Re: Famous person is dead. R.I.P. It doesn't waste any bandwidth or memory or computer processing to make separate threads. And separate threads are more meaningful because the title alone tells you if you need to read the thread, and the thread fades away as interest in that subject (especially in temporal events, such as a passing) fades away. Do you really have an interest in all obscure celebrities that die? Forever remembering each one from the time the thread started? Look at the horror that happened to the San Jose Earthquake forum which has falling into a morass of generalized threads. Is there some important news item that happened to the team or to a player? You can't tell until you take the time to read all the "official" threads, and when you do you find out it's mostly trivia. And there is a reason for the trivia - the very existence of that kind of thread creates a demand for people to fill it. People become a tool to the existence of the thread. It's not the job of BigSoccer posters to make a list of minor celebrities that die, to be mere impersonal re-printers of data. Instead, it is our pleasure to talk about a subject that interests some subset of the people that post here. To mull, to contemplate, to make points as human individuals. Make a thread title that draws in such a subset.
Re: Famous person is dead. R.I.P. A random personal attack. Nice. Well you suck, and the team you follow sucks. How's that. I don't think that'd be the case in this subforum. People don't tend to frivolously post here. The mods will have the final say, however. Maybe they'll lock it simply because they feel the [R] in the title is in bad taste.
RIP Liz Taylor Frankly, I think this thread can be a good complement to the regular RIP threads that come up. But then again, I've never been part of a forum that's been Goodsportized.
Elizabeth Taylor is the kind of individual who deserves her own thread... Unlike all the useless nobodys associated with rock music who get RIP threads that clog up the forum..
Liz Taylor was voted the #3 sexiest woman of the millenium in a poll from December 1999. Madonna and Marilyn Monroe were #s 1 and 2.
Monroe doesn't belong in the same breath as Elizabeth Taylor. MM couldn't act her way out of a wet paper bag and her singing voice was a monotonous drone.
Well, she was bigger back then. IIRC, the the top names were Ava Gardner, Rita Hayworth, Raquel Welch, Farrah Fawcett, Pamela Anderson, Cindy Crawford, Christie Brinkley and Jane Fonda. Memory's hazy tho. Who would you pick to be the top 10 or 20 sexiest women of the previous millenium? (A.D. 1000-2000)
Marilyn Monroe was right there at the top. She was a bigger sex symbol than all of the women you mentioned in your post. Monroe Mansfield Taylor Hayworth Tierney Gardner Anderson Welch Loren Zeta-Jones Even though I personally would rate Cardinale hotter than Loren
Back in High school, 1978, a girl I liked invited me over for apre-thanksgiving dinner pumpkin pie. Of course I went right over. When I got there she took me to the kitchen, where the clean up was going on, and introduced me to her Aunt Cheryl....Tiegs. So, she goes on my list.
Did you know she was famous at the time? I think it's time to start a thread where we can all compile a list of the 1000 sexiest women of the previous millenium. Hopefully someone else starts it, I'm swamped this week.
There's a picture of her hanging at my local bar taken with one of the regulars who's a retired FBI agent. They're both holding machine guns. It's pretty hawt.