people you thought were dead but aren't

Message Bookmarked
Bookmark Removed
Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (446 of them)

Dick Gregory?

bamcquern, Saturday, 11 January 2014 20:43 (twelve years ago)

I remember being a bit surprised when I found out Doris Day is still alive. For some reason I seem to assume every celebrity who had his or her heyday before the 60s must be dead by now.

― Tuomas, Friday, August 8, 2008 2:48 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

She's still alive! Still a surprise to me.

Michael F Gill, Sunday, 12 January 2014 06:47 (twelve years ago)

Prince Buster! He wrote a piece for the Mojo 20th Anniversary issue.

...out of that weakness, out of that envy, out of that fear.. (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 12 January 2014 07:02 (twelve years ago)

Gary Buerghoff, M*A*S*H's Radar, is on twitter and it has to be read to be believed...

Iago Galdston, Sunday, 12 January 2014 07:58 (twelve years ago)

Gary Buerghoff, M*A*S*H's Radar, is on twitter and it has to be read to be believed...

― Iago Galdston, Sunday, January 12, 2014 2:58 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Burghoff

Iago Galdston, Sunday, 12 January 2014 08:10 (twelve years ago)

I remember being a bit surprised when I found out Doris Day is still alive. For some reason I seem to assume every celebrity who had his or her heyday before the 60s must be dead by now.

― Tuomas, Friday, August 8, 2008 2:48 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

She's still alive! Still a surprise to me.

― Michael F Gill, 12. tammikuuta 2014 8:47

Apparently Day also released a new album in 2011, 62 years after her debut album! That must be some kind of a record, no?

Tuomas, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 14:17 (twelve years ago)

Robert Conquest.

UK Cop Humour (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 14:35 (twelve years ago)

Probably. Thought of Cliff but the gap between his debut and most recent albums is a mere 54 years.

xp

my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:41 (twelve years ago)

tony bennett

balls, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 17:23 (twelve years ago)

Not only is Doris Day still alive, but so's B.B. King.

Matt Busby, not so alive.

pplains, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 17:24 (twelve years ago)

Marge Champion

tokyo rosemary, Saturday, 18 January 2014 02:14 (twelve years ago)

Swear Rueben Kincaid died, like, 20 years ago.

pplains, Saturday, 18 January 2014 02:15 (twelve years ago)

dwight eisenhower

christmas candy bar (al leong), Saturday, 18 January 2014 02:20 (twelve years ago)

Oh listen to you

pplains, Saturday, 18 January 2014 03:08 (twelve years ago)

Every single munchkin in the Wizard of OZ. Just found out that, as of yesterday, only one left, one of the Lollipop Guild boys...93. The last female munchkin died yesterday at 95.

*tera, Saturday, 18 January 2014 03:37 (twelve years ago)

Barbara Bush

Emined - FAP God (The Reverend), Sunday, 19 January 2014 05:46 (twelve years ago)

Lisa Kudrow

queen bey backers (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 19 January 2014 05:50 (twelve years ago)

I always think Francois Sagat is dead

queen bey backers (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 19 January 2014 16:54 (twelve years ago)

four weeks pass...

George Kennedy (he's 89 today).

Inside Lewellyn Sinclair (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 13:45 (twelve years ago)

three weeks pass...

Stanley Donen, apparently.

Inside Lewellyn Sinclair (cryptosicko), Thursday, 13 March 2014 01:01 (twelve years ago)

one month passes...

Arthur Scargill.

Fiddler on a hot tin roof (ed.b), Friday, 2 May 2014 15:45 (twelve years ago)

Also a retroactive entry for Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Fiddler on a hot tin roof (ed.b), Friday, 2 May 2014 15:47 (twelve years ago)

George Gaines

Funk autocorrect (cryptosicko), Friday, 2 May 2014 17:26 (twelve years ago)

George GAYNES, rather.

Funk autocorrect (cryptosicko), Friday, 2 May 2014 17:27 (twelve years ago)

Charles Manson.

the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, 15 May 2014 13:01 (twelve years ago)

two weeks pass...

pat robertson

marcos, Thursday, 29 May 2014 14:38 (twelve years ago)

I assumed he was still alive, but I sure as hell never realized that Christopher Lee was 92.

