Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread

[sancarlos]

I didn't necessarily agree with his politics, but the man was very witty and could turn a phrase.

When I was a youngster in college and had a subscription to National Lampoon, my buddy and I thought that John Hughes and P.J. O'Rourke were the two funniest writers on the planet.

[GoodKarma]

A little lazy on the obit…the “university” in Ohio is Miami. I usually bitch about people saying Miami-Ohio but they couldn’t be bothered to even name the school.

[EnochRoot]

A little lazy on the obit…the “university” in Ohio is Miami. I usually bitch about people saying Miami-Ohio but they couldn’t be bothered to even name the school.

The school should petition the IANA to release a top-level domain of .OH, so that they can claim miami.oh (they’re currently miamioh.edu).

[pruitt2]

“The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer and remove the crab grass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then get elected and prove it.”

Absolutely brilliant.

[pruitt2]

Hall of Famer Charley Taylor

When I started following the NFL, he was just about the best. When he retired he was the career leader in receptions.

[EnochRoot]

Mark Lanegan, 57.

Fuck man.

[brian]

Mark Lanegan, 57.

Fuck man.

Was just coming to post that. That sucks.

[mister d]

Curious if DiS is the same, but my first thought goes back to KEXP's morning DJ who always takes these hard and is already dealing with the death of his sister a week or two ago.

[P.D.X.]

Ah shit

[DaveInSeattle]

Curious if DiS is the same, but my first thought goes back to KEXP's morning DJ who always takes these hard and is already dealing with the death of his sister a week or two ago.

Yeah, I did have that thought.

Screaming Trees was a great band.

[sancarlos]

Gary Brooker. The distinctive voice of 60s/70s English rock band, Procol Harum. Particularly notable for A Whiter Shade of Pale.

[bfj]

Hall of Famer Charley Taylor

When I started following the NFL, he was just about the best. When he retired he was the career leader in receptions.

Nice man. Had a chance to meet him when I was working a resource table at an Independent League game in Southern MD. He was honored pre-game and was walking on the concourse and stopped at my table so he could sit down on one of my chairs. We talked for a few minutes about what the org I work for does in MD.

[rass]

Salty Dog was the one that always got me as a kid.

[pruitt2]

Oh... that is sad.

The version of this song is one of my 10 favourite songs of all time. I've loved this song for so, so long.

[rass]

That’s one of those songs where classic rock stations almost exclusively play the live version. And it sounds weird when they don’t.

[Johnnie]

[brian]

[sancarlos]

RIP Sally Kellerman. The original Hotlips Houlihan, in the movie version of MASH. It’s possible a youthful sancarlos emailed his brother with her in mind.

[govmentchedda]

[pruitt2]

Any woman who could smile after a love scene with Rodney was obviously a good actress!

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[The Sybian]

Any woman who could smile after a love scene with Rodney was obviously a good actress!

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Ken Burrough had a love scene with Rodney Dangerfield?

[rass]

Any woman who could smile after a love scene with Rodney was obviously a good actress!

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Ken Burrough had a love scene with Rodney Dangerfield?

He was Juliette Lewis' stunt double in Natural Born Killers.

[Steve of phpBB]

Dammit.

[rass]

Dammit.

That dude was a great bit.

My oldest recently binged New Girl and I really enjoyed half remembering that show through her. Hard being a responsible dad and trying to explain Nick Miller was your spirit animal for a couple of years there.

[A_B]

YOUTHS and their shows.

[mister d]

I'll have to check with my oldest who binged Gilmore Girls during the pandemic.

[rass]

She did that, too! Which was great because it finally got me to watch the Netflix revival episodes.

[mister d]

Fun fact: The grandmother is one of two celebrities my wife has come slightly too close to hitting with her car in the past decade. Both times she claims not her fault.

[The Sybian]

She did that, too! Which was great because it finally got me to watch the Netflix revival episodes.

Those revival episodes were unwatchable. My wife loved Gilmore Girls, and I like it. We tried to watch, I think we watched 1 and half episodes. I can't fathom how they made it so bad.

[mister d]

I didn't know anything about the original until the rewatches here but ... wasn't that pretty hard to watch too? Between the wholesome-ness and the "everyone is always clever" conversations, it wore me out.

