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Walter Mercado: Flamboyant TV astrologer adored by millions dies
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| November 4, 2019
Posted on 11/04/2019 4:49:39 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
"When I was younger I thought he was a superhero."
"I remember sitting too close to the TV and straining my ears to listen..."
"An angel that graced this planet in our lifetime with such divine spirit has left us. It would have been an honor to meet you, but I'm so grateful for the memories I have of watching you with my grandma Mima. ¡Con mucho mucho mucho amor!"
These tributes, the last from Sin City actress Rosario Dawson, are among the thousands of warm words shared online to honour Walter Mercado - a flamboyant Puerto Rican astrologer whose TV horoscope readings charmed an audience of millions for decades.
Mercado was one of Latin entertainment's best-loved faces, but stumbled into his career by pure chance. He was reportedly aged 87 or 88 when he died on Saturday, but when asked about it once, replied simply: "Soy ageless..." [I'm ageless..."]
Never heard of him but starting to wish you had? Read on...
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: astrologer; puertorico; waltermercado
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
WALTER MERCADO IS DEAD?!!!!?
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posted on
11/04/2019 4:53:45 AM PST
by
dp0622
(Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Uncle Walter, the most trusted man in journalism?
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posted on
11/04/2019 4:54:24 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
To: dp0622
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posted on
11/04/2019 4:54:36 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Never heard of the guy. I’ll have to ask my Puerto Rican friends about him.
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posted on
11/04/2019 4:54:54 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(Down with the ChiComs! Independence for Hong Kong!)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
WALTER MERCADO IS DEAD?!!!!?Bet he didn't see that coming.
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posted on
11/04/2019 4:55:42 AM PST
by
Wizdum
(The Dems are not afraid a wall won't work, the Dems are TERRIFIED a wall WILL work.)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Hispanic Liberace but even less masculine.
To: rightwingintelligentsia
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posted on
11/04/2019 5:04:11 AM PST
by
DCBryan1
(Quit calling them liberals, progs, socialists, or democrats. Call them what they are: COMMUNISTS!!!!)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
This critter was highly interested in the Mercury Retrograde in Uranus. You can all relax now.
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Isn’t “flamboyant” Latin for homosexual?
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posted on
11/04/2019 5:11:02 AM PST
by
SecondAmendment
(This just proves my latest theory ... LEFTISTS RUIN EVERYTHING!)
To: rightwingintelligentsia; cll
Mercado dies, people wonder about his love life.
Thankfully no film at 11.
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posted on
11/04/2019 5:11:29 AM PST
by
texas booster
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Flipping channels I would come across his show. I would stop and tried to figure out what it was about. However, since I don’t speak Spanish it remained a mystery. Sorry for his friends and families loss, but at least now I have an answer to the question of who was that strange man on my tv.
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posted on
11/04/2019 5:14:39 AM PST
by
CIB-173RDABN
(I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
To: dp0622
Yeah right....I didn't even know he was sick!
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posted on
11/04/2019 5:16:45 AM PST
by
4yearlurker
(A big mouth doesn't make a big man.~John Wayne)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
And busted the gates of hell open, con mucho, mucho, mucho amor.
There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
To: 4yearlurker
lol
I will NEVER forget this day and where I was.
And I never even heard of him :)
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posted on
11/04/2019 5:18:37 AM PST
by
dp0622
(Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
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posted on
11/04/2019 5:26:57 AM PST
by
fieldmarshaldj
(Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
A star struck Liberace.......
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posted on
11/04/2019 5:32:55 AM PST
by
Hot Tabasco
(I'm in the cleaning business.......I launder money)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
I went to link (BBC) to see a pic of this guy, to see if I recognized him.
Low and behold! I yelled, “THAT’S a WOMAN!
Then I read the caption....
“Walter Mercado was a gay icon to many in the Spanish-speaking world, though he didn’t discuss his sexuality”
How long do you think the “bobsled” ride takes?
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posted on
11/04/2019 6:21:47 AM PST
by
faucetman
(Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
To: Wizdum
ROTFLMAO, I always enjoyed the image online of a tarot/palm/fortune teller store in a little building by a road, overgrown with weeds, shuttered, with their sign out front saying “Out of Business” and someone commented “I don’t thing they saw that coming!”
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posted on
11/04/2019 6:33:06 AM PST
by
rlmorel
(Trump to China: This Capitalist Will Not Sell You the Rope with Which You Will Hang Us.)
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