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| Posted By | Discussion Topic: FYI- Morton Downey Jr. Dead | ||||
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| spitfire421 | posted on 03-13-2001 @ 10:21 AM |    | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Dec. 00  | Not that anyone really cares, but I thought this was interesting (and I thought he had already died) CNN is reporting that former TV talk show host Morton Downey Jr. died of lung cancer. He was 67. In the late 80s, Downey had a gimmick where he shot off his mouth at people and when he disagreed with them, he blew smoke in their face. He worked for the WWF at WrestleMania V in 1989, where he was a guest in Roddy Piper's "Piper's Pit". During that segment, Downey blew smoke in Piper's face and Roddy responded by spraying Downey with a fire extinguisher. (here's the real report from cnn) LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Before Jerry Springer and Jenny Jones, there was Morton Downey Jr., a growling and opinionated TV talk show host who shocked viewers from behind a haze of cigarette smoke. America, he once told The Associated Press, saw him as "a loudmouth who gets in trouble just like they do, who's had problems just like they had, someone that they can identify with a lot more than someone who's squeaky clean." Downey, who reigned over "Trash TV" in the 1980s and tried to clean up his act for a return, died of lung cancer and other respiratory problems, his family said Monday night. He was 67. "The family is very grief stricken and very shocked right now," one of Downey's four daughters, Tracey Downey, told KABC-TV. "He was a wonderful, wonderful man, wonderful father. He will be deeply, deeply, deeply missed." A chain smoker for years until losing a lung to cancer, Downey was known for deliberately blowing smoke into the faces of guests who annoyed him when he was host of one of the most popular talk shows on television in the 1980s. After his cancer surgery in 1996, he became an anti-smoking crusader.   This message was edited by spitfire421 on 3-13-01 @ 10:32 AM | ||||
| Ronreddog | posted on 03-13-2001 @ 10:25 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | WOW, I remember that Wrestlemania. I had it on tape at one time, don't know if I still do. What a WINDBAG!!! My first adoptee: Inappropriate Belle   GRRRRRR! E-Mail Me | ||||
| Sephiroth | posted on 03-13-2001 @ 10:26 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Dec. 00 | Wow, that sucks. He was funny as hell on his show. "why do you cry? You are nothing but a doll"-Sephiroth "Hey, are you 'THE' white guys all the brothers talk about?"- Vos Have any anime questions? E-Mail Me or IM me at AIM: Hitokiri182 Go to foundry Chat, home of NUDE TEEN Chatters  | ||||
| Grumpy SAGILLID The Midget Message Board Mauler rides his trusty mount Wilbur once again!! Internet Idiots beware!! | posted on 03-13-2001 @ 10:34 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Dec. 00 | I'm gonna go on my preachers bench now. See what happens when you smoke? Do you now understand the true evil that is tobacco? I call upon you, the smokers of the world, to repent those cigarettes and throw them in the trash this very minute and accept not smoking as your life style. Okay, I'm getting off my preachers bench now. Thank you. Now back to your regularly scheduled posting.  Newest members of the Grumpy's: FDA & ItsASickness Report all of their inappropriate behaviors to me. If you can't dazzle them with your brilliance, baffle them with your bullshit! | ||||
| Corpsegrinderjunk | posted on 03-13-2001 @ 10:35 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Aug. 00 | He'd been dying for years, I also thought he was dead already.. Hey Frumpy, stop trying to preach the cigarette gospal! I'll quit when and if I'm good and god damn ready, and if you smoke and you don't think it's gonna kill ya, then you're an F-tard anyway..  "Think before you write" - Froy E-Mail Me This message was edited by Corpsegrinderjunk on 3-13-01 @ 10:42 AM | ||||
| Ronreddog | posted on 03-13-2001 @ 10:40 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | quote: But, Grumpy, cigars are okay right? I don't inhale those, and they are more gooder! I quit in 1991, so I will be celebrating 10 years in July. Best thing I ever did too! My first adoptee: Inappropriate Belle GRRRRRR!E-Mail Me | ||||
