TMZ has a picture of her taken Thursday night at a party and she looked like shit. Well, not that bad, but she looked drugged to the gills.
So glad I can say that here. Now whenever a celeb dies my thought is, “Who had him/her in the death pool?”
We definitely need a slow clap smilie, if only for this thread.
Charlie Spoonhour, who won nearly 400 games as a major-college basketball coach, died earlier this month at the age of 72. Spoonhour first gained fame at Southwest Missouri State University (now Missouri State) before moving on to St. Louis University and the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.
Damn! If he turns out to actually be dead, that would more than make up for me not having Whitney!
Unprecedented! I learned about the death of David Kelly from another thread. I don’t think it’s been mentioned in here yet.
I considered him for my 2012 list after watching Fawlty Towers, but decided on a bunch of healthy bastards instead.
No shit.
I said that in a friends facebook thread, his status asking if she had died. It turned into a 3 way instant message as the events first broke online.
We were debating [at the time] if it was rumor or fact. The third person was trying to determine the validity;
The first person, who took it the hardest, later responded;
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I later found out that a few newspapers had used my line Houston/Problem to discuss her history in rehab.
This Just In : Whitney Houston beats Bobby Brown to Death!
Yeah, this joke takes a beat to get. Groans abound after.
I heard someone remark that Michael Jackson had been the King of Pop, and now Whitney, the Queen of Pop, has died… I’m writing Prince down as a hot prospect for next year’s game!
No, save him for '15, since there was a 3 year gap 'tween King and Queen
Jill Kinmont Boothe, the skier whose life after a crippling injury was the basis for the film The Other Side of the Mountain, has died at the age of 75.
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Wow. What an amazing woman. I salute her at her passing.
An odd (well, it struck me as odd) factoid about celebrity mortality: arrange these celebs by their age at passing:
Whitney
Elvis
Michael Jackson
Answer:
Michael Jackson: 50, Whitney: 48, Elvis: 42.
I somehow picture Elvis as having being much older, more of a has-been, longer removed from his first fame.
If she’s who I think she is, she is the 1st victim of the “SI cover jinx”.
Freddie Solomon, the former Miami Dolphins and 49ers wide receiver who became known as “Fabulous Freddie” and committed himself to community service for decades, died Monday. He was 59.
Doing some googling, Jill Boothe was a “SI cover jinx” victim. This thread was the 4th result.
John Severin artist for Marvel, Mad, and Cracked with a 60 year career dead at 90.
Did anyone have Neil Hope, “Wheels” from DeGrassi High … in the 2007 Death Pool? It seems he died Nov. 25, 2007 and no one (in the media) noticed until now.
So, did anyone have him in the 2007 death pool? In any pool since and need to use an alternate?