Obituaries for 2017

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Bugs Bunny Designer Bob Givens Dies at 99
Mercedes Milligan | Dec 15th, 2017
http://www.animationmagazine.net/people/bugs-bunny-designer-bob-givens-dies-at-99/



Robert “Bob” Givens, an animator whose long and celebrated career brought him through the gamut of 20th century animation milestones from Walt Disney’s Snow White, to the first Bugs Bunny cartoon, to Hanna-Barbera’s Quick Draw McGraw, died on December 14 at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Burbank at age 99. His death was announced by his daughter, Mariana Givens, on Facebook.

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Porn star August Ames commits suicide after bullying for refusing to have sex with man who did gay porn
December 7th, 2017
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/12/07/porn-star-august-ames-commits-suicide-after-bullying-for-not-wanting-to-have-sex-with-man-who-did-gay-porn.html

A porn star relentlessly bullied on Twitter after saying she did not want to have sex with someone who had shot gay porn committed suicide by hanging.

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I just came across this story.  Looks like the LGBTQ+ mafia scored a lethal hit.





And...

Gay porn star who trolled August Ames refuses to back down over 'homophobic' slurs
http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/gay-porn-star-who-trolled-11659307

[musiclady]

Bugs Bunny Designer Bob Givens Dies at 99
Mercedes Milligan | Dec 15th, 2017
http://www.animationmagazine.net/people/bugs-bunny-designer-bob-givens-dies-at-99/



Robert “Bob” Givens, an animator whose long and celebrated career brought him through the gamut of 20th century animation milestones from Walt Disney’s Snow White, to the first Bugs Bunny cartoon, to Hanna-Barbera’s Quick Draw McGraw, died on December 14 at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Burbank at age 99. His death was announced by his daughter, Mariana Givens, on Facebook.

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Wow.  Who knew he was still alive?   

(Some people live to be VERY old!!)

[musiclady]

Porn star August Ames commits suicide after bullying for refusing to have sex with man who did gay porn
December 7th, 2017
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/12/07/porn-star-august-ames-commits-suicide-after-bullying-for-not-wanting-to-have-sex-with-man-who-did-gay-porn.html

A porn star relentlessly bullied on Twitter after saying she did not want to have sex with someone who had shot gay porn committed suicide by hanging.

Not to defend this porn star, but isn't a person who bullies someone into suicide guilty some places in being complicit in his/her death?

I don't know, but I think the LBGQTUVWXYZ crowd bear the blame for her death.

[EasyAce]

Not to defend this porn star, but isn't a person who bullies someone into suicide guilty some places in being complicit in his/her death?

I don't know, but I think the LBGQTUVWXYZ crowd bear the blame for her death.

@musiclady
Morally, yes. Legally, probably not.

[musiclady]

@musiclady
Morally, yes. Legally, probably not.

I wonder if there are any states where they do legally...... 

[EasyAce]

Wow.  Who knew he was still alive?   

(Some people live to be VERY old!!)

RIP Mr. Givens. And thank you for siring cartoondom's all-time superstar.

Bugs Bunny, from "Rabbit Hood" (1949)

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[sneakypete]

Porn star August Ames commits suicide after bullying for refusing to have sex with man who did gay porn
December 7th, 2017
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/12/07/porn-star-august-ames-commits-suicide-after-bullying-for-not-wanting-to-have-sex-with-man-who-did-gay-porn.html

A porn star relentlessly bullied on Twitter after saying she did not want to have sex with someone who had shot gay porn committed suicide by hanging.

Gay porn star who trolled August Ames refuses to back down over 'homophobic' slurs
www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/gay-porn-star-who-trolled-11659307]http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/gay-porn-star-who-trolled-11659307[/url]

BUT.....BUT....BUT,I thought the LGTG crowd were the most open-minded understanding people on the face of the Earth?????? Isn't understanding and tolerance what they rant and rave about all the dime while demanding everyone show both to THEM?

