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More likely the cancer came down with stage 4 Limbaugh.

This is a tragic loss! Think of all the tax revenue the IRS won't be getting in the future!

On second thought, high income frequently does not equate to high taxes paid... maybe not such a great loss.

Skinypupy wrote: ↑Mon Feb 15, 2021 6:30 pm Vincent Jackson, former Chargers and Bucs receiver, dead at 38.

This is rather strange. I'm wondering why his family filed a missing person report...I'm assuming he hadn't been in contact with anyone for a while. What caused that? Does it have anything to do with his death? Too many questions on this one. RIP bro.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Wed Feb 17, 2021 1:42 pmBout time.

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 17, 2021 1:39 pm Rush Limbaugh died, age 70.
Have nothing good to say about him.

Octavious wrote: ↑Wed Feb 17, 2021 1:49 pm

Jaymann wrote: ↑Wed Feb 17, 2021 1:52 pm A truly despicable creature:

Skinypupy wrote: ↑Wed Feb 17, 2021 2:01 pm

Paingod wrote: ↑Wed Feb 17, 2021 2:17 pm

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 17, 2021 1:39 pmHave nothing good to say about him.

You already did, though.

When someone makes a career out of hate, it's not going to be a shock when people wave goodbye at the end.

Exodor wrote: ↑Wed Feb 17, 2021 7:06 pm

McNutt wrote: ↑Wed Feb 17, 2021 3:16 pm I used to listen to him about 20-25 years ago. He didn't seem so bad then. I'll say goodbye to that Rush.

He was just as bad back then.

I won't celebrate his death but the world is a better place without him in it.

Z-Corn wrote: ↑Wed Feb 17, 2021 7:46 pm

Daehawk wrote: ↑Wed Feb 17, 2021 7:17 pm Other than his death announcement I only remember one other feel good story about him. The time he was caught smuggling Viagra from Jamaica.

Don't you speak falsely of Jamaica. He was busted smuggling Viagra from the Dominican Republic.

Kraken wrote: ↑Wed Feb 17, 2021 11:09 pm Wife had a more diplomatic reaction than I did: "I guess I feel sort of sorry for his wife." Then she learned that he'd had four wives, and didn't feel as sorry.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Wed Feb 17, 2021 11:48 pm More likely the cancer came down with stage 4 Limbaugh.

Zenn7 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 2:16 am This is a tragic loss! Think of all the tax revenue the IRS won't be getting in the future!

On second thought, high income frequently does not equate to high taxes paid... maybe not such a great loss.

Just Wow! Your hypocrisy is stunning. If a famous person from the left died and some of us posted attack trash like this, you'd be outraged. I can hear it now, "He hasn't even been dead for 1 day and you're attacking him! Have you no shame? Can't you keep your politics out of it? Let his family at least bury him first, etc., etc., etc."

It was recommended to me in another thread that I should stop listening to certain media outlets that support conservative thinking. I'm going to suggest that all of you need to stop listening to the garbage spewed by the main stream media and actually consider listening to the other side too!

I don't agree with everything Rush ever said. That is true of any conservative host or politician. He had his (sometimes major) flaws. He was not a perfect person. But, I guess many of you must be based on your personal attacks on him.

Here's what I wrote on another site as a proper RIP notice.

"Rush died yesterday.

He'd been fighting lung cancer for awhile now. The statement that his wife gave at the beginning of his show was excellent. I don't know how she kept from crying.

I heard him referred to yesterday as the Babe Ruth of broadcasting. I couldn't agree more. He was the greatest broadcaster of all time, like Ruth, he changed forever the way the game was played.

He made no bones about being a biased speaker for the conservative cause. He was not ashamed to be so.

He will be sorely missed."

Once again, please move the politics to R&P.

Thanks.

I was first to report it. I should have had first billing.

A terrible human being is no longer able to do terrible things to humanity. I'm not going to be sad about that.

C'mon guys. His post was even copied into R&P so we can respond there.

A link might help, as it's on the 900th page of the Random thread.

Tony Hendra

Tony Hendra, the British satirist and comic whose roles included top editing positions at magazines such as National Lampoon and Spy and a part in musical mockumentary “This Is Spinal Tap,” died on Thursday in Yonkers, N.Y. He was 79.

His wife, Carla Meisner, told the New York Times the cause of death was Lou Gehrig’s disease, which the writer was first diagnosed with in 2019.