Didn't realize Maya Angelou was 86 either.

pplains, Thursday, 29 May 2014 16:26 (twelve years ago)

holy shit christopher lee is a pretty fucking spry 92.

balls, Thursday, 29 May 2014 17:45 (twelve years ago)

Wilford Brimley

Οὖτις, Thursday, 29 May 2014 17:46 (twelve years ago)

one month passes...

Bill Tidy, who is not only alive but on twitter, although he doesn't tweet very often

I play radio smooth most of the time too (soref), Sunday, 13 July 2014 21:52 (eleven years ago)

two weeks pass...

Lord Carrington!

soref, Monday, 28 July 2014 18:59 (eleven years ago)

seven months pass...

Charles Aznavour. 90!

Romeo Daltrey (Tom D.), Thursday, 5 March 2015 12:28 (eleven years ago)

holy shit christopher lee is a pretty fucking spry 92.

― balls, Thursday, May 29, 2014 12:45 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

christopher lee's dad fought in the boer war!

christopher lee is old.

he quipped with heat (amateurist), Thursday, 5 March 2015 15:43 (eleven years ago)

nine months pass...

Bob Dole

Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 20:38 (ten years ago)

Kenneth Cope. Still unDeceased.

Michael Jones, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 18:28 (ten years ago)

Kirk Douglas

INTOXICATING LIQUORS (art), Wednesday, 23 December 2015 18:47 (ten years ago)

one month passes...

people you thought were dead but aren't except they are now

Frank Finlay

The Return of the Thin White Pope (Tom D.), Sunday, 31 January 2016 12:34 (ten years ago)

one month passes...

johnny mathis?!

La Lechuza (La Lechera), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 01:27 (ten years ago)

in the silk
and amphetamine

mookieproof, Wednesday, 2 March 2016 02:24 (ten years ago)

Franco Zeffirelli, 93 years old.

Thomas of Britain (Tom D.), Monday, 7 March 2016 12:45 (ten years ago)

Mathis is "only" 80. He was a mere 41 when "When A Child Is Born" was Xmas #1 in the UK (and 24 when he recorded "Misty"!), and yet seemed to be mid-50s even then.

Michael Jones, Monday, 7 March 2016 13:17 (ten years ago)

huh
i remember thinking that he was super duper old when i was a kid because i had a big argument about him with my grandma

La Lechuza (La Lechera), Monday, 7 March 2016 14:37 (ten years ago)

when i was about 7 or so
my grandma was very argumentative

La Lechuza (La Lechera), Monday, 7 March 2016 14:38 (ten years ago)

George Martin

nostormo, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 19:02 (ten years ago)

well he is now..

nostormo, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 19:06 (ten years ago)

Surprised to see trailers for what looks like something presented by Maureen Lipman. Thought there was a big thing about her dying 10 or more years ago.

Stevolende, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 19:14 (ten years ago)

people you thought weren't dead but are

flopson, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 20:17 (ten years ago)

Mother Angelica

small doug yule carnival club (unregistered), Thursday, 17 March 2016 18:52 (ten years ago)

In a 1993 episode of Mother Angelica Live, Mother Angelica harshly criticized a mimed re-enactment of the Stations of the Cross at the World Youth Day in Denver, Colorado, which was attended by Pope John Paul II. Mother Angelica was particularly upset that a woman was playing Jesus. Archbishop Rembert Weakland of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee called Mother Angelica's comments "...one of the most disgraceful, un-Christian, offensive, and divisive diatribes I have ever heard".[20] Mother Angelica responded by saying, "He didn't think a woman playing Jesus was offensive? He can go put his head in the back toilet as far as I am concerned!"[20]

small doug yule carnival club (unregistered), Thursday, 17 March 2016 18:54 (ten years ago)

Gavin MacLeod. (I reposted the Trump-Warhol photo from the politics thread yesterday on Facebook, and someone followed with one of MacLeod and Warhol. Looked him up, and he's still around.)

clemenza, Thursday, 17 March 2016 22:38 (ten years ago)


You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.