Today We Died

[RedKing]

Dave Arneson (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/04/09/rip-dd-co-creator-dave-arneson/#more-10091), 61

[Conscious Bob]

This thread had to happen sooner or later, may as well start off the death list with a big one... 'T's out.

It would kill me if someone spelt my name wrong on my obituary.

[disrepdog]

My old shetland pony Dougal :(

[jag]

Tom Paton the BCR manager. A complete twat by all accounts.

[Deep Black]

J. G. Ballard:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/2041260.stm

Clement Freud:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/3847887.stm

[edash]

David Carradine
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8083479.stm

[Conscious Bob]

David Carradine

Yeah read that in the paper this morning. Pardon me poking fun at the recently deceased but did they put men in cupboards with ropes tied around their hollyhocks inside the Shaolin temple?

[Deep Black]

David Eddings
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8085289.stm

[jag]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAwmnvsD_Bw
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[Deep Black]

2006?

[Big Orange]

and [url=http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jbnkPqBpepIbGtRD4zw0WKiHwkmwD991RJDG3]Farrah Fawcett (]Michael Jackson[/url). They go in threes, they go in threes, they go in threes...

[RedKing]

Is this the third?

Steven Wells (http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/a162000/steven-wells-dies-after-cancer-battle.html)

Spookily, one of his quotes in ths story is "Me? I blame it on sunshine. I blame it on the moonlight. I blame it on the boogie."

[Big Orange]

*Brrrrr*

Of course Jacko's demise is now wall to wall on the 24 hour news channels, so a lot of more vital and broader news is going to get buried in the next few days at the very least. :mad:

And the Internet seemed to be on the blink in the couple of hours after Jackson's hospitalization and death was officially confirmed.

[jag]

I think it's a wind up.

[Deep Black]

Promotion for the tour?

[198505]

Or a way out of it.
How long before the sightings start, and the he faked his death stuff?

[Deep Black]

They started within hours
http://www.youngandgrumpy.com/2009/06/michael-jackson-faked-his-own-death.html

[Big Orange]

I honestly believe the plastic surgeons who operated on Michael Jackson should be charged with criminal malpractice for all those years of highly damaging and unnecessary proceedures that turned the King of Pop into one of those humanoid reptiles that David Ike rants about.

[BeckyH]

The latest comment is that he's going to be plasticized, and shown off next to his plastic monkey Bubbles.
The whole phenom is just sad.
BeckyH

[RedKing]

My wife insists that this story is true and the said effigies of Jacko & Chimp are to be on display in the O2 Arena.

[disrepdog]

Mrs Slocombe.aka Mollie Sugden. 86 so a grand old age

[Deep Black]

Keith Floyd
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Showbiz-News/Keith-Floyd-Dies-TV-Chef-Suffers-A-Heart-Attack/Article/200909315381744?lpos=Showbiz_News_Top_Stories_Head er_4&lid=ARTICLE_15381744_Keith_Floyd_Dies%3A_TV_Chef_S uffers_A_Heart_Attack

[Big Orange]

Patrick Swayze (http://www.edmontonsun.com/entertainment/movies/2009/09/15/10912936.html) - he died about the same age as his Ghost co-star, Vincent Schiavelli...

[Big Orange]

Barry Letts, a director, writer, and producer for Doctor Who, has passed away (http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2009/10/barry-letts-1925-2009.html) at the age of eighty four. He was credited for creating popular DW supporting character, Sarah Jane Smith, and helped to cast Tom Baker.

Also Stephen Gately, an Irish musician and former member of Boyzone, has died suddenly in his sleep (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/6297001/Boyzone-singer-Stephen-Gately-dies-a-life-on-stage.html) on holiday at Majorca. He was 33. Yet another musician who has died while my parents are on holiday (last one was Jacko). They're even holidaying on the same island chain.

[jag]

A musician?? Bollocks.
I for one won't be weeping into my cereal.

[Conscious Bob]

Tsk, He was a nice wee harmless guy.

