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George Baker aka Inspector Wexford and others.
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George Baker aka Inspector Wexford and others.
Corrie is shot so far in advance that they can't have the character pass on until January apparently.
Dan Wheldon, Indy Car Driver, died on a big crash on Sunday
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it was an absolutely horrific accident. RIPQuote:
Originally Posted by TheBoss
What he said, absolutely horrible. Actually clasped my hand to my mouth watching it earlier. RIP.Quote:
Originally Posted by SkStu
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!
RTE Journalist and presenter, Cathal O'Shannon.
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Moto GP rider Marco Simoncelli tragically killed in crash during race the other day. horrible.
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.
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.
Are we allowed the mention the eh...'stuff?'Quote:
Originally Posted by Dunny
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Originally Posted by Dunny
good riddance if the rumours doing the rounds are true.Quote:
Originally Posted by BonnieShels
Joe Frazier RIP
"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!).
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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by BonnieShels
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by BonnieShels
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.
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.
Well then yeah, I missed the point completely be cause I thought when you wrote
You were saying Saville he was ubiquitous to one generationQuote:
when people who are ubiquitous to one generation die like Jimmy
I was disagreeing with you
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.
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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.
Gary Speed :(
Hung himself apparently, but news on its fairly sketchy at the moment
Totally shocked by this.
I'm afraid it seems to be true. Cheshire Police have confirmed that he was found in the early hours of Sunday morning.Quote:
Originally Posted by Acornvilla
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.
"Controversial" Film Director Ken Russell who numbers among his work WOMEN IN LOVE and TOMMY:
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p.s. That's him holding on to Twiggy lest the two be confused.
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,
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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. :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
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According to the BBC, Socrates has died after being admitted to hospital on Friday.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/16017071.stm
Just read it, sad news (badly written article by the way)
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.
Harry Morgan aka Colonel Sherman Potter.
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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.
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
Kim Jong-il
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16239693
I'm so ronery.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dunny
Any excuse to post this again.
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The President of North Korea has passed away?
I didnt even know he was ill.
The curtain falls for the last time for playright and dissident politician Vaclav Havel.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16246922