2024 Dead Pool

[Texasgordo]

Nope, couldn't bring myself to recognize this guy!! Always hate that thing!

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But here's some trivia for ya, Paley was discovered for the role by becoming a karate black belt at age nine and consequently appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson with Chuck Norris!

Looks like he's from the Critters movie

 

[billtool]

Used to love the Sleestacks!

 

[majormadmax]

So "Dad" was actually only 14 years older than his "son" Will!

And you thought Cha-ka was the only hillbilly!

 

[Hoji]

Kinky Friedman if the link does not work.
He earned my vote when he ran for governor by not being a dick when I met him a few years earlier. RIP

 

[ZX9RCAM]

Doesn't show him being dead here...

 

[Texasgordo]

Doesn't show him being dead here...

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Kinky Friedman, provocative satirist and one-time gubernatorial candidate, dies at 79

Friedman launched a boisterous campaign for governor in 2006, decades after forming the band Kinky Friedman and The Texas Jewboys.

www.texastribune.org

Ummm......

 

[Hoji]

Doesn't show him being dead here...

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Wikipedia is about as reliable as Snopes.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

My bad guys.

My screenshot is from Google.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

Google finally changed to show him dead.

 

[Hoji]

Google finally changed to show him dead.

I trust google about as much as I trust snopes, lol

 

[majormadmax]

Damn.

 

[majormadmax]

A true gentleman and Texas legend!

 

[dsgrey]

Ah, I had forgotten about Kinky though he did attract a lot of attention when he wanted to run for governor.

 

[majormadmax]

An excellent tribute to Kinky from Kent Perkins...

My great friend for half a century, Kinky Friedman, slipped away peacefully at home in his sleep early this morning.

He leaves a legacy of laughter, music, loyalty, mercy, tolerance, servitude, and wisdom.

He was famous as a best-selling author, humorist, songwriter, and singer. But we, his close friends and family, knew him as a rescuer of unwanted dogs and cats, a compassionate, philanthropic, soft-spoken man who devoted much of his life to serving others less fortunate.

He and his sister Marcie founded the Echo Hill Gold Star Camp. It is in session now, for kids who've lost a parent to military, police, fire, or EMS service.

"The Kinkster" left his mark on this planet, in an excellent way.

He was friends with Presidents, homeless vagrants, and every type of human being in between; all people were of equal value to him. His heroes included Moses, Jesus, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and Winston Churchill.

Kinky, at 79, performed on stage as long as he could stand up with a guitar strapped around his neck. And then he performed sitting down. Ruthie and I must have been to hundreds of performances over the years and we never saw him fail to win over a crowd with his humor, his music, and occasionally a heart-touching page or two read onstage from one of his books.

His books are printed in many languages and their appeal is worldwide. Several of his novels included a character described as "Kent Perkins, Private Investigator." He included many of us, his best friends, in a successful series of humorous murder mysteries centered around the amateur sleuthing of a down-and-out singer-songwriter living at 199B Vandam Street, Greenwich Village, New York named Kinky Friedman.

I learned a lot from Kinky. I never met a more honest, witty, selfless, generous, or sincere person than Richard Samet "Kinky" Friedman.

Somewhere in heaven, I'm sure there's a quiet corner with a big easy chair, a bright floor lamp, a big stack of biographical books, and a few old dogs wagging their tails to the faint smell of cigar smoke.

Rest in peace, my friend.

 

[Hoji]

From one of his editorials-

“They say when you die and go to heaven all the dogs and cats you’ve ever had in your life come running to meet you.”

I am sure he was well received upon arrival.

His rescue saved over 1000.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

From one of his editorials-

“They say when you die and go to heaven all the dogs and cats you’ve ever had in your life come running to meet you.”

I am sure he was well received upon arrival.

His rescue saved over 1000.

See my signature....

 

[tarantula]

Kinky Friedman if the link does not work.
He earned my vote when he ran for governor by not being a dick when I met him a few years earlier. RIP

Nooooooooo! Was just thinking about him yesterday for some odd reason RIP Texas Jewboy, you'll be missed.

 

[billtool]

RIP

 

[ZX9RCAM]

RIP Lizzy Musi at 33.

Breast cancer.

Damn!

 

[Texasgordo]

‘Street Outlaws: No Prep Kings’ star Lizzy Musi dead at 33

“Surrounded by her Family, in the comfort of her own home, Lizzy was called to heaven at 11:25pm tonight,” Lizzy Musi’s father wrote.

nypost.com

Link in case you are interested