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27/08/2011, 6:02 PM
Paddy Garcia

Scottish football. RIP
28/08/2011, 11:42 AM
the 12 th man

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Originally Posted by Paddy Garcia

Scottish football. RIP

Did that not die about 10 years ago? ;)
28/08/2011, 11:17 PM
tetsujin1979

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Originally Posted by the 12 th man

Did that not die about 10 years ago? ;)

Celtic and Rangers have both appeared in the UEFA Cup finals since then, so no
29/08/2011, 1:24 PM
dcfc_1928

RIP Len Ganley - snooker referee.

And, following the death of Fred Titmus earlier in the year, we've lost someone else who's had a Half Man Half Biscuit song dedicated to them:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVSd74XdZ_E
01/09/2011, 7:35 PM
Lionel Ritchie

from Lens Wiki: "He is credited with inventing the device that marks the position of the cue ball while it is removed by the referee for cleaning".

I take it said device never got a name then. We should make a competition out of rendering appropriate nomenclature. I'm going to pitch 'noole'.
01/09/2011, 8:06 PM
Lev Yashin

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Originally Posted by Lionel Ritchie

from Lens Wiki: "He is credited with inventing the device that marks the position of the cue ball while it is removed by the referee for cleaning".

I take it said device never got a name then. We should make a competition out of rendering appropriate nomenclature. I'm going to pitch 'noole'.

Bit off topic but when your on the main forum page and you see
So Farewell Then...by Lionel Ritchie

You think, Ah! he has finally got round to writing reply to "Hello"
01/09/2011, 8:09 PM
dahamsta

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Originally Posted by Lionel Ritchie

I take it said device never got a name then. We should make a competition out of rendering appropriate nomenclature. I'm going to pitch 'noole'.

You can't just pick a name out of a hat, you must have a reason!

I'm going for "snarker", for a reason which should be obvious.
01/09/2011, 8:14 PM
BonnieShels

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Originally Posted by dahamsta

You can't just pick a name out of a hat, you must have a reason!

I'm going for "snarker", for a reason which should be obvious.

I really hope LR has such a hat or else you'll look quite the fool.
01/09/2011, 8:15 PM
BonnieShels

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Originally Posted by shannonman

Bit off topic but when your on the main forum page and you see
So Farewell Then...by Lionel Ritchie

You think, Ah! he has finally got round to writing reply to "Hello"

That got my weekly guffaw. Good work. Herself looked at me, I.don't know where I'd start to explain it.
03/09/2011, 8:48 PM
Lionel Ritchie

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Originally Posted by BonnieShels

I really hope LR has such a hat or else you'll look quite the fool.

If I were to pluck a name from a hat I'd have gone for 'Bobble' -a name which, in common with 'Noole' or indeed 'Snarker', is a simple, pocket sized, understated name for a simple, pocket sized, understated device that does one job and one job only to an excellent standard.
03/09/2011, 9:56 PM
Bray-Z

Enda Stevens' sister Elaine. RIP. Poor chap must have been having the best week of his life and its now the worst.
07/09/2011, 6:31 PM
Spudulika

sport

The Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Ice Hockey side - with their host of stars. Massive shock in Russia right now. I was at a meeting and in the background last years play off match with Atlant was on with a black ribbon. Somebody said a famous hockey player died from Yaroslavl in a plane crash. The the other half called me to say the team had died when their Yak-42 crashed. I used to fly on those planes around Russia and never a bother. You entered from underneath and they were funny little things. One of the best sides in World Hockey (lots of Czechs and a Slovak playing for them) gone.
12/09/2011, 8:50 AM
passinginterest

Spartacus actor Andy Whitfield, only 39 years old, very sad.

http://www.rte.ie/ten/2011/0912/whitfielda.html
12/09/2011, 11:08 AM
OwlsFan

Actor Cliff Robertson

http://cdn.screenrant.com/wp-content...son-pt-109.jpg
12/09/2011, 6:13 PM
Magicme

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Originally Posted by Spudulika

The Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Ice Hockey side - with their host of stars. Massive shock in Russia right now. I was at a meeting and in the background last years play off match with Atlant was on with a black ribbon. Somebody said a famous hockey player died from Yaroslavl in a plane crash. The the other half called me to say the team had died when their Yak-42 crashed. I used to fly on those planes around Russia and never a bother. You entered from underneath and they were funny little things. One of the best sides in World Hockey (lots of Czechs and a Slovak playing for them) gone.