WHY......,if I didn't know better I would think they are a bunch of intolerant hypocritical assholes,just like every other leftist shitheads.  </S>

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Eventually . .

[Smokin Joe]

@musiclady
Morally, yes. Legally, probably not.

Considering the AIDS rate in the ranks of homosexual 'performers' in that industry, I guess they were going to get her one way or another. It's sad that she felt so alone that she ended her life, if that is indeed what happened.

[Smokin Joe]

BUT.....BUT....BUT,I thought the LGTG crowd were the most open-minded understanding people on the face of the Earth?????? Isn't understanding and tolerance what they rant and rave about all the dime while demanding everyone show both to THEM?

WHY......,if I didn't know better I would think they are a bunch of intolerant hypocritical assholes,just like every other leftist shitheads.  </S>

We are ever assured they are all caring couples, faithful to the last, just like the folks next door...

 

[EasyAce]

Considering the AIDS rate in the ranks of homosexual 'performers' in that industry, I guess they were going to get her one way or another. It's sad that she felt so alone that she ended her life, if that is indeed what happened.

The AIDS rate isn't as big as people think in that industry, from what I have read, but it seems
apparent that the bullying rate among gay porn performers is reaching epidemic levels. (I'm
pretty sure this isn't the first such incident, even if it's maybe the first to provoke suicide.)

[musiclady]

We are ever assured they are all caring couples, faithful to the last, just like the folks next door...

 

Yes, and entirely monogamous, from what I read.........   

[EasyAce]

Yes, and entirely monogamous, from what I read.........   

@musiclady

I know a couple of gay couples. When they are in couples, they're quite monogamous.
The ones who aren't coupled up . . . that's a whole 'nother smoke. (Put it this way: a lot
of non-coupled-up gays make Hugh Hefner look celibate!)

[Smokin Joe]

@musiclady

I know a couple of gay couples. When they are in couples, they're quite monogamous.
The ones who aren't coupled up . . . that's a whole 'nother smoke. (Put it this way: a lot
of non-coupled-up gays make Hugh Hefner look celibate!)

I believe the word you are looking for is "promiscuous", although that might be understated in some cases.

[EasyAce]

I believe the word you are looking for is "promiscuous", although that might be understated in some cases.

No, I was talking about those who actually do make couples. Those who aren't coupled up like that,
they are who I meant when I said they made Hefner look celibate. There's something rather admirable
about the ones in couples who stay monogamous, even if you deplore their particular sexuality.

[Smokin Joe]

No, I was talking about those who actually do make couples. Those who aren't coupled up like that,
they are who I meant when I said they made Hefner look celibate. There's something rather admirable
about the ones in couples who stay monogamous, even if you deplore their particular sexuality.

Must of the ones in couples I know aren't out parading their stuff on pride day, they are rather like hetero couples in not being in your face with their sexual preferences. I was referring to the 'single' ones, who seem to be the majority and who are far more flamboyant and promiscuous. From one I talked with, that person claimed more sexual partners in a week than most people have in a lifetime.

[EasyAce]

Must of the ones in couples I know aren't out parading their stuff on pride day, they are rather like hetero couples in not being in your face with their sexual preferences.

Bingo. You won't see them parading their stuff on other days where you might expect to see a gay
presence on the more militant side, either.

I was referring to the 'single' ones, who seem to be the majority and who are far more flamboyant and promiscuous. From one I talked with, that person claimed more sexual partners in a week than most people have in a lifetime.

That's who I meant with the Hefner-as-a-celibate comparison, too. Like the one you talked to, they
brag about it every chance they get, it often seems. Even those who aren't overtly flamboyant about
it, get them talking and they'll tell you just what the one you know told you.

I mean, isn't it bad enough when heterosexual men brag like that?

