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Bernie Mac dies at age 50?!?

LondonBridgeLondonBridge __BANNED USERS regular
edited August 2008 in Debate and/or Discourse
We lost another great entertainer this year... Bernie Mac :cry:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080809/ap_on_en_mo/obit_bernie_mac

A hilarious human in so many little film roles that were his own, from Transformers to Friday.

Bernie will be missed.

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  • UnknownUnknown
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  • monikermoniker Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    What? I heard he was sick a couple days ago, but thought he was getting better. That just...well, that sucks.

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  • AegisAegis Fear My Dance Overshot Toronto, Landed in OttawaRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Complications from pneumonia? People still die from that? Damn :(

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  • MKRMKR Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    It's like the season of deaths of people who aren't supposed to die.

    :(

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  • UnknownUnknown
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  • ZimmydoomZimmydoom Accept no substitutes Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Ugh... this is awful.

    RIP, funny man.

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  • PlutoniumPlutonium Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    "Complications from pneumonia" is usually a codeword for something else.

    I'm thinking it could have been AIDS.

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  • MKRMKR Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Plutonium wrote: »
    "Complications from pneumonia" is usually a codeword for something else.

    I'm thinking it could have been AIDS.

    Wha?

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  • monikermoniker Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Plutonium wrote: »
    "Complications from pneumonia" is usually a codeword for something else.

    I'm thinking it could have been AIDS.

    o_O

    For one:
    the article wrote:
    The comedian suffered from sarcoidosis, an inflammatory lung disease that produces tiny lumps of cells in the body's organs

    If anything that would be the likely culprit that is being masked, assuming there's any deception involved. For two, why the hell would you immediately go there? For three, why the hell would they mask his cause of death?

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  • Fatty McBeardoFatty McBeardo Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Plutonium wrote: »
    "Complications from pneumonia" is usually a codeword for something else.

    I'm thinking it could have been AIDS.

    I'm thinking you're wrong. I totally get where you're coming from in that people who have AIDS often succumb to respiratory infections, but come on. That's a pretty dark jump to conclusions.
    CNN wrote:
    The comedian suffered from sarcoidosis, an inflammatory lung disease that produces tiny lumps of cells in the body's organs, but had said the condition went into remission in 2005. He recently was hospitalized and treated for pneumonia, which his publicist said was not related to the disease.

    Bernie Mac was probably my favorite comedian these days. His roles in the Ocean's films and even his brief appearance in Transformers were some of the best parts of those films.

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  • LudiousLudious I just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Clearly, the obvious explanation is that Plutonium is a racist.

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    My father in law almost died from complications related to pnuemonia, ditto a guy I work with. What would make you think it is some kind of aids-codeword? This isn't 1983.

    I never really had a strong attachment to Bernie Mac, but it is a shame he died.

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  • PlutoniumPlutonium Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I'm just saying that a lot of times people die of Pneumonia when they don't want to release details of an underlying illness. Sorry it came out wrong.

    It was a shame that he died, he was a real funny guy.

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  • Fatty McBeardoFatty McBeardo Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    First thing I ever saw him perform in - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC4ul_FYnlQ

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  • APZonerunnerAPZonerunner Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    :'(

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Plutonium wrote: »
    I'm just saying that a lot of times people die of Pneumonia when they don't want to release details of an underlying illness. Sorry it came out wrong.

    It was a shame that he died, he was a real funny guy.

    [citation needed]

    I'm not going to turn this is thread about a deceased celebrity into some kind of idiotic argument, but if you are going to say things like that, you need to have examples and some obvious reason for saying it.

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I saw one newspaper site report this but they didn't have any hard evidence or sources for it, so I ignored it.

    Then a few minutes ago when I was going to Google News to find something else it was all up on it.

    Rest in peace Bernie Mac, you went way too soon.

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  • PlutoniumPlutonium Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    DouglasDanger wrote: »
    Plutonium wrote: »
    I'm just saying that a lot of times people die of Pneumonia when they don't want to release details of an underlying illness. Sorry it came out wrong.

    It was a shame that he died, he was a real funny guy.

    [citation needed]

    I'm not going to turn this is thread about a deceased celebrity into some kind of idiotic argument, but if you are going to say things like that, you need to have examples and some obvious reason for saying it.

    I was just speculating and it came out wrong. If you really need examples, Freddie Mercury died from Pneumonia, and only revealed the true cause right before he died. I'm sure there are tons of other people out there who preferred keep their privacy.

    He was a consistently funny guy, and will be missed.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9FaHXIhX_4

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  • VariableVariable Mouth Congress Stroke Me Lady FameRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    always entertained me more than I expected which is about as much as I can ask of anyone. Sad day.

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  • Wonder_HippieWonder_Hippie __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2008
    This is sad, The Bernie Mac Show was one of the funniest sitcoms on television, and his standup was always hilarious.

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  • Fatty McBeardoFatty McBeardo Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Tried to find the scene from Ocean's 11 where he's buying vans off of a used car lot, no go. D:

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  • BarrakkethBarrakketh Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Plutonium wrote: »
    DouglasDanger wrote: »
    Plutonium wrote: »
    I'm just saying that a lot of times people die of Pneumonia when they don't want to release details of an underlying illness. Sorry it came out wrong.

    It was a shame that he died, he was a real funny guy.

