The Sphere
General Garbage => Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits => Topic started by: B E C K on Dec 12, 2021, 09:35:04 AM
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But my question is 'when is she coming back?' :raiseeyebrow:
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Obligatory article link: https://variety.com/2021/film/global/anne-rice-interview-with-the-vampire-writer-dead-1235131503/
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Were you a fan? I've never read any of her stuff. Only ever saw the Tom Cruise movie.
80 is a pretty good run, I think. I know people can last a lot longer and remain vital, but...
80 is a pretty good run.
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I actually wasn't. I always meant to read her books. I think I may have picked one up and tried and got bored. I think this was around when Queen of the Damned got released as I was, like, one of the five other people that actually liked Queen of the Damned. But the Interview and QotD movies was as far as I got as far as Anne Rice anything.
I do recall some brouhaha on FB about her being problematic in some way. This happened several years ago but I don't remember for what specifically. I tried looking this up to jog my memory and she was allegedly a bully who hated fanfiction and negative commentary on her works to the extent of encouraging harassment and doxxing. Because what better use of one's popularity than to point your finger at your target and let your millions of fans have at them? I know this isn't an official source on anything but I found these tumblr posts circa 2017 (https://thenightling.tumblr.com/post/161087286338/do-not-trust-anne-rice) if you're interested in any of the anecdotes.
But, yeah, 80's a good run. She had a good life. And if the allegations against her are true, she had a much better life than she deserved.
**Because that's tumblr, sorry, but there's a lot of nonsense over at that link as well. But I'm too lazy to google any further than that.
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Well.
I guess if she was a horrible bitch, then she can rot.
I wonder if now that she's gone, if whoever inherits her estate or whatever, is going to try and flood the market with adaptations of her stuff.
Like, maybe some bishy shit on crunchyroll or Netflix or something.
I mean, that could be good, right? Potentially?
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I did a quick search and it seems something was already in the works before she croaked. She and her son were looking to get her stuff adapted to series.
Relevant press release: AMC Networks Acquires Rights To The Iconic Works Of Anne Rice (http://"https://www.amc.com/blogs/amc-networks-acquires-rights-to-the-iconic-works-of-anne-rice--1008224")
AMC doesn't give me much hope tbh. But then again, neither does anyone else. :lol:
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Yeah, AMC's kind of a meat grinder. Seems that Walking Dead was just a cosmic fluke for them, and they're milking it way beyond its best before date. What is there, like, three different series now?
But yeah, that fits. Some Anne Rice series that runs far too long and spawns multiple spinoffs. That checks out.
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I was actually reading Interview with a Vampire when she passed. Now I'm reading The Vampire Lestat (I got a book of the whole trilogy). Rest in peace goth queen
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I thinking of a way for Abe Shinzo to take over this thread somehow but I'm struggling to be funny.
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You just pull one of these...
Shinzo Abe is dead.
I'm surprised old Anne didn't get one. I guess that was in the before times.
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Wait wait wait... the creator of Yu-gi-oh died? He drowned while snorkling? He was found partially eaten by animals? And had what appeared to be a shark bite? Holy shit. At least it wasn't cancer claiming someone again. Too bad you can't edit Voldemort to have Yugi hair.
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Oh yeah, I heard about that. So unnecessary. Like, don't do activities like that by yourself. If just one other person had been with him, he could still be alive today. Fucking terrible. He was only 60!
I'm actually a little bit upset about this one, because it didn't have to happen. Terminal illness is one thing, going snorkeling alone and not coming back is a tragedy.
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It's a tough world for lonely people who want to be outdoors. I'm sure if I loved going outside and remotely tolerated bodies of water, I'd be found bloated and chewed, too. If this guy liked mountains instead, they'd've probably found him eaten by bears or something.
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They say money can't buy you happiness. But it also apparently couldn't buy Ivana safe stairs.
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They say money can't buy you happiness. But it also apparently couldn't buy Ivana safe stairs.
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My face is glued to my phone almost every day like everybody else and I swear, frickin' Google "news" (or whatever they call the page with news stories that pops up when I open a new tab) only tells me the most useless shit on the planet. It didn't even tell me Nichelle Nichols died. Why'd I have to find that out through Facebook three days later when I was randomly logging in? And stop giving me paywall bullshit. Man, Google fucking disgusts me at how useless it's determined to be when it comes to news and search results. All in service of our corporate overlords. Or whatever. :finger:
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Uhura's passing got crossposted at Kotaku, that's how I heard about it.
I will spare her from the Voldemort treatment.
