Dude ain't got no cardiac rhythm at all, is the problem.
Actually, now that I think about it, the joke is on Chester Himes -- it's not the rifles that'll kill ya', it's the chitterlings!
Finally, from the mouth of the head troglodyte himself: "I shudder to think where the country would be right now if the religious right had not evolved," [Falwell] said when he stepped down as Moral Majority president in 1987.
[emphasis added, of course]
he died of cardiac arrhythmia.
Such a quick and easy death. That's really a shame. I can still hope that it was a heart attack triggered by crystal meth, right? Or amyl nitrate?
6: Not necessarily. He could have felt it, known what it was, not been able to do anything about it, and lasted for some time. I like that scenario better.
Nobody has shown up pissed off bc Falwell was their acquantance? It is ok to joke about Falwell dying?
10: no, but his bathroom carpet was pissed on.
Sifu, what's happened to The Poor Man Institute?
It is ok to joke about Falwell dying?
No one told you that we're only joking about joking about Falwell dying?
10: No, we really shouldn't be joking about someone's death, however noxious he may have been. Rest in peace, asshole.
It's not OK to joke about the undead Falwell roaming the earth.
Wait, everyone knows that the post is an allusion to how Unfogged is the official blog of atrial fibrillation, right?
17-->18: Have people heard the Ted Leo cover of "Since U Been Gone" where he breaks into "Maps" in the middle? Because I like it very much.
FL, we've fallen behind on the direct brain grafts of the Unfogged archives, and there hasn't been a heart problems post for a while.
10: Seriously, is there some point in pretending? In about 100 years, practically all the 6.7 billion humans now alive are going to be dead too. One more or less isn't any sort of big deal unless one is close.
20: The point in pretending is so to turn the talking into talking-about-talking. When much of your talking-about-talking is dry and meta, a little hand-wringing-avec-frisson-of-glee is a nice change-up.
18: yeah, it reminds me of Richard Thompson's "Small Town Romance".
They can't stand love in a small town, you know.
I'll say. I couldnt stand Falwell and I am not upset that he is dead. He was a cruel, meanspirited guy.
Virginia just got slightly better.
I guess there are now Tele-Tubbies in Heaven, ne pas?
I can only hope that, somehow, just before he kicked, he realized that this whole god and heaven thing was completely false.
I hope God theophanies to Falwell as a woman. That'd fix his little red wagon.
I mentioned this - potentially feeling a little nub of guilt over being so gleeful at Falwell's death - to Rah and his response was full of wisdom: "Turn it around and say all of us gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, everybody he hated, had dropped dead today. What would he be saying about us?" So yeah. No guilt.
That he may have died quickly and not screaming obscenities at his own God simply becomes Exhibit A for any gods that are around being more merciful than he was.