So - Whose passing has been uglier here at DU?

[RPM]

Ms. Branigan's

-OR-


Ms. Smith's

btw - this photo of ANS is by far the most tasteful i could find.

On edit - no - the red X was not a joke - new photo...

[MrScorpio]

1. All I see is a red X

Anything better

[Mojambo]

2. No Steve Irwin? n/t

[RPM]

3. how soon i forget

don't want to do three anyway - not without polling rights.

[Radio_Lady]

34. Terri Schiavo?

[Jamastiene]

55. By far the ugliest I've seen it yet. n/t

[Shell Beau]

4. I must have missed Ms. Branigan's.

Jeez...

[RPM]

6. it was ugly

very not nice things were said.

must have been right before you showed up - you've been here a while.

[Shell Beau]

9. I guess so.

I don't know much about her. Were people pissed then too that some care when a celeb dies?

[RPM]

11. I think it started when someone called her B-list

Like being in Detroit at Twelfth Street and Clairmont in the Summer of '67.

All downhill from there.

[MrScorpio]

5. Branigan

That was much worse

[jonnyblitz]

7. I can't figure how i missed that one.

i just must have not clicked on those threads. :D :hi:

[MrScorpio]

8. Hey, Dude!

How are ya doing?

[jonnyblitz]

22. I am fine, leading a quiet uneventful (by choice) life at the

moment. i hope you are hanging in there. :D

[Radio_Lady]

39. Oh, southeastern Connecticut. I'm trying to think what city that might be.

I drove from Boston, MA to Stamford, CT many times... working as a regional representative for Bristol-Myers Squibb (Clairol division). We had meetings and training sessions that I attended from 1983 to 1992. One weekend, my husband and I visited in NYC, and we took the old Boston Post Road back to Sudbury, Massachusetts where we lived for 28 years.

My former manager still lives in Darien, CT, and of course, the posh people live in Greenwich! I always think of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward when that city is mentioned. (People who hear me on the radio said I sounded like Joanne.) Greenwich has the prettiest main street.

Good night and good luck, Jonny!

Another Grandmother for Peace

Radio_Lady in Oregon

[jonnyblitz]

42. I am near the casinos, the norwich/new london area.

greenwich is were i park the car to take the metro north train into Manhattan because i don't like driving in the city. I don't think where i catch the train is the main street though.

[Radio_Lady]

50. Yes. Now it all comes back to me. You work in NYC? I worked all over the city when I lived there

decades ago. I hated to drive there even then. Our address was 201 E. 28th Street (at Third Avenue) in the "Chesapeake." My now-deceased ex-husband and I were tenants from 1963-1969, when we moved to Florida, and later divorced.

I worked at NBC, 30 Rockefeller Center, with the Johnny Carson staff long ago when the "Tonight" show was produced and taped in New York.

What kind of work do you do? (It's OK if you don't want to converse here... I'm just a curious talk show lady!)

Here's a photo of me when we visited NYC last June. This was taken in front of the Museum of Television and Radio off Sixth Avenue in the 50s.



Radio Lady listens...

[jonnyblitz]

53. no i don't. nt

[Radio_Lady]

52. DU cookie confusion... sorry... dupe deleted...

[Generic Brad]

29. What in the world whipped people up over Laura Brannigan?

She was not a controversial personality that I was aware of.

[JVS]

32. I believe someone called her a "one hit wonder"

[bicentennial_baby]

10. C'mon, don't leave Mother Teresa out, or

good ol Ronnie Raygun

[RPM]

12. Reagan's death was a joy

Few things have made JVS happier.

Few things have made me happier.

Growing up in 1980s Pittsburgh will do that to you, though.

[idgiehkt]

14. or during the AIDS crisis

I'll never forgive Reagan for what he did not do during that time.

[bicentennial_baby]

17. That's nice for you

I really didn't give a whit about his death, but, I do find it in poor taste to publicly declare joy over someone's death on the internets before the corpse is cold, regardless...Hated Raygun, hated Mother T, etc...But, if I feel some joy about their deaths, I keep it to myself, that's all.

[RPM]

20. Hated Mother T?

I was ambivalent towards her, but interested in hearing why she was hatable.

No judgement on your position - just curious.

PM me if you dont want to open that one here.

Thanks!

[JVS]

38. Christopher Hitchens wrote some stuff, which can serve as a good intro to MT hatred

http://www.slate.com/id/2090083/

http://www.lipmagazine.org/articles/featpostel_56_p.htm

[jonnyblitz]

44. check these links out. mother theresa was highly overrated

http://macintyre.com/content/view/533/105/

http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=shields_18_1

[Shell Beau]

25. Thankyou! We all dislike people, but I still don't rejoice at their death!

[JVS]

33. I felt so betrayed though that you and mom didn't tell me on the day it happened...

and I only found out the next day. I was busy, but you could have let me know!

[Shell Beau]

13. And on that note, people were ugly when the pope died.

[bicentennial_baby]

15. true dat

:)

[RPM]

16. yeah - but he was A-list

no arguing whether the death of the head of a major religion is newsworthy.

i think the B-listy-ness of it all is the driver in these cases.

even Croc hunter wasnt an issue on that front.

[Shell Beau]

21. You are correct! She said Mother Theresa and that just

reminded me of the pope. But I certainly expected it with the pope!