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Yeah, save it for Shatner. He's 91. It's gotta be soonish, right?
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Oh, the Shat will be getting Voldemorted, don't you worry.
That reminds me, when I got my Kindle however many fucking years ago it was now, I fell down a Bizarro fiction hole. Don't know if you're familiar. If I had to describe it, I'd say it's just absolute trash literature. It would be like... reading a Big Mac... or something.
Anyway, there was this one story called Shatnerquake. Basically it was about every character he's ever played coming to life, and the protag has to protect the real Shatner, because they're all trying to kill him. I think? That might be totally wrong. Maybe Shat was the protag? Whatever.
Seriously, don't go looking for it. It's pretty much just fanfic that got published. Dissolves grey matter on contact.
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B-But it has a 3.5 on Goodreads! :(
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Oh, fuck that. That's a fucking meme score. Most of those reviews are probably from people that never even read it. :laugh:
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Olivia Newton John died. I always thought John would go first. Weird thought from me, I know, but I'm actually kind of worried for her daughter Chloe Lattanzi. The daughter's had various addiction issues and was already a hot mess before her mom died. But she supposedly runs a cannabis farm now so maybe she's found the way to cope.
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You just pull one of these...
Shinzo Abe is dead.
I'm surprised old Anne didn't get one. I guess that was in the before times.
I cannot believe my mans dead. I was in shock tbh. Mostly because he was my neighbour (as in he lived like a min away from my place). I was walking the dog and there were so many reporters outside of his building but NO noise at all. Very respectful and all. RIP
ALso RIP Olivia. I was listening to Summer Nights the weekend before she passed, coincidentally.
ALso they are saying Anne Heche is gone for real. Also read a bit about her life and omg what a fucked up one that was. Poor lady.
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Yeah, I was reading about Anne Heche and damn. I never knew all of that about her. Honestly, I'm just glad she didn't take anyone out with her. And I didn't know one of her kids is, like, 13. I thought they were both adults.
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I went into Schmoo's room yesterday to ask her about a flowering plant she has outside and she's immediately all "I know, the Queen died." And that's how I found out the Queen died. "King Charles" tho'..... EW.
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Shit. Sorry. I dropped the ball. Me and Voldy should have been waiting in the wings, crouched and ready to pounce.
We'll be ready next time, Charles...
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Not to be callous, but the thing that immediately popped into my mind was, "Hey! Does this mean we'll be getting new money up here in the lands beyond?"
Elizabeth is currently featured on our twenty dollar bill, and all of our coins. Is it Ol' Chuck's time to shine?
Apparently not in the foreseeable future, according to national news outlets. Bummer.
Foreseeable. Foreseeable. Just look at that for a moment. That's an actual English word. More vowels than consonants.
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Shit. Sorry. I dropped the ball. Me and Voldy should have been waiting in the wings, crouched and ready to pounce.
We'll be ready next time, Charles...
I believe in you. He's hella old. It's gotta be soonish, yeah? He doesn't have momma's grit. No way is he living twenty-three more years to reach her age.
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Coolio ded.
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Totally blanked on this music video featuring clips of 1997's Nothing to Lose. I guess the song was on the soundtrack? Weird.
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Did you actually remember that was a movie or did the video description mention it? I completely forgot that movie was a thing.
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No, I totally remember that was a movie. There's a scene where Martin Lawrence mistakes Tim Robbins for a serial killer, and he screams, "Please don't kill me, freaky Jason!" at him and it's fucking hilarious. Or it was, I haven't actually seen it in forever. Couldn't tell you anything else about the movie, though. :laugh:
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I read a lot of Anne Rice's books. I've read Interview, Vampire Lestat, Queen of the Damned, Tale of the Body Thief, Menoch the devil, Black Wood Farm (well I started it, didn't finish it.) Prince Lestat, and Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis (Which I gave up on about 1/3 of the way through).
I love Interview. It's one of my favorite books, but everything after that is of lesser quality. It was like Harper Lee wrote To Kill A Mockingbird and then after that decided to focus on novelizations of the Fast and the Furious movies.
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So stick with the first book and don't bother with the rest? Got it.
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I think that's probably the safest approach to the subject. Yes.
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Cool, that makes it easy for me. Time to update the list.
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I just put a hold on it and realized something: I've always called it 'Interview with A Vampire" but it's "Interview with THE Vampire." I asked Merla how she remembers it and she's the same. Also, she's never seen the movie. All these years I thought she had.
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Mandela effect. You are just from the other universe.
And it's a good movie. One the best book to movie adaptations out there.
