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Ribo is the best dead sysop of all time. No offense, Fuckface. He is severely missed by girlvinyl, weev, shen, odb, tfo, and fucking everyone who ever knew him.

goodnight sweet prince

Haha, nice try trol...oh wait

Goodnight Sweet Prince is a line from the classic of sci-fi flicks Robocop after Pre-Robocop is killed, and from an actual funny film The Big Lebowski. It was also originally used in Shakespeare's tragic drama Hamlet, but is seldom associated with it because nobody really cares about some several-hundred-year-old emo play.

The phrase when used in Hamlet:

"Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince.
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest." -Horatio

This is right after the key part in every Shakespeare play where everyone dies.

As a common phrase, "Good night, sweet prince" is used to mourn the death of a loved one who has recently passed. As an internet meme, it is used as an oft-repeated phrase on /b/ to falsely claim somebody famous has died IRL. It no longer has any effect, since it is nearly always just a troll to send /b/tards off in a Google-frenzy looking for the 'death' in question. The post usually starts with a picture of the dead guy in question (always a man, since otherwise it would be "Sweet Princess," and also because noone cares when women die) with a simple line or two of text such as Joey Bishop, (1918-2007), Goodnight Sweet Prince. If the death is real and a beloved hero to Anonymous (usually somebody fucked up like Pol Pot or Hitler, but sometimes an 'innocent' downy water mammal such as Bucketseal) much heartfelt discussion ensues. However, if it's just a troll (and it always is), you can bet the farm that it will be followed by 500 similar fake death notices. Additionally, a common twist on the trolling involves purposely mislabeling the celeb in question: for instance, use a picture of David Bowie and call him Iggy Pop.

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Michael Jackson dies...

...but not that one

Posted after the death of U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's wife, Lady Bird Johnson

Line Trap - not dead

		You are DOING IT WRONG	An rare example of this meme not being used to perpetuate a hoax
	Goodnight, fresh prince?	Some say he can't die, and that he is really a walking coffin.