For all your Abe Vigoda needs.

August 4, 2004 2:30 PM

For up-to-the-minute Abe Vigoda status updates, visit AbeVigoda.com.
posted by UKnowForKids (33 comments total)

Because nothing stinks more than a dead Fish?
Yeah, boo, hiss, I know....

Dead or Alive says "he's been 80 years old for the last twenty years."
posted by fredosan at 2:36 PM on August 4, 2004

Great post.
posted by crazy finger at 2:44 PM on August 4, 2004

It'll be alot easier to maintain the site once he's dead though.
posted by Keith Talent at 2:51 PM on August 4, 2004

It's Tessio... it's the smart move.
posted by BirdD0g at 2:52 PM on August 4, 2004

I find the interface clunky and it doesn't validate. An outrage!
posted by KevinSkomsvold at 2:59 PM on August 4, 2004

interesting story about how some guy apparently set up his computer to check for updates to this site every five minutes for several months.
posted by donth at 3:07 PM on August 4, 2004

Man what a weird day on Mefi. There has to be something in the air or water. Radio signals maybe? Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzhwp.

Great post.

Seconded.
posted by Peter H at 3:09 PM on August 4, 2004

If there were a way to do the wave for an outstanding post, I would start one for this post.
posted by _sirmissalot_ at 3:14 PM on August 4, 2004

*sits next to _sirmissalot_ and waits*
posted by dobbs at 3:21 PM on August 4, 2004

Heeeeeelllllloooooooo, new home page!
posted by mkultra at 3:22 PM on August 4, 2004

Still thinking.
posted by _sirmissalot_ at 3:24 PM on August 4, 2004

Reminds me of how I kept ending weblog posts asking "Is Strom Thurmond dead yet???" for a few months.

Not that anyone wants Abe Vigoda to pass away, of course. Godfather, man, Godfather.

(on preview: I'm next to dobbs.)
posted by John Kenneth Fisher at 3:28 PM on August 4, 2004

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Now somebody else move it along.
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posted by John Kenneth Fisher at 3:33 PM on August 4, 2004

Amusing enough, I guess, but there are millions of people more deserving of this sort of treatment than Abe Vigoda.
posted by Zonker at 3:34 PM on August 4, 2004

name one.
posted by John Kenneth Fisher at 3:34 PM on August 4, 2004

maggie thatcher

would make things easier around here
posted by jmgorman at 3:43 PM on August 4, 2004

um. yeah? Well Name TWO! Ha!


(okay, I'm done now)
posted by John Kenneth Fisher at 3:47 PM on August 4, 2004

Is Mrs. Fish still around?
posted by amberglow at 3:50 PM on August 4, 2004

donth: great story! I know at my college, the admins were pretty alert and if somebody had downloaded even a GB of data from the site they would have been jumpy. But a TB?

Dayyyyum.
posted by escher at 3:58 PM on August 4, 2004

Ed Asner?

I wish no ill will on the man, but he is almost as old and certainly as cantankerous as Fish, eh?
posted by grabbingsand at 4:06 PM on August 4, 2004

Wilford Brimley, anyone?
posted by WolfDaddy at 4:35 PM on August 4, 2004

Less gossip, more wave!
posted by Pseudoephedrine at 5:06 PM on August 4, 2004

/////Dom DeLuise?//////
posted by amberglow at 5:57 PM on August 4, 2004

Crack me up

Thanks!
posted by Trik at 6:19 PM on August 4, 2004

I'm counting on Abe to get me right back into the action in my dead pool.

I remember an old episode of Michael Moore's TV Nation which instead of celebrating people that had died within the last year, to celebrate the old celebrities that didn't die in the last year.

Kirk Douglas.
posted by graventy at 6:52 PM on August 4, 2004

Wild Man Fischer
posted by jonmc at 7:24 PM on August 4, 2004

I met Abe once, when I was a young un. Saw him in a restaurant and asked him for his autograph. He graciously provided it. That is all.
posted by jester69 at 7:50 PM on August 4, 2004

I crave Dom DeLuise.
posted by Pretty_Generic at 7:59 PM on August 4, 2004

Who remembers the episode where they get the hash brownies? Phil Fish eats some brownies and goes out on a call. Time passes. A gentleman is brought in, wrists in handcuffs, tells Barney how he thought he had escaped when he jumped from one building roof to another across an alley but the old guy followed him, jumping over the alley, landing on the foor and cornering him.

Cool post.
posted by philfromhavelock at 8:45 PM on August 4, 2004

You wanted the best, Abe Vigoda?
You got the best!

sorry, I just got home from the KISS concert....
posted by spilon at 9:27 PM on August 4, 2004

Is Mrs. Fish still around?

Alas, no.
posted by Dreama at 9:51 PM on August 4, 2004

Nobody has mentioned the Bauhaus-inspired song that eventually loads with the page.

Maybe it's just in my head.
posted by psychoticreaction at 10:32 PM on August 4, 2004