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Post by wildojinx on Mar 3, 2023 19:28:41 GMT -5
Similar to the thread on wrest, where were you when famous people (not wrestlers) died? Here's one example, when Michael Jackson died, I was a counselor at a summer camp. I didnt have a smart phone yet, and my only exposure to the outside world was a radio. Anyway, one night during free time, I was surfing the radio stations and came upon an R&B station that was playing Man in the Mirror. The DJ then came on and said that it was by the late Michael Jackson. He said it so casually that it was a definite shock.
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Post by ace on Mar 3, 2023 19:32:24 GMT -5
With Michael Jackson I was signing up for twitter to get information on it because they had it legit hours before tv did.
I remember I had just back to my dorm with my friend who was visiting at college when Princess Diana died…and we cracked beers and watched that shit for hours.
When Epstein died…. … I’d….rather not say where I was
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Post by Push R Truth on Mar 3, 2023 19:49:30 GMT -5
I was in the school auditorium watching the TV with like 200 other kids when they launched Challenger.
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Post by ERON on Mar 3, 2023 20:02:29 GMT -5
When Michael Jackson died, I was at a friend's house playing video games. I mentioned that Farrah Fawcett and Sky Saxon had died earlier that same day, and was facetiously wondering aloud who the third would be, since celebrities supposedly always die in threes. My friend's roommate was on his laptop and said, "Here's your third, Michael Jackson just died!" I got out my phone to see for myself, and saw the breaking news reports, so I texted my brother - who happens to be a musician - to give him the news. When he replied, I commented, "Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, and Sky Saxon all in the same day. Can you believe it?" and he was like, "Sky Saxon died?! I just had a beer with him two weeks ago!"
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Post by Celexa Bliss 54 on Mar 3, 2023 20:09:56 GMT -5
I was delivering mail at work when Betty White died. I walked into the rehab room to drop something off or ask a question or whatever, and one of the aides goes, "Betty White died!"
Bob Saget died on the same day I test positive for Covid the first time.
I found out about Louie Anderson dying when I got in the car after work and my sister asked me if I was OK. I asked why and she told me. (for background, I do a Louie Anderson impression, although it actually began as a not-very-funny joke thing)
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Post by Mozenrath on Mar 3, 2023 20:14:18 GMT -5
Who is asking? What are you implying?
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Mar 3, 2023 20:31:32 GMT -5
At work. I was probably at work. You guys saw my real time reaction to Gilbert Gottfried. I having a smoke and saw…
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Mar 3, 2023 20:31:32 GMT -5
At work. I was probably at work. You guys saw my real time reaction to Gilbert Gottfried. I having a smoke and saw…
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Post by Display Name on Mar 3, 2023 20:42:48 GMT -5
I was getting my tire fixed on a hot day when I found out MJ had passed.
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Post by WoodStoner1 on Mar 3, 2023 20:48:40 GMT -5
I was in Vegas when Michael Jackson happened, and thusly Ed McMahon and Farrah Fawcett too.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Mar 3, 2023 21:22:24 GMT -5
I remember being at the local comic book store when I heard Michael Jackson died. The cashier was listening to the radio and they announced it. While I was walking home a car covered all over with Puerto Rican flags drove by playing Michael Jackson songs through a rooftop speaker as loud as it could.
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Post by tirtefaa on Mar 3, 2023 21:54:33 GMT -5
Weirdly enough, I remember being in my parent's room watching TV when a news commercial mentioned Curly Joe DeRita died. As soon as the commercial was over, I heard a bunch of fireworks outside.
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Post by Ishmeal Loves Kaseyhausen on Mar 3, 2023 21:55:47 GMT -5
One that always sticks out to me is Princess Diana. I was camping with my family. We went to the camp store for some supplies and I saw the newspaper on the counter with the huge headline and everyone was shocked.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Mar 3, 2023 22:04:22 GMT -5
One that always sticks out to me is Princess Diana. I was camping with my family. We went to the camp store for some supplies and I saw the newspaper on the counter with the huge headline and everyone was shocked. I remember finding out about her death while watching the infamous episode of WCW Worldwide where the channel decided not to interrupt the show and instead just ran a ticker along the bottom announcing her death and to tune in later for more news and details.
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Post by Fade on Mar 3, 2023 22:12:40 GMT -5
Princess Diana - I was watching friends with my babysitter when I remember the news breaking.
JFK Jr I think I was just lounging about but I distinctly remember listening to “closing time”. I forever connected the two.
Michael Jackson - I’d just parked at my college and it broke on the radio. Immediately broke it to a bunch of the people I was working with. I remember breaking it to my girlfriend at the time who had a HUGE, I’m talking a huge obsession with him. Not fun.
Kobe - my whole family was home, I was online, read it, yelled it out loud in the house and my dad followed by two seconds. Whole day was heartbreaking.
Heath ledger - don’t remember the moment but I had acting all day and was, as an understatement, bummed out.
Selena - In kindergarten, whatever my parents listened to, usually woke me up. It was typically music in Spanish, never liked it. But one morning I remember waking up to a woman sung song and loving it. On the way to school, my parents let me know it was Selena and that she had died literally that morning. Not 100% sure but I think the song was “Amor Prohibido”.
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Post by ace on Mar 3, 2023 23:10:34 GMT -5
Slightly off topic but i have a story I think is funny about celebrity deaths. I can’t recall one time someone I know ever came up to me and said “did you see so and so died?” We all have the internet…everyone knows everyone died. It might come up in conversation but it’s never a conversation starter. Except one guy. For reasons I will never understand and will assume was a well coordinated prank between people that don’t know each other…like 6 different people I know came at me with “Did you see Burt Reynolds died?”
I don’t know why. I have no answer. People at work. Real life friends. My mother? Everyone couldn’t wait to get my opinion on Burt Reynolds dying. I don’t recall ever talking about Burt Reynolds with any of them. I don’t recall them ever mentioning the name Burt Reynolds. Idon’t even recall ever thinking about Burt Reynolds. But for whatever possible reason his death was the biggest f***ing thing that ever happened inside my little bubble.
And dude was old. And sick. It wasn’t like some shocking thing that people just couldn’t wrap their heads around. I will never understand what happened here.
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Post by Rolent Tex on Mar 4, 2023 0:46:10 GMT -5
I was at the Hard Rock Casino with my wife for her birthday and ran into some coworkers. We saw news playing and realized Anna Nicole Smith had died there a few hours before and that’s how we found out.
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Post by IgnahtaSempria on Mar 4, 2023 0:51:02 GMT -5
Since everyone's listing him, when Michael Jackson died, I was at my high school graduation.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Mar 4, 2023 0:59:12 GMT -5
When The Queen died last year I was having a shit. My wife shouted through the door that it had just been announced (the Queen dying that is, not me dropping some mud).
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Post by Bang Bang Bart on Mar 4, 2023 1:21:44 GMT -5
Literally graduating high school when Michael Jackson died (as in the news broke during the graduation ceremony).
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