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You are here: Home / Absent Friends / RIP / RIP, Debbie Reynolds

RIP, Debbie Reynolds

by John Cole|  December 28, 20168:50 pm| 167 Comments

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Breaking: Debbie Reynolds, who sang and danced to fame in "Singin’ in the Rain," dies at 84. More details to come.

— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) December 29, 2016

Normally when someone dies at 84, it is not as much of a tragedy as this, as she had a stroke while planning her daughter’s funeral according to reports I read.

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  1. 1.

    lamh36

    December 28, 2016 at 8:51 pm

    Damnit… saw her son said

    @oliverdarcy Oliver Darcy Retweeted Variety
    “She wanted to be with Carrie,” her son Todd told Variety

  2. 2.

    Cacti

    December 28, 2016 at 8:51 pm

    Officially from a stroke.

    Actually from a broken heart.

    How awful for the family.

  3. 3.

    Corner Stone

    December 28, 2016 at 8:54 pm

    If there were any doubt left…2016 isn’t playing and is coming for every fucking one of us before it’s gone.

  4. 4.

    Manyakitty

    December 28, 2016 at 8:55 pm

    Everything about this is heartbreaking. Dammit.

  5. 5.

    laura

    December 28, 2016 at 8:55 pm

    Fuck this year and it’s demands on those who love and suffer great loss.
    And Peace and Grace on those of us left behind to deal and remember and carry on in the absence of those we loved and lost.

  6. 6.

    Cacti

    December 28, 2016 at 8:56 pm

    How horrendous for Todd Fisher, losing his mother and sister on consecutive days.

  7. 7.

    donnah

    December 28, 2016 at 8:56 pm

    It was more than she could bear: burying your own child.

    It’s been overwhelming.

  8. 8.

    MikeBoyScout

    December 28, 2016 at 9:00 pm

    Celebrities usually get more credit than they’re due, but this mother/daughter duo gave us a lot for a lot of years.

    We’re just singing in the rain; the painful losing rain of 2016

  9. 9.

    Baud

    December 28, 2016 at 9:02 pm

    @Cacti: Yep.

  10. 10.

    MikeBoyScout

    December 28, 2016 at 9:03 pm

    If you’ve not seen it, watch it
    Intimate Portraits – Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher

  11. 11.

    West of the Rockies (been a while)

    December 28, 2016 at 9:04 pm

    @Cacti:

    He will perhaps simply be numb for a time. He may find it difficult to emotionally process events. I lost my folks two days apart to the very minute (Good Friday and Easter Sunday). It was a long while before I really could really come to terms with everything.

  12. 12.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    December 28, 2016 at 9:05 pm

    How incredibly sad. Poor Todd Fisher and family. I know from painful experience that losing loved ones during the holidays is so, so awful – it casts a shadow over this time of year forever.

  13. 13.

    Elizabelle

    December 28, 2016 at 9:06 pm

    Jeebus Fuck. Watching TV w my nephews and they ran a message. Nephews: who is Debbie Reynolds?

  14. 14.

    Emma

    December 28, 2016 at 9:06 pm

    Poor Todd. Poor Billie. Dear God I hate this year.

  15. 15.

    Emma

    December 28, 2016 at 9:07 pm

    And I’m in moderation. Why?

  16. 16.

    Brachiator

    December 28, 2016 at 9:07 pm

    This is just so sad.

    I’m singing in a rain of tears.

    RIP Mary Frances Reynolds

  17. 17.

    Olivia

    December 28, 2016 at 9:08 pm

    I wonder how many more people will jump off the planet in the next 3 days.

  18. 18.

    MomSense

    December 28, 2016 at 9:08 pm

    So sad. I feel for their family.

  19. 19.

    japa21

    December 28, 2016 at 9:09 pm

    I am about to enter my eighth decade on this planet and I don’t remember any year like this one in terms of celebrity deaths. Earlier in the year there were some jokes about how at least Scalia also left this mortal coil. I don’t even consider that a positive anymore considering who Trump may replace him with.

    And the odd thing is, Reynolds is one of the few who were actually older than me or my wife. Doesn’t make us feel too secure.

  20. 20.

    Miss Bianca

    December 28, 2016 at 9:10 pm

    ohh…sad sad sad. Yes, and so unbearably sad for Todd Fisher.

  21. 21.

    Brynlyn Lehmann

    December 28, 2016 at 9:10 pm

    I feel terrible for Billie Lourd…losing her mother and grandmother so suddenly.

  22. 22.

    lamh36

    December 28, 2016 at 9:12 pm

    I love Singing in Rain, but my personal favorite adult memory of DR when she played Grace’s mom on Will and Grace.

    Good Morning!

  23. 23.

    Yarrow

    December 28, 2016 at 9:12 pm

    So sad. How awful for her family. This fucking year.

