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Today must be a good day to die...
06-26-2009, 01:51 AM
First Farrah Fawcett and now -
Michael
Jackson.
Hard to believe. I couldn't be considered a fan, especially with the insane crap of his the last couple of decades, but he was part of the cultural
background, and I wouldn't have some of Weird Al Yankovic's best
videos without him.
(yes, I know it was mentioned in the Farrah Fawcett thread, but I thought it deserved a thread of it's own.
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How about as Apaches?
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Forgive me for the inappropriate humor,
I read this part and the first thing that came to mind was "but will he go with a Thriller
reference?"
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Quote: Bob Schroeck wrote:
Forgive me for the inappropriate humor, but I cannot see either as Klingons...
Dude - how can it be inappropriate when I'm linking WEIRD AL videos in a death notice?? ^_^
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Don't know whether this is inappropriate, but I just started http://drunkardswalkforums.yuku.com/topic/5849/]this tread in "The Game..."
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I'm happy about it. As far as I can tell, the man who did Thriller, the King of Pop, died over a decade ago.
What was left behind just... kept going. Now, it's stopped.
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Quote: Bluemage wrote:
I'm happy about it. As far as I can tell, the man who did Thriller, the King of Pop, died over a decade ago.
What was left behind just... kept going. Now, it's stopped.
Ahhh... Rather like In Utena... *nods*
What we remember of Jackson from the past and through the 1980s = Dios.
What we were forced to watch slowly disintegrate the last two decades in the 90s and beyond = Akio.
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He's finally returned to Wonderland...
The only question is which one, one where no one would believe he could possibly be a child molester
or one where he'll always be under charges of it reguardless of if he's innocent or not.
One thing I dont get. Lulu and I were watching the coverage on CNN's Headline News over dinner, and they said they'd be performing an autopsy today.
Reason being, he'd died without an actual doctor in attendence.
But he died at bloody UCLA Westwood. A fricking TEACHING HOSPITAL. How could there not be a Doctor in attendance?
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Quote: Star Ranger4 wrote:
One thing I dont get. Lulu and I were watching the coverage on CNN's Headline News over dinner, and they said they'd be performing an autopsy today.
Reason being, he'd died without an actual doctor in attendence.
But he died at bloody UCLA Westwood. A fricking TEACHING HOSPITAL. How could there not be a Doctor in attendance?
Maybe he died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital? IIRC, EMTs cannot actually declare you dead. Only an actual doctor can pronounce death.
Thus, if you die before reaching a doctor, you are only declared dead after the doctor sees the body.
I believe that this is the reason for the urban legend about Disney scheming to make certain that nobody is declared dead within their amusement park. There is
no scheming involved, it is simply that the paramedics are legally unable to make the declaration of death.
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That is indeed the case, at least in California. EMTs cannot declare someone dead -- they are "unconscious" until they get to a hospital and a doctor sees them. (Joss Whedon mentioned this in his commentary for the Buffy The Vampire Slayer episode "The Body" at the moment that the EMTs declare Joyce dead.)
Regardless of the legal requirements, it is apparently a widespread practice that a person hasn't officially died until a doctor "calls it". A case in point: my father died at 11:35ish PM on 5 May -- but his "legal" date and time of death is 1:30ish AM on 6 May, because that's when the doctor got to the house and played Captain Obvious.
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Quote: Logan Darklighter wrote:
Quote: Bluemage wrote:
I'm happy about it. As far as I can tell, the man who did Thriller, the King of Pop, died over a decade ago.
What was left behind just... kept going. Now, it's stopped.
Ahhh... Rather like In Utena... *nods*
What we remember of Jackson from the past and through the 1980s = Dios.
What we were forced to watch slowly disintegrate the last two decades in the 90s and beyond = Akio.
I am reminded of a game I like to call Word Disassociation. One player gives a random word. The other then produces a word that has some
relation (through as many degrees of separation as can be managed in a reasonable number of seconds) to the original. This repeats until the goal- getting
somebody to ask some variation of "how did you get that?"- is reached.
My friends at college could only manage first- or second-order disassociation. I generally used 5-7 degrees of separation.
I get the feeling that you would be an entertaining opponent.
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Bluemage, do you want me to start a Questions Tennis thread?
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Is that appropriate here?
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Why wouldn't it be?
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Are you quite aware of which forum you're posting in?
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Is Questions Tennis anything like "Questions Only" from Whose Line Is It Anyway?
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Non-sequitur foul! Point to me.
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Mornington Crescent! Game, set, and match.
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Why do you guys always obsess about who's winning?
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Isn't that what it's all about?
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No, that's the Hokey-Pokey.
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