So farewell then...

**OwlsFan** · 10/10/2011, 9:42 AM

George Baker aka Inspector Wexford and others.

**Dunny** · 15/10/2011, 4:01 PM

No more hotpots

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15320895

**OwlsFan** · 17/10/2011, 12:55 PM

Corrie is shot so far in advance that they can't have the character pass on until January apparently.

**TheBoss** · 17/10/2011, 1:56 PM

Dan Wheldon, Indy Car Driver, died on a big crash on Sunday

**SkStu** · 17/10/2011, 5:51 PM

Originally Posted by TheBoss

Dan Wheldon, Indy Car Driver, died on a big crash on Sunday

it was an absolutely horrific accident. RIP

**nigel-harps1954** · 17/10/2011, 8:50 PM

Originally Posted by SkStu

it was an absolutely horrific accident. RIP

What he said, absolutely horrible. Actually clasped my hand to my mouth watching it earlier. RIP.

**juan** · 20/10/2011, 7:32 PM

General Gaddafi is no longer with us....

FINALLY! Some justice for the 1985 attempted murder of Doc Brown by the Libyans in that mall parking lot!

**OwlsFan** · 24/10/2011, 9:36 AM

RTE Journalist and presenter, Cathal O'Shannon.

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**nigel-harps1954** · 25/10/2011, 11:23 AM

Moto GP rider Marco Simoncelli tragically killed in crash during race the other day. horrible.

**Dunny** · 29/10/2011, 2:33 PM

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Jimmy Saville

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz...=feeds-newsxml

**BonnieShels** · 29/10/2011, 2:56 PM

Just about to post it.

I always find it strange how he will be forgotten by the generations that come after us. It's rather sobering.

**pineapple stu** · 06/11/2011, 8:57 PM

Better late than never, but Patrick Leigh-Fermor never got a mention here. Passed away in June aged 96. Among other things, he walked from Rotterdam to Istanbul in 1933 (writing two highly acclaimed books on the trip 40 and 50 years later) and during the war smuggled a Nazi general out of German-occupied Crete in the general's car, dressed in the general's uniform, with the general in the back, through 22 check points. I don't think the phrase "Ní bhfeicimíd a leithéid arís" has ever been more appropriate.

**thischarmingman** · 07/11/2011, 2:22 PM

Originally Posted by Dunny

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Jimmy Saville

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz...=feeds-newsxml

Are we allowed the mention the eh...'stuff?'

**SkStu** · 08/11/2011, 1:16 AM

Originally Posted by Dunny

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Jimmy Saville

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz...=feeds-newsxml

Originally Posted by BonnieShels

Just about to post it.

I always find it strange how he will be forgotten by the generations that come after us. It's rather sobering.

good riddance if the rumours doing the rounds are true.

**CraftyToePoke** · 08/11/2011, 3:27 AM

Joe Frazier RIP

**OwlsFan** · 08/11/2011, 10:09 AM

"Smokin' Joe" as he was called and if they cremate him, he will be living up to his nickname

He lived in an era where it meant something to be world heavyweight Champion (they were huge world figures) but I'd be hard pressed to recall more than 2 over the past 10 years (perhaps that's just my fading memory!).

**BonnieShels** · 09/11/2011, 8:15 AM

I know the rumours you are referring to, but they are just that. It's standard fare when someone is of am eccentric nature to tar them with that brush.
An aspect to the point though that I was trying to make is that when people who are ubiquitous to one generation die like Jimmy, its very rare that they would transcend generations. Eg my brother will gave no idea who he is, or Gerry Ryan or John Peel etc. That's all.

**Macy** · 09/11/2011, 8:41 AM

Originally Posted by BonnieShels

It's standard fare when someone is of am eccentric nature to tar them with that brush.

The rumours aren't exactly "standard fare", even for an eccentric! I'll reserve judgement, but I thought it was quite telling that all his former colleagues were keeping their distance with "didn't really know him" and "he was a very private person" type comments.

**Dodge** · 09/11/2011, 9:24 AM

Originally Posted by BonnieShels

An aspect to the point though that I was trying to make is that when people who are ubiquitous to one generation die like Jimmy, its very rare that they would transcend generations. Eg my brother will gave no idea who he is

Saville was on TV for nearly 30 years. My gran loved him, my folks knew him and I knew him. Thats at least 3 generations. Just because he didn't reach your brother doesn't mean he was confined to one generation.

His pretty sharpish drop off the scene may also be explained by these, eh, rumours

EDIT; and just to emphasise, these aren't "eccentric" rumours.

**BonnieShels** · 09/11/2011, 9:49 AM

Dodge, what point are you making there about what I wrote re his transcending generations? Did you misunderstand what I wrote or are you being deliberately obtuse?

I was making a statement about the tenuous and fleeting nature of our existence here in most cases.