The Shmups.com 2012 Dead Pool

[BulletMagnet]

Former football player Alex Karras, whom I will personally always remember as Mongo in Blazing Saddles, has died. May his spirit be guided to a place where Candygrams do not humorously explode in one's face.

[xbl0x180]

Former football player Alex Karras, whom I will personally always remember as Mongo in Blazing Saddles, has died. May his spirit be guided to a place where Candygrams do not humorously explode in one's face.

He was also the dad on Webster. That's how I know about him.

Sylvia Kristel... the original Emmanuelle!

[BulletMagnet]

I didn't know who Lucille Bliss was when I saw the obit, but she's done a bunch of well-known cartoon character voices, which by default makes her worth mentioning in my book.

[BIL]

Dennis Avner aka Catface Guy, perennially seen on "OMFG WEIRD BODY MOD" television shows, apparently committed suicide.

[rancor]

That guy had a mental disorder?

I've been shaken to my very core.

[GaijinPunch]

That guy had a mental disorder?

I've been shaken to my very core.

Hey hey hey!!!
You're stealing my sarcasm mojo, buddy...

[drauch]

Damn, my favorite quack celebrity down the tube. At least we still have leopard tattoo guy, I think.

[BIL]

Larry Hagman RIP



Bit before my time, Dallas. Still, you can't been born either side of the great wall of USSR without knowing the "who shot JR" meme. If my folks had been renting tapes of Dallas instead of The Jeffersons I'd probably have nostalgic feelings similar to those for Sherman Hemsley.

"In 1991, a Bedouin tribe delayed its annual migration across the Sahara because its elders were not prepared to miss the last episode of Dallas."

[BIL]

Farewell Sir Patrick Moore (on the left).

[Skykid]

^ much respect for that man.

[BIL]

Yeah, growing up outside of the UK I really didn't know who he was until recently, let alone that he was such a national treasure. Loved his programmes after my Dad introduced me to them.

[jasoncslaughter]

Ravi Shankar passed today. Sad news.

Also, a few other music related deaths not on here:

Elliott Carter
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Clare Fischer

Not that any of you know who these people are, but it's been a rough year for music. If George Clinton dies, I'll have no heroes left.

[NTSC-J]

Stormin' Norman Schwarzkopf died.

[rancor]

100 people that died in 2012 ordered by the number of words in their Wikipedia entry:

http://visual.ly/wikipedia-remembers-2012?view=true

so... on to 2013?

/threadlock

[BPzeBanshee]

He's probably on that Wiki entry but Tony Greig died as well.

For those who don't know, he's a cricket legend and was a commentator on Channel Nine for a long time. It's safe to say that cricket in Australia, for all it's recent slumps and triumphs would not be the same if it weren't for this guy and won't be the same again since.

[mesh control]

Icing on the cake, perhaps?