  24. 24.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 28, 2016 at 9:13 pm

    In 1957, when my younger sister was 12, the song “Tammy” (aka “Tammy’s in Love”) was a huge hit. My sister acquired the 45 and played it over and over and over and over and over, again and again and again, repeatedly. And then she’d do it all over again. I liked the song well enough, but it drove me crazy to hear it for hours on end (we shared a room).

    I just posted the YouTube video to my sister’s FB page, in loving memory of a wonderful entertainer. And I listened to it again myself. RIP, Tammy.

  25. 25.

    Это курам на смех

    December 28, 2016 at 9:13 pm

    I met her once, backstage at a Broadway show she was headlining. A kind and charming lady with no air of stardom about her. Just a very nice person.

  26. 26.

    Keith G

    December 28, 2016 at 9:14 pm

    Got to see her live on stage in a musical review. Quite a hoofer. She had a long and sparkling life. Bon Voyage!!

  27. 27.

    ThresherK

    December 28, 2016 at 9:19 pm

    I can’t process this. I stopped making jests about “celebrity X, watch your back” a month ago.

    Someone famous from DR’s most beloved movie is still alive. I’m not saying who.

  28. 28.

    Elizabelle

    December 28, 2016 at 9:19 pm

    2016 has been surreal.

  29. 29.

    randy khan

    December 28, 2016 at 9:22 pm

    Oh, my Lord. Can’t we just end the year now?

  30. 30.

    wenchacha

    December 28, 2016 at 9:26 pm

    It is heartbreaking, especially for the son and grand-daughter.

    My younger brother and I have been talking about our folks tonight. They are 91 and 92, still in the home they built nearly 70 years ago. My older sister is their in-home caregiver, but mom and dad still manage just about everything on their own, but much more slowly. Debbie Reynolds was so young at 84.

  31. 31.

    hilts

    December 28, 2016 at 9:27 pm

    Sarah Kendzior summed up 2016 for me:

    “Imagine being told in January: “By the end of the year, Donald Trump – backed by white supremacists, kleptocrats, and the Kremlin – will be President and Prince, David Bowie, Muhammad Ali, Leonard Cohen, George Michael, and Carrie Fisher will all be dead.”

    h/t https://twitter.com/sarahkendzior

    And now Debbie Reynolds.

  32. 32.

    Rob

    December 28, 2016 at 9:27 pm

    @randy khan: Yes, but then we have 2017 to contend with…

  33. 33.

    JPL

    December 28, 2016 at 9:28 pm

    As sad as this is, our president-elect had this to say about Russian hacking

    “computers have complicated lives very greatly. Nobody knows exactly what’s going on”

    Maybe 2016 isn’t that bad.

    rip Debbie

  34. 34.

    JPL

    December 28, 2016 at 9:31 pm

    When I was younger, I had Debbie Reynolds paper dolls. Part of me has always hated Elizabeth Taylor for stealing Eddie Fisher away from her.

  35. 35.

    opiejeanne

    December 28, 2016 at 9:31 pm

    @lamh36: Ok, now I’m going to cry. I haven’t cried over any other celebrity who died, came close a couple of times, but not until this. Too sad for words.

  36. 36.

    debbie

    December 28, 2016 at 9:32 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    Sorry to be so OT, but do you still need a link to what Adam had to say about GOP and hacking?

  37. 37.

    opiejeanne

    December 28, 2016 at 9:32 pm

    @Cacti: Not to mention how awful for her daughter to lose her mother and grandmother on consecutive days.

  38. 38.

    PhoenixRising

    December 28, 2016 at 9:33 pm

    ‘Postcards’ was not fiction.

    If Carrie were here, the one-woman show she would launch off her mother dying before the Leia tributes had left the top of Facebook…wow. Not trying to be less than sympathetic to the daughter/granddaughter & brother/son, but there is a poetic beauty and irony in this tragedy.

  39. 39.

    debbie

    December 28, 2016 at 9:34 pm

    @JPL:

    I also had those dolls. I loved her movies and I loved her no-shit attitude, which she passed on to Carrie.

  40. 40.

    PsiFighter37

    December 28, 2016 at 9:34 pm

    Must have been the heartbreak. RIP :(

  41. 41.

    boatboy_srq

    December 28, 2016 at 9:35 pm

    2016 can go BLEEP itself. There, I said it.

  42. 42.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 28, 2016 at 9:35 pm

    @Emma: You took the Lord’s name in vain. I have freed your blasphemous utterance.//

    In all seriousness: I have no idea why, but I did release you from limbo.

  43. 43.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 28, 2016 at 9:36 pm

    @hilts: If anyone was wondering what the price to be paid for the Cubs winning the World Series would be, we now know.

  44. 44.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 28, 2016 at 9:38 pm

    @debbie: I believe I recommended they get that cough looked at. Also, Ricolla!

