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Sam Zell … dead

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by matt_garth, May 18, 2023.

  1. CD Boogie

    CD Boogie Well-Known Member

    That's not what a grave dancer does, ya know? They celebrate people's demise; they dance on their grave; they don't help to resurrect.

    Now he might have indeed helped distressed companies; but if that's all he did, then he was woefully misnamed.
     
  2. Regan MacNeil

    Regan MacNeil Well-Known Member

    From now on, I'm calling myself The Terminator. It's because I terminate attempts on peoples' lives. Get it?
     
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  3. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

     
  4. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

  5. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    I don't know what to tell you. Since what gets written in news stories is so sacrosanct to you, maybe these ledes will help you understand why he had the nickname.

    Sam Zell, billionaire real estate investor, dies.

    Sam Zell, a Chicago real estate magnate who earned a multibillion-dollar fortune and a reputation as "the grave dancer" for his ability to revive moribund properties died on Thursday.

    https://www.axios.com/2023/05/18/sam-zell-dies-equity-residential-tribune

    Real estate billionaire Sam Zell, who became known as the "grave dancer" for his ability to turn around languishing properties, died Thursday at age 81.



     
  6. CD Boogie

    CD Boogie Well-Known Member

    No, what's sacrosanct to me is the meaning of words. And that shithead didn't know what being a grave dancer means and neither apparently do you. Good day, sir!
     
  7. jr/shotglass

    jr/shotglass Well-Known Member

    I never danced on a grave, and may Sissy Spacek's hand rise from the dirt and grab my ankle if I should.
     
    Last edited: May 18, 2023
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  8. Deskgrunt50

    Deskgrunt50 Well-Known Member

    Maybe Heath Freeman will go to the funeral and somebody will push that twat into the open grave. Fuck both of em.
     
  9. tapintoamerica

    tapintoamerica Well-Known Member

    Sam Zell would never be a grave-dancer. According to the title of a Soul Asylum album, he would have had to be in a union.
     
  10. goalmouth

    goalmouth Well-Known Member

    Drove the LAT into bankruptcy, and the c-suite of the Chicago Tribune building had to be fumigated with liquid nitrogen after his henchmen ransacked the place.
     
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  11. maumann

    maumann Well-Known Member

    Well, cross him off then.
     
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  12. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    Unless Zell was using it ironically - which, OK, maybe - he didn't know what the phrase meant.

    Cool.

    Dance on someone's grave
     
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