RIP Roy Scheider

[arcadefever]

This is very sad...

Jaws,  one of the BEST movie ever 

Roy Scheider, best known for playing a thankless police chief in the hit shark movie 'Jaws,' died on Sunday of complications from multiple myeloma, a cancer of the blood cells, a hospital spokeswoman said. The actor was 75.




 

[SirPeale]

[danny_galaga]

damn, not a good month for cool actors 

[ChadTower]

I opened this thinking I was going to see Bo Duke.

[Jdurg]

Wow.  I didn't realize he was that old.  Makes ME feel even older now.  All the great actors and television stars I grew up watching are passing away.  Don Herbert (Mr. Wizard), Pat Morita (Mr. Miagi), etc. etc.   

[shardian]

Wow.  I didn't realize he was that old. 

You weren't the only one.

[ChadTower]

Really?  He looks mid 40s in that photo and that is nearly 30 years ago.

[nexus6]

thats sad. i loved "blue thunder" as kid (and jaws, off course). r.i.p.

[Jdurg]

Really?  He looks mid 40s in that photo and that is nearly 30 years ago.

That's just it.  It's realizing that Jaws was 30 something years ago that is shocking.  Hell, I was watching something on TV yesterday that had a date on it of 1988.  I then realized that 1988 was 20 years ago and it just felt like someone hit me in the gut.  I remember it like it was yesterday!  Hell, I have my 10-year high school reunion this year.  THAT feels weird.  There's some great things about growing older, but damn I wish I was a kid in the 1980's again. 

[Ed_McCarron]

He was the "I think we're gonna need a bigger boat." guy, right?

Go into a convenience store and look for the "You need to have been born on or before this day to buy tobacco" calendar.

Guaranteed to make you feel old.

Damn kids!  Get offa my lawn!

[ChadTower]

  Hell, I have my 10-year high school reunion this year.

Heh.  I hear only 3 people showed up to my ten year reunion.  Two of them were organizers.

[shardian]

  Hell, I have my 10-year high school reunion this year.

Heh.  I hear only 3 people showed up to my ten year reunion.  Two of them were organizers.

Heh, the only people that will show up to my 10 year reunion are the people I would least like to spend an evening with.

[ChadTower]

Heh, the only people that will show up to my 10 year reunion are the people I would least like to spend an evening with.

I wouldn't mind the 3 people who did show up to mine but wouldn't go out of my way to see them.  There was very little class spirit for us.  A full third of the class seemed to be illegals - many of them didn't even speak English.  Some of them were clearly at least 20.  Most of those didn't graduate.  More than half of the other 2/3 had problems at home and were just trying to get through high school.  Two of the top ten ranked students dropped out with less than a month to go - I was also in the top ten until I gave up and very nearly failed out in the last two quarters.  My high school class was a mess and the administration knew it.  They even tried to cancel our senior prom because they were afraid it may get too ugly to handle.

[Jdurg]

I'd actually like to go to mine just to see how all the ass-holes turned out.  From what I've heard through the grapevine, the kids who made my life a living hell in high school all wound up developing drug and/or alcohol problems and aren't exactly doing well.  I own a house, have a very well paying job, and am in a great physical and financial shape.  I've run into a few people I went to high school with since I graduated and they have indeed grown up.  There are a few folks who had the balls to come up to me and say "Hey, sorry I gave you such a hard time in high school.  I was a bit of an idiot back then.  No hard feelings?".  Those people, while I wouldn't go out of my way to hang out with them, earned some respect.

I highly doubt we'll even have a reunion, however.  Those who were our 'class leaders' are the ones who wound up with the drug and alcohol problems.  Serves them right.

[Jdurg]

He was the "I think we're gonna need a bigger boat." guy, right?

Go into a convenience store and look for the "You need to have been born on or before this day to buy tobacco" calendar.

Guaranteed to make you feel old.

Damn kids!  Get offa my lawn!

Heh.  A few years ago when I realized that the kids who were entering grade school were NEVER alive during the 20th century it really hit me hard.  In 2017, when the kids graduating high school were never alive in the 20th century, it will probably hit me again.  Then again, I'll be 37 that year so THAT will hit me hard.  I've only got a couple years left of my 20's.  Better not screw 'em up.

[ChadTower]

I'd actually like to go to mine just to see how all the ass-holes turned out.  From what I've heard through the grapevine, the kids who made my life a living hell in high school all wound up developing drug and/or alcohol problems and aren't exactly doing well.

My first two years of high school I went to a catholic school.  This was so full of a-holes it was like a brown starfish convention in the hallway.  Upper-middle class white kids that weren't wealthy enough to go to the Prep school down the street and had real issues with that - constantly trying to prove something.  They would generally do that by going out of their way to make life hard on the few of us from the lower class.  I got into a lot of shoving matches and confrontations in those two years but surprisingly few fights.  Not many of them would actually throw a punch.  I couldn't afford to just beat the crap out of a guy or two as an example - I needed to be there and didn't have a 5 figure donation handy to get out of expulsion the way the other kids would.  Still, it was enough to make those two years completely miserable for me and a few others.  It was bad enough that I transferred to the public school after 10th grade.  To this day I still can't believe the difference in cultures between those two buildings only a few miles apart.  There were a-holes in the public school but even the worst of them would have been considered a decent guy on the prior school's scale.

[SirPeale]

Heh.  A few years ago when I realized that the kids who were entering grade school were NEVER alive during the 20th century it really hit me hard.  In 2017, when the kids graduating high school were never alive in the 20th century, it will probably hit me again.  Then again, I'll be 37 that year so THAT will hit me hard.  I've only got a couple years left of my 20's.  Better not screw 'em up.

My eldest son graduates in 2017.  I'll be 44.