[Smokin Joe]

Bingo. You won't see them parading their stuff on other days where you might expect to see a gay
presence on the more militant side, either.
That's who I meant with the Hefner-as-a-celibate comparison, too. Like the one you talked to, they
brag about it every chance they get, it often seems. Even those who aren't overtly flamboyant about
it, get them talking and they'll tell you just what the one you know told you.

I mean, isn't it bad enough when heterosexual men brag like that?

I was raised with the archaic maxim of 'don't kiss and tell'. I never engaged in locker room jabbering about who did what with who, except to note that much of it was likely wishful thinking. I had a reputation among the ladies I knew for being discrete, and think I actually did more than the braggarts. Still, in those days, a guy didn't engage in activity with a lady he would not be reasonably compatible with anyway. just in case... 

That said, marriage, that vow of mutual fidelity is something I have taken with utmost seriousness, a vow taken before The Almighty, and sacrosanct. Which is why I avoided married women in my single days like the plague (aside from the fact that might get you shot).

[EasyAce]

I was raised with the archaic maxim of 'don't kiss and tell'. I never engaged in locker room jabbering about who did what with who, except to note that much of it was likely wishful thinking. I had a reputation among the ladies I knew for being discrete, and think I actually did more than the braggarts. Still, in those days, a guy didn't engage in activity with a lady he would not be reasonably compatible with anyway. just in case... 

Likewise. If anyone ever asked me about my sex life in those years, I said, "Her prerogative, my honour, and none of your business." And
never disclosed who the "her" was.

That said, marriage, that vow of mutual fidelity is something I have taken with utmost seriousness, a vow taken before The Almighty, and sacrosanct.

As would I if I were fortunate enough to meet someone who'd be fool enough to want to marry me again.

Which is why I avoided married women in my single days like the plague (aside from the fact that might get you shot).

I think it was Ronnie Van Zandt of Lynyrd Skynyrd who once said he wanted to die at age 90 being shot
by a jealous husband.

[GtHawk]

I believe the word you are looking for is "promiscuous", although that might be understated in some cases.

Randy is the word I would apply, randy as a queen in heat!

[Smokin Joe]

Likewise. If anyone ever asked me about my sex life in those years, I said, "Her prerogative, my honour, and none of your business." And
never disclosed who the "her" was.
As would I if I were fortunate enough to meet someone who'd be fool enough to want to marry me again.

Just get her to marry you once....

I think it was Ronnie Van Zandt of Lynyrd Skynyrd who once said he wanted to die at age 90 being shot
by a jealous husband.

I used to add "...for good reason.", but as I get up in the years, I'm not so sure about the getting shot part.

[edpc]

I think it was Ronnie Van Zandt of Lynyrd Skynyrd who once said he wanted to die at age 90 being shot by a jealous husband.

Nobody ever expects or requests death by flying Sony products in a plane crash.

[EasyAce]

Just get her to marry you once....

*laughing* I'd be the one re-marrying! (I'm divorced.)

[Smokin Joe]

*laughing* I'd be the one re-marrying! (I'm divorced.)

Oh. THat's different. I'll spare you the 'dog returning to its vomit' speech. 

My first two tries were dismal failures: a poor little rich girl who was a very convincing liar, and another who had worse problems with bottles and other things than I could deal with. Rebound, two up two down. I took some time off (a year that became quite a few more) figuring out what I was doing wrong, and selection was the biggest problem. Then remarried, to a lady who had been a friend for over 20 years, and have been together since. I figured either third time's a charm or three strikes I'm out. So far, it's been a charm. I wish you all the happiness you can find with another, or if it suits you better, without.

[Cyber Liberty]

I think it was Ronnie Van Zandt of Lynyrd Skynyrd who once said he wanted to die at age 90 being shot by a jealous husband.

I prefer Will Rogers:

“When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.”

[sneakypete]

We are ever assured they are all caring couples, faithful to the last, just like the folks next door...

 

@Smokin Joe

Uhhhhhhh...........

