# Morbid question: Is anybody else waiting for the other shoe to drop? \[Zsa Zsa Gabor\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 8, 2010, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-question-is-anybody-else-waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop-zsa-zsa-gabor/553053 "2010-09-08T14:46:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2010, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-question-is-anybody-else-waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop-zsa-zsa-gabor/553053/1 "2010-09-08T14:46:26Z")
Zsa Zsa? Ever since she was returned “unresponsive” to the hospital whenever it was, I keep expecting a “breaking news” flash on her finally getting to the other side. Can she make it past 9/11? ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2010, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-question-is-anybody-else-waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop-zsa-zsa-gabor/553053/2 "2010-09-08T19:16:46Z")
Actually, Yes. Go over to the “Game Room” and the Celebrity Death Pool 2010 thread for blow-by-blow accounts of illness/recovery/relapse news. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2010, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-question-is-anybody-else-waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop-zsa-zsa-gabor/553053/3 "2010-09-08T19:25:51Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Actually, Yes. Go over to the “Game Room” and the Celebrity Death Pool 2010 thread for blow-by-blow accounts of illness/recovery/relapse news. Yes. But I didn’t want to contaminate the seriousness of that thread with the idle observation that she’s approaching the same sort of fate that Gary Condit enjoyed: getting lost in the 9/11 news. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2010, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-question-is-anybody-else-waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop-zsa-zsa-gabor/553053/4 "2010-09-08T19:32:52Z")
I wasn’t aware that she was still alive, until this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2010, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-question-is-anybody-else-waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop-zsa-zsa-gabor/553053/5 "2010-09-08T19:36:17Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I wasn’t aware that she was still alive, until this thread. Don’t go holding your breath. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2010, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-question-is-anybody-else-waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop-zsa-zsa-gabor/553053/6 "2010-09-08T20:03:44Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Actually, Yes. Go over to the “Game Room” and the Celebrity Death Pool 2010 thread for blow-by-blow accounts of illness/recovery/relapse news. Okay. I broke down and tried to find the most recent ordeal’s starting point in that thread and it would appear to be [this one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=12697759&postcount=1371) > [@](#): > > 07-18-2010, 02:07 AM > Rico > Perfect Mister > Moderator Join Date: Mar 1999 > Location: Utah’s Dixie > Posts: 4,430 > > Zsa Zsa has begun to circle the drain. > > 93 years old. But she’s not dead YET! What is that? Fifty-two days? ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2010, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-question-is-anybody-else-waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop-zsa-zsa-gabor/553053/7 "2010-09-08T20:26:11Z")
Hmm- seems like she got in the Ariel Sharon, Fidel Castro, Ronnie Biggs and Lockerbie-bomber-guy line. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2010, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-question-is-anybody-else-waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop-zsa-zsa-gabor/553053/8 "2010-09-08T20:29:35Z")
I’m getting a Terri Schiavo vibe. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2010, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-question-is-anybody-else-waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop-zsa-zsa-gabor/553053/9 "2010-09-08T20:53:20Z")
I keep seeing duelling stories - one from her husband “She’s at death’s door!!!”, one from her daughter “She’s ok”. One from her husband “She’s unresponsive!!!”, one from her daughter “She’s resting comfortably and talking”. One from her husband “She’s having last rites!!!”, one from her daughter “She’s being discharged from hospital”. This article from September 2 says she’s [“not in a life-threatening situation”](http://tvnz.co.nz/entertainment-news/zsa-gabor-not-in-life-threatening-situation-3755165). ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2010, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-question-is-anybody-else-waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop-zsa-zsa-gabor/553053/10 "2010-09-08T20:59:50Z")
> [@Cazzle](#): > > I keep seeing duelling stories - one from her husband “She’s at death’s door!!!”, one from her daughter “She’s ok”. One from her husband “She’s unresponsive!!!”, one from her daughter “She’s resting comfortably and talking”. One from her husband “She’s having last rites!!!”, one from her daughter “She’s being discharged from hospital”. This article from September 2 says she’s [“not in a life-threatening situation”](http://tvnz.co.nz/entertainment-news/zsa-gabor-not-in-life-threatening-situation-3755165). Judging from the picture at that link, she’s in better shape than Larry King. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2010, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-question-is-anybody-else-waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop-zsa-zsa-gabor/553053/11 "2010-10-08T13:55:50Z")
