# Websites you know will react when a famous person dies

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-know-will-react-when-a-famous-person-dies/453101>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 16, 2008, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-know-will-react-when-a-famous-person-dies/453101 "2008-06-16T13:27:03Z")\
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**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 16, 2008, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-know-will-react-when-a-famous-person-dies/453101/1 "2008-06-16T13:27:03Z")

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In addition to this site, with a thread in Cafe Society, and a post in the Death Pool, what other sites will react when someone of note dies?

Besides the SDMB, the 100% example is the Westboro Church saying “so-and-so is in hell” because they didn’t spend every minute of their life screaming about how homosexuals should be killed.

I’ve seen some other interesting ones. A anti-aspatame board asked if Heather Ledger was killed by his diet soda habbit. Someone responded “Only if he used them to wash down the pills.” The “notmilk” site tends to cite a person’s milk habbit (the Pope?) as what “really” killed them.

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**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-know-will-react-when-a-famous-person-dies/453101/2 "2008-06-16T14:07:50Z")

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I shudder to think of the state of this place when Cecil kicks the bucket.

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**Author:** ![Lambo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lambo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lambo)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-know-will-react-when-a-famous-person-dies/453101/3 "2008-06-16T15:37:20Z")

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I think you’ll see some changes [here](http://www.abevigoda.com/) when Abe Vigoda dies.

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**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-know-will-react-when-a-famous-person-dies/453101/4 "2008-06-16T20:39:54Z")

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> **[Stiffs.com](https://stiffs.com/)**
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> The official home of The Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool

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**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-know-will-react-when-a-famous-person-dies/453101/5 "2008-06-16T21:48:05Z")

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Any amount of sites in the U.K. concerned with politics or with society in general will have a lot to say when Margaret Thatcher dies.

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**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-know-will-react-when-a-famous-person-dies/453101/6 "2008-06-17T03:05:08Z")

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[QUOTE=bbs2k]  
I shudder to think of the state of this place when Cecil kicks the bucket.  
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**beebs** - please get your rear over to the current MMP and let everyone know you’re alright, 'k?