The Dead Thread: Yep. Still Dead.

[The Rube]

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"Let me show you baby I'm a talented boy."

Had to dig, it actually took a little work. There's the bonus verse, that is rarely sung, only commercial release I know of is on the CD Maxi-single. Yeah:


Ooh, I think I like it with the dress half on
I'll zip it far enough 2 see the crack'o'dawn
Don't worry about the bust, I'm gonna lock up every door
Then we can do it in the kitchen on the floor
Or in the bathroom standing on the tub and holding on the rod
U're in the closet underneath the clothes and...oh my God!
In the bedroom on the dresser with your feet on the drawers
In the pantry on the shelf, I guaranteed U won't be bored
The pool table, yeah, move the sticks
And put the 8-ball where it's sure 2 stick
Dudley do no wrong 2night if Nell just let him kick it

 

[state of hockey]

Michelle McNamara, 46, wife of comedian Patton Oswalt.

Cripes.

Seriously. 2016 can eff off.

 

[Hammer]

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Full disclosure: I'm stealing another D-3 poster's news here.

We've lost one of our own. The poster CrosbyNU63 has passed after a long battle with leukemia. He was a very good poster and big supporter of Norwich Hockey in Division 3. I had limited conversations with him, but he always came off as a good guy.

 

[St. Clown]

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Had to dig, it actually took a little work. There's the bonus verse, that is rarely sung, only commercial release I know of is on the CD Maxi-single. Yeah:


Ooh, I think I like it with the dress half on
I'll zip it far enough 2 see the crack'o'dawn
Don't worry about the bust, I'm gonna lock up every door
Then we can do it in the kitchen on the floor
Or in the bathroom standing on the tub and holding on the rod
U're in the closet underneath the clothes and...oh my God!
In the bedroom on the dresser with your feet on the drawers
In the pantry on the shelf, I guaranteed U won't be bored
The pool table, yeah, move the sticks
And put the 8-ball where it's sure 2 stick
Dudley do no wrong 2night if Nell just let him kick it

An original video recording of Purple Rain was posted by some guy named Andre Bracy, which I've shared to my timeline. This recording is of the same concert at First Ave that was used in the movie. The unedited version of the song (the one he shared) is about 13 minutes long, while album version is just over eight minutes long. In the shared video, he marks where the edits occurred, including an entire verse of the song that was cut from the commercial release (both movie and soundtrack).

 

[St. Clown]

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Cripes.

Seriously. 2016 can eff off.

Celebrity deaths are up greatly this year. Some people have been running the numbers, including this one paragraph in a post by IFLScience.

First of all, it’s not strictly your imagination or social media that has created the impression more famous people have died this year. The obituary editor for the BBC, Nick Serpell, described the number of significant deaths this year as “phenomenal.” He noted a year-on-year rise in the number of obituaries he had written in the first four months of recent years – from five by April of 2012 to 24 by April 2016.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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Celebrity deaths are up greatly this year. Some people have been running the numbers, including this one paragraph in a post by IFLScience.

Hillary and/or Bilderberg are having them all murdered as part of the plan to distract us from what's REALLY going on - duh.

 

[leswp1]

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Full disclosure: I'm stealing another D-3 poster's news here.

We've lost one of our own. The poster CrosbyNU63 has passed after a long battle with leukemia. He was a very good poster and big supporter of Norwich Hockey in Division 3. I had limited conversations with him, but he always came off as a good guy.

prayers for his family and those who knew him

 

[Kepler]

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Celebrity deaths are up greatly this year. Some people have been running the numbers, including this one paragraph in a post by IFLScience.

No mystery. "Celebrity" inflation has been driven by the increase in media and the consumer culture. There are so many celebrities that they're just dying more frequently. Eventually there will be one an hour.

 

[JF_Gophers]

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No mystery. "Celebrity" inflation has been driven by the increase in media and the consumer culture. There are so many celebrities that they're just dying more frequently. Eventually there will be one an hour.

This is good news, increases the chances one of them will be one of those vapid celebutants who are famous for no reason.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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This is good news, increases the chances one of them will be one of those vapid celebutants who are famous for no reason.

...and yet the Kardashians are all still alive.

 

[The Rube]

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...and yet the Kardashians are all still alive.

