wlu_lax6 wrote:Albert Brooks (Simpsons, Marlin from Finding Nemo, etc) is the professoinal name for Albert Lawrence Einstein. His brother is Bob Einstein who most people know as Super Dave Osborne or Marty Funkhouser.
Albert Brooks did a hell of a lot more than that!
He was going to be the permanent host of Saturday Night Live!
In June 1972, King was an ex–FBI agent working as a security aide for the Committee to Re-Elect the President, or CREEP, Nixon’s campaign arm. His duty on the week of the break-in was to protect—and keep a close eye on—Martha Mitchell, the talkative wife of Nixon’s campaign director, former Attorney General John Mitchell, while the Mitchells were on a campaign swing in California.
Martha Mitchell, an outspoken Arkansan dubbed “the Mouth of the South” in press reports, had been complaining vaguely to anyone who would listen about campaign operatives carrying out “dirty tricks” against the Democrats. So when she learned that James McCord, the security director of CREEP, was among those arrested at the Watergate—and described by her husband to the press as a private security contractor who was “not operating either on our behalf or with our consent”—she called a favorite reporter, United Press International’s Helen Thomas.Enter King, who “rushed into her bedroom, threw her back across the bed, and ripped the telephone out of the wall,” wrote veteran Washington reporter Winzola McLendon in her 1979 biography of Martha Mitchell, to whom she was close. “The conversation ended abruptly when it appeared someone took away the phone from her hand,” Thomas reported. “She was heard to say, ‘You just get away.’”
Johnnie wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2018 9:44 pm
Kirk Douglas is alive and is 101.
But, oh man, he looks very dead.
I say this now, but I promise I'll mean it just as much when I'm 90, but I have no interest in living much past about 90 at least not based on what I've seen about what living past 90 looks like.
Johnnie wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2018 9:44 pm
Kirk Douglas is alive and is 101.
But, oh man, he looks very dead.
I say this now, but I promise I'll mean it just as much when I'm 90, but I have no interest in living much past about 90 at least not based on what I've seen about what living past 90 looks like.
Isn't Stan Lee still doing ok?
There's also a federal judge here who turned 90 last year. He seems to be loving life. Or, at least he seems to love ruining mine.
And his one problem is he didn’t go to Russia that night because he had extracurricular activities, and they froze to death.
Johnnie wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2018 9:44 pm
Kirk Douglas is alive and is 101.
But, oh man, he looks very dead.
I say this now, but I promise I'll mean it just as much when I'm 90, but I have no interest in living much past about 90 at least not based on what I've seen about what living past 90 looks like.
Isn't Stan Lee still doing ok?
There's also a federal judge here who turned 90 last year. He seems to be loving life. Or, at least he seems to love ruining mine.
Yeah, there are exceptions and 45 years from now presumably there will be advances in medicine which might not make it as onerous, but as it stands I'd be pretty much OK with dropping dead in the middle of the night around age 85.
I don't want to be shitting myself and pissing myself and have to rely on people to take care of me, but as long as I can get around and am with it mentally, that's OK. I don't need to be running marathons at 85 or anything, but I don't want to be chairbound or any of that nonsense.
L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2018 3:55 pm
Fuck that. As long as my mind is relatively intact and lucid, I want to spend as much time alive as possible.
My worst case scenario is my mind being ok and my body failing. Give me super alzheimers over ALS every damn day, son.
Opposite. I'd rather daughters remember my mind continuing to work until then end rather than having to watch their dad turn into someone who doesn't even recognize them.
well this is gonna be someone's new signature - bronto
Oh nooooooo way. My grandmother had alzheimers/dementia and while that definitely sucked, there's no way watching her body fail around her active brain would have been better for us, let alone her. All that Steve Gleason shit scares the hell out of me.
Johnnie wrote: ↑Sat Sep 10, 2022 8:13 pmOh shit, you just reminded me about toilet paper.
I've seen it both. Grandmother had dementia and that was rough. Good friend of the family had ALS. Very hard to see this larger than life man slowly deteriorate. I choose neither option, but if I had to I guess it would be the mind.
To quote both Bruce Prichard and Tony Schiavone, "Fuck Duff Meltzer."
I'd choose whichever one had the quickest route from healthy-to-dead. Long lingering deaths are so hard on everybody. (And, can wipe out one's savings.)
With the caveat that someone is caring for the elderly to some extent: mind ok/body fail is worse for the individual; mind fail/body ok is worse for everyone else.
"Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair or fucking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back." -Al Swearengen
Johnnie wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2018 9:44 pm
Kirk Douglas is alive and is 101.
But, oh man, he looks very dead.
I say this now, but I promise I'll mean it just as much when I'm 90, but I have no interest in living much past about 90 at least not based on what I've seen about what living past 90 looks like.
My Great Uncle made it to 101, and he was in great shape until the last few months. Never lost his wit, or his mind. I think the last 15 years or so were his happiest, but that is because his wife died. Man, was she a world class ball buster. My wife's Great Aunt was in great shape until 93. Smoked like a chimney, too. She never lost her mental faculties, other than her filter. That woman did not give a fuck!
An honest to God cult of personality - formed around a failed steak salesman.
-Pruitt
Johnnie wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2018 9:44 pm
Kirk Douglas is alive and is 101.
But, oh man, he looks very dead.
I say this now, but I promise I'll mean it just as much when I'm 90, but I have no interest in living much past about 90 at least not based on what I've seen about what living past 90 looks like.
My Great Uncle made it to 101, and he was in great shape until the last few months. Never lost his wit, or his mind. I think the last 15 years or so were his happiest, but that is because his wife died. Man, was she a world class ball buster. My wife's Great Aunt was in great shape until 93. Smoked like a chimney, too. She never lost her mental faculties, other than her filter. That woman did not give a fuck!
Sounds like Sybian will likely be the last Swamper to die. Turn out the lights when you leave, ok?
Johnnie wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2018 9:44 pm
Kirk Douglas is alive and is 101.
But, oh man, he looks very dead.
I say this now, but I promise I'll mean it just as much when I'm 90, but I have no interest in living much past about 90 at least not based on what I've seen about what living past 90 looks like.
My Great Uncle made it to 101, and he was in great shape until the last few months. Never lost his wit, or his mind. I think the last 15 years or so were his happiest, but that is because his wife died. Man, was she a world class ball buster. My wife's Great Aunt was in great shape until 93. Smoked like a chimney, too. She never lost her mental faculties, other than her filter. That woman did not give a fuck!
Sounds like Sybian will likely be the last Swamper to die. Turn out the lights when you leave, ok?
Naw, my Father's Uncle by marriage. My grandfather died of a heart attack at 55. My mother's side has some crazy longevity, but my father's side is riddled with heart disease, cancer, diabetes... and that was just my Grandmother.
An honest to God cult of personality - formed around a failed steak salesman.
-Pruitt
is Steve McQueen's only son, Chad. Chad's son Chase played non-league soccer in the UK and now is back in the US playing the NPSL (for the Oxnard Guerreros FC)
Bronto posted about driving from KC to Oklahoma City to see an NBA game, and it got me thinking about how odd it is that such a small-time burg has a major sports franchise. I knew Green Bay has a team because they were there at the small-time origin of the NFL. But, I when I looked up the relative size of US media markets, I was surprised to learn that five US markets that have teams in the NFL, MLB, NBA or NHL, are smaller than Oklahoma City.
Thats is shocking, even counting both cities as one market, I wouldn't have guessed it was that larger. I really can't believe New Orleans is only #50, thought it was much bigger than that.
An honest to God cult of personality - formed around a failed steak salesman.
-Pruitt
