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At this point I’d assume his sleeping form has gotten a free massage.

You’re obviously new.

I don’t have that kind of time. I’m trying to get ready for a wedding. However, polluting this thread to annoy a certain someone was just too tempting.

Certainly was for me. It admonished me and the time counted down each time I tried to reply without allowing 30 seconds to elapse.

I learned something new today. It makes you wait 30 seconds between posts. I was considering posting one word at a time but alas my joke was prevented.

Love it.

Stop attacking @Ulitzer95. He’s a valuable member of this forum, whereas you are a cretin and a troll. Kindly fuck off. @Paul Bearer can you permanently ban this creep?

He doesn’t believe in nicknames.

Didn’t you get banned?

She was never the sort to need it.

Catholic bishop Thomas Gumbleton dead at 94. Though he never advanced further than auxiliary bishop of Detroit, he was a prominent peace activist, rabble-rouser, an important figure in criticizing the church’s response to sex abuse (of which he was a self-reported victim), and a prominent figure from the halcyon days of liberal American Catholicism in the late twentieth century. The end of an era. https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2024/04/04/retired-detroit-bishop-dead-at-94/73209547007/

@Tango854 Please go back to wherever you went after you got publicly shamed for calling a fellow forum user a pedophile. Things were better without your ranting.

Not if you include their spouses. Then it’s 2012

For reference: Gemini: Jim Lovell - 95 (7&12)(8&13) Buzz Aldrin - 94* (12)(11) David Scott - 91* (8)(9&15) Apollo: Rusty Schweickart - 88 (9) William Anders - 90 (8) Harrison Schmitt - 88* (17) Fred Haise - 90 (13) Charles Duke - 88* (16) *= moonwalker

There are eight. Rusty Schweickart flew on Apollo 9.

He wasn’t in the iron lung 24/7. Read articles. It helps.

Why? Thousands of tourists go to Antarctica every year and have for several decades.

Every election there are some quixotic candidates, many of whom stay in until the convention. They’re delusional, or feel they are driving the debate. They don’t need a lot of money because they’re barely running. The Democrats tend to be more idealistic and have more kooks as a result. I wouldn’t read too much into it. That being said, I voted for Philips. I’m thinking of having “Don’t Blame Me” buttons made up.

Who here doesn’t?

It’s not two different threads on the same person. There is a generic happy birthday thread so people would stop wishing people happy birthday in their individual threads. It didn’t work very well.

You didn’t miss anything.

I think it’s worth mentioning that the world population has quadrupled since 1900. This increase coupled with the major expansion in types of fame in the last 100 years (television, social media, etc.) means there are a larger number of well-known individuals each generation. Some portion of these are going to die young and some portion of those are going to be well known. Also, as @Toast pointed out social media and the 24 hour news cycle means more attention is paid to these deaths than in years past. Get over your conspiracy theory that more young people are dying which we all know is shield for peddling your ridiculous anti-vax views.

Wikipedia now has a reliable source: https://english.berkeley.edu/news/remembering-lyn-hejinian-0 I met her a few times several years ago. She was a very kind woman. Makes me wonder about her colleague, Bob Haas. I hope he’s around for a while yet.

Three people you wouldn’t want to be stuck on an elevator with.

We should make you a mod.