I'm feeling old right now.. Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Ed McMahon..

ddeclue

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Thu Jun-25-09 10:09 PM
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I'm feeling old right now.. Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Ed McMahon..

all in a week.

:(

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lapfog_1

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Thu Jun-25-09 10:12 PM
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1. all icons of different decades

Ed - sixties
Farrah - seventies
Micheal - eighties

Never mind that they overlapped other decades. But their essential style, in my mind, is tied to the decade mentioned.

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ddeclue

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Thu Jun-25-09 10:14 PM
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5. and Walter Cronkite is probably next.. I read somewhere he's not doing well and he's 92.

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bluestateguy

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Thu Jun-25-09 10:17 PM
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9. I hope he meets with everyone's approval at DU

I suspect he will for 99.9% of posters.

But there will probably be one Marxist asshole who will piss on his grave with a bunch of his/her deconstructivist bullshit.

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BuelahWitch

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Thu Jun-25-09 10:41 PM
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18. Nope, if they fly him to the coroner in a helicopter he's dead meat

Wait...hmmm...

:yoiks:

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GinaMaria

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Thu Jun-25-09 10:12 PM
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2. me too

How the hell was MJ 50 yrs old? and Farrah in her 60s?! Holy crap getting old happens fast.

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Cleita

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Thu Jun-25-09 10:13 PM
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Don't forget David Carradine. I guess he died this month but he is

still important for influencing a generation.

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ddeclue

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Thu Jun-25-09 10:14 PM
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6. sorry.. I used to like him on Kung Fu.

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Cleita

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Thu Jun-25-09 10:17 PM
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10. A lot of the young vets returning from Vietnam liked him on "Kung Fu".

I used to be a bartender back then and that show was really important to them. It gave them maybe some validation for being a warrior but with Buddhist principles.

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HughMoran

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Thu Jun-25-09 10:13 PM
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3. All icons as I was growing up

It's impossible not to feel something - especially someone as young as Jackson who was just a little older than me.

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AntiFascist

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Thu Jun-25-09 10:13 PM
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4. hide thread....check n/t

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Dennis Donovan

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Thu Jun-25-09 10:27 PM
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13. Posting on a thread you're about to hide?

:rofl:

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AntiFascist

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Thu Jun-25-09 10:32 PM
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15. to make a point...

and even though the thread is hidden, I can still see your response to the post!

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MADem

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Thu Jun-25-09 10:15 PM
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7. Someone has to chime in at this point and say "They come in threes, it seems."

Might as well be me...!

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mountainvue

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Thu Jun-25-09 10:16 PM
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8. Farrah and Michael in one day is

a huge blow to anyone who was a kid in the 70's. May they both rest in peace.

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ddeclue

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Thu Jun-25-09 10:18 PM
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11. I was born in 66 and in the late 70's to the mid 80's they were both big.

but especially during the late 70's disco era when I was a young teen, they were both big - Farah faded out in the 80's and Michael in the 90's.

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bluestateguy

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Thu Jun-25-09 10:20 PM
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12. When I was kid people used to die that I had never heard of.

What? Who is Lucille Ball? Jimmy Stewart? Who? Rock Hudson? Who is that? All these Greatest Generation superheroes, who meant nothing to me. I didn't get it.

But that doesn't happen to me much anymore.

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Arugula Latte

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Thu Jun-25-09 10:28 PM
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14. I was thinking the same thing. I'm 43, so those people

really were big in my childhood/adolescence.

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Kaleva

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Thu Jun-25-09 10:33 PM
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16. Jackie Gleason, Red Skelton, Bob Hope, George Harrison,...

John Lennon, Lucille Ball, James Stewart, Buddy Ebsen, John Wayne. So many of the people I watched or listened to when I was growing up in the 60's are gone. I can remember my parents being in their 20's and grandparents being in their late 40's and early 50's but they've all been gone for awhile now.

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hlthe2b

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Thu Jun-25-09 10:33 PM
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17. I'm the same age as MJ...His death has impact especially...

So, ddeclue, you are not alone.....

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Jennicut

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Thu Jun-25-09 10:42 PM
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19. But MJ died at 50 and Farrah at 62. Not "young" but still middle aged.

Edited on Thu Jun-25-09 10:53 PM by Jennicut

Very tragic and sad to me.

I remember watching the Thriller vid as a kid, I think I was about 7. Wow, MJ had a huge impact on me when I was a kid, on my brother and friends too.
This was the early to mid 80's, when MTV was the biggest, newest thing around. We danced along to the Beat It video, Billie Jean too.
I know he messed up during his life but he sure made some great music during this time period.
As a 33 year old, I have played his stuff on youtube for MY kids (now 4 and 5) and they liked it.
Really sad.

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MiniMe

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Thu Jun-25-09 10:53 PM
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20. ? Your title confuses me

"But MJ and Farrah both died at 50 and Farrah at 62. Not "young" but still middle aged."

You have Farrah in there twice.

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Jennicut

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Thu Jun-25-09 10:57 PM
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21. Sorry, fixed it, getting late.

I meant that the OP said they felt old because Michael Jackson, Farrah and Ed McMahon all died. However, Michael Jackson and Farrah both kind of died before they were truly old. 50 is still quite young to me, my parents are the same age as Farrah. Its very sad to me that they both died in middle age and not old age. At least McMahon had a long, full life and lived to 86.

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