moral implications of schadenfreude, whether it's better to ignore the shit-stirrers even at their most despicable.

It would also easy for me to say that we shouldn't hate the man, because he was obviously broken in the head, and that our hatred of him makes us no better off than we were before, maybe even drags us down a notch closer to his level without the benefit of mental illness to excuse it. It would be easy for me to say these things because I've never been a target for him and his family of trolls, attention whores, and rent-seekers.

Now I'm not saying it's related, and certainly not endorsing any specific reaction to the man's timely demise, but today just happens to be the UN's declared International Day of Happiness.