Originally posted by Got Haggis?:LOL
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Dropping Like Flies
Hoya's Motherboard
Time of death: 3:16AM 5/15/2007. So young, yet so proud, he'll never be forgotten.
Time of death: 3:16AM 5/15/2007. So young, yet so proud, he'll never be forgotten.
Jerry Falwell is gone.
Tammy Faye is close.
Pat Robertson had better be looking over his shoulder…
Tammy Faye is close.
Pat Robertson had better be looking over his shoulder…
Quote from a buddy of mine:
"Hell oughta burn real hot for a good long while with all that blubber down there"
"Hell oughta burn real hot for a good long while with all that blubber down there"
Hopefully Pat Robertson will be making this list soon too. :D
folks in my office have been offering up the glorious steve irwin ironic death options…
i.e. murdered by a teletubby.
heart stopped during anal sex.
etc etc.
i.e. murdered by a teletubby.
heart stopped during anal sex.
etc etc.
If there is any sort of afterlife, Jerry Falwell's should consist of an eternal ass-fucking curtesy of a life-size Tinky Winky.
Edit: Damn you beat me to the anal sex/teletubby jokes by a matter of seconds.
Edit: Damn you beat me to the anal sex/teletubby jokes by a matter of seconds.
I get it. Jokes about dead VT students are not funny. Jokes about dead evangelicals are. Death can be funny. It only depends upon whom.
Kosmo should write this down, as it will come in handy in the future when it's time to delete certain poasts.
Kosmo should write this down, as it will come in handy in the future when it's time to delete certain poasts.
Death can be funny, but mass murder in your own backyard isn't.
Originally posted by Psychoda alternata:
I get it. Jokes about dead VT students are not funny. Jokes about dead evangelicals are. Death can be funny.
Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:But Blacksburg is farther away than NYC!?! Is NYC your backyard too?
Death can be funny, but mass murder in your own backyard isn't.
Originally posted by Psychoda alternata:
I get it. Jokes about dead VT students are not funny. Jokes about dead evangelicals are. Death can be funny.
Yahweh Ben Yahweh, man of love.
Originally posted by ChampionshipVinyl:i was about to post this.
Charles Nelson Reilly
but sadly when i think of him, i think of alec baldwin portraying him on snl…instead of the man himself…
'there's a troll in central paaark!'
Mr. Wizard Goes to baking soda heaven.]
i struggled as to whether this deserved its own post. *sigh*
LOS ANGELES - Don Herbert, who as television's "Mr. Wizard" introduced generations of young viewers to the joys of science, died Tuesday. He was 89. Herbert, who had bone cancer, died at his suburban Bell Canyon home, said his son-in-law, Tom Nikosey.
"He really taught kids how to use the thinking skills of a scientist," said former colleague Steve Jacobs. He worked with Herbert on a 1980s show that echoed the original 1950s "Watch Mr. Wizard" series, which became a fond baby boomer memory.
In "Watch Mr. Wizard," which was produced from 1951 to 1964 and received a Peabody Award in 1954, Herbert turned TV into an entertaining classroom. On a simple, workshop-like set, he demonstrated experiments using household items.
"He modeled how to predict and measure and analyze. … The show today might seem slow but it was in-depth and forced you to think along," Jacobs said. "You were learning about the forces of nature."
Herbert encouraged children to duplicate experiments at home, said Jacobs, who recounted serving as a behind-the-scenes "science sidekick" to Herbert on the '80s "Mr. Wizard's World" that aired on the Nickelodeon channel.
When Jacobs would reach for beakers and flasks, Herbert would remind him that science didn't require special tools.
"'You could use a mayonnaise jar for that,'" Jacobs recalled being chided by Herbert. "He tried to bust the image of scientists and that science wasn't just for special people and places."
Herbert's place in TV history was acknowledged by later stars. When "Late Night with David Letterman" debuted in 1982, Herbert was among the first-night guests.
Born in Waconia, Minn., Herbert was a 1940 graduate of LaCrosse State Teachers College and served as a U.S. Army Air Corps pilot during World War II. He worked as an actor, model and radio writer before starting "Watch Mr. Wizard" in Chicago on NBC.
The show moved to New York after several years.
He is survived by six children and stepchildren and by his second wife, Norma, his son-in-law said. A private funeral service was planned.
i struggled as to whether this deserved its own post. *sigh*
LOS ANGELES - Don Herbert, who as television's "Mr. Wizard" introduced generations of young viewers to the joys of science, died Tuesday. He was 89. Herbert, who had bone cancer, died at his suburban Bell Canyon home, said his son-in-law, Tom Nikosey.