[rac]

I didn't like his music either, but anyone dying at such a horribly young age is very sad.

[jag]

Yeah, well the sun today compared him in the same sentence as Bonham, Hendrix and Bon Scott:eek:.

[RedKing]

Yet another musician who has died while my parents are on holiday (last one was Jacko). They're even holidaying on the same island chain.

I'm assuming they've an alibi? Once, OK, twice might be suspicious... :eek:

[Conscious Bob]

Yeah, well the sun today compared him in the same sentence as Bonham, Hendrix and Bon Scott

Logical, not for musical similarity but they did all die by choking on their own vomit after drinking.

[RedKing]

"Well, they think it was their own vomit, you can't really dust for vomit..."

[Conscious Bob]

"Well, they think it was their own vomit, you can't really dust for vomit..."

I wouldn't dust for vomit, I would much rather bleach and mop for vomit.

[Big Orange]

Actually Stephen Gately died from natural causes (http://web.orange.co.uk/article/answers_wanted_over_gately_death), water on the lungs.

[Conscious Bob]

Actually Stephen Gately died from natural causes, water on the lungs.

Yeah, so I read. Unusual for it to be a sole cause of death in a healthy young man. John Bonham's official cause of death was also water on the lungs.

[jag]

Logical, not for musical similarity but they did all die by choking on their own vomit after drinking.

yeah, but these guys lived life to the full and contributed to rock'n'roll culture and will be remembered forever. Plus they had been drinking 40 shots of vodka, not 2 Martini and lemonades.

[Conscious Bob]

yeah, but these guys lived life to the full and contributed to rock'n'roll culture and will be remembered forever. Plus they had been drinking 40 shots of vodka, not 2 Martini and lemonades.

Aye by crusty old rockers. I don't know what Gately drank but I bet it was a lot more than two Martini and Lemonades.

Gay guys are frighteningly hedonistic and taking a bucket has nothing to do with being macho.

[Tangendentalism]

Gay guys are frighteningly hedonistic

Woah, easy on the sweeping statements there eh?

[Deep Black]

(some) Gay guys (can be) frighteningly hedonistic (allegedly)

[Conscious Bob]

Woah, easy on the sweeping statements there eh?

Heh, well the ones I know I frighteningly hedonistic.

[jag]

Al martino, the godfather crooner.

[Conscious Bob]

Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Megrahi.

[RedKing]

Reports of his death may be exaggerated:



Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the Libyan agent convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, is still alive, his lawyer said today, denying an earlier report he had died in Tripoli two months after his release on compassionate grounds from a Scottish prison.

The Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/21/abdelbaset-al-megrahi-health-lawyer)

[Conscious Bob]

So much for breaking news from Radio Scotland. He's probably now Lord Lucan's flatmate.

[RedKing]

Edward Woodward, 79 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2914603.stm)

[jag]

jesus Christ NO!!

[RedKing]

JC died a while ago, jag, allegedly.

As for Mr Woodward, I was quite saddened at his passing, not just for Callan, Breaker Morant or the Wicker Man, but for the fact he presented a Wargaming programme back in the late '70's on Tyne-Tees Television. Funny how these things stay with you, eh?

[Big Orange]

I liked him in Hot Fuzz ('You know what you are... a bloody busy-body!!').

[Deep Black]

Fantasy author Robert Holdstock

http://www.sfx.co.uk/page/sfx?entry=author_robert_holdstock_has_died

[Big Orange]

61, that's comparatively premature.

[Big Orange]

Yegor Gaidar, Russian Economic "Reformer", Dies at Just 53 (http://rt.com/Politics/2009-12-16/remembering-russias-yegor-gaidar.html/print)

[edash]

Dan O'Bannon

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=26564

[RedKing]

Bugger, that's bad news indeed. :(

[Big Orange]

63 is a comparatively premature age to go, but Dan did not die as tragically young as Brittany Murphy (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jgLdEdbrJWaznWziiABUF8SNdEZQD9CNBQ380).

