RIP someone or another

[skullguise]

1 hour ago, Voltron said:

RIP Edward Albee. Fucking 2016 is so greedy

This.....RIP.....

[Wmcmanus]

Tommy Chong. Fuck 2016. http://viraltimelapse.com/2016/08/02/tommy-chong-dead/

 

[Voltron]

Fuck cancer and fuck 2016 sideways. Fuck.

I can't even guess how many times I listened to those Cheech and Chong records when I was a kid.

RIP Chong.

[EdipisReks1]

2016 sucks ass.  Then again, viraltimelapse is not a great source.  Beyonce and Kim Kardashian still being, you know, alive.

Edited September 20, 2016 by EdipisReks1

[swt61]

Wow. I grew up on Cheech and Chong records, then movies. This year really does suck. RIP Tommy!

[MexicanDragon]

Pretty sure this is a hoax, which has come up twice in the past 10 months.

**BRENT**

[mikeymad]

4 minutes ago, MexicanDragon said:

Pretty sure this is a hoax, which has come up twice in the past 10 months.

**BRENT**

 

^^This - I see no other reports

[Grahame]

Search for "Chong" on BBC news app yields zero hits.

So instead ...

[skullguise]

Man, thank goodness it's a hoax.  Besides, "they" keep saying marijuana helps cancer, he should be clean as a whistle!

[Voltron]

Fuck that stupid site if they are wrong. That pisses me off.

[Grahame]

Indeed
http://www.snopes.com/false-tommy-chong-dead/

And this happy site

http://www.deadoraliveinfo.com/dead.Nsf/cnames/Chong+Tommy

[Wmcmanus]

Sorry, guys. I should have checked out the source. Agree with Al, though. Why the fuck would some asshole make shit up about someone else dying? What the hell does it prove?

[Craig Sawyers]

This happened years ago to the recently late, and very great folk violinist Dave Swarbrick. He had major respiratory problems, and used to perform using an oxygen cylinder next to him on stage. Probably smoking induced emphysema.  After a chest infection in 1999 he was rushed to hospital, and The Telegraph published his obituary! For then until his death 17 years later he used to sell signed copies of his obituray at his gigs (with Martin Carthy).

Because of his iconic status and failing lungs, friends organised a series of charity concerts called "SwarbAid" to raise the money for him to have a double lung transplant. Those lungs saw him through another 12 years of stage performance until his actual death (rather than his premature death in print in 1999!) in June this year at age 75.

Was lucky enough to see him with Martin Carthy at the Nettlebed Folk Club in October last year, and shake his hand.

[Dusty Chalk]

38 minutes ago, Wmcmanus said:

 Why the fuck would some asshole make shit up about someone else dying? What the hell does it prove?

It proves that the rumour monger is the bigger troll?  It's just macho/juvenile bullshit, and it's pervasive across the internet.

[Wmcmanus]

I know it happens all the time, car accidents, boating accidents, young people suddenly lose their lives, and the fact that one of them was a movie star, or a Congressman, or an amazing athlete, as opposed any other human being, really shouldn't matter... and it doesn't. But still, so talented was this young man.

RIP Miami Marlin's star pitcher, Jose Fernandez, 24, and his two friends who died tragically last night... http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2016/09/jose-fernandez-dies-in-boating-accident.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook 

Gutted.

Edited September 25, 2016 by Wmcmanus

[skullguise]

Wow, so fucking sad.....!  RIP Jose and friends.....

[emelius]

R.I.P. Arnold Palmer...

[Kerry]

He inspired so many... Very sad

[robm321]

Really 2016? Palmer too? RIP Arnold Palmer...

[Knuckledragger]

RIP Radio Raheem.  2016 contines to suck ass, uninterrupted.

[skullguise]

Oh, man....2016 WTF.....RIP Arnold Palmer.....

[HemiSam]

Wow...that's a lot to process.  Rough year in the way of losses.

Godspeed, Jose, Arnold and Radio...

HS

[swt61]

^ This

[Voltron]

Same again. Fucking 2016 in overreaching.

[mikeymad]

RIP Arnold...