They will be buried, lying jointly.
mmm
Former Indiana Senator Richard Lugar dead at 87.
Phil McCormick, lead singer of Molly Hatchet, passed away. Molly Hatchet Lead Singer Phil McCormack Dies at 58 | Saving Country Music
Molly Hatchett…
Danny Joe Brown Voc died at 53
Jimmy Farrah Voc died at 68
Dave Hlubek lead Guitar died at 66
Duane Roland Guitar died at 53
Bruce Crump Drums died at 57
Banner Thomas Bass died at 62
Riff West bass died at 64
Phil McCormack dies at 58
Sounds like that whole band was flirtin’ with disaster
He’s been taken off life support.
460 singletons, and I bet none of them were John Singleton. 
And John Singleton dies at 51.
That one really hits home.
I see what you did there.
Mark Medoff, Children of a Lesser God playwright.
Caroline Bittencourt, failed at dog-paddling.
Stuntman Frank Henson dies of illness, not running into a tree.
Really? I don’t see it. I’m 51. I had a stroke. I’m alive and 99% back to normal. He’s 51, had a stroke and died. That could have easily been me.
I too would like to know what the joke was supposed to be if there was one…or one assumed by someone.
I think the joke may have been some sort of tortured pun with “Singleton” and “hits home.”
But I had to stretch really hard to see it.
I thought he was making a reference to home = the Hood, since Singleton directed Boyz In The Hood.
It read like a joke to me at first too. Until I clicked the link I thought Singleton might have been a MLB player I had never heard of. Then I was just confused.
(Yes, he was mentioned up-thread, but that was more than a week ago)
I take pride in my tasteless jokes. If I made one it would be better than that.
Yep.
Let’s hope so.
I just noticed that Gino Marchetti died. He is not often thought of now but he revolutionized the position of defensive end. He forever changed how pass rushing was looked at. He changed football defense every bit as much as Lawrence Taylor did later. Hall of famer of course.
He also started the fast food restaurant Gino’s. I remember that from my youth but didn’t know the connection with him until now.
I knew that Gino had played for the Colts, but was never a football fan. But I was a big fan of his restaurants from my childhood. His Gino Giant (the L.A. Times gets it wrong: it wasn’t the Giant Gino), a double-decker burger with “special sauce,” was introduced before McDonald’s Big Mac, and was much better, with larger patties. When I was a kid, my family considered McDonald’s a cheap downscale version of Gino’s. I never ate at McD’s until the Gino’s chain was closed in 1982.
His fellow Colts Joe Campanella and Alan Ameche co-founded the Gino’s chain with him, and Ameche also opened about half a dozen drive-in restaurants around Baltimore in the 1960s. Ameche’s featured the “Powerhouse,” billed as “a banquet on a bun,” which was similar to the Giant, but even bigger and better. (I can’t tell from the Wikipedia entries which was introduced first, but they were both created by what was essentially the same company.) The clear hierarchy in restaurant and burger quality (for our family, at least), top to bottom, was Ameche’s, Gino’s, McDonald’s.
I just learned from Wikipedia that Campanella also founded Rustler’s Steak House.
Ten years ago, Marchetti and some of the other early Gino’s owners relaunched the brand with a few stores in the Baltimore and Philadelphia areas, although only two stores near Baltimore remain open today. I’ve been to the Towson branch once or twice, and it was pretty good. Not quite the same as the original 40 years ago, because they have positioned themselves a more upscale than today’s McD’s, on par with Five Guys, for instance.
Here’s a tribute site to the original Gino’s.
I remember Gino’s and Ameche’s well. My parents always preferred Ameche’s, so we never went to Gino’s until they got the Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise - there were no stand-alone KFC restaurants at the time (at least in Maryland).
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