[Conscious Bob]

63 is a comparatively premature age to go, but Dan did not die as tragically young as Brittany Murphy (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jgLdEdbrJWaznWziiABUF8SNdEZQD9CNBQ380).

I just saw Scooby Doo Two Too... whooh.

[jag]

A couple of days ago, legendary Rugby Commentator Bill MacLaren.

[Halmyre]

Actress Jean Simmons, not to be confused with Kiss bassist Gene Simmons (although have you ever seen both of them together?)

[jag]

J.D Salinger

[Deep Black]

Hmmm shame, 91, at least he had a decent run
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Salinger

[cabbo]

I've only heard of him through pseudo-intelligent catcher-in-the-rye readers. Not that there aren't intelligent ones. I take it he's actually good, and not just 'underground' and 'cool'?

[jag]

CitR was alright, a good 2 night read, but nothing spectacular.
A bit like 'On the road' by Kerouac, one of those things you gotta read and then wonder, why?

[Conscious Bob]

A bit like 'On the road' by Kerouac, one of those things you gotta read and then wonder, why?

Glad I read it.

[BeckyH]

Salinger's other works can be more fun to read, but CitR, being about adolescents and all, made it onto the reading lists of school after school after school.

[BeckyH]

Kage Baker. an author whose works I greatly enjoyed, of cancer at 57.
Check out The Garden of Iden for the start of a grand series about a company of cyborgs who can only get drunk on chocolate, and who work for a mysterious company called Dr. Zeus.

[Deep Black]

Andrew Koenig

http://www.walterkoenigsite.com/

[cabbo]

Awww, Chekov's son was in Deep Space Nine? What a shame...

[Big Orange]

It did not bode well when it came to light that Chekhov's boy suffered from strong bouts of depression.

[cabbo]

Yeah, but his track record was a little... depressing. Well, that fits, actually. He probably just hated the fact that in his generation, star trek was beginning to suck more arse than... it had been. As in it sucked a bit of arse.

[Deep Black]

Chekov's son was in Deep Space Nine?

He was in this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctuary_(Star_Trek:_Deep_Space_Nine)

[cabbo]

"Kira buys a dress for Haneek that Haneek seemed to be admiring when the universal translator was not yet functioning. However, Haneek was not admiring it; she thought it was the ugliest dress she had ever seen, an opinion Kira shares. The two laugh and appear to become friends."

Oh, the hilarity.

[jag]

Michael Foot..(94)

[Big Orange]

Corey Haim (http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/entertainment&id=7322384); he was a "Bratpack" teen actor.

[Conscious Bob]

Corey Haim he was a "Bratpack" teen actor.

Say hello to River.

[jag]

Say hello to River.

Lol.

[Big Orange]

Peter Graves. (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iaFqKSXSuNP7TSKRGM5mS1Kmug9wD9EEPB484)

[cabbo]

"He had this statesmanlike quality," Brokaw said. "People were always encouraging him to run for office. But he said, 'I like acting. I like being around actors.'"

Hmmmmmm.

Well, I saw him in Airplane!, and he was good in that.

[jag]

Harry Carpenter.

[Big Orange]

Dr. Wallace Breen. (http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/andrewmcfbrown/100031411/robert-culp-a-great-tv-actor-and-the-finest-columbo-villain-of-all-time/)

[RedKing]

John Hicklenton, 42 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/8590231.stm)

[Conscious Bob]

It was the way he wanted to go, got to respect the man's decision.

[RobD]

Harry Carpenter.

I was re-reading a Clive James collection of his TV critic column recently. One of his pieces mentioned the time when a BBC linkman said "Now over to the boxing, where Harry Commentator is your carpenter."

[jag]

Malcolm McLaren:eek::(.

[Big Orange]

President Lech Kaczynski and half the Polish government. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8612825.stm)

[Deep Black]

Roll on the conspiracy theories

[Conscious Bob]

As they should...

