Write the generic SDMB obituary thread

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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  1. Celebrity dies.
  2. Doper rushes to keyboard, breathlessly says he/she just saw this on CNN, provides link.
  3. Inevitable second post: "Damn. :frowning: "
  4. “First X, then Y, now Z! All the great celebrities are dying this year!”
  5. Inevitable fourth post: "Damn. :frowning: "
  6. OP apologizes for bad link, posts correction.
  7. Walloon, in Irish wake mode, wants to raise a cheerful glass to toast deceased celebrity’s life and works; doesn’t post, can’t muster requisite gloom.
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Incidentally, Jerry Orbach died.

Damn. :frowning:

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Yes, so did Susan Sontag, Reggie White, Howard Keel, Renata Tabaldi, Terry Melcher, Yasser Arafat, Rodney Dangerfield, etc.

But this is the generic celebrity SDMB obituary. Gather ye now your SDMB clichés!

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  1. Someone posts snarky joke about one of the deceased’s more embarrassing or shameful moments.

9,10,11,12…n. everyone piles on joker.

n+1. mod closes thread. :smiley:

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Sorry Walloon. To get your thread back on track we can assume that someone starts a new thread, which opens with your posts 1-7.

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  1. Three consecutive threads are started; sometimes in the same forum. On those occasions:
  2. Start a pit rant.
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  1. Why the hell should I care? I’ve never even heard of dead celebrity!
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Jerry Orbach? Sumbitch. :frowning:

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  1. Posting of number of points earned in the SDMB Dead Pool by said passing.
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  1. Post telling the other posters that they “need to get some perspective,” as millions of anonymous souls die violent deaths across the globe on a daily basis and no threads are started about those people.

  2. Post telling poster #17 that they should go poop in someone else’s thread.

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  1. General display of sadness, even though I have no idea who the dead person is. Was.
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Damn :frowning:

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  1. Someone posting “Who the Fuck Was This Dead Person.” This would happen even if Dubya or the Pope died.
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  1. Post about an early 20th century film star, and gloats that they managed to pip Eve at the post.
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  1. “I thought <Celebrity X> was already dead!?”
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  1. He’s dead, Jim.

  2. Quotes #23, asks, “who’s Jim?”

  3. Quotes #24, adds, “At my gym, they charge for extra towells.”

  4. Fuck all of you! Someone died and you’re making jokes?!

  5. Someone needs a hug.

  6. [Mod hat on] Shut the fuck up, you goat felchers! This thread is locked [/MHO]

  7. [Other Mod Hat On] Who died and made you God? Thread reopened. [/OMHO]

  8. I hate it when mommy and daddy fight.

  9. Jeeze! What a downer thread, guys. I mean, who died, come on?!?!

  10. quotes #31 and below that quotes #1

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  1. “Ah, so they’re 1920’s style ‘Mod Fights’.”

  2. sacks previous poster for cliche

  3. sacks previous poster for Monty Python reference

  4. sacks previous poster because he has a few spare yards of burlap laying around

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37 - 45. Dopers relate stories about their encounters with Dead Celebrity.