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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Dubstep Dookie on February 12, 2012, 01:11:08 PM
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I'm hearing from my inside sources at PRE and BF that Whitney Houston's drug ravaged body has given up, and she is no longer in the land of the living.
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I'm hearing from my inside sources at PRE and BF that Whitney Houston's drug ravaged body had given up, and she is no longer in the land of the living.
Somebody dies and you make a joke out of it.
RIP Whitney
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It's been an ugly fall from grace. Crack is whack.
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I'm hearing from my inside sources at PRE and BF that Whitney Houston's drug ravaged body had given up, and she is no longer in the land of the living.
Somebody dies and you make a joke out of it.
RIP Whitney
Who cares that she's died. She was crackhead and a bitch. Waste of oxegyn.
Are you in mourning?
Coz Sheeeeeeeee will always love yooooooooou
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She was awesome. Best voice I've heard. I went to her concert but she was a shadow of her former self but still better than most others. Her life is really just an example of someone who made bad choices in life. The worst choice was her relationship with bobby brown..... I dislike him more than ever now.
Everyone with any brains could see it was a bad idea but it was her choice wasn't it.
She will always be one my favourite singers of all time. She didn't need to dance, she didn't need all the special effects or laser lighting. Her voice was enough.
I will be listening to her voice until I die.
Thankyou Whitney. xxxooo
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I'm hearing from my inside sources at PRE and BF that Whitney Houston's drug ravaged body had given up, and she is no longer in the land of the living.
Somebody dies and you make a joke out of it.
RIP Whitney
Glad I came to my senses when it comes to some of the people on here. Dookie, you're proving what a idiot head you really are. Making fun of someone dying and bagging out a gay bloke in another thread. Well done ::)
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I'm hearing from my inside sources at PRE and BF that Whitney Houston's drug ravaged body had given up, and she is no longer in the land of the living.
Somebody dies and you make a joke out of it.
RIP Whitney
Glad I came to my senses when it comes to some of the people on here. Dookie, you're proving what a idiot head you really are. Making fun of someone dying and bagging out a gay bloke in another thread. Well done ::)
::) Who cares
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Those of us who have to put up with your poo care. You forgot your trademark wink as well ;)
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Those of us who have to put up with your poo care. You forgot your trademark wink as well ;)
Oh, you poor thing how do you cope. ;)
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She was awesome.
She was amazing 20 years ago. The most talented female pop singer in the world there for a while.
A real shame she made the choices she did but ultimately she made them and drugs robbed her of not just her talent but her life.
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(http://www.vintagevinyljournals.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/whitneyhouston-whitney-cover.jpg)
(http://www.soulandfunkmusic.com/backcover/album/994137638/whitney_houston-whitney_houston.jpg)
I remember many years ago after school I would spend time looking at records in Brashs. When I was about 14-15 years old I stumbled accross this album & instantly fell in love. I hadn't even heard her voice yet. When I finally did I was hooked forever.
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Yeah a good album that first one. Pure voice.
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They say they don't know the cause of death but I blame Bobby brown.
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Yeah a good album that first one. Pure voice.
:thumbsup
naturally beautiful and a beautiful voice.
Listen & enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupsPg5H6aE&feature=youtube_gdata_player (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupsPg5H6aE&feature=youtube_gdata_player)
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Another victim of the way the white man has poisoned the black music industry.
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Yeah a good album that first one. Pure voice.
:thumbsup
naturally beautiful and a beautiful voice.
Listen & enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupsPg5H6aE&feature=youtube_gdata_player (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupsPg5H6aE&feature=youtube_gdata_player)
Yeah she knocks that out of the park. That's how most will hopefully remember her.
Could seriously sing before she got on the gear.
