# Obit Thread Suggestions **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 17, 2003, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obit-thread-suggestions/182338 "2003-06-17T00:05:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obit-thread-suggestions/182338/1 "2003-06-17T00:05:57Z")
. . . Just _suggestions_, mind you, I’m not a Moderator. But we had half-a-dozen Gregory Peck threads, and now three on Hume Cronyn. **1)** Make sure the thread title is explicit: “ **Katharine Hepburn Finally Died** ,” not “ **Whatshername’s kicked off**.” **2)** Show-biz people should probably go here in Cafe Society and not in MPSIMS. **3)** Check to make sure no one else has started one already–they tend to fall off Page One pretty quickly, so check back. Just a few tips, as I’ve done this myself–and as bad as I feel not to bring you a scoop, I feel even dumber when I realize I have started the 47th thread on Arlene Francis’ death . . . ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obit-thread-suggestions/182338/2 "2003-06-17T00:07:05Z")
Arlene Francis died??? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obit-thread-suggestions/182338/3 "2003-06-17T00:11:09Z")
Yup. Kitty Carlisle’s the only one left who Knows My Line. Kate Hepburn was just a ringer, though, she’s alive and . . . ummm, unwell, up in Connecticut. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obit-thread-suggestions/182338/4 "2003-06-17T00:12:28Z")
P.S. Hope you don’t mind a non-Mod (I’m a Rocker, myself) bustin’ in and making suggestions . . . ---
**Author:** ![Torgo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@Torgo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Torgo)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obit-thread-suggestions/182338/5 "2003-06-17T00:47:11Z")
\ I’m a mocker. \ ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obit-thread-suggestions/182338/6 "2003-06-17T13:31:23Z")
. . . Just wanted to bump this, as someone just started a _fourth_ Hume Cronyn thread . . . He’s neck and neck with Gregory Peck (hey, that rhymes!). ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obit-thread-suggestions/182338/7 "2003-06-17T13:41:13Z")
All fine suggestions, I’m just thrilled that I beat **Eve** to posting a show biz obit thread (and I didn’t see any other Hume Cronyn threads when I started mine, honest). ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obit-thread-suggestions/182338/8 "2003-06-17T14:51:10Z")
**Eve** , about point one, what if the person who died is a member of Monty Python? Since they had a great many gags about death (and even held a rollickingly funny funeral for Graham Chapman), it seems to me that a thread announcing the passing of one of these folks (and let’s hope it’s not soon!) should have a humours title like **He’s an Ex-Cleese!** or something. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obit-thread-suggestions/182338/9 "2003-06-17T15:06:12Z")
How about **He’s an Ex-Cleese (John Cleese, 1939–xxxx)**? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obit-thread-suggestions/182338/10 "2003-06-17T16:15:49Z")
\*\* Eve \*\*, for your sake I hope Katharine Hephurn doesn’t die anytime soon. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obit-thread-suggestions/182338/11 "2003-06-17T17:20:50Z")
> [@](#): > > How about He’s an Ex-Cleese (John Cleese, 1939–xxxx)? Dibs on **Idle Stalled Out** ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obit-thread-suggestions/182338/12 "2003-06-17T22:28:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > \*\*Yup. Kitty Carlisle’s the only one left who Knows My Line. > \*\* Wrong. Kitty Carlisle knows if you Tell the Truth or not. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2003, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obit-thread-suggestions/182338/13 "2003-06-30T11:59:13Z")
It’s all \*\* Eve’s \*\* fault. And when I heard the news and thought of this thread, I choke on my popcorn cakes! ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2003, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obit-thread-suggestions/182338/14 "2003-06-30T12:46:08Z")
_Hey!_ **Annie** , who actually _said_, " I hope Katharine Hephurn doesn’t die anytime soon?" Don’t try and put _my_ fingerprints on the gun! ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2003, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obit-thread-suggestions/182338/15 "2003-06-30T12:50:24Z")
Hey. I said “\*\* For Eve’s sake \*\* I hope Katharine Hepburn doesn’t die anytime soon.” You had the original post. And also one on David Brinkley. Someone else had Strom Thurman. We’re three for three this week. Now how’s about wishing death on Ossam or Saddam (or, two people I cannot stand, Woody Allen and Jerry Seinfeld). Maybe we should get the \*\* Eve \*\* Celebrity Deathwish thread going.