Famous person is dead. R.I.P. [R]

Discussion in 'Movies, TV and Music' started by That Phat Hat, Mar 16, 2011.

  1. spejic

    spejic Cautionary example

    Mar 1, 1999
    San Rafael, CA
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    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.
     
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  2. JeremyEritrea

    JeremyEritrea Member+

    Jun 29, 2006
    Takoma Park, MD
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Re: Famous person is dead. R.I.P.

    You're a waste of bandwidth
     
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  3. It's called FOOTBALL

    LMX Clubs
    Mexico
    May 4, 2009
    Chitown
    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.
     
  4. CHICO13

    CHICO13 Moderator
    Staff Member

    Oct 4, 2001
    SECTION 135
    Club:
    The Strongest La Paz
    Nat'l Team:
    Bolivia
    Re: Famous person is dead. R.I.P.

    the internet will crash that day
     
  5. The Biscuitman

    The Biscuitman Member+

    Jul 4, 2007
    Club:
    Reading FC
    RIP Loleatta Holloway
     
  6. NER_MCFC

    NER_MCFC Member

    May 23, 2001
    Cambridge, MA
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  7. Monarch Bay Beachbum

    Apr 5, 2004
    The OC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    This breaking news just in...
    Generalisimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
     
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  8. Matrim55

    Matrim55 Member+

    Aug 14, 2000
    Berkeley
    Club:
    Connecticut
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    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.
     
  9. Matt in the Hat

    Matt in the Hat Moderator
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    Sep 21, 2002
    Brooklyn
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    New York Red Bulls
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  10. riverplate

    riverplate Member+

    Jan 1, 2003
    Corona, Queens
    Club:
    CA River Plate
    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..
     
  11. It's called FOOTBALL

    LMX Clubs
    Mexico
    May 4, 2009
    Chitown
    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.
     
  12. Alberto

    Alberto Member+

    Feb 28, 2000
    Northern, New Jersey
    Club:
    New York Red Bulls
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Madonna does not belong in the same breath with Taylor and Monroe.
     
  13. riverplate

    riverplate Member+

    Jan 1, 2003
    Corona, Queens
    Club:
    CA River Plate
    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.
     
  14. Alberto

    Alberto Member+

    Feb 28, 2000
    Northern, New Jersey
    Club:
    New York Red Bulls
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    He cited sexy not talented in his post.
     
  15. It's called FOOTBALL

    LMX Clubs
    Mexico
    May 4, 2009
    Chitown
    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)
     
  16. Alberto

    Alberto Member+

    Feb 28, 2000
    Northern, New Jersey
    Club:
    New York Red Bulls
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    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
     
  17. HerthaBerwyn

    HerthaBerwyn Member+

    May 24, 2003
    Chicago
    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.
     
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  18. CHICO13

    CHICO13 Moderator
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    Oct 4, 2001
    SECTION 135
    Club:
    The Strongest La Paz
    Nat'l Team:
    Bolivia
    Dude!
     
  19. That Phat Hat

    That Phat Hat Member+

    Nov 14, 2002
    Just Barely Outside the Beltway
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Japan
    I thought for a moment Cheryl Tiegs passed away.

    But that's so Stacy's mom.
     
  20. sitruc

    sitruc Member+

    Jul 25, 2006
    Virginia
    Same. Since she's still alive. She could still get it from me.
     
  21. It's called FOOTBALL

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    Mexico
    May 4, 2009
    Chitown
    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.
     
  22. Matrim55

    Matrim55 Member+

    Aug 14, 2000
    Berkeley
    Club:
    Connecticut
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    LA Galaxy defense.

    RIP
     
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  23. Gittnbizzee

    Gittnbizzee Member+

    Dec 14, 2006
    LoCo Va
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    RIP Geraldine Ferraro.
     
  24. HerthaBerwyn

    HerthaBerwyn Member+

    May 24, 2003
    Chicago
    you betcha. She looked exactly like this. Shes not a makeup special.

    [​IMG]
     
  25. CHICO13

    CHICO13 Moderator
    Staff Member

    Oct 4, 2001
    SECTION 135
    Club:
    The Strongest La Paz
    Nat'l Team:
    Bolivia
    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. ;)
     

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