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Like I said. She didn't need to dance her voice was enough. And she was beautiful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_eiCnk79Dk&feature=youtube_gdata_player (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_eiCnk79Dk&feature=youtube_gdata_player)
Just was just as good live as the recording. Enjoy
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Whitney Houston, superstar of records, films, dies age 48
by: AP From: AP February 12, 2012 3:23PM
UPDATE: WHITNEY Houston, who ruled as pop music's queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, erratic behaviour and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, has died. She was 48.
Houston's publicist, Kristen Foster, said that the singer had died, but the cause and the location of her death were unknown.
News of Houston's death came on the eve of music's biggest night - the Grammy Awards.
It is a showcase where she once reigned, and her death was sure to case a heavy pall on today's ceremony. Houston's longtime mentor Clive Davis was to hold his annual concert and dinner last night ( US time); it was unclear if it was going to go forward.
The music world reacted with shock to news of her death, posting comments on Twitter to commemorate the pop superstar's life.
Mariah Carey tweeted, "Heartbroken and in tears over the shocking death of my friend, the incomparable Ms. Whitney Houston. My heartfelt condolences to Whitney's family and to all her millions of fans throughout the world. She will never be forgotten as one of the greatest voices to ever grace the earth."
Christina Aguilera tweeted: "We have lost another legend. Love and prayers to Whitney's family. She will be missed."
Rihanna said:" No words! Just tears #DearWhitney"
La Toya Jackson said: "I can't fathom the fact that #whitneyhouston has died! My heart goes out 2 her mother, daughter & her love ones. #Whitney U will be missed!"
Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons tweeted, "deeply saddened by the death of Whitney Houston ... may she rest in peace.
Music producer and American Idol judge Randy Jackson tweeted, "wow I am devastated. the world has lost another one of the best voices in history. RIP whitney houston, so fortunate am I to have worked with u, and have u touch my life. may god bless this family."
Boy George said: "Whitney is dead, OMG, I'm so heartbroken. You were amazing and I hope you have found peace! X"
Ricky Martin tweeted: "RIP Whitney Houston. Sending my love and deepest condolences to her family and friends. Fly Whitney Fly."
Kelly Osborne said: "i truly hope you are in peace #WhitneyHouston i feel so honored to have known you! i love you RIP!"
Serena Williams tweeted: "#OneMomentInTime has propelled me to many of my grand slams victories. #whitneyhouston"
Music producer Quincy Jones said: "I am absolutely heartbroken at the news of Whitney's passing. Ashford & Simpson first made me aware of Whitney when she was just sixteen, and I always regretted not having had the opportunity to work with her. She was a true original and a talent beyond compare. I will miss her terribly."
At her peak, Houston the golden girl of the music industry. From the middle 1980s to the late 1990s, she was one of the world's best-selling artists. She wowed audiences with effortless, powerful, and peerless vocals that were rooted in the black church but made palatable to the masses with a pop sheen.
Her success carried her beyond music to movies, where she starred in hits such as The Bodyguard and Waiting to Exhale.
She had the he perfect voice, and the perfect image: a gorgeous singer who had sex appeal but was never overtly sexual, who maintained perfect poise.
She influenced a generation of younger singers, from Christina Aguilera to Mariah Carey, who when she first came out sounded so much like Houston that many thought it was Houston.
But by the end of her career, Houston became a stunning cautionary tale of the toll of drug use.
Her album sales plummeted and the hits stopped coming; her once serene image was shattered by a wild demeanour and bizarre public appearances. She confessed to abusing cocaine, marijuana and pills, and her once pristine voice became raspy and hoarse, unable to hit the high notes as she had during her prime.
"The biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy,'' Houston told ABC's Diane Sawyer in an infamous 2002 interview with then-husband Brown by her side.
It was a tragic fall for a superstar who was one of the top-selling artists in pop music history, with more than 55 million records sold in the United States alone.
She seemed to be born into greatness. She was the daughter of gospel singer Cissy Houston, the cousin of 1960s pop diva Dionne Warwick and the goddaughter of Aretha Franklin.
