Rev. Billy Graham had passed away.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/evangelist-billy-graham-dies-99/story?id=53241650

Actually first heard on Joe Madison's show and the only links were tweets from local news stations in the south... It finally hit the M$M.

The asshole lived too damn long.

right? If not that was a horrible thing to say.

of that episode of Rosanne where sister Jackie tries to tell her hard-to hear aunt by phone that her Father had "passed away", "was gone", "was lost", then finally, loudly, "Dad'S DEAD!!!!!" -- dark humor, I know, but it really resonated with me, who had to make those awful calls repeatedly to some relatives who were so centered on themselves they took forever to get the message.

I loved the part where Jackie is in the funeral home looking at the casket catalog and tells the funeral director that she's "in a very bad place right now so I'm liable to buy anything you put in front of me. But I'm just as liable to pull out a gun and blow your head off if I think you're trying to take advantage of me. So I'd play me very carefully."

It's weird that some of the best sitcom episodes were about death:
Mary Tyler Moore: Chuckle the Clown's funeral
Bob Newhart: Mr. Gianelli's death
Maude: the brooch in the coffin

etc...

Why is "death" so able to produce humor? I think it is the tension release...

I will never forget the very hot summer day when I and about 8 other cousins and Uncle were piled into a car in a very rural area coming back from the graveside service for my late Grandmother. When my cousin suggested we stop for a "coke" as he drove near a little Mom and Pop store in the middle of nowhere, you could feel the relief from all his sweaty riders. Then as we drove the 20 or so miles back, after taking our first sip we unexpectedly and in near unison let out a unconscious, reflexive "ahhh"...

Maybe you had to be there, but to this day, it has all my remaining living relatives there last day just cracking up at the memory...

Lest I forget to say, we all really DID love my Grandmother....

She had a young nurse on the ward from some Southern town, and the nurse was giving the overnight to the doctor who was just coming on shift.

She said a certain patient had "passed".

"Passed what? Passed urine? Passed stool? What?"

"She passed...she passed on. She passed away."

"You mean she died?"

"Yes..."

Then say 'she died'! This isn't East Cornpone, or wherever you're from. Use medical terminology."

I think that would make a good scene in a TV medical drama. Euphemisms don't cut it down in the trenches.

a decent person.

R.I.P.

Damn allergies.

Pollen has been bad here recently.

Billy Graham was treated like a saint. He was highly respected. Politicians vied for his attention. He seemed to be conscious of not mixing politics with religion. His time with Nixon probably did not help his reputation. But, even today, he was like an icon from my youth.

And I cannot say I'm sorry he's gone.

Billy Graham was left sputtering when he was busted on the Nixon White House tapes railing against Jews. . . .

Link to tweet

The GREAT Billrond Gramms is deads. There was nobody likes him! He will be missed by Elfs and all magickers. Sméagol began to pretends he was Elfangelical when he wons the Precious.

10:40 AM - Feb 21, 2018

that the word "great" does not always imply "good"

And, unfortunately, he passed on his conman ways to his children.

I don't know if Billy had any reigns on his son or not.
If he did, they have come off.

...Billy Graham is dead. Good.” -- paraphrasing the late Bette Davis.

Fuck him and his son.