  45. 45.

    raven

    December 28, 2016 at 9:39 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: What do you know about ““Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein” by John Nixon.”?

  46. 46.

    debbie

    December 28, 2016 at 9:40 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Oy.

  47. 47.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 28, 2016 at 9:42 pm

    @raven: I’ve read the book review. Haven’t read the book yet – got several in front of it and the backlog is just getting longer. It looks interesting and while I don’t think I know John Nixon, as I know very few folks from the National Clandestine Service (formerly CIA’s Directorate of Operations), what I’ve seen so far doesn’t surprise me.

  48. 48.

    Elizabelle

    December 28, 2016 at 9:42 pm

    @boatboy_srq: A boatboy sighting! Happy occurrence.

    @debbie: good with the links. Thank you for asking.

  49. 49.

    Keith P.

    December 28, 2016 at 9:43 pm

    @boatboy_srq: Don’t say that while it’s still here; you’ll just make it angrier.

  50. 50.

    raven

    December 28, 2016 at 9:43 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Thanks, I saw him interviewed and the last question was did he thing there was ONE good thing to come from invading Iraq.

  51. 51.

    hovercraft

    December 28, 2016 at 9:43 pm

    This is just so sad, for Todd and Billie. I can’t begin to imagine how much this second gut punch is hitting them. I guess the only consolation for them is what Todd said, that they are now together.
    RIP Debbie, like your daughter you were a great woman, who gave us all the gifts of your talent, and your wonderful daughter. You will be missed.

  52. 52.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 28, 2016 at 9:44 pm

    @debbie: Had to be done.

    Here’s the link you were asking about:
    https://balloon-juice.com/2016/12/10/the-maskirovka-slips-viii-my-real-fear/

    To find my stuff, other than late night open threads or recipes, just go up to the top right of the blog, click on the quick links, scroll down to Silverman on Security, and click on that. You’ll find all of my security, policy, strategy posts that way.

  53. 53.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 28, 2016 at 9:45 pm

    @raven: What was his answer?

  54. 54.

    raven

    December 28, 2016 at 9:46 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Guess. . .zip, nada, donut. zilch.

  55. 55.

    Rob

    December 28, 2016 at 9:46 pm

    @PsiFighter37: I agree. That makes Reynolds’s death so much sadder.

  56. 56.

    lamh36

    December 28, 2016 at 9:46 pm

    @NoahTsika 54m54 minutes ago
    Know your history. Never forget that this woman was hosting AIDS benefits as early as ’83 (4 years before Reagan uttered the word in public)

    @TUSK81
    Debbie Reynolds headlining an AIDS benefit in 1983

  57. 57.

    Baud

    December 28, 2016 at 9:47 pm

    The daughter-mother situation cuts deep.

  58. 58.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 28, 2016 at 9:47 pm

    @raven: That’s what I figured, but I didn’t want to assume.

  59. 59.

    debbie

    December 28, 2016 at 9:48 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Thanks.

  60. 60.

    raven

    December 28, 2016 at 9:48 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: From the interview it sounds really interesting.

  61. 61.

    Tazj

    December 28, 2016 at 9:49 pm

    @JPL: Another thing that was great about her was she was able to forgive Elizabeth Taylor and joke about it.
    When I was little, the local tv station ran old movies on Sunday afternoons. That’s how I got to see her in movies like”Singing in the Rain”, “Tammy”, and the “Unsinkable Molly Brown.” She was still fantastic years later in “Mother” and “In and Out.”
    This has to be so hard on her family.

  62. 62.

    lamh36

    December 28, 2016 at 9:49 pm

    @PhoenixRising:

    @pattonoswalt
    Carrie would’ve LOVED this Tweet and, maybe through you, she sent it?

    @DesiJed
    Any Postcards From the Edge fan has to darkly appreciate the thunder stealing.

  63. 63.

    lamh36

    December 28, 2016 at 9:51 pm

    @MsSarahPaulson
    This. Just this devastatingly moving photograph. Just this.

    Great photo. It’s a Black and White of Carrie as a girl, off stage looking on as her mom Debbie is on stage performing.

  64. 64.

    Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.)

    December 28, 2016 at 9:52 pm

    This year sucks ass. Can we at least hope that 2016 might take Trump and Pence on its way out?

  65. 65.

    mai naem mobile

    December 28, 2016 at 9:53 pm

    RIP Debbie Reynolds. Don’t know what to say at this point. These people are dropping like flies.

    There’s also George Irving an actor who looks really familiar and Ricky Harris a comedian who also looks really familiar who’ve died today and yesterday respectively.

  66. 66.

    debbie

    December 28, 2016 at 9:54 pm

    @lamh36:

    That’s an amazing photograph.

  67. 67.

    Baud

    December 28, 2016 at 9:55 pm

    @lamh36:
    @debbie:

    Agree.

