#1 2008-08-10 16:48:28
With Bernie Mac biting the Big One yesterday, it's a bad week for black men. Possibly a good weekend for Fnord.
Isaac Hayes, the pioneering singer, songwriter and musician whose relentless ''Theme From Shaft'' won Academy and Grammy awards, has been found dead at home. He was 65.
The Shelby County Sheriff's Office says a family member found Hayes unresponsive near a treadmill on Sunday. He was pronounced dead about an hour later at Baptist East Hospital in Memphis. The cause of death was not immediately known.
In the early 1970s, Hayes laid the groundwork for disco, for what became known as urban-contemporary music and for romantic crooners like Barry White. And he was rapping before there was rap.
His career hit another high in 1997 when he became the voice of Chef, the sensible school cook and devoted ladies man on the animated TV show ''South Park.'' NYT obit
Sounds like a heart attack. I guess Xenu couldn't save him.
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#2 2008-08-10 17:03:30
Oh my God--They killed Chef! You bastards!!
You beat me to the post by about eight minutes! You bastard!!
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#3 2008-08-10 17:22:06
New York Times wrote:
The Shelby County Sheriff's Office says a family member found Hayes unresponsive near a treadmill on Sunday.
When in the fuck are people going to learn? Our benevolent governments are all-ways so busy putting our taxes dollars "to work" in an effort to warn us of the dangers of marijuana, "cracked cocaine," and quality methedrine; But, where are the "public service" announcements from Jim Fixx (R.I.P. Bill Hicks) and Douglas Adams?
"It's just a bench-press. Look, it relieves the stress. I only push a-round one hundred and fifty or so a few times a week; So, it's not like I'm hurting any-body." {Cue image of suffocating kid stuck under 250 pounds of weight with no "spotter" in sight} "Why do you think that they call it "weight?" Wait . . ."
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#4 2008-08-10 17:26:18
George Orr wrote:
You beat me to the post by about eight minutes! You bastard!!
Luck of the draw. I have to go for a haircut now. Perhaps Billy Dee Williams or Quincy Jones will drop whilst I'm away.
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#5 2008-08-10 18:39:40
To round out the trio, my money's on Dave Chappelle, of "undetermined causes."
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#6 2008-08-10 20:00:58
I'm back, freshly shorn. Wot, nobody dead yet? Let's just wait patiently...
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#8 2008-08-10 21:01:44
pALEPHx wrote:
ot, nobody dead yet? Let's just wait patiently...
Well, Paul Newman is almost dead, if that counts for anything.
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#9 2008-08-10 21:16:08
square wrote:
To round out the trio, my money's on Dave Chappelle, of "undetermined causes."
can we get sharpton & farrakahn in on this too?
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#10 2008-08-10 23:08:27
square wrote:
To round out the trio, my money's on Dave Chappelle, of "undetermined causes."
"Choked on vomit" comes to mind. His own or somebody else's.
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#11 2008-08-10 23:22:43
Well you can't really dust for vomit.
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#12 2008-08-10 23:51:07
karenw wrote:
Well, Paul Newman is almost dead, if that counts for anything.
I was actually considering that, at the time. Stock up on salad dressing, everybody!
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#13 2008-08-11 01:00:53
Kyfe wrote:
square wrote:
To round out the trio, my money's on Dave Chappelle, of "undetermined causes."
can we get sharpton & farrakahn in on this too?
Ah, the "easy-target" attempt. Yeah, first of all, you non-capitalizing-Fuck, you miss-spelled Farrakhan - Secondly, exactly what fucking traits do Al Sharpton and Louis Farrakhan allegedly share to begin with which makes this lame fucking comment work in your little mind?
Pale wrote:
Stock up on salad dressing, everybody!
Eh, I'm cool. I make my own. Let me show you some-thing . . . What? Wait - Where are you guys going? I haven't even ground the cucumber yet.
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