I can't believe Tdarcos outlived....

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Tue Mar 25, 2014 4:05 pm

Ralph Wilson. Owner of the Buffalo Bills. 95.

His kids are gonna sell off that franchise in a heartbeat. It'll be the Toronto Bills in 2015

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Tdarcos · Post by **Tdarcos** » Sat Mar 29, 2014 6:50 pm

Flack wrote:Egon... but not forgotten.

Funny, but that reminds me. I actually got an advance copy of a book titled "Gone But Not Forgotten." I wrote a review of it, and that was probably 15 years ago.

Jesus, I just looked it up, it was more than 20 years ago. Written by Phillip Margoilin. the review was in May, 1993 and the book was scheduled for release some months later.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/pdx.boo ... 471YFMtJcJ

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Apr 21, 2014 12:05 am

Tdarcos AND I have now outlived the shit out of this guy:

http://www.obitsforlife.com/obituary/18 ... n-Robb.php

Tdarcos · Post by **Tdarcos** » Mon Apr 21, 2014 10:37 am

I found a "Paul William Robinson" on the Vietnam Memorial Wall.

But this is still my favorite obituary of all time, I posted it to my blog when it happened:

Title: If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try again

Francisco Solomon Sanchez was pronounced dead shortly after 4:15 p.m. Friday [June 3, 2011] after leaping from a 210 Freeway overpass between Mountain Avenue and Buena Vista Street, Los Angeles County Department of Coroner Lt. Joe Bale said.

Why is this item so important? Because this was the tenth time that Sanchez had tried to kill himself. I think it took Thomas Edison thousands of tries to find out that he needed to use tungsten as the fillament in incandescent light bulbs. He said that he hadn't failed, he simply knew of 6,000 ways not to build a light bulb.

Sanchez had jumped to his death using prosthetic legs, which he got from injuries from previous unsuccessful suicide attempts.

Read more: http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/news/ci ... z1OturF6bd

The Happiness Engine · Sat May 03, 2014 10:55 pm

This is getting kind of depressing.

nessman · Post by **nessman** » Sun May 18, 2014 6:43 am

It's been said that suicide is self expression. What kind of message are you sending when you failed in the 9 previous attempts?

At least R. Budd Dwyer got it right the first time - and even used the opportunity in front of TV news cameras to show the world how it's done.

nessman · Post by **nessman** » Sun May 18, 2014 6:45 am

CO wrote:

RIP Mr. Brockie. His death touched more than that rich old fool Ralph Wilson. All that taxpayer money to improve The House of Fail - aka, Rich Sta... er... Ralph Wilson stadium.

Tdarcos · Post by **Tdarcos** » Sun May 18, 2014 7:37 am

nessman wrote:It's been said that suicide is self expression. What kind of message are you sending when you failed in the 9 previous attempts?

At least R. Budd Dwyer got it right the first time - and even used the opportunity in front of TV news cameras to show the world how it's done.

I remember that one. He's the Treasurer of Pennsylvania who got caught with his hand in the till, and held a press conference to announce he was resigning from his assignment, by putting a gun in his mouth and eating a bullet.

I remember how my mother complained because the newscasts that reported on the incident wouldn't show the guy's brains splattering on the wall behind him.

Die Hard didn't have that problem when Hans Gruber murdered Mr. Takagi,

nessman · Post by **nessman** » Sun May 18, 2014 8:10 am

Tdarcos wrote:I remember how my mother complained because the newscasts that reported on the incident wouldn't show the guy's brains splattering on the wall behind him.

Yeah - in real life suicide by handgun is fairly anticlimactic.

Take this one for example. Guy in a police station brought in for shooting a deputy wasn't fully searched and offs himself with a 1911. You'd think a .45 would blow a huge exit wound in the other side of his head.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=809_1353029315

Die Hard didn't have that problem when Hans Gruber murdered Mr. Takagi,

Neither did USMC Pvt. Leonard Lawrence...

... or Little Bill...

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pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sun May 18, 2014 8:44 am

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sun May 18, 2014 8:45 am

nessman wrote:
CO wrote:
RIP Mr. Brockie. His death touched more than that rich old fool Ralph Wilson. All that taxpayer money to improve The House of Fail - aka, Rich Sta... er... Ralph Wilson stadium.

Also this was two months ago. Let's keep it current, people.

nessman · Post by **nessman** » Sun May 18, 2014 9:02 am

pinback wrote:Also this was two months ago. Let's keep it current, people.

Oh fine... if we must...

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nessman · Post by **nessman** » Sun May 18, 2014 9:03 am

Damn you RobB - no 'edit' function!

Here... recent celebrity death:

CO · Post by CO » Fri May 30, 2014 12:07 pm

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Sun Jun 01, 2014 4:17 pm

http://www.tmz.com/2014/06/01/ann-b-dav ... at-age-88/

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 1:02 pm

Tdarcos · Post by **Tdarcos** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 4:54 pm

You forgot to include Norville "Shaggy" Rogers to the above picture:

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 8:53 pm

Sorry, this was a few days ago. I forget to come to this thread because it is depressing.

Tdarcos · Post by **Tdarcos** » Wed Jul 09, 2014 4:26 am

A guy was reportedly gored to death during the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain.

He was the author of a book on how to run along with the bulls without getting injured or killed. He recommended only doing the run if you had an expert professional for a coach, such as himself.

The Happiness Engine · Wed Jul 09, 2014 6:15 pm

Hey, we should all whip up dead man's switches to post ourselves to this thread! Then when we forget we made them...<i>comedy</i>.