The 10 Most Dead People of 2011
December 28, 2011 6:41 AM Subscribe
These people are so dead. So dead!
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....Bruce called Clarence "Big Man," not "Black Man."
I call shenanigans.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 6:46 AM on December 28, 2011
I call shenanigans.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 6:46 AM on December 28, 2011
They're just pining for the fjords.
posted by louche mustachio at 6:47 AM on December 28, 2011
posted by louche mustachio at 6:47 AM on December 28, 2011
So, it's like a thin, snarky end-of-the-year column that makes fun of so many golden calves? Is that the idea?
posted by Plutor at 6:49 AM on December 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by Plutor at 6:49 AM on December 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
I think the idea is nostalgia. Like, "Remember that time someone died, and we had an open thread for people to post dots in? Good times, good times."
posted by Wolfdog at 6:51 AM on December 28, 2011
posted by Wolfdog at 6:51 AM on December 28, 2011
You have to love an obit thread where the fpp link brings the disrespect and hate so we don't have to do it... saves us all a lot of trouble.
posted by tomswift at 6:53 AM on December 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by tomswift at 6:53 AM on December 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
I think you misunderstood. December's contest is for best post, not worst.
posted by jbickers at 6:54 AM on December 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by jbickers at 6:54 AM on December 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
Dang, I was working on my own post about this.
I'll just put it here:
News organizations from around the world are reporting on the death of Cheeta-Mike, the chimp who purportedly played Cheeta, the companion to Johnny Weissmuller’s Tarzan from the MGM and RKO film series of the 30s and 40s. If this is one of the original Cheetas, it would make Cheeta-Mike, at 80, the longest-lived captive chimp on record. But there’s reason to doubt he’s both that old and was in the films with Weissmuller. First, because this is significantly longer than chimps usually live, and second because this has happened once before.
posted by Toekneesan at 6:54 AM on December 28, 2011 [2 favorites]
I'll just put it here:
News organizations from around the world are reporting on the death of Cheeta-Mike, the chimp who purportedly played Cheeta, the companion to Johnny Weissmuller’s Tarzan from the MGM and RKO film series of the 30s and 40s. If this is one of the original Cheetas, it would make Cheeta-Mike, at 80, the longest-lived captive chimp on record. But there’s reason to doubt he’s both that old and was in the films with Weissmuller. First, because this is significantly longer than chimps usually live, and second because this has happened once before.
posted by Toekneesan at 6:54 AM on December 28, 2011 [2 favorites]
lol @ sweet release of death
posted by Sticherbeast at 6:55 AM on December 28, 2011
posted by Sticherbeast at 6:55 AM on December 28, 2011
“Just no more things,” reads the tombstone of Peter Falk, TV’s beloved detective Columbo. (Condolences to his wife, if she ever actually existed.)
I loled.
posted by DU at 6:57 AM on December 28, 2011
I loled.
posted by DU at 6:57 AM on December 28, 2011
Given that I don't think I'll ever go to America, it's unlikely I'm ever going to meet the person who wrote that blog face to face. However, Metafilter is a diverse community, so it's possible that someone reading this is going to. If you do - apparently the writer's name is Peter Lynn, if that's any help - could you do me a favour and slap him really, really hard. Thanks.
posted by Grangousier at 7:04 AM on December 28, 2011 [3 favorites]
posted by Grangousier at 7:04 AM on December 28, 2011 [3 favorites]
That pretty much sucked.
posted by jonmc at 7:05 AM on December 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by jonmc at 7:05 AM on December 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
If I have to try hard to figure out what the fuck that was all about...
posted by From Bklyn at 7:09 AM on December 28, 2011
posted by From Bklyn at 7:09 AM on December 28, 2011
That guy should get his own blog.
posted by cjorgensen at 7:10 AM on December 28, 2011
posted by cjorgensen at 7:10 AM on December 28, 2011
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