Is it too soon to dump on Steve Irwin?

At least Marlon Perkins was sponsored by an insurance company. Hopefully he got his poor assistants a discounted rate.

When I walked in the door from work and my wife somberly told me about his death I yelled "Crikey!!!"
In my best uber-Aussie accent.

Sorry, couldn’t help it then, couldn’t now…

“Sorry, Jim, we couldn’t afford to get you Mutual of Omaha. You’re covered by Mutual of Cleveland, instead.”

That was 11 years ago. I was Steve Irwin for Halloween, that year. It’s never too soon to make fun of the dead.

Steve was a bit over the top. But he obviously cared deeply about animals and reptiles.

I’ve read that he pulled that Stringray barb out of his chest. That may have made it much worse. He might have survived if it had been carefully removed by a surgeon. Really don’t know for sure.

Gotta admit, that would be a way to go. Parked in some Indiana frontage waiting for the supercell to develop and out of nowhere WHAMMO. Chaser truck not hardened against ***this ***kind of hailstone. Be all over the news. You’d get a bill funding the asteroid collision watch named after you.

Stingray? Not so much.

“The JRDelrious Stingray Watch”

Literally zero.
mmm

Why should Steve Irwin have worn sunblock?

It would have protected him from harmful rays. Boom tish…

I first saw him in the hilarious FedEx commercial. He was so over the top that I assumed he was a character created, al la the Geico Cavemen, for the commercial. It wasn’t until much later I found he was a real person.

Steve Irwin was one of the very few celebrities without a persona. He was what he was.

When I heard he’d been killed by a “stingray” my first thought was “car accident.”

I don’t think the film has ever been released at Terry’s request. Where did you see it?

Too soon to dump on Steve Irwin? Anyone else remember Norm MacDonald on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart cracking jokes about his death like two days after it happened? Jon Stewart made a comment like, please don’t make me laugh about this right now.

How do you know this? To me he was faker than a fake thing that was fake, with a topping of extra fake. I’ve never met anyone IRL as over-the-top Gee Whiz Ocker as he was, and I find it hard to believe he didn’t ham it up for a US audience, as Terry would have told him to do.

I thought you meant the film Khartuom. :smack: I have no idea, really. It was on the news broadcasts at the time. Some of them. One of them. They must have yanked it out of circulation pretty fast. It’s a spectacular moment, if so very tragic. Searching around it seems it’s totally been buried. But I remember seeing it. I must be confusing it with that Sinbad movie Shazzam, that I totally saw. :cool:

It’s never too soon.

So much this. Russell Coight is more believable.

I’m still a little bit bummed on how he died. Still I could not help but to laugh at a comedian I once saw telling it from the point of view of the Animals.

Can’t find the video or the quote so paraphrasing wildly:

A Crock was basking on the sun when some commotion was taking place on the shore of the river.

Tasmanian Devils are chatting wildly, the crock asks: “Hey Taz, what is going on?”

On the distance one Devil replied excitedly: “We got Steve Irwin!”

“Get out!!”, said the Crock. “Who did get him? The Sharks? Tigers? A Gator? Hippo?”

The Devils replied…

“The Rays!!!”, said the Crock very annoyed…" Those Pussies?!?"

He seemed like a cool, fun loving guy. And he got to die the way he lived, with animals in his heart.

This has never been more appropriate.

smacks TGB with a wet trout