Wesley Willis is dead!

[Marx]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030825/music_nm/music_willis_dc_2

:(

I'll miss his cracked out songs.

I suggest everyone goes out on their unnamed mp3 search utilities and downloads "rock and roll McDonalds" or "I whooped batmans ass"

:(

[enablerbr]

sorry but i've been getting talk about him most of the day on my audio channel on irc.

[dL9]

He was the bomb.

[Brew]

no way!

i looked forward to hearing his new releases on whatever radio station Opie & Anthony sprung forth on next

Always remember,
McDonalds is the place to rock
It is a restaurant where they buy food to eat
It is a good place to listen to the music
People flock here to get down to the rock music

Rock on London, Rock on Chicago, Wheaties, Breakfast of Champions.

RIP, bro. :(

[Drake6k]

I hate that guy. Not funny bullshit music.

[Marx]

I hate that guy. Not funny bullshit music.

Don't fuck up his remembrance thread.

:(

Can I get an amen?

Amen.

[csh1]

why would we want to remember him?? Hes finally dead!

[Brew]

that's cold.

how many homeless schizophrenics do YOU know who managed to have a (sort of) successful music career?

bah.

philistines, all of you!

[Marx]

Originally posted by csh1
why would we want to remember him?? Hes finally dead!

When you go from rags to riches, you can make fun of him.

You haven't, so shut yer' face, and bow your head.

:mad:

[csh1]

How you know that? *drives off in porshe after trading for a old skoda*

[Marx]

Originally posted by csh1
How you know that? *drives off in porshe after trading for a old skoda*

If that was true you wouldn't spend your free time browsing these forums

:D

[csh1]

lol true....
But you never know.... *Owns Neocron and Reakktor*

[Nullifidian]

Originally posted by csh1
lol true....
But you never know.... *Owns Neocron and Reakktor*

hehe, browsing the forums and posting would be proof you DON'T own KK. Afterall, when was the last time we heard anything from MJS?

[FBI]

passed away is more formal. If you had respect for this guy
you'd know that.

[Marx]

Originally posted by FBI
passed away is more formal. If you had respect for this guy
you'd know that.

Note the exclamation mark.

If one was to say "Insert name here has passed away!" then you seem joyous over the loss.

However, "Insert name is dead!" is concise and to the point while emphasizing the untimely nature of the death.

i.e. "The President of the United States is dead!"

Generally when someone "passes on", death was expected. Cancer patients 'pass on'. Soldiers are killed or 'die' because of wounds inflicted.

same idea applies.

[Nullifidian]

Originally posted by Marx
Note the exclamation mark.

If one was to say "Insert name here has passed away!" then you seem joyous over the loss.

However, "Insert name is dead!" is concise and to the point while emphasizing the untimely nature of the death.

i.e. "The President of the United States is dead!"

Generally when someone "passes on", death was expected. Cancer patients 'pass on'. Soldiers are killed or 'die' because of wounds inflicted.

same idea applies.


Ummm, but Wesley Willis died of cancer. It WAS expected for him to die, and so "passed away" really is the right term.


Personally I prefer to use the more polite phrase "is worm food".

[csh1]

well i suppose all those drugs and shite didnt affect him to get ill so it wasnt his fault at all that he died:D

[Marx]

Originally posted by Nullifidian
Ummm, but Wesley Willis died of cancer. It WAS expected for him to die, and so "passed away" really is the right term.


"emergency surgery to suppress internal bleeding"

:(

[csh1]

shouldnt have been drink driving then.....

[Nullifidian]

Originally posted by Marx
"emergency surgery to suppress internal bleeding"

:(


When people die of cancer, they usually actually die of a heart attack or some kind of organ failing or something at the end. Cancer itself doesn't normally kill you before one of the side effects of the cancer does.

So while WW may have died from internal bleeding or whatever, that internal bleeding was caused by his cancer. So, he died of cancer, not internal bleeding.

If a guy is hit by a car and he bleeds to death, we don't say he died from bleeding to death, we say he was killed by a car.

[csh1]

well...unlike your bad english we say "died of internal injuries sustained during a car crash"

welcome to england my friend!

[Nullifidian]

Originally posted by csh1
well...unlike your bad english we say "died of internal injuries sustained during a car crash"

welcome to england my friend!


New reporters say that.

Normal people in everyday conversation do not.

And let's not get into an argument about England and English, because the fact is that England hasn't spoken English in centuries.

[csh1]

are you sure?

ENG land : ENG lish

..or i suppose english came from america??

Also who are normal people? cos i know your not normal so i hope you dont think you are

[csh1]

...but then again i am speaking french? after all according to you english is from america and french is spoken in england and spanish is spoken in france....
Or somthing like that...

[Nullifidian]

Get a grip

Take a joke

Chill the fuck out


Or should I say:
Why are you gettin three stops down from Plaistow at a simple rum and coke I made about the way you Ravis rabbit over there in Ol Blighty?

Don't get your Alans in a bunch.

[FBI]

Originally posted by csh1
well...unlike your bad english we say "died of internal injuries sustained during a car crash"

welcome to england my friend!

no offense but your just trying to bait him into a flame war, either
that or your a rude bastard.

Also, if your the type of person who says "died of internal
injuries sustained during a car crash" to your friends and family,
that's called Newsreporter english where i live as well.

No need to make fun of someone because of the way they talk is
all i'm trying to point out.

[Nidhogg]

Here's some plain English. Chill this thread out.

N

[csh1]

whats wrong with a flame war :D
*hands cash to Niddhog under table to keep thread open*

[Genty]

If I knew who Wesley Willis was I may of shed a tear. However, as I have never heard of him I just shrug it off. People "pass away" every day. Life Moves on.

[csh1]

isnt it somthing like a person a second dies or somthing?

[Syntax-Error]

if we cant have a war memorial thread why should this thread be allowed!

[Marx]

REMEMBER

THE MAN

THE MUSIC

THE MEMORIES

mods, feel free to close this. Obviosly most of the game populace doesn't know him.

:(

[Nidhogg]

Closed.

N