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Post by MSBNYY on Nov 11, 2006 19:17:11 GMT -5
We exist for dumb jokes. And these people deserve it.
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Post by Jason Giambi on Nov 11, 2006 23:19:43 GMT -5
We'll try to palance it out with good taste in the future.
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Post by MSBNYY on Nov 12, 2006 6:13:07 GMT -5
Celebrity deaths give us the opportunity to debut new material we've been DYING to try out.
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Post by kingdzbws on Nov 12, 2006 18:35:05 GMT -5
When I die, I would like to go peacefully, in my sleep, like my grandfather did. Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.
- JH
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Post by $heriff Tom on Nov 12, 2006 19:54:13 GMT -5
When my grandfather was taking his last breaths, his most valuable ring passed to me.
I'll tell you, for a dying man on his hospital bed, he fought like Hell to stop me from taking it.
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Post by kingdzbws on Nov 14, 2006 10:33:21 GMT -5
I still can't tell if thats a joke or not
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Post by Jason Giambi on Nov 17, 2006 13:25:49 GMT -5
RIP former Michigan Coach Bo Shembechler. Dead at 77
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Post by MSBNYY on Nov 17, 2006 13:28:51 GMT -5
Talking about him is a glass half empty approach. Look at the bright side. Abe Vigoda is still alive! www.abevigoda.com/
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Post by nyyanksagain on Nov 17, 2006 13:32:39 GMT -5
i love abe vigoda!
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Post by Jason Giambi on Nov 17, 2006 13:33:27 GMT -5
I never liked Tessio
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Post by 9 on Nov 17, 2006 13:36:09 GMT -5
Tell him it wasn't personal ... it was business. I always liked him.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Nov 17, 2006 13:49:53 GMT -5
Milton Friedman, the Nobel-Prize winning economist who advocated an unfettered free market and had the ear of 3 Presidents, died yesterday at 94. And the bastard owed me money! Check out what he once said....its pretty friggin' deep......"a set of social institutions that stresses individual responsibility....will lead to a higher and more desireable moral climate."
This guy used to be on PBS like, all the time. Even more than Oscar the Grouch.
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Post by MSBNYY on Nov 17, 2006 13:57:08 GMT -5
What a dick!
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Post by $heriff Tom on Dec 13, 2006 9:12:50 GMT -5
MIAMI - Martin Nodell, the creator of Green Lantern, the comic book superhero who uses his magical ring to help him fight crime, has died. He was 91.
Nodell died at a nursing home in Muskego, Wis., on Saturday of natural causes, his son Spencer Nodell told The Associated Press on Tuesday. He previously lived in West Palm Beach.
Nodell was looking for a new idea for a comic book in 1940 when he was waiting for a New York subway and saw a train operator waving a lantern displaying a green light, said Maggie Thompson, senior editor of Comics Buyer's Guide.
Nodell imagined a young engineer, Alan Scott, a train crash survivor who discovers in the debris an ancient lantern forged from a green meteor. Scott constructs a ring from the lamp that gives him super powers, and becomes a crime fighter.
He brought his drawings and story lines to All-American Publications, which later became a part of National Periodical Publications, the company that was to become DC Comics, Thompson said.
The first Green Lantern appearance came in July 1940, an eight-page story in a comic book also featuring other characters. The character then got his own series, and Nodell drew it until 1947 under the name Mart Dellon.
After its cancellation in 1949, the series was reborn in 1959 with a revised story line, and it has been revived several times.
Meanwhile, Nodell left the comics field for an advertising career. In the 1960s, he was on a design team that helped develop the Pillsbury Doughboy.
In later years, Nodell traveled the comic book convention circuit with his wife, Caroline, who died in 2004.
"There were myriad of fans who would come up to my dad and would say `Green Lantern got me to read' or `Green Lantern got me to do something in my life,'" Spencer Nodell said.
Nodell was born in Philadelphia and studied at art schools in Chicago and New York. Besides Spencer Nodell, survivors include another son, six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
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Post by MSBNYY on Dec 13, 2006 9:54:47 GMT -5
It's always amazing to me that comic hero inventors seem to have really long lives.
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Post by 9 on Dec 13, 2006 10:08:25 GMT -5
He constructed a ring from a lamp from an ancient meteor that gave him super powers. Can't you read? ;D
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Post by MSBNYY on Dec 13, 2006 10:29:45 GMT -5
Alan Scott is still kicking ass today.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Dec 13, 2006 12:09:01 GMT -5
This one is sad.
