*** Official OOT Less Important Than George Michael RIP Thread ***

indeed...what a character

Mel's Diner is still open here in Phoenix. Maybe I'll drop off some flowers, start a memorial.

Oddly, Linda Lavin who played Alice, died on December 29th 2024 (age 87). And there was no mention of it here.

Maybe her death was overshadowed by the death of Jimmy Carter who died on the same day.

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So long, Sundance.

RIP

Far more important than George Michael.

I vote we get a mod to change the title to just 'Official OOT RIP Thread'

I like my deaths contained to 1 thread

Yeah, for all intents and purposes this is the consolidated RIP thread. I think the title is just a funny reminder of the discussion of line setting for “important” deaths. It’s hilarious how good of a dividing marker George Michael is.

Multiple RIP threads would definitely be annoying.

Arguably as annoying as people making complaints like

and then not posting a thread themselves.

Is George Michael supposed to be an average death? If so, who's on the other end of the bell curve for the Sundance Kid?

It's a joke, people.

Levels

Jim Belushi———George Michael———Robert Redford

Jim Belushi most famous for mediocre comedy.
Robert Redford known mostly to me for a mediocre baseball movie.(Don't bother trying to convince me to watch **** from the 60s)
George Michael is still catchy music.

Mediocre catchy music.

Of course not every movie Redford was in is a great one, but he was in several of the most acclaimed movies of their time. I haven't seen many of them personally so can't really judge, but he was definitely a very well respected actor.

You can always count on txdome to be well-cultured.

i was in early high school at the hight of my baseball fandom when The Natural came out
it would continue to be the epitome of baseball movies until five years later when Field of Dreams and Major League came out while i was playing in college

the natural was awful, didn't understand the hype and aura around it at all

this is the greatest music video of its generation - david fincher's finest work

I do not want to watch that video because I know I don't like the song.

The only actually good song I've ever heard by him was "Faith", and some Wham songs are among the worst of all time, including my most hated Xmas song ever.

Worse than the abomination that Paul McCartney created?

I'm glad we're talking about songs rather than new dead people.

Personally I love Last Christmas. I think it’s legit one of the best Xmas songs.

Wonderful Christmastime is not great, but it's stii far better than Last Christmas.

This is something I could make as a 9 year old in the 80s with my casio keyboard.

You couldn't sing it as well though.

Okay, write and perform for us a song.