  68. 68.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 28, 2016 at 9:55 pm

    @raven: That was my takeaway from the book review.

  69. 69.

    Mike in NC

    December 28, 2016 at 9:58 pm

    How awful. RIP to those ladies.

  70. 70.

    Linda M

    December 28, 2016 at 9:59 pm

    This year! On January 1 this year I had to take my beloved spouse to the ER and he died in the hospital on January 7. Three weeks later, my 90 year old mother died. Ever since, it seems like I have just not been able to shake the grief or endure the news reports of admired newsworthy deaths. Coupled with the shitty election cycle and end results, I just about give up. My mother used to say that what you do on New Year’s Day, you do the whole year. That feels about right for me for this year.

  71. 71.

    PST

    December 28, 2016 at 10:00 pm

    Debbie Reynolds used to have a touring show that played regional theaters and similar venues. She wasn’t just the headliner — she ran the whole outfit. So, when she had a contract dispute with a theater in Cleveland, I found myself as a young lawyer taking her deposition. There was nothing memorable about the deposition itself, which was businesslike and civil, but when we finished, Ms. Reynolds started tidying up the conference room: emptying all the ash trays (it was 35 years ago) and collecting coffee cups. None of our entreaties to leave it for someone else could stop her. Then she disappeared for half an hour signing autographs and chatting with the secretaries in the ladies’ room. It was a fun break from my dull routine, and Ms. Reynolds was very gracious. What a tragedy she had to endure her daughter’s death before her own passing.

  72. 72.

    rikyrah

    December 28, 2016 at 10:01 pm

    RIP
    Man 2016…You are vicious????

  73. 73.

    Baud

    December 28, 2016 at 10:02 pm

    @Linda M: I’m very sorry.

  74. 74.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 28, 2016 at 10:02 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    All through the playoffs and the Series I kept telling you and telling you to read “Last Pennant Before Armageddon,” but did anyone pay attention to me? No, no they did not.

    (“Last Pennant Before Armageddon” is a short story by W. P. Kinsella, who also wrote the book upon which Field of Dreams is based. W. P. Kinsella also died this year. So there you go, poetic as all shit.)

  75. 75.

    MomSense

    December 28, 2016 at 10:03 pm

    @Linda M:

    Oh Linda I’m so very sorry.

  76. 76.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 28, 2016 at 10:03 pm

    @Linda M:

    What a dreadful year for you. I am so sorry.

  77. 77.

    Suzanne

    December 28, 2016 at 10:06 pm

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.): At this point, the year has been so unbelievable that I almost expect something this insane to happen.

    But, because I am a bad person, I would laugh. SO HARD.

    I think 2017 is going to be great. That’s how it always works for me—a year will be hard, and then the next couple of years will be good. This year has been so bad that I think 2017 is going to just be incredible.

  78. 78.

    Schlemazel

    December 28, 2016 at 10:06 pm

    My guess is Carrie would be saying, “You couldn’t even let me have the spotlight at my own funeral?!”
    I am sure she would like to have gone a couple days earlier, it is horrible to have to bury a child. The whole family must be in shock now.

  79. 79.

    Frank Wilhoit

    December 28, 2016 at 10:06 pm

    At this rate the final casualty list for 2016 is going to come down to quibbling over time zones on New Year’s Eve.

  80. 80.

    Trentrunner

    December 28, 2016 at 10:07 pm

    My mom and I saw Debbie Reynolds in her Las Vegas show at her eponymous hotel sometime in the late 80s/early 90s.

    She did two hours of song/story/some dancing. Then she took photos/said hello/signed autographs for ANYONE in the audience (150-250 people) who wanted them. My mom and I were last, and we had waited at least an hour.

    About an hour later we were walking down the lobby hall, and in the small piano bar of the hotel, there was Debbie: standing by the piano with a few other people around her, singing some show tune at around 2am.

    Some people just bleed show.

  81. 81.

    hovercraft

    December 28, 2016 at 10:07 pm

    @Linda M:
    So sorry for your losses this year. I hope that 2017 is a much better year for you personally. May you have a wonderful New Years Day.

  82. 82.

    Schlemazel

    December 28, 2016 at 10:08 pm

    @Linda M:
    Sort of makes our whining about it being a shitty year sort of hollow. I hope 2017 finds some way to make it up to you.

  83. 83.

    Miss Bianca

    December 28, 2016 at 10:08 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Speaking of blasphemy….humph! Cubbies didn’t need no deal with the devil! It was their TIME, dammit!

  84. 84.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 28, 2016 at 10:09 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: I read it. I was aware.

  85. 85.

    mai naem mobile

    December 28, 2016 at 10:12 pm

    @Linda M: I’m sorry. You have had a truly horrible year.

  86. 86.

    lamh36

    December 28, 2016 at 10:15 pm

    @YahooCelebrity 39m39 minutes ago
    “I miss her so much, I want to be with Carrie,” #DebbieReynolds reportedly said shortly before passing

  87. 87.