[RedKing]

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47645000/jpg/_47645742_guykewney.jpg

Guy Kewney, 63 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8620907.stm)

[cabbo]

Huh, I heard about the Guy Goma thing... seems a shame that I don't know this man.

[Deep Black]

Pete Steele of the band Type O Negative:
http://www.iconvsicon.com/2010/04/15/the-death-of-peter-steele-band-confirms-reports-of-singers-death/

[cabbo]

A quick look at Wikipedia's obituary section doesn't look good for computer engineers. And polish diplomats, politicians (and an actor), but... you know...

Also, Jazz musicians. That's unfortunate. Really. Either there's a lot of them, or this is a huge conspiracy, because it's like every day.

[edash]

Ronnie James Dio (http://www.metalinjection.net/bummer-alert/ronnie-james-dio-dies-age-67), 67

[Deep Black]

Was just about to post this one, real shame :(

[Solipsist Mercenary]

Gary Coleman.

[Deep Black]

"What you talking about" Mercenary?

& just 42.

[edash]

Dennis Hopper (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10191448.stm)

[Big Orange]

I was surprised by Corman (as troubled as he was) but I was expecting Hopper; he didn't look long for this world when he had his star set down in Hollywood Boulevard. His debauchery back in the 60s and 70s must've shaved off a decade.

[Big Orange]

Stuart Cable. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/10259507.stm)

[jag]

Englands hopes of winning the world cup...Ferdinand is out!

[Champagne Socialist]

Englands hopes of winning the world cup...Ferdinand is out!

so we're celebrating then

[Conscious Bob]

I feel sorry for Rio.

[jag]

And capello snapped today at the paparazzi! It's not looking good.
Anyway, no-one died so excuse my intrusion upon this thread.

[Big Orange]

Frank Sidebottom. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2010/jun/21/frank-sidebottom-creator-chris-sievey-dies)

[jag]

Gonna be a funny shaped coffin!

[Conscious Bob]

Just been listening to Mark Riley on BBC Radio 6, some good Frank anecdotes.

[keefus]

It's Little Frank I feel sorry for. Poor wee mite.

[edash]

Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/snooker/8852020.stm), 61, snooker legend

[Conscious Bob]

Yeah, real character. I remember reading he once threatened to have Dennis Taylor shot after a snooker team match against Canada, Dennis's game was much improved after that threat.

[Deep Black]

He's looked on his way out for years, played a special match against Cliff Thorburn at this years Crucible World Championship. Shame he's gone

[Halmyre]

Jimmy Reid. Wherever you are, have a bevvy! ;)

[Big Orange]

And Mel Gibson (http://a.imageshack.us/img843/5677/melgibsoncrazy.jpg), after all these celebrity deaths, still lives... (http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/confidential/mel-gibson-in-car-accident-in-malibu/story-e6frf96o-1225906145383)

[jag]

Tony Curtis, 85, heart attack.

[Conscious Bob]

Tony Curtis, 85, heart attack.

He said my favourite movie line from Some Like it Hot. Joe disguised as a millionaire (Tony Curtis) is introduced to Jerry (Jack Lemmon) by Sugar (Marilyn Munroe) and Joe realising that Jerry recognises him says:

“I heard a very sad story about a girl who went to Bryn Mawr, she squealed on her roommate, and they found her strangled with her own brassiere...”

[Deep Black]

Norman Wisdom, 95 (I didn't realise he was that old)
http://news.uk.msn.com/uk/articles.aspx?cp-documentid=154846162

[Flashman]

Norman Wisdom, 95 (I didn't realise he was that old)
http://news.uk.msn.com/uk/articles.aspx?cp-documentid=154846162

He was one of the best.

[RedKing]

Norman Wisdom, Johnny, Joey, Dee Dee, Good Times

Surprising that Sir Norman was the last to go and by such a long chalk, too.

[Conscious Bob]

Mr Grimsdale?

No.

Mr Grimreaper...

