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Schroedinger's cat
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Originally posted by ChaliceGirl:
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Originally posted by piglet:
Anna Wing, known to Brits as Lou Beale in EastEnders, has died.
Holy crap, she just now died?! She was looking old and ancient 20 years ago!
God bless her!
20 years ago she was 78, which is not that young.
Twister for adults is much better played nude.....
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
Twister for adults is much better played nude.....
and don't forget the baby oil......
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Timothy the Obscure
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Toshi Seeger, without whom Pete would not be the Pete we know. ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
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When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
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Og: Thread Killer
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Originally posted by The Rogue:
The oldest person in this year's selections is Arthur Valerian Wellesley who, if he dies on or after 2nd July will earn Og: Thread Killer two points.
I haven't looked at this thread in two months.
I chose that man because he is old, hoping he would prove me wrong. I am glad he has made it half way through the year and will raise a glass to him on Jan 1 if he makes it through this one.
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I wish I was seeking justice loving mercy and walking humbly but... "Cease to lament for that thou canst not help, And study help for that which thou lament'st."
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kingsfold
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RIP Mel Smith . I remember his shows with Griff Rhys Jones when I was growing up.
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Pigwidgeon
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Press conferences in Heaven will be much more interesting with Helen Thomas front row center.
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~Tortuf
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Schroedinger's cat
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Originally posted by kingsfold:
RIP Mel Smith . I remember his shows with Griff Rhys Jones when I was growing up.
This is a sad loss. His work with NTNON was groundbreaking. Him and Gerald the Gorilla is TV history.
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rolyn
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Hey , only just heard this from reading above ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
God Bless you Mel Smith
I loved that sketch from S & J when he's watching a really boring football match on TV which suddenly livens up everytime he leaves the room .
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
Press conferences in Heaven will be much more interesting with Helen Thomas front row center.
Unless you're Jewish.
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Pigwidgeon
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Originally posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe:
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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
Press conferences in Heaven will be much more interesting with Helen Thomas front row center.
Unless you're Jewish.
Her anti-Semitism, which finished her long career, was totally uncalled for. I've always assumed she was suffering from dementia by then. It was a horrid end to an illustrious career.
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Piglet
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RIP Mel Smith - NTNON was to my generation what Monty Python was to thoas ten years older than us.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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Virginia E. Johnson, known best as the Johnson of Masters & Johnson, the pioneers of research into sexual "dysfunction" and exactly how "dysfunctional" (or not) it may be, is experiencing ecstasy of a different sort.
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Kelly Alves
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Aleha ha-shalom (peace be on her.) Good woman.
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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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Sioni Sais
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JJ Cale is now writing for the Heavenly choir.
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ChaliceGirl
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70's film star Karen Black , "Five Easy Pieces" star, has died.
Rest in piece/peace.
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My KJS fansite & chicksinpointyhats
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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Singer Eydie Gorme is doing the bossa nova up yonder.
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The Rogue
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We are pretty rubbish because since I last reported on the state of play only two of our nominees have complied: Henry Cecil and Masao Yoshida. Well done Eloise and Sparrow.
The leaderboard hasn't changed much and Amazing Grace and Mamacita share the top spot with Gwai running them close.
At the other end of the terminal anticipation league eight of us should stick to the day job.
[ 11. August 2013, 21:51: Message edited by: The Rogue ]
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If everyone starts thinking outside the box does outside the box come back inside?
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Welease Woderwick
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Sid Bernstein will be promoting concerts in Heaven.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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Muriel Siebert, the first woman ever to hold a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, has had her options called.
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Sioni Sais
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Welsh rugby star, BBC broadcaster, sports commentator and executive Cliff Morgan has died.
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Piglet
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Does anyone else of A Certain Age (i.e. early 50s ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) ) remember him presenting a school radio programme in the early 70s called Singing Together?
RIP
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North East Quine
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Seamus Heaney ![[Tear]](graemlins/tear.gif)
"Mid Term Break" is one of the most extra-ordinary poems I have ever read.
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Cottontail
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I am so sad about that one. I met him once, and he was a perfect gentleman. I can't begin to count the poems of his that I love, but they touch deeper than most. May his gentle soul rest in peace.
