# In which the current preponderance of Ronald Reagan threads is pitted **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 6, 2004, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-the-current-preponderance-of-ronald-reagan-threads-is-pitted/248926 "2004-06-06T06:42:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-the-current-preponderance-of-ronald-reagan-threads-is-pitted/248926/1 "2004-06-06T06:42:26Z")
At present, there are [more](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=260003) [threads](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=260028) [about](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=260051)[Ronald](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=260026) [Reagan’s](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=259965) [passing](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=256251) [on](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=260052) [the](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=260014) [front](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=260058) page than you can shake a stick at. No category is safe GQ, GD, even MPSIMS are choked with near-identically titled threads in which the exact same sentiments are espoused about a person who’s been as good as dead for years anyway. Is it THAT difficult to see if there’s already a Reagan thread before you start your own? “No time to check, i’ve got to be first!” Not that Reagan wasn’t very-well-liked by many people, but there’s such a thing as too much mourning. Oh… and since this is a Pit thread, fuck fuck fuck damn bastard assholes. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-the-current-preponderance-of-ronald-reagan-threads-is-pitted/248926/2 "2004-06-06T06:50:23Z")
In further news: President Ronald Reagan is still dead. ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-the-current-preponderance-of-ronald-reagan-threads-is-pitted/248926/3 "2004-06-06T07:01:49Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > At present, there are [more](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=260003) [threads](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=260028) [about](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=260051)[Ronald](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=260026) [Reagan’s](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=259965) [passing](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=256251) [on](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=260052) [the](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=260014) [front](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=260058) page than you can shake a stick at. No category is safe GQ, GD, even MPSIMS are choked with near-identically titled threads in which the exact same sentiments are espoused about a person who’s been as good as dead for years anyway. start your own?\*\*Is it THAT difficult to see if there’s already a Reagan thread before you \*\* “No time to check, i’ve got to be first!” Not that Reagan wasn’t very-well-liked by many people, but there’s such a thing as too much mourning. > > Oh… and since this is a Pit thread, fuck fuck fuck damn bastard assholes. 🙂 Ummm, you’re kind of pitting yourself here sweetcheeks. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-the-current-preponderance-of-ronald-reagan-threads-is-pitted/248926/4 "2004-06-06T07:05:27Z")
**Alessan** , I found myself using that line within hours of hearing the news… In related news, [the CNN headline about Reagan](http://www.cnn.com) keeps getting bigger! Now it’s **Remembering Reagan** What the fuck?? I have no idea why the headline continues to grow. Is the news getting more shocking by the hour? Is Reagan somehow MORE fucking dead? ---
**Author:** ![spectrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc29f/32.png) [@spectrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spectrum)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-the-current-preponderance-of-ronald-reagan-threads-is-pitted/248926/5 "2004-06-06T07:09:49Z")
God, by the time Reagan is finally buried, CNN will have to turn to science in order to create even bigger font sizes. Fonts so big that you can see them from space. ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-the-current-preponderance-of-ronald-reagan-threads-is-pitted/248926/6 "2004-06-06T07:17:37Z")
Start watching Fox News! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-the-current-preponderance-of-ronald-reagan-threads-is-pitted/248926/7 "2004-06-06T07:23:06Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > In further news: President Ronald Reagan is still dead. Seems like I’ve heard this somewhere before…hmm, I wonder where it…Oh, I know, it was \*Franco \* who was still dead! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-the-current-preponderance-of-ronald-reagan-threads-is-pitted/248926/8 "2004-06-06T07:39:24Z")
You know, this happens every time something unusually newsworthy happens. Threads pop up all over for a day or two or ten, then they die away, sometimes with help. It’s just the way things go around here. Not really worth getting worked up over, IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-the-current-preponderance-of-ronald-reagan-threads-is-pitted/248926/9 "2004-06-06T08:16:57Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > In further news: President Ronald Reagan is still dead. Actually I give Reagan’s family great credit for handling his decline closely. It’s not exactly analogous, but the prolonged decline of Spain’s Francisco Franco turned into an unavoidable media self-parody. The-news-outlets-of-the-day–even _before_ Fox–made such a to-do of the deathwatch they stepped all over their own manufactured suspense. “And now, breaking news!! Francisco Franco is _still dead_!” Sheesh. Veb ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-the-current-preponderance-of-ronald-reagan-threads-is-pitted/248926/10 "2004-06-06T09:33:28Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > You know, this happens every time something unusually newsworthy happens. Threads pop up all over for a day or two or ten, then they die away, sometimes with help. It’s just the way things go around here. Not really worth getting worked up over, IMHO. Eve summed it up pretty well. The board’s about to go down, so I’ll paraphrase as best I can: MPSIMS: “Uvula Gladwyne dead at 86” IMHO: “Would Uvula Gladwyne have been a star in the modern era?” GD: “Should Uvula Gladwyne have gotten a Lifetime Achievement Oscar, despite [controversial event]?” Cafe Society: “Uvula Gladwyne: A Life” Cafe Society 2: “Your favorite Uvula Gladwyne films” GQ: “How did Uvula Gladwyne die, exactly?” The Pit: “Uvula Gladwyne was a [epithet]” The Pit 2: “Uvula Gladwyne: The woman’s dead, stop picking on her!” The Pit 3: “Enough with the Uvula Gladwyne threads!” IOW, there’s often a lot more to be said about the recently deceased besides just the fact that they lived and died. There are a lot of angles from which to approach the subject. That’s why we have so many different fora: so we can specialize instead of lumping everything into one thread. (Shoot, didn’t make it.) ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-the-current-preponderance-of-ronald-reagan-threads-is-pitted/248926/11 "2004-06-06T09:53:07Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > Start watching Fox News! 😉 Actually, CNN, if anything, has been even more ebullient than Fox. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-the-current-preponderance-of-ronald-reagan-threads-is-pitted/248926/12 "2004-06-06T09:54:45Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Is it THAT difficult to see if there’s already a Reagan thread before you start your own? “No time to check, i’ve got to be first!” Hoisted by your own petard, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-the-current-preponderance-of-ronald-reagan-threads-is-pitted/248926/13 "2004-06-06T10:01:07Z")
Gang, I seriously doubt the irony is lost on **Smapti** … I hope. ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-the-current-preponderance-of-ronald-reagan-threads-is-pitted/248926/14 "2004-06-06T10:51:28Z")
Yeah, this media saturation reminds me of Bob Hope’s death last year – a whole lotta nothin’ coverage for a man who lived well past his life expectancy and hasn’t had an acting role in fifteen years. I kept checking the news periodically to see if _anything_ else happened yesterday, and apparently, nothing did. (Aside from Smarty Jones making his run to the glue factory.) ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-the-current-preponderance-of-ronald-reagan-threads-is-pitted/248926/15 "2004-06-06T10:59:31Z")
The worst part is flicking through the tv stations (Broadcast only, since I don’t get cable on the tv I was watching all day). Channel 2: helicopter view outside Reagan’s house. Channel 4: a slightly different helicopter view. Channel 5: “Man on the street” interviewing random people about Reagan. Channels 7, 11, 13: the CNN feed of a helicopter view over Reagan’s house. Channel 9: Person outside Reagan Library. Are they expecting somebody to get on the roof and start wailing? Are they expecting the entire house to slide aside and reveal a field of nuclear launch tubes as a final farewell to the reds in Russia? What the hell can you possibly learn from 300 feet above the building?! Go back to the studio while some intern digs up the Reagan death montage from whatever filing cabinet it’s in, but stop pretending that we need to see nothing happening as it doesn’t happen! ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-the-current-preponderance-of-ronald-reagan-threads-is-pitted/248926/16 "2004-06-06T12:40:21Z")
> [@BraheSilver](#): > > Are they expecting somebody to get on the roof and start wailing? Are they expecting the entire house to slide aside and reveal a field of nuclear launch tubes as a final farewell to the reds in Russia? What the hell can you possibly learn from 300 feet above the building?! Go back to the studio while some intern digs up the Reagan death montage from whatever filing cabinet it’s in, but stop pretending that we need to see nothing happening as it doesn’t happen! The media meme about Reagan is that everybody loves him. This is obviously incorrect – a considerable percentage of the American population despises him. But the meme is that everybody loves him, so we’re all going to have to sit through a ton of shit on radio, TV and in the papers before anybody gets around to saying, “Well yeah, he’s dead, but he really fucked up when he was President.” ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-the-current-preponderance-of-ronald-reagan-threads-is-pitted/248926/17 "2004-06-06T14:16:31Z")
> [@BraheSilver](#): > > The worst part is flicking through the tv stations (Broadcast only, since I don’t get cable on the tv I was watching all day). Channel 2: helicopter view outside Reagan’s house. Channel 4: a slightly different helicopter view. Channel 5: “Man on the street” interviewing random people about Reagan. Channels 7, 11, 13: the CNN feed of a helicopter view over Reagan’s house. Channel 9: Person outside Reagan Library. I was wondering about this. What exactly is the point of the helicopter view of the house? ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-the-current-preponderance-of-ronald-reagan-threads-is-pitted/248926/18 "2004-06-06T14:39:35Z")
Who the fuck is Ronald Reagan? OK, just kidding. My mama always said, if you can’t say anything nice about a person, don’t say anything at all. Hence my lack of contribution to the “Zed (Reagan’s) Dead!” threads so far. ---
**Author:** ![cheddarsnax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@cheddarsnax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cheddarsnax)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-the-current-preponderance-of-ronald-reagan-threads-is-pitted/248926/19 "2004-06-06T15:06:00Z")
> [@Evil Captor](#): > > But the meme is that everybody loves him, so we’re all going to have to sit through a ton of shit on radio, TV and in the papers before anybody gets around to saying, “Well yeah, he’s dead, but he really fucked up when he was President.” For what it’s worth, I was watching ABC’s coverage immediately following his death, and they did bring up criticisms of his policy, and mentioned specific numbers relating to national debt, etc. Then they showed him personally destroying the Berlin Wall. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_With_The_Golden_Gun)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-the-current-preponderance-of-ronald-reagan-threads-is-pitted/248926/20 "2004-06-06T15:10:36Z")
I’m just waiting to see if ol Phred will try to picket his funeral because he didn’t hate gays enough. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-the-current-preponderance-of-ronald-reagan-threads-is-pitted/248926.md?page=2)