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John Glenn has passed

Metzger MeisterMetzger Meister It Gets Worsebefore it gets any better.Registered User regular
edited December 2016 in Social Entropy++
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/08/252101790/john-glenn-first-american-to-orbit-the-earth-dies-at-95

Fuck this year.

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    Dammit

  • DaMoonRulzDaMoonRulz Mare ImbriumRegistered User regular
    He was 95, I don't think we can hold this one against 2016

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  • el_vicioel_vicio Registered User regular
    DaMoonRulz wrote: »
    He was 95, I don't think we can hold this one against 2016

    Well, holding the passing of time, and the consequences thereof, against this instance of measurement of time...

    ...
    ...
    why not

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Seems like there's always a few big deaths right near the end of the year.

  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    Godspeed, spaceman. You will be missed.

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  • I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    Raijin Quickfoot wrote: »
    Seems like there's always a few big deaths right near the end of the year.

    winter is fuckin' cold

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  • DaMoonRulzDaMoonRulz Mare ImbriumRegistered User regular
    Raijin Quickfoot wrote: »
    Seems like there's always a few big deaths right near the end of the year.

    Mick Jagger and Paul McCartney are sweating real bad right now

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  • IronKnuckle's GhostIronKnuckle's Ghost This is also my fault Registered User regular
    John Gillespie Magee, Jr. wrote:
    Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
    And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
    Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
    Of sun-split clouds, --and done a hundred things
    You have not dreamed of --Wheeled and soared and swung
    High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
    I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
    My eager craft through footless halls of air...
    Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
    I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
    Where never lark or even eagle flew --
    And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
    The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
    Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

    Godspeed, Astronaut Glenn.

  • Darth WaiterDarth Waiter Elrond Hubbard Mordor XenuRegistered User regular
    DaMoonRulz wrote: »
    Raijin Quickfoot wrote: »
    Seems like there's always a few big deaths right near the end of the year.

    Mick Jagger and Paul McCartney are sweating real bad right now

    Stan Lee is almost 94 and Patrick Stewart is 76.

    I'll breathe a little easier on New Year's Day, thankyouverymuch.

  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    If there's one thing 2016 has taught us it's that our beloved celebrities can go at any time.


    Oh god, that's not helping, sorrrrrry

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  • fightinfilipinofightinfilipino Angry as Hell #BLMRegistered User regular
    can we just take back those last two posts plzkthx

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  • cB557cB557 voOOP Registered User regular
    Patrick Stewart's never gonna die.

  • mcpmcp Registered User regular
    DaMoonRulz wrote: »
    Raijin Quickfoot wrote: »
    Seems like there's always a few big deaths right near the end of the year.

    Mick Jagger and Paul McCartney are sweating real bad right now
    Mick Jagger just had another fucking kid.

    He's 73.

    His girlfriend is 29.

    He might be sweating, but it's not because he's scared of death.

  • Dex DynamoDex Dynamo Registered User regular
    edited December 2016
    John Glenn spoke at my graduation. I liked his speech a lot, though I don't remember a ton of what he said.

    I realize that is a terrible story, but it's my John Glenn story.

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  • GvzbgulGvzbgul Registered User regular
    Statistically, there will be even more celebrity deaths next year.

  • DaMoonRulzDaMoonRulz Mare ImbriumRegistered User regular
    Well sure, now that you've jinxed them all!

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  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    John Glenn was my grandmothers cousin

    I have a pair of his cuff links he gave to me a when I was a boy

    =(

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Xaquin wrote: »
    John Glenn was my grandmothers cousin

    I have a pair of his cuff links he gave to me a when I was a boy

    =(

    I want to awesome this post because you have a pair of his cufflinks but it feels wrong. My condolences, brother.

  • existexist Registered User regular
    DaMoonRulz wrote: »
    He was 95, I don't think we can hold this one against 2016

    I can't wait for 2017, a miraculous year in which extremely old people and rock stars who partied like Caligula will live forever.

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  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    Raijin Quickfoot wrote: »
    Xaquin wrote: »
    John Glenn was my grandmothers cousin

    I have a pair of his cuff links he gave to me a when I was a boy

    =(

    I want to awesome this post because you have a pair of his cufflinks but it feels wrong. My condolences, brother.

    I appreciate it. I was pretty young and don't really remember him though =(

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  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
    Raijin Quickfoot wrote: »
    Xaquin wrote: »
    John Glenn was my grandmothers cousin

    I have a pair of his cuff links he gave to me a when I was a boy

    =(

    I want to awesome this post because you have a pair of his cufflinks but it feels wrong. My condolences, brother.

    wear them proudly!

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  • TankHammerTankHammer Atlanta Ghostbuster Atlanta, GARegistered User regular
    Stan Lee died 20 years ago and his perfectly preserved corpse has been animated by cosmic forces ever since. He can never truly die so long as he keeps filming movie cameos.

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  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    Fun fact:

    This parade through DC was actually paused for a few minutes so that John Glenn's mother could get out of her car and ask my grandfather if my aunt had been born yet (she had been a few weeks earlier).

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    kind of wish my family had talked about him more when he was alive =P

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  • FishmanFishman Put your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain. Registered User regular
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUfBI0TgEyE

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