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I think the evidence makes it clear, R.B. Greaves has a page on Wikipedia and his death was announced on at least one of the 3 major broadcast network's nightly newscasts.

Wikipedia tries very hard to restrict pages to legitimately famous or well-known people, and you certainly don't get an obituary on the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams if you're not famous or have some serious credibility justifying it. Broadcast news time is too precious to waste on someone not important.

arlen spectre

I had to Wiki the name in order to find out who he was. I went: 'Oh, a politician...'

That's kind of sad in a way.

AArdvark wrote:I had to Wiki the name in order to find out who he was. I went: 'Oh, a politician...'

That's kind of sad in a way.

I remember reading a book from a guy that did advertising, (it might have been Jerry Femina) and he was meeting with one of Specter's flacks, and he asked him, "What does Arlen Specter stand for?"
"Arlen Spector stands for winning the election."
"Well, what does he support?"
"Getting re-elected."
"What does he oppose?"
"Arlen Specter opposes losing the election."

Gary Collins passed away over the weekend. He was 74 years old. I flipped out when I first heard this on the radio because I thought they said Phil Collins. Anyway ... they didn't.

Gary Collins is one of those people that I knew and then when I checked his IMDB I had difficulty finding something I would have watched or cared about. I'm sure he was a nice guy though.

Flack wrote:Gary Collins is one of those people that I knew and then when I checked his IMDB I had difficulty finding something I would have watched or cared about. I'm sure he was a nice guy though.

He played the second officer in Airport, the one who goes back to check out the damage including noticing that Gwen has been badly injured after the mid-flight explosion, and calls Demerest back on the flight deck.

He also had his own eponymously named TV show for a while.

George McGovern.

I used to tell my family how I could never tell him and George Wallace apart.

'Anybody but McGovern'

I have that pin in my toolbox at work

John F. Kennedy, died 49 years ago today in Dallas.

My family was in Dallas back around 1983, and we were in City Hall looking for a pay phone. We went downstairs to the basement, and it hit me. So I turned to my mother and asked her if the place looked familiar (she'd never been in Dallas before). She said yes, but she didn't know why.

"The reason it looks familiar is you saw it on TV. This is where Ruby killed Oswald."

I thought Oswald was killed by Lyndon B. Johnson? Are you sure Jack Ruby killed him?

Why did Lyndon Johnson become President if he wasn't the guy who killed Oswald? Are you sure you have the facts right on this one? Doesn't add up.

Yeah. J.R. Ewing died from complications from being shot March 21, 1980 by... Kristin, his mistress and his wife's sister. (I had to look it up; I never even watched the show.)

The March 21 episode showed him being shot by an unseen individual; the episode actually showing the assailant wasn't aired until November 21. To keep everyone in the cast from knowing, the producers filmed several scenes of someone shooting him so that none of them would know which was the actual scene.

Back to reality: Larry Hagman died yesterday from complications from throat cancer, he was 81.

It's from all the times he was hitting on the genie in the bottle, which is code for booze. At least in my world it is.

Now he can be baked into a cake and served to his friends or whatever the hell he wanted to have done to his ashes. I gotta look that up now.

Yeah, something like that..

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AArdvark wrote:Now he can be baked into a cake and served to his friends or whatever the hell he wanted to have done to his ashes. I gotta look that up now.

That sounds like a fun idea. I keep telling my wife that I want to be turned into a diamond when I'm dead but she thinks I'm kidding. http://www.cremationsolutions.com/Crema ... s-c39.html

AArdvark wrote:Now he can be baked into a cake and served to his friends or whatever the hell he wanted to have done to his ashes. I gotta look that up now.

Actually his real idea does sound fun:

Reuters wrote:Hagman told the Times that after death he wanted his remains to be "spread over a field and have marijuana and wheat planted and harvest it in a couple of years and then have a big marijuana cake, enough for 200 to 300 people. People would eat a little of Larry."

A cake made with a bunch of ashes sounds gross but this would work. He better do it in California, Colorado, or Washington though.

200-300 people. That's like some huge wedding cake. I wonder if there could be a market for something like that.

The Ever-After bakery, specializing in 'Eat Me' cakes.


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AARDVARK

AArdvark wrote:The Ever-After bakery, specializing in 'Eat Me' cakes.

A guy in California had the personalized license plate 3M TAE. You only got the significance if you saw it from a rear-view mirror...

I can't believe Tdarcos outlived...



Jonathan Hardy.

Really, I can't believe it.