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The Cursed Thread of 2020
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David Prowse has become one with the Force:
Darth Vader star dead at 85: British actor David Prowse dies | Daily Mail Online
Canadian lighthouse to U.S. Warship approaching it: "This is a lighthouse. Your call!"
 (11-25-2020, 07:52 PM)aku Wrote: Diego Maradona Age 60, Heart Attack. I heard there was some confusion among music fans who heard about his death and though it was Madonna who died. 
 
Ah, jeeze.
-- 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.... (11-20-2020, 12:31 AM)ECSNorway Wrote: After another support cable let go, the Arecibo Radio Telescope Observatory has been declared Not Safely Repairable and is to be decommissioned. Goodbye for real now. I.e. the remainder has collapsed by itself.  https://boingboing.net/2020/12/01/areceb...lapse.html https://phys.org/news/2020-12-huge-puert...scope.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25264555
RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
12-03-2020, 01:38 PM (This post was last modified: 12-03-2020, 01:38 PM by Bob Schroeck.)
-- 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.... 
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, President of France from 1974 to 1981, of COVID complications at age 94.
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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." 
RIP André Gagnon, composer and pianist.
Amongst his other works, he wrote the soundtrack to The Pianist
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown
-- 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....
Dame Barbara Windsor from EastEnders has passed on: Dame Barbara Windsor: Carry On and EastEnders actress dies aged 83 - BBC News
Canadian lighthouse to U.S. Warship approaching it: "This is a lighthouse. Your call!"
OK, this one isn't about a single person, but I couldn't think of a better thread for it. It's sure not a "feel-good" story, unless you support the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement.
Suicides are up in Japan lately. Way, way up. As in more people killing themselves in October alone than COVID deaths in all of 2020. Suicides among women have increased by 83%; men only by 22% – although that increase still leaves men with a higher raw number (1302 males as opposed to 851 females). For further contrast, the overall rate of Japanese suicides had actually decreased in 2019 ... and then 2020 brought it roaring back. ----- God made me an agnostic — who are you to question His wisdom?
Actor and wrestler Tommy "Tiny" Lister, age 62.
He was in a lot, but the role I remember him best from was the President in The Fifth Element.
-- 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....  (12-12-2020, 09:35 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: Actor and wrestler Tommy "Tiny" Lister, age 62. For me, it's the tattooed prisoner in The Dark Knight and Finnick in Zootopia.
-- 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....
A couple notes:
Former GM of the Québec Nordiques has passed on from COVID-19 complications: https://www.journaldequebec.com/2020/12/...a-covid-19 Charley Pride has also died because of the pandemic: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music...it-192455/
Canadian lighthouse to U.S. Warship approaching it: "This is a lighthouse. Your call!"
-- 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....
-- 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....
Grammy-award-winning country-music singer K.T. Oslin. on December 21. Parkinson's and COVID.
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown
Robert Thacker, a pilot in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, died November 25 at 102 (his death wasn't reported to any news outlet until last week). His first experience of combat was delivering an unarmed B-17 bomber to Pearl Harbor and arriving during the Japanese attack. Later accomplishments included, in 1947, "the longest nonstop flight, 5,051 miles, ever made by a propeller-driven fighter, according to the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, near Dayton, Ohio."
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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."
George Blake, double agent (and that's all I'll say about him)
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown
Ty Jordan, star runningback for University of Utah, killed in accidental shooting
https://www.deseret.com/sports/2020/12/2...Ue5dlc-Ax8
Jon Huber, AKA Brodie Lee of AEW, formerly Luke Harper of WWE, passed on at 41 due to non-COVID lung condition:
https://www.f4wonline.com/aew-news/aews-...sue-328646
Canadian lighthouse to U.S. Warship approaching it: "This is a lighthouse. Your call!"
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