Rolling Obituary Thread: 2018

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When the bit isn’t working but you press send

U. K. Le Garage (wins), Saturday, 23 June 2018 12:54 (seven years ago)

I hope I'm able to experience that just once before it's my time to be featured itt.

A Frankenstein + A Dracula + A Mummy That's Been Werewolfed (Old Lunch), Saturday, 23 June 2018 12:56 (seven years ago)

Someone else died, Koko discussion over

flappy bird, Saturday, 23 June 2018 15:07 (seven years ago)

yeah guys maybe make a koko thread

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 23 June 2018 16:20 (seven years ago)

Koko thread post joke bad banana banana

Kostic negotiator (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 23 June 2018 16:26 (seven years ago)

People discuss Koko's understanding of language (of lack of) a surprising amount. As a vegan people bring up her inability to use language quite often - even though none of my beliefs rest on the claim that she did.

Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Saturday, 23 June 2018 16:59 (seven years ago)

Wait were ppl seriously arguing to you that since gorillas can’t acquire language, therefore being vegan is unreasonable?

valorous wokelord (silby), Saturday, 23 June 2018 17:02 (seven years ago)

Yeah - when you try to argue about sentience/consciousness/capacity to feel pain, people tend to blur the concepts together. So, people argue that because animals aren't 'intelligent', because they don't use 'language', they're not moral subjects.

Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Saturday, 23 June 2018 17:03 (seven years ago)

(I am delighted and amazed this is still going on.)

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Saturday, 23 June 2018 17:44 (seven years ago)

Remember when Farrah Fawcett died on the same day as Michael Jackson and no one talked about her? That happened to Charles Krauthammer with a gorilla.

— Joe McAdam (@joemcadam) June 21, 2018

mookieproof, Saturday, 23 June 2018 17:45 (seven years ago)

Wait Farrah Fawcet died?

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Saturday, 23 June 2018 17:46 (seven years ago)

huh. Proves that post right, I guess.

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Saturday, 23 June 2018 17:46 (seven years ago)

Aldous Huxley died the same day JFK got shot. Gotta plan these things, try to die on a slow news day.

Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Saturday, 23 June 2018 17:53 (seven years ago)

Lol that Tweet

Kostic negotiator (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 23 June 2018 17:58 (seven years ago)

There's a doc about Koko on BBC4 in a minute but fuck watching that big phoney

Kostic negotiator (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 23 June 2018 17:59 (seven years ago)

Can we start a dead people thread and leave this one to the dead animals.

Jeff, Saturday, 23 June 2018 18:07 (seven years ago)

There was a dead crow outside my work this morning

U. K. Le Garage (wins), Saturday, 23 June 2018 18:09 (seven years ago)

I saw a pigeon fly into a window and probably die yesterday morning

Kostic negotiator (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 23 June 2018 18:12 (seven years ago)

Crows, now they are intelligent animals, not sure what their language skills are like though tbf.

womp womp that sucker (Tom D.), Saturday, 23 June 2018 18:13 (seven years ago)

I know next to nothing about Fawcett but could people have talked at good length about her?

Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 23 June 2018 18:14 (seven years ago)

Without repetition or hesitation?

Kostic negotiator (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 23 June 2018 18:15 (seven years ago)

People and apes.

womp womp that sucker (Tom D.), Saturday, 23 June 2018 18:16 (seven years ago)

Fawcett was in Logan's Run, one of the finest sci-fi films of all time.

Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Saturday, 23 June 2018 18:25 (seven years ago)

NV - hopefully without resorting to the word "iconic" repeatedly.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 23 June 2018 18:26 (seven years ago)

iconic nipple

mookieproof, Saturday, 23 June 2018 18:38 (seven years ago)

What would Koko say if she saw us arguing like this? (trick question, she could not say anything, she did not understand language)

Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Saturday, 23 June 2018 18:55 (seven years ago)

Aldous Huxley died the same day JFK got shot. Gotta plan these things, try to die on a slow news day.

― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Saturday, 23 June 2018 17:53 (one hour ago)

CS Lewis died that day as well.

Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Saturday, 23 June 2018 18:56 (seven years ago)

Lewis and Huxley canceled each other out I guess

valorous wokelord (silby), Saturday, 23 June 2018 19:45 (seven years ago)

Yeah! I remember reading that! x-post. Don't know why I remember AH but not CSL who is arguably more famous.

Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Saturday, 23 June 2018 19:59 (seven years ago)

y'see you only use 10% of your brain, right?

an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Saturday, 23 June 2018 21:51 (seven years ago)

well that explains dowd's comment on Logan's Run

the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 24 June 2018 06:28 (seven years ago)

Ouch.

Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Sunday, 24 June 2018 08:59 (seven years ago)

https://wcbs880.radio.com/articles/new-york-radio-legend-dan-ingram-dead-83

Uncle Redd in the Zingtime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 26 June 2018 02:13 (seven years ago)

Donald Hall, one of the last of the late-1920s-born big American poets.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/06/24/donald-hall-former-poet-laureate/hGJudegZ2p6DkzIshiWvpO/story.html

... (Eazy), Tuesday, 26 June 2018 02:35 (seven years ago)

daaaan IN-gram

the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 June 2018 03:44 (seven years ago)

damn

flappy bird, Tuesday, 26 June 2018 04:12 (seven years ago)

daaaan IN-gram

Showw!

Uncle Redd in the Zingtime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 26 June 2018 10:15 (seven years ago)

Jackson family patriarch Joe

the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 June 2018 16:49 (seven years ago)

Steve Soto, bass player for the Adolescents, etc. at 54.

https://www.ocweekly.com/steve-soto-of-the-adolescents-and-manic-hispanic-dead-at-54/

nickn, Thursday, 28 June 2018 17:07 (seven years ago)

Susan Ellison has asked me to announce the passing of writer Harlan Ellison, in his sleep, earlier today. “For a brief time I was here, and for a brief time, I mattered.”—HE, 1934-2018. Arrangements for a celebration of his life are pending.

— Christine Valada (@mcvalada) June 28, 2018

Harlan Ellison, 1934-2018.

Polly of the Pre-Codes (j.lu), Thursday, 28 June 2018 19:37 (seven years ago)

Kind of disappointed Ellison didn't go down mid-rant.

Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 28 June 2018 20:09 (seven years ago)

lol yeah going out peacefully seems v un-Harlan Ellison

Οὖτις, Thursday, 28 June 2018 20:20 (seven years ago)

I suppose he's worthy of an RIP, he had some good stuff

Οὖτις, Thursday, 28 June 2018 20:22 (seven years ago)

Even just for making sure Octavia E Butler got the boost she needed, he's a legend.

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 28 June 2018 20:23 (seven years ago)

But, as Elvis T has noted, a heavily flawed one beyond the usual kvetching:

https://www.adweek.com/galleycat/at-long-last-harlan-have-youleft-no-sense-of-decency/3778

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 28 June 2018 20:32 (seven years ago)

rip harlan you cantankerous bastard

Fox News' Chad Pergram contributed to this report (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 28 June 2018 20:44 (seven years ago)

(also eurgh at that adweek story :( )

Fox News' Chad Pergram contributed to this report (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 28 June 2018 20:45 (seven years ago)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44674652 Peter Firmin, creator of the Clangers, Bagpuss, Basil Brush, Ivor the Engine, Noggin the Nog...

Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Sunday, 1 July 2018 12:29 (seven years ago)

Noooooooo

Jeff W, Sunday, 1 July 2018 12:40 (seven years ago)


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