# CNN: "Bring out your dead!" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 16, 2003, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-bring-out-your-dead/169191 "2003-04-16T22:33:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![3\_14159265358979323846](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/eada6e/32.png) [@3\_14159265358979323846](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3_14159265358979323846)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-bring-out-your-dead/169191/1 "2003-04-16T22:33:59Z")
Hopefully, no one has already started a thread about this… From [www.thesmokinggun.com](http://www.thesmokinggun.com) : “APRIL 16–While all news organizations prepare obituaries in advance of the deaths of famous individuals, the folks at CNN inadvertently gave the Internet-surfing public a chance to preview how the network’s web site would note the demise of Vice President Dick Cheney, Ronald Reagan, and a few other prominent figures” [link](http://www.thesmokinggun.com/doc_o_day/cnnobit1.html) [python] “I’m not dead!” “'Ere, he says he’s not dead!” “Yes he is.” “No I’m not!” “He isn’t?” “Well he will be soon. He’s very ill.” “I’m getting better!” “No you’re not. You’ll be stone dead in a moment.” [/python] ---
**Author:** ![newcrasher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b3f665/32.png) [@newcrasher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcrasher)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-bring-out-your-dead/169191/2 "2003-04-16T23:15:45Z")
What is more disturbing is the way they have Fidel Castro’s picture, with Ronald Reagan’s bio. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-bring-out-your-dead/169191/3 "2003-04-16T23:31:22Z")
Or Cheney’s pic with the “Life of Queen Consort” link below… ---
**Author:** ![samarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@samarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samarm)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-bring-out-your-dead/169191/4 "2003-04-16T23:34:17Z")
That link is restricted for me. Does it contain any “full frontal nudity”, possibly? 🙂 Also, would I be the first to say to you “When come back, bring Pi”? ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-bring-out-your-dead/169191/5 "2003-04-16T23:37:42Z")
We were just laughing at this on irc here at work…certainly not the first folks that come to my mind as being on top of CNN’s hit list… ---
**Author:** ![3\_14159265358979323846](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/eada6e/32.png) [@3\_14159265358979323846](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3_14159265358979323846)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-bring-out-your-dead/169191/6 "2003-04-17T00:09:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by samarm \* > \*\*Also, would I be the first to say to you “When come back, bring Pi”? \*\* You would, indeed, be the first. That’s a terrible pun, by the way. And I’m stealing it. ---
**Author:** ![3\_14159265358979323846](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/eada6e/32.png) [@3\_14159265358979323846](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3_14159265358979323846)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-bring-out-your-dead/169191/7 "2003-04-17T00:20:53Z")
I’d _swear_ that the “show signature” box was checked… Let’s try again…