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We are all Spartacus.
Kevin Conway has passed on:

https://deadline.com/2020/02/kevin-conwa...202854335/

"I am Kilrain! And I damn all gentlemen!"

Qapla'!
Writer/actor/comedian Orson Bean has died at 91.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter...24776.html
Orson Bean was 91. It wasn't natural causes; a car hit him.  Correction; two cars hit him.

His acting credits, by the way, included being the voice of Bilbo Baggins in 1977.

Edit: Oops, Kilroy beat me to it.
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Up, lad, up!  We've villages to pillage, maidens to slay, and dragons to rescue!
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holy schnike. I am 1) OOOOOLLLLD, and

schinke. I am so old I forget what points 2 and beyond were going to be.
We are poor, little lambs
Who have lost our way...
Baa, Baa, Baa...

The man who played Pappy Boyington has joined him in the great beyond...

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/r...1w4WchHOFg
Wow! This is starting to feel like 2016 to me...!

https://horrorcultfilms.co.uk/2020/02/in...ne-thorne/
RIP Christie Blatchford, one of Canda's top journalists.
Let Taps be played...!
RIP Pop Smoke, at age 20, just after his latest album was released.
RIP Larry Tesler

In honour of his work, I used cut-and-paste functionality to put the link URL into this post, and I used a GUI to access the thread.
RIP Mike Hughes, doing what he loved

Mike Hughes was a man who didn't accept the prevailing wisdom, insisted thinking for himself and going to look instead of taking somebody else's word for it. He died while gathering his own evidence.

It's too bad what he was gathering evidence for - or, more realistically, against - was malarkey, but he thought for himself and that's the important part.
(02-24-2020, 09:22 AM)robkelk Wrote: [ -> ]Mike Hughes was a man who didn't accept the prevailing wisdom, insisted thinking for himself and going to look instead of taking somebody else's word for it. He died while gathering his own evidence.

It's too bad what he was gathering evidence for - or, more realistically, against - was malarkey, but he thought for himself and that's the important part.

While it's sad he died, I wouldn't consider pulling a random idea out of god knows where, paying no attention to how many hundreds of millions of people whould have to be engaging in an utterly pointless game of deception for centuries for it to be true to involve "thinking".
RIP Katherine Johnson, retired NASA mathematician.

You may have heard of her from the movie Hidden Figures.
The Titanic will not be raised.

RIP Clive Cussler
RIP Jens Nygaard Knudsen, creator of the LEGO minifigure (and the Classic Space LEGO line). He died on February 19.
Physicist Freeman Dyson -- creator of the "Dyson Sphere" concept -- age 96

I met him nearly forty years ago, when I was at Princeton; the SF/F club I was part of asked him to give a speech and we took him out to dinner after. He was a true gentleman and scholar.
No longer restless... RIP Lee Phillip Bell, co-creator of The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful.
James Lipton  of "Inside the Actors Studio" passed away at 93.
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