Posted on 02/27/2006 9:38:02 AM PST by Lizavetta
Just heard on the radio......
From his website
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Your assumptions are infantile.
Always enjoyed McCloud and his movies. Sorry to hear of his passing.
Once a leftist, always a leftist.
From the Internet movie database
Was a former Track and Field athlete from the University of OklahomaDennis Weaver placed 6th in the 1948 Olympic Trials in the Decathlon. Bob Mathias placed first; Weaver won the final event, the 1500 meter run.
Darren McGavin was 83.
He was born in Joplin, MO (on Route 66!) and went to OU. Was a Navy veteran of WWII.
I'm not sure when he ever lived in TX, if at all. "McCloud" was from Taos, NM, in the TV series.
Internet movie database says he did it to be noticed.:
Gave his character Chester on Gunsmoke a bad leg and a limp out of fear that he would not be noticed when playing scenes with the 6' 9" James Arness unless his character had an unusual trait that would call attention to him.Almost didn't get the part of Chester Goode on "Gunsmoke" until he asked for a second chance to read the lines in a humorous, countrified accent and won the role.
Too bad and sad. I liked Dennis Weaver. Never met him but he seemed like he was a down to earth regular kind of guy. Duel was a cool movie.
I remember Whirly birds! Dennis Weaver was in that?
Requiescat in pace.
You missed my point. At the cemetary he worked with the people died in 3s. NOT two weeks apart! And to have three folks die who all needed to be buried in the same small cemetary is even more strang. It happened in days not weeks. Then there would be a break and then another batch of 3. I'm not saying it happened every time but it was frequent enough that there was a pattern. And it is down right strange.
Bo I got your point entirely, but the reality is it's all in the mind. Things cluster the way you decide they cluster. If you go through life looking for 3s you'll find 3s if you're looking for 5s you'll find 5s, if you're looking for 23s you'll find 23s (special bonus points to anyone that knows why I picked 5 and 23). There is no actual real world clustering, not of disasters, not of Hollywood deaths, not of non-famous people deaths, not of personal annoyances, it simple does not exist. There is no pattern except what the observer inflicts on it, and it's not strange at all, the human mind likes to compartmentalize things, deciding that there is a pattern and noticing when (or forcing it too by deliberate data re-interpretation) things fall into that pattern helps the mind maintain it's illusion of an organized world.
Look at a brick or tile wall sometime and start looking for "groups" make the groups however you want, by number, by pattern, by coloration doesn't matter, once you decide those groups exist they will be there until you decide on another group. The reality is the groups don't exist at all, but you decided they're there so your brain complies. This "death happen in threes" is the exact same thing, as long as you think they happen in three you'll always spot threes, decide they happen in a different number and you'll spot those, realize it's all random and the pattern exists only in your mind and you'll be in touch with reality.
Godspead Dennis.
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