# \[Blank\] is Dead **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 6, 2010, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blank-is-dead/563105 "2010-12-06T02:29:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![OleOneEye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f14d63/32.png) [@OleOneEye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OleOneEye)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blank-is-dead/563105/21 "2010-12-06T08:23:55Z")
[Timothy Leary](http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/55162/)’s dead. No, no, no, no, He’s outside looking in 😛 ---
**Author:** ![dzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f9b8f/32.png) [@dzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dzero)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blank-is-dead/563105/22 "2010-12-06T08:49:54Z")
What about all of the things that can’t be dead because they never lived - like love? ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blank-is-dead/563105/23 "2010-12-06T11:09:48Z")
Rozencranz and Guildenstern. ---
**Author:** ![PookahMacPhellimey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pookahmacphellimey/32/3175_2.png) [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blank-is-dead/563105/24 "2010-12-06T11:22:01Z")
Linguo _is_ dead. My all time favourite Simpsons joke. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blank-is-dead/563105/25 "2010-12-06T13:37:56Z")
Lyric Opera isn’t dead, I go past it every weekday on the way to & from the train station. :dubious: The cabbies and limo drivers lined up all the way down the block certainly don’t think it’s dead. 😛 (Seriously, I know the OP meant lyric opera as an art form or concept rather than the Chicago institution or building by that name. 😉 But I’ve been to the opera three or four times, and it was packed each time. Not dead.) ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blank-is-dead/563105/26 "2010-12-06T14:48:00Z")
I, for one, welcome our new blank overlords. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blank-is-dead/563105/27 "2010-12-06T14:54:31Z")
Ding, dong, the witch is dead. Also, he’s dead, Jim. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blank-is-dead/563105/28 "2010-12-06T15:00:43Z")
The Google ads I see for this topic are all for Microsoft. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blank-is-dead/563105/29 "2010-12-06T15:28:39Z")
Paul is Dead. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blank-is-dead/563105/30 "2010-12-06T15:33:21Z")
Now that’s a real shame when folks be throwin’ away a perfectly good white boy like that. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blank-is-dead/563105/31 "2010-12-06T15:40:46Z")
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Accounts Payable, c/o the Swissotel, Chicago, Ill 60617. ---
**Author:** ![Blaster\_Master](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cab0a1/32.png) [@Blaster\_Master](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blaster_Master)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blank-is-dead/563105/32 "2010-12-06T15:42:57Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Bela Lugosi’s dead > > undead undead undead Bah… that’s what I came in to say. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blank-is-dead/563105/33 "2010-12-06T15:49:20Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > [Abe Vigoda](http://www.abevigoda.com/) He got better. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blank-is-dead/563105/34 "2010-12-06T15:58:23Z")
My thought when I saw the thread title was “Paul.” ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blank-is-dead/563105/35 "2010-12-06T16:38:53Z")
**Shot Clock** is correct: Rock is dead. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blank-is-dead/563105/36 "2010-12-06T16:42:16Z")
Elvis is dead. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blank-is-dead/563105/37 "2010-12-06T17:11:11Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Elvis is dead. No, he just went home. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blank-is-dead/563105/38 "2010-12-06T17:15:37Z")
Poor Jud. ---
**Author:** ![MentalGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/439d5e/32.png) [@MentalGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MentalGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blank-is-dead/563105/39 "2010-12-06T18:03:52Z")
Westley is dead. (Well, mostly.) ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blank-is-dead/563105/40 "2010-12-06T18:48:49Z")
For some reason ‘John is Dead’ popped into my head. And while trying to figure it out, I recalled the novel ‘John Dies at the End’, which I have never read but is written by a dude at [cracked.com](http://cracked.com). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blank-is-dead/563105.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blank-is-dead/563105.md?page=3)