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ephemera
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Mary Travers - a member of the 1960s US folk group Peter, Paul and Mary - died today at age 72. The band's publicist said she had battled leukaemia for years.
[ 17. September 2009, 05:43: Message edited by: ephemera ]
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comet
Snowball in Hell
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I'm completely gutted. I've wanted to grow up to sing like her all of my life. saw them once live and was transported.
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Evil Dragon Lady, Breaker of Men's Constitutions
"It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.” -Calvin
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Matt Black
Shipmate
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Sad news indeed; I'd heard she was in remission.
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Tree Bee
Ship's tiller girl
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Originally posted by Amazing Grace:
Comic actor Henry Gibson (most famous for "Laugh-In" back in the late sixties) died today.
I don't know if he was on any lists, but I wanted to commemorate his passing.
He was 73, which made me think "man, he was young when he did that series". (I was a lot younger when I watched it ![[Biased]](wink.gif) .
SOCK IT TO ME!
Charlotte
It's rare that I recall a pome, but this is one I know,
" Worms, by Henry Gibson...
I cannot come to terms
With worms".
(I thank you).
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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Originally posted by basso:
I said that I was pretty sure that he was, because if he'd died in the last few years, I'd probably have remembered it. She gave me a close relative of the look, and said, "Well, yes. You would, wouldn't you?"
![[Confused]](confused.gif) I thought I laughed when I said it.I was chiding myself for not asking you first.
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I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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basso
Ship’s Crypt Keeper
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quote:
Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
quote:
Originally posted by basso:
I said that I was pretty sure that he was, because if he'd died in the last few years, I'd probably have remembered it. She gave me a close relative of the look, and said, "Well, yes. You would, wouldn't you?"
I thought I laughed when I said it.I was chiding myself for not asking you first.
Oh, I got the humor. Sorry for not being clearer. I was mostly laughing at myself.
s/AngelOfDeath
(Nobody had Mary Travers?? How quickly we forget!)
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mousethief
Ship's Thieving Rodent
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Originally posted by comet:
saw them once live and was transported.
Ditto.
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basso
Ship’s Crypt Keeper
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Originally posted by comet:
basso - we all have our roles to play on the ship. you are the angel of death.
I've decided on a slightly different title. The inspiration is still partly yours.
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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Basso's much more handsome than his Ship's title would have you believe. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
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Ahem, to topic people. You had me thinking basso had snuffed it for a moment there. ![[Ultra confused]](graemlins/confused2.gif)
Chorister, host.
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Sioni Sais
Shipmate
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Originally posted by basso:
Yes, Ma'am.
Irving Kristol, modern conservative thinker is dead at 89. Nobody had him.
Modern conservative thinker? How many oxymorons in that short phrase?
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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I doubt anyone had him on their lists, but Arthur Ferrante of Ferrante & Teicher has died. That wonderful piano duo is no more. ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
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Jasmine, little cat with a big heart.
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Amazing Grace
High Church Protestant
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I was all ready to put Susan Atkins of Manson Family ill-fame on my 2010 list ... but she has died in prison.
Charlotte
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Memory Eternal! Sheep 3, Phil the Wise Guy, and Jesus' Evil Twin in the SoF Nativity Play
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basso
Ship’s Crypt Keeper
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Originally posted by Amazing Grace:
I was all ready to put Susan Atkins of Manson Family ill-fame on my 2010 list ... but she has died in prison.
At 61. That's 39 points to Nunzia.
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Organ Builder
Shipmate
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Alicia de Larrocha has died at 86.
I heard her play in person 30+ years ago and have never forgotten it. You begin to feel your age when all the musicians who informed your musical tastes in college begin to pass.
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How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.--E.F. Benson
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif) My time is coming! They can't all live longer than me!
![[Axe murder]](graemlins/lovedrops.gif) => 13 kisses of life...
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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I loved his language column in the Times. He once ranted about the verb "read" used as a noun, e.g. "That book is a good read." I wrote him with examples of dozens of other verbs that are used as nouns, including one referring to the conjugal act. He quoted my letter in his next column, stopping short of quoting the last example.
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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I enjoyed his "On Language" column, although I had trouble taking a former Nixonite seriously politically.
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Auntie Doris
Screen Goddess
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I would rather put this one up myself rather than anyone else do it and it upsets me!
My friend Kevin McGee (Matt Lucas's ex-partner) was found hanged yesterday.
Plenty of points for someone, but I never thought of putting my friends on my list!!
Auntie Doris x
Ps) This might seem in bad taste, but Kev would have thought it hilarious!
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The life and times of a Guernsey cow
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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So very sorry, Auntie Doris.
May light perpetual shine upon him and heal his soul.
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Auntie Doris
Screen Goddess
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Well, I didn't expect Stephen Gately to make it onto this list. A cool 67 points for anyone who has him. Sad though.
Auntie Doris x
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"And you don't get to pronounce that I am not a Christian. Nope. Not in your remit nor power." - iGeek in response to a gay-hater :)
The life and times of a Guernsey cow
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Gill H
Shipmate
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Wow, I didn't realise Mr Wallace had lived that long! I remember 'My Music' - not sure I ever knew any of the answers, but I used to love the songs at the end. Ian Wallace was usually the only one who could actually sing.
