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DonMarco
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Joined: 06 Dec 2006
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 Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 7:02 am Post subject: [ Poll ] Reflections of Two Thousand Eight |
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What will you remember most? What changed the world? Who will you miss?
Topics!
- Gas went from to $100 a barrel in January to $140 in June to $37.71 as of December 26th. Rather than think too much about this, I'll just link that one episode of Sunny.
- Barack Hussein Obama elected as first secret-Muslim black President of America born on foreign soil. Watch Fox News to see if he swears in on a bilbe January 21st. Watch every other network to see what puppy the First Daughters adopt.
- George Carlin, Arthur C Clarke, Michael Crichton, Gary Gygax, Don LaFontaine, Bernie Mac, Isaac Hayes, Roy Scheider, Heath Ledger, Tim Russert. Also! Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, who was pretty popular around the Star Trek circles. If you're thinking "What do all these people have in common?" do I have some sad news for you. Edit! Eartha Kitt, who played the (black) 60's Catwoman and Disney's Yzma. W. Mark Felt, better known as "Deep Throat".
- Michale Phelps wins eight gold medals at the Chinese Olympics. $300 million two-hour opening ceremony. Google "2008 China" also returns news of tainted milk, lead-based paints in toys and an earthquake that killed 69,000 (officially). To compare, hurricane Katrina's death toll is at 1,800 (officially).
- Banks/Wall Street/Big Three bailouts, housing market, 401k disappearing, recession madness. There will be more on that next year, though...
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eskaibo
Joined: 26 Jul 2008
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| Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 7:13 am |
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Also Peter Brock and Steve Irwin for the above list.
Man, I was so sure that Russell Crowe would be the next Australian celebrity to die after those two... |
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psiga
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Joined: 04 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 8:04 am |
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Eurr... Brock and Irwin died in '06...?
- Sort-of stapled on to Marco's points: '08 marks governmental decisions to throw 700 800 billion USD into a bailout 'rescue plan', and then throw another 800 billion USD into another much less publicized plot to 'unfreeze lending'.
- Largest Ponzi scheme bust in American history, involving somewhere around 50 billion USD, and led by a former NASDAQ chairman (who faces up to twenty years in prison and a five million dollar fine (don't try this at home, kids!)).
- Japanese researcher develops method to induce pluripotent stem cells from regular human tissues.
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wasted potential
Joined: 19 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 4:11 pm Post subject: Re: [ Poll ] Reflections of Two Thousand Eight |
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| DonMarco wrote: |
- George Carlin, Arthur C Clarke, Michael Crichton, Gary Gygax, Don LaFontaine, Bernie Mac, Isaac Hayes, Roy Scheider, Heath Ledger, Tim Russert. Also! Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, who was pretty popular around the Star Trek circles. If you're thinking "What do all these people have in common?" do I have some sad news for you. |
Add Earth Kitt to that list as well :(
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eskaibo
Joined: 26 Jul 2008
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| Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 4:38 pm |
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| psiga wrote: |
| Eurr... Brock and Irwin died in '06...? |
Oh, dear. Sorry!
(I've got a pretty horrible sense of time guys!) |
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DonMarco
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Joined: 06 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 5:07 pm |
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| wasted potential wrote: |
| Add Eartha Kitt to that list as well :( |
| Wikipedia wrote: |
| It is unknown what will happen to the series following Eartha Kitt's death because of her recent death on December 25, 2008.[3] Production has been haulted and no new episodes have yet to be determined which is called "Paused Cancellation," which means a main actor or actress has died or leaves. They cannot continue the series until Disney decides to resume production. |
The show in question, Emperor's New School, wasn't half bad and Eartha won a bunch of awards for voicing Yzma. It's a real toss-up if they'll continue the show or not. Similar deaths I can think of were Phil Hartman and John Ritter. Both went on after they died. Simpsons phased out Phil's characters and 8 Simple Rules went another two seasons.
I hate not-knowing. You'd think that any contract with an actor over 50 would have a little box to check with "I give my blessing for the project to continue on without me."
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Gironika
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 7:09 pm Post subject: Re: [ Poll ] Reflections of Two Thousand Eight |
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| DonMarco wrote: |
| What will you remember most? What changed the world? Who will you miss? |
I'll remember most .... hm, a near-fatal car crash, gas prices, Obama "winning", the first SBer I've met in RL, seeing the Peugeot Le Mans Prototypes beating the Audis, recession ...
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Ebrey
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
Location: Los Angeles
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| Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 9:37 pm |
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| DonMarco wrote: |
| Simpsons phased out Phil's characters and 8 Simple Rules |
Also, Phil was supposed to voice Zapp Brannigan in Futurama but never got to, but it's soooo obvious when you think about it that he was written for Phil. |
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Joined: 05 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 5:11 am |
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Mother 3 in English!
and, um,
the Large Hadron Collider broke down?
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Why can't I remember anything past October. |
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