He had my favorite line in Spinal Tap, where he was trying to downplay the band getting canceled in Boston. "It's not a big college town."

When I die do I get my own thread or will I be put here?

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 06, 2021 7:42 pm When I die do I get my own thread or will I be put here?

Depends on how you go. Bullet on the throne? Definitely your own thread!

How will we know? Do you have some auto post set up to run on ceasing of life functions?

If he goes a day without posting we get nervous.

I've got my money on "eaten by goats".

Archinerd wrote: ↑Sat Mar 06, 2021 9:44 pm I've got my money on "eaten by goats".

But how do you think he'll die?

I knew this one was coming after his diagnosis last year, but it still sucks. Entombed frontman LG Petrov dies at 49 of bile duct cancer.

Left Hand Path is one of the greatest metal albums ever recorded.

If you're not Ohioan, you probably forgot about this guy, but Michael Stanley of the Michael Stanley Band passed away this past weekend. He was our answer to Bruce Springsteen...but without the great lyrics. He even had a few moments of fame in the MTV days with Our Town, Lover and He Can't Love You.

He never did make it big outside the Cleveland area, but he would routinely sell out coliseums in our area. I ran into him in a bookstore in the mid 90s while I was working there as a clerk. Nice enough guy. He really did love Ohio.

He Can't Love You

Actually I always loved that song. RIP

Roger Mudd, legendary political reporter for CBS News, has died at 93

In the 70s when I was a little kid my grandparents always watched CBS and Walter Cronkite . I think I can still remember hearing Rogers end his segments with "I'm Roger Mudd"

Roger Mudd, the CBS newsman whose political reporting and substitute anchoring on "The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite" made him a familiar and respected face to tens of millions of Americans in the 1960s and 1970s, died Tuesday of complications from kidney failure at his home in McLean, Virginia. He was 93.

Audio cassette tape inventor Lou Ottens dies aged 94

An estimated 100 billion cassette tapes have been sold around the world since they were introduced in the 1960s.

Ottens' invention transformed the way people listened to music, and there has even been a resurgence of the cassette in recent years.

The engineer died in his hometown of Duizel last weekend, his family announced on Tuesday.

I keep looking to see if I'm listed. So far so good.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Wed Mar 10, 2021 9:25 pm Audio cassette tape inventor Lou Ottens dies aged 94

An estimated 100 billion cassette tapes have been sold around the world since they were introduced in the 1960s.

Ottens' invention transformed the way people listened to music, and there has even been a resurgence of the cassette in recent years.

The engineer died in his hometown of Duizel last weekend, his family announced on Tuesday.

dude got to live to see his invention rise to prominence, fade away, then be reborn as a retro-media niche item

Trevor Peacock who played Jim Trott in The Vicar Of Dibley dies aged 89

RIP No no no no yes.

Cliff Simon, who played Baal on Stargate SG1, has passed away at age 58

https://www.gateworld.net/news/2021/03/ ... ay-age-58/

Defiant wrote: ↑Thu Mar 11, 2021 8:13 pm Cliff Simon, who played Baal on Stargate SG1, has passed away at age 58

https://www.gateworld.net/news/2021/03/ ... ay-age-58/

Well shit fire! I loved that guy. That is too young. He always seemed fine. I had been reading up on what he has been up to lately too. Damn. RIP.

EDIT: Ah an accident. Damn.

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 10, 2021 9:35 pm I keep looking to see if I'm listed. So far so good.

George Burns wrote:I get up every morning and read the obituary column. If my name's not there, I eat breakfast.

Brian wrote: ↑Thu Mar 11, 2021 8:38 pm

George Burns wrote:I get up every morning and read the obituary column. If my name's not there, I eat breakfast.

George Burns wrote: The day I see my name in it, I'll still have breakfast.

I'm not leaving on an empty stomach.

Yaphet Kotto, known for Alien and Live and Let Die among many others. He was 81.

Actually thought he had died a few years back. He stood out in the parts he assumed. His voice helped and his barrel chest. RIP

Rest in peace, Lieutenant Giardello.

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Tue Mar 16, 2021 11:24 am Rest in peace, Lieutenant Giardello.

+1

He was terrific in that role.

Good. I'm still not here.

You sure you weren't in Alien?

Yes, I busted out of it's chest.

Spoiler tag please!

Better than coming out of other places I suppose.

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 17, 2021 3:13 pm

THAT'S the dbt we know and love!