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Dropping Like Flies

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Re: Dropping Like Flies March 21, 2007 at 04:43 AM UTC #
Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
Brad Delp, lead singer of Boston.
Allow me to write a more fitting tribute:

A "singer" from one of those 70's bands no one can tell apart with one-word names, such as Boston or Foreigner and what have you, has died. We have no more idea who he is or was than we know which is Hall and which is Oates. I wouldn't worry about it.

Imagine what a disaster it's gonna be for Hall or Oates when either Hall or Oates dies … None of those splashy reunion or revival concerts.

But then again…Hall or Oates will be able to continue on as usual with pretty much anyone filling in for Hall or Oates because no one will know if it's really Hall or Oates or not.

Except maybe for their fans, Mr. and Mrs. Hall and Mr. and Mrs. Oates.
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Re: Dropping Like Flies March 21, 2007 at 03:13 PM UTC #
geeks, bow your egg-heads: John W. Backus, Inventor of Fortran
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Re: Dropping Like Flies March 21, 2007 at 03:29 PM UTC #
Originally posted by beetsnotbeats:
Calvert DeForest, R.I.P.

:( That's some funny stuff.
bunnyman
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Re: Dropping Like Flies March 26, 2007 at 03:06 PM UTC #
Frankly, I love the cats. They crack me up. Reminds me of the cat videos from the Built to Spill show last year.
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Re: Dropping Like Flies March 26, 2007 at 04:11 PM UTC #
Pussy is good eating, if you can get past the taste.
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Re: Dropping Like Flies April 05, 2007 at 03:41 PM UTC #
Originally posted by RonniStar:
Christmas Story Director Killed in a car crash
Bob Clark made a few really watchable films.

Porky's
Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things
& the original
Black Christmas
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Re: Dropping Like Flies April 12, 2007 at 03:27 AM UTC #
A big one that hurts: Kurt Vonnegut.
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Re: Dropping Like Flies April 15, 2007 at 12:17 AM UTC #
Don Ho
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Re: Dropping Like Flies April 15, 2007 at 12:45 AM UTC #
We occasionally see a humongous Hawaiian-looking woman on the Metro who we refer to as "Don Ho". She always wears a visor.


Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:
Don Ho
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Re: Dropping Like Flies April 15, 2007 at 03:28 AM UTC #
Nobody mentioned the great Sol Lewitt who died last week. His retrospective at the Whitney a few years ago ranks among the best installations I have ever seen. I walked in pretty ambivalent toward the guy, and walked out thinking he was a certifiable genius.

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Re: Dropping Like Flies April 15, 2007 at 02:25 PM UTC #
Isn't it ironic that just a few days ago a career was destroyed over the h-word ("ho") yet today we bemoan the passing of Don "Ho" with impunity?

Is there a double-standard?
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