So farewell then...

**Dodge** · 09/11/2011, 9:58 AM

Well then yeah, I missed the point completely be cause I thought when you wrote

when people who are ubiquitous to one generation die like Jimmy

You were saying Saville he was ubiquitous to one generation

I was disagreeing with you

**BonnieShels** · 09/11/2011, 11:12 AM

Maybe I should've said "our" rather than "one".
But that leads mw down the road of assuming everyone on foot.ie is 25-34.

**OwlsFan** · 21/11/2011, 4:53 PM

Cricketer Basil D'Oliveira who had emigrated to the UK from South Africa and was picked in the 1960s for England to tour South Africa. The South Africans refused to play against him because of the colour of his skin and the tour was cancelled and SA found itself isolated in the sports world. Strange to imagine now.

**Acornvilla** · 27/11/2011, 11:44 AM

Gary Speed

Hung himself apparently, but news on its fairly sketchy at the moment

**Magicme** · 27/11/2011, 11:56 AM

Totally shocked by this.

**Closed Account 2** · 27/11/2011, 7:55 PM

Originally Posted by Acornvilla

Gary Speed

Hung himself apparently, but news on its fairly sketchy at the moment

I'm afraid it seems to be true. Cheshire Police have confirmed that he was found in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Seems an utterly tragic thing that he felt like that... he had really got that Wales team going places in their last few games too.

**OwlsFan** · 29/11/2011, 10:07 AM

"Controversial" Film Director Ken Russell who numbers among his work WOMEN IN LOVE and TOMMY:

p.s. That's him holding on to Twiggy lest the two be confused.

**OwlsFan** · 30/11/2011, 9:56 AM

Svetlana Stalin, daughter of the dictator who fled to the West, went back to the Soviet Union and ended back up in the West and who died in obscurity,

**stann** · 01/12/2011, 4:11 PM

Missed this a couple of days ago, but RIP Patrice O'Neal.
Stand-up comic, very funny chap. Flirted with egdiness, but in a light-hearted way.

Am laughing again thinking of a couple of great routines he did about finding yourself doing something gay by mistake, and about how black men had to be much more careful about throwing cans away.

**Eminence Grise** · 04/12/2011, 9:32 AM

According to the BBC, Socrates has died after being admitted to hospital on Friday.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/16017071.stm

**bennocelt** · 04/12/2011, 10:11 AM

Just read it, sad news (badly written article by the way)

**pineapple stu** · 04/12/2011, 10:58 AM

UCD's most famous non-player.

Had seen in WSC that he looked fairly unwell, but as ever, never expected this to happen so soon.

**strangeirish** · 08/12/2011, 12:25 AM

Harry Morgan aka Colonel Sherman Potter.

**Kingdom** · 08/12/2011, 11:10 AM

We've moved to a new open-plan section from the basement, and have the opportunity to interact with plenty of staff. A perk of being certified sane. Anywho what's this got to do with the "passing" thread....

On Monday one of the plebs from sector 7G was talking to a drone from Room 101 beside us. Pleb turns to drone and says "I hear yer man Socrates died". Drone replies "The footballer"? Cue our resident funny guy (forgetting he's in new open-plan area) "No, the fcuking philospher you pleb". Cue laughter. ANd dismissal.

**Seagull** · 09/12/2011, 10:47 AM

Comic book artist Jerry Robinson, who created characters including Batman's sidekick Robin, has died aged 89.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16105961