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December 9th, 2023 at 6:40:00 PM permalink
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Ryan O'Neal dead at 82. The only thing I really liked him in was the Stanley Kubrick movie Barry Lyndon. I bet you I've seen that half a dozen times. The entire movie was lit with nothing but candle light to give it authenticity.
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The exteriors were actually lit with sunlight
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December 10th, 2023 at 2:26:01 PM permalink
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Ryan O'Neal dead at 82. The only thing I really liked him in was the Stanley Kubrick movie Barry Lyndon. I bet you I've seen that half a dozen times. The entire movie was lit with nothing but candle light to give it authenticity.
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Man, do I feel my mortality. I had three very close friends in high school. Ryan (his real name was Patrick), Johnny Weismueller, Jr., Bob Broder whose father owned The California Racket Club, and myself. John Jr. died 17 years ago. Don't know about Bob. After HS, we all went our separate ways and rarely saw each other.

I am saddened.

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December 10th, 2023 at 2:51:06 PM permalink
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Ryan O'Neal dead at 82. The only thing I really liked him in was the Stanley Kubrick movie Barry Lyndon. I bet you I've seen that half a dozen times. The entire movie was lit with nothing but candle light to give it authenticity.
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Man, do I feel my mortality. I had three very close friends in high school. Ryan (his real name was Patrick), Johnny Weismueller, Jr., Bob Broder whose father owned The California Racket Club, and myself. John Jr. died 17 years ago. Don't know about Bob. After HS, we all went our separate ways and rarely saw each other.

I am saddened.

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December 10th, 2023 at 3:37:31 PM permalink
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Ryan O'Neal dead at 82. The only thing I really liked him in was the Stanley Kubrick movie Barry Lyndon. I bet you I've seen that half a dozen times. The entire movie was lit with nothing but candle light to give it authenticity.
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Man, do I feel my mortality. I had three very close friends in high school. Ryan (his real name was Patrick), Johnny Weismueller, Jr., Bob Broder whose father owned The California Racket Club, and myself. John Jr. died 17 years ago. Don't know about Bob. After HS, we all went our separate ways and rarely saw each other.

I am saddened.

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I have not spoken to a single person that I went to High School with since 1985.
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I talk to a couple via Facebook now and then. One I was good friends with drifted apart in the 1990s. Went on a date with a girl from HS who found me there. I still for the life of me cannot remember her, but she seemed to remember me. Might have been a case of "I should have went out with him back then" but who knows. I think she found an older guy.
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December 10th, 2023 at 4:00:41 PM permalink
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I have not spoken to a single person that I went to High School with since 1985.
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Or you can look at it like they haven't spoken to you. Depends on your perspective.
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December 10th, 2023 at 4:05:03 PM permalink
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I have not spoken to a single person that I went to High School with since 1985.
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Or you can look at it like they haven't spoken to you. Depends on your perspective.
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I agree, I wouldn't talk to me.
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December 10th, 2023 at 4:10:01 PM permalink
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I have not spoken to a single person that I went to High School with since 1985.
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Or you can look at it like they haven't spoken to you. Depends on your perspective.
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I agree, I wouldn't talk to me.
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December 30th, 2023 at 7:36:16 PM permalink
I tell you it’s wonderful to be here, man. I don’t give a damn who wins or loses. It’s just wonderful to be here with you people. https://wizardofvegas.com/forum/gambling/betting-systems/33908-the-adventures-of-mdawg/
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December 30th, 2023 at 10:01:59 PM permalink
A lot of famous people died this year. Some of them surprised me I didn't know they were gone. I grew up watching a lot of these people. So many of them were born in the 1930s.

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December 30th, 2023 at 11:42:14 PM permalink
My son informed me that Andre Braugher had died. I loved his character on Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

I was a big fan in high school of the absurdist humor that Paul Reubens created through Pee-Wee Herman, Pee-Wee's Playhouse, and Pee-Wee's Big Adventure. I felt like I was in on the joke that this character was for adults and not children.
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December 31st, 2023 at 6:24:43 PM permalink
Shelly Greene passed at 97. He was a Vegas legend.
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December 31st, 2023 at 6:50:51 PM permalink
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Shelly Greene passed at 97. He was a Vegas legend.
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Never heard of her and I lived there a long time.
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December 31st, 2023 at 7:19:19 PM permalink
He means Shecky Greene.
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December 31st, 2023 at 7:21:58 PM permalink
Don't know who he was, but this would be a tough act to follow.

