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RE: Cursed Thread of 2022 - RMH999 - 10-04-2022
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/04/entertainment/loretta-lynn-obit/index.html
Loretta Lynn has passed at age 90. Farewell to the Coal Miner's Daughter.
RE: Cursed Thread of 2022 - Bob Schroeck - 10-08-2022
Comedienne Judy Tenuta, age 72
RE: Cursed Thread of 2022 - Dartz - 10-11-2022
Angela Lansbury
On an unrelated note. The murder rate in Cabot Cove has dropped to its lowest level since 1984.
RE: Cursed Thread of 2022 - Bob Schroeck - 10-11-2022
<hat over heart> I'll always remember her as Eglantine Price from Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
(But I have to note, I wish I could remember the comedian who did the routine about Murder She Wrote where he claimed his dog looked at him and said, "Don' they see? Wherever dat little white woman goes, people die!")
RE: Cursed Thread of 2022 - robkelk - 10-11-2022
(10-11-2022, 03:43 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: <hat over heart> I'll always remember her as Eglantine Price from Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
And as Princess Gwendolyn in The Court Jester.
She had a much wider range than most people remember.
RE: Cursed Thread of 2022 - RMH999 - 10-14-2022
Robbie Coltrane - Actor who played Hagrid in Harry Potter has passed at age 72.
RE: Cursed Thread of 2022 - robkelk - 10-19-2022
RIP Jim McDivitt, Gemini and Apollo astronaut.
He did not make the first American spacewalk, but he took the photo of it.
RE: Cursed Thread of 2022 - robkelk - 10-24-2022
RIP Leslie Jordan, Emmy-award-winning actor.
Car crash
RE: Cursed Thread of 2022 - Pyeknu - 10-28-2022
Thomas Cahill, author of How The Irish Saved Civilization and other seminal works has passed on.
Thomas Cahill, popular history writer, dead at 82 - ABC News (go.com)
Reason this hits me is that HTISC was a good companion book for me while I was in South Korea from 1996-2005.
EDIT 28 OCTOBER 1:32 PM EDT: And Jerry Lee Lewis has passed on...
Jerry Lee Lewis, flamboyant and controversial rock and roll pioneer, dead at 87 (msn.com)
RE: Cursed Thread of 2022 - Bob Schroeck - 10-28-2022
87? I could've sworn he was older...
RE: Cursed Thread of 2022 - robkelk - 10-29-2022
RIP Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language and co-inventor of drum memory (the forerunner of the disk drive).
RE: Cursed Thread of 2022 - Bob Schroeck - 11-05-2022
Singer Aaron Carter, age 34
RE: Cursed Thread of 2022 - GethN7 - 11-11-2022
Rest in peace, Kevin Conroy (age 66). You will forever be Batman in our hearts.
RE: Cursed Thread of 2022 - Shepherd - 11-11-2022
Gallagher, Watermelon-Smashing Comedian, Is Dead at 76
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/11/arts/television/gallagher-dead.html
RE: Cursed Thread of 2022 - Bob Schroeck - 11-13-2022
Peg and I once got suckered into a show at a local comedy club by his brother, who for a while in the 90s was touring as "Gallagher II: The Living Sequel" (until Gallagher sued him into stopping). We always wanted to see the real thing, and now we never will.
RE: Cursed Thread of 2022 - aku - 11-18-2022
Goodbye Frederick P. Brooks (Very early computer pioneer, "The Mythical Man-Month", IBM OS/360)
Wikipedia has it too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Brooks, already.
RE: Cursed Thread of 2022 - robkelk - 11-18-2022
RIP Robert Clary, best know for playing LeBeau on Hogan’s Heroes. He was also a survivor of the Holocaust.
RE: Cursed Thread of 2022 - aku - 11-20-2022
Sigh. Greg Bear
RE: Cursed Thread of 2022 - Bob Schroeck - 11-20-2022
Well, crap.
RE: Cursed Thread of 2022 - Norgarth - 11-22-2022
Jason David Frank (former Green/White/Red Power Ranger)
https://globalnews.ca/news/9293341/jason-david-frank-dead-star-of-power-rangers/
RE: Cursed Thread of 2022 - Pyeknu - 11-26-2022
Irene Cara has passed on...
Irene Cara, '80s pop star behind 'Fame' and 'Flashdance' theme songs, dies at 63 | CNN
RE: Cursed Thread of 2022 - robkelk - 11-28-2022
RIP John Lotshaw, creator of Accidental Centaurs and Random Acts of Nancy, and publisher at Moonbase Press.
RE: Cursed Thread of 2022 - robkelk - 11-29-2022
RIP Fred Brooks, "the man chiefly responsible for the prevalence of the eight-bit byte" (which lets us use lowercase letters on the Internet) and the author of The Mythical Man-Month (PDF)
RE: Cursed Thread of 2022 - robkelk - 11-30-2022
RIP Christine McVie
RE: Cursed Thread of 2022 - Norgarth - 12-04-2022
Bob McGrath, one of the original actors on Sesame Street
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/04/entertainment/bob-mcgrath-obit/index.html