Celebrity Deaths
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“Walt Disney will live again as a robot. His granddaughter said he never wanted this.”
He pretty much was at the forefront of animatronics. He didn’t ask Abe Lincoln if he wanted to be a robot in the Hall of the Presidents exhibit.
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Will the robot be as big a jerk as Walt Disney was? Nobody who worked with the guy could stand him he was always in a bad mood, always yelling and screaming and chewing people out, and chain smoking. He smoked packs and packs of cigarettes a day and underpaid his employees.
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This is very true
No male employees were allowed to sport any facial hair which of course is ironic because Disney never would have been allowed to work at his own parks. He always sported facial hair.
"I'm the boss. Do as I say, not as I do"
Quote: NathanThere also used to be a huge taboo about Women NOT having kids. A Woman not having kids used to be considered a loser. Nowadays, Women not having kids is much more accepted. 💡
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What a horrible alternate reality for Donna Reed in "It's a Wonderful Life" — winding up as a spinster!
Quote: smoothgrhQuote: NathanThere also used to be a huge taboo about Women NOT having kids. A Woman not having kids used to be considered a loser. Nowadays, Women not having kids is much more accepted. 💡
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What a horrible alternate reality for Donna Reed in "It's a Wonderful Life" — winding up as a spinster!
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I thought she was a bookkeeper?
Quote: smoothgrhShe was a librarian. By today's standards, a HOT librarian!
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Librarian... bookkeeper... potato, potato. ;)
Quote: darkozQuote: rxwineHeadline today:
“Walt Disney will live again as a robot. His granddaughter said he never wanted this.”
He pretty much was at the forefront of animatronics. He didn’t ask Abe Lincoln if he wanted to be a robot in the Hall of the Presidents exhibit.
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Animatronics are not really robots. Just well designed nuts and bolts that move in a preprogrammed manner in sync to a tape or digital recording.
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The point is really about approving of having a simulation of yourself displayed. If it's a robot of Walt, that's a simulation regardless of complexity.
I don't know really why most people would object, unless it was for something infamous.
I got Ai to back me up (sort of)
Quote:AI Overview
Yes, animatronics can definitely be considered a forerunner of robots, particularly in the realm of creating machines that mimic living things and perform pre-programmed actions.
Here's why:
Shared technological roots: Animatronics stem from a long tradition of mechanical automata, which are machines designed to imitate movements, often using hydraulics, pneumatics, or clockwork mechanisms. Robots also utilize these and similar technologies to achieve motion and functionality.
Focus on mimicking life: A key characteristic of animatronics is their design to resemble real creatures. While not all robots are designed to look like living beings, this emphasis on lifelike appearance in animatronics paved the way for the development of robots that could interact more naturally with humans or simulate complex movements.
Also, I think Disney would have made the fanciest machine possible within reason because it would attract more customers.
Quote: DieterSly Stone
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I at first read this as Sylvester Stallone and I hightailed it to Google and ironically enough, there is a Sylvester Stallone death hoax stating that Sylvester Stallone died today but Sylvester is still alive. I was going to report that Sylvester is still alive it's just a death hoax, but then I saw that you wrote SLY STONE and not Sylvester Stallone. 💡 82 years old is still a long life. 💡
Rest in peace to a unique and talented individual who couldn't handle the burdens of greatness.
Rest in peace to a unique and talented individual who couldn't handle the burdens of greatness.
Quote: billryanSly and the Family Stone were big on my sister's 45 rotation. Then he disappeared. I'd heard he joined the Peace Corps.
Rest in peace to a unique and talented individual who couldn't handle the burdens of greatness.
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Gotta watch taking that dictation in triplicate
Quote: billryanSly and the Family Stone were big on my sister's 45 rotation. Then he disappeared. I'd heard he joined the Peace Corps.
Rest in peace to a unique and talented individual who couldn't handle the burdens of greatness.
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His brother Freddie, also a memer of Family Stone, later left the music business and became an evangelical pastor. Sly never got close to the Peace Corps as far as is known.
Quote: GenoDRPhQuote: billryanSly and the Family Stone were big on my sister's 45 rotation. Then he disappeared. I'd heard he joined the Peace Corps.
Rest in peace to a unique and talented individual who couldn't handle the burdens of greatness.
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His brother Freddie, also a memer of Family Stone, later left the music business and became an evangelical pastor. Sly never got close to the Peace Corps as far as is known.