[RedKing]

Don't Fear (Mr Grimsdale)

[von hitchofen]

Arianna Forster a/k/a Ari Up lead singer of the Slits [and stepdaughter of John Lydon] She was only 48 :(

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/oct/21/ari-up-slits-dies-48

Graham Crowden, one of Lindsay Anderson's cast of actors [was in If..., Oh Lucky Man, and Britannia Hospital] and nearly was the Doctor instead of Tom Baker

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2010/oct/22/graham-crowden-obituary

[Halmyre]

Ingrid Pitt

[Conscious Bob]

That's what you think, where's the garlic?

[Flashman]

Fond memories. ..

Amazed to see she was Polish, survived a Nazi concentration camp, was strafed by the allies, survived TB, and was a black belt in karate. and even appeared in a few episodes of Doctor Who.

[RedKing]

Bernard Matthews, 80

Cue the Turkey Twizzler comments...

[Deep Black]

Leslie Nielsen, 84

http://www.metro.co.uk/film/848688-leslie-nielsen-dies-aged-84

[Conscious Bob]

Aw, so long Frank Drebin.

[charismatic megafauna]

Nielsen also had the "James Kirk" role in the quintessential early SF movie masterpiece "Forbidden Planet."

[Champagne Socialist]

surely you can't be dead!
Of course I'm dead, and don't call me shirley

[Big Orange]

Irvin Kershner (http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/nov/29/irvin-kershner-empire-strikes-back) and Peter Graves (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/tv-radio-obituaries/7450747/Peter-Graves.html) have also passed on.

[Deep Black]

Captain Beefheart

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/captain-beefheart-dies-69-61419

[Conscious Bob]

Bobby Farrell, singer with Boney M.

Died mid tour in St Petersburg...

Maybe the ghost of Rasputin came and got him.

[RedKing]

Died on the same day as Rasputin, allegedly.

[Deep Black]

http://www.sfx.co.uk/2010/12/31/those-we-sadly-lost-in-2010/

[Big Orange]

Peter Poslethwaite. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/jan/03/actor-pete-postlethwaite-dies)

I must admit he didn't look too good in one of his last movie roles in The Town; his neck was too narrow (throat cancer possibly), he seemed to be more in his 70s, and he was mostly sitting down or leaning on things in his brief scenes. And it's ironic he played a cancer patient in Inception.

[Big Orange]

Leslie Nielsen didn't have to wait long for his Forbidden Planet co-star... (http://www.sheknows.com/entertainment/articles/821929/actress-anne-francis-dies-at-80)

[Conscious Bob]

Peter Poslethwaite.

Peter Poslethwaite... its Pete Postlethwaite and you had a go at me for 'Shaun' of the Dead...

[Halmyre]

Gerry Rafferty, and Mick Karn...meanwhile shite like Robbie Williams and N-Dubz still walk this earth...

[Conscious Bob]

There are a couple of Robbie Williams songs in my playlist and one N-Dubz track, on that basis I'll spare them.

[Big Orange]

The music world has lost yet another towering talent; John Barry (http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-john-barry-20110201,0,3701109.story).

[edash]

And another, rock and blues guitarist Gary Moore (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-12377862)

[Deep Black]

I saw him just last year at a Festival, he wasn't looking to healthy then & his voice had gone a bit - but still an excellent guitarist.

I hope he died well & not how the Sun reported it :(

[Deep Black]

Supposed heart attack:
http://www.classicrockmagazine.com/news/gary-moore-did-not-choke-on-vomit/

[edash]

Must admit I hadn't really followed his career since he went all bluesy, but up until then his return visits to Belfast during his metal years were must attend shows.

[Deep Black]

Elizabeth Taylor - 79
http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/823143/elizabeth_taylor_19322011.html

[Deep Black]

Diana Wynne Jones - 76, lung cancer.

http://celebs.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474979164807
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Wynne_Jones
http://www.leemac.freeserve.co.uk/ (not updated)

[Big Orange]

Elisabeth Sladden (http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/04/20/uk-doctorwho-idUKTRE73I79X20110420)

No, I'm not fucking kidding and it's made all the more gut wrenching when it's so left-field and that she seemed quite young for 63.