    [citation needed]

    I'm not going to turn this is thread about a deceased celebrity into some kind of idiotic argument, but if you are going to say things like that, you need to have examples and some obvious reason for saying it.

    I was just speculating and it came out wrong. If you really need examples, Freddie Mercury died from Pneumonia, and only revealed the true cause right before he died. I'm sure there are tons of other people out there who preferred keep their privacy.

    He was a consistently funny guy, and will be missed.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9FaHXIhX_4

    I preferred this one from the same movie:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4FOJFLJVlQ

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  • PantsBPantsB Fake Thomas Jefferson Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    moniker wrote: »
    Plutonium wrote: »
    "Complications from pneumonia" is usually a codeword for something else.

    I'm thinking it could have been AIDS.
    For two, why the hell would you immediately go there?

    He is correct that "complications from pneumonia" has commonly been used as an euphemism for AIDs, especially in the 80s. No reason to believe its the case here though.

    Very unfortunate, you never know when your time is up. D:

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  • WerdnaWerdna Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Sucks that people die. Frankly, I never thought him funny.

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  • CymoroCymoro Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/people/1088672,CST-NWS-mac03.article

    Publicist says he's still alive.

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  • TachTach Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    WTF? Everybody is reporting him dead- there should probably be a clarification somewhere. Unless the publicist is just in denial or something.

    If true- I hope he pulls through.

    *edit* Shit. Thanks a lot, Soggybiscuit... :(

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  • SoggybiscuitSoggybiscuit Tandem Electrostatic Accelerator Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Cymoro wrote: »
    http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/people/1088672,CST-NWS-mac03.article

    Publicist says he's still alive.

    6 days ago.

    He was a pretty good actor/comedian. Rest in peace, good sir.

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  • DarkCrawlerDarkCrawler Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    mcdermott wrote: »
    Aegis wrote: »
    Complications from pneumonia? People still die from that? Damn :(

    Yeah, they still do. Especially the old and the really young. Not often, but it happens.

    Bernie, almost like Carlin, was one of those guys who just was. Not a superstar, but somebody who was always around and if you saw him come on-screen you knew you were about to laugh. It's hard for me to imagine a world without him.

    Exactly.

    And HOLY shit I hate when deaths just happen like this. Just out of the blue.

    R.I.P. :(

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  • BasarBasar IstanbulRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    DarkCrawler wrote: »

    And HOLY shit I hate when deaths just happen like this. Just out of the blue.

    R.I.P. :(

    Well apparently he wassick for a long time before his death.

    And for the rest of you, yes people still die from pneumonia. I almost did in 2006.:(

    R.I.P B-Mac.

    Edit: oh, and I swear I have read somewhere that black people are more sensitive to pneumonia. And given his age...

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  • VariableVariable Mouth Congress Stroke Me Lady FameRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    just for the record my mom asked me if it was AIDS when she heard about it. like specifically called me to ask, I guess she figured I'd have heard.

    that was a very common code for AIDS at a time. my guess is now, where it's probably more public and definitely more possible to live with, if someone has aids we'd know about it long before they actually died. admittedly, that's just speculation but something like that staying hidden when it probably doesn't have to would be both unnecessary and potentially dangerous.

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  • SenjutsuSenjutsu thot enthusiast Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Sarcoidosis is bad mojo for your lungs

    Bernie Mac got pneumonia on top of it

    do the math and shut up about aids you dullards

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  • VariableVariable Mouth Congress Stroke Me Lady FameRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Senjutsu wrote: »
    Sarcoidosis is bad mojo for your lungs

    Bernie Mac got pneumonia on top of it

    do the math and shut up about aids you dullards

    I'm not saying it was aids, I'm actually saying it's highly unlikely in any present day situation and just plain false in this case, but it's also understandable why someone might have thought that.

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  • SenjutsuSenjutsu thot enthusiast Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    That was not specifically targeted at you

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  • VariableVariable Mouth Congress Stroke Me Lady FameRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Senjutsu wrote: »
    That was not specifically targeted at you

    well lucky for me my response wasn't targeted at you, so we're all cool.

    neither is this actually. when did you get in the thread? I didn't even see.

    ...

    what? I think someone's calling me from the other room. later senj.

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  • HappylilElfHappylilElf Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    It's been my experience that far too many people tend to think of pneumonia as a bad cold when the reality is pneumonia is something that can kill you. I mean, no, it's not the plauge, but it's not exactly the sniffles either.

    Yeah, if you're a healthy 20 something adult? Pneumonia is probably not something you have to worry about. When you get older? Especially when you already have lung problems? Not a good situation to be in.

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  • wunderbarwunderbar What Have I Done? Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    man, this is shitty.

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  • DetharinDetharin Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Obviously this was the democratic party putting him on ice before he could become a further liability after the comments he gave that Obama event. Since we know that AIDS is a government super virus designed to kill blacks and homosexuals it is quite obvious that they infected him with it years ago due to the subversive nature of his comedy. Now that he is no longer in the headlines for the jokes he made at an Obama rally all they really had to do was infect him with pneumonia and wait for him to die. Thereby preventing him from making any more subversive comments that might potentially make the upcoming election to appear as rigged as it really is.

    Which leaves us with two important questions. First who ordered his death? Second does this actually need sarcasm tags or can people work it out this was a complete work of fiction?

    Rest in Peace.

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