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Speaking of Musicians/Singers that turned to Religion, Vanity/Denise had a near death experience after overdosing on drugs and she said that Jesus told her he would let her live if she promised to let go of the Vanity Persona and become religious. She destroyed all of her Vanity Persona and became religious, even becoming a Minister or something like that. She died at 57, still relatively young because the drugs she took as Vanity messed up her system. Dying at 57 is better than dying at say around 34 which was the age she overdosed and decided to let go of the Vanity Persona 💡
Quote: MDawgWouldn’t it be nice if we were older….
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Didn't even have to look, to know what you meant. Quite a brilliant musician.
Quote: MDawgWouldn’t it be nice if we were older….
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Brian Wilson, Legendary Co-Founder of The Beach Boys, Dies at 82
Quote:Chris Robinson, General Hospital actor who coined ‘I’m not a doctor, but I play one on TV’, dies aged 86
I cannot imagine living to 104. Rest in peaceQuote: Dieter
Quote: avianrandyAnne Burrell celebrity chef and host of worst cooks in America passed away today. She was 55. She was on food Network and was on other shows as well.
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I was a regular at a bar she frequented for a while. I didn't really interact with her, but she seemed like she was always having a good time, and her table was usually full of laughter.
Quote: avianrandyAnne Burrell celebrity chef and host of worst cooks in America passed away today. She was 55. She was on food Network and was on other shows as well.
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Good lord, 55 is incredibly young to die! 😱😳 She was only FOURTEEN YEARS older than me! 😱😳
Quote: NathanQuote: avianrandyAnne Burrell celebrity chef and host of worst cooks in America passed away today. She was 55. She was on food Network and was on other shows as well.
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Good lord, 55 is incredibly young to die! 😱😳 She was only FOURTEEN YEARS older than me! 😱😳
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I'm 55, I feel terribly old.
Quote: AZDuffmanQuote: NathanQuote: avianrandyAnne Burrell celebrity chef and host of worst cooks in America passed away today. She was 55. She was on food Network and was on other shows as well.
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Good lord, 55 is incredibly young to die! 😱😳 She was only FOURTEEN YEARS older than me! 😱😳
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I'm 55, I feel terribly old.
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Its never too late for a happy childhood.
Quote: billryanQuote: AZDuffmanQuote: NathanQuote: avianrandyAnne Burrell celebrity chef and host of worst cooks in America passed away today. She was 55. She was on food Network and was on other shows as well.
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Good lord, 55 is incredibly young to die! 😱😳 She was only FOURTEEN YEARS older than me! 😱😳
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I'm 55, I feel terribly old.
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Its never too late for a happy childhood.
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My childhood was unfulfilling. I hated being a kid and could not wait to be an adult. My grandmother regularly said I would wish I was back in school when I was out at work. NOT.ONE.TIME. Not even at jobs I hated.
Quote: AZDuffmanQuote: NathanQuote: avianrandyAnne Burrell celebrity chef and host of worst cooks in America passed away today. She was 55. She was on food Network and was on other shows as well.
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Good lord, 55 is incredibly young to die! 😱😳 She was only FOURTEEN YEARS older than me! 😱😳
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I'm 55, I feel terribly old.
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I am 59 and very year seems to get 25% worse.
Quote: AZDuffmanQuote: billryanQuote: AZDuffmanQuote: NathanQuote: avianrandyAnne Burrell celebrity chef and host of worst cooks in America passed away today. She was 55. She was on food Network and was on other shows as well.
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Good lord, 55 is incredibly young to die! 😱😳 She was only FOURTEEN YEARS older than me! 😱😳
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I'm 55, I feel terribly old.
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Its never too late for a happy childhood.
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My childhood was unfulfilling. I hated being a kid and could not wait to be an adult. My grandmother regularly said I would wish I was back in school when I was out at work. NOT.ONE.TIME. Not even at jobs I hated.
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I didn't hate being a child but the school process seemed unfulfilling to me. Everything was so slow paced and didn't focus on the things that I was interested in. I wish high schools offered more targeted career paths but I do understand the logistics probably aren't possible without a major overhaul of the system.
Quote: DRichQuote: AZDuffmanQuote: billryanQuote: AZDuffmanQuote: NathanQuote: avianrandyAnne Burrell celebrity chef and host of worst cooks in America passed away today. She was 55. She was on food Network and was on other shows as well.