[Machiavelli]

Iconic vocalist Keely Smith dies from apparent heart failure at 89

Keely Smith has died at age 89. Here is a press release regarding her death:

“Keely Smith, the iconic singer/performer known for her many solo recordings as well as her musical partnership with first husband Louis Prima died in Palm Springs, CA on Saturday, December 16.  She was 89 and under physicians’ care at the time of her passing from apparent heart failure. Born Dorothy Jacqueline Keely in Norfolk VA on March 9, 19 28 of Native American (Cherokee) and Irish parentage, Smith showed a natural aptitude for singing at a young age. At 14, she sang with a naval air station band and at 15, she got her first paying job with the Earl Bennett band.

Smith, still a teenager, auditioned to be the “girl singer” in Prima’s band, got the job and hit the road with them in 1948.  She and Prima married in 1953 and had two children together, Toni Prima and Luanne Prima, both of whom survive their mother.  The Smith and Prima combination was a potent one both on stage, on television, in films and on records and made Keely Smith a household name.

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[Applewood]

Didn't realize Miss Smith was still alive.  She sang with her first husband, Louis Prima's band.  This is my favorite:

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Rest in peace, Miss Smith.

[Cyber Liberty]

It's a good thing Louis Prima never ran for Senator as a Republican, he'd have been ripped to shreds by the press.... ^-^

[catfish1957]

Half Mast Erections?

Not a problem for some of us  60+ crowd.

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I prefer Will Rogers:

“When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.”

@Cyber Liberty

That's actually by Jack Handey.

[mountaineer]

It's a good thing Louis Prima never ran for Senator as a Republican, he'd have been ripped to shreds by the press.... ^-^

She was his wife - does he still get in trouble?

[Cyber Liberty]

She was his wife - does he still get in trouble?

Yeah, if he's in the wrong Party.

[sneakypete]

Iconic vocalist Keely Smith dies from apparent heart failure at 89

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She and Louie were so good I tried to never miss their appearances on the Ed Sullivan show back in the 50's,and I was just a little kid. They were the prefect match for the tv era. She,with her bored robotic appearance and GREAT voice,along with Prima,the dancing clown with a great voice were hard to beat.

[jmyrlefuller]

@Cyber Liberty

That's actually by Jack Handey.

I have also heard it attributed to British comic Bob Monkhouse.

[Restored]

I have also heard it attributed to British comic Bob Monkhouse.

Abraham Lincoln said it first

[truth_seeker]

She and Louie were so good I tried to never miss their appearances on the Ed Sullivan show back in the 50's,and I was just a little kid. They were the prefect match for the tv era. She,with her bored robotic appearance and GREAT voice,along with Prima,the dancing clown with a great voice were hard to beat.

I remember our first TV. We received two fuzzy channels. Period.

I died and went to heaven, when we moved to California, and saw TV on my grandparents set. Seven clear channels.

And adults determined what was watched, and for how long. That meant adult programs and children's' programs.

Adult meant variety shows, and this couple typified good televised entertainment.

That couple were popular with both my anglo-nordic-American parents, and my wife's Italian-American parents.

That "Black Magic" song still stirs me.

[Sanguine]

Abraham Lincoln said it first

Yes, but he said "two horse carriage", not "car".

[Cyber Liberty]

Yes, but he said "two horse carriage", not "car".

I thought it was "Surrey with a fringe on top"

[sneakypete]

I remember our first TV. We received two fuzzy channels. Period.

I died and went to heaven, when we moved to California, and saw TV on my grandparents set. Seven clear channels.

And adults determined what was watched, and for how long. That meant adult programs and children's' programs.

Adult meant variety shows, and this couple typified good televised entertainment.

That couple were popular with both my anglo-nordic-American parents, and my wife's Italian-American parents.

That "Black Magic" song still stirs me.

@truth_seeker

Here she is singing with The Jive Aces in 2008.  Can you imagine how thrilled they were to perform with her live?

