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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
10-14-2020, 12:45 PM
Writer and blogger Chris Meadows, known better on the 'net as Robotech_Master, passed on this morning.
He was struck in a hit-and-run the other day and suffered severe head injuries, and never regained consciousness. This morning he went into cardiac arrest and did not recover.
https://teleread.org/2020/10/14/r-i-p-ch...-his-life/
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
10-21-2020, 10:56 PM
In distinctly un-Amazing news, James Randi has died at 92 this past Tuesday.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/t...dies-at-92
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
10-22-2020, 01:06 AM
Iconic Minnesota Sports reporter Sid Hartman dead at age 100 https://www.startribune.com/sid-hartman-...572788662/
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
10-31-2020, 08:17 AM
The most iconic 007 of all time, Sir Sean Connery, has passed away at age 90. He also played other roles... https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-54761824
Here's a charming idea... lets rewind to this time last year and try again?
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
10-31-2020, 09:09 AM
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Decades ago, a friend of mine pointed out that while posters for the films often said, "__ as James Bond," Connery was the only actor for whom such an advertisement ever read "Sean Connery is James Bond" ( You Only Live Twice, 1967, and the underlining of "is" was part of the poster).
I'll just add that the poster image, showing 007 surrounded by beauties in a large Japanese bath, was re-used for a Demotivator reading, "CHARISMA: There are reasons not to make it a dump stat...."
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
11-01-2020, 04:45 PM
Ah sure. He went to sleep and just didn't wake up. Nothing wrong with that. We should all be so lucky.
Also. ZARDOZ was a thing.
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.
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
11-01-2020, 05:48 PM
of all things, the first movie i remember Sean Connery from was Highlander
loved his Bond, and going out with "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" was a hell of a cap to his career
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
11-03-2020, 09:38 AM
5:30 and the phone rings. The dreaded (1) call has come ...
RIP Gertrud Kupries, beloved mom, June 17, 1944 to Nov 3, 2020.
No website, no news to link to, which would mention that passing, nobody important to the World. Just me, my sister, pops, friends and relatives. Born near the end of WW2, second youngest of five sisters, grown up during the german rebuilding, worked as a maid, married my father, a stay-at-home mom to me and my sister, a cleaner for hire, a night nurse, a painter in retirement. I am proud that she used some of my pics from around Vancouver for some of her paintings.
And F*k cancer.
(1) She became unconscious last Tuesday, a few hours after I spoke with her on the phone. Since then it was just waiting for the body to follow. But she knew she was loved.
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
11-03-2020, 10:14 AM
(11-03-2020, 09:38 AM)aku Wrote: 5:30 and the phone rings. The dreaded (1) call has come ...
RIP Gertrud Kupries, beloved mom, June 17, 1944 to Nov 3, 2020.
No website, no news to link to, which would mention that passing, nobody important to the World. Just me, my sister, pops, friends and relatives. Born near the end of WW2, second youngest of five sisters, grown up during the german rebuilding, worked as a maid, married my father, a stay-at-home mom to me and my sister, a cleaner for hire, a night nurse, a painter in retirement. I am proud that she used some of my pics from around Vancouver for some of her paintings.
And F*k cancer.
(1) She became unconscious last Tuesday, a few hours after I spoke with her on the phone. Since then it was just waiting for the body to follow. But she knew she was loved.
Condolences. Parents are important. Particularly mothers. I personally still daily miss my father and he's been gone 6 years.
She knew she was loved. That's important. Focus on the good memories.
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
11-03-2020, 10:24 AM
You have our deepest sympathies, aku.
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
11-03-2020, 10:34 AM
(11-03-2020, 10:14 AM)Shader Wrote: (11-03-2020, 09:38 AM)aku Wrote: 5:30 and the phone rings. The dreaded (1) call has come ...
RIP Gertrud Kupries, beloved mom, June 17, 1944 to Nov 3, 2020.
No website, no news to link to, which would mention that passing, nobody important to the World. Just me, my sister, pops, friends and relatives. Born near the end of WW2, second youngest of five sisters, grown up during the german rebuilding, worked as a maid, married my father, a stay-at-home mom to me and my sister, a cleaner for hire, a night nurse, a painter in retirement. I am proud that she used some of my pics from around Vancouver for some of her paintings.
And F*k cancer.