    Miss Bianca

    December 28, 2016 at 10:17 pm

    @Linda M: Oh, how awful. My condolences.

    Yes, this year’s mortality rate has hit home in some deep ways – an ex of mine died just before Christmas, some other friends and connections have passed earlier this year as well. The ex’s death hit very hard – not just because of the slow and painful cancer that took him, but also because Christmas was the time we’d always go to his home in England, and I just couldn’t stop thinking about him over the holiday.

    I’d join the chorus begging for this year to be over, but for that I dread Even Worse in the year to come.

    ETA: New Year’s Day, I plan to be on horseback running like mad. That would be a great motif for the year for me. I hope your mom would approve.

  88. 88.

    Suzanne

    December 28, 2016 at 10:18 pm

    @Linda M: Hugs to you.

    Mine hasn’t been that bad, but it’s been bad. At the beginning of the year, Mr. Suzanne had two grandparents left, and they both passed this year. The passing of his grandfather left a huge problem with the estate, and now my MIL is embroiled in a huge lawsuit and they may lose the family farm. I had two miscarriages. Spawn the Elder had her mental health troubles, and then her pet hamster died on Christmas Day. I got in a car accident. My ex-husband stopped paying child support. I am hoping for some big, positive changes this year.

  89. 89.

    Emma

    December 28, 2016 at 10:19 pm

    @mai naem mobile: Good lord. I think George Irving starred with Debbie Reynolds in Irene!

  90. 90.

    JPL

    December 28, 2016 at 10:19 pm

    @Linda M: New Year’s Day I plan to listen to music, watch the parade and think about your mom’s words, May next year be better for you.

  91. 91.

    Pogonip

    December 28, 2016 at 10:20 pm

    @West of the Rockies (been a while): my sister-in-law and my mom died 2 days apart.

  92. 92.

    Villago Delenda Est

    December 28, 2016 at 10:21 pm

    Oh, this is just the icing on the cake. I think Debbie died of a broken heart…to lose your child, even when you’re pretty far along yourself…devastating.

    Linda M, deepest condolences on your terrible 2016.

  93. 93.

    schrodingers_cat

    December 28, 2016 at 10:21 pm

    @Suzanne: {{ }}

  94. 94.

    Emma

    December 28, 2016 at 10:22 pm

    My family deaths bracketed the year: my Mom in March and my great-uncle (the last of my grandfather’s siblings) in December.

  95. 95.

    Villago Delenda Est

    December 28, 2016 at 10:22 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: The meteor was supposed to hit during the 10th inning. Perhaps it’s waiting for the Lions to be in the Super Bowl?

  96. 96.

    JPL

    December 28, 2016 at 10:22 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: What did Trump mean tonight?

    “I think we ought to get on with our lives,” Trump said. “I think that computers have complicated lives very greatly. The whole age of the computer has made it where nobody knows exactly what’s going on. We have speed, we have a lot of other things, but I’m not sure we have the kind of security we need.”

  97. 97.

    Mornington Crescent

    December 28, 2016 at 10:23 pm

    If I Had a Hammer by Debbie Reynolds

  98. 98.

    Brachiator

    December 28, 2016 at 10:24 pm

    @Miss Bianca:

    The ex’s death hit very hard – not just because of the slow and painful cancer that took him, but also because Christmas was the time we’d always go to his home in England, and I just couldn’t stop thinking about him over the holiday.

    I sincerely hope the new year is better for you. We all deserve it.

  99. 99.

    Baud

    December 28, 2016 at 10:25 pm

    @Suzanne: I hope things are better for you in 2017.

  100. 100.

    randy khan

    December 28, 2016 at 10:26 pm

    @Rob:

    It’s coming anyway, so let’s rip off the band-aid.

  101. 101.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 28, 2016 at 10:28 pm

    @JPL: I have no real idea. I think this is in response to Senator Graham’s statement that 99 out of the 100 Senators currently serving accept that Russia was behind hacking the DNC, DSCC, DCCC, and John Podesta and that pressure would be building from them for new sanctions on Russia, as well as for a proper investigation by the Senate into what happened.

  102. 102.

    lamh36

    December 28, 2016 at 10:31 pm

    @GeorgeTakei
    When artists depart this world, we mourn not because we knew them, but because it was as if they knew us. Artists reveal to us who we are.

  103. 103.

    Mike J

    December 28, 2016 at 10:31 pm

    Singing in the Rain is being shown in theatres Sunday, Jan 15th, and Wed Jan 18 as part of TCM and Fathom’s series.

  104. 104.

    Brachiator

    December 28, 2016 at 10:32 pm

    @Linda M: So sorry for your losses. Please take care.