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[truth_seeker]

@truth_seeker

Here she is singing with The Jive Aces in 2008.  Can you imagine how thrilled they were to perform with her live?

Yep. The Brits have loved American music from way, way back. Rock, Blues, Jazz, Country.
@sneakypete

And I have loved theirs, too. Notably Van Morrison, Sade to just mention a couple faves. (plus many of the usual suspects)

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I have also heard it attributed to British comic Bob Monkhouse.

Yes, but it was Jack Handey, one of his "Deep Thoughts" when he was a writer for SNL.

[Cyber Liberty]

Yes, but it was Jack Handey, one of his "Deep Thoughts" when he was a writer for SNL.

No, it was Will Rogers, and he predates Handey by at least a few decades.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/466354-when-i-die-i-want-to-die-like-my-grandfather

It's also on Cheezeburger

[txradioguy]

Not sure how many of you are familiar with Mark Gungor...he does a great series on couples and relationships with an especially hilarious piece on how men's and women's brains are wired differently. 

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His wife...and high school sweetheart...passed away over the weekend of cancer. she was 63.

I firmly believe the experiences he talked about were probably based on experiences with him and his wife.

[Machiavelli]

Tom Zenk, of Can-Am Connection, dies at 59 (professional wrestler)

Tom Zenk, known for time teaming with Rick Martel as the Can-Am Connection in the 1980s, died Dec. 9 at 59 years old.

Trained by Eddie Sharkey, Zenk was a bodybuilder turned wrestler who earned the title Mr. Twin Cities in May 1981 after coming in at third place in October 1980 for the Mr. North Country championship. In July 1981, Zenk earned the Mr. Minnesota triple crown, securing titles in the overall, heavyweight and most muscular divisions.

Road Warrior Animal discovered Zenk at a bodybuilding competition and suggested he make the journey to professional wrestling.

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No, it was Will Rogers, and he predates Handey by at least a few decades.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/466354-when-i-die-i-want-to-die-like-my-grandfather

It's also on Cheezeburger

Yes, enough decades that his grandfather certainly wasnt driving a car!!

Note your source...goodreads...which is loaded with garbage, sonce anone can post whate very they want.  You'll not find a primary source for it in Rogers, because it's spurious.  OTOH, Handey has published it under his own name, since he wrote it.

Will Rogers also said "don't believe everything you read on the internet".

                                --Sedorner at

from r/quotes

https://www.reddit.com/r/quotes/comments/4sbqkl/when_i_die_i_want_to_die_like_my_grandfather_who/

[Cyber Liberty]

Yes, enough decades that his grandfather certainly wasnt driving a car!!

Note your source...goodreads...which is loaded with garbage, sonce anone can post whate very they want.  You'll not find a primary source for it in Rogers, because it's spurious.  OTOH, Handey has published it under his own name, since he wrote it.
                                --Sedorner at

from r/quotes

https://www.reddit.com/r/quotes/comments/4sbqkl/when_i_die_i_want_to_die_like_my_grandfather_who/

Got it.  I will never again challenge your assertions that a SNL actor wrote something that was known for eons before.  Will rogers, after all, never engaged in hyperbole in his life.

[jmyrlefuller]

Heather North dies at 71

North is perhaps most famous for voicing the role of Daphne Blake on the cartoon Scooby-Doo, a role she took partway through the first series and held onto for most of the 1970s and 1980s. She had a few bit parts on live-action television series, mostly in the 1960s and 1970s, including the soap opera Days of Our Lives, whose producer, Wes Kenney, would later marry North (despite him being 19 years her senior). North died November 30 of a long but unspecified illness; her death was not made public until December 19.

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[jmyrlefuller]

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I'm pretty sure it's Bob Monkhouse. This article, which was printed around the time of his death in 2003, attributes it to him as an established gag of his, although I've had a hard time finding a date for when he first said it:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/dec/29/arts.artsnews1