I always find it amusing when they ask super-old people what their secret is.
Generally, they give reasons that are like whiskey, bacon, cheeseburgers and sunshine. Or what have you.
I mean - what else are they supposed to say? They don't really know. Living to 90 may be attributed to good living habits, but living beyond 105 is pretty much dumb luck.
Emma Morano, the last known person born before 1900 has died.
Shee attributed her long life to staying single and eating two raw eggs a day.
RIP...
Dan Rooney truly was a great man and good soul, Steelers forever and rest with the angels.
Jan
RIP
RIP Dan Rooney.
One of my favorite bands of all time. It ain't nothin but a party. All I can say is "Baby where did our love go?"
RIP J
I always thought his name was Jay... I musta got lost
And his memory has just been sold!
So you're saying his blood runs cold?
Is he really dead?
Nah nah
Na na na nah
Na na na nah
Na na na nah!
WOWWW John Geils passed away today He was 71 .....RIP ........ Freeze Frame ......
Don Rickles... That one's gonna sting for a while. Woulda coulda shoulda...I was supposed to see him in Vegas late last year, but I let something keep me from pulling the trigger. ...Regrets, I've had a few...
I saw him in '97 with my now-ex and my best friend and his wife, at the Desert Inn. Cabaret seating. Long tables running back from the stage and rounds and booths behind us. About 5 minutes before he came out, I stood up and realized that the steps up to the stage were directly behind my buddy's seat. I joked about him walking behind my pal and chatting with him.
Sure enough, Rickles walks out from side-stage, through the audience and he's staring at my buddy the entire time. He goes right up those stairs and doesn't stop staring until he reaches the mic. His first line, "Filthy Mexicans...Shouldn't you be upstairs cleaning rooms? My buddy's half Italian and half Portugese, quite a bit darker complected than I, with Ricky Ricardo wavy hair. Rickles went off for about 5 minutes, as my friend tried to tell him he was Italian... and then, throughout the performance, he'd walk back over and banter with my friend.
At the end of the show, he brought everyone up who he'd made fun of and gave each a bottle of Dom.
That was a fun night.
Rest in peace, Don Rickles.
BT
RIP Don Rickles...
We missed this one entirely.
On Feb. 16, 2017:
William James Myers.
Better known as George "The Animal" Steele, a ridiculous pro wrestler, possibly with even more body hair than ncal.
Amazing - he was 79. WOW.
Gilbert Baker, creator of the rainbow flag at the request of Harvey Milk, has died.
He was 65.
RIP Chuck Barris.
Gene Gene the Dancing Machine...
@Fun: my mind is BLOWN!
I had no idea Mick started out singing R & B and I've been a Stones fan most of my life,
In April of 1962, Keith Richards wrote a letter to his favorite aunt, telling her how much he liked Chuck Berry. Here's an excerpt:
"You know I was keen on Chuck Berry and I thought I was the only fan for miles but one mornin' on Dartford Stn. (that's so I don't have to write a long word like station) I was holding one of Chuck's records when a guy I knew at primary school 7-11 yrs y'know came up to me. He's got every record Chuck Berry ever made and all his mates have too, they are all rhythm and blues fans, real R&B I mean (not this Dinah Shore, Brook Benton crap) Jimmy Reed, Muddy Waters, Chuck, Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker all the Chicago bluesmen real lowdown stuff, marvelous. Bo Diddley he's another great.
Anyways the guy on the station, he is called Mick Jagger and all the chicks and the boys meet every Saturday morning in the 'Carousel' some juke-joint well one morning in Jan I was walking past and decided to look him up. Everybody's all over me I get invited to about 10 parties. Beside that Mick is the greatest R&B singer this side of the Atlantic and I don't mean maybe. I play guitar (electric) Chuck style we got us a bass player and drummer and rhythm-guitar and we practice 2 or 3 nights a week. SWINGIN'."
Three months after writing this letter, Keith played his first gig with the new band, calling themselves The Rolling Stones.
RIP Mr. Chuck Berry! Thanks for the music!!!
I hope you rock the walls of Heaven !!!! RIP CHUCK BERRY
RIP dinner will die today!!! Fresh fish for dinner.
Amy Krouse Rosenthal, of whom you've never heard unless you read her moving piece:
nytimes. com/2017/03/03/style/modern-love-you-may-want-to-marry-my-husband.html
Robert James Waller, whose best-selling, bittersweet 1992 novel "The Bridges of Madison County" was turned into a movie starring Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood and a Broadway musical, has died in Texas, according to his literary agency. He was 77.
Rain Man's gonna throw a fit on your front porch.
busy day today for the grim reaper
RIP Judge Wapner...
