RIP -- Consequential Person Has Passed Away

Thank you, next!

 

Maybe one day Bruce Tinsley (Mallard Fillmore) will follow him

EDIT: Yeah, that's guaranteed. What I mean is soon.

 

Excuse me, sir.

This is the “Consequential Person” thread.

 

I dunno, I'd be all for "pitch invasion" style celebrations on that POS' grave.

Isn't that "consequential" enough?

 

Sounds like an April fool's joke...

 

If Far Side was a 10 then Dilbert was a 2.

 

Fair but also it's a travesty to limit The Far Side to two digits on a 10-point scale

 

RIP Claudette Colvin 🙏….who at 15 defied bus segregation in Montgomery, AL 9 months before Rosa Parks pic.twitter.com/mYu3XH5f5e

— Wu Tang is for the Children (@WUTangKids) January 13, 2026

 

Gladys West, 95

 

Today, we mourn as we say farewell to Harry Stewart Jr., a legendary Tuskegee Airman and World War II fighter pilot, who passed away at the age of 100. With his final ascent, the world loses not only a hero, but a pioneer who dared to rise when the odds were stacked against him.… pic.twitter.com/Eka49yXMJA

— American Freedmen ✊🏿🇺🇸 (@RuRuFreedmen) January 20, 2026

whenever I read about, say, an Englishman who died in 1942, not knowing how the war would turn out, or someone like this hero, it makes me sad that they died wondering about the world they were leaving.

 

That's probably true for everyone that died.

 

People die when they die. If it was a ********ed up world when they died, they died in a ********ed up world. Using a Black hero's death to forward a childish position on the topic of discussing future atrocities doesn't make you any more knowledgeable about what conservatives will do when they get the reins of power. That issue was settled on November 5, 2024.

The reality is, none of us posting here will live to see the nation return to pre 2016 days, or if you wanna go there, pre-2008 days. You know good and well this man didn't have that kind of time. Frankly, I'm sad that he died after getting ********ed over twice

 

Calvin and Hobbes and Peanuts are incomparable.

 

I dig Far Side, but the one framers are day to day.
I actually kind of liked Dilbert. I didn't see anything in the strip that would have led me to his beliefs, but then I didn't read it daily.

Older Peanuts, especially. Around late 60s

Bloom County has made me spit coffee on more newspapers than any other comic strip ever, and his humor could make these end days a shitload easier to bear... but Berke won't come back.

 

If you read Dilbert without knowing the writer's politics, it can come across as tolerable workplace humor. If you read it when you know his politics, you can see that it's mean-spirited and punches down all the time. The stuff he was writing after Trump won the first time and he got exposed as a right winger (and before his strip got cancelled) was just bigoted crap.

 

"Pointy headed manager keeps pushing this DEI crap but I know that Black people and women want to get ahead solely on their own merits. I'm going to email Trump's EEOC"

 

Jesus H. Christ dude -- take a chill pill once in a while.

 

If you died in 1959 you died in a nation that thought it was about to be obliterated in a nuclear war.
If you died in 1969 you would have thought society had gone to hell, with hippies, drugs, conscription and dark skinned people demanding rights.
If you died in 1979 you were in the midst of an oil crisis, with massive inflation and Americans held overseas as hostages.
If you died in 1989, urban crime rates were close to record highs and cities going bankrupt.
If you died in 1999 the world was about to end due to the Y2K bug.

There's no good time to die, which incidentally is the title of the James Bond novel ChatGPT is writing for me.

 

Uncle Floyd was as Jersey as jughandles, Taylor ham, Springsteen & going down the shore in the summer. RIP funny man.

NEW JERSEY – Floyd Vivino, the New Jersey comedian, pianist and television personality best known as the star of The Uncle Floyd Show, has died at age 74, his family announced.

Vivino’s brother Jerry Vivino wrote the following in a Facebook post early Friday morning: “With a heavy heart I am sad to announce the passing of my brother and everybody’s favorite uncle, Floyd Vivino.”

The post continued: “After a two-and-a-half-year battle with ongoing health issues, his curtain peacefully closed at 6:05 p.m. on Thursday, January 22.”

https://www.jerseyshoreonline.com/ocean-county/uncle-floyd-iconic-new-jersey-tv-comedian-dies-at-74/

 

The sophomoric humor I grew up on

 

If you think those things compare to the Present Crisis, you don’t understand the Present Crisis.

The ignore list will make your life better. Trust me.

 

Two sidekick laughs that still crack me up. Loony Skip Rooney on Uncle Floyd and Jackie the Jokeman on Stern.