The Notable Death Thread

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  1. Homer Potvin

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    Hey, wassup, Iain? Glad we didn't have to add your name to this thread, haha.
     
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    Jake Paul—coming soon
     
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    Why? Did he insult a Mexican cartel?
     
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    Worse. He's fighting Mike Tyson.
     
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    I picture Tyson mentally snapping and believing it's 1989. He forgets that this is an easy money slapfight and uppercuts Jake Paul so hard that Jake's head flips back like a Pez dispenser. We hear Jake's spine shatter, a whoof-sh-crack! It's like a fluorescent tube dropped onto concrete. The fight ends. The doctors are unable to straighten Jake Paul, though they do save his life. Jake has a special motorized sled built for himself so that he can see straight forward, and it scuttles him across the ground sort of like a mechanic who's about to slide under a vehicle, only he's on his belly instead of his back. Maybe a brave kid going head first down a water slide is a better image . . . He gets tired of being at shoe level though and has a version 2.0 built. This time he's up higher upon two supports, something like a human Stone Henge. Jake "The Lintel" Paul. He rises (literally) to new fame, because although he's a terrible boxer, he does have career ambition, and that cannot be denied.
     
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    Tyson is one of those guys, man…his whole career has been one of violence. Good luck Mr. Paul, may God have mercy on your soul; it’s a doubtful question whether Mike Tyson will act with a similar disposition towards your body.
     
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    I may be a small dissenting voice here but tyson is 57, his prime is a long long way behind him. at 27 Paul is 30 years younger and in much better shape... i don't think its a foregone conclusion either way
     
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    well…but Tyson has face tattoos
     
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    Have you seen video of Tyson working out? He's still a beast.
     
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    Commander Lou Conter, the last survivor of the Pearl Harbor attack on the USS Arizona, died at 102. He died peacefully at home with family by his side.
     
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    The white bronco ran out of gas.
     
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    I would like to see a funeral caravan escorting him to his cemetery, followed by a whole string of white Broncos. That would be a proper sendoff, I think.
     
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    All the drivers wearing one black glove perhaps?
     
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    Yup. That's the way I saw it, too.
     
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    The irony there is that on the same day OJ died Ford issued a recall for Broncos over fuel leaks.
     
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    I prefer to remember him as he was.

    Sitting in a courtroom facing a judge.
     
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    I agree. I can still see him in the naked gun series as Frank bumps his wheel chair down the stadium stairs.
     
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    Bob Cole, the voice of hockey for many millions of Canadians, has died at the ripe old age of 90. What a legend. I listened to this man call hockey games for literally thousands of hours. Here's a clip (just 20 seconds) of my favourite player scoring my favourite goal with my favourite Bob Cole call. Oh, baby!

     

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