Trivia?? I Don't Think So!!!

[johnfowles]

I guess one man's trivia is another man's crisis eh??
I found this on the
Internet Movie dataBase at:- http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004492/bio
"Trivia
Saturday, September 7th 2002 - Gordon Lightfoot was rushed to McMaster University Health Centre in Hamilton, Ontario by air ambulance after experiencing stomach pains. Gordon had emergency stomach surgery and is expected to make a complete recovery. Details of the surgery are pending"



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My Gordon Lightfoot webring
starts at
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot

[johnfowles]

I guess one man's trivia is another man's crisis eh??
I found this on the
Internet Movie dataBase at:- http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004492/bio
"Trivia
Saturday, September 7th 2002 - Gordon Lightfoot was rushed to McMaster University Health Centre in Hamilton, Ontario by air ambulance after experiencing stomach pains. Gordon had emergency stomach surgery and is expected to make a complete recovery. Details of the surgery are pending"



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My Gordon Lightfoot webring
starts at
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot

[miketouhy]

if you're saying there's something incorrect with the information there, i'm not suprised. the imdb page isn't always right.

[miketouhy]

if you're saying there's something incorrect with the information there, i'm not suprised. the imdb page isn't always right.

[Cubfan64]

I think he's saying that it trivializes GL's near-death experience to refer to the event as "trivia".

Dan

[The Intended]

I think he's saying that it trivializes GL's near-death experience to refer to the event as "trivia".

Dan

[LSH]

Agreed. sheesh. Trivia. This is a person, not a question in a board game. No one's crisis, life-threatening or otherwise, should EVER be thought of as "trivia".

Whoever stuck that under Trivia is a real humanitarian, eh?

(punctuation, punctuation..)



[This message has been edited by LSH (edited August 11, 2004).]

[Borderstone]

I can think of something even sicker than that! How about a site I found that that has a list (and adds to it all year) of celebrities that have passed on? http://www.corfid.com/ubb/mad.gif We're talking lists back to 1996 or so!

Another case of "trivalizing" human life. I read an article online last year about all the many celebrities that were passing on so close together. The guy that wrote it had the gall to write,"Actually,I thought they already were dead!"

It seems in the case of the famous,everything human about one's life gets tossed aside and everything about them,including passing on,is used in crude or insensitive ways. The paparazzi,the news media,Entertainment Tonight (a show I used to have at least some respect for,until they became so superficial),everydaypeople looking for any reason to extract $$$$ etc.

It's all a simple case of how in today's world,there's not a lot of respect for not just someone's life and privacy but just most people don't respect much of anything.

I'll stop now before I write a novel,once you get me started on something....well you know. http://www.corfid.com/ubb/wink.gif

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