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I mentioned re-watching Interview in the movie thread so Merla saw a tiny bit of it. She wasn't really interested tho', mainly because she, like me, also doesn't watch a whole lot of movies anymore.
As for the topic of deaths, uh... my computer's battery, I guess. Although I guess that's more "on life support" at this point.
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Merla told me Angela Lansbury and Robbie Coltrane died. Thanks, Google. You wanna tell me about the mook wearing twenty-plus contact lenses on one eye as "news" but couldn't be arsed to tell me Mrs. Potts and Hagrid carked it. Meh. ::)
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Loretta Lynn too
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Gonna be honest: I saw something about her dying but completely forgot who she was. Yes, I be a heathen.
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She was the coal miner's daughter!
Honestly outside of that and knowing she was a country singer I don't know anything about her.
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Yeah, it took me a while after I saw her death in the news to go "oh, yeah, the country singer lady."
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Loretta Lynn was certainly a titan of country music, but the modern music field in general owes her a lot for proving that women were just as valid artists as men and breaking down a lot of barriers by virtue of that. And I always appreciated the fact that, even though she was rich and owned a mansion, she cut her own grass until she had her stroke several years ago.
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Funny thing is I knew how significant she was. But my mind overwrote her in my memory or something. This is what I get for not mentally defragging.
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Something something Kirstie Alley something Fleetwood Mac. Something something dead people.
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Barbara Walters is dead.
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One of the popes is dead...the older one, I'd imagine.
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I was telling Merla this morning we're gonna get at least one high-profile death to take us out of 2022 with a bang. Between Wawa and Former Pope, I gotta give this one to Wawa.
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Lance Reddick is dead.
Rest in peace, you fucking legend.
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When I heard about this, I was all "oh no lance henrikson" and then I realized I was thinking of the wrong one. I don't know if I've seen this man in anything besides two minutes of that awful RE series. He was apparently in Lost tho'. I don't remember him in it.
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He did a fair amount of voice stuff, too. The dude had a very singular set of pipes.
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Who died? Did anyone die? Surely, someone died. But I can't think of who.
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Oh, yeah, Jerry Springer died the other day. Jerry! Jerry! Jerry! He's revealing who the daddy is in that smut-pen in the sky.
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Tina Turner. And I find it weird that Wikipedia is all "Swiss singer" Tina Turner. I'm trying to figure out why I find it weird. I think it's because if you're known and famous for being from somewhere, it's odd that your page you have only because you're famous notes so prominently something you were not famous for. I get she became a Swiss citizen but I dunno. If I move to Wales tomorrow and then become famous for peanut juggling, am I really a Welsh peanut-juggler? Of if I become famous tomorrow for peanut-juggling and then move to Wales thirty years later when I'm not really known for peanut-juggling as much, am I still a famous Welsh peanut-juggler? Meh. Semantics.
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I can't read/hear the word Swiss and not think of this ad:
I can't remember when it used to air, but it was constant. It's just burnt into my psyche.
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Was it a Canadian ad or do I just not remember it? Also, I find Toblerone's a pain to eat. I have no idea why people like them.
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Sinéad O'Connor is dead.
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And you posted a video of her. How appropriate.
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Yup, clipped it from her SNL appearance where she tore up the picture of the Pope.
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I realized after she died that I only know her for performing a Prince song. Was she known for anything aside from that, being bald, and tearing up the Pope?
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Pee-wee Herman is dead.
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I know you are but what am I indeed.
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I had heard he died, probably pretty soon after it was publicly announced, but thought it was a joke. When I was kid, I really didn't like him. I'm not sure why. Even as an adult I never found him funny but as a kid he made me really uncomfortable and I never understood how other people enjoyed watching him. So, naturally, when I was a child my Dad collected a bunch of magazine and newspaper clippings and taped them to my wall near my bed one morning like a crazy-person. And I woke up to all of these Peewees staring at me. I don't really talk to my Dad anymore.
Not because of that though. In retrospect, that was actually fucking funny. And this was before Peewee was caught ganking lil' Peewee so it wasn't weird yet or anything.
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I don't want to act like I know your dad, because I don't, but the fact that he would do something like that to his own little girl...
...makes him sound like a pretty cool dude to me. :laugh:
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Yeah, he's a funny man, even if he's got some of that weird boomer humor that doesn't quite land anymore. Maybe that's why I still sometimes talk to him. Imagine being a lousy father and unfunny. At that point you might as well be dead to me.
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I never watched him because he came across (snerk) as creepy and cringy as all get-out.
