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Title: Will someone please explain how Austrailian actor Heath Ledger died?
Post by: MDriver1981 on 29/03/2009 02:23:17
So...?
Title: Will someone please explain how Austrailian actor Heath Ledger died?
Post by: DoctorBeaver on 29/03/2009 02:37:00
He stopped breathing
Title: Will someone please explain how Austrailian actor Heath Ledger died?
Post by: Variola on 29/03/2009 02:37:48
???

Didn't he die of a lethal mixture of prescription drugs?? Leading to respiatory arrest and subsequent death.
Title: Will someone please explain how Austrailian actor Heath Ledger died?
Post by: DoctorBeaver on 29/03/2009 02:39:01
That's what I said - he stopped breathing.
Title: Will someone please explain how Austrailian actor Heath Ledger died?
Post by: JimBob on 29/03/2009 04:19:34
HEY, EVERYONE !!

We have another Captain Obvious!
Title: Will someone please explain how Austrailian actor Heath Ledger died?
Post by: Karen W. on 29/03/2009 04:22:27
That is how most of us die After all!
Title: Will someone please explain how Austrailian actor Heath Ledger died?
Post by: DoctorBeaver on 29/03/2009 10:08:58
HEY, EVERYONE !!

We have another Captain Obvious!

Well it was a stupid question!

And if he can't be bothered to spell "Australian" correctly (FOG) why should I give a more detailed answer?
Title: Will someone please explain how Austrailian actor Heath Ledger died?
Post by: DoctorBeaver on 29/03/2009 10:11:08
Actually, I think Captain Oblivious is more appropriate.
Title: Will someone please explain how Austrailian actor Heath Ledger died?
Post by: rosalind dna on 29/03/2009 13:13:52
Heath Ledger died of an Overdose from having taken a lot of different medicines/drugs such as oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam and doxylamine last year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heath_Ledger
Title: Will someone please explain how Austrailian actor Heath Ledger died?
Post by: LeeE on 29/03/2009 20:45:44
Actually, I think Captain Oblivious is more appropriate.

The world is full of Captains Oblivii[sp?].  They are the majority.
Title: Will someone please explain how Austrailian actor Heath Ledger died?
Post by: Madidus_Scientia on 30/03/2009 14:00:01
lol @ Oblivii, that's the first time i've seen that word, I like it. I've been completely oblivious to it until now.

Though i'm not sure it is a word :P

Title: Will someone please explain how Austrailian actor Heath Ledger died?
Post by: DoctorBeaver on 30/03/2009 14:20:59
LeeE was grammatically incorrect anyway. He pluralised "Captain" so "Oblivious" should not also have been pluralised.

(really pedantic FOG)
Title: Will someone please explain how Austrailian actor Heath Ledger died?
Post by: Variola on 30/03/2009 16:20:30
Quote
(really pedantic FOG)

Have you thought about getting a hobby? Or maybe a life??  [:)] [:P]
Title: Will someone please explain how Austrailian actor Heath Ledger died?
Post by: DoctorBeaver on 30/03/2009 16:34:14
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(really pedantic FOG)

Have you thought about getting a hobby? Or maybe a life??  [:)] [:P]

I have hobbies and I have had a good life, thank you very much  [:P]
Title: Will someone please explain how Austrailian actor Heath Ledger died?
Post by: LeeE on 30/03/2009 17:11:58
LeeE was grammatically incorrect anyway. He pluralised "Captain" so "Oblivious" should not also have been pluralised.

(really pedantic FOG)

Lol - I wasn't sure, but I figured that as the Captains pleural would be oblivious to different things, pluralising both seemed appropriate.
Title: Will someone please explain how Austrailian actor Heath Ledger died?
Post by: DoctorBeaver on 30/03/2009 18:03:08
the Captains pleural would be oblivious to different things


Why would the lining of his chest cavity come into the conversation?
Title: Will someone please explain how Austrailian actor Heath Ledger died?
Post by: JimBob on 30/03/2009 20:52:22
Part of the chest lining is called the "pleura." What a very, very reaching pun - in order to make that connection this rodent needed to reach always the Lake District for that one.
Title: Will someone please explain how Austrailian actor Heath Ledger died?
Post by: DoctorBeaver on 30/03/2009 20:56:10
I didn't have to reach that far as LeeE put "pleural" in his post.
Title: Will someone please explain how Austrailian actor Heath Ledger died?
Post by: JimBob on 31/03/2009 02:41:38
So?
Title: Will someone please explain how Austrailian actor Heath Ledger died?
Post by: DoctorBeaver on 31/03/2009 07:52:21
So?

Just saying.
Title: Will someone please explain how Austrailian actor Heath Ledger died?
Post by: LeeE on 31/03/2009 17:44:08
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Pleural

Oops! - Lol - spellchecker misuse
Title: Will someone please explain how Austrailian actor Heath Ledger died?
Post by: blakestyger on 31/03/2009 19:27:10
LeeE was grammatically incorrect anyway. He pluralised "Captain" so "Oblivious" should not also have been pluralised.

(really pedantic FOG)

What LeeE was very sensibly trying to do was give the concept of Captain Oblivious a scientific flavour by using the taxonomic system, that is,  Captain is the genus and the species oblivii. What he should not have done of course is capitalise the species.(turbo FOG and smug) [^]
Title: Will someone please explain how Austrailian actor Heath Ledger died?
Post by: DoctorBeaver on 31/03/2009 20:20:42
LeeE was grammatically incorrect anyway. He pluralised "Captain" so "Oblivious" should not also have been pluralised.

(really pedantic FOG)

What LeeE was very sensibly trying to do was give the concept of Captain Oblivious a scientific flavour by using the taxonomic system, that is,  Captain is the genus and the species oblivii. What he should not have done of course is capitalise the species.(turbo FOG and smug) [^]
erm... yeah. That too.
Title: Will someone please explain how Austrailian actor Heath Ledger died?
Post by: paul.fr on 01/04/2009 16:58:36
That is how most of us die After all!

Don't most people die of heart failure?
Title: Will someone please explain how Austrailian actor Heath Ledger died?
Post by: Variola on 01/04/2009 17:42:59
That is how most of us die After all!



Don't most people die of heart failure?

Respiratory arrest usually happens first