"He really taught kids how to use the thinking skills of a scientist," said former colleague Steve Jacobs. He worked with Herbert on a 1980s show that echoed the original 1950s "Watch Mr. Wizard" series, which became a fond baby boomer memory.
In "Watch Mr. Wizard," which was produced from 1951 to 1964 and received a Peabody Award in 1954, Herbert turned TV into an entertaining classroom. On a simple, workshop-like set, he demonstrated experiments using household items.
"He modeled how to predict and measure and analyze. … The show today might seem slow but it was in-depth and forced you to think along," Jacobs said. "You were learning about the forces of nature."
Herbert encouraged children to duplicate experiments at home, said Jacobs, who recounted serving as a behind-the-scenes "science sidekick" to Herbert on the '80s "Mr. Wizard's World" that aired on the Nickelodeon channel.
When Jacobs would reach for beakers and flasks, Herbert would remind him that science didn't require special tools.
"'You could use a mayonnaise jar for that,'" Jacobs recalled being chided by Herbert. "He tried to bust the image of scientists and that science wasn't just for special people and places."
Herbert's place in TV history was acknowledged by later stars. When "Late Night with David Letterman" debuted in 1982, Herbert was among the first-night guests.
Born in Waconia, Minn., Herbert was a 1940 graduate of LaCrosse State Teachers College and served as a U.S. Army Air Corps pilot during World War II. He worked as an actor, model and radio writer before starting "Watch Mr. Wizard" in Chicago on NBC.
The show moved to New York after several years.
He is survived by six children and stepchildren and by his second wife, Norma, his son-in-law said. A private funeral service was planned.
richard rorty
RICHARD RORTY: 1931 - 2007
Philosopher couldn't be ignored
Diana Walsh, Chronicle Staff Writer
Monday, June 11, 2007
Richard Rorty, one of the world's most influential cultural philosophers and a retired comparative literature professor at Stanford University, died Friday at his Palo Alto home from pancreatic cancer. He was 75.
For decades, Rorty waged a public and controversial challenge to various conventional philosophical thought. He published a landmark book in 1979 titled "Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature" that became one of the best-selling philosophical works of all time. In it, Rorty argued against the concept of representation that leading philosophical scholars had been focused on for centuries.
"The aim of the book is to undermine the reader's confidence in 'the mind' as something about which one should have a 'philosophical' view, in 'knowledge' as something about which there ought be a 'theory' and which has 'foundations,' and in 'philosophy' as it has been conceived since Kant," Rorty wrote in the book's introduction.
During an academic career that spanned more than four decades, he penned a vast body of work, publishing numerous books, essays and magazine and newspaper articles. He said once that he had spent his career trying to find out "what, if anything, philosophy was good for.''
His controversial views were harshly criticized, but they also drew support from advocates of pragmatic philosophy, and many believed he was the pre-eminent cultural philosopher of his time.
"He believed that his ideas stood on their own, independent of his public persona. He embraced his critics with reasoned responses, always ready to question his own assumptions,'' his son Jay Rorty said on Sunday.
Rorty's arrival at Stanford University in 1998 was seen as a major academic coup for the university. Rorty, whose teaching career began at Wellesley in 1958, spent most of his tenure at Princeton, where he taught from 1961 to 1982. He then moved to the University of Virginia from 1982 to 1998 before moving to Stanford. In 1981, he was one of the first recipients of a MacArthur genius grant.
Seth Lerer, who was chairman of Stanford University's comparative literature department at the time, said hiring Rorty was a "signal both within the Stanford community and to the community of scholars nationally that this university is very serious about the place of humanities and literary study."
Rorty's decision to teach in the comparative literature department and not in the philosophy department "reflected his belief that the dialectics of philosophy and literature are essentially part of the same conversation," according to a statement released by the university Sunday after his death.
"He was such an unbelievably captivating presence as a lecturer and as a writer, and he was a model citizen,'' said Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, a professor of literature at Stanford who helped bring Rorty to the university. "He always had these large classes of undergraduates. He had this huge, high opinion of the students here."
Although considered one of the world's brightest intellects, Rorty had a reserved manner in person, according to his son, but he was both kind and generous in his professional and personal life. For 20 years, Rorty sponsored a Fulbright scholar from abroad and always mailed copies of his books to anyone who asked for them.
"He admired people deeply, loved literature passionately and took deep pleasure in his work,'' Patricia Rorty said.
Rorty was born on Oct. 4, 1931, in New York City. He was just 15 years old when he entered the University of Chicago, earning a bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1949 and a master's degree in philosophy in 1952. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy at Yale University.
