The Swamp

Bob Denver, aka Gilligan. Dead at 70.

http://www.today.com/id/9230080/ns/toda ... -dies-age/

Bummer. Gilligan's Island was on my TV a lot when I was Little Sabo.

But to be honest, I thought he died a few years ago.

I had a boss that used to call me Maynard G Krebs...

Course I was a bunch skinnier & had a little tiny chin goatee.

RIP. Kinda sad, I grew up on Gilligan's Island.

That link is from 2005.

RIP...loved Dobie Gillis. Wish that shit was on Netflix so I could go back and see just how much I don't like it today.

YEah, pretty sure he died some time ago.

At least Giff is doing OK.

bfj wrote:That link is from 2005.

I guess I was right!

bfj wrote:That link is from 2005.

Oh, dopey me. I did not notice that.

Who the fuck is Bob Denver?

still dead

As per Google, date of death was Sept. 02, 2005

OK, I'm officially curious....how did this story pop up on your screen HDO? Is the today show really promoting 7 year old links?

ZMan wrote:
OK, I'm officially curious....how did this story pop up on your screen HDO? Is the today show really promoting 7 year old links?

The internet runs slower the older you get.

ZMan wrote:As per Google, date of death was Sept. 02, 2005

OK, I'm officially curious....how did this story pop up on your screen HDO? Is the today show really promoting 7 year old links?

It popped up on my facebook feed today as well.

Rush2112 wrote:It popped up on my facebook feed today as well.

Did anyone really doubt that this was the origin?

Scottie wrote:

Rush2112 wrote:It popped up on my facebook feed today as well.

Did anyone really doubt that this was the origin?

No, but it's starnage that someone would initially post something from 2005 and that it would go (somewhat) viral.

Rush2112 wrote:No, but it's starnage that someone would initially post something from 2005 and that it would go (somewhat) viral.

What's starnage about it? Fuckface is, after all, ground zero for people passing around mistakes as facts. "Oh, look, a photograph of puppies sleeping in a pile and a quote from Bob Marley about unconditional love pasted over it that in reality Marley didn't remotely actually say! Please like this and share it with all of the other suckers in your Fuckface Address Book!" Happens millions of times every day on the world's largest computer virus.

Far more idiotic constructs have senselessly gone viral than the obituary of a relatively obscure television actor from a generation utterly unknown to the typical Fuckfacer. Although doubtlessly millions of college kids took two seconds to slacktivist up a "RIP actor guy that I think I heard of once and that my Dad might have heard of" and paste it on their account as if they've done actually something, without having bothered to learn anything. Just another super-sparkly Facefuck day!

I'm just waiting for another round of photoshopped pics from Back to the Future with OMG, today is the day Marty McFly traveled to in the future! Where is my hover skateboard?

Scottie wrote:
Far more idiotic constructs have senselessly gone viral than the obituary of a relatively obscure television actor from a generation utterly unknown to the typical Fuckfacer.

True. Though the people that posted such things, at least on my timeline, are those people who actually know who Bob Denver was (and actually one of them I've watched Gilligan's Island with countless times.) I remember the day that Mr. Denver died due to my going down the rabbit hole of Gilligan and Dobie Gillis videos, I'm surprised that others that have an affinity for the man's work would have remembered that as well.

I'm guessing it actually started via a wonky headline algorithm on some news site. Invariably, when I read an article about UVA basketball on the Charlottesville newspaper's website, one of the prominent "Other Popular Articles" links is a headline about a player who is transferring. I clicked once and it was a news story from 3-4 years ago. And it's always right there, alongside other stories actually from the last few days.

Shirley wrote:I'm guessing it actually started via a wonky headline algorithm on some news site. Invariably, when I read an article about UVA basketball on the Charlottesville newspaper's website, one of the prominent "Other Popular Articles" links is a headline about a player who is transferring. I clicked once and it was a news story from 3-4 years ago. And it's always right there, alongside other stories actually from the last few days.

Probably generating enough hits from you and about 12 other people who keep clicking on it to keep it afloat.

The Sybian wrote:

ZMan wrote:
OK, I'm officially curious....how did this story pop up on your screen HDO? Is the today show really promoting 7 year old links?

The internet runs slower the older you get.

Yes. OK. And I live in Greenville, OH. We don't even receive Monday Night Football until Tuesday.

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