  105. 105.

    mai naem mobile

    December 28, 2016 at 10:34 pm

    @Emma: she was. I saw that on his Wikipedia page. It said he was in a bunch of Broadway shows and guest starred in All in the Family. He just has one of those character actor faces.

  106. 106.

    JPL

    December 28, 2016 at 10:34 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: I doubt he knew what he was talking about.

  107. 107.

    Miss Bianca

    December 28, 2016 at 10:35 pm

    @Brachiator: Thank you. From your mouth to God’s ears.

    @Suzanne: Oh, what a horrid mess. I hope 2017 is a much, much better year for you.

  108. 108.

    Suzanne

    December 28, 2016 at 10:35 pm

    @Brachiator: It’s going to be great. 2017 is going to be great. Nothing but fabulousness for all of us. It’s going to be great.

    If we all think it loud enough, it will happen, damnit.

  109. 109.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 28, 2016 at 10:38 pm

    @Schlemazel:

    If Carrie had not died when she did, I expect several of us would be mentioning and remembering Debbie Reynolds very sadly and lovingly in an Open Thread. But I rather doubt she would have got a dedicated R.I.P. thread of her own. The thing that makes Debbie’s death so poignant and heartbreaking is the fact that she followed her daughter by barely 24 hours. If someone scripted this sequence in a novel or screenplay, the scenario would have been sent to rewrite because the original was just too over-the-top. Sentimental tosh! Pulling at heartstrings!

  110. 110.

    hovercraft

    December 28, 2016 at 10:39 pm

    @JPL:
    He meant that this series of tubes gets tangled up really easily, so we should just stay away from the internets.

  111. 111.

    Omnes Omnibus

    December 28, 2016 at 10:41 pm

    @Schlemazel:

    My guess is Carrie would be saying, “You couldn’t even let me have the spotlight at my own funeral?!”

    Ha!

  112. 112.

    Eric S.

    December 28, 2016 at 10:42 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: I know what you’re saying but I’ve lived it. My great grandfather suffered a stroke at my great grandmother’s funeral and died days later. They’d been married for 77 years. That was long, long ago (1991?) so no recent pain for me. But I’ve seen it. It is real.

  113. 113.

    JPL

    December 28, 2016 at 10:42 pm

    @hovercraft: He’s not a puppet, but tubes get tangled so we all need to “Get on with our lives”

  114. 114.

    Omnes Omnibus

    December 28, 2016 at 10:43 pm

    @Miss Bianca: They made the deal. You know it; admit it.

  115. 115.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 28, 2016 at 10:44 pm

    @JPL: I’ve only seen some snippets of his press availability so am not sure what the context was.

  116. 116.

    hovercraft

    December 28, 2016 at 10:47 pm

    @JPL:

    “Get on with our lives”

    Perhaps someone should mention to him that twitter uses the complicated computer thingy. If he truly wants us to get on with our lives, maybe he should lead by example.

  117. 117.

    Omnes Omnibus

    December 28, 2016 at 10:47 pm

    @Miss Bianca: I may have asked this before, but have you read the “Irish RM” stories by Somerville and Ross? Fox hunting, horsy stuff.

  118. 118.

    JPL

    December 28, 2016 at 10:49 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: This is the quote along with a video in the comments

    https://twitter.com/ericgeller/status/814282464009080832

  119. 119.

    mai naem mobile

    December 28, 2016 at 10:49 pm

    @JPL: I think what he means is that when he was in Moscow in 2013 or whenever and in the 90s,Putin spied on him and has a bunch of filthy laundry on Lumpy that he can hold over him. Guessing there’s child pron involved being that they accused the Clintons of being involved in pedophilai etc. and everything with Lumpy and the GOP is projection. Everything.

  120. 120.

    trollhattan

    December 28, 2016 at 10:50 pm

    At this point I have to conclude 2016 is toughening us up for 2017. Ready?

  121. 121.

    ruemara

    December 28, 2016 at 10:51 pm

    I’m kinda super drunk so pardon typos but this fucing year is fucking fucked horrible bullshit and fuck you you fucking fucker plus fuck you twice on Sunday.

  122. 122.

    Davebo

    December 28, 2016 at 10:51 pm

    @Corner Stone:

    Seriously, 2016 is a year. It’s not coming for anyone. People die, it happens. The totally fabricated by us 365 day period in which it happens is irrelevant and this meme is getting out of hand.

  123. 123.

    Omnes Omnibus

    December 28, 2016 at 10:56 pm

    @trollhattan: At this point, I am just glad that Joe Strummer is already dead.

  124. 124.

    NoraLenderbee

    December 28, 2016 at 11:00 pm

    My father died this year. Now he’s with my mother again, which is all he wanted.

  125. 125.

    Omnes Omnibus

    December 28, 2016 at 11:00 pm

    @Davebo: No shit. All of us know this. It has still been an awful 365 day period.

  126. 126.

