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2017's "cursed thread"
01-02-2017, 04:08 PM
Bob Schroeck Wrote:New cursed thread to start with the next celebrity death.
RIP Bill Marshall, co-founder of the Toronto International Film Festival
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/t ... -1.3918204
Died of a heart attack on New Year's Day.
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And it isn't slowing down.
RIP Stuart Hamilton, first music director of the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/s ... -1.3918362
RIP Derek Parfit, emeritus fellow of All Souls College at Oxford University, Global Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at New York University, philosopher, and author
http://dailynous.com/2017/01/02/derek-parfit-1942-2017/
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Why do I get the feeling that Someone is trying to gather up a whole bunch of people before Trump sets off a nuclear war?
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Quote:Bob Schroeck wrote: Why do I get the feeling that Someone is trying to gather up a whole bunch of people before Trump sets off a nuclear war?
Unfortunately, what that suggestion promptly brought to my mind was Tom Godwin's SF Horror short "The Harvest." Quote:"Let's eat the small ones first; they're delicious and there's plenty for all."
What the aliens are talking about eating is human souls, which they periodically harvest by using mind control to stir up major wars. Oh, and our religious notions about God and angels are based purely on the distorted recollections of someone who was almost harvested. There's no one benevolent out there.
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Quote:Bob Schroeck wrote: Why do I get the feeling that Someone is trying to gather up a whole bunch of people before Trump sets off a nuclear war?
Scary thought, Bob. Scary thought.
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Has anybody looked underneath Trump's hairdo to see if there is a 3 digit number with a sum total of 18 tattoed on him?
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Quote:ordnance11 wrote: Has anybody looked underneath Trump's hairdo to see if there is a 3 digit number with a sum total of 18 tattoed on him?
Brrr...
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Charles Manson has been moved to hospital, seems like he has a chance.
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Spotted on the SJGames forums: Was 2016 especially dangerous for celebrities? An empirical analysis. (TL;DR: Yes.)
Assuming this thread isn't just for human celebrities: Orca 'Granny' missing and presumed dead If you've been whale-watching near Vancouver in the last century and you brought along a camera, you probably have a photo of Granny.
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A better way of looking at 2016 and following...
01-07-2017, 07:02 AM
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Victor Lownes who used to work for Playboy dead at 88:
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RIP Tony Rosato, one of only three people to star on both SNL and SCTV.
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RIP William Peter Blatty, author of The Exorcist
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RIP Tommy Allsup, rockabilly guitarist and loser of the coin toss The Day the Music Died.
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RIP Gene Cernan, last man to walk on the Moon
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Weird. I don't remember him as Hymie, despite being a big Get Smart fan as a kid. But I do remember him as Robin Hood in When Things Were Rotten.
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...Well, damn. I hope he completed whatever part he might have had in the upcoming Twin Peaks miniseries...
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Quote:Bob Schroeck wrote: ...Well, damn. I hope he completed whatever part he might have had in the upcoming Twin Peaks miniseries...
I will never get a chance to have him sign the comic he did with Bill Mumy.
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Just learned that Miguel Ferrer was the operations officer aboard USS Excelsior in Star Trek III:
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Gordon Kaye of 'Allo, 'Allo! has passed on:
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mar ... 90e52179bd]Mary Tyler Moore.
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