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  • Re: DEAD THREAD 2017: "This guy here is dead!"..."Cross him off, then!"

    Originally posted by boblav1 View Post
    Not sure about his grandson, but he'll always be remembered for tripping Bobby Orr in one of the greatest hockey picture of all times.
    I'm familiar with the Orr picture, but as Johnny Carson would say, "I, I did not know that".

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    • Re: DEAD THREAD 2017: "This guy here is dead!"..."Cross him off, then!"

      Bernie Casey.

      http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...or-dies-at-78/
      A bad cause requires many words.

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      • Re: DEAD THREAD 2017: "This guy here is dead!"..."Cross him off, then!"

        World's [formerly] wealthiest woman.

        Liliane Bettencourt, heiress to the L’Oreal cosmetics empire and the world’s wealthiest woman, has died at the age of 94, the company announced on Thursday.

        [She] was the only child of L’Oreal SA founder Eugene Schueller, and owned about one-third of the company’s shares.

        Her net worth was $42.5 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
        "Hope is a good thing; maybe the best of things."

        "Beer is a sign that God loves us and wants us to be happy." -- Benjamin Franklin

        "Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy." -- W. B. Yeats

        "People generally are most impatient with those flaws in others about which they are most ashamed of in themselves." - folk wisdom

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        • Re: DEAD THREAD 2017: "This guy here is dead!"..."Cross him off, then!"

          I think we might've missed this one because it happened right around the same time as the Steely Dan guy's death.

          Dave Hlubek, lead guitarist for Molly Hatchet. "Flirtin' with Disaster" is one of the great guitar anthems of its era.

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          • Re: DEAD THREAD 2017: "This guy here is dead!"..."Cross him off, then!"

            Former Denver Broncos coach Red Miller, 89

            After taking over as the eighth head coach in Broncos history in 1977, Miller led the Broncos to a 40-22 regular-season record and a 2-3 playoff mark over four years.

            In that first season, Miller put together a year that was unlike any before in Denver.

            Miller’s Broncos earned a 12-2 regular-season mark and captured Denver’s first division title. In their first trip to the playoffs, the Broncos beat the reigning Super Bowl-champion Oakland Raiders in the AFC Championship to make their first Super Bowl appearance.

            Following that 1977 season, Miller was named the NFL Coach of the Year by the Associated Press and K.C. 101 Club.
            Growing old is mandatory -- growing up is optional!

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            • Re: DEAD THREAD 2017: "This guy here is dead!"..."Cross him off, then!"

              Hugh Hefner. 91.
              "If you leave ignorance and stupidity alone, ignorance and stupidity will think it's ok."
              -Gallagher

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              • Re: DEAD THREAD 2017: "This guy here is dead!"..."Cross him off, then!"

                Originally posted by First Time, Long Time View Post
                Hugh Hefner. 91.
                Oh, f*.

                Goddammit.
                Never really developed a taste for tequila. Kind of hard to understand how you make a drink out of something that sharp, inhospitable. Now, bourbon is easy to understand.
                Tastes like a warm summer day. -Raylan Givens

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                • Originally posted by Brenthoven View Post
                  Oh, f*.

                  Goddammit.
                  I read the article.
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                  • Re: DEAD THREAD 2017: "This guy here is dead!"..."Cross him off, then!"

                    I don't know if there was a person who did more to promote and hurt women at the same time. I'd say he was just another smut-peddler, but meh.
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                    May your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.
                    Originally posted by bigblue_dl
                    I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
                    Originally posted by Kepler
                    When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
                    He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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                    • Re: DEAD THREAD 2017: "This guy here is dead!"..."Cross him off, then!"

                      Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                      I don't know if there was a person who did more to promote and hurt women at the same time. I'd say he was just another smut-peddler, but meh.
                      Eh, the women voluntarily entered the contracts. Did he exploit them? Sure. Was he your street pimp? No.
                      Never really developed a taste for tequila. Kind of hard to understand how you make a drink out of something that sharp, inhospitable. Now, bourbon is easy to understand.
                      Tastes like a warm summer day. -Raylan Givens

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                      • Re: DEAD THREAD 2017: "This guy here is dead!"..."Cross him off, then!"

                        He was a pimp. Just the most successful pimp of all time. He commercialized pimping.

                        He's not to be revered. He's meant to be forgotten.
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                        Originally posted by SanTropez
                        May your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.
                        Originally posted by bigblue_dl
                        I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
                        Originally posted by Kepler
                        When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
                        He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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                        • Re: DEAD THREAD 2017: "This guy here is dead!"..."Cross him off, then!"

                          Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                          He was a pimp. Just the most successful pimp of all time. He commercialized pimping.

                          He's not to be revered. He's meant to be forgotten.
                          I revere him for the impact he had on our social culture. Like it or not, he IS our social fabric (also see Cash, Johnny). Both were not saints. But they were America, down to the core. The good and the bad, the right and the wrong.
                          Never really developed a taste for tequila. Kind of hard to understand how you make a drink out of something that sharp, inhospitable. Now, bourbon is easy to understand.
                          Tastes like a warm summer day. -Raylan Givens

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                          • Re: DEAD THREAD 2017: "This guy here is dead!"..."Cross him off, then!"

                            Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                            I don't know if there was a person who did more to promote and hurt women at the same time. I'd say he was just another smut-peddler, but meh.
                            Apparently you never read the articles.

                            He truly was an iconic member of an American society of a different era, warts and all.
                            Growing old is mandatory -- growing up is optional!

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                            • Re: DEAD THREAD 2017: "This guy here is dead!"..."Cross him off, then!"

                              Originally posted by joecct View Post
                              I read the article.
                              At one time, many of the articles were top-notch. A host of high-quality authors wrote superb pieces; the list of names includes plenty we'd all recognize.

                              and the cartoons were pretty good, too.

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                              Joseph Heller.
                              Roald Dahl.
                              Ian Fleming.
                              Gabriel Garcia Márquez
                              Margaret Atwood.
                              Haruki Murakami.
                              Norman Mailer.
                              Ray Bradbury (serialization of Fahrenheit 451)
                              Kurt Vonnegut
                              Shel Silverstein
                              Joyce Carol Oates


                              Some of the interviews were ground-breaking for a mainstream publication (Alex Haley interviews Miles Davis; Malcolm X interviewed...see USA today article link for more details)



                              USA Today article from two years ago about the literary quality of Playboy: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money...cles/73890020/
                              Last edited by FreshFish; 09-28-2017, 07:45 AM.
                              "Hope is a good thing; maybe the best of things."

                              "Beer is a sign that God loves us and wants us to be happy." -- Benjamin Franklin

                              "Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy." -- W. B. Yeats

                              "People generally are most impatient with those flaws in others about which they are most ashamed of in themselves." - folk wisdom

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                              • Re: DEAD THREAD 2017: "This guy here is dead!"..."Cross him off, then!"

                                Originally posted by FreshFish View Post
                                At one time, many of the articles were top-notch. A host of high-quality authors wrote superb pieces; the list of names includes plenty we'd all recognize.
                                Playboy followed Sports Illustrated's arc. It started out taking a trivialized male obsession and pulling it not just into the mainstream but into the Harvard Club. Look at SI's early editions -- the sports stories are about fly fishing, golf, yachting, and Ivy League football. Likewise, Hefner was inverting class assumptions about porn. The target audience was Roger Sterling.

                                Also just like SI, Playboy eventually succumbed to the gravity of marketing to the LCD. I don't know if the rot set in before Hustler or was a response to actual sales erosion.

                                Hefner became a self-parody later in life, but in his day he did something very significant. He may have had perfect timing or he may have made his own timing. Either way, good on him for his early years. I respect a man who laid every beauty end to end and who also looked like J. R. "Bob" Dobbs. I'll raise a toast to him, or something else.
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