Shouldn’t Have Crossed the Streams

Or

May His Ghost Never Be Busted

Or

Much Like Print, Harold Ramis is Dead.

Or

I Ain't Afraid of Being No Ghost!

(Meritorious mention of Mike L)

Or

Son of Bitch. Shit.

(An epithaphany shared by Greg and Monty)

Or

Crossin' the streams of the River Styx

(Props to Don)

Or

He Can Enjoy Print Now

(Kudos to Peter)

Collecting spores, mold and fungus will be a little easier for Harold Ramis, who has died of autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis at the age of 69. If a typical funny person is represented by a Twinkie, Harold Ramis would be a Twinkie thirty-five feet long, weighing approximately six hundred pounds. A Robert DeNiro-like devotee of his craft, for a 2-minute cameo in Groundhog Day, he gained more than 40 pounds. Ramis was the first head writer of SCTV, while also playing home dentist Mort Finkel, Officer Friendly, and board chairman Allan "Crazy Legs" Hirschman, before moving on to writing credits for National Lampoon’s Animal House, Stripes and Ghostbusters. He also directed Caddyshack, National Lampoon’s Vacation, and Groundhog Day, and in Analyze This, matched DeNiro up with Billy Crystal in an even funnier pairing than his collaboration with Robin Williams in Awakenings. Basically, if you have a pulse, you’ve recited a line Ramis wrote. The man was quoted more often than Winston Churchill.