The Death Thread

[CMRivdogs]

RIP Bill Mazeroski, 89 years young

Maz was probably the reason an 8 year old Cmrivpup, living in Western Pa became a baseball fan.. 

 

Edited February 21 by CMRivdogs

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My wife got to meet him at an expo for a race in Fort Worth.   

[CMRivdogs]

"Give me an F - - - k"

RIP Country Joe McDonald...

[Crazy Cat Gentleman]

65 years old 😞

[Mr.TaterSalad]

RIP Chuck Norris. He didn't die, he just elevated up. But before he did, he went to hell, gave Satan a roundhouse kick, and then headed up to the sky.

[Screwball]

Add Mean Joe Greene of the Pittsburgh Steelers. 

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I know he's got a lot of movies but for me my favorites were Delta Force and the Missing in Action movies.  Pillars of my middle school years and they were Cannon Films to boot.

[CMRivdogs]

1 hour ago, Screwball said:

Add Mean Joe Greene of the Pittsburgh Steelers. 

Fortunately that turned out to be false

https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/steelers-legend-mean-joe-greene-172806163.html

Edited 23 hours ago by CMRivdogs

[Screwball]

9 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

Fortunately that turned out to be false

https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/steelers-legend-mean-joe-greene-172806163.html

Wow, that's wild! I don't remember where I read that but it might have been FB. I should know better if that's where it was. You can' trust squat on that site.

Good news just the same. He is one of my all time favorites. 

[CMRivdogs]

6 minutes ago, Screwball said:

Wow, that's wild! I don't remember where I read that but it might have been FB. I should know better if that's where it was. You can' trust squat on that site.

Good news just the same. He is one of my all time favorites. 

Western Pa roots. However back in the 50s and 60s the Stillers were much the Same ole Lions. 
I started following the team in the early 70s. Not quite a Yinzer, but they are among the teams I watch. 
 

It wasn’t until a few years ago that I learned that Old Man Rooney was from Coulter, Pa. Just a few miles from where my Pa ancestors had settled.

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47 minutes ago, Screwball said:

Wow, that's wild! I don't remember where I read that but it might have been FB. I should know better if that's where it was. You can' trust squat on that site.

Good news just the same. He is one of my all time favorites. 

AI has made FB almost unusable other than direct communication with people you know/trust and established groups you are a part of.  You all know I love space and get fed so much crap that's just plain wrong.  Nothing harmful but a 7 paragraph AI written spiel that looks like it was written by AI 4 years ago while still learning.  Same extends to entertainment.   

 

And when someone dies or a tragedy happens you get AI photos related to that.  "Oh, a flood happened, here's Mick Jagger, dressed like Mick Jagger, helping out."  "Oh, Robert Duvall died, here's his widow holding his Emmy and Oscar on his couch crying".

My mom reads this stuff and will say "I didn't know Jason Benetti had cancer and was dying".  Why did she say that?  It was on her Ipad.

 

[Screwball]

5 minutes ago, oblong said:

AI has made FB almost unusable other than direct communication with people you know/trust and established groups you are a part of.  You all know I love space and get fed so much crap that's just plain wrong.  Nothing harmful but a 7 paragraph AI written spiel that looks like it was written by AI 4 years ago while still learning.  Same extends to entertainment.   

 

And when someone dies or a tragedy happens you get AI photos related to that.  "Oh, a flood happened, here's Mick Jagger, dressed like Mick Jagger, helping out."  "Oh, Robert Duvall died, here's his widow holding his Emmy and Oscar on his couch crying".

My mom reads this stuff and will say "I didn't know Jason Benetti had cancer and was dying".  Why did she say that?  It was on her Ipad.

 

Agreed. I have noticed it has recently gotten worse. I use a fake name instead of my own just for privacy and it allows me to read the local stuff, which is usually a real hoot. I think I read somewhere recently they are laying off more people. That will certainly make it better. /s

[GalagaGuy]

If you're feeling a bit down about Chuck Norris, this video might change things.

