# Don Rickles RIP

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-rickles-rip/783907>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 6, 2017, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-rickles-rip/783907 "2017-04-06T18:16:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2017, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-rickles-rip/783907/1 "2017-04-06T18:16:19Z")

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I just saw a news alert that Don Rickles has died.

I only ever knew him from The Tonight show, “ya hockey puck!”

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**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2017, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-rickles-rip/783907/2 "2017-04-06T18:30:10Z")

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Looks like a simulpost with Johnny L.A.s post [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=823378).

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**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:** [April 6, 2017, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-rickles-rip/783907/3 "2017-04-06T18:34:34Z")

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> [@Leaffan](#):
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> Looks like a simulpost with Johnny L.A.s post [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=823378).

Yeah-What a putz.

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**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:** [April 6, 2017, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-rickles-rip/783907/4 "2017-04-06T18:52:28Z")

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I loved him as “Manny Bergman” in _Innocent Blood_, one of my favorite vampire movies.

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**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-rickles-rip/783907/5 "2017-04-07T15:37:21Z")

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With a much longer thread in CS where this would belong, I’m closing this.