The TUMBREL of MISSED OPPORTUNITY

Rob Lister · Post by **Rob Lister** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 10:22 am

Meh, Rush was just a warm fuzzball. I'm not a hater. One of his most notable themes was Caller Abortion. I'll leave it to the reader to google that.

He had a fucking black belt in Troll.

sparks · Post by **sparks** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 7:18 pm

He was an Oxycontin moron.

His peeps loved him to be sure, but they're all fucking morons of one stripe or another too.

Rob Lister · Post by **Rob Lister** » Fri Feb 19, 2021 1:30 am

sparks wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 7:18 pm He was an Oxycontin moron.

I don't judge that. I don't judge you for judging it though. It just means it hasn't happened to you.

Yet.

sparks · Post by **sparks** » Fri Feb 19, 2021 3:33 am

Perhaps. One the other hand, if I ever have the kind of chronic pain requiring that shit, I'll off myself.

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Fri Feb 19, 2021 8:13 am

The way oxycodone was promoted, pushed, marketed is a real crime.

I do not share the glee over his death, but I did not agree with much of anything he said. I think I, at most, listened to a total of an hour of him in all of his years. In a way, I found his addiction deliciously ironic, simply because it could, literally, even with "scare quotes," in the rain, happen to everyone.

Funnily enough, the one thing I remember him saying occurred during a long drive where the alternatives were "JESUS" and Wings music. Someone out of central casting for toothless sister-raper – not . . . that there is anything . . . no . . . wait! – called to ask him about various conspiracies. These include such now laughably silly as highway signs having secret codes to direct the UN tanks when they take over!

He admitted to the caller that his father had believed such, but he never could since he had to always wonder why "they" never actually took over. After decades of conspiracy theory – such as taking the time to mark highway signs! – "they" still could not take over.

The caller protested the usual "IS GOiNT GTO HAPPENS ANY MINUTES" and Rush moved on.

A surprising moment of critical thinking.

Shame that he did not apply it to other areas.

Nor did nor do his critics.

In the rain.

– J.D.

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Fri Feb 19, 2021 3:39 pm

Link:

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sat Feb 20, 2021 2:34 pm

"They call me 'MISTER Still Alive!'"

https://i.imgur.com/eYTtoDo.jpg

shemp · Post by **shemp** » Tue Feb 23, 2021 8:15 pm

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 101.

shemp · Post by **shemp** » Thu Feb 25, 2021 1:17 am

Fanne Foxe, ecdysiast, 84.

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Thu Feb 25, 2021 1:32 am

Aw nuts.

shemp · Post by **shemp** » Tue Mar 02, 2021 4:35 pm

Vernon Jordan, 85.

ed · Post by ed » Tue Mar 02, 2021 5:41 pm

shemp wrote: ↑Tue Mar 02, 2021 4:35 pm Vernon Jordan, 85.

Too bad. He was friends with Ed Ney Chairman of Y&R back in the day. Ed contributed to his efforts. Met him once, nice guy.

Fid · Post by **Fid** » Tue Mar 02, 2021 5:46 pm

Most folks have no idea who Vernon is/was. I feel honored to have shaken the hand of that big 'ole feller.

ed · Post by ed » Tue Mar 02, 2021 5:48 pm

Fid wrote: ↑Tue Mar 02, 2021 5:46 pm Most folks have no idea who Vernon is/was. I feel honored to have shaken the hand of that big 'ole feller.

I was going to say that he was footballer size :)
where did you meet him?

shemp · Post by **shemp** » Tue Mar 02, 2021 6:02 pm

Bunny Wailer, 73.

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Wed Mar 03, 2021 6:56 pm

Eddie

Link:

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sat Mar 06, 2021 12:37 pm

Mark Pavelich

https://apnews.com/article/winter-olymp ... 76a833e2ff

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sat Mar 06, 2021 7:33 pm

Michael Stanley, 72. Lung cancer.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertai ... 609926001/

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Mon Mar 08, 2021 1:30 am

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/07/97453402 ... osed-cover

Remembering Allan McDonald: He Refused To Approve Challenger Launch, Exposed Cover-Up

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Wed Mar 10, 2021 12:35 am

Link:

Rob Lister · Post by **Rob Lister** » Wed Mar 10, 2021 6:42 am

103? he looks barely 5.

eta: but there is an evil unevenous to his eyes. I think I get it.

