MetaChat - RIP Stephen King

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19 August 2005

RIP Stephen King It hasn't hit the newswires yet that I can see, but a friend of mine who works in Maine hospital just called to tell me that Stephen King died about a half hour ago. :(

post by: cmonkey at: 18:01 | 23 comments

No sign of it anywhere as of yet.

I was really more of a Koontz man when I read that kind of thing, but that is sad. He was quite a personality.

posted by dreamsign 19 August | 18:08

cmonkey, wasn't this a hoax going around about a week or two ago? I think it was on the blue and deleted.

posted by dobbs 19 August | 18:09

Well, mainstream press should have it within a day if it is true.

posted by dreamsign 19 August | 18:10

I guess we won't be able to have him kill us.

posted by me3dia 19 August | 18:11

stevie king dies once a month or so. has nobody killed the president yet?

posted by quonsar 19 August | 18:34

Yeah, BSD is dying too.

posted by PinkStainlessTail 19 August | 18:39

he's died more times than Jason, for chrissakes

posted by matteo 19 August | 18:40

RIP. I'm sure everyone in the Metafilter community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.

posted by Wedge 19 August | 18:53

but a friend of mine who works in Maine hospital just called to tell me that Stephen King died about a half hour ago.

Morbid. Stephen would approve alive or dead.

posted by Cryptical Envelopment 19 August | 18:58

If you do a Google search for "stephen king dead" (no quotes) the first thing that comes up is this thread.

posted by matildaben 19 August | 19:01

why?

posted by matteo 19 August | 19:04

If you do a Google search for "stephen king dead" (no quotes) the first thing that comes up is this thread.

I was going to say "that's fast", but actually it's just not true.

posted by kenko 19 August | 19:05

BSD passed away this morning. Some guy who's a friend of a cousin of a neighbor of someone I might've attended school with said DOS was dying as well, but I think that's nonsense.

posted by Smart Dalek 19 August | 19:08

Now I'll never know how the Wheel of Time ends.

posted by drezdn 19 August | 19:36

for real?

posted by amberglow 19 August | 19:43

My poop died recently. I think it was depression.

posted by selfnoise 19 August | 19:48

Will there be a viewing, selfnoise?

posted by kenko 19 August | 19:49

If you can get over to my house in the next five minutes, sure.

posted by selfnoise 19 August | 19:51

rate my poo.

posted by loquacious 19 August | 20:20

for real?

yeah :( :( :(

posted by cmonkey 19 August | 20:46

Amberglow, you may want to have a look at this...

I am a spoilsport.

posted by PinkStainlessTail 19 August | 21:59

Maybe your pal just ate too many brownies and was flashing back to this.

posted by DeepFriedTwinkies 19 August | 23:35

This is very sad. He will be missed.

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posted by greasy_skillet 20 August | 10:04

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