[jag]

John Sullivan, the geezer who wrote Only Fools and Horses. He had been ill for the past 6 weeks.

[Conscious Bob]

John Sullivan, the geezer who wrote Only Fools and Horses. He had been ill for the past 6 weeks.

Heh, expect more of the luvaduckgorblimey eulogising.

[von hitchofen]

Polly Styrene lead singer of X-Ray Spex dies aged only 53 of cancer (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13193968)

[Alistair]

Severiano Ballesteros - 54 cancer.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/golf/13320526.stm

[Halmyre]

Was it only the day before that his family announced that his condition had worsened? When that happened I remember thinking "that usually means the worst" and sadly I was right. Seve made golf exciting to watch - it was like "how the hell is he going to get out of there?". When he won at St Andrew's way back, his look of glee was wonderful to behold.

[Big Orange]

Donald Hewlett... (http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/06/06/donald-hewlett-dead-it-ain-t-half-hot-mum-star-dies-aged-90-115875-23182271/)

[Conscious Bob]

You have been watching...

[jag]

Martin Rushent.(63) Music producer probably best known for 'Dare' by The Human League. Also worked with The Stranglers and The Buzzcocks.

[Conscious Bob]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jun/08/voice-of-daleks-roy-skelton-dies

Zippy's dead.

[jag]

Clarence Clemons, The Big Man, saxophone player from the e street band.

[Solipsist Mercenary]

Peter Falk

-sm

[Big Orange]

Amy Winehouse. Gee, I never saw that coming.

[jag]

No,no,no!

[Deep Black]

Another for the 27 list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_club

[Solipsist Mercenary]

Bubba Smith, Hightower from the Police Academy series.

[jag]

yeah, saw that on the news tonight.

[Deep Black]

"Mac" ex-lead singer of UK Prog Metal band Threshold
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=161551

[Conscious Bob]

I read about that Polar Bear attack on that glacier in Svalbard that resulted in three deaths, two kids plus the bear. The kids were in tents. I don't think a tent is any defence against a Polar Bear.

[Deep Black]

Yeah what happened with that? I though it was 1 death (not including the bear)

[Conscious Bob]

Yeah what happened with that? I though it was 1 death (not including the bear)

As it turns out it one schoolboy was killed which although not exactly fortunate is better news than two.

The camp was surrounded by a trip wire bear scarer, either it failed or the bear managed to avoid it.

[jag]

The bear has been portrayed as evil and mean!! C'mon, the poor thing was hungry and these guys had camped in it's territory, it was only doing what's in it's nature.

[Conscious Bob]

The bear has been portrayed as evil and mean!! C'mon, the poor thing was hungry and these guys had camped in it's territory, it was only doing what's in it's nature.

I don't think anyone around here would argue that point. I'm just saying that a I think a tent is an inadequate defence against a big predator just doing what it's evolved to do.

[jag]

Yeah, they should've built igloos! They're wearing bright coloured clothes, cooking and making a noise, "Hello, we're over here!"

[Champagne Socialist]

My sympathies are entirely with the bear.
There are to many humans and it's we who have screwed the planet in every way we can imagine to.

[von hitchofen]

C'mon, the poor thing was hungry and these guys had camped in it's territory, it was only doing what's in it's nature.

and it killed an Etonian, so its a class warrior as well :rolleyes:

[Deep Black]

Jani Lane ex-Warrent, 47.

Everyone remembers Cherry Pie right:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjyZKfdwlng&ob=av2e

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=161881

[Conscious Bob]

and it killed an Etonian, so its a class warrior as well

Nah, a lad died, this is a public forum and we shouldn't insult his memory.

This encounter was a tragic accident. There's too many people on this planet needing too many resources so sooner or later the pristine artic wilderness will be exploited. I think it's good that kids get the opportunity to see polar bears in their habitat. Sometimes the only way to foster genuine appreciation of nature is to see it in the raw. Appreciation in many respects is the only thing that stands between certain species and extinction.

