Fashion Board 6-9-04 to 7-13-04

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
Rick Moranis and Ray Charles dead in the same week?!?

Ray Charles is all over the internet news sources, but how did you find out the Rick Moranis died? That would be upsetting to me if true, as I was always Bob when my friend and I played the MacKenzie brothers back in the day.

Ps. No one had either person in the death pool.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

This article says that being overweight or obese isn't bad for your health, but being sedentary is. A taste:

• Over the past 20 years, scientists have gathered a wealth of evidence indicating that cardiovascular and metabolic fitness, and the activity levels that promote such fitness, are far more important predictors of both overall health and mortality risk than weight. Yet none of the studies most often cited for the proposition that fat kills makes any serious attempt to control for these variables.
  
  The most extensive work of this sort has been carried out by Steven Blair and his colleagues at Dallas's Cooper Institute, involving more than 70,000 people. What they have discovered is that, quite simply, when researchers take into account the activity levels and resulting fitness of the people being studied, body mass appears to have no relevance to health whatsoever. In Blair's studies, obese people who engage in at least moderate levels of physical activity have around one half the mortality rate of sedentary people who maintain supposedly ideal weight levels.

So we can all laugh at the overweight SF aerobics instructor, but it sounds like she's going to outlive most of us.

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Your dog is smarter than your two-year-old.

Unpossible, my green friend. It runs contrary to the Larson Law of Nature.

[Alex_de_Large]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Ray Charles is all over the internet news sources, but how did you find out the Rick Moranis died? That would be upsetting to me if true, as I was always Bob when my friend and I played the MacKenzie brothers back in the day.

Ps. No one had either person in the death pool.

I got the following in an e-mail. I'm looking for a link.

'Honey I Shrunk The Kids Star Dead At 51'

Mon Jun 7,12:46 PM ET


WASHINGTON - Rick Moranis, star of children's favorite 'Honey I Shrunk The Kids', and the classic 'Spaceballs' died yesterday, at age 51.

Moranis was fatally injured at 11:50 a.m. Sunday when struck by a north-bound train one-half mile north of the Napavine depot while running on the track in front of the speeding locomotive.

Rushed to the Chehalis hospital by K. L. Marvin, ambulance driver, he was pronounced dead on arrival, and Coroner Joe Chytil was called to conduct an investigation.

Bud Nacht, who accompanied Marvin on the ambulance call, reported the conductor of the train said "[he] was running down the track apparently trying to flee from the engine, and we were unable to stop the train in time to prevent hitting him."

Deputy Sheriff Arthur E. Roswell, who conducted series of tests at mile post 63, scene of the accident, in an effort to better understand the baffling death, clung to a pole six feet from the railroad tracks while a train rushed by in similated circumstances. Roswell said that even had Moranis stepped from the tracks, he would have been sucked under the wheels of the "monster" if he had been that close to the engine.

"That's the most terrifying experience I ve ever had," said Roswell. "That train loomed out of the dark in an overpowering manner. It towered upon the spot as it roared down upon me, and I believe no man could have hung onto that post with the suction that was caused by the air currents."

Sighted by Engineer

Moranis was sighted by the engineer as he ran down the track, and reportedly made no effort to get off the path of the heavily-laden locomotive.

Mrs. Margaret J. Holtberg, Napavine telephone operator, told a Daily Chronicle reporter Moranis was known locally as a "very cheery person." "People would always ask to take pictures with him," the operator said, "he always obliged, and he was always cheerful and smiling."

Citizens of his hometown in Toronto, Canada were shocked at the news of his death and could recall no reason.

Rick Moranis was widowed in the early 1990s when his wife died of cancer. He is survived by his two children from that marriage.

The body is at the Sticklin mortuary in Chehalis, where it was identified by Burton and funeral arrangements are pending.


Coroner Chytil declined to be quoted as saying the death was suicide, but said further investigation into the circumstances was being made, although indications pointed to suicide.

[Gattigap]

Just in case you're sampling from the barrage of animated (or digitally created) films to watch this summer, I do parenthetically recommend Shrek 2, if only to see Antinio Banderas' "Puss In Boots."

That said, the reviews of reviews of Garfield are in, and the results are unsurprising. When I heard about this movie coming to our multiplex, I was happy, though only as anecdotal evidence that the recreational drug supply in Los Angeles remains plentiful.

My favorite quote: "I'm not betting on a sudden resurgence of interest in a long-comatose strip that battles "Family Circus" weekly for most-appalling artifact of the popular taste."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL

Gattigap

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
I got the following in an e-mail. I'm looking for a link.

I'd try onion.com

[Alex_de_Large]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
I'd try onion.com

Not that I could see. If it's verifiably bullshit, I'd love to know.

[dtb]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Your dog is smarter than your two-year-old.

They spent good money to prove dogs understand words? Hell, they could have just watched how Hank's dog slinks away every time he puts on Barry White and breaks out the peanut butter jar.

It took me a second, but DAAAA-YUMM, that's cold.

[LessinSF]

Playing strip poker - http://www.starpoker.com/ (duh)

[LessinSF]

Originally posted by LessinSF
Playing strip poker - http://www.starpoker.com/ (duh)

While getting this song stuck in your head:

Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
They were all my friends, and they died

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
I got the following in an e-mail. I'm looking for a link.

'Honey I Shrunk The Kids Star Dead At 51'

Mon Jun 7,12:46 PM ET


WASHINGTON - Rick Moranis, star of children's favorite 'Honey I Shrunk The Kids', and the classic 'Spaceballs' died yesterday, at age 51.

May the Schwartz be with him.

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by dtb
It took me a second, but DAAAA-YUMM, that's cold.

Or: You're a mean one, Atticus Grinch.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
I'd try onion.com

Nothing on Moranis, but the front page does report that Nancy Reagan is now available.

[tmdiva]

Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
Mon Jun 7,12:46 PM ET


WASHINGTON - Rick Moranis, star of children's favorite 'Honey I Shrunk The Kids', and the classic 'Spaceballs' died yesterday, at age 51.

Moranis was fatally injured at 11:50 a.m. Sunday when struck by a north-bound train one-half mile north of the Napavine depot while running on the track in front of the speeding locomotive.

Rushed to the Chehalis hospital by K. L. Marvin, ambulance driver, he was pronounced dead on arrival, and Coroner Joe Chytil was called to conduct an investigation.

Chehalis?!?!? That alone would be indication enough that this is not for real.

tm

Originally posted by Gattigap
My favorite quote: "I'm not betting on a sudden resurgence of interest in a long-comatose strip that battles "Family Circus" weekly for most-appalling artifact of the popular taste."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL

Gattigap

Yeah, timing is everything. I'm waiting for "Max Headroom - The Movie" to come out any day now.