Houston first started singing in the church as a child. In her teens, she sang back up for Chaka Khan, Jermaine Jackson and others, in addition to modelling. It was around that time when music mogul Clive Davis first heard Houston perform.
"The time that I first saw her singing in her mother's act in a club ... it was such a stunning impact,'' Davis told Good Morning America.
"To hear this young girl breathe such fire into this song. I mean, it really sent the proverbial tingles up my spine,'' he said.
Before long, the rest of the country would feel it, too. Houston made her album debut in 1985 with Whitney Houston, which sold millions and spawned hit after hit. Saving All My Love for You brought her her first Grammy, for best female pop vocal. How Will I Know, You Give Good Love and The Greatest Love of All also became hit singles.
Another multiplatinum album, Whitney, came out in 1987 and included hits such as Where Do Broken Hearts Go and I Wanna Dance With Somebody.
Whitney down the years
Relive the best and worst of times in the diva's performance career
The New York Times wrote that Houston "possesses one of her generation's most powerful gospel-trained voices, but she eschews many of the churchier mannerisms of her forerunners. She uses ornamental gospel phrasing only sparingly, and instead of projecting an earthy, tearful vulnerability, communicates cool self-assurance and strength, building pop ballads to majestic, sustained peaks of intensity.''
Her decision not to follow the more soulful inflections of singers like Franklin drew criticism by some who saw her as playing down her black roots to go pop and reach white audiences. The criticism would become a constant refrain through much of her career. She was even booed during the Soul Train Awards in 1989.
"Sometimes it gets down to that, you know?'' she told Katie Couric in 1996. "You're not black enough for them. I don't know. You're not R&B enough. You're very pop. The white audience has taken you away from them.''
Some saw her 1992 marriage to former New Edition member and soul crooner Bobby Brown as an attempt to refute those critics. It seemed to be an odd union; she was seen as pop's pure princess while he had a bad-boy image, and already had children of his own. (The couple had a daughter, Bobbi Kristina, in 1993.) Over the years, he would be arrested several times, on charges ranging from DUI to failure to pay child support.
But Houston said their true personalities were not as far apart as people may have believed.
"When you love, you love. I mean, do you stop loving somebody because you have different images? You know, Bobby and I basically come from the same place,'' she told Rolling Stone in 1993. "You see somebody, and you deal with their image, that's their image. It's part of them, it's not the whole picture. I am not always in a sequined gown. I am nobody's angel. I can get down and dirty. I can get raunchy.''
It would take several years, however, for the public to see that side of Houston. Her moving 1991 rendition of The Star Spangled Banner at the Super Bowl, amid the first Gulf War, set a new standard and once again reaffirmed her as America's sweetheart.
In 1992, she became a star in the acting world with The Bodyguard. Despite mixed reviews, the story of a singer (Houston) guarded by a former Secret Service agent (Kevin Costner) was an international success.
It also gave her perhaps her most memorable hit: a searing, stunning rendition of Dolly Parton's I Will Always Love You, which sat atop the charts for weeks. It was Grammy's record of the year and best female pop vocal, and the Bodyguard soundtrack was named album of the year.
She returned to the big screen in 1995-96 with Waiting to Exhale and The Preacher's Wife. Both spawned soundtrack albums, and another hit studio album, My Love Is Your Love, in 1998, brought her a Grammy for best female R&B vocal for the cut It's Not Right But It's Okay.
But during these career and personal highs, Houston was using drugs. In an interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2010, she said by the time The Preacher's Wife was released, ''(doing drugs) was an everyday thing. ... I would do my work, but after I did my work, for a whole year or two, it was every day. ... I wasn't happy by that point in time. I was losing myself.''
In the interview, Houston blamed her rocky marriage to Brown, which included a charge of domestic abuse against Brown in 1993. They divorced in 2007.
Houston would go to rehab twice before she would declare herself drug-free to Winfrey in 2010. But in the interim, there were missed concert dates, a stop at an airport due to drugs, and public meltdowns.
