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As Betty White can now attest, the #1 cause of death by old age is too many birthdays.
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Rumpy wrote: Mon Jan 10, 2022 5:01 pm Sure, but over here, if you're infected and you've been travelling, they'll tell you to self-isolate in your hotel room.
Everyone is shocked by his sudden death, you don’t think someone would mention how sick he was feeling???
I honestly don’t know how you think it’s even possibly COVID.
I’m not trying to argue so much as I’m incredulous to what would make you think it. (Other than the pandemic, of course)
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Unagi wrote: Tue Jan 11, 2022 9:21 am
Rumpy wrote: Mon Jan 10, 2022 5:01 pm Sure, but over here, if you're infected and you've been travelling, they'll tell you to self-isolate in your hotel room.
Everyone is shocked by his sudden death, you don’t think someone would mention how sick he was feeling???
I honestly don’t know how you think it’s even possibly COVID.
I’m not trying to argue so much as I’m incredulous to what would make you think it. (Other than the pandemic, of course)
How about, because it's completely plausible? Dude's been travelling doing shows, not only possibly exposing himself to others, but exposing others to him. At this point, if he had any complications, he likely wouldn't have known he wasn't fine. I've heard so many stories of people who said they've felt fine through Covid and then weren't. That's why I'm not discounting it. As for no mention of how sick he could have been feeling, that's possibly a detail kept under wraps until they're reveal the cause of death.
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Well , I take it all back (a little) - just in that I’ve read he had a positive diagnosis about a week ago. And I would think that those around him would not have held back telling people (if) he was getting worse and staying in his hotel room.

I just don’t see him ignoring it, and dying in a hotel room.

Or rather , I would put the odds at 1000 :1
Where all the other options seem more like 10:1 odds…

To be clear though, you may end up being right, it wouldn’t be the first time ‘someone in the news’ does something that makes zero sense to me.

Perhaps COVID has gone septicemic, and one can can be fine at breakfast but dead by lunch
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Unagi wrote: Tue Jan 11, 2022 1:45 pm Well , I take it all back (a little) - just in that I’ve read he had a positive diagnosis about a week ago. And I would think that those around him would not have held back telling people (if) he was getting worse and staying in his hotel room.
Maybe, maybe not. But usually if they're details related to causes of death, they'd be told to not say anything until an investigation could be made. We have no details, at the moment, just conjecture.
I just don’t see him ignoring it, and dying in a hotel room.
No, you misunderstand me. Not saying he'd be ignoring it. For all we know he was fully in contact, if that is indeed the case. But if you're told to self-isolate in a hotel room, which would likely happen anyway via travelling, at least which is the case here, then you wouldn't be going anywhere for the next several hours or days.


To be clear though, you may end up being right, it wouldn’t be the first time ‘someone in the news’ does something that makes zero sense to me.

Perhaps COVID has gone septicemic, and one can can be fine at breakfast but dead by lunch
There is still so much we don't know of Covid, and the fact that this variant is more contagious than the last is why I'm not discounting it. Add in complications, and you could have a recipe for a sudden death.
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He literally had a full show the night before and was texting his daughter about how excited he was for it. He was also on social media, talking to other celebrities, etc. No indication at all that he was feeling unwell.

The last news update I saw is that they are looking at a "major event" such as heart attack or stroke as a cause of death.
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Rumpy wrote: Tue Jan 11, 2022 1:23 pm
Unagi wrote: Tue Jan 11, 2022 9:21 am
Rumpy wrote: Mon Jan 10, 2022 5:01 pm Sure, but over here, if you're infected and you've been travelling, they'll tell you to self-isolate in your hotel room.
Everyone is shocked by his sudden death, you don’t think someone would mention how sick he was feeling???
I honestly don’t know how you think it’s even possibly COVID.
I’m not trying to argue so much as I’m incredulous to what would make you think it. (Other than the pandemic, of course)
How about, because it's completely plausible? Dude's been travelling doing shows, not only possibly exposing himself to others, but exposing others to him. At this point, if he had any complications, he likely wouldn't have known he wasn't fine. I've heard so many stories of people who said they've felt fine through Covid and then weren't. That's why I'm not discounting it. As for no mention of how sick he could have been feeling, that's possibly a detail kept under wraps until they're reveal the cause of death.
No one is discounting the fact that he could catch it, just that he'd die suddenly and alone from it,
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Alefroth wrote: Tue Jan 11, 2022 3:23 pm
Rumpy wrote: Tue Jan 11, 2022 1:23 pm
Unagi wrote: Tue Jan 11, 2022 9:21 am
Rumpy wrote: Mon Jan 10, 2022 5:01 pm Sure, but over here, if you're infected and you've been travelling, they'll tell you to self-isolate in your hotel room.
Everyone is shocked by his sudden death, you don’t think someone would mention how sick he was feeling???
I honestly don’t know how you think it’s even possibly COVID.
I’m not trying to argue so much as I’m incredulous to what would make you think it. (Other than the pandemic, of course)
How about, because it's completely plausible? Dude's been travelling doing shows, not only possibly exposing himself to others, but exposing others to him. At this point, if he had any complications, he likely wouldn't have known he wasn't fine. I've heard so many stories of people who said they've felt fine through Covid and then weren't. That's why I'm not discounting it. As for no mention of how sick he could have been feeling, that's possibly a detail kept under wraps until they're reveal the cause of death.
No one is discounting the fact that he could catch it, just that he'd die suddenly and alone from it,
Stranger things have happened... And not saying he would have died alone from it. Complications would have surely added to it.

