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Re: RIP - The Dead Celebrity Thread
« Reply #80 on: March 30, 2016, 12:11:17 pm »

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Re: RIP - The Dead Celebrity Thread
« Reply #83 on: April 03, 2016, 03:47:14 am »
British comedian Ronnie Corbett passed away recently.

Here is his classic: My Blackberry isn't working

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Re: RIP - The Dead Celebrity Thread
« Reply #84 on: April 05, 2016, 10:39:41 am »
British comedian Ronnie Corbett passed away recently.

Here is his classic: My Blackberry isn't working



Man....that.....ugh..... (hard to find the words)

Classic British comedian....I hate seeing him go. A lot of Americans won't know him, but I was a fan and I'm saddened by this news.

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Re: RIP - The Dead Celebrity Thread
« Reply #85 on: April 05, 2016, 10:50:11 am »
British comedian Ronnie Corbett passed away recently.

Here is his classic: My Blackberry isn't working



Man....that.....ugh..... (hard to find the words)

Classic British comedian....I hate seeing him go. A lot of Americans won't know him, but I was a fan and I'm saddened by this news.

Light fork 'andles for ol' Ronnie.


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Re: RIP - The Dead Celebrity Thread
« Reply #86 on: April 06, 2016, 02:21:28 pm »
Classic Country musician Merle Haggard has passed away on his 79th birthday.


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Re: RIP - The Dead Celebrity Thread
« Reply #87 on: April 14, 2016, 03:53:12 pm »
Former ECW wrestler Balls Mahoney passed away April 12th at the young age of 44.

http://www.cagesideseats.com/2016/4/14/11429644/initial-reports-shed-little-light-on-the-death-of-balls-mahoney


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Re: RIP - The Dead Celebrity Thread
« Reply #88 on: April 14, 2016, 05:17:26 pm »
70's wrestler Robert Windham AKA "Blackjack Muilligan" died the other day too.

he's got GRANDKIDS in wrestling now.

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Re: RIP - The Dead Celebrity Thread
« Reply #89 on: April 15, 2016, 09:54:33 am »
70's wrestler Robert Windham AKA "Blackjack Muilligan" died the other day too.

he's got GRANDKIDS in wrestling now.

Damn, didn't hear about that. He influenced quite a few wrestlers and held several titles, including NWA Heavyweight Champion.

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Re: RIP - The Dead Celebrity Thread
« Reply #90 on: April 17, 2016, 03:00:10 pm »
Dang man.  Blackjack and Balls?  And yet somehow Flair still lives.

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Re: RIP - The Dead Celebrity Thread
« Reply #91 on: April 20, 2016, 10:15:13 pm »
Dang man.  Blackjack and Balls?  And yet somehow Flair still lives.

WOOOOOOOOOooooooooo.......ooo......woo....... *COLLAPSES*

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RIP - The Dead Celebrity Thread
« Reply #92 on: April 21, 2016, 01:59:14 am »
Comedian Victoria Wood passed away today at 62.  Way too young.

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-36094827

Everybody Loves Raymond Actress, Doris Roberts.

She looked pretty good for 90.  She was a funny lady.

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-36079924
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Re: RIP - The Dead Celebrity Thread
« Reply #94 on: April 21, 2016, 09:53:03 am »
I hate when WWF/WWE wrestlers die  :-\ ... I was really into wrestling hard when I was a pre-teen/teenager... it's like a part of my childhood dies.

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Re: RIP - The Dead Celebrity Thread
« Reply #95 on: April 21, 2016, 10:49:48 am »
I was really into wrestling hard when I was a pre-teen/teenager...


That doesn't sound right at all!

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Re: RIP - The Dead Celebrity Thread
« Reply #96 on: April 21, 2016, 11:37:30 am »
I should just change the name of this thread to
"Pro wrestling deaths and, oh yeah, these other people"

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Re: RIP - The Dead Celebrity Thread
« Reply #98 on: April 21, 2016, 01:21:39 pm »
Jeebus!

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Re: RIP - The Dead Celebrity Thread
« Reply #99 on: April 21, 2016, 01:27:58 pm »
Dorris Roberts

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-36079924


Shocked about Prince dead (No one knows yet who died in Prince State). Is it confirm that its him ?
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Re: RIP - The Dead Celebrity Thread
« Reply #100 on: April 21, 2016, 01:30:56 pm »
Doris Roberts was already posted.  No points for you today.

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Re: RIP - The Dead Celebrity Thread
« Reply #101 on: April 21, 2016, 01:43:23 pm »
r.i.p pinballjim :'(


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Re: RIP - The Dead Celebrity Thread
« Reply #102 on: April 21, 2016, 01:45:11 pm »
Wow, blindsided by Prince's death. Everything in our household just came to a stop at this news.

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Re: RIP - The Dead Celebrity Thread
« Reply #103 on: April 21, 2016, 05:01:10 pm »
Doris Roberts was already posted.  No points for you today.

If we had separate threads for each death this important information would be much easier to manage.


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Re: RIP - The Dead Celebrity Thread
« Reply #104 on: April 21, 2016, 10:32:42 pm »
Doris Roberts was already posted.  No points for you today.

If we had separate threads for each death this important information would be much easier to manage.

Can't chew gum and walk at the same time eh?   ::)  Sucks to be you,

So what are they going to put on his headstone? Formally, the formally guy called Prince?

