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Ex-'SNL' Comedian's Death Ruled a Suicide
Charles Rocket, a comedian and actor who appeared on "Saturday Night Live"
and had roles in a variety of movies and television series, committed
suicide, the state medical examiner has ruled.
Rocket, 56, whose real name was Charles Calervie, was found dead in a field
near his home in Canterbury on Oct 7. His throat had been cut, the medical
examiner said.
"An investigation determined there was no criminal aspect to this case,"
State Police Sgt. J. Paul Vance said Monday.
Rocket was a cast member on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" during the 1980-81
season. He gained notoriety when he was fired from SNL for swearing on the
air.
He went on to appear in numerous TV shows, including "Moonlighting" and "Max
Headroom," and provided voices for cartoon series. His movie credits
included "Earth Girls are Easy," "Dumb and Dumber" and "Dances With Wolves,"
according to the Internet Movie Database.
Evan Hulka
the most fortitude?:
(1) slitting your own throat (Charles Rocket/Paul McCullough)
(2) stabbing yourself in the chest (Elliott Smith/Yukio Mishima)
or
(3) cutting your wrists (Petronius/B.S. Johnson)
I almost wrote "...takes the most guts," but the answer to that is
obviously hara-kiri...
Hulka
J.D. Baldwin
In the previous article, Evan Hulka <ehu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If you're going to go the suicide-by-blade route, which method takes
> the most fortitude?:
> (1) slitting your own throat (Charles Rocket/Paul McCullough)
> (2) stabbing yourself in the chest (Elliott Smith/Yukio Mishima)
> or
> (3) cutting your wrists (Petronius/B.S. Johnson)
(4) Sitting on it.
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Sanford Manley
> In the previous article, Evan Hulka <ehu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> If you're going to go the suicide-by-blade route, which method takes
>> the most fortitude?:
>> (1) slitting your own throat (Charles Rocket/Paul McCullough)
>> (2) stabbing yourself in the chest (Elliott Smith/Yukio Mishima)
>> or
>> (3) cutting your wrists (Petronius/B.S. Johnson)
>
> (4) Sitting on it.
OH THAT would freaking HURT and take
a LONG TIME.
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only because rough men stand ready to do violence
on their behalf."- George Orwell
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Andy Dingley
>(2) stabbing yourself in the chest (Elliott Smith/Yukio Mishima)
There can be few things that Mishima would have been more insulted by
than the inference that he stabbed himself in the _chest_.
Bob Feigel
>If you're going to go the suicide-by-blade route, which method takes
>the most fortitude?:
>
>I almost wrote "...takes the most guts," but the answer to that is
>obviously hara-kiri...
That's for sure ...
http://www.links.net/vita/trip/japan/media/bukz/mishima/
Yukio Mishima
1925-1970
I had heard for many years about the famous proud Japanese writer who
killed himself in the public eye. Not just any suicide, but a ritual
disembowlment; the "seppuku" or "hari kiri" that involves pushing a
sword through the skin at the stomach to spill your insides out just
before your death is sealed with a quick chop to the neck.
http://www.who2.com/yukiomishima.html
On November 25, 1970, he delivered the complete manuscript of the last
work in his tetralogy, then proceeded with four followers to the
headquarters of the Japanese Self-Defense Force, where he read a
"manifesto" and then committed seppuku (ritual disembowelment), after
which one of his compatriots chopped his head off.
"It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens." - Woody Allen
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Sanford Manley
> On 17 Oct 2005 07:54:20 -0700, "Evan Hulka" <ehu...@gmail.com>
> magnanimously proffered:
>
>> If you're going to go the suicide-by-blade route, which method takes
>> the most fortitude?:
>>
>> I almost wrote "...takes the most guts," but the answer to that is
>> obviously hara-kiri...
>
> That's for sure ...
>
> http://www.links.net/vita/trip/japan/media/bukz/mishima/
>
> Yukio Mishima
> 1925-1970
>
> I had heard for many years about the famous proud Japanese writer who
> killed himself in the public eye. Not just any suicide, but a ritual
> disembowlment; the "seppuku" or "hari kiri" that involves pushing a
> sword through the skin at the stomach to spill your insides out just
> before your death is sealed with a quick chop to the neck.
>
> http://www.who2.com/yukiomishima.html
>
> On November 25, 1970, he delivered the complete manuscript of the last
> work in his tetralogy, then proceeded with four followers to the
> headquarters of the Japanese Self-Defense Force, where he read a
> "manifesto" and then committed seppuku (ritual disembowelment), after
> which one of his compatriots chopped his head off.
I love that stereotypical grunt of surprise
they make when their guts fall out...you
see they do it for the fascination...its a real
show...you open up your abdomen and "WOW
look...its intestines ain't that cool, I mean..."
and your partner chops your head off
to shut you up. Very bad mistake...some
guy who was supposed to perform the
coup de grace (the COOP DA GRACIE)
went out for a smoke and he came back and
the guy was doing the slinky thing with his
own guts...very bad form...had to chase him
around the room and everything. Ruined the
carpets.
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Sanford M. Manley
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that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience
stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God
of the Catholics or the God of the
Protestants in whom you don't believe?'" -Quentin Crisp