    Corner Stone

    December 28, 2016 at 11:02 pm

    @Davebo: Shut Up, Fuck You, Nobody Gives A Shit What You Think, Fuck You, And Go Fuck Yourself.

  127. 127.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 28, 2016 at 11:02 pm

    @JPL: So my guess was right, it was in response to Senator Graham’s comments.

  128. 128.

    Corner Stone

    December 28, 2016 at 11:04 pm

    Duuurrr…people..they die and shit. Fuck you, dbag.

  129. 129.

    Davebo

    December 28, 2016 at 11:04 pm

    @Corner Stone: Didn’t they warn you on the package not to smoke your Viagra?

  130. 130.

    Corner Stone

    December 28, 2016 at 11:05 pm

    So fucking clever. Thanks, broheim!

  131. 131.

    Omnes Omnibus

    December 28, 2016 at 11:05 pm

    @Corner Stone: There is big part of my that wants to co-sign this, but I just went for reasonable.

  132. 132.

    CaseyL

    December 28, 2016 at 11:06 pm

    @Linda M: @Suzanne: Sympathy and condolences to you both!

    I’m going to be a lot more attentive to my friends and relatives, and tell everyone how much they mean to me. Frequently. I think that’s the only way to get through shitty times: take extra special care of the persons (including non-human ones) we love.

    I wish I could say that the spate of celebrity deaths is hitting us harder than usual because they’re our cohort, and we feel our own mortality more when the public people we’ve “grown up with” start dying off. But I’m not sure that’s true, because – yes, they are our cohort, but they’re dying so (comparatively) young!

  133. 133.

    Davebo

    December 28, 2016 at 11:06 pm

    @Corner Stone:

    Get a grip dude. Meet me at Hunky Dory and I’ll buy you some black pudding. In the Heights.

  134. 134.

    Smiling Mortician

    December 28, 2016 at 11:06 pm

    @PhoenixRising: I’m late so people have probably already responded, but yes. This is where art is found, and Carrie would have found it.

  135. 135.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 28, 2016 at 11:07 pm

    @Eric S.:

    It hasn’t happened in my own family, at least not in such close proximity, but I have certainly heard of such things. I’m not trying to diminish anyone’s personal experience, and apologies if that’s what came across.

    It’s just unusual and remarkable enough that we are paying particular attention to it in this case.

  136. 136.

    Davebo

    December 28, 2016 at 11:13 pm

    @Eric S.:

    I can guarantee you that is what will happen with my parents. I give one six months max after the other passes.

    Hell, I was only 50 when I lost my wife and it was only good friends that kept me from falling in that hole.

  137. 137.

    Villago Delenda Est

    December 28, 2016 at 11:14 pm

    @hovercraft: Vile creature has no fucking idea how to lead. Another one of these chickenhawk assholes who would go the way of Douglas C. Niedermeyer if they actually had the guts to go to ‘Nam.

  138. 138.

    Omnes Omnibus

    December 28, 2016 at 11:18 pm

    @Davebo: You were being an asshole. We all do on occasion. But you were.

  139. 139.

    lamh36

    December 28, 2016 at 11:20 pm

    Good night BJ

    Gonna leave ya with this…i remember seeing this interview on Oprah!

    the ending with Debbie’s reaction…priceless ??

    Carrie Fisher explains how Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from Debbie Reynolds.

  140. 140.

    themann1086

    December 28, 2016 at 11:26 pm

    @lamh36: Fuck. Just started crying uncontrollably. Just the worst year.

  141. 141.

    Aleta

    December 28, 2016 at 11:35 pm

    @Linda M: I’m so sorry.

  142. 142.

    Davebo

    December 28, 2016 at 11:40 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Well let’s just hope 2016 doesn’t come to get you as well.

    Asshole? I disagree. Hyperbole? You decide.

    When you wake up next to a dead wife after 23 years two weeks before her birthday and 2 days before yours it gives you some perspective on life and death.

    Fuck Cornerstone and his flailing.

  143. 143.

    Aleta

    December 28, 2016 at 11:42 pm

    @Suzanne: That’s so rough. I’m sorry.

  144. 144.

    Yarrow

    December 28, 2016 at 11:44 pm

    @Suzanne: I’m so sorry. What a terrible year. I hope 2017 so much better for you.

  145. 145.

    Suzanne

    December 28, 2016 at 11:51 pm

    @Aleta: @Yarrow: Thanks. We’re hanging in. There have been bright spots—Mr. Suzanne got a promotion at his job, Spawn the Elder is doing MUCH better after some mental health intervention and a change of schools, we had a great family trip to Rome and Athens, and we did get to see Mr. Suzanne’a grandmother at his cousin’s wedding just a few weeks before she passed. So not all awful.

    But I am definitely hoping for brighter days in 2017—it sounds like Linda M needs them, too.

  146. 146.