Update: [http://www.inquisitr.com/87011/zsa-zsa-gabor’s-husband-sells-his-precious-duke-uniform-heirloom/](http://www.inquisitr.com/87011/zsa-zsa-gabor%e2%80%99s-husband-sells-his-precious-duke-uniform-heirloom/) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-question-is-anybody-else-waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop-zsa-zsa-gabor/553053/12 "2010-11-18T13:58:38Z")
I’m still pretty sure I’m going to see her name among the **TRENDING NOW** items at [http://www.yahoo.com/](http://www.yahoo.com/) every time I go there. It’s my “home page” even. I did see that the Dead Pool thread has been popping recently with speculation. What is it about Zsa Zsa so much? Her weird husband? I get the sense that there’s money involved there. Oh, well, I just had to bump this thread to see if others were as obsessed as I. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2011, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-question-is-anybody-else-waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop-zsa-zsa-gabor/553053/13 "2011-11-03T13:14:02Z")
I was looking back at year-ago threads I was involved in and spotted this one. I still find myself checking that “Trending Now” list on Yahoo!'s homepage for word on Zsa Zsa. Do you? Which person no longer breathing up our air was the latest to cause this much concern and curiosity? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2011, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-question-is-anybody-else-waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop-zsa-zsa-gabor/553053/14 "2011-11-03T13:32:18Z")
\*Poor \*Zsa Zsa. I love Gabors–I think they are a higher life form, one that has sadly and hideously devolved into Kardashians. After the last of the Gabors is gone, the world will go all black and white and lose its sparkle. And the poor woman has had a hellish decade: her mother and her sisters dying, one damn medical horror after another, that horrible “Preence” bleeding her for all the publicity he can get. (“I \*hay \*dot Preence.”) _Occupy Bel Air! Save Zsa Zsa!_ ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2011, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-question-is-anybody-else-waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop-zsa-zsa-gabor/553053/15 "2011-11-03T14:03:31Z")
She survived Porfirio Rubirosa; why can’t she cheat death? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2011, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-question-is-anybody-else-waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop-zsa-zsa-gabor/553053/16 "2011-11-03T14:11:20Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > She survived Porfirio Rubirosa; why can’t she cheat death? Great story: I was chatting with Kim Kendall, Kay’s sister (oh, I get around), and she told me, “I was having lunch once with Porfirio Rubirosa and Eva and Zsa Zsa Gabor.” [At this point I fainted dead away and had to be revived] “I don’t know \*what \*they saw in that man, he looked like a monkey.” Then Kim pauses and adds thoughtfully, “Perhaps he had charms that were not evident above the luncheon table.” ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2011, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-question-is-anybody-else-waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop-zsa-zsa-gabor/553053/17 "2011-11-03T14:23:06Z")
Ewwwww. I heard about the peppermills. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-question-is-anybody-else-waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop-zsa-zsa-gabor/553053/18 "2014-12-17T17:40:07Z")
This is a glorified bump! I was looking back at old threads and this one caught my eye because of how old it is. Your basic zombie. I looked up [Zsa Zsa Gabor Deathbed: Daughter Discusses Her Unhappy Condition](http://www.inquisitr.com/1669055/zsa-zsa-gabor-deathbed-daughter-discusses-her-unhappy-condition/) to see what (if anything major) had changed. I don’t play the Death Pool. How many have her? ---
**Author:** ![Fuzzy\_wuzzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a8b319/32.png) [@Fuzzy\_wuzzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuzzy_wuzzy)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-question-is-anybody-else-waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop-zsa-zsa-gabor/553053/19 "2014-12-17T18:06:46Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > This is a glorified bump! I was looking back at old threads and this one caught my eye because of how old it is. Your basic zombie. > > I looked up [Zsa Zsa Gabor Deathbed: Daughter Discusses Her Unhappy Condition - Inquisitr](http://www.inquisitr.com/1669055/zsa-zsa-gabor-deathbed-daughter-discusses-her-unhappy-condition/) to see what (if anything major) had changed. > > I don’t play the Death Pool. How many have her? I really hope the family did not sell that picture to a media outlet for publication. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-question-is-anybody-else-waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop-zsa-zsa-gabor/553053/20 "2014-12-17T21:18:33Z")
I love stuff like this. > [@](#): > > In the photographs obtained by Radar, Zsa Zsa is seen with an expressionless face and her eyes shut. As if she were, you know, _ **asleep.** _ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-question-is-anybody-else-waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop-zsa-zsa-gabor/553053.md?page=2)