[Champagne Socialist]

I plus1 CB's sentiment.
Although I hold humanity as a whole responsible for the mess we've made, it was not the fault of the young lad who died.
I still do not blame the bear either. It must have been terribly starved to have been driven to approach a human camp.
That, however, will not detract from the hurt and loss of the boys family and the trauma of those others on the expedition.

[von hitchofen]

Nah, a lad died, this is a public forum and we shouldn't insult his memory.


I wasn't, hence the ;rolleyes: at the end :)

[Deep Black]

The widow of Douglas Adams and mother of Polly, Jane Belson, has passed away aged 59. She had been battling breast cancer for a number of months.

Source - a member of her family via an H2G2 member

Sad news eh :( I wonder how Douglas would have taken it?

[Big Orange]

Andy Whitfield. (http://news-briefs.ew.com/2011/09/11/spartacus-star-andy-whitfield-39-dies-of-lymphoma/)

[Solipsist Mercenary]

Steve Jobs (http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/steve-jobs-apple-computer-co-founder-dies/2010/09/21/gIQAc14aOL_story.html)

Wonder how well Apple will survive the loss.

[Champagne Socialist]

It's really big... whoa... not a shock, because he's been so ill, but whoa...

[Deep Black]

Saw that this morning too.

I'm sure the apple brand will carry on, after all Gates has more or less left microsoft now hasn't he?

[Solipsist Mercenary]

Saw that this morning too.

I'm sure the apple brand will carry on, after all Gates has more or less left microsoft now hasn't he?

Yes, but from what I've read, everything that Apple put out recently has had to be personally approved/tweaked by Jobs himself. Link here. (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/technology/what-apple-has-that-google-doesnt-an-auteur.html) If that's correct, this could be a major setback, or at least cause a major shakeup. I don't think Gates was quite as personally involved once Microsoft got huge.

[Deep Black]

True, but approved & tweaked doesn't sound to essential to me, still we'll see I guess

[Solipsist Mercenary]

Col. Gaddafi, according to Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/20/us-libya-idUSTRE79F1FK20111020?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=71)

[RedKing]

Bert Jansch (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_Jansch) - 5th October
Dennis Ritchie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie) - 12th October

[Conscious Bob]

Saw that this morning too.

I'm sure the apple brand will carry on, after all Gates has more or less left microsoft now hasn't he?

Apologies to going back to this earlier posting but I came across a web article I found quite interesting.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/markets/article-24000447-what-should-apple-do-with-its-dollar-81bn.do

As well as reporting that Apple is seriously, seriously cashed up, there's a reference to a certain writer that some may find interesting...

[Deep Black]

I can see the headlines now Apple buy the iHimalayas

[Deep Black]

Jimmy Savile

http://news.uk.msn.com/uk/broadcaster-jimmy-savile-84-dies

[Conscious Bob]

If Jim can't fix it who will?

[RedKing]

Quite a few people as well as Sir Jimmy:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15520303

[jag]

People are selling thier 'jim fixed it for me' badges on eBay for £150!

[Conscious Bob]

People are selling thier 'jim fixed it for me' badges on eBay for £150!

Dear Jim

Can you fix it for me to get £150 in roughly twenty years? I'm prepared to march fully dressed up with the Salvation Army Band while my pals laugh at me on telly.

[Champagne Socialist]

My unborn God-daughter.
My best man's first child to-be.
Mothers in hospital, in pain, but drugged up and but safe.

[Deep Black]

:(

[Not Registered Here]

Condolences dude.

[Big Orange]

No more adventures for Baron Munchausen. (http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=32532)

[Deep Black]

Anne McCaffery, 85, stroke.
http://sf-fantasy.suvudu.com/2011/11/anne-mccaffrey-april-1-1926-november-21-2011.html
http://io9.com/5862031/rip-anne-mccaffrey-creator-of-pern-and-other-classic-books

[Solipsist Mercenary]

Had no idea she was that old. Pity, I kind of liked her work.