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Good lord, 55 is incredibly young to die! 😱😳 She was only FOURTEEN YEARS older than me! 😱😳
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I'm 55, I feel terribly old.
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Its never too late for a happy childhood.
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My childhood was unfulfilling. I hated being a kid and could not wait to be an adult. My grandmother regularly said I would wish I was back in school when I was out at work. NOT.ONE.TIME. Not even at jobs I hated.
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I didn't hate being a child but the school process seemed unfulfilling to me. Everything was so slow paced and didn't focus on the things that I was interested in. I wish high schools offered more targeted career paths but I do understand the logistics probably aren't possible without a major overhaul of the system.
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School to me was minimum security prison. I liked history class, tolerated some others. Looking back I had a couple classes in grades 1-8 where the teachers let us work on our own, at our own pace. I liked those. Which tells me that our Prussian-school model is way past its usefulness. Even now, I am writing this in a local coffeehouse where I have been trying to learn Python on my own. Mixed results there.
Quote: DRichQuote: AZDuffmanQuote: NathanQuote: avianrandyAnne Burrell celebrity chef and host of worst cooks in America passed away today. She was 55. She was on food Network and was on other shows as well.
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Good lord, 55 is incredibly young to die! 😱😳 She was only FOURTEEN YEARS older than me! 😱😳
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I'm 55, I feel terribly old.
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I am 59 and very year seems to get 25% worse.
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You are what you eat is being proven more and more true every year. I'm 75 and I don't feel that bad. Most of the time I'm not even aware of my age. It's summer and I'm outside two or three hours a day putting in a patio, putting down a flagstone walkway, clearing brush.
Quote: AZDuffmanQuote: billryanQuote: AZDuffmanQuote: NathanQuote: avianrandyAnne Burrell celebrity chef and host of worst cooks in America passed away today. She was 55. She was on food Network and was on other shows as well.
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Good lord, 55 is incredibly young to die! 😱😳 She was only FOURTEEN YEARS older than me! 😱😳
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I'm 55, I feel terribly old.
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Its never too late for a happy childhood.
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My childhood was unfulfilling. I hated being a kid and could not wait to be an adult. My grandmother regularly said I would wish I was back in school when I was out at work. NOT.ONE.TIME. Not even at jobs I hated.
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Christie Brinkley as a middle aged Adult said she wouldn't want to be 25 again and I thought that was incredibly odd for her to say as 25 is seen as a vibrant, young, and fresh age and middle aged is seen as "starting to get a little old." 💡🤔 I myself am now hovering around middle age now and I myself wouldn't want to be say 31 because I was a huge mess at 31. I am much more mature at 41 than at 31 and do not want to be 31 again as I was at a REALLY bad time in my life at 31. 💡🤔 Maybe Christie was at a bad time in her life at 25 and that's why she said she didn't want to be 25 again? 💡🤔
I have not given much thought to the matter, but most of the things I did that had an adverse effect on my life happened between 25 and 31. The good part of messing up relatively early in life is that you have many years to recover
Quote: NathanQuote: AZDuffmanQuote: billryanQuote: AZDuffmanQuote: NathanQuote: avianrandyAnne Burrell celebrity chef and host of worst cooks in America passed away today. She was 55. She was on food Network and was on other shows as well.
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Good lord, 55 is incredibly young to die! 😱😳 She was only FOURTEEN YEARS older than me! 😱😳
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I'm 55, I feel terribly old.
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Its never too late for a happy childhood.
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My childhood was unfulfilling. I hated being a kid and could not wait to be an adult. My grandmother regularly said I would wish I was back in school when I was out at work. NOT.ONE.TIME. Not even at jobs I hated.
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Christie Brinkley as a middle aged Adult said she wouldn't want to be 25 again and I thought that was incredibly odd for her to say as 25 is seen as a vibrant, young, and fresh age and middle aged is seen as "starting to get a little old." 💡🤔 I myself am now hovering around middle age now and I myself wouldn't want to be say 31 because I was a huge mess at 31. I am much more mature at 41 than at 31 and do not want to be 31 again as I was at a REALLY bad time in my life at 31. 💡🤔 Maybe Christie was at a bad time in her life at 25 and that's why she said she didn't want to be 25 again? 💡🤔
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For men, 25 was once the most respected age. Younger guys looked up to that age, older guys remember the energy they had then.
