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The Cursed Thread of 2020
The Cursed Thread of 2020
#1
RIP NBA commissioner emeritus David Stern, on January 1.
--
Rob Kelk

Sticks and stones can break your bones,
But words can break your heart.
- unknown
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#2
Marian Finucane, of RTE. Today, suddenly.

I love the smell of rotaries in the morning. You know one time, I got to work early, before the rush hour. I walked through the empty carpark, I didn't see one bloody Prius or Golf. And that smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole carpark, smelled like.... ....speed.

One day they're going to ban them.
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(01-02-2020, 04:16 PM)Dartz Wrote: Marian Finucane, of RTE. Today, suddenly.

Sounds like an Irish version of the late Peter Gzowski, who ran a wonderful show called Morningside on CBC in Canada for years from 1976-97.  It's a pity that radio in Canada these days isn't as good as that.  I miss listening to the man.
Canadian lighthouse to U.S. Warship approaching it:  "This is a lighthouse.  Your call!"
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Buck Henry has died at the age of 89.

http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/ente...ry-dead-89
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#5
RIP John Crosbie, the man who shut down the cod fishery. (Yes, 30,000 people lost their jobs, but there are still cod to be caught off the Grand Banks because of his decision.)
--
Rob Kelk

Sticks and stones can break your bones,
But words can break your heart.
- unknown
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https://heavy.com/entertainment/2020/01/...nick-dead/

SF author Mike Resnick - passed away early this morning from cancer
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Neil Peart of Rush has passed on:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music...ry-936221/
Canadian lighthouse to U.S. Warship approaching it:  "This is a lighthouse.  Your call!"
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Damn!  This just got out:

https://mec.lacounty.gov/case-detail/?ca...2020-00337

I wonder what the hell happened here.

(BTW, Stan played Richie Ryan in Highlander:  The Series)
Canadian lighthouse to U.S. Warship approaching it:  "This is a lighthouse.  Your call!"
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Christopher Tolkein

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/j...es-aged-95

95 is a good run, though.
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It is indeed. Did he ever run out of stuff from his father's manuscripts? I kinda stopped compulsively buying everything he released some twenty years ago.
-- Bob

I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber.  I have been 
called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
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Terry Jones of Mony Python, dead at 77
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/22/entertain...index.html

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Well, crap. This is not a happy day.
-- Bob

I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber.  I have been 
called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
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(01-22-2020, 12:01 PM)Norgarth Wrote: Terry Jones of Mony Python, dead at 77
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/22/entertain...index.html

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I wasn't expecting that...
--
Rob Kelk

Sticks and stones can break your bones,
But words can break your heart.
- unknown
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A damn shame, that.
"Kitto daijoubu da yo." - Sakura Kinomoto
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(01-22-2020, 09:37 PM)robkelk Wrote: I wasn't expecting that...

yeah.  no one expect that, Rob. *sad face*
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to rock the sky?
Thats' every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry!
NO QUARTER!

No Quarter by Echo's Children
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PBS newsman Jim Lehrer has died.

https://tvline.com/2020/01/23/jim-lehrer...-obituary/
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... Oh. is it wrong that I am glad it was Jim and not Tom Lehrer?
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to rock the sky?
Thats' every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry!
NO QUARTER!

No Quarter by Echo's Children
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Sad news for basketball fans; this just got out:

https://www.tmz.com/2020/01/26/kobe-brya...calabasas/
Canadian lighthouse to U.S. Warship approaching it:  "This is a lighthouse.  Your call!"
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Fred Silverman, "legendary" TV programmer who was the only man ever to head creative departments at all three major networks, has passed away, age 82. If you liked anything on ABC, CBS or NBC during the 1960s-1990s, it's likely he had a hand in it. He's probably the only network executive to be the punchline to a Robin Williams routine as well...
-- Bob

I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber.  I have been 
called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
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.... Holy Schike, Bob. So many memories there. The only one that is disproved is the impression he was involved in either Star Trek:TOS or TNG
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to rock the sky?
Thats' every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry!
NO QUARTER!

No Quarter by Echo's Children
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RIP Mary Higgins Clark, the "Queen of Suspense"
--
Rob Kelk

Sticks and stones can break your bones,
But words can break your heart.
- unknown
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RIP Andy Gill, co-founder, frontman, and guitarist for the Gang of Four.

And if you don't know who the Gang of Four were, well... here they are in 1981. Guitar solo's about 2:15 in:

--
Rob Kelk

Sticks and stones can break your bones,
But words can break your heart.
- unknown
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#23
I'm getting "a playback error occurred", Rob....
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to rock the sky?
Thats' every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry!
NO QUARTER!

No Quarter by Echo's Children
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Borked the link. Try it now...
--
Rob Kelk

Sticks and stones can break your bones,
But words can break your heart.
- unknown
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Gene Reynolds, TV writer, director and producer, co-creator of M*A*S*H, age 96
-- Bob

I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber.  I have been 
called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
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