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mahatmakanejeeves

(61,854 posts) Wed Dec 25, 2024, 03:35 PM Dec 25

On this day, December 25, 1924, Rod Serling was born.

Screenwriter, producer & narrator for his TV series The Twilight Zone (1959-'64), Rod Serling was #BornOnThisDay, Dec. 25, 1924. A smoker, Serling reportedly had 3-4 cigarette packs a day. Passed in 1975 (age 50) from a #heartattack #RIP #GoneTooSoon #QUITsmoking #BOTD #Awareness

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On this day, December 25, 1924, Rod Serling was born. (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Dec 25 OP

Smoking robbed us of a once in a generation talent. Aristus Dec 26 #1

Favorite quote by Rod Serling NowsTheTime Wednesday #2

Aristus

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1. Smoking robbed us of a once in a generation talent.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu Dec 26, 2024, 12:06 AM

Dec 26

He was fifty, but he looked at least sixty-five when he died.

I keep thinking of that bubble-brained Tik-Tokker who said smoking isn’t deadly if you keep a positive attitude about it.

NowsTheTime

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2. Favorite quote by Rod Serling

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Wed Jan 1, 2025, 02:26 PM

Wednesday

For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.
Rod Serling

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