The All Purpose 'Celebrity Death' Thread

1 for 5. Not bad.

Elvis still dead.

Mikey Go WOOGA wrote:

1 for 5. Not bad.

Didn't strike me as a Kriss Kross fan, Mikey.

I can totally see Mikey walkin' around with his trousers on backwards.

This one's a bit late, but...

Divinyls lead singer Chrissy Amphlett loses her battle with breast cancer at 53

Mr.Doobie wrote:

I didn't even know the guy had been in a coma for the last 5 years until now.

Just now saw this. I met him once, and he was super nice. :<

Dr. Joyce Brothers, long-time media personality and ur-example of mass-media psychology (long before guys like Dr. Phil and Dr. Drew poisoned the well) dies at 85.

Chuck Muncie, star running back for New Orleans and San Diego in the 1980s, dead at 60

NASCAR fan favorite (And Keith Olbermann's go-to on-air joke) Dick Trickle, dead of an apparent self-inflicted wound. He was 71.

Freezer wrote:

NASCAR fan favorite (And Keith Olbermann's go-to on-air joke) Dick Trickle, dead of an apparent self-inflicted wound. He was 71.

I read that as Dick Tickle.

Mikey Go WOOGA wrote:

Freezer wrote:

NASCAR fan favorite (And Keith Olbermann's go-to on-air joke) Dick Trickle, dead of an apparent self-inflicted wound. He was 71.

I read that as Dick Tickle.

Is that much worse (or better)?

Freezer wrote:

Mikey Go WOOGA wrote:

Freezer wrote:

NASCAR fan favorite (And Keith Olbermann's go-to on-air joke) Dick Trickle, dead of an apparent self-inflicted wound. He was 71.

I read that as Dick Tickle.

Is that much worse (or better)?

I have to question why he didn't go by Richard.

Former Aussie First Lady Hazel Hawke dies at 83 from medical complications.

Jean Stapleton (Edith Bunker) has passed away due to natural causes: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

King Bee wrote:

Jean Stapleton (Edith Bunker) has passed away due to natural causes: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

...I thought she died decades ago.

AP reports Deacon Jones dead at 74

*pours one out for the original sackmaster*

Bollywood actress Jiah Khan dead at 25, hanging: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

Esther Williams, star of many of the aqua musicals of the 1940s and 1950s, dies at 91.

Proof that these aren't always bad news: "Night Stalker" Richard Ramirez is dead at 53.

One that only old-school rasslin' fans will feel:  Memphis legend Jackie Fargo dies of heart failure at 85.

Freezer wrote:

One that only old-school rasslin' fans will feel:  Memphis legend Jackie Fargo dies of heart failure at 85.

The news here is that a pro wrestler lived to be 80.

Mikey Go WOOGA wrote:

Freezer wrote:

One that only old-school rasslin' fans will feel:  Memphis legend Jackie Fargo dies of heart failure at 85.

The news here is that a pro wrestler lived to be 80.

Fargo was from the pre-Hulkamania era. The schedule was less rigorous, the matches less physically demanding and the only pharmaceutical enhancements most wrestlers used were pain killers. Plenty of old codgers like him still around.

Bad day for Memphis: Blues legend Bobby "Blue" Bland dies at 83.