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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2019
05-20-2019, 12:02 PM
Author Herman Wouk ("The Caine Mutiny", "The Winds of War") has died at the age of 103.
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05-23-2019, 02:30 PM
Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen, Joe Dady.
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2019
05-29-2019, 06:49 PM
RIP Louis Levi Oakes, last surviving Mohawk codetalker from WWII. He was awarded the Silver Star for his service.
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06-07-2019, 12:03 PM
I was just looking at this forum about 20 minutes ago and thinking "wow, it's been 8 days since we had to report on anyone dying." I shoulda known better than to tempt fate; I saw this a minute ago:
Dr. John, New Orleans music legend, dies from heart attack at age 77
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2019
06-07-2019, 12:05 PM
And we're a week late on this one:
Leon Redbone, age 69
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2019
06-10-2019, 03:03 PM
Dennis Day, former Mousketeer, was found dead in his home in Oregon in April, but was only identified with certainty last week.
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06-17-2019, 12:37 PM
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2019
06-17-2019, 05:22 PM
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RIP Mohammed Morsi, ousted president of Egypt
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06-24-2019, 04:53 PM
RIP Dave Bartholomew, December 24, 1918 - June 23, 2019
He was a trumpeter, songwriter (co-writing "Ain't That a Shame" and "I'm Walkin'"), and arranger, and Fats Domino's producer.
Quote:Glenn Miller and Louis Armstrong had recorded Domino’s signature song, “Blueberry Hill,” in the 1940s. However, the Domino-Bartholomew version has become the standard arrangement. When Domino sang the line “The wind in the willow tree,” Mr. Bartholomew created a melody line that overlapped the pianist’s vocal and filled out the song’s sparse accompaniment.
“I was just covering up an empty spot,” he told the New Orleans music magazine Offbeat in 1990. “But now, everybody who plays ‘Blueberry Hill’ has to have that part in the middle. If it doesn’t come up in the middle, then it’s not ‘Blueberry Hill.’ ”
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06-26-2019, 03:41 PM
Daniel Desmond Amofah, better known as Etika, YouTuber and Twitch streamer with a large following, was found dead yesterday after being missing for a week.
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06-27-2019, 06:24 AM
Canadian lighthouse to U.S. Warship approaching it: "This is a lighthouse. Your call!"
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2019
06-29-2019, 12:25 PM
Billy Drago dead at 73
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06-29-2019, 04:40 PM
Yesterday morning in Colorado, game designer and cosmic chew toy Lee Garvin lost the five- or six-year battle with a variety of ailments (and with the most fucked-up insurance system in any major industrial country, but that's a topic for the Politics forum) that had delayed the second edition of his 1990s pan-dimensional high-adventure-and-low-comedy RPG Tales from the Floating Vagabond and (along with other mishaps in his life) inspired his colleague Greg Porter to create and crowdfund the card game Killing Lee Garvin. From update #51 of KLG's Kickstarter campaign:
Quote:I was intending to update today with the news that my Fedex authorization for international bulk shipments finally went through. Which it did. However, Lee Garvin also went to the hospital this morning with chest pains and trouble breathing. And...you can see where this is going. (...)
Lee's brother Shea broke the news on Lee's Facebook page about an hour ago. Lee's page is https://www.facebook.com/lee.garvin.3
Timely information will likely be found there or on his brother's page. I will add anything relevant in future updates but I am sort of emotionally stunned at the moment.
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07-02-2019, 09:54 PM
Lee Iococca, the man who saved Ford in the 80s now dead
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2019
07-03-2019, 05:42 PM
If anyone remembers Rowan and Martin's Laugh In, Arte Johnson just passed on:
https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/arte-jo...1203259167
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07-03-2019, 05:55 PM
(07-03-2019, 05:42 PM)Pyeknu Wrote: If anyone remembers Rowan and Martin's Laugh In, Arte Johnson just passed on:
Verrrrry interesting ... but saddening!
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2019
07-09-2019, 06:01 PM
The brash billionaire who ran for President is no longer with us.
RIP Ross Perot
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2019
07-09-2019, 06:58 PM
Quote:The brash billionaire who ran for President is no longer with us.
Don't get my hopes up like that, willya?
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07-10-2019, 01:59 AM
HUh??? Oh. You mean that orangutang with the bad hair piece? The one that if the Democrats are smart all they'll do is NOT run Madam Clinton and let him shoot himself in the privies?
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to rock the sky?
Thats' every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry!
NO QUARTER!
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2019
07-10-2019, 02:25 AM
Rip Torn has passed on...and no, this is no hoax, this time:
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019...es-aged-88
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07-11-2019, 08:15 AM
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This is admittedly premature, but Denise Nickerson -- best known as Violet Beauregard from the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, has been taken off life support after suffering a massive seizure.
EDIT: Not premature at all -- according to Variety, she had already passed away at the time I posted thie.
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RE: The Cursed Thread of 2019
07-17-2019, 06:05 PM
RIP Johnny Clegg
RIP Howard Engel, author of the Benny Cooperman detective series
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