# DAVEW0071 killed Alec Guinness!!!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 7, 2000, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/davew0071-killed-alec-guinness/28368 "2000-08-07T02:42:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/davew0071-killed-alec-guinness/28368/1 "2000-08-07T02:42:37Z")
DAVEW0071 said in the [“Does Guinness Expire?”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=33438) thread: > [@](#): > > According to the Internet Movie Database, Sir Alec Guiness has not expired yet. Sadly, though, as he was born in 1914, he may not be with us much longer. A pity. He is such a fine actor. The time he posted this? 8/5/2000, 10:27am. Just HOURS before the death of [Sir Alec Guinness](http://www.cnn.com/2000/SHOWBIZ/Movies/08/06/alec.guinness.obit.ap/index.html). Now, I’ve caused injury - Gerald Ford’s recent stroke. And Baglady has successfully caused death - Jimmy Stewart - but it took a couple of days. The sheer imensity of Dave’s powers are amazing. I bow down before him and I suggest you join me. ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/davew0071-killed-alec-guinness/28368/2 "2000-08-07T02:52:10Z")
Baglady killed Jimmy Stewart? Did I miss something? Yoinks. The Dave/Sir Alec Guiness thing doesn’t surprise me, though. Not one bit. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Zaphod\_Beeblebrox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/0ea827/32.png) [@Zaphod\_Beeblebrox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zaphod_Beeblebrox)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/davew0071-killed-alec-guinness/28368/3 "2000-08-07T03:00:58Z")
Hmmmm… perhaps I ought to contact Dave. I could hire him to mention a few people… ---
**Author:** ![Gatsby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/df705f/32.png) [@Gatsby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatsby)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/davew0071-killed-alec-guinness/28368/4 "2000-08-07T03:06:15Z")
Hmm, I don’t think it was a power of his will. After all, he was announcing his respect and sadness that Guiness would not be with us much longer. **DAVEW0071 is cursed!** Think about it: _he’s a Bills fan too!_ Coincidence? I think not… ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/davew0071-killed-alec-guinness/28368/5 "2000-08-07T03:06:47Z")
Baglady, a couple of days before his death, said “isn’t Jimmy Stewart dead?” He soon was. When I heard that Gerald Ford was in the hospital with an ear infection I said “imagine the jokes if it turns out he fell down. But then if he had fallen down he would probably say it was a stroke before he admitted it.” Hours later he was readmitted for having a stroke. They say now that it was a stroke from the very beginning, but can we really discount my role? ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/davew0071-killed-alec-guinness/28368/6 "2000-08-07T03:12:36Z")
Hm. You make good points, obfusciatrist. You and Baglady are very recently married, right? You _did_ discuss these powers the two of you seem to have _before_ the wedding, right? And you guys are okay with this? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Milossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/davew0071-killed-alec-guinness/28368/7 "2000-08-07T03:13:33Z")
I always thought there was something a little shady about DaveW0071 … something that you couldn’t quite put your finger on. Thanks for killing Obi Wan, Dave. Why couldn’t you have taken out Jar-Jar or Anakin? ---
**Author:** ![Surgoshan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Surgoshan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surgoshan)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/davew0071-killed-alec-guinness/28368/8 "2000-08-07T04:16:52Z")
Yeah, kill someone we don’t like! Not OBI WAN! Jerk. ---
**Author:** ![Baglady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cab0a1/32.png) [@Baglady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baglady)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/davew0071-killed-alec-guinness/28368/9 "2000-08-07T04:24:06Z")
Persephone perceived: “You and Baglady are very recently married, right? You _did_ discuss these powers the two of you seem to have _before_ the wedding, right?” “Wondertwins powers, _activate!_ Shape of an [inflatable porta-potty](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=33620)! Form of… form of… aww sh\*t, I can’t think of anything!” _POOF!!_ ---
**Author:** ![Baglady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cab0a1/32.png) [@Baglady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baglady)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/davew0071-killed-alec-guinness/28368/10 "2000-08-07T04:26:08Z")
Surgoshan said, “Yeah, kill someone we don’t like! Not OBI WAN!” Jar-Jar Binks? ---
**Author:** ![Cabbage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@Cabbage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabbage)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/davew0071-killed-alec-guinness/28368/11 "2000-08-07T04:26:31Z")
Isn’t Jesse Helms dead? ---
**Author:** ![VaHermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ed655f/32.png) [@VaHermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VaHermit)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/davew0071-killed-alec-guinness/28368/12 "2000-08-07T04:33:56Z")
Dave, my sincere apology for sucker-punching you in the bar fight. It was an accident man, really. Let me buy the next round. ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/davew0071-killed-alec-guinness/28368/13 "2000-08-07T04:43:04Z")
AHEM! I think I made it very clear in the other thread that Baglady did not kill Jimmy Stewart, at least, not on her own–I HELPED!! ---
**Author:** ![steeljaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@steeljaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steeljaw)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/davew0071-killed-alec-guinness/28368/14 "2000-08-07T06:27:59Z")
all i can say is… **you bastard!!!** ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/davew0071-killed-alec-guinness/28368/15 "2000-08-07T06:43:26Z")
Wow, sounds like a lot of people were trying to kill Jimmy Stewart. Who knew he was so despised? But I am taking sole responsibility for Ford’s stroke (unless the Secret Service is reading this, in which case it was evilbeth). ---
**Author:** ![steeljaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@steeljaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steeljaw)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/davew0071-killed-alec-guinness/28368/16 "2000-08-07T06:50:23Z")
The CIA is probably relieved to hear you claim responsibilty. Now they don’t have to do any extra work to cover their asses. ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/davew0071-killed-alec-guinness/28368/17 "2000-08-07T07:36:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by obfusciatrist \* > \*\*Wow, sounds like a lot of people were trying to kill Jimmy Stewart. Who knew he was so despised? > > But I am taking sole responsibility for Ford’s stroke (unless the Secret Service is reading this, in which case it was evilbeth). \*\* Hey, don’t drag me into this Ford thing! I was busy plotting the deaths of all my people on my Celebrity Death Race 2000 ballot! Wait, that’s cheating…um, actually I was working on the Pepsi girl! ---
**Author:** ![steeljaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@steeljaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steeljaw)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/davew0071-killed-alec-guinness/28368/18 "2000-08-07T07:42:13Z")
I predict that Kenny will die in the next episode of South Park. I’m not just expressing a thought, here. I am downright telling you it will happen. Who has the power now? ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/davew0071-killed-alec-guinness/28368/19 "2000-08-07T14:42:08Z")
Alec Guinness, dead? And where was Dennis Price when this happened, eh? > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cabbage \* > \*\*Isn’t Jesse Helms dead? \*\* No, but he doesn’t look at all well. He’s an elderly gent, isn’t he? Certainly would be a shame if old Jesse keeled over, deader’n a doornail, ready to push up the daisies. _{I got the power, I got the power, I got the power…}_ Strom Thurmond, too. ---
**Author:** ![douglips](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@douglips](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/douglips)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/davew0071-killed-alec-guinness/28368/20 "2000-08-07T15:06:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ukulele Ike \* > **Alec Guinness, dead? And where was Dennis Price when this happened, eh?** I would have said ‘David Prowse’, but then you were going for a different effect. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/davew0071-killed-alec-guinness/28368.md?page=2)