NEW YORK - Peter Boyle, the actor known for playing everything from a tap-dancing monster in "Young Frankenstein" to the curmudgeonly father in the long-running TV sitcom "Everybody Loves Raymond," has died. He was 71. Boyle died Tuesday evening at New York Presbyterian Hospital. He had been suffering from multiple myeloma and heart disease, said his publicist, Jennifer Plante.
Boyle was beginning to gain notice playing hard-bitten, angry types when he took on the role of the hulking, lab-created monster in Mel Brooks' 1974 send-up of horror films. The movie's defining moment came when Gene Wilder, as scientist Frederick Frankenstein, introduced his creation to an upscale audience. Boyle, decked out in tails, performed a song-and-dance routine to the Irving Berlin classic "Puttin' On the Ritz."
It showed another side of the Emmy-winning actor, one that would be exploited in countless other films and perhaps best in "Everybody Loves Raymond," in which he played incorrigible paterfamilias Frank Barone for 10 years.
"He's just obnoxious in a nice way, just for laughs," he said of the character in a 2001 interview. "It's a very sweet experience having this happen at a time when you basically go back over your life and see every mistake you ever made."
When Boyle tried out for the role opposite series star Ray Romano's Ray Barone, however, he was kept waiting for his audition — and he was not happy.
"He came in all hot and angry," recalled the show's creator, Phil Rosenthal, "and I hired him because I was afraid of him."
But Rosenthal also noted: "I knew right away that he had a comic presence."
Boyle first came to the public's attention more than a quarter century before. "Joe" was a sleeper hit in which he portrayed the title role, an angry, murderous bigot at odds with the era's emerging hippie youth culture.
Although critically acclaimed, he faced being categorized as someone who played tough, angry types. He broke free of that to some degree as Robert Redford's campaign manager in "The Candidate," and shed it entirely in "Young Frankenstein."
The latter film also led to the actor meeting his wife, Loraine Alterman, who visited the set as a reporter for Rolling Stone magazine. Boyle, still in his monster makeup, quickly asked her for a date.
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Post by MSBNYY on Dec 13, 2006 12:19:19 GMT -5
He was great in Johnny Dangerously.
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Post by Chris on Dec 13, 2006 15:41:27 GMT -5
"He was great in Johnny Dangerously. " -- Yes, he was.
"Calm down, CALM DOWN?!?!?! I'm standin' here with my dork in my hands."
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Post by MSBNYY on Dec 13, 2006 15:46:42 GMT -5
NO MORE NODDING!!!!
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Post by Jason Giambi on Dec 14, 2006 6:14:57 GMT -5
RIP Lamar Hunt, KC Chiefs owner, and the guy who came up with the name Super Bowl
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Post by $heriff Tom on Dec 14, 2006 8:47:01 GMT -5
Yeah, that sure took creativity.
Whats with everybody dying?
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Post by 9 on Dec 14, 2006 9:06:11 GMT -5
It's the most wonderful time of the year.
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Post by MSBNYY on Dec 14, 2006 9:08:16 GMT -5
Hopefully people will stop dying soon. It would be good if this just Boyles over. Check out Peter Boyle--now...
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Post by $heriff Tom on Dec 18, 2006 12:05:28 GMT -5
Well, with all the Queensryche talk we have going on, here is a bit of a bon mot that is just coming in across the wires.
According to ClarionLedger.com, longtime disc jockey, music producer and Grammy-nominated songwriter Scott Mateer who performed a voice-over as "The Preacher" on the QUEENSRŸCHE album "Operation: Mindcrime" — died Sunday morning (Dec. 17) at his home in Flowood, Mississippi.
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Post by MSBNYY on Dec 18, 2006 19:34:42 GMT -5
Joseph Barbera, of Hanna Barbera fame, has run out of ink.
95 years old, proving yet another famous cartoon guy living a very long life.
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Post by MSBNYY on Dec 22, 2006 13:08:51 GMT -5
Mike Evans, co-creator of Good Times, and best known as the original Lionel Jefferson, has moved on up to that deluxe apartment in the sky.... DEAD!!!!
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Post by crazilyz on Dec 22, 2006 14:12:22 GMT -5
Mike Evans, co-creator of Good Times, and best known as the original Lionel Jefferson, has moved on up to that deluxe apartment in the sky.... DEAD!!!! Nice play on words Balls. I didn't know that he was behind the creation of Good Times...couldn't he find a different name for the family instead of his own?
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Post by $heriff Tom on Dec 22, 2006 14:13:27 GMT -5
Well, originally he did, but the networks decided against "Jefferson."
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