This weeks RIP's........

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Re: This weeks RIP's........

Post by KeyserSoze » Fri Feb 27, 2015 5:38 pm

Leonard Nimoy. He lived long, and prospered. RIP.
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Post by Worthy4England » Fri Feb 27, 2015 6:00 pm

I guess he'll now have a red top, for his next away mission...

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Post by Hoboh » Fri Feb 27, 2015 7:43 pm

Leonard Nimoy RIP

Truly shocked by this I hope you find 'Life Jim, but not as we know it'.

Really, really sad.

"Of all the souls I have ever encountered, his was the most human."
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Post by Montreal Wanderer » Fri Feb 27, 2015 8:20 pm

KeyserSoze wrote:Leonard Nimoy. He lived long, and prospered. RIP.
RIP indeed - something from my twenties has gone. His last tweet was LLAP.
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Post by clapton is god » Tue Mar 03, 2015 9:22 am

I see Dave Mackay has died:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/31704507" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Now there was a true footballing legend!

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Post by TANGODANCER » Tue Mar 03, 2015 11:21 am

clapton is god wrote:I see Dave Mackay has died:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/31704507" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Now there was a true footballing legend!
Met him once at Franny Lee's house with Mike Summerbee, Rod Thomas and Rodney Marsh. Polite enough bloke, but he didn't ask for my autograph though. :(

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Post by Gary the Enfield » Wed Mar 04, 2015 12:45 pm

TANGODANCER wrote:
clapton is god wrote:I see Dave Mackay has died:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/31704507" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Now there was a true footballing legend!
Met him once at Franny Lee's house with Mike Summerbee, Rod Thomas and Rodney Marsh. Polite enough bloke, but he didn't ask for my autograph though. :(

:D

Didn't really know of him until I read 'The Damned United'

Then realised the affable old geezer who owned and ran the local school uniform and Tie shop round the corner from me was the very same.

Nice bloke. R.I.P.

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Post by a1 » Fri Mar 06, 2015 12:23 am

harrison ford doing a matthew harding/nickfarage/buddyholly nearly was one ..

reminded me of the worst star wars 7 spoiler i've heard so far.

but i'll not tell.

anyway looks like its more farage than buddy, so thats good

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Post by Gary the Enfield » Fri Mar 06, 2015 9:24 am

a1 wrote:harrison ford doing a matthew harding/nickfarage/buddyholly nearly was one ..

reminded me of the worst star wars 7 spoiler i've heard so far.

but i'll not tell.

anyway looks like its more farage than buddy, so thats good

He flies the Millennium Falcon ffs!

Landing a Cessna should be a piece of piss.

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Post by Bruce Rioja » Fri Mar 06, 2015 9:37 am

Gary the Enfield wrote:
a1 wrote:harrison ford doing a matthew harding/nickfarage/buddyholly nearly was one ..

reminded me of the worst star wars 7 spoiler i've heard so far.

but i'll not tell.

anyway looks like its more farage than buddy, so thats good

He flies the Millennium Falcon ffs!

Landing a Cessna should be a piece of piss.
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Post by a1 » Fri Mar 06, 2015 4:28 pm

Bruce Rioja wrote:
He's alive, isn't he? I don't think Stoner-Boy's quite got the drift of this thread.
i do, as i said "nearly was one (an RIP)", nigel farage lived through his too, and i refered to that one even more by 'grading' ford's aircraft accident to farage's rather than buddy holly's and expressed 'gladness' that it was that way round.

i knew he was 'OK' by the time i made the post, hence my star wars 7 spoiler joke (and its a big one, i'm not even that bothered, and its spoiled it for me if true)

star wars is a film from the 1970s that harrison ford was in, he was also in american graffiti which is set in the '60s but is also from the '70s . both were directed by the same dude. he was in blade runner too, thats from the 80s but is set about 4 years from today. so honda will have to get a move on* .



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Post by KeyserSoze » Thu Mar 12, 2015 3:13 pm

Terry Pratchett

RIP
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Post by Bruce Rioja » Thu Mar 12, 2015 3:24 pm

KeyserSoze wrote:Terry Pratchett

RIP
Just reading that. Apparently he sold over 85 million books worldwide, yet I don't appear to be familiar with any of them. :?

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Post by clapton is god » Thu Mar 12, 2015 3:30 pm

Wow! The end came mercifully quickly for him then. He was suffering from Alzheimers but when last heard of seemed to have it all together still. I was only thinking recently that he had gone out of the public gaze. I wonder if he intervened in natures own sweet course knowing what was ahead?

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Post by Worthy4England » Thu Mar 12, 2015 3:35 pm

Stunned. Was only looking whether he had another book due out a week or so ago...

85 million books worldwide and I've read pretty much all of them (not all 85 million) :-)

Farewell Terry and thanks for all the great work.

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Post by thebish » Thu Mar 12, 2015 4:34 pm

Worthy4England wrote:Stunned. Was only looking whether he had another book due out a week or so ago...

85 million books worldwide and I've read pretty much all of them (not all 85 million) :-)

Farewell Terry and thanks for all the great work.

seconded... key figure in my kids' love of books from an early age...

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Post by Lord Kangana » Thu Mar 12, 2015 4:41 pm

I've only read a couple, and I may use the inevitable opportunities that will arise from this to read more, but they were laugh out loud funny.
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Post by Prufrock » Thu Mar 12, 2015 4:42 pm

Lord Kangana wrote:I've only read a couple, and I may use the inevitable opportunities that will arise from this to read more, but they were laugh out loud funny.
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Post by Worthy4England » Thu Mar 12, 2015 4:58 pm

Lord Kangana wrote:I've only read a couple, and I may use the inevitable opportunities that will arise from this to read more, but they were laugh out loud funny.
Funniest one I think I read (and I think I've done all the Discworld ones) was Witches Abroad - heartily recommended if you've not read it yet. :-)

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Post by thebish » Thu Mar 12, 2015 5:42 pm

we used to have a scrawny chicken called Rincewind...

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