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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Yeah unexpected darkness there

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kermit misses the whole arm in there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

he's not the only one. 😢

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You had Jim Hensons arm in you? That's a story for an autobiography.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it could have been. I got a gym membership, but maybe I misunderstood.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry I'm officially lost here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

"gym" is pronounced "jim", not "gei-hm"

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Didn't Jim Henson die a completely preventable death, too? He had strep throat that went untreated for several days and it caused organ failures from toxic shock syndrome.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Dr. David Gelmont announced that Henson had died from Streptococcus pneumoniae, an infection that causes bacterial pneumonia. However, on May 29, Gelmont reclassified it as organ dysfunction resulting from streptococcal toxic shock syndrome caused by Streptococcus pyogenes. Gelmont noted Henson might have been saved had he gone to the hospital just a few hours sooner. Medical expert Lawrence D. Altman also stated that Henson's death "may have shocked many Americans who believed that bacterial infections no longer could kill with such swiftness." A lack of familiarity with this possibility, combined with the then-recent deaths of prominent men (including Rock Hudson, Liberace, Roy Cohn, and others) whose AIDS deaths had first been publicly euphemized as other illnesses due to AIDS's pervasive stigma, led to a false but widespread rumor that Henson had died of AIDS--a rumor that was swiftly and directly refuted by Dr. Gelmont. Frank Oz believed the stress of negotiating with Disney led to Henson's death, stating in a 2021 interview: "The Disney deal is probably what killed Jim. It made him sick." Henson was cremated and in 1992, his ashes were scattered near Taos in New Mexico.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Henson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streptococcus_pneumoniae

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streptococcus_pyogenes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walt_Disney_Company

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So he pulled a Bob Marley, then. Also known as a Steve Jobs.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

As far as the other comment suggests, it wasn't so much a case of choosing to die or choosing a ridiculous "treatment" but just getting unlucky with having step go real bad in a hurry.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Except Henson wasn't a jackass in real life.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He did cheat on his wife.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Taste your bro's cock before it's too late, bros.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Wait, lemme message my bro real quick

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't think that's an actual Penny Arcade comic... But it's something they would publish.

Was this a guest artist filling in for them? This sounds like exactly the kind of joke their guest artists would do.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It was done by whoever does Haus of Decline. It's not an official guest comic, but it is an affectionate parody.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

As sad as the loss of Jim Henson has been to the world, Ernie continues to be performed on Sesame Street by others willing to stick their hands up his butt. (I'm just saying.)

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

jim henson was the voice of ernie. frank oz voiced bert

e. they replaced him https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/characters/Sesame-Street/Ernie/

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Who keeps putting all these tears in my eyes?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Their tub has three knobs?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hot, cold, and tub/shower selector is what I assume

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Your diverter is a knob? Interesting. I've only seen them as a little pull handle, usually on the spout.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Sorry, I can't hear you. I have a banana in my ear.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

My tub had 3 knobs. Middle one sends water to shower head instead of the tub. You wouldn't know unless you grew up in a house with 60s style plumbing

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the mythic Third Temperature which only muppets can feel.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Hot, cold, felt

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

"R-r-rubber ducky y-y-you're th-the one..."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Man, I hate you.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I had this dream. But instead of Bert and Ernie it was me and my dad.