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The Cursed Thread of 2020
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#26
Kirk Douglas has passed on: https://www.npr.org/2020/02/05/156511592...ies-at-103
Canadian lighthouse to U.S. Warship approaching it:  "This is a lighthouse.  Your call!"
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
#27
We are all Spartacus.
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Rob Kelk

Sticks and stones can break your bones,
But words can break your heart.
- unknown
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
#28
Kevin Conway has passed on:

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

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

Qapla'!
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#29
Writer/actor/comedian Orson Bean has died at 91.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter...24776.html
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
#30
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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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
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...

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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.
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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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
#32
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
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
#33
Wow! This is starting to feel like 2016 to me...!

https://horrorcultfilms.co.uk/2020/02/in...ne-thorne/
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
#34
RIP Christie Blatchford, one of Canda's top journalists.
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Rob Kelk

Sticks and stones can break your bones,
But words can break your heart.
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
#35
Kellye Nakahara, "Nurse Kellye" of M*A*S*H, age 72, from cancer.
-- 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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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
#36
Let Taps be played...!
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
#37
RIP Pop Smoke, at age 20, just after his latest album was released.
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Rob Kelk

Sticks and stones can break your bones,
But words can break your heart.
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
#38
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.
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Rob Kelk

Sticks and stones can break your bones,
But words can break your heart.
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
#39
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.
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Rob Kelk

Sticks and stones can break your bones,
But words can break your heart.
- unknown
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
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(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".
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Ja'Net Dubois, probably best known for her role in Good Times, age 74
-- 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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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
#42
RIP Katherine Johnson, retired NASA mathematician.

You may have heard of her from the movie Hidden Figures.
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Rob Kelk

Sticks and stones can break your bones,
But words can break your heart.
- unknown
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
#43
Hosni Mubarak, former president of Egypt, age 91
-- 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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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
#44
Michael Hertz, the man who designed the iconic New York City subway map, age 87
-- 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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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
#45
The Titanic will not be raised.

RIP Clive Cussler
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Rob Kelk

Sticks and stones can break your bones,
But words can break your heart.
- unknown
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
#46
RIP Jens Nygaard Knudsen, creator of the LEGO minifigure (and the Classic Space LEGO line). He died on February 19.
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Rob Kelk

Sticks and stones can break your bones,
But words can break your heart.
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
#47
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.
-- 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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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
#48
No longer restless... RIP Lee Phillip Bell, co-creator of The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful.
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Rob Kelk

Sticks and stones can break your bones,
But words can break your heart.
- unknown
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
#49
Trader Joe has died, at 89
-- 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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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
#50
James Lipton  of "Inside the Actors Studio" passed away at 93.
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