people you thought were dead but aren't

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cozwn, Saturday, 3 January 2009 10:52 (fifteen years ago) link

Also Fidel Castro, on more than one occasion. Thank you very much ILM.

mehlt, Saturday, 3 January 2009 23:35 (fifteen years ago) link

Castro's been on his death *bed* for ages hasnt he?

I wonder if Kim Jon Il is actually dead. I have this weekend at bernies feeling about him.

Trayce, Saturday, 3 January 2009 23:50 (fifteen years ago) link

everybody's dead!
~~except you~~

Viceroy, Sunday, 4 January 2009 01:57 (fifteen years ago) link

Angela Lansbury

Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 4 January 2009 03:17 (fifteen years ago) link

clint eastwood

6335, Sunday, 4 January 2009 03:21 (fifteen years ago) link

That's just silly.

If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Sunday, 4 January 2009 03:22 (fifteen years ago) link

saw a preview for some current movie he's in, otherwise i'd still be thinking he was

6335, Sunday, 4 January 2009 20:03 (fifteen years ago) link

I could've swore that Andrew Wyeth had been dead already for years.

•--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 16 January 2009 14:57 (fifteen years ago) link

J.D. Salinger. He had his 90th birthday the other day, I hadn't realised he's still around.

Claude Lévi-Strauss - strange how the original structuralist has outlived all the post-structuralists.

Zelda Zonk, Friday, 16 January 2009 15:28 (fifteen years ago) link

mikhael gorbachev

the next grozart, Friday, 16 January 2009 15:45 (fifteen years ago) link

I thought Ricardo Montalban had died a few years back, but maybe I'd confused him with Scotty, or someone.

James Mitchell, Friday, 16 January 2009 17:51 (fifteen years ago) link

seven months pass...

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schneider from one day at a time. not actually sure if i thought he was dead?

(looking through a 'where are they now' thing, might as well get these out of the way)

we come for space reasons (tremendoid), Thursday, 3 September 2009 23:29 (fourteen years ago) link

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i knew she was alive, she looks nice

we come for space reasons (tremendoid), Thursday, 3 September 2009 23:29 (fourteen years ago) link

(ann. b davis)

we come for space reasons (tremendoid), Thursday, 3 September 2009 23:30 (fourteen years ago) link

Bob Uecker

Tracer Hand, Thursday, 3 September 2009 23:31 (fourteen years ago) link

i was set straight on uecker a few months ago heh. i guess auto-archiving people into deadness is normal but certain people just seem to attract it (mostly old people lol)

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not in my pool either but better red than dead :) she played nu-pippi longstocking; she fine

we come for space reasons (tremendoid), Thursday, 3 September 2009 23:37 (fourteen years ago) link

http://i561.photobucket.com/albums/ss51/tr_fudge/_0001_51105315_full.jpg

sry again but wtf: Dwayne Hickman was a permanent fixture on "Love That Bob."
how hard is it to put together a decent where are they now thing? honestly. if it means 'bob denver is best known for dobie gillis' i suppose i'm all for it

we come for space reasons (tremendoid), Thursday, 3 September 2009 23:48 (fourteen years ago) link

Is that Richard Dawson in the Family Feud photo?

Poxy Fule Of Kryptonite (The Yellow Kid), Friday, 4 September 2009 01:20 (fourteen years ago) link

two months pass...

For the last two years or so I had thought Douglas Crimp had died around 20 years ago (it turns out it was Craig Owens)

EDB, Sunday, 8 November 2009 01:41 (fourteen years ago) link

Prior to hearing word of his recent death, I had no idea Claude Levi-Strauss was still alive.

you just freaked out more than our director of lols (Pillbox), Sunday, 8 November 2009 01:49 (fourteen years ago) link

five months pass...

Cy Twombly

●●●●●●●● (EDB), Thursday, 8 April 2010 15:46 (fourteen years ago) link

Everybody in the USA. When I heard about the terrible terrorist cigarette attack on the news.

StanM, Thursday, 8 April 2010 16:33 (fourteen years ago) link

Roger Ebert
Fidel Castro
Billy Corgan
Justin Bieber

Half lies and gorilla dust (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 08:47 (fourteen years ago) link

I always read that Roger Ebert thread as saying "now a RIP thread"

Also, I've found it's very easy to forget that Jean-Luc Godard is still alive, even in spite of his activity in the 00's.

