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Amazing Grace
High Church Protestant
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I'm going to post my list some time tomorrow - after I decide if I want to put Pope Benedict on it - but wanted to note for keenies that The Deadpool allows players up to 20 choices so you might want to put up a list over there as well.
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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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Curious
Shipmate
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Slightly changed....
Prince Philip (but hopefully not before the Diamond Jubilee celebrations)
Margaret Thatcher
Nelson Mandela
Billy Graham
Betty Boothroyd
Ian Paisley
Terry Pratchett
Cliff Richard
Lionel Blue
Desmond Tutu
George Michael
Patrick Moore
Rupert Murdoch
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Erin - you are missed more than you could know. Rest in peace and rise in glory - to provide unrest in the heavenly realms.
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Tree Bee
Ship's tiller girl
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Here's my 2012 list:
1. Danny Baker
2. Michael Douglas
3. Michael J Fox
4. Aretha Franklin
5. Dave Gahan
6. Robin Gibb
7. Johnny Halliday
8. Clive James
9. Jim Marshall
10. George Michael
11. Liza Minnelli
12. Reg Presley
13. Phil Spector
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— Woody Guthrie
http://saysaysay54.wordpress.com
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chive
Ship's nude
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My list:
Paul Gascoigne
Michael Barrymore
Margaret Thatcher
Benedict XVI
Bruce Forsyth
Alex Ferguson
Lindsay Lohan
Cliff Richard
John Galliano
Paul Gadd
Prince Philip
George Michael
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'Edward was the kind of man who thought there was no such thing as a lesbian, just a woman who hadn't done one-to-one Bible study with him.' Catherine Fox, Love to the Lost
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Pearl B4 Swine
Ship's Oyster-Shucker
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Like a virgin.....at this. So here's my maiden attempt:
1. Nancy Reagan
2. Alan Alda
3. Rosalynn Carter
4. Jimmy Carter
5. Prince Philip
6. Newt Gingrich
7. Dick Cheney
8. Oprah Winfrey
9. James Levine (conductor)
10. J.K. Rowling
11. Salman Rushdie
12. Fidel Castro
13. Clint Eastwood
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"I do a good job and I know how to do this stuff" D. Trump (speaking of the POTUS job)
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Dark Knight
Super Zero
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1. Gough Whitlam
2. Peter O'Toole
3. Michael Jordan
4. Richie Benaud
5. Fidel Castro
6. Kim Jong-un (son of the recently unlamented)
7. John Pilger
8. Lindsay Lohan
9. Charlie Sheen
10. Germaine Greer
11. Jürgen Moltmann
12. Paul McCartney
13. Kevin Rudd
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You don't know what I done, what it was, who I lost, or what it cost me - A B Original: I C U
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Love is as strong as death (Song of Solomon 8:6).
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Eloise
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1. Ariel Sharon
2. Molly Meldrum
3. Dick Clark
4. Dave Davies
5. Russell Watson
6. Ivica Osim
7. Etta James
8. Masao Yoshida
9. Paul Shan Kuo-hsi
10. Prince Philip
11. Ruth Bader Ginsberg
12. David Hasselhoff
13. Abdel Baset al-Megrahi
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Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. - The Red Queen
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chive
Ship's nude
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quote:
Originally posted by chive:
My list:
Paul Gascoigne
Michael Barrymore
Margaret Thatcher
Benedict XVI
Bruce Forsyth
Alex Ferguson
Lindsay Lohan
Cliff Richard
John Galliano
Paul Gadd
Prince Philip
George Michael
Bugger, I've only put twelve down. I'll add:
Sean Connery
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Og: Thread Killer
Ship's token CN Mennonite
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Another year gone?