Pee-Wee, not your dad.
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Pee-Wee, not your dad.
:lol: Thank God, someone else who found him weird. Pee-Wee, not my dad. Yeah, he was super creepy. That laugh and that bowtie... What was the joke supposed to be? That he was a literal man child? That he had a weird chair? Even Google searching images of Pee Wee creeps me out, man.
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I guess I would have been 6 years old when Pee-wee's Playhouse debuted? Or maybe we got it a little later in Canada? I don't know. Anyway, I found everything about that show hypnotic. I wanted to live in that fucking house. Pretty sure I dreamed about it frequently.
I had no idea until much, much later that it had been retrofitted from an adult-skewing stage show. There were definitely vestigial bits to it though, like how Miss Yvonne desperately wanted to fuck Pee-wee. That still came across as funny, even though as a little kid, I wasn't entirely sure what her actual interest in him was.
The transforming sets, the stop motion shorts, the various characters that were constantly showing up, that show was just fucking magical to me. I remember feeling bad when the whole "Pee-wee is a pervert" thing was going around. Not like seriously bent out of shape or anything, just disappointed.
I remember when Big Top Pee-wee showed up at the local rental place, my friend group must have watched that fucking movie a hundred times. And for all that, I can barely recall what happens in it.
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That's cool that it felt magical to you. I don't think I have that in my life with any show or movie.
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I don't know. Just thinking out loud, I guess. Fond memories of when I was just a little kid on a Saturday morning.
I went and grabbed a torrent of the entire series, and the first episode features Natasha Lyonne as a tiny child. As soon as she walked through Pee-wee's front door with two other kids, I was like, "Is that..? It couldn't be... But is it?!"
And sure enough her name was there in the credits. According to Google, she's 44 now, so it checks out.
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Bray Wyatt died. (https://kotaku.com/wwe-bray-wyatt-died-the-fiend-wyatt-family-cause-death-1850774254)
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No idea who he was but sucks to die at 36 of a heart attack helped along by 'rona of all things.
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I liked when he was the fiend but apart from that was never impressed
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Maybe that can be his epitaph. :laugh:
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Bob Barker is dead!
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I... thought he had already died.
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As did i
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He'll be tellin' the dead to spay or neuter their pets in Hell. In Heaven? In Hell? (Or no where, if you're an atheist.)
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Terry Funk and Arleen Sorkin died last week, too.
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Jimmy Buffett is dead!
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Steve harwell lead singer of Smash Mouth is dead.
Hey now, he’s a dead star.
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Liver failure! He was only 56...
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Steve harwell lead singer of Smash Mouth is dead.
Hey now, he’s a dead star.
Hey, now! :fingershake:
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Liver failure! He was only 56...
Guess it does make sense not to live for fun.
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Liver failure! He was only 56...
Guess it does make sense not to live for fun.
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Carl Weathers is dead.
I had no idea he played in the NFL/CFL before getting into acting.
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No wonder Google wanted me to search for Carl Weathers' age. I was searching something completely different and when I put "car," Google was all "you want Carl Weathers' age?" Google is so weird and broken.
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Ripporino, Toriyama.
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Man, 68's not that old. Bum deal.
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Don't worry...he's just on his way down snake way and he'll be back after all the rest of us have died fighting off an alien invasion.
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Great. Now we have to wait until next season for him to even show up! ::)
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The juice is loose! To quote Schmoo "Did he go to hell tho'?" :raiseeyebrow:
I find it weird that I'll always have good memories of him from the Naked Gun movies. They're apparently making a new one with Liam Neeson as Leslie Nielson's son. Did not know this until looking up the movies just now.
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Well, they do say Jesus forgives.
Also, if we're talking Old Testament, he's probably in the clear. Like, the moment adultery occurred, use of lethal force became authorized.
You know, with the rule book being written by a bunch of old dudes from 2000 years ago and all.
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But were Goldman and Brown ever actually bumping uglies, though?
At least I have my good ol' OJ's Legal Pad (https://www.flickr.com/photos/55541152@N00/albums/1134452/)! That thing was freakin' GOLD.
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OJ death's sparked a very strange convo between me and Merla about our dad. I'll, uh, just leave it at that.
Meanwhile, Eric Carmen died last month but got, like, no media attention since he only murdered zero people. And I laughed at his Wikipedia page. "Not to be confused with Eric Cartman." Who the fuck's confusing the guy who sang "Hungry Eyes" with Eric Cartman?
Edit: Eric Cartman's page actually has "Not to be confused with Eric Carmen." At least it also applies in reverse.