Friday, February 19, 2016

Who are you shocked isn't dead yet?

Reddit best voted answers...
Fats Domino and Chuck Berry. Two pioneers of rock and roll.
Dick van Dyke is 90 years old and still with us!
Jimmy Carter, Fidel Castro, Henry Kissinger and Mikhail Gorbachev.
Doris Day
Queen Elizabeth II
Kirk Douglas. Dude will be 100 this year.
Ozzy Osborne
Hugh Hefner
Stephen Hawking

33 comments:

chickelit said...

Rock and Rollers: Little Richard and Dick Dale. Dale still tours!

chickelit said...

QE II

chickelit said...

Oops, she's on the list.

chickelit said...

If Ozzy's on the list, why not Keith Richards and Ginger Baker? Much more substance abuse.

Trooper York said...

Lindsey Lohan.

chickelit said...

Olivia de Havilland

chickelit said...

Troop, I see that Alan Young is still alive. Gotta wonder if he regrets not hitting that.

bagoh20 said...

Me, but I'm not gonna stop trying. Failure is not an option.

Rabel said...

Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
What goes round comes round.

ricpic said...

Abe Vigoda

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

Michael Caine was old when i first saw him in the small screen.

Chip Ahoy said...

Me. On borrowed time for decades and loving every second of it. Thank you whoever is responsible for that because it sure wasn't me.

My buddy, Little Richard's last performance, 2013

He's such a sweetheart.

windbag said...
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chickelit said...

Max von Sydow. Still acting, too.

chickelit said...

Lem said...Michael Caine was old when i first saw him in the small screen.

Caine looked pretty young in Zulu (1964) which is where I first saw him.

ricpic said...

Michael Caine is in a film out this year called Youth, a semi-decent sort of interesting film, but he carries it. You never get the sense that he's acting. Which is the acme of acting.

MamaM said...

My mom. She's 94 and just now beginning to enter into decline. My dad left at 80 and I thought he was old at the time. Since I've recently entered what is likely to be my last quarter, eighty no longer seems so old. Still, there's some times I'm surprised I'm not dead. Not shocked, but pleasantly surprised. Today is one of those days, as a spring wind is blowing, stirring up hope in the midst of ongoing world craziness and turmoil.

Fidel Castro was an old goat when I was young and hiding under elementary school desks fearing a nuclear attack.

Methadras said...

Stephen Hawking is the one that gets me because I believe he is the longest living ALS sufferer ever.

Methadras said...

Keith Richards

William said...

Sean Connery and Roger Moore. In fact, there are no dead Bonds. A martini shaken not stirred has a great many anti-oxidant properties that are only now being discovered........I don't think it's surprising that Doris Day has led a long life. It would have been far more subversive if she had perished before Keith Richards. I know she arrived at her virginity rather late in life, but she was never into drugs and debauchery and she deserves her longevity.

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

Zulu was the year I was born.

William said...

Some songs are uncoverable. No one will ever sing Stardust better than Nat Kng Cole or White Christmas better than Bing Crosby. Doris Day had two perfect songs: Sentimental Journey and Que Sera Sera. No one will ever sing them better. I'm glad she has had a long life.

ricpic said...

Lem...you're over 50!

I'm dumbstruck.

Adamsunderground said...

Don Rickles, just think of all his targets over the years who had to have wished ill on him

Adamsunderground said...

Connie Francis sings Que Sera better, but never on a Sunday

edutcher said...

Far as I know, all the "Cheyenne" guys are still going.

As is Robert Conrad, Robert Horton, and most of the guys from "The Virginian".

PS God bless Olivia. The last of the real Golden Age of movies.

MamaM said...

Sophia Loren, who's 81 and seems like she's from another era. She's edging into Violet Crawley territory, but still appears dynamic.

And ND, thank you for the kind blessing. It's much appreciated. As for Lem being over 50, is it possible that he and Fidel both swam in the Fountain of Youth Ponce De Leon was seeking, with Lem escaping the undertow to land with his feet on free soil?

Would it be uncivil to add Titus to the list? Hell, Trooper York too, for that matter!!

chickelit said...

Would it be uncivil to add Titus to the list? Hell, Trooper York too, for that matter!!

OMG, yes! (and ouch)

Jim in St Louis said...

Forget QEII, her consort the Duke of E is 94!!

Meade said...

You had me at Dick van Dyke.

Actually, I'm not shocked that he's still with us. He and a sixteen year-old farmer's daughter — who later became my mother —dated for about a year before they split up in 1942. He was a smoker and drinker, hellbent on dropping out of high school and joining the Army, and she came from a long line of temperance, abolitionist, suffragist Dissenter Separatist Servants Saints and Strangers. She's 3 months younger than he, has a bunch of kids, grandkids, and great-grandkids. She's about to turn 90, and still going strong. All the people she came from, going back to the Mayflower, if they survived childhood, lived to be 100 and more.

Methadras said...

Bob Newhart.

virgil xenophon said...

Dick and his brother Jerry are from Danville, Illinois just 70mi north of my hometown of Charleston. Both played tennis briefly at Eastern Ill in Charleston (before both dropped out to head for Hollywood) under my Father who was the head tennis coach, Neither were good enough to make the starting first six and served mainly as practice players but my Dad always took them along on away match road-trips as they were so damned funny they kept the boredom factor at almost zero, lol

ampersand said...

Actually, Barry Nelson was the first James Bond. He was in a televised version of Casino Royale. In that one he was an American and named Jimmy. Peter Lorre was Le Chiffre. Linda Christian was Vesper, the first Bond Girl. Nelson died in 2007. The tv version was included on the 1967 Casino Royale DVD.