Among his many awards, Rorty was slated to receive an honorary doctorate from Harvard University on June 7, but his failing health prevented him from traveling, his son said.
Rorty is survived by his wife, Mary Varney Rorty, a biomedical ethicist; daughter Patricia Rorty of Berkeley; and sons Jay Rorty of Santa Cruz and Kevin Rorty of Richmond, Va.
RICHARD RORTY: 1931 - 2007
Philosopher couldn't be ignored
Diana Walsh, Chronicle Staff Writer
Monday, June 11, 2007
Richard Rorty, one of the world's most influential cultural philosophers and a retired comparative literature professor at Stanford University, died Friday at his Palo Alto home from pancreatic cancer. He was 75.
For decades, Rorty waged a public and controversial challenge to various conventional philosophical thought. He published a landmark book in 1979 titled "Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature" that became one of the best-selling philosophical works of all time. In it, Rorty argued against the concept of representation that leading philosophical scholars had been focused on for centuries.
"The aim of the book is to undermine the reader's confidence in 'the mind' as something about which one should have a 'philosophical' view, in 'knowledge' as something about which there ought be a 'theory' and which has 'foundations,' and in 'philosophy' as it has been conceived since Kant," Rorty wrote in the book's introduction.
During an academic career that spanned more than four decades, he penned a vast body of work, publishing numerous books, essays and magazine and newspaper articles. He said once that he had spent his career trying to find out "what, if anything, philosophy was good for.''
His controversial views were harshly criticized, but they also drew support from advocates of pragmatic philosophy, and many believed he was the pre-eminent cultural philosopher of his time.
"He believed that his ideas stood on their own, independent of his public persona. He embraced his critics with reasoned responses, always ready to question his own assumptions,'' his son Jay Rorty said on Sunday.
Rorty's arrival at Stanford University in 1998 was seen as a major academic coup for the university. Rorty, whose teaching career began at Wellesley in 1958, spent most of his tenure at Princeton, where he taught from 1961 to 1982. He then moved to the University of Virginia from 1982 to 1998 before moving to Stanford. In 1981, he was one of the first recipients of a MacArthur genius grant.
Seth Lerer, who was chairman of Stanford University's comparative literature department at the time, said hiring Rorty was a "signal both within the Stanford community and to the community of scholars nationally that this university is very serious about the place of humanities and literary study."
Rorty's decision to teach in the comparative literature department and not in the philosophy department "reflected his belief that the dialectics of philosophy and literature are essentially part of the same conversation," according to a statement released by the university Sunday after his death.
"He was such an unbelievably captivating presence as a lecturer and as a writer, and he was a model citizen,'' said Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, a professor of literature at Stanford who helped bring Rorty to the university. "He always had these large classes of undergraduates. He had this huge, high opinion of the students here."
Although considered one of the world's brightest intellects, Rorty had a reserved manner in person, according to his son, but he was both kind and generous in his professional and personal life. For 20 years, Rorty sponsored a Fulbright scholar from abroad and always mailed copies of his books to anyone who asked for them.
"He admired people deeply, loved literature passionately and took deep pleasure in his work,'' Patricia Rorty said.
Rorty was born on Oct. 4, 1931, in New York City. He was just 15 years old when he entered the University of Chicago, earning a bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1949 and a master's degree in philosophy in 1952. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy at Yale University.
Among his many awards, Rorty was slated to receive an honorary doctorate from Harvard University on June 7, but his failing health prevented him from traveling, his son said.
Rorty is survived by his wife, Mary Varney Rorty, a biomedical ethicist; daughter Patricia Rorty of Berkeley; and sons Jay Rorty of Santa Cruz and Kevin Rorty of Richmond, Va.
wwe wrestler chris benoit
"Wrestling star Chris Benoit, his wife, Nancy, and their 7-year-old son, Daniel, were found dead in their suburban Atlanta home Monday. The deaths are being investigated as a possible suicide and double homicide, authorities told ABC News."
"Wrestling star Chris Benoit, his wife, Nancy, and their 7-year-old son, Daniel, were found dead in their suburban Atlanta home Monday. The deaths are being investigated as a possible suicide and double homicide, authorities told ABC News."
Whoa. Benoit was one of my favorites back in the day.
Originally posted by thatguy:
wwe wrestler chris benoit
"Wrestling star Chris Benoit, his wife, Nancy, and their 7-year-old son, Daniel, were found dead in their suburban Atlanta home Monday. The deaths are being investigated as a possible suicide and double homicide, authorities told ABC News."