Celebrity Death Thread

[Deuce]

Well, if your own mother was in a concentration camp, I excuse some of the bravado. It's always good to remember what actual Hell looks like.

They just words, and I don't expect Gene Simmons to put his thoughts into anything other than a completely retarded fashion. Somewhere in that tone deaf mess is a sobering message.

And Gonz's little blurb at the end of his post is also very dumb. Nothing wrong with reminding people that sometimes your depression is your self obsessed perspective and sometimes your depression is because you depleted your mood enhancing brain chemicals doing hardcore drugs, but I don't see the point in being unsympathetic to anybody going through it.

[Nick Pappageorgio]

Didn't Ozzie actually do it

No....that was Tommy Lee

[CGVT]

It was Ozzy

Ozzy Osbourne Snorts a Line of Ants

When Motley Crue went on tour with Ozzy Osbourne in 1984, the Crue found they'd finally met their match in terms of excess, particularly drug consumption. Tommy Lee later recounted pulling into a hotel in Florida after having been up all night with Ozzy drinking and snorting cocaine. The story goes that the musicians spotted a line of ants outside the bus and as Motley Crue looked on in disbelief, Ozzy leapt to the ground and snorted the entire thing with a straw.

Most of the time though, Osbourne was ingesting things more addictive than fire ants. By his own admission, he was a practicing alcoholic and drug abuser for 40 years and is as surprised as anyone that he survived it all. When he was fired from Black Sabbath in 1979, he locked himself in a hotel room for three months to binge on drugs and alcohol (listening to Sabbath's terrible albums of the late '70s, it's difficult to see why he was so upset). He got it back together to start a successful solo career but continued to run off the rails of the "Crazy Train"; in the early '80s he legendarily urinated on the Alamo and was arrested and banned from San Antonio, Texas, and in the late '80s he almost murdered his wife Sharon while high.

[Nick Pappageorgio]

Shit.....I swore I saw Lee in an interview that it was him.

[Nick Pappageorgio]

I just turned 40....so it's possible I'm starting to go soft between the ears.

[Dr. Emmett.L.Brown]

Opinion alert, and an opinion long before recent remarks......., Gene Simmons is a fking dickhead. Apologies to die hard KISS fans.

(They were over rated pish as well! )

[The Ken]

It was Ozzy

Ozzy Osbourne Snorts a Line of Ants

When Motley Crue went on tour with Ozzy Osbourne in 1984, the Crue found they'd finally met their match in terms of excess, particularly drug consumption. Tommy Lee later recounted pulling into a hotel in Florida after having been up all night with Ozzy drinking and snorting cocaine. The story goes that the musicians spotted a line of ants outside the bus and as Motley Crue looked on in disbelief, Ozzy leapt to the ground and snorted the entire thing with a straw.

Most of the time though, Osbourne was ingesting things more addictive than fire ants. By his own admission, he was a practicing alcoholic and drug abuser for 40 years and is as surprised as anyone that he survived it all. When he was fired from Black Sabbath in 1979, he locked himself in a hotel room for three months to binge on drugs and alcohol (listening to Sabbath's terrible albums of the late '70s, it's difficult to see why he was so upset). He got it back together to start a successful solo career but continued to run off the rails of the "Crazy Train"; in the early '80s he legendarily urinated on the Alamo and was arrested and banned from San Antonio, Texas, and in the late '80s he almost murdered his wife Sharon while high.

I saw Crue and Ozzy at Pine Knob in 84

[FVD]

If anyone can find me a 20 year old KISS fan in Seattle, I will pay them one American dollar.

[Drew]

LOL

[Forsh]

KISS sucks. Their music is pretty useless.

[Tony G]

Don Pardo, iconic 'Saturday Night Live' announcer, dies at 96

http://www.freep.com/article/20140819/ENT03/308190047/don-pardo-saturday-night-live

[Chuck Cunningham]

Wow, I wouldn't have thought he was 96. He was obviously much older than everyone else on that show.

[YT]

RIP Don

[Dr. Emmett.L.Brown]

RIP Don Pardo! Great voice!... Not just SNL... one of my favs: Don Pardo with Weird Al's song/video "I lost on Jeopardy"

[ame]http://youtu.be/BvUZijEuNDQ[/ame]

[Panoptes]

?Suicide tourism? numbers in Switzerland have doubled, study finds

More than 600 people have journeyed to the country since 2008. Many came from countries that prevent assisted suicides.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/suicide-tourism-rate-doubles-switzerland-article-1.1912321