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2017's "cursed thread"
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 Quote:RMH999 wrote:A coworker of mine has just pointed out that Bill Paxton is the only person who has been killed on screen by an alien, a predator, and a terminator. And if that isn't a great epitaph, I don't know what is. -- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak. 
A bit of good news for this thread: Despite what was shown in the "In Memoriam" reel at the Oscars, Jan Chapman is still alive and well.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/os ... -1.4000718 -- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012 
They flubbed up a few things at the Oscars this year, didn't they?
Canadian lighthouse to U.S. Warship approaching it: "This is a lighthouse. Your call!"
%[link=http://www.cbc.ca/books/2017/03/giller-prize-winning-author-bonnie-burnard-dead-at-72.html]RIP Bonnie Burnard], author of A Good House and other novels.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/ob ... -1.4011509]RIP Tommy Page, 1990s pop star, publisher of Billboard magazine, vice-president at Pandora, and executive at The Village Voice http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/mo ... story.html]RIP Robert Osborne, host at Turner Classic Movies -- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/11/us/joni-s ... ledge-dies]Joni Sledge of Sister Sledge
-- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak.
RIP Richard Wagamese
RIP Amy Krouse Rosenthal They will be immortal through their writing. -- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Canadian lighthouse to U.S. Warship approaching it: "This is a lighthouse. Your call!"
http://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/18/arts ... -dead.html]Chuck Berry, aged 90.
-- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak.  Quote:Bob Schroeck wrote:*swears. puts on some music. breaks out the whiskey.* -- Sucrose Octanitrate. Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode. 
90s a good age, all told
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That it is. And he gave us some great music in those nine decades.
-- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
He's in a better place indeed. Heaven's band is really rocking it today!
Canadian lighthouse to U.S. Warship approaching it: "This is a lighthouse. Your call!"
RIP Bernie Wrightson, co-creator of Swamp Thing
-- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
http://money.cnn.com/2017/03/20/news/co ... ry-summary]David Rockefeller, banker and philanthropist, age 101
-- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/22/us/chuck- ... index.html]Chuck Barris has died.
-- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak.
RIP Yevgeny A. Yevtushenko, Russian poet who gave readings of his works in packed stadiums, and who denounced both anti-Semitism and Josef Stalin.
"I don't call it political poetry, I call it human rights poetry; the poetry which defends human conscience as the greatest spiritual value" - Yevgeny Yevtushenko -- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
RIP Don Rickles
-- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Beat me by literally seconds.
-- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak.
Somehow, that seems appropriate - it's the sort of thing he would have made a joke about.
-- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012 
Decades ago, I saw Don Rickles on some show, chatting with members of the audience, including an adorable little girl. He was being very sweet to her — and, obviously coached for this, she called him a "hockey puck"! That's how I'll always remember him, pretending shock at being zinged with his own line.
----- Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.
Chelsea Brown
___________________________ "I've always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." - George Carlin
RIP John Clarke, comedian and political satirist
-- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Freeze Frame , no restart
04-12-2017, 12:40 PM (This post was last modified: 06-28-2018, 12:05 PM by Bob Schroeck.)
RIP J. Geils
-- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012 |
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