Rolling Obituary Thread: 2018

Ermey's passing was confirmed via his Facebook/Twitter accounts. 72 years old, pneumonia -- unfortunate and by all accounts totally unexpected, but a hell of a run.

ah damn

i was a fan of his reality show Mail Call on the history channel (the other ones not so much)

Sadly remembering how he will gouge out your eyeballs and skull-fuck you.

Also unscrew your head and shit down your neck

FIVE FOOT NINE? I DIDNT KNOW THEY STACKED SHIT THAT HIGH!

giving a reacharound in his honor

lol

ronald chesney

Mostly for local Cleveland interest, but if you saw the documentary you know him: Maurice Reedus Jr., Cleveland's "Sax Man"

https://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2018/04/16/the-sax-man-maurice-reedus-jr-has-passed-away

Ah man, Harry Anderson:

http://www.wspa.com/news/night-court-actor-harry-anderson-dies-in-asheville/1126241637

Wow, we never did have a Night Court thread.

I don't think night court got screened much in the UK but i always loved his cameos in cheers

Well... NIGHT CORUT

Probably not the time, huh.

Still works!

Never watched NC, but I remember Anderson doing magic tricks on SNL.

;_; i loved night court, one of the random reruns we got in Australia

RIP Harry. He was a delight.
Also grownup Richie Tozier in the It miniseries. Beep beep :(

I love it.

When Harry Anderson used to shop at Zanadu Comics' university district store location in Seattle, he liked to attempt the same cash pranks that his "Harry the Hat" used on CHEERS. He did it often enough that the owner warned all his cashiers! Truly a character, on and off stage.

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) April 17, 2018

lol

The social media reactions of his Night Court colleagues are unusually raw and heartfelt. They loved this guy.

https://www.npr.org/2018/04/17/528656453/npr-newscaster-carl-kasell-dies-at-84-after-a-lifelong-career-on-air

;_;

crosses “Karl Cassell voicemail message” off my bucket list

Barbara Bush

Willow
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/17/queen-devastated-loss-last-remaining-corgi/amp/

Where does this fascination with British royal family come from, Stan?

I know that the queen, like many other people, loves her dogs, but fucked if I know why anyone else would care about them.

I don't actually know - maybe it's because some belgian newspapers and magazines want the number of visitors and controversial/stupid commenters that the daily mail has (because of the clicks), so they shamelessly steal a lot of those stories. There's a disproportionately large number of meghan and harry stories in there as well, for instance, even though even less people care about them over here than in the uk.

Relieved that the above, contrary to my initial reaction, was not in fact a flip notice of Warwick Davis's premature demise.

The British care about their royalty so that the French can continue making fun of them.

And to piss off Quebec.

Who says we care? Anyway, Stan is from Belgium!

Oh, nm. They have royalty of their own, though. Do Danes and Swedes and Spaniards care as well?

I've no idea, it was little inside joke on StanM's previous posting history, but, as you say, nm.

Ah, I see. Thanks for filling me in.

characterising Brits as ppl that care about royalty is as false as saying all French ppl sleep with their high-school teachers:p

More like they care more than they'd like to admit or they would've gotten rid of them long ago.

To be fair, that's less ridiculous than English Canadians' inexplicable attachment to the British crown (only 4/10 support severing ties after the queen's death).

hail, north american fred

Who says we care? Anyway, Stan is from Belgium!

― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Wednesday, April 18, 2018 11:54 AM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the royalty is very popular in britain tbh.

there is a weekly rag called Hello Canada that has a royal on the cover of every issue.

Do they run through all 2,000 people in the line of succession and then loop around or what

I don't think YouGov would ever publish a poll with data from regions of the country where a reasonably large chunk of the population loathe them, or want them abolished. That wouldn't be of any use to them.

the royalty is very popular in britain tbh.

That's why no-one gives a flying fuck about Harry's forthcoming wedding I suppose|?

wtf Dale Winton

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/dale-winton-dead-supermarket-sweep-12388152

what the hell

Randy Scruggs

https://www.rollingstone.com/country/news/randy-scruggs-musician-and-songwriter-dead-at-64-w519271

oh shit not dale, jesus fuck

Dale Winton has given a few interviews over the past few years talking about his mental health and depression, his mother taking her own life, the way that nobody wanted to date him. He's barely been on anything in recent years.

I don't think YouGov would ever publish a poll with data from regions of the country where a reasonably large chunk of the population loathe them, or want them abolished. That wouldn't be of any use to them.

― calzino, Wednesday, April 18, 2018 12:29 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

any data I've ever seen that breaks things down regionally shows that the area in england with lowest enthusiasm for the royals is by a long distance london.

sad about Dale Winton. RIP.

I feel strongly that if there were a royal referendum they would win, but it would be a much closer result than polling data suggests. Why do think SS uniform boy wants to depoliticise his wedding? Anyway I'll stop RIP derail!