Posted on 11/27/2018 12:16:02 PM PST by BenLurkin
Stephen Hillenburg, who created SpongeBob SquarePants and the absurd undersea world he inhabited, has died at age 57, Nickelodeon announced Tuesday.
Hillenburg died Monday of Lou Gehrig's disease, also known as ALS, the cable network said in a statement. He was 57.
Hillenburg had announced he had the disease in March 2017. His death comes just weeks after the passing of another cartoon hero in Marvel creator Stan Lee.
An Oklahoma native with a love of both drawing and marine biology, Hillenburg conceived, wrote, produced and directed the animated series that began in 1999 and went on to spawn hundreds of episodes, movies and a Broadway show
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ALL of them you say?
At this point, what difference does it make?
Ohhhhhhhh
Who lives in a pineapple under the sea
SBSP
Absorbant and yellow and porous is he
SBSP
If nautical nonsense be something you wish
SBSP
Then fall on the deck and flop like a fish
Ping
"That's one of those 'Sentence Enhancers'. You use them when you want to talk fancy. You just sprinkle it over anything you say, and Wham-O! You've got yourself a spicy sentence sandwich!"
....And Merry Christmas to you and yours.
And merry Christmas to you!
Unlike the Coyote Road Runner cartoons which taught kids not to buy catapults, rockets or other explosive devices from the Acme Corporation........
Or Popeye cartoons where if you ate a can of spinach you could beat up bullies........
Wimpy could have done children a world of service if he only had shared his hamburgers with Olive......
*<:o)>
I love Virginia! It so beautiful in the western areas.
I love to drive the Blue Ridge Parkway. Fall is beautiful as is spring.
I like to take mom on a drive in May/June when the mountain laurel is blooming. Just beautiful.
The Blue Ridge is such a treat! And Skyline Drive, too.
Wonder around every turn.
There are places in Connecticut w/ beautiful Mountain Laurel displays in June. [The CT state flower]; my mom’s favorite drive was through an area with wild growth Dogwoods. :)
The Rhoddies around Longwood are fabulous; they grow as big as trees; for years I would take a February vaca to the Delmarva for the spring flowers; then come back to a second spring in Connecticut.
Good times.
Come spring I’m planning to take mom and jump on Skyline Dr at Front Royal and drive and take the drive through to the other end in North Carolina. Take as much time as we like and stay a couple of nights along the way.
We both like to explore and check out nice scenery.
Luray Caverns? It’s as wonderful as it was in my youth. IMO, worth a stop. :)
Not so many changes made to it, so you are made think it has gone all *Disney*.
The Caverns are beautiful.
We went to them when I was a kid, took my daughter and then my sons to them.
Haven’t been in a few years, I feel a trip coming on!
My neighbor and her boyfriend canoed down the Shenandoah river this past summer. They had fresh caught fish every night. The pictures she brought back were beautiful.
The Shenandoah valley is a Virginia treasure.
Old thread, I know. My younger brother was having some difficulties for a year or so. In July he was still driving a car. ALS was finally diagnosed in October and he died Dec. 8th. ALS is terrible.
I wondered why this thread was revived. Sorry to hear the news of your little brother, USMCPOP.
That was just perfect. In the true spirit of SBs creator.
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