In 1968, Greene famously drove his Oldsmobile into one of the fountains outside Caesars Palace and admitted he was drunk at the time.

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December 31st, 2023 at 7:43:10 PM permalink
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Don't know who he was, but this would be a tough act to follow.

In 1968, Greene famously drove his Oldsmobile into one of the fountains outside Caesars Palace and admitted he was drunk at the time.


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He is in Mel Brooks history of the world and a few other 70's and 80's screwball comedies
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February 3rd, 2024 at 7:29:16 AM permalink
Carl Weathers best known as Apollo Creed from the Rocky films.

RIP
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February 3rd, 2024 at 9:29:01 AM permalink
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Carl Weathers best known as Apollo Creed from the Rocky films.

RIP
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I thought he was best remembered for his 1969 college football season where they went 11-0 under Don Coryell.
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February 3rd, 2024 at 12:11:07 PM permalink
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Carl Weathers best known as Apollo Creed from the Rocky films.

RIP
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I thought he was best remembered for his 1969 college football season where they went 11-0 under Don Coryell.
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Nobody my generation remembers that.

He definitely had a Rocky life :)
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February 3rd, 2024 at 12:44:25 PM permalink
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Carl Weathers best known as Apollo Creed from the Rocky films.

RIP
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I thought he was best remembered for his 1969 college football season where they went 11-0 under Don Coryell.
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Nobody my generation remembers that.

He definitely had a Rocky life :)
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I sounds like you need to stop watching kiddie movies and study history.
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February 3rd, 2024 at 1:42:13 PM permalink
Speaking of kiddie movies, Carl Weathers played the straight man to the funniest line in "Toy Story of Terror!"

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February 3rd, 2024 at 5:28:46 PM permalink
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Carl Weathers best known as Apollo Creed from the Rocky films.

RIP
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I thought he was best remembered for his 1969 college football season where they went 11-0 under Don Coryell.
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Nobody my generation remembers that.

He definitely had a Rocky life :)
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I sounds like you need to stop watching kiddie movies and study history.
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February 6th, 2024 at 1:51:02 AM permalink
Toby Keith dead at 62
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February 6th, 2024 at 1:25:58 PM permalink
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He is as good as he once was.
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February 27th, 2024 at 11:36:09 AM permalink
Ole Anderson, pro wrestler.
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February 27th, 2024 at 3:11:47 PM permalink
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Ole Anderson, pro wrestler.
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I thought he was someone newer, but I see he was around awhile. I saw him in a picture with Ric Flair. Flair runs around in the Tampa area, last I remember.
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February 27th, 2024 at 3:48:08 PM permalink
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Ole Anderson, pro wrestler.
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I thought he was someone newer, but I see he was around awhile. I saw him in a picture with Ric Flair. Flair runs around in the Tampa area, last I remember.
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I guess he was one of those guys who was also a booker and other behind the scenes work.

I can see Flair spending all kinds of money on spilled liquor in Tampa. Gotta keep those alligators down!
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February 28th, 2024 at 12:46:07 PM permalink
Michael Jones, better known by his ring name Virgil

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March 3rd, 2024 at 10:28:19 AM permalink
Richard Lewis’ official cause of death confirmed days after comedian’s passing

I am familiar with Lewis only for his role on Curb Your Enthusiasm. I watched S12, E3 recently where he told Larry David that he had put him in his will, and they were arguing over which one of them might live longer. Lewis hasn't looked very healthy in years, and was a recovering alcoholic. So Larry was right (so far) when he argued that "I'm going to outlive you by 20 years!"

Here is an appearance Lewis made in Seinfeld, which I never watched Seinfeld regularly but I found this today online.

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