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Hedgehog
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Originally posted by Anglo Catholic Relict:
Seamus Heaney.
RIP
He was the featured speaker at my college commencement. He prepared and recited a 46-stanza poem for the occasion, carefully tailored for the event. It was remarkable and easily the best commencement address I have ever listened to.
His death makes me feel just that little bit older.
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I heard Seamus Heaney read in my first week at university back in 1975. He'd been recommended to me by the headmaster of the school I went to. But I really went there because a very attractive woman called Lucy who I'd met on the train on the way up was going to be there. I think the next time I met her was three years later on the train back after we'd graduated. We talked about thinking about becoming Catholic but deciding not to.
But it was a great reading by a good poet. I have two or three of his books now. Including the Beowulf translation. It was fascinating reading that alongside the Old English original. Thank you Seamus (and thank you Penguin).
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L’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Oddly sad about this. We had friends in common, so there was always a faint possibility that we might have met again. I even had one of those little imaginary chats ready in my head - besides the time at Queen's, I wanted to talk about a place we both lived in childhood.
Not now. Not ever.
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Amos
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I studied with Seamus when I was an undergraduate. I remember with great amusement him astounding a Harvard seminar on the very first day by telling them that, no matter how hard they worked, they would not be able to get an 'A' unless they had talent. He was a good teacher. Anyone who knows my stuff would probably never guess that Seamus taught me, but without his enthusiastic support I would probably have never got published in the first instance, nor written the particular things I have.
I've known many poets. I can count on my two fists the number who can truthfully be described as kind, generous, humble, and good. Seamus was all that.
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Robert Armin
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I never had the privilege of meeting him. But there was a warmth in so many of his poems that I feel diminished by his death.
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Japes
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Sir David Frost has given his last broadcast.
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Ann
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Time to listen to my CD of Mack and (*Flippin') Mabel with an introduction by David Jacobs.
When David Jacobs used to do his show tunes show, the late great Ray Moore would always associate it with "Mack and Flippin' Mabel" when he played the trailer. In an affectionate way.
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Schroedinger's cat
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A bad week for Davids.
They were both outstanding in their own fields, and will be missed.
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ArachnidinElmet
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A bad week all round. SF author and publisher Frederick Pohl has died.
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Ann
Curious
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Another person of whom I thought, "I didn't know he was still alive!"
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Sioni Sais
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Ann, thanks for the reminder of the great and much missed Ray Moore (the BBC one, who died way too young back in 1989). He made insomnia and getting up at stupid o'clock bearable and paved the way for broadcasters like Alex Bruce to treat that time of the day with the contempt and battiness it deserves.
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Ann
Curious
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Yes, memories of abominable loads and Gatport Airwick and the orchestra turning off into a lay-by when the travel news went on too long. And My father had a rabbit and he thought it was a duck ...
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Celtic Knotweed
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Originally posted by ArachnidinElmet:
A bad week all round. SF author and publisher Frederick Pohl has died.
As Ann said above, I didn't know he was still alive! ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
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Ann
Curious
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And the time you find out he's still alive is when he isn't!
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ken
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Fred Pohl :-(
And yes I did know he was alive.
Its been a bad year for sf writers.
He was one of the greatest. A good writer and a better editor. But his supreme achievement must have been discovering Cordwainer Smith. ![[Eek!]](eek.gif) Its hard to imagine what it must have been like to see Scanners live in vain for the first time.
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L’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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Ray Dolby, the inventor of the Dolby noise reduction methodology, is hearing the celestial choirs in Surround Sound.
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Welease Woderwick
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British singer Joan Regan has died.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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Author Tom Clancy won't be hunting for Red October any longer.
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"I take prayer too seriously to use it as an excuse for avoiding work and responsibility." -- The Revd Martin Luther King Jr.
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Hedgehog
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Originally posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe:
Author Tom Clancy won't be hunting for Red October any longer.
Wow. I didn't see that plot twist coming at all!
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Ship's Roundhead
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General Giap has died.
And I really had no idea he was still alive.
Outlived Tom Clancy though.
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L’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.
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