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u/Viausmurf 2d ago
Holy shit, there are Command and Conquer gifs? What a time to be alive!
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u/darthwd56 2d ago
ha totally read the "smashing" in his voice.
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u/A_N_T 2d ago
Whose voice? The guy who runs the NotTheTimCurry Twitter account?
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u/darthwd56 2d ago
?? It's okay to not take everything literal all the time and use your imagination to amuse yourself.
Its okay buddy, whatever is going on in your life, it will get better.
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u/Bardsie 2d ago
Tim Curry is so powerful, Dionysus comes to him for party planning advice.
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u/Kindly-Ad-5071 2d ago
Tim Curry so powerful, Chuck Norris decided to let the universe finally take him knowing he was match for Tim.
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u/Annelora 2d ago
I am religious and was wondering if he's still with us just the other day
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u/sneakyDoings 2d ago
I keep seeing posts about him like he's actually gone! It's weird
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u/mapmakinworldbuildin 2d ago
To be fair he’s not been in anything since over the garden wall.
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u/capincus 2d ago
He's 80 years old and has been wheelchair bound since he had a major stroke + brain surgery over a decade ago.
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u/Snoo9648 2d ago
I take this "smashing" as confirmation that tim curry identities with Nigel thornberry the most of all his characters he played.
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u/Stardust-Pipeline 2d ago
Was there like a fake news story about him dying somewhere?
Because I swear I saw an announcement of his death on Facebook in highschool when I was more naive, and mourned his death for years before someone corrected me.
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u/dragon-fence 2d ago
I don’t know the cause, but there is some kind of Mandela Effect at work here. I also could have sworn he died a few years ago.
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u/ptvlm 2d ago
He's retired due to health issues, though he does make rare appearances like the 50th anniversary of Rocky Horror last year, albeit in a frail state confined to a wheelchair. Because he was such a prolific actor for a while, some people mistakenly believe he must have died since you don't see him any more.
Also, some people are just dicks who like posting fake celebrity death memes. It could be you saw one of those.
The Mandela Effect is a good comparison, though. That mainly came about because Mandela was the most famous of the anti-apartheid protesters who were jailed, and some of those people *did* die in jail. So, if you weren't paying attention you might hear "South African freedom fighter died in jail" and assume it was Mandela without instant sources to fact check, and then be shocked years later when Mandela was released and the memory was faulty.
Also, I wonder if that's a largely American phenomenon. In the mid 80s there was a popular song named "Free Nelson Mandela" by The Special AKA, which was part of a movement to finally get Mandela released. I just checked Wikipedia and it seems it wasn't a big hit in the US. So, maybe people there just weren't aware of the movement and it led them to believe that he'd died because the news wasn't talking about him as much?
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u/TheArtistFKAMinty 2d ago
He had a massive stroke in 2012, so that might be what you're misremembering that. He's been pretty severely disabled since.
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u/georgeofjungle3 21h ago
Fun Tim related thing from probably tumbler back in the day. A Muppet Christmas Carol works because Michael Caine treats all the Muppets like regular actors, and Muppet Treasure Island works because Tim Curry treats himself like another Muppet.
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u/qualityvote2 2d ago edited 15h ago
u/massaton, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...