[Conscious Bob]

One of the greats.

[Old Vig]

A great for sure. I particularly enjoyed the Crystal Singer and Ship Who Sang. The colourful bodice-ripping Pern stuff I was less drawn to, but then I prefer SF to Fantasy generally.

[Champagne Socialist]

AMcA always swore that Pern was sic fi.
She did justify it a bit towards the end of the series as well.
I had a girlfriend who was really into them...

[RedKing]

Never read anything by her, I think. is that unusual?

[Deep Black]

Nor have I, though I do have a couple on the shelf


AMcA always swore that Pern was sic fi.

Is that because the dragons are genetically made?

[Old Vig]

sic [sic] fi.
I can't really agree, any more than the Dragon and the George was sci-fi, or a A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. I suppose I'm wandering into dangerous territory now, because John Carter of Mars, Gor and many others probably fall into the same category. To me it's fantasy. There are various 'impossible' aspects, in Pern's case the Dragons. Teleporting, telepathic, time travelling, fire-breathing violations of cause and effect. The technology of Pern is all inherited from a vanished past or of the medieval tech level. There's no real science going on. Lots of heaving bosoms and manly strutting though, swashbuckling and hornswoggling too probably.

[Champagne Socialist]

Is that because the dragons are genetically made?

Yeah, I guess so. That and Pern was a human extra-solar colony.



I can't really agree, any more than the Dragon and the George was sci-fi, or a A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. I suppose I'm wandering into dangerous territory now, because John Carter of Mars, Gor and many others probably fall into the same category. To me it's fantasy. There are various 'impossible' aspects, in Pern's case the Dragons. Teleporting, telepathic, time travelling, fire-breathing violations of cause and effect. The technology of Pern is all inherited from a vanished past or of the medieval tech level. There's no real science going on. Lots of heaving bosoms and manly strutting though, swashbuckling and hornswoggling too probably.

Medieval romantic sci ( :-p ) fi

[Champagne Socialist]

Hope.
My brothers been given 3-5 max. A slow decline as all his muscles fail, until he eventually suffocates when his lungs no longer have the strength to exhale.
He has an 18 month old son. he'll never really know his father.

[phazedout]

not anyone famous but it seemed the appropriate thread.
Got a phone call last night to tell me a colleague of mine and her 16 year old daughter had been killed in a head on collision. A text I received this morning said the office will be open in an hour or so for people to meet and talk.
We were meant to have the kids christmas party at 3pm but it looks like we'll be cancelling that, I should know more in about an hour.
Alan

[Champagne Socialist]

Ouch Phaze, my condolences.
Did you know them well?

[Deep Black]

Sad indeed :(

My grandad, 97, died in his sleep a couple of days ago after deteriorating over the last year or so.

[Champagne Socialist]

Condolences also Deep.
He had a good innings though. The world has changed a lot in the last 97 years.
He must have had some stories to tell.

[Deep Black]

& told a lot :)

[Big Orange]

I'm really sad to hear about a mother and her teen daughter getting killed suddenly like that, phazedout.

Also Christopher Hutchens has popped his clogs from the Big C, at the disappointing age of 62 (http://www.margaretrivermail.com.au/news/world/world/general/hitchens-the-great-contrarian-dies-aged-62/2396289.aspx) (35 years younger than Deep's grandad: and condolences for him as well).

[Deep Black]

Funeral on Wed.

You can't spell funeral without fun.

[Big Orange]

Our Dear Leader! (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16239693)

[RedKing]

I'll take an R.I.P., Bob...

Bob Holness (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16443263)

[Deep Black]

I was about to post this,
Except I was gonna say - I'll have a Martini please Bob, shaken not stired

[Deep Black]

This is a strange one:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2084984/Man-drowns-vat-whisky-world-famous-Scottish-distillery.html