Thread : In the news today

[yiraheerai]

Ah. Okay. That makes sense.

[Don Alexander]

Hey, we haven't had a celebrity death in a while...

William Peter Blatty, author of The Exorcist, dies at 89.

Well, I guess 89 is a good age to go.

[Artemisia]

And just yesterday it was announced that Tommy Allsup passed away at 85. Don't be sad if you don't know who he is. He's just one of the luckiest guys in the world.

[Allsup] met Buddy Holly in a recording studio in 1958, and the star invited him to join his band on the fateful Winter Dance Party tour a year later.

Crossing Midwest America in freezing conditions, many of the musicians succumbed to the flu and even frostbite. To avoid one particularly wintry bus journey, Holly decided to charter a plane between Clear Lake, Iowa and their next venue in Minnesota.

Allsup was originally supposed to catch the flight, but Valens - who had previously suffered a fear of flying - pestered him to swap places.

"He asked me four or five times could he fly in my place," Allsup recalled in 2007. "For some reason, I pulled a half dollar out of my pocket and flipped it. He said 'heads' and it came up heads.

"So I went out to the station wagon and told Buddy. I said, 'I'm not going. Me and Ritchie flipped a coin. He's going in my place'. Buddy, said 'cool'."

The plane crashed shortly after take-off in the Iowa countryside.

[Don Alexander]

RIP Eugene Cernan, last man on the Moon.

[yiraheerai]

Is there anyone left who has been on the moon?

['J']

death tried to ambush Buzz Aldrin down in Antarctica last year, but got punched in his bony face and sent home for the trouble.



this xkcd is a few years out of date now, but still a handy guide

[Azrael]

Captain Cernan. 07

Is there anyone left who has been on the moon?

There are six men that have walked on the moon still living:

Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11
Alan Bean, Apollo 12
David Scott, Apollo 15
John W. Young, Apollo 16
Charles Duke, Apollo 16
Harrison Schmitt, Apollo 17

[Azrael]

Double post because Holy Shit! A rabid bobcat in Sedona, Arizona.

[Tenjen]

<w< there wasn't enough cream in my latte and thats what you get when you screw up developing silent hills and scalebound

[Azrael]

Miguel Ferrer passes at 61.

[yiraheerai]

I saw that Here's hoping 2017 doesn't try to follow in 2016's scythe-steps.

...I had no idea what to call it. Sweeping? Grazing? I just don't know.

[Azrael]

Reaping.

[Searcher]

Taste raincow!


Finally! Good riddance! Don't let the door hit you on the way out! Yes Obama, it is time to say "you are the weakest link!"

now go away and never return.

[Don Alexander]

Breaking news: Time travel disproved once and for all.

[Don Alexander]

National Day of Patriotic Devotion?

NATIONAL DAY OF PATRIOTOC DEVOTION??????????????????

Why not just call it "I'm Trump And I'm Awesome Day"?