Tonight I Dine on Turtle Soup (EDB), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 14:25 (fourteen years ago) link

six months pass...

Happy birthday Ennio Morricone! 82 years of being surprisingly still alive! http://dreamchimney.com/oftheday/otd_images/20101110120926_auto.jpg

Dan I., Thursday, 11 November 2010 06:11 (thirteen years ago) link

one year passes...

Charles Manson's still alive!?! (77 years old, just got his 12th parole denial)

EDB, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 22:49 (twelve years ago) link

Alby Mangels!

Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Monday, 16 April 2012 01:28 (twelve years ago) link

Yeah Manson's next parole isnt for 15 years, so he definitely gonna die in prison.

fix it with like some music glue (Trayce), Monday, 16 April 2012 03:07 (twelve years ago) link

While watching something on telly the other day, I googled to see when it was that Stanley Baxter died. Turns out he didn't.

ailsa, Monday, 16 April 2012 09:48 (twelve years ago) link

ten months pass...

gene wilder

congratulations (n/a), Friday, 1 March 2013 17:56 (eleven years ago) link

Tom Hatten

Donkamole Marvin (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 1 March 2013 18:15 (eleven years ago) link

eight months pass...

Richard Attenborough

my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Monday, 11 November 2013 13:50 (ten years ago) link

Murray Walker

One Trick Over-Painted Pony (soref), Monday, 11 November 2013 13:55 (ten years ago) link

Helmut Schmidt

One Trick Over-Painted Pony (soref), Monday, 11 November 2013 13:55 (ten years ago) link

In similar vein, Henry Kissinger

my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Monday, 11 November 2013 13:58 (ten years ago) link

Peregrine Worsthorne

One Trick Over-Painted Pony (soref), Monday, 11 November 2013 13:59 (ten years ago) link

^ no way!

Is Ariel Sharon still hanging on in there?

Thomas K Amphong (Tom D.), Monday, 11 November 2013 13:59 (ten years ago) link

Is Peregrine still being published anywhere on a regular basis?

One Trick Over-Painted Pony (soref), Monday, 11 November 2013 14:02 (ten years ago) link

Or wait, was the 'no way' for Kissinger?

One Trick Over-Painted Pony (soref), Monday, 11 November 2013 14:02 (ten years ago) link

For Peregrine

Thomas K Amphong (Tom D.), Monday, 11 November 2013 14:03 (ten years ago) link

Jimmy Young

Thomas K Amphong (Tom D.), Monday, 11 November 2013 14:03 (ten years ago) link

Did you mean you were surprised he's still alive? I thought at first you were expressing incredulity that anyone could think he'd died. (sorry for being so slow)

One Trick Over-Painted Pony (soref), Monday, 11 November 2013 14:04 (ten years ago) link

The former.

Thomas K Amphong (Tom D.), Monday, 11 November 2013 14:05 (ten years ago) link

No idea Kissinger was alive.

I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 11 November 2013 14:07 (ten years ago) link

With Schmidt and Worsthorne the situation is more it occasionally being brought to my attention that they're still going, and being vaguely surprised to be reminded of this, whereas with Murray Walker I was sure I remembered reading his obituary, but then I saw him on TV talking about his 90th birthday.

One Trick Over-Painted Pony (soref), Monday, 11 November 2013 14:09 (ten years ago) link

many years ago, I was convinced that Russell Crowe had died during the filming of Gladiator. Turned out it was Oliver Reed.

arctic mindbath (President of the People's Republic of Antarctica), Monday, 11 November 2013 14:10 (ten years ago) link

Now I'm trying to work out who it was that that died I was confusing with Murray Walker.

One Trick Over-Painted Pony (soref), Monday, 11 November 2013 14:11 (ten years ago) link

Gene Wilder.

These days it's common for Hollywood actors to star in movies well into their 70s and 80s, so I kinda assumed the reason the reason Wilder hasn't appeared in movies for 20+ years is because he's dead... But it turns out he simply retired at the age normal people do.

Tuomas, Monday, 11 November 2013 14:12 (ten years ago) link


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