Dead Celebrity (Part 1)

ORIGINAL REPORT: Over nearly three decades, Tommy Lasorda’s denial of his gay son’s identity has grown into legend. Tom Lasorda, Jr., known as “Spunky,” died of complications from AIDS on June 3, 1991at the age of 33. Official reports in the media of the time said Spunky died of “pneumonia and severe dehydration,” and focus more on how his father would deal with managing his baseball team than with the fact that his only son was gay.

The truth may be uncomfortable, but the truth should be told, if not by Lasorda himself, then by Outsports.”

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Oh shit. I guess he was 22 when they started: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_(film_series)

My mother has just been raving about 7 Up and Me.

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Damn

When she was in her 20s, Strain suffered a horseback riding injury that caused retrograde amnesia; essentially all memories of her childhood disappeared. The injury is also thought to be the cause of the dementia that took hold of her in recent years, and left her confined to hospice care since at least 2018.

Hell of a life, but way too short.

Or not:

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Of course Trump releases a statement right away upon the announcement of his death versus the days it took to acknowledge the deaths at the Capitol insurrection.

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Gah, dementia in her 50’s. That is depressing as hell to think about. So much suffering out there.

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So, Brits, is Wookey Hole Caves sort of like Rock City and Ruby Falls or what?

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It’s a few holes in the ground, I’m guessing “No”?

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I mean, Rock City started as a mountain that they put a bunch of stuff on… Also, everyone says “Tennessee” but it’s in GA and I’ll fight Tennessee over that…

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and Ruby Falls is a cave with a lit up water fall…

Also… stupid pandemic. I really want to go to Rock City and buy one of their stupid barn birdhouses… so kitchy. So dumb. Such fun.

:confounded:

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I wish to edit my answer to “kinda” - and yeah, days out… :roll_eyes::pleading_face:

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That is not an attraction for kids. No.

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As a Tennessean I feel envious of Georgia for having both Rock City and Atlanta and would like to negotiate a peaceful joint custody agreement. :smile:

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Looking the rock city website, I think they’ve updated their dining menu since I’ve been there way back in the 80s…

I always want to go back to Paradise Gardens, as I’ve not been there since the 90s, I think…

https://paradisegardenfoundation.org/

I guess we can all pretend we went by watching Radio Free Europe…

But it’s been re-opened in recent years after it fell into a bit of disrepair after Howard Finster’s death… and it’s very near to Rock City/Ruby Falls.

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ill allow it GIF

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It has cheddar cheese and a witch. Or a stalagmite that looks a bit like a witch.

Is this a Chester FC kind of thing, where the stadium is in Wales but the offices are in England, so everyone says that they are English?

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