This is coming from someone whose Province has gone back to reduced capacity with vaccine passports to enter some locations.
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gilraen wrote: Tue Jan 11, 2022 2:53 pm He literally had a full show the night before and was texting his daughter about how excited he was for it. He was also on social media, talking to other celebrities, etc. No indication at all that he was feeling unwell.

The last news update I saw is that they are looking at a "major event" such as heart attack or stroke as a cause of death.
Aneurysms are the ones that scare me. They seem to come without any warning.
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hepcat wrote: Tue Jan 11, 2022 4:12 pm
gilraen wrote: Tue Jan 11, 2022 2:53 pm He literally had a full show the night before and was texting his daughter about how excited he was for it. He was also on social media, talking to other celebrities, etc. No indication at all that he was feeling unwell.

The last news update I saw is that they are looking at a "major event" such as heart attack or stroke as a cause of death.
Aneurysms are the ones that scare me. They seem to come without any warning.
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I am also afraid of alligators. :think:
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hepcat wrote: Tue Jan 11, 2022 4:14 pm I am also afraid of alligators. :think:
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Alefroth wrote: Tue Jan 11, 2022 3:23 pmNo one is discounting the fact that he could catch it, just that he'd die suddenly from it,
Yeah, it's that for me. Not many stories going around about how COVID drops you cold like a bolt of lightning from the sky. It usually progresses, breathing problems, probably hospital, ventilator, intensive care, etc etc. Usually. I can certainly buy the "pre-existing conditions" PLUS COVID being a factor though, for sure.

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R.I.P. Mean Gene

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RIP, Mean Gene. Your interviews were great.
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I could have sworn he died a couple years back.

Loved his commentary work. He was THE voice of wrestling to me in the 80s.

76? I also thought he was older. Wow.
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That's really weird. Several articles and even wikipedia (not that it's THAT reliable...) have him dying on Jan. 2, 2019.
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Hyena wrote: Fri Jan 14, 2022 1:33 pm That's really weird. Several articles and even wikipedia (not that it's THAT reliable...) have him dying on Jan. 2, 2019.
Given that the comments by celebrities quoted in this article are also from 2019, as are all the tributes, as is the IMDB date of death... yeah. This was an oops.
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Dammit, scooped by research time again!
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Well, I forgot. Now I'm sad twice.

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Ron Goulart, prolific SF and pulp author, passed away at age 89.

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Google "Betty White" and watch what happens...
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Holman wrote: Mon Jan 17, 2022 7:46 pm Google "Betty White" and watch what happens...
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Yvette Mimieux just died. She was 80. Quite a babe in her day.
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For me she would have been Dr. Kate McCrae in The Black Hole - one of the most terrifying movies from my childhood. Thanks Disney!

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dbt1949 wrote: Tue Jan 18, 2022 8:39 pm Yvette Mimieux just died. She was 80. Quite a babe in her day.
Yes she was. I remember her more from The Time Machine. RIP
For me she would have been Dr. Kate McCrae in The Black Hole - one of the most terrifying movies from my childhood. Thanks Disney!
I fell asleep during that movie! It was at a overnight lock in at the YMCA. It was the midnight movie. But I was like 14 and should have been wide awake. And I loved sci fi movies. But that movie was not fun to me and I passed out. Woke up during the next one.

Now days I know The Black Hole as a classic and from the clips Ive seen it looks fun. I basically know the movie as many parts as Ive seen but never have watched it through.
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Smoove_B wrote: Tue Jan 18, 2022 8:45 pm For me she would have been Dr. Kate McCrae in The Black Hole - one of the most terrifying movies from my childhood. Thanks Disney!

The Time Machine is a classic.
Jesus, talk about a tonally confused movie. You had a cute robot who thought he was Festus from Gunsmoke in one scene, then lobotomized humans in the next. Pick a goddamn lane, Disney.
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I remember loving The Black Hole as a kid, but I haven't seen it in ages. I pointed out to the fam that it's available on Disney+, but apparently no one is interested in watching Dad's old fart sci fi movies.
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ImLawBoy wrote: Tue Jan 18, 2022 11:57 pm I remember loving The Black Hole as a kid, but I haven't seen it in ages. I pointed out to the fam that it's available on Disney+, but apparently no one is interested in watching Dad's old fart sci fi movies.
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I can only imagine that movie with a buzz. Thinking of that movie makes me want to watch Silent Running again. But that one is pretty sad.
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Isgrimnur wrote: Wed Jan 19, 2022 12:27 am
ImLawBoy wrote: Tue Jan 18, 2022 11:57 pm I remember loving The Black Hole as a kid, but I haven't seen it in ages. I pointed out to the fam that it's available on Disney+, but apparently no one is interested in watching Dad's old fart sci fi movies.
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Bat back to hell: Meatloaf dead at 74. Meat Loaf, 'Bat Out of Hell' rock superstar, dies at 74
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Can't say I was ever a fan of Meat Loaf's music, but I did enjoy his occasional movie and TV appearances. Seemed like a nice guy.
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His name was Robert Paulson.
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I liked his music. RIP :(

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I was a kid when Bat out of Hell came out. I remember liking (and still do) Two Out of Three Ain't Bad, but what else was on that album to make it such a monster hit? Paradise by the Dashboard Lights didn't seem like radio material, so what was pushing it?
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Louie Anderson also dies. Only 68.

Louie Anderson, Emmy-winning comedian, dies at 68
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He didn't have a wide range, but he was good in his niche. RIP
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