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Dogdoc
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09-29-2001

Monday, March 19, 2007 - 4:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dogdoc a private message Print Post    
Texannie I agree with you. If you aren't comfortable with or feel like you fit in with the people around you you could certainly be lonely.

Sunshyne4u
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06-17-2003

Monday, March 19, 2007 - 2:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sunshyne4u a private message Print Post    
lonely in a crowd is when you dont know anyone or have anyone close to you. i often have felt lonely even when in a crowd of thousands (hockey game!) The trick is being able to talk and share with someone close.

you'd be comfortable with your fiance for instance. Unless the relationship stunk and he wanted out. It really must have hurt the woman to read that he felt lonely.

What is the purpose of a suicide note actually. To tell a story, to get 'the last word' when someone has hurt you?

I am jsut theorizing.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Monday, March 19, 2007 - 3:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
I would think a suicide note is like a primal scream. A final chance to be heard fairly once and for all. And if not heard fairly even then, at least not around to endure the judgemental backlash.

I mean, come on, suicide is a pretty drastic and FINAL act. The poor sot, is entitled to have his/her say.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Monday, March 19, 2007 - 3:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
or trying to seek absolution, forgiveness. perhaps explaining why he felt that was his only choice

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Monday, March 19, 2007 - 6:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
Also, to make sure that there was no suspicion placed on those near and dear.

Serate
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08-21-2001

Monday, March 19, 2007 - 7:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
Depression can cause you to feel lonely in a crowd of people where you know EVERYBODY in the room, be it 5 or 50. Depression knows no "tricks" except the trick to not let you listen to your own level headed reasoning. Depression can make you feel lonely even when you are with your mom, your best friend, your lover, your kids, anyone. It doesn't mean you don't care for these people; they are not the reason you are lonely - depression is.

Bandit
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07-29-2001

Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 9:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bandit a private message Print Post    
I think a note is also a sense of closure for surviving friends and family who are generally shocked and saddened, and who have no idea the deceased was in this state of mind.

I know that if, God forbid, I was faced with a similar situation, I would find comfort in that there was at least a note to offer some sort of explanation as to why.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 9:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
Bandit, ITA 100%

Marysafan
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08-07-2000

Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 9:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Marysafan a private message Print Post    
I agree with Bandit as well.

I still wish there had been a note for me. I was one of the last two to see my friend Robert before he went home to die. He came to see me, and then went to visit his mother, and neither of us knew of his intention, or that that would be our last visit with him.

The guilt was unbearable.

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 9:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
Marys, you have no guilt to bear, at all. Sorrow and sadness, yes...guilt never.

Serate
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08-21-2001

Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 10:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
A note can also be a last cry for help to yourself.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 10:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
(((((Mary, Robert and his Mum)))))

Sherbabe
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07-28-2002

Wednesday, March 21, 2007 - 3:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sherbabe a private message Print Post    
NEW YORK (AP) - The balding, bespectacled nebbish who gained cult status as the oddball Larry "Bud" Melman on David Letterman's late night television shows has died after a long illness. The Brooklyn-born Calvert DeForest, who was 85, died Monday at a hospital on Long Island, the Letterman show announced Wednesday. He made dozens of appearances on Letterman's shows from 1982 through 2002, handling a variety of twisted duties: dueting with Sonny Bono on "I Got You, Babe," doing a Mary Tyler Moore impression during a visit to Minneapolis, handing out hot towels to arrivals at the Port Authority Bus Terminal.

"Everyone always wondered if Calvert was an actor playing a character, but in reality he was just himself - a genuine, modest and nice man," Letterman said in a statement. "To our staff and to our viewers, he was a beloved and valued part of our show, and we will miss him."

The gnomish DeForest was working as a file clerk at a drug rehabilitation center when show producers, who had seen him in a New York University student's film, came calling. His was the first face to greet viewers when Letterman's NBC show debuted on Feb. 1, 1982, offering a parody of the prologue to the Boris Karloff film "Frankenstein."

"It was the greatest thing that had happened in my life," he once said of his first Letterman appearance.


DeForest, given the nom de tube of Melman, became a program regular. The collaboration continued when the talk show host launched "Late Show with David Letterman" on CBS in 1994.

Cue cards were often DeForest's television kryptonite, and his character inevitably appeared in an ill-fitting black suit behind thick black-rimmed glasses.

The Melman character opened Letterman's first CBS show, too - but used his real name because of a dispute with NBC over "intellectual property." DeForest, positioned inside the network's familiar eye logo, announced, "This is CBS!"

