They euthanized Barbaro today. :(

Very sad. I thought he would pull thru.

Aww, that sucks, Bri. I thought he was going to make it.:mecry:

That's a shame.

Me, too. Poor baby. He was very brave.

I also, was hoping Barbaro would make it. Even though he did not, his case has provided countless advances in the art of horse medicine and how to treat leg and hoof injuries for future horses.

I applaud the owners for trying to save his life in the face of such a traumatic injury. Their reasons weren't for monetary gain, it would have taken 20 years of stud fees to equal the amount he was insured for if he was just euthanized on the track at the time of his injury. Purely good motives, on their part. The horse won them a lot of money, they spent that money he earned, trying to save him...

...but I also have to think...
What sort of life would he have? A horse, bred to run...that could NEVER be allowed to run again. Well, now he is running free. Race on, Barbaro. Race on!

I thought the burgers at Flying J tasted different!

Yes, I'm on my way to Hell...why do you ask?

Frankie Laine Now Ghost Riding in the Sky
 

No one - *no one* - could sing a Western themed song like Frankie Laine. From "Rawhide" to "Gunfight at the OK Corral" to "High Noon" to "Blazing Saddles", Frankie Laine was *the* voice of old time Western adventure. The almost campy passion he put into a song was a throwback to earlier days. He was one of the last of the Italian crooners, they say, one of the last greats before Rock and Roll began to whittle away the audience for such performers.

Frankie Laine lived a long, productive and blessed life. He passed away today at the age of 93, leaving behind a legacy of music that few can equal, let alone surpass.

Frankie was more than a singer, though. He was also a staunch believer in the equality of all peoples, and he put his reputation to work at the height of his popularity by making frequent appearances in support of civil rights when no other Caucasian performers would. He even appeared on the struggling Nat King Cole program when ratings were sagging and advertisers balking at this groundbreaking variety show featuring another unexcelled great musician and singer.

I'm sad that I never got to see Frankie Laine in person. I am a doofus in that I only came to really appreciate the man and his music in the past ten years or so, but appreciate him I do...and will, for many years to come.

Thanks for the great music, Frankie. Thanks for widening my scope of listening and the appreciation of real talent in a world where so many "stars" are prefabbed and packaged. You were an original.

Joe Zawinul passed away Tuesday. Joe was keyboard player for Cannonball Adderley's jazz group before forming the jazz-fusion pioneering Weather Report.

Zawinul wrote the song "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" which was covered by The Buckingham's (among others).

Jazz giants like this have a discography too extensive to discuss at length, but suffice it to say he tracked with Miles Davis on In a Silent Way, and Bitches Brew. That speaks volumes right there. This dude was a founding father of what came to be known as the fusion movement.

I don't usually like birds, but Alex the parrot was very cool. :yeldead:

A Mime is a Terrible Thing to Waste
 

Arguably the greatest ever to ply his particular craft, Marcel Marceaux has passed.

http://deathbeeper.com/0539622.html

May I suggest that, in his honor, we all observe a moment of loud and obnoxious yelling and screaming.

Lil' Pete's first fencing master worked for Santelli back in the day, when Santelli was Marceaux's fencing instructor. small world

There is a certain tempo to a fencing lesson where it builds and you finish strong. Marceaux was notorious for not taking the hint and stretching lessons out when Santelli was done with him. It would be ironic but was probably intentional.

I heard he died quietly in his sleep....

Marceaux's death, like Osama's, unfortunately won't slow his minions a whit.

I saw Marceaux live one time in Berkeley. He will be remembered.

Wally Parks RIP
 

Actually, the most recent one that bummed me out happen 3 years ago:

http://www.jaxxroxx.com/images/In%20...rell-color.jpg

Please don't squeeze the Charmin. Goodbye Mr Whipple.

Also, farewell Joe Nuxhall, a Cincinnati Reds Icon.

John Lennon- Still tear up every time I hear "Imagine", and Mitch Hedberg

Aw, Shit...
 

Dan Fogelberg has succumbed to prostate cancer at a mere 56 years of age. That sucks bad.

Dan was a brilliant and emotive songwriter with a golden and evocative voice. A tragic loss to music.

Did anyone mention Ike?

EDIT: oh wait, nobody was really bummed. nevermind.

Ike was a brilliant musician and a consumate asshole.

Nice mention. He will be missed. No press nonsense just a good American singer song writer.

And one that got throughly screwed by the "music business".

