# Dopers' responses to news of celebrity deaths **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [May 23, 2013, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-responses-to-news-of-celebrity-deaths/659082 "2013-05-23T02:38:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-responses-to-news-of-celebrity-deaths/659082/1 "2013-05-23T02:38:39Z")
In [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16315519#post16315519) about Ray Manzarek’s passing, Dopers (including me) tripped over ourselves straining to tie his death in with Doors songs (“he broke on through”, “this is the end”, “the music is over, turn out the lights”, and “we loved him madly”). I responded by claiming dibs on referencing “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” when Dylan meets his maker. So, all, let’s save some time and have a little macabre fun coming up with suitable SDMB Cafe Society tie-ins for celebrities, past or present, that Dopers will come up with when said celebrities are tucked in for their dirt naps. A couple more examples: **Mick Jagger** - “I’m shattered” **Warren Beatty** - “I guess heaven couldn’t wait any longer” **Judy Garland** - “She’s gone over the rainbow” Whatta ya got? mmm ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-responses-to-news-of-celebrity-deaths/659082/2 "2013-05-23T06:05:16Z")
**Brian May** - “Another One Bites the Dust” **Dana Carvey** - “Who’ll be waiting for him in the next world? Oh, I don’t know, could it be… SATAN???” **Jenny McCarthy** - The Naked and the Dead ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-responses-to-news-of-celebrity-deaths/659082/3 "2013-05-23T10:36:57Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > **Judy Garland** - “She’s gone over the rainbow” > mmm She went over the rainbow in 1969. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-responses-to-news-of-celebrity-deaths/659082/4 "2013-05-23T10:47:57Z")
One for the UK Dopers: “So, **[Eddie Braben](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10071408/Eddie-Braben.html)**, what do you think of the afterlife so far?” “Rubbish!” ---
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-responses-to-news-of-celebrity-deaths/659082/5 "2013-05-23T11:01:20Z")
Dirt Nap Harry The Oprah Nook Club (like for a funerary urn - guess it loses something if you have to explain it huh) Tiger Deadwood ---
**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:** [May 23, 2013, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-responses-to-news-of-celebrity-deaths/659082/6 "2013-05-23T12:13:42Z")
I call a foul. This is cheating. The game is to hear of a celebrity’s death, quickly come up with a line and run to a computer to try and be the first to post in the Death Pool. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-responses-to-news-of-celebrity-deaths/659082/7 "2013-05-23T13:26:48Z")
> [@Crotalus](#): > > She went over the rainbow in 1969. From the OP: “past or present” She would be in the “past” category. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-responses-to-news-of-celebrity-deaths/659082/8 "2013-05-23T13:27:49Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I call a foul. This is cheating. The game is to hear of a celebrity’s death, quickly come up with a line and run to a computer to try and be the first to post in the Death Pool. So…uhmm…don’t play? ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-responses-to-news-of-celebrity-deaths/659082/9 "2013-05-23T13:36:40Z")
Dan Castellaneta: D’oh, d’oh, d’oh! ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-responses-to-news-of-celebrity-deaths/659082/10 "2013-05-23T13:37:33Z")
Pat Travers - Boom Boom, Out Go His Lights. Robert Plant - In His Time of Dying. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-responses-to-news-of-celebrity-deaths/659082/11 "2013-05-23T14:02:49Z")
**Jay Leno** - He Took It On The Chin **Sir Paul McCartney** - This Time For Sure! **Keith Richards** - We Can’t Be Sure, But… **Carol Burnett** - Seems We Just Get Started And Before You Know It, Comes The Time We Have To Say So Long ---
**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:** [May 23, 2013, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-responses-to-news-of-celebrity-deaths/659082/12 "2013-05-23T14:09:30Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > So…uhmm…don’t play? Foul! You’re on my list too mister! ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-responses-to-news-of-celebrity-deaths/659082/13 "2013-05-23T14:16:06Z")
**Patricia Routledge** - She Kicked the Bucket **Donald Trump** : God Says “You’re Fired” **Arnold Schwarzenegger** : You’re Terminated! **John Cleese** : He Is No More. He Has Ceased to Be. Bereft of Life, He Rests in Peace. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-responses-to-news-of-celebrity-deaths/659082/14 "2013-05-23T14:19:44Z")
**Patricia Routledge** - She Kicked the Bucket **Donald Trump** : God Says “You’re Fired” **Arnold Schwarzenegger** : You’re Terminated! **John Cleese** : He Is No More. He Has Ceased to Be. Bereft of Life, He Rests in Peace. **Catherine Bach** : Pushing Up Daisy Dukes **Allison Hannigan** : Ding Dong, the Witch Is Dead ---
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-responses-to-news-of-celebrity-deaths/659082/15 "2013-05-23T14:46:34Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Robert Plant - In His Time of Dying. Jimmy’s Last Page ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-responses-to-news-of-celebrity-deaths/659082/16 "2013-05-23T14:57:26Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > So…uhmm…don’t play? You have misspelled your signoff and put it in the wrong part of your post. I thought you should know. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-responses-to-news-of-celebrity-deaths/659082/17 "2013-05-23T14:57:44Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > **Arnold Schwarzenegger** : You’re Terminated! He won’t be back. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-responses-to-news-of-celebrity-deaths/659082/18 "2013-05-23T15:04:51Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > He won’t be back. It _was_ a tumah! ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-responses-to-news-of-celebrity-deaths/659082/19 "2013-05-23T16:12:34Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > **John Cleese** : He Is No More. He Has Ceased to Be. Bereft of Life, He Rests in Peace. I thought he was pining for the fjords. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-responses-to-news-of-celebrity-deaths/659082/20 "2013-05-23T16:13:39Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > You have misspelled your signoff and put it in the wrong part of your post. I thought you should know. Oh, but I’ve changed. Uber Happy Mister Mustard [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-responses-to-news-of-celebrity-deaths/659082.md?page=2)