[Giff]

[rass]

I didn't hate the GG revivals, but also hadn't watched the series since it ended and had definite gaps in my knowledge of who was who and what had happened so maybe I didn't get bugged by some things that I should have.

I didn't know anything about the original until the rewatches here but ... wasn't that pretty hard to watch too? Between the wholesome-ness and the "everyone is always clever" conversations, it wore me out.

The youngest has started watching Dawson's Creek (she picked up a Pacey crush watching The Might Ducks movies) and she was making fun of the way Dawson talks and I stopped myself from talking about how that show (and GG or Buffy) were considered almost revolutionary "back in the day" (ugh) for both how they portrayed teenagers and for the way the characters spoke (the heightened sarcasm and vocabulary level) and how that style of conversation has since become so commonplace that Marvel superheroes and even fucking Star Wars characters talk like that but stopped myself and mumbled "yeah he uses big words" or something.

[mister d]

"I don't want. Your life."

"What dad?"

[The Sybian]

I didn't know anything about the original until the rewatches here but ... wasn't that pretty hard to watch too? Between the wholesome-ness and the "everyone is always clever" conversations, it wore me out.

It's good in small doses, probably couldn't binge it, as they are a lot. We watched years ago when my wife recorded syndicated episodes, so I never watched it all the way through, more sporadic episodes. In a weird way, the grandmother reminds me a ton of my MiL. Replace the cold-distant wealthy proper society behavior with a cold distance brought on by extreme neurotic Jewish behavior. Really hard to explain, because they are so different, but only every scene with the grandmother led to me and my wife exchanging a knowing glance. Particularly the scenes where she henpecks and controls the grandfather.

[pruitt2]

My wife was so into the Gilmore Girls when it first ran.

Like nails on a chalkboard for me.

Then years later my daughter became obsessed with it and binged it a few times.

The nails only got longer and the chalkboard became drier.

[DaveInSeattle]

David Boggs, Co-Inventor of Ethernet, Dies at 71

Before becoming the dominant networking protocol, Ethernet was challenged by several other technologies. In the early 1980s, Mr. Metcalfe said, when Mr. Boggs took the stage at a California computing conference, at the San Jose Convention Center, to discuss the future of networking, a rival technologist questioned the mathematical theory behind Ethernet, telling Mr. Boggs that it would never work with large numbers of machines.

His response was unequivocal. “Seems Ethernet does not work in theory,” he said, “only in practice.”

[Steve of phpBB]

I didn't know anything about the original until the rewatches here but ... wasn't that pretty hard to watch too? Between the wholesome-ness and the "everyone is always clever" conversations, it wore me out.

It's good in small doses, probably couldn't binge it, as they are a lot. We watched years ago when my wife recorded syndicated episodes, so I never watched it all the way through, more sporadic episodes. In a weird way, the grandmother reminds me a ton of my MiL. Replace the cold-distant wealthy proper society behavior with a cold distance brought on by extreme neurotic Jewish behavior. Really hard to explain, because they are so different, but only every scene with the grandmother led to me and my wife exchanging a knowing glance. Particularly the scenes where she henpecks and controls the grandfather.

I really liked the show the first few seasons. Then Rory turned into a jerk, they brought in Logan, and they had to manufacture a breakup with Luke, and I had to skip a couple of seasons.

We watched the revivals, and it was fun in the "just like old times" sense, but I don't know how anyone could watch the revivals if they weren't already committed to the show. Rory is such a terrible, selfish, uncaring person in the revivals.

[Nonlinear FC]

I didn't know anything about the original until the rewatches here but ... wasn't that pretty hard to watch too? Between the wholesome-ness and the "everyone is always clever" conversations, it wore me out.

Yeah, I never watched the original run, and started watching with the wife a few months back... It's annoying AF. I get why it was popular, but I also don't feel it's worth the effort.

The Melissa McCarthy character is just super annoying.

[Reaper]

Frequent SVU guest and more recently Mare of Easttown and Marvelous Mrs. Maizel, Ned Eisenberg, 65, after a cancer battle.

[EnochRoot]

Frequent SVU guest and more recently Mare of Easttown and Marvelous Mrs. Maizel, Ned Eisenberg, 65, after a cancer battle.

He played the bad guy lawyer really well in the Law & Order franchise.

RIP