R.I.P Phyllis Diller

[Salt City Sooner]

Quite the career:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/20/showbiz/phyllis-diller-obit/index.html?hpt=hp_c1

[12]

Is it just me, or is the rate of celebrity deaths on a remarkable upswing? Five mentioned on NBC nightly tonight. I guess it is just a sign of the times. Most of them were very young when being a "celebrity" hit national awareness.

While I enjoy death pools as much as any dork on the Internet, the weekly reminders of the ticking clock can't be much fun for the older folks we all know.

[MamaMia]

She was very blessed to have lived such a long full life.

[SanJoaquinSooner]

I saw her when I was a kid. She headlined with the Smothers Brothers and the Mills Brothers.

****ing funny. RIP. I hope I am old for as long as she was.

[nighttrain12]

http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=751677&ocid=ansent11

Also a very fine character actor named William Windom died at 88.

[Jacie]

That laugh of hers . . . "Ah HAH!"

[8timechamps]

Remember when a celebrity was famous for actually doing something like a movie, or being a gifted artist? Not so much anymore.