A family member put on a game show that included Brian Blessed and I commented it ‘must be old as he’s been dead for a while’?
Nope. 88 and going strong.
Who else has surprised you?
Dick van Dyke turns 99 in a few weeks.
I swear to God he’s the first person that came to mind, and here it’s currently the first post - thank you for reminding me that he’s still alive!
Mel Brooks. He turned 98 this year.
I thought Carter was dead until he was in the news for turning 100.
I mean he’s been in hospice for like 18 months now . . .
Probably got a heart attack after hearing the news that the felon won.
Is he still alive? If so, he’s probably so sad after seeing what this country did.
If I were his hospice worker, I’d tell him Kamala won.
Maybe knowing the truth, he’ll fight harder and live another 100 years out of rage.
I im imagining he goes to make a pact with the Devil:
Jimmy: “Let me outlive Donald Trump, and I’ll pledge you my soul.”
Satan: “Don’t worry about it bro this one’s on the house.”
He could still run for a second term.
Whenever we would hear “Crimson and Clover” growing up, my dad would comment how Tommy James (the singer) killed himself in the 70s. Cut to like 5 years ago when I see Tommy James, in his 70s, still kickin’, on some random public access programming lol.
My dad has been repeating this “fact” for so many years that there’s a solid chance he’s forgotten it isn’t true and still says it whenever he hears “Crimson and Clover.”
he is 88 and still alive
Chuck Norris, back in 2010s. I thought I heard of a heart attack before that.
The day James Earl Jones died I was talking to my girlfriend about him and wondered if he was still alive.
He was.
30 minutes later he died. Literally 30 fucking minutes.
I feel like I manifested it…
He was probably dead when you thought of it, it just hadn’t been announced yet. You didn’t manifest it, you felt a disturbance in the Force.
The biggest shock for me was Vera Lynn. She recorded her biggest hit song in 1939, and I was most familiar with it from the ending of Dr. Strangelove from 1964, and the Pink Floyd song, “Vera”, from 1982. I guess people in the UK would’ve known better, but the song implied a long-bygone time, so of course she had to be dead by the '90s, right?
Imagine my shock when she released a new compilation album in 2014, while still very much kicking.
Bob Barker only died a year ago. I thought for a long time he had gone in, like, 2010 or so.
I know this isn’t exactly what this is for as this person is dead, but i was certain harold reimis (egon from ghostbusters) died in the early 90s but it turned out he died in 2014. I had it in my head that they didnt make a ghostbusters 3 back in the 90s because he had died.
Buzz Aldrin.
i have a community for this
https://moist.catsweat.com/m/stillalive
!stillalive@moist.catsweat.com
im always forgetting cher is still here for some reason
This is a triumph
I’m making a note here:
Huge success!
By the way, this cake is great… so delicious and moist!
I’m making a note here, huge success
Weirdly when I open that in instance I only see one post but if I open the full link, I see plenty
That’s a pretty normal part of the fediverse. Somebody from your instance has to be subbed to a community for your instance to start pulling in its posts. Anything that was posted while nobody was subbed doesn’t exist on your end.
Abe Vigoda
… oh wait, he did actually finally die in 2016
James Earl Jones prior to him actually passing away.
Yes. I think his character dies in one of the Jack Ryan films (clear and present danger?) and for years my brain thought that was real life…
Christopher Loyd for a while