Cue a Denis Leary bit that was stolen from Bill Hicks...........

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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Cue a Denis Leary bit that was stolen from Bill Hicks...........

Hmm...I used to love "Coffee, Beer, and the Pope" when I was a teenager. I remember lying in bed 2003-2004, listening to him (and other "adult" comedians) on my iPod at 1 AM on a school night and thinking I was "rebelling" because not sleeping/four-letter words.

Did he steal that, too?

 

[The Rube]

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Hmm...I used to love "Coffee, Beer, and the Pope" when I was a teenager. I remember lying in bed 2003-2004, listening to him (and other "adult" comedians) on my iPod at 1 AM on a school night and thinking I was "rebelling" because not sleeping/four-letter words.

Did he steal that, too?

I love Denis Leary (his role in Suicide Kings was AWESOME), but unfortunately, most of his "breakthrough" performance of "No Cure For Cancer" was directly stolen from Bill Hicks.

I did try searching for the side-by-side video I had seen a while back, but I cannot find it. It's really eye-opening.

 

[Slap Shot]

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I despise TMZ as much as the next guy but...

No mystery. "Celebrity" inflation has been driven by the increase in media and the consumer culture. There are so many celebrities that they're just dying more frequently. Eventually there will be one an hour.

Of the ones counted so far which would not qualify 20 years ago?

This is good news, increases the chances one of them will be one of those vapid celebutants who are famous for no reason.

So being famous for no reason should be punishable by death?

 

[state of hockey]

So being famous for no reason should be punishable by death?

Exactly. I have said things like that before, and probably will again. However, I'm not really irritated with the stupidly famous person. I'm irritated with our society making it happen.

Vera loves to follow the Kardashians and housewives of dumb twat county, and I've made my opinion heard. Never leads anywhere good. I've learned to just take the good with the bad.

 

[walrus]

Someone once asked Eric Clapton how it felt to be the best guitarist in the world. He responded "I don't know. Ask Prince."

Snopes that comment, it's not true.

Another great guitarist passed, Lonnie mack. Blues guy

 

[Kepler]

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Of the ones counted so far which would not qualify 20 years ago?

Celebrity inflation has been working since the 1920s.

 

[Slap Shot]

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I'll consider that none.

 

[JF_Gophers]

So being famous for no reason should be punishable by death?

nope, being famous alone isn't reason enough.

Also, these deaths aren't punishment. I just wondered aloud when the odds were going to catch up.

But really, I don't wish actual death on anyone if youre going to make this super serious.

 

[Kepler]

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Caveat: this is not very coherent.

Dr. Mrs. and I were having a discussion about what "tier 1" celebrity is and whether it even exists. Celebrity obviously has scope -- i.e., probably 90% of people in the US knew who Prince was, while probably fewer than 10% of people in the PRC did. The biggest "celebrity" by sheer numbers in the world right now is likely someone nobody on this board has heard of. it's some K-pop teen band or some Bollywood actress.

But is celebrity just fame or is it fame for being famous? Maybe the best definition of celebrity is somebody who people recognize as famous but know nothing else about them? So, Ali was world famous, but most people also knew he was a boxer. Likewise any political figure -- Obama is famous but his fame is tried to the office of the presidency.

The operational test has to include Drumpf as a celebrity, right? He seems like the perfect exemplar of celebrity. What do people know about him? (1) His name is familiar, (2) He's rich, (3) He was on a TV show, (4) He's running for president. (1) is what celebrity is all about.

Anyway, Dr. Mrs. was aghast that I didn't think Bowie was a tier 1 celebrity. My argument is that though he's a god among people who know who he is, there's a huge part of the planet that has no clue who he is -- his importance to those of us who know him disguises that his support is "deep" but not so much "broad." Does that make sense? Same with Merle Haggard. Prince, though, was a "tier 1" celebrity -- huge numbers of people only knew his name and maybe a few songs -- but his primary fame was his fame. Same with MJ, Elvis, the Beatles. It's as if everybody has a core of actual "Being," but then the snowball grows and eventually the person is dominated by all the extra wrapping of fame around that until the identity is the fame. Mick Jagger is majority celebrity. Keith Richard is majority core identity.