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Flying in the circus in the sky. The Monty Python group have been a huge cultural influence everywhere |
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« Reply #26 on: January 22, 2020, 11:29:54 pm » |
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I just heard. Wow. The world is a bit less silly today, and that's a bad thing. |
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« Reply #27 on: January 23, 2020, 12:26:05 am » |
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Now there is a sadness - more humour gone from a world that needs all the help it can get. Only four 'originals' left now.  |
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« Reply #28 on: January 23, 2020, 06:29:05 pm » |
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Another sad announcement. Aside from comedy, his history documentaries were always a favourite of mine.
Yours,
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« Reply #29 on: January 24, 2020, 04:49:06 am » |
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« Reply #30 on: January 24, 2020, 05:31:01 am » |
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Jim Lehrer, journalist and TV news anchorman
Only US news programme worth watching - have watched what is now PBS Newshour since SBS started broadcasting it here. A big loss for journalism and the literary world. I will qualify the "Only US news programme worth watching" with the caveat "that I have seen so far" - there may be better, but haven't come across it yet. |
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« Reply #31 on: January 24, 2020, 01:40:35 pm » |
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If you're alive, it isn't. -- Lauren Bacall
"You can tell a man's vices by his friends, his virtues by his enemies."
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« Reply #32 on: January 24, 2020, 07:23:23 pm » |
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Jim Lehrer, journalist and TV news anchorman For some reason I got him mixed up with Tom Lehrer of "The Element Song" fame. |
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« Reply #33 on: January 27, 2020, 06:09:07 am » |
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NBA champion Kobe Bryant, lost in a rotorcraft incident with 8 other people including his daughter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0pQfgi9ZqU(aviation communications transcript of incident) |
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Orkses is never beaten in battle. If we wins we wins and if we dies we dies fightin' so it don't count as beat. Even if we runs away it means we can always come back for anuvver go, see!
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« Reply #34 on: January 28, 2020, 01:33:43 am » |
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« Reply #36 on: January 28, 2020, 09:57:31 pm » |
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Yet more sad news . Let's hope the Grim Reaper takes a bit of a break in February - he's been far too enthusiastic in his work of late. By the way, in tribute BBC4 aired Nicholas Parsons' documentary on Marie Antoinette' watch tonight; well worth catching on iPlayer both for its subject matter and as a retrospective of its presenter's life and career. Yours, Miranda. |
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« Reply #38 on: February 06, 2020, 01:06:52 am » |
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Kirk Douglas (né Issur Danielovitch; December 9, 1916 – February 5, 2020), actor, producer, director and author. He was Spartacus.
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By the power of caffeine do I set my mind in motion
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By the power of caffeine do I set my mind in motion
The Leverkusen Institute of Paleocybernetics is 5838 km from Reading
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« Reply #39 on: February 06, 2020, 05:50:03 am » |
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Kirk Douglas (né Issur Danielovitch; December 9, 1916 – February 5, 2020), actor, producer, director and author. He was Spartacus. Wow. The end of an era. Amazing life though. |
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« Reply #40 on: February 06, 2020, 06:20:55 am » |
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Kirk Douglas (né Issur Danielovitch; December 9, 1916 – February 5, 2020), actor, producer, director and author. He was Spartacus. Wow. The end of an era. Amazing life though. He is and always will be Sparticus (or is is he Brian  ). |
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« Reply #43 on: February 09, 2020, 01:05:37 am » |
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That was a great innings. A classic actor and a gentleman |
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« Reply #46 on: February 18, 2020, 09:21:09 pm » |
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Kellye Nakahara Wallett, a film and television actress best known for playing Lt. Nurse Kellye Yamato on “M-A-S-H,” has died at age 72.
Son William Wallett told The Associated Press that Wallett died Sunday after a brief battle with cancer. She was at her home in Pasadena, California, surrounded by family and friends.
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« Reply #48 on: February 22, 2020, 09:19:52 pm » |
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Another sad piece of news - she was a great communicator of scientific ideas. Her series from the early 90s The Stars, although now dated in places, packed oodles of ideas into each half-hour episode, unlike some modern documentaries which manage to waffle on for an hour or so and say very little... Yours, Miranda. |
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