She was so startlingly thin during a 2001 Michael Jackson tribute concert that rumors spread she had died the next day. Her crude behaviour and jittery appearance on Brown's reality show, Being Bobby Brown, was an example of her sad decline. Her Sawyer interview, where she declared "crack is whack'', was often parodied. She dropped out of the spotlight for a few years.
Houston staged what seemed to be a successful comeback with the 2009 album I Look To You. The album debuted on the top of the charts, and would eventually go platinum.
Things soon fell apart. A concert to promote the album on Good Morning America went awry as Houston's voice sounded ragged and off-key. She blamed an interview with Winfrey for straining her voice.
A world tour launched overseas, however, only confirmed suspicions that Houston had lost her treasured gift, as she failed to hit notes and left many fans unimpressed; some walked out. Canceled concert dates raised speculation that she may have been abusing drugs, but she denied those claims and said she was in great shape, blaming illness for cancellations.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/whitney-houston-superstar-of-records-films-dies-age-48/story-fn7x8me2-1226268869683
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I'm hearing from my inside sources at PRE and BF that Whitney Houston's drug ravaged body had given up, and she is no longer in the land of the living.
Somebody dies and you make a joke out of it.
RIP Whitney
Dubstep should be banned, your comments arent funny and are a disgrace
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How are Dookie's comments any different than similar thoughts expressed about Carey, Cousins, Tuck etc
Just because someone is dead doesn't mean Dookie can't have an opinion about them.
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You can't defend stuff like "Who cares that she's died. She was crackhead and a bitch. Waste of oxegyn.Are you in mourning?Coz Sheeeeeeeee will always love yooooooooou"
Making fun of a gay footballer is pretty low as well.
I'm hearing from my inside sources at PRE and BF that Whitney Houston's drug ravaged body had given up, and she is no longer in the land of the living.
Somebody dies and you make a joke out of it.
RIP Whitney
Dubstep should be banned, your comments arent funny and are a disgrace
I 2nd that. :thumbsup
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I'm hearing from my inside sources at PRE and BF that Whitney Houston's drug ravaged body had given up, and she is no longer in the land of the living.
Somebody dies and you make a joke out of it.
RIP Whitney
Dubstep should be banned, your comments arent funny and are a disgrace
:lol yeah ill give it to you Jackstar you, 65 and coach as the OER renowned voices of reason takes the comedic cake on this thread. :bow
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mate , you are just a drop kick, .
Leave it at that.
Refuse to get in a debate with an imbecile
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mate , you are just a drop kick, .
Leave it at that.
Refuse to get in a debate with an imbecile
He can't defend what he has written because even he is smart enough to know that his comments have been pathetic.
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mate , you are just a drop kick, .
Leave it at that.
Refuse to get in a debate with an imbecile
He can't defend what he has written because even he is smart enough to know that his comments have been pathetic.
Well played guy :clapping
If anything, if my insensitivities make you a more moderate person, and bring people closer together in the process, the world is a better place.
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Glad we sorted it all out and are all mates again. Well done everyone. :thumbsup
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It's been an ugly fall from grace. Crack is whack.
Yep a tragic waste to die relatively young. Sadly fame and fortune doesn't equate to happiness.
RIP.
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Very sad. A waste of a great talent.
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'and her once pristine voice became raspy and hobehind'
I lold
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Biggest mistake Whitney made outside of the drungs was getting involved with that pig Bobby Brown
Massive waste of talent
Saddest thing is no-one seems shocked by it
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Biggest mistake Whitney made outside of the drungs was getting involved with that pig Bobby Brown
Biggest mistake was getting involved with Kevin Costner, i'll never forgive him for what he did to her
and of course the drungs
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Biggest mistake was getting involved with Kevin Costner, i'll never forgive him for what he did to her
Either will Kevin's ex wife I am sure
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They say they don't know the cause of death but I blame Bobby brown.
I think the more likely suspect is Barry White and lots of him.
