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The Cursed Thread of 2020
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#51
The Pocket Rocket has gone to join his brother in the great hockey rink in the sky:

https://globalnews.ca/news/6640221/henri-richard-death/
Canadian lighthouse to U.S. Warship approaching it:  "This is a lighthouse.  Your call!"
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
#52
Finally free of this tiresome planet.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/ma...es-aged-90
“We can never undo what we have done. We can never go back in time. We write history with our decisions and our actions. But we also write history with our responses to those actions. We can leave the pain and the damage in our wake, unattended, or we can do the work of acknowledging and fixing, to whatever extent possible, the harm that we have caused.”

— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg
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#53
"Out on a cloud of love"... RIP Laura Smith

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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
#54
RIP Al Worden, command module pilot of Apollo 15
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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
#55
The Gambler has gone on to play the eternal great game...

https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wir...1-69724237
Canadian lighthouse to U.S. Warship approaching it:  "This is a lighthouse.  Your call!"
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
#56
*sniff* I'd say he more than broke even.
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
#57
Asterix co-creator dies at age 92
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/m...dies-at-92
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
#58
And we have our first celebrity coronavirus victim in the thread:

Terrence McNally, Tony Award-Winning Playwright, Dies From Coronavirus Complications
-- 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
#59
Tom Coburn, the Republican known as "Dr No" is dead

https://news.yahoo.com/former-republican...53913.html
Wolf wins every fight but the one where he dies, fangs locked around the throat of his opponent. 
Currently writing BROBd

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#60
Country singer Joe Diffie
https://www.newschannel5.com/news/countr...m-covid-19
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
#61
(03-29-2020, 05:23 PM)Norgarth Wrote: Country singer Joe Diffie
https://www.newschannel5.com/news/countr...m-covid-19

damn it, now i need to get him another round over by the jukebox
Wolf wins every fight but the one where he dies, fangs locked around the throat of his opponent. 
Currently writing BROBd

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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
#62
RIP Adam Schlesinger, Emmy and Grammy-winner from Fountains of Wayne

RIP Jazz great Ellis Marsalis Jr. dead at 85

Both dead after contracting coronavirus.
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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
#63
Julie Bennett, voice actor, dead of COVID-19 complications at 88.
https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/2020/04/0...ronavirus/
-Now available with copious trivia!
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
#64
RIP Bill Withers

You know his music:

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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
#65
RIP Shirley Douglas, actress (Lolita, Dead Ringers, etc.), activist, daughter of Canada's medicare founder Tommy Douglas, and mother of Kiefer Sutherland.

EDIT: Not related to the current pandemic.
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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
#66
Sadly, one of the original Bond girls has left us:

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/lifestyle/cele...r-BB12eeSg
Canadian lighthouse to U.S. Warship approaching it:  "This is a lighthouse.  Your call!"
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
#67
(04-06-2020, 12:56 PM)Pyeknu Wrote: Sadly, one of the original Bond girls has left us:

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/lifestyle/cele...r-BB12eeSg
When she was making that movie, an episode of The Avengers referenced it, with Steed getting a Christmas card "from Mrs Gale!  Whatever can she be doing at Fort Knox?"
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"The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that this was some killer weed."
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#68
RIP John Prine

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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
#69
Hal Willner (Music Producer and SNL supervisor)
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/a...es-aged-64
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#70
Andrew Jack
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
#71
RIP Mort Drucker

"Indeed, Mort Drucker proved to be one of the most popular artists of the group that collectively came to be known as the 'Usual Gang of Idiots.'"
- from the citation upon his induction to the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame



RIP Stirling Moss, arguably the greatest F1 driver never to win the world championship.

"If you're not trying to win at all costs, what on earth are you doing there?"
- Stirling Moss
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Rob Kelk

Sticks and stones can break your bones,
But words can break your heart.
- unknown
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#72
John Conway
Mathematician (Game of Life, and much more).
CoD: Covid.
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#73
Tim Brooke-Taylor (BBC link) (The Goodies, u.a.) Covid again. Sad
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
#74
Well, crap.
-- 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
#75
(04-12-2020, 09:27 PM)aku Wrote: John Conway
Mathematician (Game of Life, and much more).
CoD: Covid.

xkcd salutes him today. 
 [Image: rip_john_conway.gif]
The mouseover text gives his years of birth and death.
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"The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that this was some killer weed."
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