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The Dead Thread 2024

He wasn't perfect, but he was a hell of a lot better than most popes in the past century. The only other pope worthy of that discussion is Pius XII, and even he's debatable depending on how much you think he helped protect Jews during WW2.

JPII would be in there if he had properly addressed the clerical scandals, but he loses lots of points for burying all of that. Another imperfect man thrust into the role out of political convenience.

Will be interesting to see who the successor is after a relatively progressive regime (by RCC standards, obv).
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
He wasn't perfect, but he was a hell of a lot better than most popes in the past century. The only other pope worthy of that discussion is Pius XII, and even he's debatable depending on how much you think he helped protect Jews during WW2.

JPII would be in there if he had properly addressed the clerical scandals, but he loses lots of points for burying all of that. Another imperfect man thrust into the role out of political convenience.

Will be interesting to see who the successor is after a relatively progressive regime (by RCC standards, obv).
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Ahhh, memories. I was in his hometown of krakow when he passed. I’m not sure I’ve ever been so frightened as when I was trying to get home and thousands of chain smoking poles willing to run a bitch down to get a train towards Rome
 
Mike Patrick, who spent 36 years as a play-by-play commentator for ESPN and was the network's NFL voice for "Sunday Night Football" for 18 seasons, has died at the age of 80.
 
I had a moment there when I mixed him up with Dan Patrick, but it really brings it home that ESPN has now sucked for twenty-five years.
 
Steve "Mongo" McMichael of Chicago Bears/WCW fame. ALS had him looking like a shell of his former self at the end :cry:
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
It couldn't possibly be that 25+ years of emotional turmoil at the hands of monsters might lead someone to end it all. Nah, it's gotta be a massive conspiracy.

Are you at all capable of being anything other than a tremendous putz?
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I assumed Joe was hinting some powerful sociopath implicated with Epstein had her murdered. I do not find that unreasonable.

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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Oh please, he thinks the Clintons are homicidal maniacs. It's part of the GQP's initial training and continuing 'education' curricula. He's pretending to care about the victim so he can advance that narrative in his head.
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Sure, I get all that. But regardless of his mistake about the killer, he might very well be right about the scenario.

It's the same as MAGAts accusing elites of destroying their lives, and then attacking teachers and scientists and historians and economists as those elites. They actually have the right narrative; they just picked the wrong villain. And they don't realize that it was they themselves who gave the baddies the political power to harm them.

It is, objectively, funny.
 
OK, this one hits hard. Mike Peters, lead singer of The Alarm. Big sound, even bigger hair. He'd been in and out of remission for cancer, I believe some sort of leukemia like thing, for at least 30 years. The thing reappeared a couple years ago, and I'm sure everyone was assuming he'd just beat it again this time. Sadly no. 66 years old, just a couple years older than me. The amazing thing about it all, is that with everything he went through, again and again, I don't know of too many people who exuded his undying optimism, his enthusiasm and joy for life, and everything in it. He had an indomitable spirit.

Often slagged off as a poor U2 imitation, which I think was extremely unfair. From about 1985-1987, The Alarm were one of my absolute favorite bands, and I saw them three times during that period. I bought tickets for Pat Benatar because The Alarm were opening, and then left after they played their set. In 1986, I believe they were the first band to have a live show of theirs broadcast on MTV, their Spirit of '86 show from UCLA. Huge crowd.

I had a major crush on a little punk girl who worked at the local record store, about five years younger than me, and The Alarm was one of her favorite bands. One of the shows, I was filing out of the little alley that houses the entrance to Boston's Orpheum Theater, in the middle of the rest of the crowd making their way out, just about to make the turn onto Tremont Street, when someone punched me in the shoulder. I turned, and there she was, hanging on the corner with friends. Both of us two hours from home, running into her on that corner. Made a bit of brief chit chat, and left her with her friends. Idiot. That punch made my whole night.

This is a song from that show.

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