[mountain]

I went to my 20 year reunion last summer. It was like visiting a warped version of High School.

Some of the ugly chicks turned out hot,
All of the hot chicks got fat.
All of the jocks were fat and bald.
All of the stoners were....oh yeah.....they were in the bathroom smoking weed. 

[ChadTower]

My eldest son graduates in 2017.  I'll be 44.

Youngest kid here graduates in 2018 and I'll have just turned 43. 

[mr.Curmudgeon]

...damn I wish I was a kid in the 1980's again. 

Well, then you came to the right forum.   

[shardian]

I'd actually like to go to mine just to see how all the ass-holes turned out.

Myspace has pretty much answered all of those questions for me.

About half of my graduating class is on there and registered with our class myspace homepage.

[Jdurg]

...damn I wish I was a kid in the 1980's again. 

Well, then you came to the right forum.   

Damn straight.  I can't wait for my cabinet to be finished.  Hell, I'm even thinking of taking the spare bedroom I have in my house and converting it into a game room.  My current plans are to put my cab in my dining room which is in all reality my card room.  My office upstairs is pretty big and has some empty space.  I could put my spare bed in there and make my guest room my office as well.  I have guests spending the night (in a separate bedroom  ) pretty infrequently, so putting the bed and dresser in that room may work out.  I can then put my cab in the current guest room and even make another one just for vertical games.  Hmmm......................... 

[Ed_McCarron]

My eldest son graduates in 2017.  I'll be 44.

Lessee... My son will graduate in 2022.  I'll be 49.

Why is it that 2017 sounds like its -so- far in the future?

2008 just doesn't look that way.

[Daniel270]

I'm still waiting to see if any of my high school friends are even still around... there were only 14 in my graduating class, one of them being a foreign exchange student from Japan.  My class is also the last to graduate from the school before they closed the high school part down.   I haven't talked to ANY of my classmates in over a decade now, so I have no idea who's doing what and where....

And to keep my reply semi-topical, Roy also did the Seaquest series.. I'd say he showed his age alot more there than any other show or movie....

[protokatie]

Hell, I have my 10-year high school reunion this year.

Same here...   

I cant believe I am getting so old! This is supposed to happen to OTHER people, not ME! 

*sniffs

[billf]

... there were only 14 in my graduating class, ....

Wow.  There were 660 in my graduating class.  I heard the ten year reunion only had 50-75 people there.  And I wasn't one of them.  I have no overwhelming desire to go to a reunion like that.  Apparently neither did the other 600 or so that didn't show.

My son is the high school class of 2011; my wife and I will be 44.

[shmokes]

I went to my 10 year reunion recently -- 2006.  About 120 people showed up, but some of those were spouses.  I had a big graduating class.  About 700, I think.  Lots of people I'd have loved to see didn't show up, but plenty did.  I had a blast.  I loved high school, and got on well with everybody from stoners to jocks to geeks to cheerleaders.  Everybody but the cowboys.  Never got along with the cowboys.

[SirPeale]

And to keep my reply semi-topical, Roy also did the Seaquest series.. I'd say he showed his age alot more there than any other show or movie....

He did it with Jonathan Brandis, who also died.

[RTSDaddy2]

I went to my 20 year reunion last summer. It was like visiting a warped version of High School.

Some of the ugly chicks turned out hot,
All of the hot chicks got fat.
All of the jocks were fat and bald.
All of the stoners were....oh yeah.....they were in the bathroom smoking weed. 

I'll second all of that except for the hot chick part.  My best friend - who is more a sister than a friend -  from high school is still every bit as gorgeous as she was back then.  And yes, even ugly ducklings can become swans.  One girl I went to school with 20 years ago, who was never really what I'd call "ugly" could now take the place of ANY model you could name me. We're talking smokin' hot girl.

We actually did have quite a bit of class spirit as a group, a lot of us were really,k really close, and what's worse is that due to family lives and hectic schedules this is about the only time we do see one another.  What really shocked me was that I got the impression a lot of people came to it hoping they could see me....even though I went hoping I could see them!

Makes me think of Garth Brooks' "Unanswered Prayers."  These ladies are beautiful, and one even had crush on me (whilst I had a crush on the other), but would I trade my life now for what might have been? Let me think....nope, not on your life.  I love those people and that time of my life, but despite it's hardships, I wouldn't go back if I could (except maybe to fix one thing I regret).  Crud, I would probably be the first suicide in my class if I went back these days.

(edit) How's that for off thread?

Oh, and RIP Roy - seriously

[Cakemeister]

My son is the high school class of 2011.

Mine, too! How about that!

[BobbyG66]

Anyone remember the Jaws shark game? (at least I trhink it was Jaws).
It was a plastic shark with his mouth open.

The opject of the game was to pick out fish and trash out of his mouth.
If you bumped it or the jaw got too light, it would snap shut.
It would scare the crap out of you, well at least when you were 8.

[ChadTower]

It was Maneater.  There were just some Maneater boards up on Ebay I was watching.

EDIT:  wait, that wasn't Maneater.  That description is entirely different.

[billf]

Anyone remember the Jaws shark game? (at least I trhink it was Jaws).
It was a plastic shark with his mouth open.

The opject of the game was to pick out fish and trash out of his mouth.
If you bumped it or the jaw got too light, it would snap shut.
It would scare the crap out of you, well at least when you were 8.

Oh, wow!  I remember that game.  I had it!

For those that don't remember, here is one from ebay (not my auction)

[BobbyG66]

Yep, that's it!
Good times...

[WaRpEd]

I had that Jaws game when I was 10.
Man I feel old

[ratzz]

Jaws - one of my top 10 all time films.

Very sad - will be missed by me.