DeForest often draw laughs by his bizarre juxtaposition as a "Late Show" correspondent at events such as the 1994 Winter Olympics in Norway or the anniversary Woodstock concert that year.

His last appearance on "Late Show" came in 2002, celebrating his 81st birthday.

DeForest also appeared in an assortment of other television shows and films, including "Nothing Lasts Forever" with Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd.

As per his request, there will be no funeral service for DeForest, who left no survivors. Donations can be made in his name to the Actors' Fund of America.

Beachcomber
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08-26-2003

Wednesday, March 21, 2007 - 3:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beachcomber a private message Print Post    
Aw, I loved Larry Bud.

Bandit
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07-29-2001

Wednesday, March 21, 2007 - 9:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bandit a private message Print Post    


Retired
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07-11-2001

Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 6:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Retired a private message Print Post    


Sheilaree
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07-19-2002

Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 7:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sheilaree a private message Print Post    
Just wondering did someone important die because all the flags around here seem to be at halfmast?

Bandit
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07-29-2001

Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 7:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bandit a private message Print Post    
Really? Hmmm...I hadn't heard.

Sheilaree
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07-19-2002

Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 7:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sheilaree a private message Print Post    
Yea I couldn't understand either, and didn't hear anything, usually that means someone died, I saw one flag really didnt think of it until I saw more flags that way.

Mak1
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08-12-2002

Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 7:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mak1 a private message Print Post    
Not sure, Sheilaree. I know some states lower the flags on the day of the funeral of any local soldier killed in Iraq.

Littlebreeze
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02-18-2001

Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 9:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Littlebreeze a private message Print Post    
Sheilaree.... a 44 yr. old Albany firefighter died while searching for fire victims in a highrise. Maybe that's it.

www.wten.com

Sheilaree
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07-19-2002

Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 9:05 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sheilaree a private message Print Post    
It could be that, I had forgotten about it. Thanks Littlebreeze. Just wondering Thanks Mak1, I think Littlebreeze is right because they would have said something if it was for a local soldier. They deserve it too. Respect.

Darrellh
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07-21-2004

Thursday, April 05, 2007 - 4:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Darrellh a private message Print Post    
At first glance, Porky's and A Christmas Story don't have much in common. Except a director.

Bob Clark, the versatile filmmaker who celebrated horny teens in Porky's, and chronicled wide-eyed youth in A Christmas Story, was killed early Wednesday when a suspected drunken motorist, allegedly driving in the wrong direction on California's famed Pacific Coast Highway, slammed into the director's car, Los Angeles police said.

The crash occurred at about 2:20 a.m., Officer Karen Smith said. Clark, 67, died at the scene, as did his passenger and son, Ariel Hanrath-Clark, 22.

Lyne Leavy of Clark's production company, Film Classic Productions, said she didn't know where the Clarks were heading to, but said it's believed they were heading from Bob Clark's house in Pacific Palisades.

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Or take A Christmas Story, a modest performer at the 1983 box office that became a holiday staple thanks to round-the-clock cable airings. Is it a trifle about a little boy who dreams of finding a Red Ryder BB gun under the tree? Not entirely.

"A Christmas Story may be sweet, but it's also a bit edgy," Clark said in Toronto's Eye Weekly last year. "One L.A. critic said, 'The boys in A Christmas Story who everyone loves so much will grow up to be the boys in Porky's.' And he's absolutely right."

Clark earned a Writer's Guild of America nomination for cowriting A Christmas Story. At the other end of the award-show spectrum, he rated two career Razzie nominations for Worst Director, the first dishonor for 1984's Rhinestone, in which he coaxed country music from the mouth of Sylvester Stallone, and the second for 2004's SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2, in which he coaxed words from the mouths of babes in the followup to his 1999 family comedy, Baby Geniuses.

Born Aug. 5, 1941, in New Orleans, Clark compiled a film-and-TV resume that included a little bit of everything: tear-jerkers (1980's Tribute with Jack Lemmon), period dramas (1993's The American Clock, based on the Arthur Miller play), Hollywood comedies (1990's Loose Cannons with Gene Hackman and Dan Aykroyd), sequels (1983's Porky's II: The Next Day, but not 1985's Porky's Revenge) and canine-martial-arts actioneers (2004's The Karate Dog).

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Thursday, April 05, 2007 - 5:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
Although I had never heard of Mr. Clark, I thank him from the bottom of my heart for 'The Christmas Story'.

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

Thursday, April 05, 2007 - 6:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ladytex a private message Print Post    
Darryl Stingley dies

For those that may not remember Darryl Stingley was the football player that was hit during an exhibition football game by Jack Tatum and was paralyzed. He did so much with his life afterwards, he was a true inspiration. RIP