RIP -- Consequential Person Has Passed Away

I'll always remember Hawking as the murderer of Albert Einstein:

 

He's gone beyond the event horizon-- but the Hawking radiation will be around indefinitely...

 

Who is a clever fellow.

Texas Republican mocks Stephen Hawking after his death — and gets obliterated by his colleagues
BOB BRIGHAM
A far-right legislator in Texas is under firing for trolling renowned physicist Stephen Hawking, who died at the age of 76 on Tuesday.

“Stephen Hawking now knows the truth about how the universe was actually made,” Rep. Briscoe Cain tweeted.

 

The red part. No matter how stupid he sounds with his seven-days noise, he's several leagues ahead of his voting base.

 

It's a sport. Neymar is 26, and probably a bit full of himself. If you expected more, you expected too much.
Who was it that said they wished they could be skinny like those poor people in whatever developing nation?

 

What the f#ck is that?

 

Looks like Ronaldo to me!

 

Or the answer to "who ate all the pies?"

 

It’s a sad day for dueling aficionados the world over.

Zell Miller has passed away.

 

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/26/us/linda-brown-dies/index.html

(CNN)Linda Brown, who as a little girl was at the center of the Brown v. Board of Education case that ended segregation in American schools, has died, a funeral home spokesman said.

Brown, 75, died Sunday afternoon in Topeka, Kansas, the spokesman said.
Brown was 9 years old in 1951 when her father, Oliver Brown, tried to enroll her at Sumner Elementary School, then an all-white school near her Topeka home. When the school blocked her enrollment her father sued the Topeka Board of Education. Four similar cases were combined with Brown's complaint and presented to the Supreme Court as Oliver L. Brown et al v. Board of Education of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, et al.

 

Dueling banjo aficionados, maybe

 

No one.

There was a quote attributed to Mariah Carey, but it never happened.

Of course, what gave the rumor legs was it was totally believable.

 

I don't recall that one. But I do remember this one from Babs Bush post-Katrina:

"Almost everyone I’ve talked to says, ‘We’re going to move to Houston.’ What I’m hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality.

And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this, this is working very well for them."

 

It's on Snopes:

“When I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can’t help but cry. I mean, I’d love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff.”

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/carey-on-starving/

 

Would be something if real. But the Babs Bush quote was definitely real. Being on cots in a crowded stadium was a step up for those N'awlins residents.

 

It’s definitely NOT real. But the funny thing is it was easy to believe it was.

 

Really any Kardashian and any number of famous bobbleheads. About as sympathetic as Karl Pilkington:

(NSFW)

 

Winnie Mandela has died. Her legacy...didn't age well. And it's mixed.

 

They named one of the Huxtable Grandchildren after her, so she had that going for her.

 

Oh Pooh!

 

Damn...

 

I just read his obituary in the Washington Post. It ended with:

"Naturally, Mr. Bell died on Friday the 13th."