Like Passed away? Went to that big Lionel train set in the sky? Caught the westbound? (Fav of Hobos) Took a sidetrack? Got the last train to the Greenbrier? Went to Florida on the Sunshine special? Ect..Ect.
We don't often respond to this sort of complaint, but I'll answer this one. If you look at the major media reports on Harrison, they basically all say "dead" or "has died." This follows Associated Press style ("Death, die: Don't use euphemisms like passed on or passed away except in a direct quote") as well as the basic concept of reporting the news, not trying to soft-pedal it or somehow make it more palatable.
CandOforprogress2Like Passed away? Went to that big Lionel train set in the sky? Caught the westbound? (Fav of Hobos) Took a sidetrack? Got the last train to the Greenbrier? Went to Florida on the Sunshine special? Ect..Ect.
I guess you are among those mentioned in the most memorable line from 'A Few Good Men'.
Cue Jack Nicholson!
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Dead is dead. We’ll all be there some day. I didn’t see anything the least bit objectionable. Millennial?
"Dead" is far kinder than what a lot of people are saying about him. I see nothing wrong with the newswire headline, it simply reported the facts. That is what the news is supposed to do.
Greetings from Alberta
-an Articulate Malcontent
The problem you can get into is you can 'soft sell' something so much that the meaning gets lost.
I've worked for years for our state tax agency. Some time back there was a deal about the IRS 'scaring' people so our agency decided to adopt 'kinder gentler' tax letters / notices. So for example if we found out someone had enough income to file a tax return one year, but we hadn't received their tax return / filing yet, we sent out a letter saying something like: "We have reviewed our records, and can't find a 1999 tax return for you. Please send a copy of your return to the address below."
Well, people read that and said "hey I know I filed, if they've lost or misfiled my return, that's not my problem" and threw the letter away. Then a couple of months later, they got a letter saying we had prepared a return for them, which showed how much they were going to owe if they didn't file a return and we had to file one for them. Of course, when they got the second letter they called us saying "why didn't you tell me you didn't get my return? I've got a copy right here!".
The other problem is that the various and sundry "euphemisms" suggested by the OP are almost offensive in their own right. Report it for what it is and leave it at that.
CSSHEGEWISCHThe other problem is that the various and sundry "euphemisms" suggested by the OP are almost offensive in their own right. Report it for what it is and leave it at that.
Facts hurt...
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Words ought to be specific, and used with specificity. Ambiguous terms raise the risk of all sorts of problems, and to me they sound patronizing. "We know you're a sensitive dweeb, so we'll soft-pedal it for you. Pablum anyone?"
People die. Millions of us each day. Why don't we have a euphemism for being born?
Geeze...Is there anyone here who believes in a higher power and a afterlife?
Mark Twain — "'I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience"
Or was it-
Sam Clemens aka Mark Twain-"Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born—a hundred million years—and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together."
selectorPeople die. Millions of us each day. Why don't we have a euphemism for being born?
That would be "Passed among."
Euclid selector People die. Millions of us each day. Why don't we have a euphemism for being born? That would be "Passed among."
selector People die. Millions of us each day. Why don't we have a euphemism for being born?
Depictions of life being created are considered pornographic.
Depictions of life being ended happen on Saturday Morning cartoons and other kids programming, not to mention that it is a critical element of most all adult programming.
BaltACDBaltACDThank You So since Since Hunter was a Horseman what about getting recycled into a Horse the next time around. Euclid selector People die. Millions of us each day. Why don't we have a euphemism for being born? That would be "Passed among." Depictions of life being created are considered pornographic. Depictions of life being ended happen on Saturday Morning cartoons and other kids programming, not to mention that it is a critical element of most all adult programming. Euclid selector People die. Millions of us each day. Why don't we have a euphemism for being born? That would be "Passed among." Depictions of life being created are considered pornographic. Depictions of life being ended happen on Saturday Morning cartoons and other kids programming, not to mention that it is a critical element of most all adult programming.
BaltACDThank You So since Since Hunter was a Horseman what about getting recycled into a Horse the next time around. Euclid selector People die. Millions of us each day. Why don't we have a euphemism for being born? That would be "Passed among." Depictions of life being created are considered pornographic. Depictions of life being ended happen on Saturday Morning cartoons and other kids programming, not to mention that it is a critical element of most all adult programming.
So since Since Hunter was a Horseman what about getting recycled into a Horse the next time around.
selectorsorts
Croaked
I think my favorite term is one used regularly by one of our local radio stations, usually for jazz greats: "He went on home."
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"A stranger's just a friend you ain't met yet." --- Dave Gardner
(I may live to regret this...)
Hunter Harrison went up on the roof...
For more:
http://www.realnothings.com/famous%20jokes/upontheroofjoke.htm
I like "...joined the Church Triumphant on...."
Then there's "..met his Maker." How can we be so sure? Did his father predecease him? Or his mom?
I think buying the farm seems a waste of good hunting so late in life.
selector Then there's "..met his Maker." How can we be so sure? Did his father predecease him? Or his mom? I think buying the farm seems a waste of good hunting so late in life.
There's always the Python's "Dead Parrot" sketch:
"He is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible!! THIS IS AN EX-PARROT!!"
In honor of goldfish everywhere -
flushed
Took the last train to Clarksville
Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.
Their latest issue has at least a half-dozen articles mention him by name.
Has the Trains Magazine curse transcended to railroad executives?
aegrotatio Has the Trains Magazine curse transcended to railroad executives?
Only to old ones with emphysema.
Enzoamps (I may live to regret this...) Hunter Harrison went up on the roof... For more: http://www.realnothings.com/famous%20jokes/upontheroofjoke.htm
Told so well by Bill Macy in a Maude Episode in 1975.
Kicked the bucket.
What wrecked any regard I had for HH was his removal of three-point protection.
Shure, just a blue flag will work 10,000 times. Shure a blue flag plus reverser cenered 10,000 times 10,000 times. But if one life is saved in 100,000,000 times, the extra half-a-miniute to switch off field exciting is more than worth it.
Nothing demonstrated crass putting dollars ahead of lives better than removal of three-point protection. I hope the new team restores it, and restores it as soon as possible.
Randy StahlKicked the bucket.
and the bucket won!
He'll be on the wrong side of the zombie apocalypse now.
Randy StahlHe'll be on the wrong side of the zombie apocalypse now.
Some thought he was already on the wrong side of it during the Mantle Ridge takeover, and after...
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