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*sigh* We can’t all be Alan Cresswell.
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The Rogue
Shipmate
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And there's 11 points for anyone who had Ludovic Kennedy
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MrSponge2U
Ship’s scrub
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Soupy Sales, age 83. One of the last of the old time TV comedians, he made the "pie in the face" routine famous. May he RIP.
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Ye Olde Motherboarde
Ship's Mother and Singing Quilter
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NO, NO. NO not SOUPY !!!!!
Soupy was my hero. I'd visit the relatives in Detroit and saw him on the local TV. He was mesmerizing. He, unfortunately lost his show because one day he told the kids to "go into Mommy's purse and find a paper with numbers on it (dollar bills, this was before credit cards were popular) and send it to him". Evidently, some kids did! ![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
He just had a way of looking in the camera and it seemed like he was talking right to you
I loved that man.
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ken
Ship's Roundhead
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quote:
Originally posted by MrSponge2U:
Soupy Sales, age 83. One of the last of the old time TV comedians, he made the "pie in the face" routine famous. May he RIP.
I think it was pretty famous well over 83 years ago! Used in Charlie Chaplin & Mack Sennett silent movies. And presumably on stage before then.
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Ken
L’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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It's a black day for organists.
Paul Manz has died. ![[Tear]](graemlins/tear.gif)
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Jasmine, little cat with a big heart.
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Organ Builder
Shipmate
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Originally posted by jedijudy:
Paul Manz has died.
I still remember a wonderful hymn festival in Dallas over twenty years ago. He had panache, and communicated an infectious enthusiasm to the congregation.
He wasn't really an outstanding concert organist, but there were few who understood service playing as well as he. His compositions were satisfying and useful in a manner which is matched all too rarely.
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How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.--E.F. Benson
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Sandemaniac
Shipmate
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Norman Painting, AKA Phil Archer, has bought his last harvest home.
AG
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Sandemaniac
Shipmate
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And I opened up Oxford Today (one day I'll find out why they've suddenly started sending me it...) to discover that Margaret Gelling had died as far back as April. Shropshire beat her in the end...
I'm not sure that Guardian Education is even big enough to score me anything.
AG
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"It becomes soon pleasantly apparent that change-ringing is by no means merely an excuse for beer" Charles Dickens gets it wrong, 1869
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ken
Ship's Roundhead
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Claude Levi Strauss, RIP.
Nul Points
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Ken
L’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.
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basso
Ship’s Crypt Keeper
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quote:
Originally posted by Sandemaniac:
And I opened up Oxford Today (one day I'll find out why they've suddenly started sending me it...) to discover that Margaret Gelling had died as far back as April. Shropshire beat her in the end...
I'm not sure that Guardian Education is even big enough to score me anything.
AG
The Telegraph qualifies easily.
16 points.
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basso
Ship’s Crypt Keeper
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Originally posted by ken:
Claude Levi Strauss, RIP.
Nul Points
Gwai had him, but as ken points out a death at the age of 100 only gets you style points here.
quote:
Kelly comments:
Why is it that I feel sorrier for Gwai than for Claude Levi-Strauss?
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Sandemaniac
Shipmate
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Originally posted by basso:
The Telegraph qualifies easily. 16 points.
Though it does bugger up my ploy to keep people I'm fond of alive (she was good fun to br taught by, too!). I notice that I posted consecutive links to people who were a bit nifty with their Old English. I wonder what that says about my interest?
AG
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Wesley J
Silly Shipmate
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Anyone got the actor Edward Woodward (of 'The Equalizer' TV series fame)?
(Wiki page here)
RIP.
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Be it as it may: Wesley J will stay. --- Euthanasia, that sounds good. An alpine neutral neighbourhood. Then back to Britain, all dressed in wood. Things were gonna get worse. (John Cooper Clarke)
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Sandemaniac
Shipmate
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Actor, and real-life war veteran, Richard Todd, has died at 90.
AG
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"It becomes soon pleasantly apparent that change-ringing is by no means merely an excuse for beer" Charles Dickens gets it wrong, 1869
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basso
Ship’s Crypt Keeper
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Originally posted by Joyeux:
Who starts the 2010 thread?
One of the hosts, usually. Look for it in a week or so.
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fletcher christian
Mutinous Seadog
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This totally sucks, my wish list was way off
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Joyeux
Ship's Lady of Laughter
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Thanks, basso. I couldn't remember when the new thread starts, and suddenly realized it was December already, and I hadn't made a list.
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comet
Snowball in Hell
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fletch - I've played this for three years and this is the first year I ever got anyone.
chin up. we all eventually die.
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Evil Dragon Lady, Breaker of Men's Constitutions
"It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.” -Calvin
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Curiosity killed ...
Ship's Mug
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The only reason I put the choices I did this year was that my previous lists had scored nothing and it seemed to be a way of granting life. Apparently naming people who aren't doing well doesn't grant them life.
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Mugs - Keep the Ship afloat
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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quote:
Originally posted by comet:
...chin up. we all eventually die.
My concern is that I'll die before any of the folks on my list!
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I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
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