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Wed Mar 10, 2021 10:40 pm

Joe Tait, local sports broadcasting legend. 83.

https://www.cleveland.com/cavs/2021/03/ ... pluto.html

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Fri Mar 12, 2021 2:15 am

Lou Ottens

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/10/97559886 ... e-has-died

shuize · Post by **shuize** » Sun Mar 14, 2021 12:58 am

Marvelous Marvin Hagler (66)

https://www.wdhn.com/sports/marvin-hagl ... ies-at-66/

shemp · Post by **shemp** » Sun Mar 14, 2021 2:27 am

Shit. :(

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Sun Mar 14, 2021 7:48 am

He kicked Sugar Ray's candied ass.

– J.D.

shemp · Post by **shemp** » Tue Mar 16, 2021 1:11 pm

Yaphet Kotto, 81.

ed · Post by ed » Tue Mar 16, 2021 1:27 pm

Funny how after a lifetime of acting, there is one role that is remembered.
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com ... f=1&nofb=1
RIP Yaphet

sparks · Post by **sparks** » Tue Mar 16, 2021 4:38 pm

Also in one of the Bond movies IIRC. But memory is fleeting, I could be wrong.

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Wed Mar 17, 2021 3:53 pm

Names are for gravestones!

– J.D.

shemp · Post by **shemp** » Wed Mar 17, 2021 9:44 pm

John Magufuli, 61, President of Tanzania. He denied that there was any Covid in Tanzania because the people had prayed it away. He was also an anti-vaxer and declared that Covid testing was worthless.

From Wikipedia:

A Kenyan newspaper reported on 10 March 2021 that "an African leader" was being treated for COVID-19 at a hospital in Nairobi, leading to speculation that it could be President Magufuli, who had not been seen in public since February. On the night of 17 March 2021, Tanzania's vice president, Samia Suluhu, announced Magufuli's death and attributed it to heart-related problems.

Of course he didn't die of Covid. Only the faithless die of Covid. :roll: :roll: :roll:

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Wed Mar 17, 2021 11:18 pm

As Sylvia Browne would have said, "He had a problem with his chest and with his breathing."

shuize · Post by **shuize** » Thu Mar 18, 2021 3:32 pm

Sabine Schmitz, former racing driver and Top Gear presenter (51)

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/ ... es-aged-51

shemp · Post by **shemp** » Thu Mar 18, 2021 11:58 pm

Ed Armbrister, 72. Cheating bastard who interfered with Carlton Fisk in Game 3 of the 1975 World Series. Umpire Larry "Blind-as-a-Bat" Barnett failed to make the proper call* thereby costing the Boston Red Sox the World Series, which also meant that my sainted mother went to her grave in 2003 never to see the end of The Curse of the Bambino.

* There is no evidence that Barnett was paid by the Mafia, Richard Nixon, George Steinbrenner and the North Koreans to fix the series, despite claims to the contrary by Doctor X.

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Fri Mar 19, 2021 6:26 am

In need to find his grave.

So I can urinate.

– J.D.

DJ · Post by DJ » Fri Mar 19, 2021 2:35 pm

That would be a kindness.

Where’s that poop emoji? Ah...

💩

ed · Post by ed » Fri Mar 19, 2021 2:54 pm

If you dig him up an re-bury him down here untold horrors will feast on his bones.

That is why wise Floridians get cremated.

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sun Mar 21, 2021 5:15 pm

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/20/97953975 ... dies-at-84

Glynn Lunney, NASA Flight Director With A Key Role In Saving Apollo 13, Dies At 84

shemp · Post by **shemp** » Tue Mar 23, 2021 12:05 am

Elgin Baylor, 86.

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Wed Mar 24, 2021 11:37 am

George Segal, 87, from bypass surgery complications.