 

[gehringer_2]

42 minutes ago, Screwball said:

Agreed. I have noticed it has recently gotten worse. I use a fake name instead of my own just for privacy and it allows me to read the local stuff, which is usually a real hoot. I think I read somewhere recently they are laying off more people. That will certainly make it better. /s

They announced pulling the plug on the 'metaverse' effort after sinking $80B into it.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/18/meta-horizon-worlds-metaverse-vr.html

[Screwball]

4 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

They announced pulling the plug on the 'metaverse' effort after sinking $80B into it.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/18/meta-horizon-worlds-metaverse-vr.html

I will stop short of saying the Zuck **** is an evil ****. I wouldn't trust anything out of that creeps mouth.

[Screwball]

6 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

Western Pa roots. However back in the 50s and 60s the Stillers were much the Same ole Lions. 
I started following the team in the early 70s. Not quite a Yinzer, but they are among the teams I watch. 
 

It wasn’t until a few years ago that I learned that Old Man Rooney was from Coulter, Pa. Just a few miles from where my Pa ancestors had settled.

Growing up in the middle of Browns country here in Cornhole, Ohio made me a Steelers fan. My best friends were Browns fans - but we got through it. Their team of the 70s were great memories. Jack Lambert follows me on Twitter. How cool is that. He was my favorite guy. Went to Kent State. Football was different then.

Steeler fans are rabid and travel well.

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I partied in New Orleans with Franco Harris in 2002.  But I was too drunk at the time to realize it until they left and some college kids asked us if that was him. That is probably why they were hanging with us. Super Bowl week in one of the bars sharing a high top and buying rounds while listening to a band.  

[Screwball]

The Steelers vs. Raider rivalry was one for the ages (best ever according to Jack). Nasty too. Tatum, the assassin. Lambert with no front teeth. Would have been early/mid 70s. Maybe around 2000 ish they had a halftime show on Monday Night with some of those guys getting honored for something. They interviewed LC Greenwood and asked how he thought he would to today (then). Not real good. Why? Can't beat anyone up. LOL!

Turkey Jones of the Browns pile drove Bradshaw into the field on his head. I thought he killed him. While Lambert said we should dresses on them. Too funny...

[CMRivdogs]

And of course it had to be the Raiders on the losing end of Harris' Immaculate Reception...

My closest Steeler story is we had the audacity to schedule our wedding the same day as the Steelers playoff game against Denver in 1978. Received a a good ribbing from the Western Pa contingency. All in fun. They timed the trip from the motel to the church, left at the end of the third quarter.

The wedding party was down the aisle and my wife was waiting with her father to start when the Pittsburgh crew came in and barely beat her. It's become part of family lore. My uncles and their wives basically became parents after ours passed.  

[Screwball]

Adding. We used to do a home away Tiger game each summer. One trip was to Pittsburgh to see the Tigs vs. the Pirates. Incredible county to drive through, beautiful. The island the stadium (along with 3 rivers for football) is really nice. Great trip. If you get the chance, do it.

We were lucky it was a day into night game so it was light and dark. We stayed there on the island and walked everywhere. Shops, food, bars. Neat place.

Garmin got us lost on the trip there. Wasn't updated. Ended up in Paris, PA. Told the Boss, I told you I would take you to Paris. 23 miles on a little winding county road through the hills. We even went though a small panhandle of WVa. Read a sign leaning against a power pole; FAR WOOD

[Screwball]

3 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

And of course it had to be the Raiders on the losing end of Harris' Immaculate Reception...

My closest Steeler story is we had the audacity to schedule our wedding the same day as the Steelers playoff game against Denver in 1978. Received a a good ribbing from the Western Pa contingency. All in fun. They timed the trip from the motel to the church, left at the end of the third quarter.

The wedding party was down the aisle and my wife was waiting with her father to start when the Pittsburgh crew came in and barely beat her. It's become part of family lore. My uncles and their wives basically became parents after ours passed.  

I was watching that game, and at that time a rabid fan. To this day I don't know if he caught it.

[CMRivdogs]