1. Margaret Thatcher
2. Kirk Douglas
3. Ronnie Biggs
4. Al Molinaro
5. Bill Pertwee
6. Jerry Lewis
7. Peter Sallis
8. Msr. George Hamilton Pearce
9. Hutton Gibson
10. Steve Guttenberg
11. Lyle Waggoner
12. Jack Vance
13. Marni Nixon
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Curious
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One more tweek:
Prince Philip (but hopefully not before the Diamond Jubilee celebrations)
Margaret Thatcher
Nelson Mandela
Billy Graham
Betty Boothroyd
Ian Paisley
Terry Pratchett
P.D.James
Lionel Blue
Desmond Tutu
George Michael
Patrick Moore
Rupert Murdoch
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Erin - you are missed more than you could know. Rest in peace and rise in glory - to provide unrest in the heavenly realms.
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Amazing Grace
High Church Protestant
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Here's my list for 2012. Even with a lot of, erm, vacancies I had to make some decisions.
1) Hosni Mubarak
2) Robert Mugabe
3) Fidel Castro
4) Margaret Thatcher
5) Stephen Hawking
6) Rev. Billy Graham
7) Zsa Zsa Gabor
8) Etta James
9) Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
10) Muhammad Ali
11) Pat Robertson
12) Aretha Franklin
13) Lindsay Lohan (new favorite in the Young Hot Mess category)
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WTFWED? "Remember to always be yourself, unless you suck" - the Gator
Memory Eternal! Sheep 3, Phil the Wise Guy, and Jesus' Evil Twin in the SoF Nativity Play
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Tom Day
Ship's revolutionary
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Having scored a grand total of 0 for the last few years, here we go...
Margaret Thatcher
George Bush snr
Dame Judi Dench
Ronnie Wood
Bobby Charlton
Duke of Edinbrough
Bruce Forsyth
Dave Swarbrick
Prince Charles
Lady Gaga
Jack Tweed
Jason Donovan
Tony Blair
Michael Gambon quote:
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North East Quine
Curious beastie
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1. Bruce Forsyth
2. Tony Blair
3. Margaret Thatcher
4. Katie Price
5. Prince Phillip
6. Prince Harry
7. Billy Graham
8. Robert Mugabe
9. Ronnie Wood
10. Radovan Karadzic
11. Asif Zardari of Pakistan
12. George H.W. Bush (born 1924)
13. Mswati III of Swaziland.
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comet
Snowball in Hell
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crap, had all of this time and then all this stuff happened and now I'm down to the wire. I have 22 hours left in 2011 going by my local time. forgive me, but I'm going to use it to pull my list together. back soon.
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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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Lots of Yay
Cookies enabled
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1. Archbishop Tutu
2. QE2
3. Prince Philip
4. Michael J Fox*
5. Paris Hilton
6. Kim Jong Un
7. Zsa Zsa Gabor*
8. Fidel Castro
9. Matthew Newton (Australian actor, son of tv personality Bert Newton)
10. Terry Pratchett
11. Ronnie Biggs*
12. Gough Whitlam
13. Lady Gaga
*These feel like cheating because I thought they had already died.
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Tales of Variable Yayness
Photos of stuff. Including Pooka!
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Sandemaniac
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Right, as ever, suddenly realised it's the last day - eek!
1. Aretha Franklin
2. Hugo Chavez
3. Rush Limbaugh
4. Sharif Ahmed (Somali President)
5. Abdelbaset Al Megrahi (I'm going to get a bloody point if it kills me!)
6. Jimmy Armfield
7. Michael Douglas
8. Paul Gascoigne
9. Annemarie van Kesteren (wife of Man U goalie Edwin Van der Sar - so read the Sun for her...)
10. Alan Stanford
11. Bernie Madoff
12. Tony Blair
13. Jerry Lee Lewis (can you tell that I was getting a bit desperate towards the end...?)
Good luck... to some of them!
AG
Wot no sig?
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Organ Builder
Shipmate
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I notice the OP mentions both GMT and EST as the standards for the deadline. I'm not sure where I fall on the GMT standard, but I know I've still got plenty of time by the EST standard.
