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I Think I'll Go For A Walk - Death Pool Thread

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Dammit!!!!! She was on my death pool list for the pool starting in a couple weeks. I was sooooo close!
 
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This just goes to show you the value of incorporating at least a few former Celebrity Rehab participants in addition to the wrestlers in your Death Pool lists.
 
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ExileOnDaytonStreet said:
This just goes to show you the value of incorporating at least a few former Celebrity Rehab participants in addition to the wrestlers in your Death Pool lists.
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Not to mention celebs' significant others. :rolleyes:

Just last month David Wilson, McCready’s boyfriend and the father of her 9-month-old son Zayne, was found dead on the same porch where McCready's body was found. His death also was investigated as a suicide.
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SteveP said:
The man lived life large, but cancer is larger. :(
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With all the advances of modern medicine-all the money in the world and the best care sometimes just cannot make the difference. Hopefully within most of our lifetimes that will change-but the progress being made against some types of tumors is just not that promising.:(
 
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DrDemento said:
With all the advances of modern medicine-all the money in the world and the best care sometimes just cannot make the difference. Hopefully within most of our lifetimes that will change-but the progress being made against some types of tumors is just not that promising.:(
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Wait a minute, Doc. Isn't Cancer Treatment Centers of America getting great results with their "holistic" approach? You know, acupuncture, diet and "up with people" attitudes. That's what their TV spots suggest.
 
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Old Pio said:
Wait a minute, Doc. Isn't Cancer Treatment Centers of America getting great results with their "holistic" approach? You know, acupuncture, diet and "up with people" attitudes. That's what their TV spots suggest.
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All I can say is that there is an awful lot of money to be made by people claiming that they can cure something. Google Laetrile and read some of the testimonials. Back before the 1900's you had snake oil salesmen going from town to town-now you have them on the Web and on TV. At least back then, the charlatans gave you some sort of opioid to take-it may not have cured you-but it sure made you feel better for a while. There is no question we have made some wonderful adavances against some specific diseases and some specific cancers. But there are some diseases where the mortality rate has not statistically changed much at all in the past 50 years.
 
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ExileOnDaytonStreet said:
In light of the Blade Runner's current difficulties:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/the-onions-tips-for-not-accidentally-murdering-you,31359/
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Got a moron on another MB I'm on that thinks she should have beat his ***, and thinks that she could do this because the guy had no legs. The guy has no legs and is running in the freaking Olympics on fancy fake legs, and she's a fashion model with limited upper body and core strength. You guys tell me who's winning that fight.
 
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bigmrg74 said:
Got a moron on another MB I'm on that thinks she should have beat his ***, and thinks that she could do this because the guy had no legs. The guy has no legs and is running in the freaking Olympics on fancy fake legs, and she's a fashion model with limited upper body and core strength. You guys tell me who's winning that fight.
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/aisle seat, please
 
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bigmrg74 said:
Got a moron on another MB I'm on that thinks she should have beat his ***, and thinks that she could do this because the guy had no legs. The guy has no legs and is running in the freaking Olympics on fancy fake legs, and she's a fashion model with limited upper body and core strength. You guys tell me who's winning that fight.
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The police?
 
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Van Clyburn, Pianist, 78
First ever US winner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition, in 1958, at age 23.

Edit: I guess he WOULD be the first US winner; 1958 was the first year of the competition. But it still stunned the Russians when he won.
The judges asked Nikita Kruschev (sp?) if it was ok to give the award to an American. He asked if he was the best, and when told yes, said, "Well, give it to him!'
 
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MadTownSioux said:
Van Clyburn, Pianist, 78
First ever US winner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition, in 1958, at age 23.

Edit: I guess he WOULD be the first US winner; 1958 was the first year of the competition. But it still stunned the Russians when he won.
The judges asked Nikita Kruschev (sp?) if it was ok to give the award to an American. He asked if he was the best, and when told yes, said, "Well, give it to him!'
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At the height of the Cold War, with the Soviet Union crowing about the launch of Sputnik, they decided to have a Tchaikovsky competition desinged to show their cultural superiority, too. You have to understand, millions of Americans were scared sh*tless at the Soviets having what LBJ called "the high ground" of outer space. High schools from coast to coast were adding Russian to their foreign language curricula. And there was lots of talk about the "inevitability" of Soviet world domination. Against this backdrop, a lanky, baby faced 23-year old Texan smashed the other competitors and took the prize. In his final performance, he got an 8 minute standing ovation! Previously unheard of by the general public, Cliburn returned to the United States and received a ticker tape parade in New York. He was as big a celebrity as there was. His recording of the First Piano Concerto ultimately went triple platinum and for a decade or more was the biggest selling classical album of all time. It's not possible to overstate his impact. Think back to when the USA beat the Soviet Union at Lake Placid. That's the kind of adulation we're talkng about here.
 
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Old Pio said:
At the height of the Cold War, with the Soviet Union crowing about the launch of Sputnik, they decided to have a Tchaikovsky competition desinged to show their cultural superiority, too. You have to understand, millions of Americans were scared sh*tless at the Soviets having what LBJ called "the high ground" of outer space. High schools from coast to coast were adding Russian to their foreign language curricula. And there was lots of talk about the "inevitability" of Soviet world domination. Against this backdrop, a lanky, baby faced 23-year old Texan smashed the other competitors and took the prize. In his final performance, he got an 8 minute standing ovation! Previously unheard of by the general public, Cliburn returned to the United States and received a ticker tape parade in New York. He was as big a celebrity as there was. His recording of the First Piano Concerto ultimately went triple platinum and for a decade or more was the biggest selling classical album of all time. It's not possible to overstate his impact. Think back to when the USA beat the Soviet Union at Lake Placid. That's the kind of adulation we're talkng about here.
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And he was on Ed Sullivan on a Sunday night, if I recall correctly, on a night they also had Brenda Lee for the first time singing. They drew one of the biggest viewing audiences of the time (but then again we only had 7 stations to watch in Brooklyn in those days).
 
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DrDemento said:
And he was on Ed Sullivan on a Sunday night, if I recall correctly, on a night they also had Brenda Lee for the first time singing. They drew one of the biggest viewing audiences of the time (but then again we only had 7 stations to watch in Brooklyn in those days).
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7 stations? that was more than we had when I was a kid.
 
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DrDemento said:
And he was on Ed Sullivan on a Sunday night, if I recall correctly, on a night they also had Brenda Lee for the first time singing. They drew one of the biggest viewing audiences of the time (but then again we only had 7 stations to watch in Brooklyn in those days).
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leswp1 said:
7 stations? that was more than we had when I was a kid.
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Ahh the days when all the Yankees and Met games were on free TV. Sunday doubleheaders from the west coast that would not get over until 9 PM! (I am too young to remember the Dodgers and Giants)
Ch 2 - WCBS
Ch 4 - WNBC
Ch 5 - Metromedia (forget the call sign)
Ch 7 - WABC
Ch 9 - WOR - Mets/Knicks/Rangers
Ch 11 - WPIX - Yankees
Ch 13 - WNET - PBS or whatever it was.
 
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