The official 2020 death pool
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@jinpa How would you like to have a career for almost 70 years, and the only thing anyone remembers is something you did 60 years ago?
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@HardwareGeek said in The official 2020 death pool:
@jinpa How would you like to have a career for almost 70 years, and the only thing anyone remembers is something you did 60 years ago?
No one remembers what I do now, so I don't see how it would be any worse. Well, that's not entirely true. "You know that guy Jinpa who worked here five years ago? Come take a look at how bad his Wicket code was!"
There was a rumor about 30 years ago that Ken Osmond BKA "the guy who played Eddie Haskell" was a porno actor. He was probably glad that faded away.
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@jinpa Well, he did appear in a movie titled Dead Women in Lingerie about 30 years ago, but that seems to have been a (very forgettable) murder mystery.
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@HardwareGeek said in The official 2020 death pool:
Dead Women in Lingerie
He was listed eleventh in the credits.
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@jinpa I didn't say he starred in it.
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@jinpa said in The official 2020 death pool:
It was a shock just to see a recent picture of him.
Well, he was 76.
I thought this was interesting:
"Osmond joined the Los Angeles Police Department in 1970 and grew a mustache to be less recognizable. In 1980, Osmond was shot in a chase with a suspected car thief, though he was saved by his bulletproof vest. He was put on disability and retired from the force in 1988."
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@El_Heffe said in The official 2020 death pool:
I thought this was interesting:
"Osmond joined the Los Angeles Police Department in 1970 and grew a mustache to be less recognizable. In 1980, Osmond was shot in a chase with a suspected car thief, though he was saved by his bulletproof vest. He was put on disability and retired from the force in 1988."
Do you want to make a point about how he retired or is it just "I didn't know he became a cop"?
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@JBert said in The official 2020 death pool:
@El_Heffe said in The official 2020 death pool:
I thought this was interesting:
"Osmond joined the Los Angeles Police Department in 1970 and grew a mustache to be less recognizable. In 1980, Osmond was shot in a chase with a suspected car thief, though he was saved by his bulletproof vest. He was put on disability and retired from the force in 1988."
Do you want to make a point about how he retired or is it just "I didn't know he became a cop"?
It's an usual career change that you don't see very often.
As it turns out, he led a very .... interesting ... life.
In the early 1970s, a story was widely reported that Osmond had become rock star Alice Cooper. According to Cooper, the rumor began when a college newspaper editor asked him what kind of kid he was, to which Cooper replied "I was obnoxious, disgusting, a real Eddie Haskell". However, the story ended up reporting that Cooper was the real Eddie Haskell.
Another widely reported urban legend of the 1970s was that Osmond had grown up to become adult film star John Holmes. The story apparently began when fan magazines falsely reported that Osmond had embarked on such a career. The rumor was dispelled when a Los Angeles movie theater lit up its marquee advertising "Eddie Haskell of TV in 'Behind the Green Door' – X-rated", prompting Osmond himself, then an LAPD officer, to go to the theater to request that the manager of the theater pull the plug on the marquee.
At his disability hearing in 1986 Osmond testified that in 1971 he was called into LAPD Internal Affairs and asked to disrobe to prove he was not John Holmes.
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@El_Heffe said in The official 2020 death pool:
@JBert said in The official 2020 death pool:
@El_Heffe said in The official 2020 death pool:
I thought this was interesting:
"Osmond joined the Los Angeles Police Department in 1970 and grew a mustache to be less recognizable. In 1980, Osmond was shot in a chase with a suspected car thief, though he was saved by his bulletproof vest. He was put on disability and retired from the force in 1988."
Do you want to make a point about how he retired or is it just "I didn't know he became a cop"?
It's an usual career change that you don't see very often.
As it turns out, he led a very .... interesting ... life.
In the early 1970s, a story was widely reported that Osmond had become rock star Alice Cooper. According to Cooper, the rumor began when a college newspaper editor asked him what kind of kid he was, to which Cooper replied "I was obnoxious, disgusting, a real Eddie Haskell". However, the story ended up reporting that Cooper was the real Eddie Haskell.
Another widely reported urban legend of the 1970s was that Osmond had grown up to become adult film star John Holmes. The story apparently began when fan magazines falsely reported that Osmond had embarked on such a career. The rumor was dispelled when a Los Angeles movie theater lit up its marquee advertising "Eddie Haskell of TV in 'Behind the Green Door' – X-rated", prompting Osmond himself, then an LAPD officer, to go to the theater to request that the manager of the theater pull the plug on the marquee.
At his disability hearing in 1986 Osmond testified that in 1971 he was called into LAPD Internal Affairs and asked to disrobe to prove he was not John Holmes.
I had already known he had been a police officer, but I was curious that he had been saved by his bulletproof vest, but yet was disabled. I'm guessing that one or more of the bullets missed his vest.
A frat brother switched from being a professor to working for the Army Corps of Engineers, as a civil service employee. He was in Afghanistan, and was granted disability for PTSD, though he was not physically wounded. He told me that his PTSD cleared up the day he was granted retirement. I hope he was kidding.
