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Larry Flynt, 78, hustling off to the great pink shot in the sky.

Chuck Yeager breaks the final barrier, age 97.

007, dead at 90.

Apparently COVID-19 was his number.

Music is what I've got baby, I want you to come on and shake it.

Toots Hibert, 77.

20-20 was his number.

Olivia de Havilland of Gone with the Wind fame, canceled in her sleep at 104.



⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#VisibleArches

Or maybe just the one.

Mary Kay Letourneau, 58, cancer.

Quote from: flannj on January 15, 2011, 03:30:18 PM
Okay, here is how I remember the beginning our "discussion".

I had just returned from the bathroom and I'm pretty sure it was Thrill playing the role of a fucking instigator that said "Did you see Crane Kenney over there, you should go talk to him".
I could not let this opportunity pass so I immediately turned and walked over to him. He was talking to some typical moron Cub fan about Buffalo Dogs or something.
I stood about two feet away in his line of sight and waited for them to finish their conversation.
I had already caught his eye so he really couldn't go anywhere, I introduced myself and told him that I have been a season ticket holder for the last 15 years and that I had a bone to pick with him.
I explained that my tickets went up in price 17% in '08 and that I remember he came out with an apology saying that the prices had been fixed before the economy tanked and they realized that this would be a hardship on many people but sorry the budget was fixed and there was nothing they could do about it.

He agreed that he had made those statements.

I continued, "So what did you do after that apology? That apology that I took to be sincere?"
"You raised my ticket prices 12 and a half percent in '09."
"And then you raised them again this year."

I explained that I understand the the law of supply and demand.
And that I understood that the Cubs have a captive audience, with a waiting list of 70,000 (as an aside I said that if you were to release more season tickets that list would probably shrink to more like 10,000 and he agreed).
And that you can charge whatever the market can bear.
But to come out with a supposed apology like you did and then substantially raise prices the next two years was wrong, disingenuous, and essentially a lie.

To his credit he agreed that he shouldn't have made the statements and that he regretted them.

He then said that my price increases didn't sound right and should be looked into, that the increases should have been a lot smaller.
And then to my complete amazement he pointed to Wittenmyer and said "You should read the article that Gordon wrote, it details the ticket pricing very accurately"

My response word for word was "Why would I want to read something that fuckhead wrote?"

There was an awkward pause after that and then quite a bit more discussion which I am too hungover to detail right now but I promise I will eventually.

Also the Triumvirate started as Pre, me, and then pretty much everybody else.

Watching Gordo lose it at Kerm was fucking outstanding.

Jesus is Sarah Spain a big girl.

And Pre, thanks for all the beers.

I had a blast as usual. You guys are a bunch of clowns. I'd hang out with you anytime.

Quote from: Quality Start Machine on November 21, 2018, 09:22:12 AM
Two down, one to go.

The 2018 Desipio Dead Pool had a lot of hits...



11 points for PenFoe.

I may have mostly forsaken this darkest of corners, but this was still the first thing I thought of when I heard the news...

Quote from: R-V on January 04, 2011, 09:04:01 AM

Quote from: J. Walter Weatherman on January 03, 2011, 08:58:05 PM

• Warner Saunders: I recall a story a Desipiot (maybe CT himself) once told about spotting Saunders buying Depends

That was me. It was at Costco. Warner buys them in bulk, like Yeti buys chloroform.

Also... Fuck Daley, fuck Dick Devine and fuck the FOP.

Ex-CPD shitstain Jon Burge, off to enjoy his pension in the only place worse than Florida:

https://www.npr.org/2018/09/19/649725071/former-chicago-police-commander-accused-of-torture-dies-at-70

No cause of death mentioned. I hope someone suffocated him with a typewriter cover.

Quote from: J. Walter Weatherman on August 20, 2018, 09:10:39 AM

Quote from: Yeti on August 13, 2018, 11:10:19 AM
Updated. Thrill is the worst.

I don't know. This kind of looks like the best...

Hi.

Quote from: Yeti on August 13, 2018, 11:10:19 AM
Updated. Thrill is the worst.

I don't know. This kind of looks like the best...

Quote from: Huey Potatohead on February 06, 2018, 10:25:29 AM
it was surprising, I suppose, because the roles he always seemed to be play were very straight and convincingly so--which really just speaks to his talents as an actor.

"Gay guys walk like this..."