RIP, famous person - Page 32

Gravdigr · 08-14-2014, 02:52 PM

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Originally Posted by zippyt

I have heard this befor , RIP Sir , you were one of the good ones

Great minds...

xoxoxoBruce · 08-14-2014, 03:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr

Great minds...

Or a couple of rednecks...

Gravdigr · 08-14-2014, 03:02 PM

Guilty.

Just smile when ya say it.

xoxoxoBruce · 08-14-2014, 03:10 PM

Yes master.

Gravdigr · 08-19-2014, 03:56 PM

Don Pardo, NBC announcer, SNL announcer for all but one year is dead at 96.

I remember him more the sign off at the end of each SNL. "This is Don Pardo speaking." And, after that, occasionally, you'd get the sly, just-a-little-drawn-out "Good niiiight".

Only two people ever had a lifetime contract w/NBC, Bob Hope, and Don Pardo.

Sheldonrs · 08-20-2014, 01:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr

...Only two people ever had a lifetime contract w/NBC, Bob Hope, and Don Pardo.

And they are both dead. Coincidence?

Spexxvet · 08-20-2014, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by lumberjim

Did 26 hours in the last 2 days.

Man, you are too busy to be depressed. My worst times are during down times. No pun intended.

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr

I am still of the mind that suicide is the ultimate act of selfishness.

Is it really any more selfish than divorce?

Gravdigr · 08-20-2014, 03:53 PM

By a damn sight, I'd say.

But, then, I've never been divorced.

Or married.

monster · 08-20-2014, 06:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Spexxvet

Is it really any more selfish than divorce?

Since when is divorce selfish? IME it generally brings relief to more than it brings distress.....

orthodoc · 08-20-2014, 10:33 PM

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Originally Posted by zippyt

I have heard this befor , RIP Sir , you were one of the good ones

You hit the nail on the head, zippyt. That quote about the famous clown Pagliacci is in every text on depression. Rightly so.

I can't comment more on suicide than I did in another thread ... all I know is that, sometimes, the compulsion is virtually irresistible. It's a horrible thing. I will never regard it as selfish, only as tragic.

orthodoc · 08-20-2014, 10:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Spexxvet

Is it really any more selfish than divorce?

Sometimes divorce saves lives. An abused spouse gets out before being killed, and may take the minor children so that they don't have to be subjected to further abuse or watch a parent's death. Is that selfish?

And how is it that you are comparing suicide with divorce as a function of selfishness? Do you not see either tragedy in any other way?

monster · 08-20-2014, 10:42 PM

Maybe his wife has filed and he thinks she's being selfish?

xoxoxoBruce · 08-21-2014, 02:20 AM

YMMV, your mileage may vary, when it comes to divorce... and most other of life's potholes.

DanaC · 08-21-2014, 05:48 AM

For some people, suicide is a deeply selfless act. If depression has convinced them that they are a burden on their family, that the world would be a better place without them in it. For some it is less a case of life is not worth living so much as they are not worthy of life; or that their death will bring peace or a lessening of trouble to thier family.

Depression does seriously weird things to a person's perceptions of the world and their place in it.

Suicide can be selfish - fear of the horror of a debilitating illness, inability to see a way forward from the point that they are at, the yawning howl of bleak nothingness opening up in front of them. That kind of tunnel vision that doesn't allow you to see to the side of you, but just straight ahead along a path that can only end one way. But we are all selfish at times- it comes from having a self.

Sundae · 08-21-2014, 06:58 AM

James Alexander Gordon.
Read the football scores for 40 years. I think most people in Britain over 30 heard his voice at least from time to time. And many of us (especially those with parents who did the Pools) heard him every week for our whole childhood.

His was a beautifully modulated voice, even in ordinary conversation. And his reading of the scores was a masterpiece of controlled oratory. In a time before mobile phones, satellite TV, immediate communication between cities even 20 miles apart he was so important. Even after all of those became the norm, people would press their radios to their ears, listen on their iPods, tune in on the radio in the coach on the way home just to hear the comforting sounds in his voice and the scores all across the country.

JAG RIP. A true gent and master of the airways.

08-14-2014, 03:02 PM	#468
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08-19-2014, 03:56 PM	#470
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	Don Pardo, NBC announcer, SNL announcer for all but one year is dead at 96. I remember him more the sign off at the end of each SNL. "This is Don Pardo speaking." And, after that, occasionally, you'd get the sly, just-a-little-drawn-out "Good niiiight". Only two people ever had a lifetime contract w/NBC, Bob Hope, and Don Pardo. __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

08-20-2014, 03:53 PM	#473
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	By a damn sight, I'd say. But, then, I've never been divorced. Or married. __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

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monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Maybe his wife has filed and he thinks she's being selfish? __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

08-21-2014, 02:20 AM	#478
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	YMMV, your mileage may vary, when it comes to divorce... and most other of life's potholes. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

08-21-2014, 06:58 AM	#480
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	James Alexander Gordon. Read the football scores for 40 years. I think most people in Britain over 30 heard his voice at least from time to time. And many of us (especially those with parents who did the Pools) heard him every week for our whole childhood. His was a beautifully modulated voice, even in ordinary conversation. And his reading of the scores was a masterpiece of controlled oratory. In a time before mobile phones, satellite TV, immediate communication between cities even 20 miles apart he was so important. Even after all of those became the norm, people would press their radios to their ears, listen on their iPods, tune in on the radio in the coach on the way home just to hear the comforting sounds in his voice and the scores all across the country. JAG RIP. A true gent and master of the airways.

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