[JVS]

35. One could say that Reagan was A-list and doesn't count either

But then again if a president has been out of office for a long time, I guess his ranking goes down a bit. Speaking of which, Gerald Ford's death seemed to cause a lot of people to remember a lot of outrage that that had been nowhere near the surface for a long long time.

[Midlodemocrat]

18. All of this pales in comparison to the passing of .....

THE POPE!!!

Yowza...

[RPM]

19. see 16

he's A-list

[Evoman]

23. Ha...in a place where even Molly Ivins grave is pissed on.....you ain't seen nothing yet.

[Left Is Write]

26. What?!

[JVS]

37. There was a Nader-Ivins connection

Nader is like angry death TNT.

When he dies, this board is going to enter Apocalypse-Mode

[Rabrrrrrr]

24. I think the Pope's and that criminal evil shitbag Reagan's

I was stunned at Reagan's death at all the assholes who felt that shitting and pissing on his grave was somehow "innapropriate". It was a fucking sad day for DU, that was.

[Shell Beau]

28. Even if we hated Reagan, it isn't appropriate.

We all leave behind loved ones. At least out of respect for that, we should hold back on ugly negative comments.

[L A Woman]

27. since I have been a member here...

and we are talking less than a year...Patsy Ramsey...Steve Irwin...Anna Nicole (and actually Anna Nicole was attacked on DU after the death of her son, as well), seems like there are many more I am not remembering here....

[Shell Beau]

30. A different approach to this subject, but

Terry Schaivo's death was pretty ugly! Not because of her, but you know it was controversy.

[Radio_Lady]

41. Agreed with you after I posted at #34. And, of course, there was Monica Lewinsky, but that was...

before the DU, but that was not a murder -- another one was the US representative from California who purportedly murdered that other woman intern, but it was never proved. They found her remains but never got to the bottom of it. I can't remember their names.

Wall to wall coverage of those people for months and months.

[Shell Beau]

43. Chandra Levy?

Is that who you are talking about?

[Radio_Lady]

49. Yes. That's the woman. How soon I forgot... but it may be the aging process.

And there was Rep. Gary????

I keep thinking about Gary Hart, but that just shows how old I am...

[regnaD kciN]

60. Condit?

:shrug:

[LostInAnomie]

31. Steve Irwin by far.

Reagen and the Pope caught a lot of shit, but deservedly so. Irwin on the other hand did a lot of great things and was called lambasted without mercy by quite a few DUers.

I was disgusted for about one whole week.

*edit - What did people have against Laura Brannigan?

[JVS]

36. Gerald Ford caused some people to really lose it

[Seabiscuit]

40. Whoever just passed that gas... that was DAYAM ugly!

[Danger Mouse]

45. Molly Ivins. No question. It wasn't very many DUers, but there were enough shitting on her...

to make my head explode.
Like someone else said, the day Nader dies, GD will like...enter a hate-crazed orgy and self-destruct or something.
I think Molly Ivins' death was the ugliest because honestly, of all the people mentioned, I'd imagine that she'd be the one that would be LEAST likely to cause DUer's to enter hate-kill-defecate-on-grave-mode.
Guess I was wrong.
Gerald Ford's death was pretty ugly too.
Heard people on GD were calling Anna Nicole Smith a whore. That's pretty fucking low, too.
So...my question is...how much LOWER can GD go?

[Shell Beau]

46. Ha! I don't want to know the answer to that question.

[Danger Mouse]

47. We'll find out when Ralph Nader dies. Then we'll see ugliness

of the sort that'll rival Free Republic.

[JVS]

48. Some day the kid who played Corky on "Life goes on" is going to die.

There will be an ugly showdown in which sane people must fight to try to end the war between those who make fun of him for having Down Syndrome, those who are FUCKING OUTRAGED TO THE POINT OF HAVING STROKES by their insensitivity, and a third group that lambasts him as some kind of Uncle Tom of retardation who also hasn't done nearly enough to give back to his community.

[Danger Mouse]

51. Pretty much anytime someone famous dies for some reason...

it'll cause an explosion of hate and outrage on GD :P

[RPM]

63. he's alive?

I thought he died in a horrible power-tool accident.

I must be thinking of someone else.

[Jamastiene]

56. I didn't see that, but I'm kinda glad I didn't.

I think there is a troupe of people around here who just love to totally diss any celebrity death discussion. It makes them think they are cool, when really they are just being rude. It's pretty disgusting.

[Pushed To The Left]

54. The worst has been when any conservative has passed away

As much as I hate the ideology of conservatism, the way these deaths were treated here really disturbed me.

[Hardrada]

57. Milton Friedman. When he cashed in his chips

There was universal joy on DU!!

[zonkers]

58. Barbaro's got pretty heated.

[LSK]

59. gotta go with the Pope

[regnaD kciN]

61. Rush Limbaugh...

Granted, he's still alive, but I'm sure that, when the time comes, DUers will disregard the adage to not speak ill of the dead.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

62. I don't seek joy from death

However I and many other British socialists will find it difficult to not be cheered by the eventual death of Mrs Thatcher.

[Little Wing]

64. James Kim. I'd never known that GD was actually full of big, burly, manly, bushmen

who eat snakes and live off the land!

[TK421]

65. No Ken Lay?

I remember that one vividly...and what the hell was with the Laura Branigan piss-fest?

[LSK]

66. but he didnt die, hes on fantasy island with Elvis

:tinfoilhat: