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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | This site is usually on top of celebrity deaths.
I was surprised to hear Bernie died a few days ago. Usually I hear about these deaths first on the OFC. |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | Only 50 years old. What a shame. I was a big fan of his show. "America" will miss him. |
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Location: SoCal | Years ago, I knew a guy who claimed that famous people died in "3's". Isaac Hayes, Bernie Mac... who's next? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I saw that several days ago. Who was he? |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | 
You've seen him, Beal. Actor, comedian, had his own show, was in Ocean's 11 and 12, I think too. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Old white guys won't know him... |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | I think they might. Let's just test that...
Oh, Schroeder...? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | He may be digesting my flight arrangements just now... |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Sounds like he should've read then with a healthy dose of antacids. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Strange, I was thinking the 3's thing too. Maybe, Bo Diddley was the first, Issac Hayes the second. I think Bernie Mac is just a red herring to confuse us.
Anyone hear about BB King's health? I saw him on an ad for diabetes not too long ago. Anyone want to take bets on who will complete the trifecta? |
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Location: closely held secret | All 3 Oceans, Guess Who, Bad Santa... he was a funny guy. |
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| No I'd never heard of him, but my kids had and were saddened. I've never even seen the original ratpack Ocean's 11 let alone the remakes/sequels.
I live in a strange hinterland which rarely interfaces with the real world. The soundtrack is by Duke Ellington and Django. I only connect with reality during the football season (which starts on Saturday). And the impending visit from the Sage of Virginia doesn't help with my grasp of reality. |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Funny guy
Very Sad, too young
AJ |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | I had pneumonia in 2000. When I was going through the worst of it I actually worked 73 hours in the drug store. I had scheduled the week off at the hospital to work in the store while the owner went on vacation. I felt like I had a bed of nails that were pressed into my head. The vertigo, bodyaches and dificulty breathing was horrible. I know for a fact that I caught pneumonia from a customer in the drug store. This customer came in with prescriptions for Levaquin and Humibid(now known as Mucinex(DM)). Withiin a few days I could barely stand up. I was given the same medications by my doctor. I clearly understood at that time why people die from pneumonia. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. To this day I cannot stand the cold weather and in the summer I sleep with a sweat shirt on. Even on the days when the humidity is high I wake up in the morning and my sweatshirt is bone dry. |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Ironically, it seems that Bernie had just finished filming a movie, 'Soul Men', with Isaac Hayes. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | OK, I saw him in Oceans. Too bad and way too early. |
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| Even beal knew who he was.
I really am pathetic. |
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by schroeder:
Even beal knew who he was.
I really am pathetic. You finally see the truth.
Don't worry, you have an excuse. You're a Brit. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Well yes, there is that....... |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by schroeder:
I really am pathetic. We like to think of you as, "Special" |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | On the flip side, as a kid, you probably had the short bus all to yourself, didn't you? |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Well, just 'cause of the early-onset GAS. I suppose.
(I just bet he called it "The Tour Bus!") |
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Location: Jet City | Originally posted by Weaser P:
Ironically, it seems that Bernie had just finished filming a movie, 'Soul Men', with Isaac Hayes. Samuel L Jackson is the 3rd guy in this movie. He'd better stay away from black cats and ladders. |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | I had never heard of him either, but then, I haven't owned a TV in over twenty years. I've probably been to the movies about twice during that time. I am familiar with Pneumonia though. Back in the Ovation days I had it so bad I missed a month of work. I'm sure if any "bad O's" came out of Moosup in 1980, it was during that time. :) Once you get it, you are prone to get it again and again for the next five years. I did. |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | Originally posted by Damon67:
Originally posted by Weaser P:
Ironically, it seems that Bernie had just finished filming a movie, 'Soul Men', with Isaac Hayes. Samuel L Jackson is the 3rd guy in this movie. He'd better stay away from black cats and ladders. |
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Location: NJ | ". . Snakes on a PLANE!!, mutha' f . . . . . " |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | What a shame...he was a great actor and a very funny guy...folks, you never know....
I remember a line from another late comedian, Rodney Dangerfield: "hey, at my age I could go any day; and I hope so because I haven't gone today yet!"
RIP Bernie and thanks for the laughs... |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | It seems to me that maybe in my younger daze I didn't notice some of the people "leaving the building"...
Or maybe it was because they weren't of "my generation"...
I noticed went some rock star OD'ed, but otherwise I must not have been paying attention.
Although I didn't really keep-up with Bernie Mac, upon seeing film clips of some of his movies I recognize who he is and he was pretty funny.
I said all that to say, without an OD or a plane crash... 50 seems kinda young to just Die.
Rest in Peace, Dude. |
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| In October I'm going to a wedding - man it makes a change from funerals. First one in about 10 years.
This is the downside of getting old. |
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| Way to young, very funny guy. Had a wide open acting career going too. Paid his dues to the comedy circuts and was just becoming a big name.
Makes guy's like me in our late 40's take notice of life when someone this young dies. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Life is no respecter of persons... |
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Bernie Mac RIP