# Gaddafi is dead, as Sirte falls to Libyan troops **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 20, 2011, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaddafi-is-dead-as-sirte-falls-to-libyan-troops/600237 "2011-10-20T12:30:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaddafi-is-dead-as-sirte-falls-to-libyan-troops/600237/61 "2011-10-21T00:10:31Z")
I’d personsally like to see a flight of F-14’s do a missing man formation over his funeral and burial. Declan ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaddafi-is-dead-as-sirte-falls-to-libyan-troops/600237/62 "2011-10-21T00:18:47Z")
> [@Declan](#): > > I’d personsally like to see a flight of F-14’s do a missing man formation over his funeral and burial. > > Declan Why? I rather admire him for getting his Wife away and staying to fight it out, but he was a bad guy. ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaddafi-is-dead-as-sirte-falls-to-libyan-troops/600237/63 "2011-10-21T00:27:39Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Why? > I rather admire him for getting his Wife away and staying to fight it out, but he was a bad guy. Of course he was a bad guy, the same bad guy in the eighties when he declared the gulf of sidra to be libya waters and proceded to enforce said decree, so a couple of Tomcats doing a freedom of navigation exercise came upon his benighted airforce and repurposed them for fish food. To me it would say we won, and somewhere up above , R Reagan is smiling. Declan ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaddafi-is-dead-as-sirte-falls-to-libyan-troops/600237/64 "2011-10-21T00:56:26Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > I think we should pause for a moment to recognize what a sad day this is for unlicensed plastic surgeons who don’t care where their money comes from. And makers of flamboyant military uniforms. ---
**Author:** ![RadicalPi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/radicalpi/32/9806_2.png) [@RadicalPi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadicalPi)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaddafi-is-dead-as-sirte-falls-to-libyan-troops/600237/65 "2011-10-21T01:16:12Z")
> [@yogsosoth](#): > > how are they going to spell his name on the tombstone? مُعَمَّر القَذَّافِي‎. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaddafi-is-dead-as-sirte-falls-to-libyan-troops/600237/66 "2011-10-21T01:21:39Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > And makers of flamboyant military uniforms. Perhaps the price will go down. Skald may be interested. ---
**Author:** ![ataraxy22](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ataraxy22/32/307_2.png) [@ataraxy22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ataraxy22)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaddafi-is-dead-as-sirte-falls-to-libyan-troops/600237/67 "2011-10-21T02:20:12Z")
Finally, O.J. doesn’t have to go after the real killers anymore ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaddafi-is-dead-as-sirte-falls-to-libyan-troops/600237/68 "2011-10-21T15:35:26Z")
“Moammar Gaddafi is No-mor Gadaffi.” - Craig Ferguson ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaddafi-is-dead-as-sirte-falls-to-libyan-troops/600237/69 "2011-10-21T19:29:15Z")
so help me, I read the thread title as “ **Gandalf is dead, as Shire falls …** ” and wondered why **Skald** had posted one of his hypotheticals in MPSIMS instead of Café Society, where it belongs… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaddafi-is-dead-as-sirte-falls-to-libyan-troops/600237.md?page=3)