    LAC

    December 28, 2016 at 11:52 pm

    @Davebo: I am sorry about your wife. I cannot even imagine.

  147. 147.

    MomSense

    December 28, 2016 at 11:55 pm

    @Suzanne:

    Big hugs to you.

  148. 148.

    MomSense

    December 28, 2016 at 11:57 pm

    @Davebo:

    I’m really sorry.

  149. 149.

    Elizabelle

    December 28, 2016 at 11:57 pm

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.):

    This year sucks ass. Can we at least hope that 2016 might take Trump and Pence on its way out?

    Works for me. And something suckitude for Mitch McConnell and deeply embarrassing/laughable to Paul Ryan too.

  150. 150.

    Elizabelle

    December 28, 2016 at 11:58 pm

    @Davebo: My condolences. Terrible loss.

    @Suzanne: And may Suzanne’s 2017 be far better. She deserves the break.

  151. 151.

    Elizabelle

    December 29, 2016 at 12:00 am

    @Linda M: Best to you, Linda.

    In that case, may you be doing something happy and fulfilling on New Year’s Eve. You are due for some happiness and relief too.

  152. 152.

    Yarrow

    December 29, 2016 at 12:01 am

    @Davebo: Sorry for your loss. That sounds very shocking and awful.

  153. 153.

    jnfr

    December 29, 2016 at 12:31 am

    @Linda M: I am so sorry.

  154. 154.

    ruemara

    December 29, 2016 at 12:36 am

    @Davebo: I am so sorry. Nothing can soften that loss but time.

    @Linda M: I am also so very sorry.

    There were some bright spots, but this year has been toxic.

  155. 155.

    Villago Delenda Est

    December 29, 2016 at 12:49 am

    @lamh36: AWESOME!

  156. 156.

    Linda M

    December 29, 2016 at 1:01 am

    Thanks for the kind wishes. My year has been a challenge, but I know I will get through it ok. Time does wonders for that, so they say. Lurking at this site has given me a diversion.

  157. 157.

    Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)

    December 29, 2016 at 1:24 am

    @Linda M: So very sorry for your loss.

    They keep telling me that time will heal; I can attest to the fact that it does help. I hope that you and I and everyone else who lost someone this year can find a way to better things next year.

  158. 158.

    NotoriousJRT

    December 29, 2016 at 1:27 am

    @Linda M:
    My condolences for all your sorrow. This had been a hard year: I had to say goodbye to my notorious JRT, a dear friend drowned, and my wonderful sis-in-law died very unexpectedly. Plus all the public losses and the election of that punk, Trump. If you thought happiness was Lubbock, Texas in the rearview mirror, you now know it really is having 2016 there.

  159. 159.

    Elie

    December 29, 2016 at 1:59 am

    @Linda M:
    My condolences to everyone in pain from grief and major loss. I still want to call my Mom and its been over 2 years. It has gotten less painful over time. At least less sharp. I am changed forever but it has left me more open to the pain of others

  160. 160.

    opiejeanne

    December 29, 2016 at 2:25 am

    @Linda M: Oh, I’m so sorry. I hope that when this year is passed you will find laughter and joy on Sunday morning.

  161. 161.

    opiejeanne

    December 29, 2016 at 2:37 am

    @Suzanne: Oh no! I am so sorry. That is just terrible.
    We had a three year span when we lost every aunt and uncle and three of our four parents; my dad and one uncle who was married to an aunt hung on for a few years, both too ornery to die. It was just funeral after funeral, and after the first two we were simply numb.
    We are down to a single great aunt of mr opiejeanne’s; she lives on Oahu and is in her mid-90s. She has outlived her husband, her son, and her grandson.

  162. 162.

    opiejeanne

    December 29, 2016 at 2:47 am

    @trollhattan: I don’t feel any tougher, though. If anything I feel badly bruised.

  163. 163.

    Kathleen

    December 29, 2016 at 4:18 am

    @Linda M: My deepest sympathies for your losses, Linda M.

  164. 164.

    Kathleen

    December 29, 2016 at 4:23 am

    @Linda M: My deepest sympathies for your losses, Linda M. @Suzanne: {{{Suzanne}}}. Here’s wishing you a peaceful and joyful new year.

  165. 165.

    Omnes Omnibus

    December 29, 2016 at 9:42 am

    @Davebo: I was unaware of your situation. My apologies and my condolences.

  166. 166.

    Miss Bianca

    December 29, 2016 at 11:54 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: Cold, dead, thread, but no…not yet. I did get the book from Inter-library loan last year, but ended up having way too much other stuff to read and so I sent it back. (along with “Castle Rackrent” and a couple other Anglo-Irish classics), but I do mean to read it sometime!

  167. 167.

    Janelle

    December 29, 2016 at 3:43 pm

    @Cacti: And Billie Lourd, who lost her mother and grandmother on consecutive days.

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