I missed this last year and was annoyed all year long. Here are this year's soon-to-be lamented passings, in no particular order:
1. Zsa Zsa Gabor--although I've been saying that for about four years. Still, she's not getting any better.
2. Billy Graham.
3. Margaret Thatcher.
4. Jerry Lewis.
5. Prince Philip.
6. Nancy Reagan.
7. Kirk Douglas.
8. Pope Benedict XVI.
9. Stephen Hawking.
10. Hugo Chavez.
11. Larry Hagman.
12. Ariel Sharon.
13. Kim Jong-un.
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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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Scarlet
Mellon Collie
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2012:
1. George McGovern
2. Augie Meyers
3. Mickey Gilley
4. Dame Vera Lynn
5. Elizabeth Wurtzel
6. Steven Adler
7. Jeffrey McDonald
8. Dave Brubeck
9. Wavy Gravy
10. Lynette "Squeaky" Fromm
11. Alex Honnold
12. Michael Stipe
13. Cliff Barrows
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They took from their surroundings what was needed... and made of it something more.
—dialogue from Primer
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Apprentice
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Here's my team:
Joseph Kony (Ugandan rebel leader)
Sir Tom Finney
Etta James
Robin Gibb
Nelson Mandela
Ronnie Gaylon (World's oldest conjoined twin)
Donnie Galyon (see above)
Sister Wendy Beckett
Norma Waterson (Folk singer)
The Right Rev Dr John Habgood
George Blake (spy)
Hugo Chavez
Samuel Youd (author, aka John Christopher)
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Vita brevis, ars longa
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Ship's Mug
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Ooh, 12 minutes to go:
- George Michael
- Etta James
- Aretha Franklin
- Lindsay Lohan
- Geoffrey Hughes (actor)
- Margaret Thatcher
- Muhammad Ali
- Courtney Love
- Rick Parfitt
- Hosni Mubarak
- Whitney Houston
- Steve Tyler – front man of Aerosmith
- James Bolam
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Campbellite
Ut unum sint
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With a few modifications from last year (to replace the ones who kicked off in 2011)
1. Stephen Hawking
2. Muhammad Ali
3. Peter Tork
4. Terry Pratchett
5. Sarah Palin (Not that this is a wish list.)
6. Charlie Sheen
7. Hamid Karzai
8. Scott Hamilton
9. Michael J. Fox
10. Mike Tyson
11. Pete Doherty
12. Lindsay Lohan
13. Lance Armstrong (Cancer survivor)
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I upped mine. Up yours.
Suffering for Jesus since 1966.
WTFWED?
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Mamacita
Lakefront liberal
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1. Etta James
2. Aretha Franklin
3. Roger Ebert
4. Robin Gibb
5. Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
6. Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi
7. Billy Graham
8. Kirk Douglas
9. Margaret Thatcher
10. Fidel Castro
11. Jerry Lewis
12. Mohammed Ali
13. Lindsey Lohan
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Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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Dick Cheney
Larry Flynt
Courtney Love
Kirk Douglas
Mary Tyler Moore
Pete Doherty
Doris Day
Abdelbaset Mohmed Ali al-Megrahi
Harmid Karzai
Jalal Talabani
Bret Michaels
Stephen Hawking
Fidel Castro
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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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comet
Snowball in Hell
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no research at all. last minute list as I'm all dressed up and on my way to work. totally shooting from the hip...
1) Lisdsay Lohan
2) AK Rep. Don Young
3) former AK senator Frank Murkowski
4) Aretha Franklin
5) Robert Mugabe
6) Vlademir Putin
7) Justin Bieber
8) George HW Bush
9) Barack Obama (hey, I still love him but he's certainly a target!)
10) Sarah Palin (because I believe in God)
11) um... Corey Feldman
12) er... Nicolas Cage
13) Karl Rove (see #10)
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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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Curious
Shipmate
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Anyone died yet?????
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Erin - you are missed more than you could know. Rest in peace and rise in glory - to provide unrest in the heavenly realms.
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Imaginary Friend
Real to you
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Okay, here is a brief apology. I think it is unlikely that I shall have time to collate all the entries into a proper list for a few days. It will happen though, so watch this space...
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"We had a good team on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass."
Brian Clough
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Dark Knight
Super Zero
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Zsa Zsa Gabor can't die as she is mostly resin now.