The last of the players who had initially survived the crash died today. The crew member who survived has been moved out of ICU and is expected to make a full recovery. A mate of mine has been going out with a Russian hockey player for a few years now and she knew 4 of the guys on the plane well and is in bits over it all. :-(
13/09/2011, 3:58 AM
Spudulika

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Originally Posted by Magicme

The last of the players who had initially survived the crash died today. The crew member who survived has been moved out of ICU and is expected to make a full recovery. A mate of mine has been going out with a Russian hockey player for a few years now and she knew 4 of the guys on the plane well and is in bits over it all. :-(

I was at a function just this summer with the team (announcing plans for the WC stadium) and got them to autograph a shirt for a charity raffle. I'm surprised, yet not, that there are connections further afield. Everybody here was been touched and there was a massive online reaction to the choice by media channels to look at Sunday's gorefest (using a US commentators word) as being the most important story. Until Thursday there had been a number of public events scheduled to commemorate the 11th of September, but this overtook everyone. It didn't only take the lives of a team and flight crew, it wiped out an entire club - Lokomotiv won't play in this years KHL, thus robbing the league of one of the best supported clubs. It was irritating to repeatedly hear english journos harp on about Munich, yet this is far, far worse. An entire league has been hit and a club destroyed. I hope your friend gets better over it, being so close to it I don't know how she'd cope.
26/09/2011, 9:23 AM
OwlsFan

Gusty Spence, founding father of the modern UVF.

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/...e_2008822b.jpg
27/09/2011, 2:36 AM
SkStu

never a huge fan of the UVF but RIP anyway.
27/09/2011, 11:19 AM
John83

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Originally Posted by SkStu

never a huge fan of the UVF but RIP anyway.

I doubt you'll find many here. I skimmed an Indo yesterday: they had an interesting editorial on Spence, who I hadn't really heard of. It said he lead the UVF to engagement in politics and disarmament, and publicly apologised for the violence they carried out. The UVF didn't all follow him, but it sounded like he was mostly a force for peace in his later years. Of course, I'm taking that editorial at face value; others may have a more nuanced understanding of him.
27/09/2011, 11:37 AM
Kingdom

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Originally Posted by John83

I doubt you'll find many here. I skimmed an Indo yesterday: they had an interesting editorial on Spence, who I hadn't really heard of. It said he lead the UVF to engagement in politics and disarmament, and publicly apologised for the violence they carried out. The UVF didn't all follow him, but it sounded like he was mostly a force for peace in his later years. Of course, I'm taking that editorial at face value; others may have a more nuanced understanding of him.

I read more or less the same on the BBC website. They more or less said he copped on once he went back inside, and was good pals with David Ervine, who treated Spence as an idol. That said, if he was so revered by the UVF, why did they keep going when he said stop?

One thing though, I was of the opinion that the Shankill Butchers came to prominence under the tuteledge of the UVF, and anyone with any association to that shower is a bad egg, in my opinion.
27/09/2011, 1:07 PM
pineapple stu

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Originally Posted by John83

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?
27/09/2011, 3:17 PM
John83

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Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Isn't that clip in one of the Reeling in the Years from the mid 90s actually?

If you say so.
27/09/2011, 3:43 PM
pineapple stu

Ok; I say so. :)

Like yourself, the name rang just a vague bell. But your post reminded me of the clip.
29/09/2011, 9:24 AM
horton

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!
29/09/2011, 9:55 AM
bennocelt

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Originally Posted by horton

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
29/09/2011, 11:11 AM
old git

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Originally Posted by bennocelt

Really, always thought it was stuff for the blue rinse brigade

some cracking shows ye young pups missed out on..
29/09/2011, 11:25 AM
bennocelt

well at the same time was running fawlty towers, the young ones, and rising damp - lol
29/09/2011, 12:19 PM
BonnieShels

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.
29/09/2011, 2:21 PM
John83

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Originally Posted by horton

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.
05/10/2011, 11:45 PM
thischarmingman

Steve Jobs

http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/
06/10/2011, 8:01 AM
BonnieShels

There was always a chance that this was coming when he didn't show up to the I-phone 4S launch.
06/10/2011, 9:14 AM
drummerboy

Have being his computers for over 30 years. Will miss his genius. RIP Steve.
06/10/2011, 9:32 AM
OwlsFan

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/multime...ey_654442t.jpg
06/10/2011, 9:45 AM
The Fly

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Originally Posted by thischarmingman

Steve Jobs

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

iSad.
06/10/2011, 3:28 PM
sligoman

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Originally Posted by drummerboy

Have being his computers for over 30 years.

So you've been a computer for over 30 years and none of us knew? :eek:
07/10/2011, 12:37 PM
Wolfie

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Originally Posted by sligoman

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"
07/10/2011, 2:02 PM
nigel-harps1954

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
07/10/2011, 6:24 PM
BonnieShels

He died on Tuesday! Remember thinking that I should've gone to Marlay Park at that moment.
07/10/2011, 7:29 PM
nigel-harps1954

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Originally Posted by BonnieShels

He died on Tuesday!

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

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Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954

I have no idea what you're talking about ;P

http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/g...e-i-see-it.jpg

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