| Grumpy SAGILLID The Midget Message Board Mauler rides his trusty mount Wilbur once again!! Internet Idiots beware!! | posted on 03-13-2001 @ 10:45 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Dec. 00 | Corpse - you know that ex-smokers make the nastiest advocates against smoking. ;) Besides it was preached in SARCASM buttwad. Relax. Want a beer? I'm buying. Newest members of the Grumpy's: FDA & ItsASickness Report all of their inappropriate behaviors to me. If you can't dazzle them with your brilliance, baffle them with your bullshit! | ||||
| Rog2K | posted on 03-13-2001 @ 10:48 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | I quit 1 year ago this sunday. (Zyban rules!) As for cigars, they're just as bad because of mouth cancer....   E-F-F-E-C-T! A smooth operator operating correctly... | ||||
| Corpsegrinderjunk | posted on 03-13-2001 @ 10:49 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Aug. 00 | I guess my sarcasm didn't come through either..god damn computers..and hell yeah I'll take a beer... "Think before you write" - Froy E-Mail Me | ||||
| Ronreddog | posted on 03-13-2001 @ 10:54 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | No, Corpse, it didn't. I thought you were pissed at something today from your post in the Bitch thread, and, it carried over here. It's all good though. People have their bad days, and it sometimes shows in their posts. I know cigars can cause mouth cancer, but, I'll take that chance! I enjoy them too much! ;) My first adoptee: Inappropriate Belle GRRRRRR!E-Mail Me | ||||
| Rommel | posted on 03-13-2001 @ 10:59 AM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Oct. 00 | This guy ruled ! Remember the time he slapped that stutterin' fool John ? He was the original king of political incorrectness....I love shit like that....fuck you rosie, oprah, rikki lake, and all you wanna be's ! Jeder oder Keiner, Alles oder Nichts | ||||
| BARRY MANILOW | posted on 03-13-2001 @ 10:59 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | I found out this morning that he died. He really hasn't done anything in at least 12 years, but I remember that show. I gotta quit. 67 is WAY too young. (What?! Cigars are bad for you? Even the Cubans?):)  | ||||
| Dan-O | posted on 03-13-2001 @ 11:08 AM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Nov. 00 | In other news, Robert Ludlum also died yesterday, at 73 of a heart attack. Now HE contributed something to popular culture... ;) (Many incredible spy novels, if you didn't know.) ::lighting up a cig and hoping Grumpy doesn't see::  "I laughed! I cried!" -- A Manic Depressive | ||||
| hornygoatweed23 I've Got A Vagina With Teeth. G.O.O.F.B.A.H.G.S. Dragoon Battalion My friends call me Weed | posted on 03-13-2001 @ 11:41 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | Being somewhat of a product of the 80's, I was one of those people who actually enjoyed this show - trash TV in its infancy. If anyone has any information as to how I might get a hold of tapes of his old shows, get in touch with me - email is in my profile, AIM Organic999. "Groupsex - it does every-body good"  | ||||
| Suzie I was supposed to have a status, but some FNMoron forgot what it was supposed to be. | posted on 03-13-2001 @ 11:44 AM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Aug. 00 | How ironic - O & A just metnioned him yesterday! Never heard Ant mention him before.... Coincedence? | ||||
| NJDude | posted on 03-13-2001 @ 12:57 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jun. 00 | I went to one his tapings, it was about rock music . Ace Frehley from Kiss was on it. E-Mail Me | ||||
| GonzoStyle | posted on 03-13-2001 @ 1:23 PM | | |||
| Hanger-On Registered: Jan. 70 | I have to admit one thing when morton had his show on wwor about the same time howard was still on wwor as well. Morton was always a great host and never at a loss for words. He was the working mans dennis miller before dennis appeared on SNL. I always agreed with his views and thought he was a funny fuck at that. Oh And Frumpy get off the soapbox and go toot on your pipe. We all know you gave up cigarettes for crack. It'd definetly explain your actionso f late.  They are waiting to take us into the severed garden Do you know how pale & wanton thrillful comes death on a strange hour unannounced, unplanned for like a scaring over-friendly guest you've brought to bed Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven's claws --Jim Morrison (An American Prayer) | ||||
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