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pineapple stu
27/09/2011, 1:07 PM
It said he lead the UVF to engagement in politics and disarmament, and publicly apologised for the violence they carried out.
Isn't that clip in one of the Reeling in the Years from the mid 90s actually?
John83
27/09/2011, 3:17 PM
Isn't that clip in one of the Reeling in the Years from the mid 90s actually?
If you say so.
pineapple stu
27/09/2011, 3:43 PM
Ok; I say so. :)

Like yourself, the name rang just a vague bell. But your post reminded me of the clip.
horton
29/09/2011, 9:24 AM
Gotta love it, in death Gusty Spence is applauded for trying to bring a terrorist organisation he created towards peace. Marty McGuinness hails from the other side of the divide with a pretty similar background, and some sections of the media are making him out to be the devil because he wants to become the next McAleese! R.I.P to him and also to David Croft. He co-wrote such shows as: Dad's Army, It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Hi-De-Hi, Are you being served? 'Allo 'Allo and Grace and Favour. Some pretty cracker shows to be honest!
bennocelt
29/09/2011, 9:55 AM
Gotta love it, in death Gusty Spence is applauded for trying to bring a terrorist organisation he created towards peace. Marty McGuinness hails from the other side of the divide with a pretty similar background, and some sections of the media are making him out to be the devil because he wants to become the next McAleese! R.I.P to him and also to David Croft. He co-wrote such shows as: Dad's Army, It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Hi-De-Hi, Are you being served? 'Allo 'Allo and Grace and Favour. Some pretty cracker shows to be honest!

Really, always thought it was stuff for the blue rinse brigade
old git
29/09/2011, 11:11 AM
Really, always thought it was stuff for the blue rinse brigade

some cracking shows ye young pups missed out on..
bennocelt
29/09/2011, 11:25 AM
well at the same time was running fawlty towers, the young ones, and rising damp - lol
BonnieShels
29/09/2011, 12:19 PM
They were weak shows with Dads Army the best if them. Are you being served is one if the worst things ever committed to tv.
John83
29/09/2011, 2:21 PM
Gotta love it, in death Gusty Spence is applauded for trying to bring a terrorist organisation he created towards peace. Marty McGuinness hails from the other side of the divide with a pretty similar background, and some sections of the media are making him out to be the devil because he wants to become the next McAleese!...
There's a difference between an obituary and a reaction to application for the role of figurehead of the nation. But then, you knew that. It made me laugh to see someone defending McGuinness by wilfully ignoring obviously pertinent information though: thanks for the chuckle.
thischarmingman
05/10/2011, 11:45 PM
Steve Jobs

http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/
BonnieShels
06/10/2011, 8:01 AM
There was always a chance that this was coming when he didn't show up to the I-phone 4S launch.
drummerboy
06/10/2011, 9:14 AM
Have being his computers for over 30 years. Will miss his genius. RIP Steve.
OwlsFan
06/10/2011, 9:32 AM
Former England fast bowler, Graham Dilley at only 52. I remember him and Botham turning an Ashes game around in 1981 by putting on over 100 in a famous stand at Headingly:

http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/dynamic/00654/dilley_654442t.jpg
The Fly
06/10/2011, 9:45 AM
Steve Jobs

http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/

iSad.
sligoman
06/10/2011, 3:28 PM
Have being his computers for over 30 years.So you've been a computer for over 30 years and none of us knew? :eek:
Wolfie
07/10/2011, 12:37 PM
So you've been a computer for over 30 years and none of us knew? :eek:

A computer cunningly disguised as a Drummer boy. Genius.

I can see the headline now - "Artane Boys Band in Cyborg probe"
nigel-harps1954
07/10/2011, 2:02 PM
Dunno how many will recognise this name. Cited as one of Jimmy Pages great influences Bert Jansch died on Tuesday.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/oc ... ansch-dies
BonnieShels
07/10/2011, 6:24 PM
He died on Tuesday! Remember thinking that I should've gone to Marlay Park at that moment.
nigel-harps1954
07/10/2011, 7:29 PM
He died on Tuesday!


I have no idea what you're talking about ;P
BonnieShels
08/10/2011, 4:45 PM
I have no idea what you're talking about ;P

http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg9/redbullfj/what-you-did-there-i-see-it.jpg
OwlsFan
10/10/2011, 9:42 AM
http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/resources/images/1794153/?type=display

George Baker aka Inspector Wexford and others.
Dunny
15/10/2011, 4:01 PM
http://www.musicrooms.net/files/TV/Betty_Driver_178502202.jpg

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

http://www.clevelandleader.com/files/danwheldon.jpg
SkStu
17/10/2011, 5:51 PM
Dan Wheldon, Indy Car Driver, died on a big crash on Sunday

http://www.clevelandleader.com/files/danwheldon.jpg

it was an absolutely horrific accident. RIP
nigel-harps1954
17/10/2011, 8:50 PM
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.

1795
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
0

Jimmy Saville

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2055045/Jimmy-Savile-dead-Jimll-Fix-It-presenter-dies-home-aged-84.html?ito=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 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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
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Jimmy Saville

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2055045/Jimmy-Savile-dead-Jimll-Fix-It-presenter-dies-home-aged-84.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Are we allowed the mention the eh...'stuff?'
SkStu
08/11/2011, 1:16 AM
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Jimmy Saville

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2055045/Jimmy-Savile-dead-Jimll-Fix-It-presenter-dies-home-aged-84.html?ito=feeds-newsxml


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 (http://www.wfaa.com/news/national/Boxing-champ-Joe-Frazier-dead-at-age--133413718.html)
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
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
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.
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
http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01409/BasilDOlivera_1409949a.jpg

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
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:

http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/m4/nov2011/9/0/ken-russell-image-2-432694106.jpg

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,

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/04/23/article-1051871-091D9BFA000005DC-105_468x367.jpg
stann
01/12/2011, 4:11 PM
Missed this a couple of days ago, but RIP Patrice O'Neal (http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/29/us-patriceoneal-idUSTRE7AS27320111129).
Stand-up comic, very funny chap. Flirted with egdiness, but in a light-hearted way. :D
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. :D
http://fashioncelebrity.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/281x21138.jpg
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