# People You're Amazed Are Still Alive! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 8, 2002, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-youre-amazed-are-still-alive/131404 "2002-10-08T18:24:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2002, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-youre-amazed-are-still-alive/131404/41 "2002-10-09T21:36:04Z")
Umm… [Shane MacGowan of the Pogues](http://www.shanemacgowan.com/pics/young.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![skot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@skot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skot)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2002, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-youre-amazed-are-still-alive/131404/42 "2002-10-09T21:45:38Z")
**eunoia** …I don’t know how he’s made it for this long with those “broken” ribs he keeps whining about… ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2002, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-youre-amazed-are-still-alive/131404/43 "2002-10-10T00:34:20Z")
Heston. Him and Bob Hope. ---
**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:** [October 10, 2002, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-youre-amazed-are-still-alive/131404/44 "2002-10-10T00:58:31Z")
Idi Amin ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2002, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-youre-amazed-are-still-alive/131404/45 "2002-10-10T01:17:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by UncleBeer \* > \*\* > Umm, well, uh, that **is** _milk_, right? \*\* I dunno, UncaB, but if ya view the painting again, looks like the sheep are keeping their distance… ---
**Author:** ![xcheopis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bc8723/32.png) [@xcheopis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xcheopis)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2002, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-youre-amazed-are-still-alive/131404/46 "2002-10-10T01:43:57Z")
Not a celebrity to most but for some of us… Back in the 1960’s and early 1970’s, my siblings and I used to go on nature walks with Mrs. Elizabeth Terwilliger. I always thought of her as being very, very, old and, by the time I was in my teens, long dead. Imagine my stunned reaction when I heard she was still alive and active. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2002, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-youre-amazed-are-still-alive/131404/47 "2002-10-10T02:12:07Z")
astro beat me to Shane MacGowan. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2002, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-youre-amazed-are-still-alive/131404/48 "2002-10-10T02:15:38Z")
Photographer, Nan Goldin. Look at her work and with the understanding that it represents her lifestyle (at least prior to rehab). Some of her “tribe” (the close knit group of friends), who are familiar from her photos, have died. She took self portraits of when she was beaten so badly by a boyfriend that she was almost blinded in one eye. For some reason (perhaps because I was influenced by the fictitious story of the invented photographer in _High Art_), I’d assumed she’d died. I was shocked to read that she was alive and working in New York. ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2002, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-youre-amazed-are-still-alive/131404/49 "2002-10-10T03:21:59Z")
Me. And in fact 7 others with whom I started kindergarden in 1927. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2002, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-youre-amazed-are-still-alive/131404/50 "2002-10-10T04:05:05Z")
[Dead People Server](http://www.dpsinfo.com/dps/) ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2002, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-youre-amazed-are-still-alive/131404/51 "2002-10-10T08:17:15Z")
Damn. Someone beat me already to Strom Thurmond. F\_X ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2002, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-youre-amazed-are-still-alive/131404/52 "2002-10-10T13:20:11Z")
Am I the first to say \*\*Karl Malden \*\*? I saw him in a stamp collecting advocate catalog where he is a spokesperson and thought, “geez, he looks awful.” ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2002, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-youre-amazed-are-still-alive/131404/53 "2002-10-10T17:20:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Shirley Ujest \* > **Fay Wray (DOB: 9.15.07) is still around.** Fay Wray surprised me just this past week, when I saw her do this funny little “letter to King Kong” thing on TCM. I thought she had died years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Ins\_Outs\_What-have-yous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8797f3/32.png) [@Ins\_Outs\_What-have-yous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ins_Outs_What-have-yous)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2002, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-youre-amazed-are-still-alive/131404/54 "2002-10-10T18:09:43Z")
Marlon Brando (b. 1924) - Folks who are that rotund usually don’t live to see their 78th birthday. ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2002, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-youre-amazed-are-still-alive/131404/55 "2002-10-11T02:48:02Z")
Betty Page Eli Wallach Richard Widmark Harry Morgan Archibald Cox Yvonne DeCarlo Kevin Seale - irritating MTV VJ, figured someone would have beat him to death by now. Same for Jesse Camp. Certain former SNL cast members who have fallen off the more visible professional radar. Like Terry Sweeney, Charles Rocket, or Denny Dillon. And a couple guys I knew in high school that other people had told me died. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-youre-amazed-are-still-alive/131404.md?page=2)