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Dark Knight
Super Zero
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Originally posted by St. Gwladys:
David Cassidy has died. Another name from my teens...
I am finding no confirmation of this. Where did you see it?
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Stetson
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Originally posted by Dark Knight:
Was the utterly unlamented Manson on anyone's list?
Probably not St. Peter's.
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lilBuddha
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Originally posted by Dark Knight:
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Originally posted by St. Gwladys:
David Cassidy has died. Another name from my teens...
I am finding no confirmation of this. Where did you see it?
I can find no confirmation of death either, but it cannot be long before this happens, given what I have read.
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St. Gwladys
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Saw David Cassidy's death reported on Facebook but checked it via Google. There was nothing in the newspaper today, so it might not be right.
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Schroedinger's cat
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Originally posted by Stejjie:
I don't know if she was on anyone's list, but the former Wimbledon champion Jana Novotna has died, aged only 49.
That is really sad - and so young.
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Anglican_Brat
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Della Reese of "Touched By an Angel" fame has died
I admit to being a fan of the show when I was a young child, and I admit now, a lot of it was saccharine and overly sentimental, but still Della Reese's character did have some pearls of wisdom.
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Piglet
Islander
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Very sad to hear about Jana Novotna - she was such an entertaining player to watch, in an era when the ladies' game could be a bit dull. I'm choking up remembering her crying on the Duchess's shoulder - it seems a shame that she's mostly remembered for a match she lost.
RIP ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
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Stetson
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Posted
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Originally posted by St. Gwladys:
Saw David Cassidy's death reported on Facebook but checked it via Google. There was nothing in the newspaper today, so it might not be right.
Wikipedia still lists him as living.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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TV news tonight reported that he is in hospital suffering from organ failure.
[ 20. November 2017, 23:14: Message edited by: Amanda B. Reckondwythe ]
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Dark Knight
Super Zero
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Posted
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Originally posted by St. Gwladys:
Saw David Cassidy's death reported on Facebook but checked it via Google. There was nothing in the newspaper today, so it might not be right.
It isn't. Facebook is powerful, but it can't kill people. Yet.
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Hedgehog
Ship's Shortstop
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Originally posted by Dark Knight:
Facebook is powerful, but it can't kill people. Yet.
That's what it WANTS you to think! ![[Paranoid]](graemlins/paranoid.gif)
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Stetson
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Originally posted by Anglican_Brat:
Della Reese of "Touched By an Angel" fame has died
I admit to being a fan of the show when I was a young child, and I admit now, a lot of it was saccharine and overly sentimental, but still Della Reese's character did have some pearls of wisdom.
Someone told me about an episode in which they go back in time and convert Mark Twain to Christianity. Which, to the extent that you can be offensive about a dead guy who nobody now living ever met, is pretty offenive. Though it does reflect a rather American obsession with having their national icons all be religiously correct.
(Caveat: I never actually saw the episode, or any other of that show. I tend to trust the person who described it to me.)
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
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I did not think this was likely.
Another of Basil Brush's sidekicks is gone. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
Beaten to it by seconds.
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Schroedinger's cat
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I don't believe that, in the time it took me to type my post out, TWO people posted the same.
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Pigwidgeon
Ship's Owl
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Originally posted by St. Gwladys:
Saw David Cassidy's death reported on Facebook but checked it via Google. There was nothing in the newspaper today, so it might not be right.
It now seems to be official -- David Cassidy has died at 67. (Lots of news sources are reporting this now.)
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The Rogue
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Now official. He was a part of my childhood but then a lot of people appearing on this thread were.
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Pigwidgeon
Ship's Owl
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Dmitri Hvorostovsky, renowned Russian baritone, has died at 55.
(Personally, I think he'll be adding more to the Heavenly Chorus than David Cassidy, but tastes differ.)
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Piglet
Islander
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Perhaps he'll be adding to a different bit of the Heavenly Chorus - I'd like to think that it has something for all tastes. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
May they both rest in peace.
PS 55 is far too young - it's my age.
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Hedgehog
Ship's Shortstop
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Well surprise, surprise, surprise. Jim Nabors has died. Just yesterday, I was listening to a recording of him singing a Christmas tune...
