WWTBAM Bored

A tremendous singer...he had just announced his retirement a couple of days ago...


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I really feel people shouldn't retire if they're not made to. It does something to their immune system. Of course, often health issues were the reason for retirement, but they didn't want to say.

ghostjmf wrote:I really feel people shouldn't retire if they're not made to. It does something to their immune system. Of course, often health issues were the reason for retirement, but they didn't want to say.

I think the latter is the case quite often: Roger Ebert; Andy Rooney; Morley Safer... all died within a week of their "retirements."

silverscreenselect wrote:

ghostjmf wrote:I really feel people shouldn't retire if they're not made to. It does something to their immune system. Of course, often health issues were the reason for retirement, but they didn't want to say.

I think the latter is the case quite often: Roger Ebert; Andy Rooney; Morley Safer... all died within a week of their "retirements."

Not to mention Charles Schulz, who died within 24 hours of the publication of his final Peanuts strip.

Pastor Fireball wrote:

silverscreenselect wrote:

ghostjmf wrote:I really feel people shouldn't retire if they're not made to. It does something to their immune system. Of course, often health issues were the reason for retirement, but they didn't want to say.

I think the latter is the case quite often: Roger Ebert; Andy Rooney; Morley Safer... all died within a week of their "retirements."

Not to mention Charles Schulz, who died within 24 hours of the publication of his final Peanuts strip.

And yet my f-i-l is going on 62 days since he "retired".

Pastor Fireball wrote:

silverscreenselect wrote:

ghostjmf wrote:I really feel people shouldn't retire if they're not made to. It does something to their immune system. Of course, often health issues were the reason for retirement, but they didn't want to say.

I think the latter is the case quite often: Roger Ebert; Andy Rooney; Morley Safer... all died within a week of their "retirements."

Not to mention Charles Schulz, who died within 24 hours of the publication of his final Peanuts strip.

And Buddy Holly, who died an hour after his final concert.

TheConfessor wrote:

Pastor Fireball wrote:

silverscreenselect wrote:
I think the latter is the case quite often: Roger Ebert; Andy Rooney; Morley Safer... all died within a week of their "retirements."

Not to mention Charles Schulz, who died within 24 hours of the publication of his final Peanuts strip.

And Buddy Holly, who died an hour after his final concert.

And Dick Shawn, who died within seconds of his final performance.

Makes it seem like Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant cheated the Grim Reaper by waiting a month after coaching his final game to shuffle off this mortal coil.

SpacemanSpiff wrote:Makes it seem like Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant cheated the Grim Reaper by waiting a month after coaching his final game to shuffle off this mortal coil.

As did his rival Joe Paterno. But JoePa may have wished he had gone a couple of months earlier before the Sandusky scandal broke.