# Sometimes you just have to laugh, or you can't go on... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 1, 1999, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-you-just-have-to-laugh-or-you-cant-go-on/10439 "1999-11-01T23:39:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 1999, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-you-just-have-to-laugh-or-you-cant-go-on/10439/1 "1999-11-01T23:39:00Z")
From Satan in the Walter Payton memorial thread: > [@](#): > > Only in his 40’s. Not fair at all. Fuck you, death! Take someone who deserves to die sometime, not the Payton’s and Payne Stewart’s of the world!! Leading me to wonder…who’s number three? Celebrities die in threes, you know. Shall we start a SDMB death pool? * * * _And I wonder when I sing along with you, if everything could ever feel this real forever, If anything could ever be this good again._ –Foo Fighters ---
**Author:** ![pricciar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@pricciar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pricciar)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 1999, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-you-just-have-to-laugh-or-you-cant-go-on/10439/2 "1999-11-01T23:42:00Z")
Well the Clown Prince of Baseball, Max Patkin, died this weekend. That would be three sports personalities. Then again, Wilt died just a few weeks ago. Maybe he was number one, and these two are two and three. Other than that, any player planning trips to Egypt? pat ---
**Author:** ![Frankie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/258eb7/32.png) [@Frankie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frankie)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 1999, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-you-just-have-to-laugh-or-you-cant-go-on/10439/3 "1999-11-02T00:18:00Z")
I have to vote for Wilt being the first (or the 40,000th)! -Frankie ---
**Author:** ![Sylence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b19c9b/32.png) [@Sylence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylence)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 1999, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-you-just-have-to-laugh-or-you-cant-go-on/10439/4 "1999-11-02T00:48:00Z")
Wilt Chamberlain and Walter Payton. . . two of THE best ever to play their respective games. . . basketball and football. . . . I’d have to say Max Patkin, just to include baseball. Unless some other baseball great is going to go soon. – Sylence * * * And now, for my next trick, I will talk in spooky half-references. ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 1999, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-you-just-have-to-laugh-or-you-cant-go-on/10439/5 "1999-11-02T06:40:00Z")
We now have five nominies - The baseball clown, Sweetness, Wilt the Stilt, athe golfer and the race car driver. If we are working in groups of three, we have one more to go, unfortunately… * * * Yer pal, Satan ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 1999, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-you-just-have-to-laugh-or-you-cant-go-on/10439/6 "1999-11-02T11:47:00Z")
Marge Schott. * * * **Dopeler effect:** The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly. ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 1999, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-you-just-have-to-laugh-or-you-cant-go-on/10439/7 "1999-11-02T13:18:00Z")
Marge Schott is dead!? ::stifiling a “Yippee”:: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 1999, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-you-just-have-to-laugh-or-you-cant-go-on/10439/8 "1999-11-02T14:54:00Z")
It doesn’t seem like Magic Johnson’s going anywhere fast.A good thing! ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 1999, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-you-just-have-to-laugh-or-you-cant-go-on/10439/9 "1999-11-03T02:41:00Z")
You’re forgetting the recent death of Catfish Hunter. ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 1999, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-you-just-have-to-laugh-or-you-cant-go-on/10439/10 "1999-11-03T15:44:00Z")
Didn’t forget it, vv, but it was long enough ago to disqualify it from this discussion, IMHO… * * * Yer pal, Satan ---
**Author:** ![Torgo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@Torgo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Torgo)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 1999, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-you-just-have-to-laugh-or-you-cant-go-on/10439/11 "1999-11-04T00:56:00Z")
The legendary Frand DeVol died after Stewart and before Payton. DeVol was a TV theme song composer best known for the themes to “Family Affair” and “The Brady Bunch.” He also played Happy Kyne on “Fernwood 2-Nite” back in the 70’s. There’s your third. * * * “My hovercraft is full of eels.” ---
**Author:** ![Torgo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@Torgo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Torgo)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 1999, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-you-just-have-to-laugh-or-you-cant-go-on/10439/12 "1999-11-04T00:57:00Z")
That should be Frank DeVol, not Frand.