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Hedgehog
Ship's Shortstop
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Yipes! They are playing it again right now! Jim Nabors singing "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas."
I think the playlist on this holiday channel is pretty well set far in advance, so it is probably just a coincidence.
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Dark Knight
Super Zero
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I was just thinking about Keeler and the Profumo affair the other day - I think I saw a headline related to it.
That comment was made by Mandy Rice Davies, not Keeler.
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Pigwidgeon
Ship's Owl
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John Anderson, who ran as an Independent for the U.S. Presidency in 1980, has died at 95.
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
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The famous Christine Keeler quote is, "Discreiion is the polite word for hypocricy."
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Uncle Pete
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King Michael of Romania. Aetatis 96.One of the last living actors in the history of the Second World War. He brought Romania into the conflict on the side of the Allied Forces, and for his pains his country was overrun by the Soviet steamroller and he was forced to abdicate in 1947.
In his old age he regained his citizenship and his death is being mourned by the current Romanian government.
He was a first cousin to Prince Philip of Greece who also fashioned a career outside his native land, marrying money.
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
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Originally posted by balaam:
The famous Christine Keeler quote is, "Discreiion is the polite word for hypocricy."
Discreiion and hypocricy are not words at all, "Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy."
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Gill H
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Listening to his duet from the children’s musical ‘Emilie Jolie’ today.
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Tree Bee
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Originally posted by Tree Bee:
Max Clifford has died.
Anybody have him?
I could have put that better.
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Schroedinger's cat
Ship's cool cat
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I had just heard that he had been taken ill, and had put him on my list for next year.
I can't say I am sad at his loss. He has spent his life hiding misdemeanours for money.
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
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Originally posted by Tree Bee:
quote:
Originally posted by Tree Bee:
Max Clifford has died.
Anybody have him?
I could have put that better.
Yes.
You could have said that celebrity publicist, self publicist and convicted sex offender Max Clifford has died.
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Schroedinger's cat
Ship's cool cat
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Just heard that. He was something of a prick in recent years on twitter in particular, but I remember his peak times, when he was brilliant.
He was a big child, and in his Swap Shop times that was perfect.
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TurquoiseTastic
Fish of a different color
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Poor Cheggers. I remember him fondly. Cheggers Plays Pop...Pop...Pop....
I always felt his natural age was about 17, in contrast to John Craven, say, whose natural age was about 57. When comparing modern footage to archive I would always think "Wow, Cheggers looks so old now!" but "Oh, John Craven looked so young then!"
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Sipech
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Is anyone starting the ball rolling for 2018 or are we waiting for the launch of the new ship?
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Hedgehog
Ship's Shortstop
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I believe we are waiting for the new Ship--but people should be assembling their lists now to be ready to post them quickly once we get on board.
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Schroedinger's cat
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Just read this Heinz Wolff has died. He was one of the brilliant expressive scientists from my youth.
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
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Cyclist Sharon Laws. Former British road race and Time trial champion, from cervical cancer.
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ChaliceGirl
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Is there a 2018 pool yet? Don't see one?
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Bishops Finger
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King Michael I of Romania may not have been exactly a celebrity, but seems to have been a decent chap, who stood up against totalitarian regimes.
IJ
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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Originally posted by ChaliceGirl:
Is there a 2018 pool yet? Don't see one?
I think people may be waiting for the advent of the new Ship. In that case it will likely start a little later than usual.
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
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Originally posted by Lyda*Rose:
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Originally posted by ChaliceGirl:
Is there a 2018 pool yet? Don't see one?
I think people may be waiting for the advent of the new Ship. In that case it will likely start a little later than usual.
I have my list ready to copy and paste, I suggest that we all should be suitably prepared.
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lilBuddha
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Jeepers! I hadn't a Scooby she was still around; the voice of Daphne, Heather North has died.
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Pigwidgeon
Ship's Owl
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Cardinal Bernard Law, the disgraced former archbishop of Boston whose years of shielding sexually abusive priests caused generations of pain, has died at the age of 86.
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