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Don't worry, now that she's dead she'll be remembered as the perfect human being and as close as everyone's mother.
What a load of celebrity worshipping crap.
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I'll always remember her at the peak of her powers
(http://laist.com/attachments/la_corey/Whitney%20Houston.jpg)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaVOoGMpTN8
:'(
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Don't worry, now that she's dead she'll be remembered as the perfect human being and as close as everyone's mother.
What a load of celebrity worshipping crap.
There's something in that for sure.
Saddest thing is no-one seems shocked by it
The writing was on the wall. She looked out of her mind most performances lately.
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I'll always remember her at the peak of her powers
(http://laist.com/attachments/la_corey/Whitney%20Houston.jpg)
And she was so clean cut and non-threatening. The pinnacle of decency, was Whitney. I blame everyone but her.
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Sad what people do to themselves but it's their own doing.
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It's sad that she died so young, but I was NOT a fan. That histrionic caterwauling in the Bodyguard song was just excrutiating to my ear. And the syrup-y sentimentality of the lyrics in the greatest love of all were a real two fingers down the back of the throat job...
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I'm with you on that , Rolls
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I think its a matter of musical preference that determines our sentimentality towards performers who have left this world prematurely in suspicious or less than illustrious circumstances.
My Legends
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Jim Morrison
Jimi Hendrix
Jeff Buckley
Bon Scott
John Bonham
Kurt Cobain
Marc Bolan
Jeff Porcaro
Freddy Mercury
Phil Lynott
Jonathon Melvoin
Elvis
Chet Baker
People who I don't care a whole lot about.
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Whitney Houston
That Milli Vanilli dude
Michael Jackson
Janis Joplin
Amy Winehouse
Bjork (well she sings like she's dead)
Michael Hutchence
Ike Turner
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I think its a matter of musical preference that determines our sentimentality towards performers who have left this world prematurely in suspicious or less than illustrious circumstances.
:cheers
I remember when my idol Layne Staley died as a result of prolonged drug abuse, I just thought "good riddance." It gives close family, friends and massive fans a relief that we no longer have to worry for their suffering.
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(http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/whitney-houston-was-too-damn-high.jpg)
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Dookie
Show a little class and let the dead lie in peace.
'65
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDBgiA3RgsU&sns=em
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Dubbers, what is it with Whitney Houston that gets on your goat so much?
Did she refuse to share her stash with you? ;D
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she stole his limelight
quite the diva is dooks
(http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSk8zsmx8O8tSNwoMNeiQ_RT5_gvzJiGiS8KXh-DVPVOChXxebC)
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She was a client of mine and now I'm going out of business ;)
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Dookie
Show a little class and let the dead lie in peace.
'65
Totally agree
Dumbstep your a class act, NOT :chuck
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Is this the wrong time to tell a joke?
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Could be the icebreaker we are looking for TBR, especially if it is a joke about AIDS
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Dooks, looks like you have a stalker as a certain individual seems to be following you from thread to thread. ;D
(http://i43.tinypic.com/ax096q.jpg)
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I must admit it is slightly edgy humour.
Do we need a poll?
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Is that a poll in your pants or are you just happy to see me? :gobdrop
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Dooks, looks like you have a stalker as a certain individual seems to be following you from thread to thread. ;D
(http://i43.tinypic.com/ax096q.jpg)
No no, thats just a form of showing love. Maybe lust.
Hmmmmm..........You know when I think about it, you might be right.
But I guess nobody is perfect. These days alot of people are on medication all the time for a range of issues. It may be that they werent breastfed as a child, or breastfed until they were 21. Or something as simple as they just that they think they are alot more important than they really are.
Anyhoot, not everyone gets along all the time so WGAF :)
Now where's this AIDS joke?
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jokes about the sick or the dead are just a cry for attention
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jokes about the sick or the dead are just a cry for attention
So I guess if you told a joke about Keith Richards, then you would probably cover both bases. ;D