Dick van Dyke turns 99 in a few weeks.
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Kick your knees up, step in time!
I swear to God he's the first person that came to mind, and here it's currently the first post - thank you for reminding me that he's still alive!
Mel Brooks. He turned 98 this year.
Bob Barker only died a year ago. I thought for a long time he had gone in, like, 2010 or so.
i have a community for this
https://moist.catsweat.com/m/stillalive
im always forgetting cher is still here for some reason
This is a triumph
I'm making a note here, huge success
Weirdly when I open that in instance I only see one post but if I open the full link, I see plenty
That's a pretty normal part of the fediverse. Somebody from your instance has to be subbed to a community for your instance to start pulling in its posts. Anything that was posted while nobody was subbed doesn't exist on your end.
Lulz
Donald trump. Unfortunately.
You... thought Donald Trump was dead? Unless you don't live on this planet, I don't believe you.
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I had the opposite situation with Jim Varney/Ernest. I was so sad when I found out why there weren't any new Ernest films at the time :(
jim varney was a gem. he also made an amazing jed clampett in the beverly hillbillies movie. just an all around funny guy. he reminded me a little of jim carrey in the way they portray physical comedy all over their face.
True story. His brother inspected my house. Very very thorough and very very serious guy, which I suppose is what you want in a home inspector.
Suffice to say, Jim took all of the funny gene in that family.
Whenever we would hear "Crimson and Clover" growing up, my dad would comment how Tommy James (the singer) killed himself in the 70s. Cut to like 5 years ago when I see Tommy James, in his 70s, still kickin', on some random public access programming lol.
My dad has been repeating this "fact" for so many years that there's a solid chance he's forgotten it isn't true and still says it whenever he hears "Crimson and Clover."
Buzz Aldrin.
Brian Blessed (88) is still alive, so is John Rhys-Davies (80). But we did lose large, loud, Scotish actor Robbie Coltrane (72). :(
Morgan Freeman.
Though in hindsight I realized he probably would've given his own eulogy.
I thought Mr dress up was dead for years before he actually died . Pretty sure that was just a Canadian show so most people probably have no idea what I'm talking about . But he was like Mr Rogers and made lots of cool things with construction paper and glue .
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In a conversation the other day the film Contempt came up, and we looked up the movie and were surprised Brigitte Bardot is still around at 90.
Abe Vigoda
.... oh wait, he did actually finally die in 2016
Not gonna say because I don't want to jinx it
OJ SIMPSON
Chuck Norris, back in 2010s. I thought I heard of a heart attack before that.
Nelson Mandela, duh.
Brian Blessed is still alive? Bah, who wants to live forever?
DIVE!
Christopher Loyd for a while
Elvis
The biggest shock for me was Vera Lynn. She recorded her biggest hit song in 1939, and I was most familiar with it from the ending of Dr. Strangelove from 1964, and the Pink Floyd song, "Vera", from 1982. I guess people in the UK would've known better, but the song implied a long-bygone time, so of course she had to be dead by the '90s, right?
Imagine my shock when she released a new compilation album in 2014, while still very much kicking.
Lionel Richie and anyone who was bald or over 30 when I was less than 10. Like Steve Ballmer
The day James Earl Jones died I was talking to my girlfriend about him and wondered if he was still alive.
He was.
30 minutes later he died. Literally 30 fucking minutes.
I feel like I manifested it..
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Jürgen Habermas.
Earl Holliman of “Police Woman” fame. He passed just the other day.
You've misunderstood the assignment.
Doh. You are correct. I guess I would have passed the assignment if I had replied last week.
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I'm not sure why I thought this, but I thought Carole King died in the late 80s. Nope, she's still kickin'.
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