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Today must be a good day to die... - Logan Darklighter - 06-26-2009
First Farrah Fawcett and now -
Michael
Jackson.
Hard to believe. I couldn't be considered a fan, especially with the insane crap of his the last couple of decades, but he was part of the cultural
background, and I wouldn't have some of Weird Al Yankovic's best
videos without him.
(yes, I know it was mentioned in the Farrah Fawcett thread, but I thought it deserved a thread of it's own.
- Bob Schroeck - 06-26-2009
Forgive me for the inappropriate humor, but I cannot see either as Klingons...
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
- Norgarth - 06-26-2009
How about as Apaches?
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"I've always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." - George Carlin
- OpMegs - 06-26-2009
Quote: Bob Schroeck wrote:I read this part and the first thing that came to mind was "but will he go with a Thriller
Forgive me for the inappropriate humor,
reference?"
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"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."
- Logan Darklighter - 06-26-2009
Quote: Bob Schroeck wrote:
Forgive me for the inappropriate humor, but I cannot see either as Klingons...
Dude - how can it be inappropriate when I'm linking WEIRD AL videos in a death notice?? ^_^
- robkelk - 06-26-2009
Don't know whether this is inappropriate, but I just started http://drunkardswalkforums.yuku.com/topic/5849/]this tread in "The Game..."
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
- Bluemage - 06-26-2009
I'm happy about it. As far as I can tell, the man who did Thriller, the King of Pop, died over a decade ago.
What was left behind just... kept going. Now, it's stopped.
My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Atom Bomb of Courteous Debate. Get yours.
I've been writing a bit.
- Logan Darklighter - 06-26-2009
Quote: Bluemage wrote:
I'm happy about it. As far as I can tell, the man who did Thriller, the King of Pop, died over a decade ago.
What was left behind just... kept going. Now, it's stopped.
Ahhh... Rather like In Utena... *nods*
What we remember of Jackson from the past and through the 1980s = Dios.
What we were forced to watch slowly disintegrate the last two decades in the 90s and beyond = Akio.
- Star Ranger4 - 06-26-2009
He's finally returned to Wonderland...
The only question is which one, one where no one would believe he could possibly be a child molester
or one where he'll always be under charges of it reguardless of if he's innocent or not.
One thing I dont get. Lulu and I were watching the coverage on CNN's Headline News over dinner, and they said they'd be performing an autopsy today.
Reason being, he'd died without an actual doctor in attendence.
But he died at bloody UCLA Westwood. A fricking TEACHING HOSPITAL. How could there not be a Doctor in attendance?
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children
- Shepherd - 06-26-2009
Quote: Star Ranger4 wrote:Maybe he died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital? IIRC, EMTs cannot actually declare you dead. Only an actual doctor can pronounce death.
One thing I dont get. Lulu and I were watching the coverage on CNN's Headline News over dinner, and they said they'd be performing an autopsy today.
Reason being, he'd died without an actual doctor in attendence.
But he died at bloody UCLA Westwood. A fricking TEACHING HOSPITAL. How could there not be a Doctor in attendance?
Thus, if you die before reaching a doctor, you are only declared dead after the doctor sees the body.
I believe that this is the reason for the urban legend about Disney scheming to make certain that nobody is declared dead within their amusement park. There is
no scheming involved, it is simply that the paramedics are legally unable to make the declaration of death.
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"Anyone can be a winner if their definition of victory is flexible enough." - The DM of the Rings XXXV
- Bob Schroeck - 06-26-2009
That is indeed the case, at least in California. EMTs cannot declare someone dead -- they are "unconscious" until they get to a hospital and a doctor sees them. (Joss Whedon mentioned this in his commentary for the Buffy The Vampire Slayer episode "The Body" at the moment that the EMTs declare Joyce dead.)
Regardless of the legal requirements, it is apparently a widespread practice that a person hasn't officially died until a doctor "calls it". A case in point: my father died at 11:35ish PM on 5 May -- but his "legal" date and time of death is 1:30ish AM on 6 May, because that's when the doctor got to the house and played Captain Obvious.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
- Bluemage - 06-27-2009
Quote: Logan Darklighter wrote:I am reminded of a game I like to call Word Disassociation. One player gives a random word. The other then produces a word that has some
Quote: Bluemage wrote:
I'm happy about it. As far as I can tell, the man who did Thriller, the King of Pop, died over a decade ago.
What was left behind just... kept going. Now, it's stopped.
Ahhh... Rather like In Utena... *nods*
What we remember of Jackson from the past and through the 1980s = Dios.
What we were forced to watch slowly disintegrate the last two decades in the 90s and beyond = Akio.
relation (through as many degrees of separation as can be managed in a reasonable number of seconds) to the original. This repeats until the goal- getting
somebody to ask some variation of "how did you get that?"- is reached.
My friends at college could only manage first- or second-order disassociation. I generally used 5-7 degrees of separation.
I get the feeling that you would be an entertaining opponent.
My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Atom Bomb of Courteous Debate. Get yours.
I've been writing a bit.
- Wiregeek - 06-27-2009
Bluemage, do you want me to start a Questions Tennis thread?
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies
- Evil Midnight Lurker - 06-27-2009
Is that appropriate here?
--Sam
"Third base!"
- Wiregeek - 06-27-2009
Why wouldn't it be?
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies
- Evil Midnight Lurker - 06-27-2009
Are you quite aware of which forum you're posting in?
--Sam
"Don't you discriminate at all?!"
- Bluemage - 06-27-2009
Is Questions Tennis anything like "Questions Only" from Whose Line Is It Anyway?
My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Atom Bomb of Courteous Debate. Get yours.
I've been writing a bit.
- Evil Midnight Lurker - 06-27-2009
Non-sequitur foul! Point to me.
--Sam
"Well let's go beat up that hedge then."
- Bluemage - 06-27-2009
Mornington Crescent! Game, set, and match.
My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Atom Bomb of Courteous Debate. Get yours.
I've been writing a bit.
- Ankhani - 06-27-2009
Why do you guys always obsess about who's winning?
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The Master said: "It is all in vain! I have never yet seen a man who can perceive his own faults and bring the charge home against himself."
>Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI
- Foxboy - 06-27-2009
Isn't that what it's all about?
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll
- Bob Schroeck - 06-27-2009
No, that's the Hokey-Pokey.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.