As usual, BUT
At 25 I was broke, I had little career experience. I was living at home, out of college, no life, working 60 or more hours a week in a management training program where part of the goal was to break you down. No respect at work even with that. At 27 I got promoted, got my own place but it was a relocation to upstate NY where I knew nobody. Still working those 60 hour weeks, but I did have a company car.
It was not until age 30 that I had some decent work experience, bought a house, and was learning more the ways of the world.
I work around some 25ish year olds. I do not see how they manage to live in this day and age. A few look up to me and others for the worldly stuff we know. I do not get excited at much because I have seen and heard it all before. I have some savings even though I often feel broke. It can be peaceful being older if you let it work for you.
Got one life to live, get it over with.............................
Quote: AZDuffmanFred Smith, founder of FedEx, 80.
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Few people can honestly say they changed the world. Mr. Smith is one of them. RIP.
Quote: billryanQuote: AZDuffmanFred Smith, founder of FedEx, 80.
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Few people can honestly say they changed the world. Mr. Smith is one of them. RIP.
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Especially when he took his last dollars to Vegas to gamble because he couldn't make payroll.
Quote: billryanQuote: AZDuffmanFred Smith, founder of FedEx, 80.
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Few people can honestly say they changed the world. Mr. Smith is one of them. RIP.
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His company also became the mother of all product placements in movies.
He was a little before my time, so no comment from me.
More information: Bobby Sherman, teen idol in 1960s and '70s, dies at age 81
Quote: WizardBobby Sherman
He was a little before my time, so no comment from me.
More information: Bobby Sherman, teen idol in 1960s and '70s, dies at age 81
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My older sister had a crush on him around 1968 or so. At one point, he had a few songs on the charts and was co-starring in a TV series, Here Come the Brides.
A couple of years later, a guest spot on the tv show Emergency awoke his childhood dream of being a fireman and he became a para-medic and reserve deputy sheriff. RIP
Nowadays we could add ICE officers to the joke.
Quote: MDawgYou know what they say about what firemen and policemen have in common. Both want to be firemen.
Nowadays we could add ICE officers to the joke.
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I always wanted to be a fireman, never wanted to be a cop.
Quote: billryanQuote: MDawgYou know what they say about what firemen and policemen have in common. Both want to be firemen.
Nowadays we could add ICE officers to the joke.
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I always wanted to be a fireman, never wanted to be a cop.
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It looked more fun being able to ride on the outside of the vehicle. I suppose if there is an older truck anywhere, they may still do that.
Quote: billryan... a guest spot on the tv show Emergency awoke his childhood dream of being a fireman and he became a para-medic and reserve deputy sheriff. RIP
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That's very cool and interesting. Emergency was among my favorite shows as a kid. I still don't understand how two doctors and one nurse seemed to handle every patient in the entire Los Angeles area.
Quote: WizardQuote: billryan... a guest spot on the tv show Emergency awoke his childhood dream of being a fireman and he became a para-medic and reserve deputy sheriff. RIP
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That's very cool and interesting. Emergency was among my favorite shows as a kid. I still don't understand how two doctors and one nurse seemed to handle every patient in the entire Los Angeles area.
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I'm still trying to figure out how they turned the 6 million dollar man into Superman 50 years ago when today we still can't do most of that stuff. At least we got the communicators they used on Star Trek in the form of a smartphone, they were right about that. And Maxwell Smart's shoe phone.
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That's very cool and interesting. Emergency was among my favorite shows as a kid. I still don't understand how two doctors and one nurse seemed to handle every patient in the entire Los Angeles area.
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Surely the program only reenacted the most spectacular situations encountered by Squad 51, not every incident in the entire city.
Quote: WizardQuote: billryan... a guest spot on the tv show Emergency awoke his childhood dream of being a fireman and he became a para-medic and reserve deputy sheriff. RIP
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That's very cool and interesting. Emergency was among my favorite shows as a kid. I still don't understand how two doctors and one nurse seemed to handle every patient in the entire Los Angeles area.
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Not to mention the area that this one firehouse covered!
I feel a Dukes of Hazzard trivia challenge coming on honor him.
https://apnews.com/article/bill-moyers-dead-eed7ecae0e20c2db4b82500996916dfe
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