Patrick Depailler

I had to Google, that.

It wasn't just the who but the how and when.

Me too. And that's an unbelievably stupid quote you've got in your signature.

Have you been told today? bb

Pot Kettle Black much?

I agree completely.

I, for one, think Bruce has a great sig.

Me? I think all signatures are silly.

The link to a website I'm building is a stupid quote?

All I'm saying is there is no such thing as an illegal immigrant in the United States of America. The Founders never granted power over immigration to the federal government. All federal immigration laws are unconstitutional. The Fed has absolutely zero Constitutional authority to create or enforce immigration laws.

By the way, this isn't an opinion, it's a fact.

So if all unconstitutional laws are automatically null and void without the requirement of judicial review (as stated by the Supreme Court in Marbury vs. Madison) it means all of the immigrants from everywhere on earth who were invited by us, are not ILLEGAL whether they are using documentation or not.

If you doubt that these immigrants weren't invited, you may want to read these words and see if they sound familiar...


This really should be another thread though. I don't want to hijack this one.

Back on topic...

I'm a bit bummed out about the death of Benazir Bhutto. This is going to be very ugly for America and the rest of the world, and it means instability for a nuclear power. I'm convinced Musharraf is behind it which means at the very least, an insane murdering scumbag is in charge of nuclear weapons....and this time it's not George W. Bush.

...too late

but we got sadam, didnt that take care of all the murdering scumbags with access to nuclear weapons? but but but...:eyebrow:

No wonder he lost! Land of the fruits & nuts? Didn't say that.IMHO. bb

Voted top ten of 2007

The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.

I'm totally freaked, all in all. She was a formidable woman...and she was shit hot.

Sir Edmund Hillary

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i...u1eiQD8U3FHT00

Yeah, that does suck. He was a cool guy.

Extra cool that he died at the age of 88 years, 5 months, 21 days. (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008)
That's 88.48 years.
The height of Everest? 8,848 meters.

How did he manage that?

has that been snopes-ified yet?

No, I just made it up. really.
You heard it here first.

Well Everest is generally acknowledged to be 8,848 meters (some measurements differ) and I noticed the similarity when I saw he died at 88, so I checked wikipedia for his exact dates, which are 20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008. I fudged the rest.

I repeat, I fudged the math. It might be 88.48, it's certainly close.
You can check it if you care too. I couldn't be bothered.
Cheers.

actually, snopes had be proven to be an elaborate internet hoax. It was started as a joke by two teenagers who were surfing the internet whilst suspended from school. They started creating "proofs" for some of the urban myths on a website created by a friend of theirs, and the project snowballed. They randomly picked stories to reject to increase the perceived validity of the site, using 12-sided dice to determine the outcome for each myth.


from here

wow, thanks monster. i feel like a dumbass now. i've been telling my mom for a long time now that microsoft had no way of tracking how many times an email was forwarded so they couldn't possibly give $.01 for each forward to little Susie to fix her lisp.

Well of course they know how many times it's been forwarded. Every single email you send goes through their data banks to compile the report for the department of homeland security. Hell even I, know how many times your mom's forwarded that email -I just use the Email Offenders Register. www.chainmugs.com If you don't want them to track your email, you have tio type *a55w1pe in the bcc field.

That AP writer seems really broken up about it.

snap. http://www.cellar.org/showthread.php...783#post439783 :lol: Anthony Minghella died today too.

(I'm a slow poster)

20 July 1919 to 11 January 2008 is 32317 days.
32317/365.25 = 88.479 (to 3 decimal places)

So it is accurate to the nearest day, if the year is assumed to be 365.25 days long.

Well spotted.

Resurrecting an old thread in a good cause, albeit an obscure one to most people.

Humphrey Lyttleton died yesterday.
He was 86, so had a good innings, and made his mark, but it's the passing of an era.
He was a jazz musician (trumpet) and the host of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue - the long running (over 40 years) and extremely funny Radio 4 comedy.

Humph - more than Mornington Crescent mourns you.

Though I never got the hang of the game, it seemed like fun. Godspeed, Mr. Lyttleton

I think it would also be appropriate to note the passing, much too young, of Danny Federici, the awesome Hammond B3 player from Springsteen's E Street Band.

To me, he is best known for playing the accordian on "Sandy". Takes a lot of imagination and balls to play accordian on a rock and roll ballad.

Hofmann is probably up in Heaven beating the shit out of Timothy Leary for fucking up his creation. :)