RIP Pete Rose AKA Charlie Hustle

Madmarsha said

Oh, you know now they're gonna put him in posthumously. Cos it's just the right thing to do, donchaknow.

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As Oscar Wide once noted sardonically as well as sarcastically, "Everyone loves you when you're dead". I would slightly paraphrase Wilde's witty remarks to say that applies to most people because their are and have been people throughout history,, that moat people immediately after their deaths and progressively moreso decades or centuries after their deaths, are very glad and happy their gone.


Sad, desperate reality about Wilde's remarks is how prophetic they were regarding him because he was openly gay in a period of history (late Victorian UK) where homosexuality was a crime that could lead to imprisonment, exile or be institutionalized. Their were laws on the books in the UK criminalizing private consentual acts until 1966/1967 when Labour PM's Harold Wilson liberalized it. Wilde spent the last year of his life in exile, sick dying in Paris.