RIP Oscar Meyer

GCBC · 07-08-2009, 3:34 PM

Oh No!!! :
"MADISON, Wis. – Oscar G. Mayer, retired chairman of the Wisconsin-based meat processing company that bears his name, has died at the age of 95.

Mayer's wife, Geraldine, said he died of old age Monday age at Hospice Care in Fitchburg.

He was the third Oscar Mayer in the family that founded Oscar Mayer Foods, which was once the largest private employer in Madison. His grandfather, Oscar F. Mayer, died in 1955 and his father, Oscar G. Mayer Sr., died in 1965.

Mayer retired as chairman of the board in 1977 at age 62 soon after the company recorded its first $1 billion year. The company was later sold to General Foods and is now a business unit of Kraft.

Mayer's first wife, Rosalie, died in 1998. He married Geraldine Fitzpatrick in 1999.

(This version CORRECTS that Oscar Mayer now a unit of Kraft, instead of a division of Philip Morris.)"

Weiner King Dies

What a tragic loss!

Benjaman · 07-08-2009, 3:35 PM

I, for once, wish I wasn't an Oscar Meyer wiener. dohoohoho

Tweek · 07-08-2009, 3:38 PM

Oh, I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener
That is what I truly want to be
'Cause if I were an Oscar Mayer wiener
Everyone would be in love with me.

Ercoledi · 07-08-2009, 3:40 PM

I guess his heart couldn't beat it.

GCBC · 07-08-2009, 3:45 PM

RaxoZellet · 07-08-2009, 3:49 PM

He was really old.

paraskeet · 07-08-2009, 3:50 PM

He had the most amazing wieners.

Hats of! · 07-08-2009, 4:51 PM

I thought Oscar Meyer was fictional. Total mindfuck.

Casalen · 07-08-2009, 4:52 PM

I had no idea there was an Oscar Meyer.

GCBC · 07-08-2009, 5:00 PM

There were three!

MrChrisso · 07-08-2009, 6:12 PM

RIP the greatest guitarist of all time.

Laurence · 07-08-2009, 6:23 PM

RIP the greatest author of all time.

ArtVandelay · 07-08-2009, 6:29 PM

RIP the greatest grouch of all time.

timbot · 07-08-2009, 6:31 PM

Are you all spelling the name wrong as some sort of joke, or are you all just that stupid, unobservant?

C_is_for_Cookie · 07-08-2009, 6:33 PM

Wow. I'm gonna need to do a major cookie eating binge to get over this one.

BreakTheWalls · 07-08-2009, 6:42 PM

Goodnight sweet meaty weiner prince.

GCBC · 07-08-2009, 8:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by timbot

Are you all spelling the name wrong as some sort of joke, or are you all just that stupid, unobservant?

Suck my balls.

DoctorButt · 07-08-2009, 8:13 PM

Suck his balls.

RaxoZellet · 07-08-2009, 8:15 PM

Suck his weiner.

GCBC · 07-08-2009, 8:16 PM

I think the secret to a long life is eating a lot of weiner... that old fart lived to be 95!

Cerberus · 07-08-2009, 8:37 PM

Well hot dog! We have a wiener.

Fluzz · 07-08-2009, 10:12 PM

My god, I want his car so badly.

LandMarkMoon · 07-08-2009, 11:00 PM

You guys made me laugh so hard my wiener dripped mustard.

paraskeet · 07-08-2009, 11:08 PM

My bologna has a first name, it's O-S-C-A-R.
My bologna has a second name, it's M-A-Y-E-R.
Ohh, I love to eat it everyday, and if you ask me why i'll say...
'Cause Oscar Mayer has a way with B-O-L-O-G-N-A!

Metalhead636 · 07-08-2009, 11:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by paraskeet

My bologna has a first name, it's O-S-C-A-R.
My bologna has a second name, it's M-A-Y-E-R.
Ohh, I love to eat it everyday, and if you ask me why i'll say...
'Cause Oscar Mayer has a way with B-O-L-O-G-N-A!

Who's up for making this an epic funeral ballad?

shawnshank · 07-09-2009, 1:12 AM

Wow this makes me wonder who's gonna be next to drop. Lot of famous people dying lately.

Savaril · 07-09-2009, 2:53 AM

Oh man, I hope the next one is going to be Spencer Pratt.

zeveron · 07-09-2009, 12:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shawnshank

Wow this makes me wonder who's gonna be next to drop. Lot of famous people dying lately.

Redefine 'famous' please.

P0K3M0N_MA5T3R · 07-09-2009, 12:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zeveron

Redefine 'famous' please.

Produces tasty refined meat products.

Glowstick · 07-09-2009, 12:38 PM

They should make a giant hotdog for his gravestone, with mustard made of gold and ketchup made of pure rubies.

BlackHood · 07-09-2009, 1:45 PM

They should grind him down and make him into a hotdog. Give him back up his empire.

Werty · 07-09-2009, 3:38 PM

Am I the only one who finds it interesting that probably the biggest name in lunch meat's CEO dies and a thread is created three days after he dies, but like an hour after they announced MJ there were like 3 threads.

BlackHood · 07-09-2009, 3:40 PM

Because lunch meat is less important to Generation Y than pop music?

Glowstick · 07-09-2009, 5:01 PM

Meat is better than everything that there ever was. Period.

Ikin · 07-09-2009, 6:22 PM

Why has everyone that meant something to me died!?

cptlol · 07-09-2009, 6:26 PM

It's not them, it's you.
You scar people emotionally.

GCBC · 07-09-2009, 7:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Werty

Am I the only one who finds it interesting that probably the biggest name in lunch meat's CEO dies and a thread is created three days after he dies, but like an hour after they announced MJ there were like 3 threads.

I dropped the ball on that one. My apologies.

gizzalove · 07-09-2009, 9:13 PM

No one cares about wieners these days. We live in sad, sad times.