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

[LeverEnd]

RIP Stephen Sutton. A truly remarkable young man.

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So sad. He achieved what he set out to do, though. Most of us never will because there's always tomorrow.

He probably achieved a lot more than the fundraising too. I bet there are a lot of young people who have followed his efforts and had their thoughts if not lives affected. RIP.

[Montreal Wanderer]

These stories are inspirational. Over thirty years ago Terry Fox, a young athlete, lost his leg to cancer. With the cancer in remission he decided to run across Canada to raise funds for cancer research. He made it over half way but the cancer returned to his lungs and he couldn't continue. He raised million and perhaps Stephen Sutton will too. RIP.

[LeverEnd]

These stories are inspirational. Over thirty years ago Terry Fox, a young athlete, lost his leg to cancer. With the cancer in remission he decided to run across Canada to raise funds for cancer research. He made it over half way but the cancer returned to his lungs and he couldn't continue. He raised million and perhaps Stephen Sutton will too. RIP.

He has raised an amazing £3.5 million and still counting, from an initial target of £10,000

[Montreal Wanderer]

These stories are inspirational. Over thirty years ago Terry Fox, a young athlete, lost his leg to cancer. With the cancer in remission he decided to run across Canada to raise funds for cancer research. He made it over half way but the cancer returned to his lungs and he couldn't continue. He raised million and perhaps Stephen Sutton will too. RIP.

He has raised an amazing £3.5 million and still counting, from an initial target of £10,000

I hadn't realized it was that much already - really impressive and I imagine it will continue. Fox has been dead for over 30 years now but over $600,000,000.00 has been raised in his name since then.

[a1]

dunno if its been mentioned here (well , i know the film has) but that film about that american blues musician whose music got took up by south african blacks in the 60s, that itself (the documentry) got took up and given props by various hipsters and people that like either scene, well its director killed himself last week.

bit wierd.

[Dujon]

Sir Jack Brabham

Died yesterday at the age of 88 after a long illness with liver problems. What a life he led! What a competitor he was! I may well have brushed shoulders with him in the pits at some time or another but I didn't meet him. He left these shores about the time I was arriving on them so I only saw him drive a few times when he popped back to drive in the Tasman Series. I would have been in my late teens then. One thing that struck me was that he was was so smooth - even though he did seem to enjoy letting his 'tail' hang out. Perhaps that was a habit from his earlier exploits on the dirt/cinder tracks of local speedways.

To Australians Jack (Black Jack) Brabham is akin to the reputation and feeling in the U.K. to those such as Stirling Moss and Jimmy Clark. He won three Drivers Championships, 1959, 1960 and 1966. The latter was in a car which carried his own name and was designed and built by himself in conjunction with his long time collaborator Ron Tauranac (he in later years the designer of the incredibly successful Ralt chassis).

I and many others will miss Jack. Even in his troubled later years he occasionally granted interviews. His three sons followed him into the sport, all of them competing at a high level.

Cheers, Jack, and thanks for the memories.

[KeyserSoze]

Maya Angelou, aged 86.

Rest in peace.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Maya Angelou, aged 86.

Rest in peace.

The name rings a bell, but...
Was she a black panther? (not in the same sense as asking whether she was a snow leopard, more like was she a turrorist agitator demon of the establishment Bader-Meinhof type)

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Maya Angelou, aged 86.

Rest in peace.

The name rings a bell, but...
Was she a black panther? (not in the same sense as asking whether she was a snow leopard, more like was she a turrorist agitator demon of the establishment Bader-Meinhof type)

Oops, no. Poet and author. Where would we be without google.

[jaffka]

Malcolm Glazer has passed away.

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[bobo the clown]

Malcolm Glazer has passed away.

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It was a very poor season, relatively, but that's an overreaction Shirley ??

[Dujon]

You have a heart of stone, bobo.

[clapton is god]

Oh my word! Rik Mayall has died.

[Worthy4England]

Wow - never know the minute...

RIP Rik.

[Gary the Enfield]

Just been told this. R.I.P. Funnyman

[Bruce Rioja]

Just come on to post the same. Blimey RIP Lord Flashheart

[Zulus Thousand of em]

A man who made me laugh out loud on numerous occasions.

RIP.

[TANGODANCER]

Always remembered for utter lunacy with a blow-up doll.

[KeyserSoze]

Can only hope he enters heaven like this



R.I.P

[Harry Genshaw]

Knocked me for 6 that one someone who was a regular feature throughout adolescence. From Kevin Turvey through to Alan B'stard, the guy was a genius. Easy to forget how stale a lot of tv comedy had become when the alternative crowd burst on the scene.

A comic legend, taken far far too early. RIP