(1) She became unconscious last Tuesday, a few hours after I spoke with her on the phone. Since then it was just waiting for the body to follow. But she knew she was loved.
Condolences. Parents are important. Particularly mothers. I personally still daily miss my father and he's been gone 6 years.
She knew she was loved. That's important. Focus on the good memories.
Oh I do (hoarse voice).
Even so, the heavy rain for Vancouver right now, and the lesser in the forecast for the rest of week feels very fitting.
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
11-03-2020, 12:49 PM
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(11-03-2020, 10:34 AM)aku Wrote: (11-03-2020, 10:14 AM)Shader Wrote: (11-03-2020, 09:38 AM)aku Wrote: 5:30 and the phone rings. The dreaded (1) call has come ...
RIP Gertrud Kupries, beloved mom, June 17, 1944 to Nov 3, 2020.
No website, no news to link to, which would mention that passing, nobody important to the World. Just me, my sister, pops, friends and relatives. Born near the end of WW2, second youngest of five sisters, grown up during the german rebuilding, worked as a maid, married my father, a stay-at-home mom to me and my sister, a cleaner for hire, a night nurse, a painter in retirement. I am proud that she used some of my pics from around Vancouver for some of her paintings.
And F*k cancer.
(1) She became unconscious last Tuesday, a few hours after I spoke with her on the phone. Since then it was just waiting for the body to follow. But she knew she was loved.
Condolences. Parents are important. Particularly mothers. I personally still daily miss my father and he's been gone 6 years.
She knew she was loved. That's important. Focus on the good memories.
Oh I do (hoarse voice).
Even so, the heavy rain for Vancouver right now, and the lesser in the forecast for the rest of week feels very fitting.
Yeah. As I mentioned to the preacher when she apologized for the rain at my own mother's funeral, even heaven is crying.
I grieve with you.
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
11-03-2020, 06:02 PM
(11-03-2020, 09:38 AM)aku Wrote: 5:30 and the phone rings. The dreaded (1) call has come ...
RIP Gertrud Kupries, beloved mom, June 17, 1944 to Nov 3, 2020.
No website, no news to link to, which would mention that passing, nobody important to the World. Just me, my sister, pops, friends and relatives. Born near the end of WW2, second youngest of five sisters, grown up during the german rebuilding, worked as a maid, married my father, a stay-at-home mom to me and my sister, a cleaner for hire, a night nurse, a painter in retirement. I am proud that she used some of my pics from around Vancouver for some of her paintings.
And F*k cancer.
(1) She became unconscious last Tuesday, a few hours after I spoke with her on the phone. Since then it was just waiting for the body to follow. But she knew she was loved.
My deepest condolences.
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
11-03-2020, 07:25 PM
I am so sorry for your pain.
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
11-07-2020, 11:24 AM
Geoffrey Palmer, British actor, at 93. My mother was a big fan of As Time Goes By, one of the shows he starred in (with Dame Judi Dench), and nearly all of my exposure to him was through seeing episodes of that while visiting her.
Quote:His world-weary demeanour made him instantly recognisable although it did not reflect his real character. "I'm not grumpy," he once said. "I just look this way."
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
11-08-2020, 01:00 PM
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Alex Trebek has gone to the great game show in the sky 
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
11-08-2020, 01:02 PM
This famous Canadian-born game-show host passed away from complications due to cancer.
Who was Alex Trebek?
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
11-08-2020, 09:07 PM
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
11-13-2020, 01:36 PM
(10-06-2020, 03:32 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: 2020 sucks.
quoted for truth over and above those we lost this year. In a lot of ways, come this thanksgiving I know what I am going to be thankful for. That Most of these folks died of OTHER causes than THAT (BLEEPED BLEEPED BLEEPED) Virus.
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
11-15-2020, 12:09 PM
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
11-20-2020, 12:31 AM
After another support cable let go, the Arecibo Radio Telescope Observatory has been declared Not Safely Repairable and is to be decommissioned.
RIP, Arecibo, 1963-2020.
https://www.space.com/arecibo-observator...-destroyed
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
11-21-2020, 07:37 PM
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
11-24-2020, 12:52 PM
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
11-25-2020, 07:52 PM
Diego Maradona Age 60, Heart Attack.
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2020
11-25-2020, 08:51 PM
RIP Fred Sasakamoose, one of the first indigenous players in the NHL.
COVID
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