Heath Ledger Found Dead

[abecedarian]

"We live in a world where John Lennon is murdered, yet Barry Manilow continues making fucking albums..." (Bill Hicks)

And Manilow's fan club is still hyperactive!

What Roddglenn is pointing out, is the seeming unfairness that such a terrible thing would happen to someone who was doing his best to be a good person. Not that anyone wishes death or tragedy on the so-called deserving, either. It is just a fact of life that people who burn both ends of the candle tend to die sooner than those who don't. The other fact is nobody gets out of here alive. Unfortunately Mr. Ledger checked out too soon for some of us.

 

[roddglenn]

Poe is another example and lol I loved Bill Hicks.

 

[Sybarite]

All of which reminds me of the sig a friend has on their email:

"Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather, to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting: "****, what a ride!"

 

[sparkchaser]

All of which reminds me of the sig a friend has on their email:

"Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather, to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting: "****, what a ride!"

That's a great quote.

 

[abecedarian]

All of which reminds me of the sig a friend has on their email:

"Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather, to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting: "****, what a ride!"

Christian comedian, singer/songwriter Mark Lowry(he wrote Mary Did You Know) says, "Eat the greasy food, take a one-a-day..Die young, leave a pretty corpse, that's my motto!"

 

[roddglenn]

Both of those are brilliant!

 

[beer good]

And back to Bill Hicks:

Does anyone remember this? When Yul Brynner died and came out with that commercial AFTER he was dead? "I'm Yul Brynner and I'm dead now." What the ****'s THIS guy sellin? I'm all ears. "I'm Yul Brynner, and I'm dead now cos I smoked cigarettes." OK, pretty scary. But they could have done that with anyone. They could have done it with that Jim Fixx guy, too. Remember that guy? That health nut who died while jogging? Oh, I don't remember seeing his commercial!

"I'm Jim Fixx, and I'm dead now...an' I don't know WHAT the **** happened. I jogged every day, ate nothing but tofu, swam 500 laps every morning - I'm dead. Yul Brynner drank, smoked, and got laid every night of his life - he's dead.

...SHIT!

Yul Brynner smokin', drinkin, girls are sittin' on his cueball noggin every night of his life. I'm runnin' around a dewy track at dawn...and we're both fuckin' dead. Yul used to pass me on his way home in the morning. Big long limousine. Two girls blowin' him. Cigarette in one hand; drink in the other. One day that life's gonna get to you, Yul... *jog* *gasp* *thump*"

They're both dead. Yeah, but what a healthy looking corpse you were, Jim. Look at the hamstrings on that corpse! Look at the sloppy grin on Yul's corpse!