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So don't ever call me lucky
You don't know what I done, what it was, who I lost, or what it cost me - A B Original: I C U
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Love is as strong as death (Song of Solomon 8:6).
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The Rogue
Shipmate
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Do I get points for reporting the first death of 2012?
I'll have a P please, Bob.
[ 06. January 2012, 19:16: 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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Spike
Mostly Harmless
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Bugger, bugger and thrice bugger! I had him on my list but for some reason changed my mind.
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"May you get to heaven before the devil knows you're dead" - Irish blessing
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Beautiful Dreamer
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Dammit, I meant to enter a list but got tied up with other things! Oh well, most of my candidates are on other peoples' lists anyway. Unless I can enter one just for fun, no points.
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More where that came from
Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time!
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Piglet
Islander
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quote:
Originally posted by The Rogue:
Do I get points for reporting the first death of 2012?
I'll have a P please, Bob.
May he rest in Ps.
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I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
alto n a soprano who can read music
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St. Gwladys
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I noticed in my daily newspaper that Reginald Hill, author of the Dalziel and Pascoe books has died
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"I say - are you a matelot?"
"Careful what you say sir, we're on board ship here"
From "New York Girls", Steeleye Span, Commoners Crown (Voiced by Peter Sellers)
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Hedgehog
Ship's Shortstop
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quote:
Originally posted by St. Gwladys:
I noticed in my daily newspaper that Reginald Hill, author of the Dalziel and Pascoe books has died
Yes. HERE is a link to a BBC account.
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"We must regain the conviction that we need one another, that we have a shared responsibility for others and the world, and that being good and decent are worth it."--Pope Francis, Laudato Si'
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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No one seems to have noted the passing of Lady Rosalind Runcie, wife of the former Archbishop of Canterbury.
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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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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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Not exactly part of the remit of this thread, but very sad never the less. The Senator, aged 3,500. ![[Tear]](graemlins/tear.gif)
I went to see him when I was a young teen, and we tried to find my Grandpa's initials somewhere on him.
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comet
Snowball in Hell
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Sarah Burke. Freestyle skier and way too young. I doubt anyone had her, but notable anyway. she was really amazing.
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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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Timothy the Obscure
Mostly Friendly
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Johnny Otis--St. Peter is now doing the hand jive. ![[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.
- C. P. Snow
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Niteowl
Hopeless Insomniac
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Etta James, best known for her rendition of At Last.
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"love all, trust few, do wrong to no one"
Wm. Shakespeare
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Cottontail
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quote:
Originally posted by Niteowl2:
Etta James, best known for her rendition of At Last.
Ah, Etta, my first of the year. Rest in peace, old girl.
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lilBuddha
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Johhny Otis. The godfather of rhythm and blues.
RIP Etta.
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Hallellou, hallellou
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I picked the wrong James, P.D. James.
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Amazing Grace
High Church Protestant
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Sing with the angels, Etta and Johnny.
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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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Timothy the Obscure
Mostly Friendly
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A bit of weird synchronicity--Johnny discovered Etta, arranged her first recording session, and co-wrote her first hit, "Roll With Me, Henry."
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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.
- C. P. Snow
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Amazing Grace
High Church Protestant
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Yes, indeedy. Johnny is a Home-Grown Hero, so I was treated to just that story just last night on a local news break on my NPR megastation.
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WTFWED? "Remember to always be yourself, unless you suck" - the Gator
Memory Eternal! Sheep 3, Phil the Wise Guy, and Jesus' Evil Twin in the SoF Nativity Play
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ken
Ship's Roundhead
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quote:
Originally posted by Niteowl2:
Etta James, best known for her rendition of At Last.
Really? Isn't her I'd rather go blind better known?
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Ken
L’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.
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Niteowl
Hopeless Insomniac
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quote:
Originally posted by ken:
quote:
Originally posted by Niteowl2:
Etta James, best known for her rendition of At Last.
Really? Isn't her I'd rather go blind better known?
It's been the one music clip shown on any news reports I've seen of her in the past few years. U.S. or European.
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"love all, trust few, do wrong to no one"
Wm. Shakespeare
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