Dead Celebrity (Part 1)

Just so long as you don’t end up here too.

I will always remember the delightful (and fictional) Libby Gelman-Waxner’s love of a good Entenmann’s

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That didn’t work for me, but this alternative did:

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Reader, he dressed her set and also married her…

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Thanks, I went with the official account but maybe a different record company in different territories.

It’s great fun!

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A huge thanks @robertmckenna, @alwayslurking. That’ll be going around my head for a while.

Happy Eddie Murphy GIF by Laff
(perhaps not a gif expected in this thread)

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Sesame Street Singing GIF by West Virginia Public Broadcasting

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Mr. Waldrep helped lobby for passage of the ADA, the landmark legislation signed by President George H.W. Bush that prohibits discrimination based on disability and guarantees certain accommodations and accessibility.

Robert L. Burgdorf Jr., a law professor who wrote an early draft of the bill, credited Mr. Waldrep with naming the legislation the “Americans With Disabilities Act.”

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Not the best name, tbh, because it excludes non-citizens. But it’s the kind of name needed to pass a bill in a republican administration, I suppose.

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It was the first law of its kind. It’s a bit inappropriate and nit picky to complain at the moment of his death. It was an amazing civil rights advancement.

“ 3. A Multi-Layered Reform Process: International, Regional and National Developments

The reform process in disability law has been going on in all parts of the world. The United States and Canada were the first countries to adopt anti-discrimination laws and other human rights legislation for persons with disabilities, starting with scattered equality provisions in various areas of the law in the 1970s and following with more comprehensive laws in the 1990s.[11]

https://dredf.org/news/publications/disability-rights-law-and-policy/a-survey-of-international-comparative-and-regional-disability-law-reform/#_ftn11

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And:

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Aw! :pensive:

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Damn. Another legendary wrestler gone far too soon.

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Worth remembering (I had forgotten)

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Aw damn… I was fortunate enough to meet him in person several times, the earliest of which was 30(?!) years ago.

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