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@HardwareGeek said in The official 2020 death pool:
@jinpa How would you like to have a career for almost 70 years, and the only thing anyone remembers is something you did 60 years ago?
Daniel Radcliffe is going to hate this. Although I bet he already hates this right now.
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@jinpa said in The official 2020 death pool:
I had already known he had been a police officer, but I was curious that he had been saved by his bulletproof vest, but yet was disabled. I'm guessing that one or more of the bullets missed his vest.
I was looking it up this morning and one article said that all bullets hit his vest except one, which ricocheted off his belt buckle.
There's this article which states that he was requesting retirement for depression and psychological stress:
Osmond returned to police work after the shootings, but developed depression and other stress-related symptoms, psychiatrists told the Pension Board.
Osmond refused to discuss his case with a reporter Thursday, but in his testimony last December before the hearing examiner, he said “thousands” of incidents over the years pushed him into leaving the department.
“I don’t think I could work for the Police Department in any capacity because it’s totally useless,” he said. “It’s not ‘Do a good job and you’ll be rewarded.’ It’s ‘Do a bad job and we’re going to get you.’ There is no middle ground,” Osmond said of the department.
He charged that in 1971, he became a victim of mistaken identity and was thought to be pornographic film star John Holmes. He said he was called into Internal Affairs and asked to disrobe to prove his real identity.
“It was just one of the more flagrant reasons to believe that a policeman doesn’t have any rights, and a policeman has nobody behind him except himself,” Osmond said.
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@JBert said in The official 2020 death pool:
@jinpa said in The official 2020 death pool:
I had already known he had been a police officer, but I was curious that he had been saved by his bulletproof vest, but yet was disabled. I'm guessing that one or more of the bullets missed his vest.
I was looking it up this morning and one article said that all bullets hit his vest except one, which ricocheted off his belt buckle.
There's this article which states that he was requesting retirement for depression and psychological stress:
Osmond returned to police work after the shootings, but developed depression and other stress-related symptoms, psychiatrists told the Pension Board.
Osmond refused to discuss his case with a reporter Thursday, but in his testimony last December before the hearing examiner, he said “thousands” of incidents over the years pushed him into leaving the department.
“I don’t think I could work for the Police Department in any capacity because it’s totally useless,” he said. “It’s not ‘Do a good job and you’ll be rewarded.’ It’s ‘Do a bad job and we’re going to get you.’ There is no middle ground,” Osmond said of the department.
He charged that in 1971, he became a victim of mistaken identity and was thought to be pornographic film star John Holmes. He said he was called into Internal Affairs and asked to disrobe to prove his real identity.
“It was just one of the more flagrant reasons to believe that a policeman doesn’t have any rights, and a policeman has nobody behind him except himself,” Osmond said.
I may be conflating things, but none of his complaints against the department, though possibly valid in and of themselves, have or should have anything to do with a disability claim.
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@jinpa I'm too lazy to keep quoting stuff, but in fact he did not get his disability claim accepted the first time around. It took a couple of years and an appeal before someone ruled that he earned it anyway.
Check the sources for the wikipedia section on his days as a police officer.
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@Gąska said in The official 2020 death pool:
@HardwareGeek said in The official 2020 death pool:
@jinpa How would you like to have a career for almost 70 years, and the only thing anyone remembers is something you did 60 years ago?
Daniel Radcliffe is going to hate this. Although I bet he already hates this right now.
He's already done the "disrobe to prove you're not John Holmes" part in theater.
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pension of $73.13 a month from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Ms. Triplett, who suffered from mental disabilities, qualified for federal financial support as a helpless adult child of a veteran.
Such support; much benefit
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A summary so far:
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Posted by Blakey on Discord:
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@HardwareGeek said in The official 2020 death pool:
Posted by Blakey on Discord:
I loved The Lost Boys
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Undoubtedly some would disagree with the description "giant of science",
His 2007 New York Times bestseller, Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1500 Years (coauthored by S. Fred Singer) became “the Bible of the fast-growing ‘global warming skeptics’ movement,”
but love him or hate him, he's dead.
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@Dragoon The catalytic converter might not be helping with the CO2 Apocalypse, but it's done ever so much to improve the air quality for ever so many people by reducing carbon, carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides from our vehicles. It's a very very good thing.
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@Atazhaia That's one of the saddest ones I've see posted here.
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Speaking of famous musicians:
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@Dragoon Not many people can claim their greatest creation is the size of Graham's Number.
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She's now in wherever scientologists end up after death.
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@hungrier If you ever want to just stay up all night, just do a bunch of research on brain aneurysms.
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@The_Quiet_One As the joke goes, I want to die peacefully from a brain aneurysm like my uncle and not screaming for life like the passengers on his plane.
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John Robert Lewis died at age 80 after a battle with cancer. Rev. Cordy Tindell "C.T." Vivian died at age 95 of natural causes.
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peacefully in his sleep
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peacefully in her sleep
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Come on, no one's mentioned Bill English, co-creator of the computer mouse, yet? It's been more than a week.
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Surprisingly enough, Kamala Harris
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/obituaries/james-harris-kamala-dead-coronavirus.html
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@hungrier I think Hillary Clinton made a mistake.
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Apparently no one knew about this until just now...