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[yumekochan]

Farrah Fawcett passed away 25 minutes ago from cancer. I shall bow my head and be thankful that she is free from pain now.

--Amanda
"Hey, it's not like dying is on my schedule for this week."
--Yumeko Asagiri, Bubblegum Crisis: The Next Generation, part 3

[Foxboy]

Agreed. Requiescat in pacem, Farrah.

Especially since I had a beach towel when I was a kid with her face plastered on it when she was in Logan's Run...
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

[Star Ranger4]

And now she truely is an Angel.
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children

[Logan Darklighter]

I had THE famous poster of her when I was in Junior High. Possibly the first "celebrity crush" I ever had. I can't think of words foul enough to
express my outrage at the universe. Just thinking of the pain she must've suffered. Beyond all suffering now, though.

[Epsilon]

Michael Jackson suffers heart attack, dies today.

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Epsilon

[Wiregeek]

well, some good to go with the bad there, Epsilon
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

[Ayiekie]

Wow, that was classy. Condolences to both their families and friends.

[Bob Schroeck]

Peggy and I were just talking of this a few minutes ago. (She's suddenly feeling an intense sensation of age and mortality, I might note.) In a way, this
is the death of our young adulthoods -- Farrah was the 70s, and Jackson was the 80s, symbolically...
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[Black Aeronaut]

Michael's death... I think he may have brought it on himself. Some of those cosmetic procedures he underwent, the skin lightening in particular, are
extremely bad for your health.

[Bob Schroeck]

Word on CBS radio here this morning was that overuse of prescription drugs might have contributed -- he had a Demerol shot right before collapsing, reportedly
-- but it won't be known for sure until the toxicology reports come back in a few weeks.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.