Sam Zell … dead

[CD Boogie]

I am telling you why he was called that. As an investor, he had a reputation of a turn around artist. He looked for businesses on their death bed and was trying to revive them.

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.

 

[Regan MacNeil]

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

 

[Songbird]

He didn't call himself the grave dancer. Others gave him the nickname.

 

[Azrael]

 

[The Big Ragu]

That's not what a grave dancer, ya know?

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.

 

[CD Boogie]

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.

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!

 

[jr/shotglass]

I never danced on a grave, and may Sissy Spacek's hand rise from the dirt and grab my ankle if I should.

 

[Deskgrunt50]

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

 

[tapintoamerica]

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.

 

[goalmouth]

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.

 

[maumann]

Well, cross him off then.

 

[Azrael]

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

Cool.

Dance on someone's grave