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Ernest Borgnine RIP
Gray_Area:
--- Quote from: Well Fed Games on July 08, 2012, 11:34:31 pm ---We need a subforum just for RIP threads.
Did a fine job voicing Mermaid Man in Spongebob (and I mean that).
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I probably wouldn't find out, in that case. Ahh, I was just thinking in the past couple/few months about Ernie. I'm becoming very prescient about this kind of thing.
Well Fed Games:
--- Quote from: Gray_Area on July 09, 2012, 08:23:27 pm ---
I probably wouldn't find out, in that case.
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I was mostly kidding, although there does seem to be a lot of RIP posts. I am getting a post ready for Keith Richards, he can't be long for this world.
In any case, the unread thread link is your friend:http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=unread
trekking95:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on July 09, 2012, 11:49:38 pm ---I stand by my deleted post.
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Do you not care when good actors die? ???
shmokes:
--- Quote from: trekking95 on July 10, 2012, 12:40:42 am ---Do you not care when good actors die? ???
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I also stand by pinballjim's deleted post, which I never saw. I should probably just shake my head and walk away, rather than fanning the spark, but he's just some guy who got very old and then died. It's not like Heath Ledger or what's-her-name from 8 Mile, who died tragically young. And it's not like this Ernest Borgnine, whose name none of us even knew before this thread, was like Paul Newman or Tom Hanks or Humphrey Bogart. His filmography is just a long, long list of almost nothing but mediocrity. And that's fine. I'm not trying to disparage the guy, or disrespect the dead. I'm just saying that, like, are we going to have one of these posts for every single actor who grows old and dies of natural causes? Because . . . that's sort of something that every single one of them do. And posting a thread for all of them, frankly, dilutes the impact of the ones that actually matter.
:dunno Why do I always gotta be the ---uvula---?
Rando:
--- Quote from: shmokes on July 10, 2012, 10:13:50 am --- :dunno Why do I always gotta be the ---uvula---?
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Can't answer that one...
But obviously some people like to make these posts, and others like to comment on them and remember the person/actor/celebrity a bit. What's the big deal? The Subject line is pretty clear, so non-interested people can skip as needed. The same way I skip posts about vector quality in certain monitors as being waaay too technical.
EB was a very recognizable actor/voice to multiple generations that passed away. Whether it was before his time or after his time, he's gone. If you liked him, that's sad.
And regarding his filmography, I find it neat that the guy who was in McHale's Navy and the Dirty Dozen, which my Dad watched, was also a character I've seen as recently as Red, and was a recurring character on Spongebob which my son is familiar with. That's neat. Dude had 203 listings on the IMDB page for both Movies and TV, holy crap!
GJ EB!