# Now Uncle Jed is dead.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-uncle-jed-is-dead/186865>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 7, 2003, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-uncle-jed-is-dead/186865 "2003-07-07T22:15:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![twit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@twit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twit)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2003, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-uncle-jed-is-dead/186865/1 "2003-07-07T22:15:53Z")

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Just saw on the news five minutes ago that Buddy Ebsen of Beverly Hillbillies fame has dies at the age of 95. Sorry for no link but just wanted to pass on the latest celebrity passing. ☹

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**Author:** ![twit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@twit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twit)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2003, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-uncle-jed-is-dead/186865/2 "2003-07-07T22:37:13Z")

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Got the link now…

[http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=638&ncid=762&e=1&u=/nm/20030707/en\_nm/people\_ebsen\_dc](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=638&ncid=762&e=1&u=/nm/20030707/en_nm/people_ebsen_dc)

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**Author:** ![hebesphenomegacorona](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@hebesphenomegacorona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hebesphenomegacorona)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2003, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-uncle-jed-is-dead/186865/3 "2003-07-07T22:46:23Z")

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I expect by the end of the year, there’ll be a story about a certain celebrity who hasn’t even been concieved yet dying.

By the end of five years, there’ll be a topic saying “J’lo Is alive today!”

By ten years, all the celebrities will be dead or flown off to a now unpopulated quasar to find a planet where they WON’T die.

And die anyways, getting eaten by the giant bugmen that were the original batch and flew off for the same reasons, creating a civilization that threatens to use earth as a soccer ball.

And the message won’t come back until 347569374657491365137964636764173264375634794657546375643976412376513475649585475675745340437567475713123675475476497423894831941903847567471347237847374637430438437463269736718774564878455121544787584552142754357564725694275647654725672465756465276524379636426574672659565497653742652956492754759752665477523465469239273423654492639649736472346595346536759635746547657496954923765743436574318403088784570781728710770011070874057274754768251938473878564571645465761961161236634963476754686582627657436374617651764376417642736491234934623743269742363472612 A.D  
Never mind that that’s definitely more time than the universe will last for.

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**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2003, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-uncle-jed-is-dead/186865/4 "2003-07-07T22:46:26Z")

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[Been there, done that.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=195872)