RIP Bob Saget

[Mik]

He was a host on CBS' The Morning Show many years ago. I liked him in that setting. Long before Full House and all that crap.

[LuFins Dad]

Evidently he suffered head trauma? Slipped and hit his head? Then went to sleep with a concussion.

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/09/1079747879/bob-saget-death-cause

[89th]

@larry said in RIP Bob Saget:

I never found Saget to be funny. Not even a little. I'm sorry to hear that he died, but why is he getting so much mention when so many celebrities died in 2021.

Charles Grodin
Christopher Plummer
Cicely Tyson
Cloris Leachman
Donald Rumsfeld
George Segal Jr.
Hal Holbrook
Jackie Mason
Larry King
Leon Spinks
Ned Beatty
Olympia Dukakis
Robert Downey Sr
Saginaw Grant
William Smith
B. J. Thomas
Charlie Watts
Dustin Diamond (Screech form "saved by the bell")
Ed Asner
Gavin McLeod
Hank Aaron
Markie Post

Being just a few...

Dude, 2021 is so last year. Saget is a 2022 story!

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@xenon said in RIP Bob Saget:

@larry He was big with millennials. He was the archetypical 90's dad. Full house is a pretty bad show - but almost everyone my age watched it growing up.

I don't think I've ever seen his stand-up. He wasn't even funny on Full House.

I think his character on Full House was supposed to be un-funny, or at least that's how I remember it. Maybe now, as a dad, if I watched again I would appreciate some dad jokes? Who knows. His stand up is pretty funny... but nothing special

[89th]

@lufins-dad said in RIP Bob Saget:

Evidently he suffered head trauma? Slipped and hit his head? Then went to sleep with a concussion.

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/09/1079747879/bob-saget-death-cause

This hits close to home. My MIL just last week woke up at 2am in the bathroom covered in blood. She has no memory of it, but she likely fainted while walking in the bathroom and hit her head on something (counter, door frame). I saw her a few days ago and we both had an awkwardly candid commentary about how it really could've been much worse had she not woken up in time to stop the bleeding.

[George K]

@lufins-dad

Skull fracture of occipital bone (in the back) as well as comminuted (lots of pieces) fractures of the orbit (bones around the eye) on BOTH sides?

Whoa...

[George K]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10507929/Bob-Sagets-head-injury-severe-like-hed-hit-BASEBALL-BAT-says-doctor.htm

Sorry, I don't get how you can get a fracture on the back of the skull AND comminuted (many pieces) fracture of the orbit. I suppose you can slip and fall, getting a fracture of the orbit - on one side, but both?

And, if you fell backward, a fracture on the occipital bone?

Something stinks here.

[Ivorythumper]

@george-k said in RIP Bob Saget:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10507929/Bob-Sagets-head-injury-severe-like-hed-hit-BASEBALL-BAT-says-doctor.htm

Sorry, I don't get how you can get a fracture on the back of the skull AND comminuted (many pieces) fracture of the orbit. I suppose you can slip and fall, getting a fracture of the orbit - on one side, but both?

And, if you fell backward, a fracture on the occipital bone?

Something stinks here.

Was he a regular on the Lolita Express?

[Mik]

On the front and back? That makes little sense.

[George K]

@mik said in RIP Bob Saget:

On the front and back?

And BOTH eyes.

[George K]

Family sues to prevent release of death records:

https://wgntv.com/news/deans-list/bob-sagets-family-files-lawsuit-to-block-release-of-records-related-to-his-death/

[Catseye3]

I first redd about the death shortly after it happened. Cause of death was listed as an illness, the name of which I can't recall. It was some lengthy thing, three words, one of which sounded like encephalitis. No mention of head trauma.

Then I redd here y'alls mention of head trauma. I went back and searched for the encephalitis thing, and found no mention of it -- almost as if all mentions of it had been expunged.

I haven't mentioned this because I've been trying to recall the name of the disease, but no luck. But weird, huh?

[George K]

@catseye3 traumatic encephalopathy?

[Catseye3]

@george-k said in RIP Bob Saget:

traumatic encephalopathy?

Pretty sure not. You mean like football players get? No, I already knew about that before I redd about Saget.

[Horace]

@george-k said in RIP Bob Saget:

Family sues to prevent release of death records:

https://wgntv.com/news/deans-list/bob-sagets-family-files-lawsuit-to-block-release-of-records-related-to-his-death/

Hm, so what hint does that give us?

[LuFins Dad]

This happened in Orlando, right? Don’t mess with the mouse…

[George K]

[mark]

He looks like a former local computer store owner who "committed suicide" by stabbing himself in the chest 9 times with a chef knife.