RIP Leslie Nielsen

[Dick Whitman]

Shared on my news feed today. One of the best.

Leslie Nielsen, comic actor and Airplane! star, dies - BBC News

 

[poindexter]

Surely you can't be serious.

 

[LongTimeListener]

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Went the difficult route from straight man hero to comic hero. One of the funniest. RIP.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Surely you can't be serious.

Unfortunately, it appears to be true. BBC reporting.

 

[Huggy]

His brother was a onetime deputy prime minister of Canada...RIP to one of the greats.

 

[cyclingwriter2]

Dead five years...

 

[LongTimeListener]

Dead five years...

That makes it even more tragic.

 

[Steak Snabler]

 

[Jake_Taylor]

First Sid Vicious 37 years ago, and now this.

 

[TyWebb]

I don't even know which **** this is.

 

[Big Circus]

It isn't even ****, though. This **** seems to bubble up on Facebook in weird ways. I think Norman Schwartzkopf was the last one I saw. What is it that makes this happen?

 

[Steak Snabler]

Joe Cocker is making the rounds again, too.

 

[Chef2]

Forgot that Nielsen had been gone that long.......

 

[TyWebb]

It isn't even ****, though. This **** seems to bubble up on Facebook in weird ways. I think Norman Schwartzkopf was the last one I saw. What is it that makes this happen?

People refuse to read the date below the headline that is more than five years old.

If "Oblivious ****" is really a thing, which I doubt it is, then it is my second-favorite **** behind "I'm Not Fat ****."

 

[LongTimeListener]

All things considered, I would prefer more of ****'s threads to include the Mommy Brigade he runs into on FB (with photos!) than the recycled obits.

 

[Neutral Corner]

What is it that makes this happen?

If I had to make a guess, someone is click mongering. They post a link to a story on the death of someone notable who has been dead long enough that most folks have forgotten that they passed. Someone sees it and shares and it spreads, and everyone who clicks through hits their desired site.

 

[Dick Whitman]

All things considered, I would prefer more of ****'s threads to include the Mommy Brigade he runs into on FB (with photos!) than the recycled obits.

My wife and her friends have aged out of the stage where they believe they are the first new moms in history to care about their newborns.

 

[LongTimeListener]

My wife and her friends have aged out of the stage where they believe they are the first new moms in history to care about their newborns.

Ah. OK if history is a guide, you're in a lull right now but the next few years are going to have cryptic (and some not-so-cryptic) posts about how unfulfilled they are as educated people, strong women, etc. It's an opportunity, man! freqposter can elaborate.

 

[bumpy mcgee]

That's not Leslie Nielsen, that's Enrico Palazzo!