Comments on: RIP Harold Ramis

By: Robert Burns Glennie

Robert Burns Glennie — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 11:02:06 +0000

I like Ramis from his time on the `Second City’ programme.

However, I never liked `Ghostbusters’ myself (I’ve never seen `Caddyshack’).

By: IGotBupkis, "Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses."

IGotBupkis, "Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses." — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 10:48:58 +0000

I hope someday to die due to complications occurring during erotic activities with a woman. This would be nasty for her, of course, except that I hope she dies from complications occurring during erotic activities with a man… that would be me….

If you’re gonna go, it would be good to go out not just with a bang, with a complicated bang.

People tend to remember stuff like that. 😀

By: Jim Sullivan

Jim Sullivan — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 03:28:46 +0000

And don’t cross the streams.

By: Jim Sullivan

Jim Sullivan — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 03:27:37 +0000

I was shocked to hear that he had passed and even more shocked at how sad it made me.

I loved all of his movies, but ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Groundhog Day’ were my favorites.

May he rest in peace.

By: rickl

rickl — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 02:10:03 +0000

I loved Animal House and Ghostbusters. They were both classic comedies, and eminently quotable.

And SCTV was funnier than SNL ever was.

By: Don Carlos

Don Carlos — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 23:31:31 +0000

Ramis died “of complications from autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis”. One sees this bizarre attribution with increasing frequency: People are said to be dying more and more of “complications” of normally fatal diseases. What “complications” exactly are never stated.

Reminds me of when I was very young in medicine. I filled out death certificates with cause of death being “Cardiorespiratory Arrest”, then line 2, due to….Pneumonia or Myocardial infarction or Whatever. I stopped doing that when I realized that everyone dies when heart and repiration cease, and signing everyone dead out that way was not helping public health data. Today more and more people are dying of “Complications”….Same thing.

Perhaps one day you and I and everyone else will die under Obamacare of “Complications”.

By: parker

parker — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 20:41:07 +0000

People will be watching Groundhog Day for years to come. RIP HR.

By: JuliB

JuliB — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 19:52:20 +0000

I think I saw Stripes 17 times, back in the day. One of my favorite movies…

By: Matt_SE

Matt_SE — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 18:52:24 +0000

RIP, Harold. You will be missed.