Prince looked nearly skeletal in that picture of him, me thinks he got cancer and pneumonia finished him off.  You herd, herd, herd..heard it here first.

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Re: RIP - The Dead Celebrity Thread
« Reply #105 on: April 21, 2016, 10:38:46 pm »
Prince doesn't particularly surprise me.  He looked like a sickly little man that could get blown away by a stiff breeze 30 years ago. 

Chyna either.  Hers is a bit sadder for me because she fell on hard times due to the way HHH got her booted from the company.  I always hoped at one point she would pull her act together and have another run in the WWE worthy of the legend that she is.  She's still not in the WWE hall of fame btw..... frikkin Sunny is in the WWE hall of fame... the woman who's job was to stand in the corner and look pretty.

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Re: RIP - The Dead Celebrity Thread
« Reply #106 on: April 21, 2016, 10:44:59 pm »
TMZ says Prince ODed, but "flu" was 80s code for AIDS.  Who knows...


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Re: RIP - The Dead Celebrity Thread
« Reply #107 on: April 21, 2016, 11:11:16 pm »
He had a lot of hits but he was also a first class nut.  Like Michael Jackson level crazy.  Google up Kevin Smith's interactions with Prince. 

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Re: RIP - The Dead Celebrity Thread
« Reply #108 on: April 22, 2016, 12:03:48 am »
Chyna either.  She's still not in the WWE hall of fame btw..... frikkin Sunny is in the WWE hall of fame... the woman who's job was to stand in the corner and look pretty.
Adam at Whatculture Wrestling had a few words to say about that:


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Google up Kevin Smith's interactions with Prince.
I've been thinking about it quite a bit today.

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Re: RIP - The Dead Celebrity Thread
« Reply #109 on: April 22, 2016, 12:37:40 am »
I don't really agree with his assessment that the reason she isn't in there is because they can't trust her on stage.  They inducted the Ultimate Warrior and even when he was on good terms with the company he was a lunatic and they never knew what he was going to say.  All sources point to HHH, Stephanie, X-Pac and all the weirdness that revolved around their tangled relationships with each other. 

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Re: RIP - The Dead Celebrity Thread
« Reply #110 on: April 22, 2016, 12:45:07 am »
The video pretty much came out in response to him having just heard the news. I don't think he stopped to think about anything before just saying it. I do think he's right that they'll finally induct her postmortem.

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Re: RIP - The Dead Celebrity Thread
« Reply #111 on: April 22, 2016, 09:57:14 am »
Prince was one of the most talented musicians ever...ever

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« Reply #112 on: April 22, 2016, 11:11:23 am »
Prince was pretty awesome, remember seeing him on the Purple Rain tour in St Paul in 1984, quite the show.  Sheila E. opening and her drum stuff was pretty fun as well.
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Re: RIP - The Dead Celebrity Thread
« Reply #114 on: April 22, 2016, 03:16:11 pm »
I finally watched that Kevin Smith story after hearing about it for years.  Was it supposed to be funny?  I generally only believe 10% of what he says anyway but even if that was 100% true....?  He was hired to do a job and got offended that he wasn't asked to do anything besides what he was hired for?  Prince wears the outfits he was known for wearing?  An active Jehovah's Witness proselytizes?   

Seemed like he'd toss out a "---smurfing--- prince" every time the story dragged and every beta in the crowd would applaud enthusiastically.

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Re: RIP - The Dead Celebrity Thread
« Reply #115 on: April 22, 2016, 04:19:59 pm »
I finally watched that Kevin Smith story after hearing about it for years.  Was it supposed to be funny?  I generally only believe 10% of what he says anyway but even if that was 100% true....?  He was hired to do a job and got offended that he wasn't asked to do anything besides what he was hired for?  Prince wears the outfits he was known for wearing?  An active Jehovah's Witness proselytizes?   

Seemed like he'd toss out a "---smurfing--- prince" every time the story dragged and every beta in the crowd would applaud enthusiastically.

People live some very dull lives.....

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Kevin Smith laments at the end of the discussion: " Prince never said thanks to me... " 

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Re: RIP - The Dead Celebrity Thread
« Reply #116 on: April 22, 2016, 04:49:58 pm »
You guys must have not paid any attention.... he was NOT hired to do a job.  He did it as a favor and didn't get a red cent for it.  Prince didn't even bother to say thanks. 

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« Reply #117 on: April 22, 2016, 04:59:54 pm »
You guys must have not paid any attention.... he was NOT hired to do a job.  He did it as a favor and didn't get a red cent for it.  Prince didn't even bother to say thanks.

If he was stupid enough to do it for free, he can't hold it against Prince for doing it for free.


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Re: RIP - The Dead Celebrity Thread
« Reply #118 on: April 22, 2016, 11:34:47 pm »
While most of us don't know her, crime writer Michelle McNamara, wife of Patton Oswalt, and mother of their 7 year-old daughter Alice, has passed away at 46.
I've always enjoyed Patton's work, and have followed the guy on social media for over a decade, so hearing this news is heartbreaking.
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Re: RIP - The Dead Celebrity Thread
« Reply #119 on: April 25, 2016, 02:51:26 pm »
Philly Soul Singer Billy Paul Dies at 81 - best known for 'Me and Mrs. Jones'

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