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The Cursed Thread of 2019
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One of Canada's preeminent historians has passed on:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/...-1.5271672
Canadian lighthouse to U.S. Warship approaching it: "This is a lighthouse. Your call!"
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown 
T. Boone Pickens has collected on his last shares.
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"The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that this was some killer weed." 
-- Bob
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
RIP Ric Ocasek, lead singer of The Cars
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown
Cokie Roberts, one of the people who made NPR what it is, has passed away:
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/17/761050916...F01KyIqi9k
Canadian lighthouse to U.S. Warship approaching it: "This is a lighthouse. Your call!"
Canadian lighthouse to U.S. Warship approaching it: "This is a lighthouse. Your call!"
Canadian lighthouse to U.S. Warship approaching it: "This is a lighthouse. Your call!"
Oh, geeze. Dammit.
-- Bob
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
RE: The Cursed Thread of 2019
10-04-2019, 08:00 AM (This post was last modified: 10-04-2019, 08:02 AM by robkelk.)
Aw, man.
Jeanne and I never met face-to-face, but we knew each other well enough that we shared a web server for a while. Not a good year for our corner of fandom...
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown
-- Bob
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
RIP Ginger Baker, the drummer of the early power trio Cream (amongst other groups).
The 2012 documentary about Cream, Beware of Mr. Baker, was named after him.
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown
Canadian lighthouse to U.S. Warship approaching it: "This is a lighthouse. Your call!"
RIP Alexei Leonov, the first person to walk in space and the co-commander of the first joint space mission between the Soviet Union and the United States.
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown
Canadian lighthouse to U.S. Warship approaching it: "This is a lighthouse. Your call!"
Marvin will no longer be feeling that pain in all the diodes on his right side:
Stephen Moore, age 81.
-- Bob
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
The honourable gentleman from Baltimore has passed on:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019...GJkGFPUORI
Canadian lighthouse to U.S. Warship approaching it: "This is a lighthouse. Your call!"
Canadian lighthouse to U.S. Warship approaching it: "This is a lighthouse. Your call!"
RIP Mark Hurd, ex-CEO of Oracle and HP
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown
The producer of Chinatown who also headed Paramount has gone:
https://variety.com/2019/film/news/rober...hdth21c51U
Canadian lighthouse to U.S. Warship approaching it: "This is a lighthouse. Your call!"
RIP Ernest J. Gaines, author of A Lesson Before Dying and many other works.
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown
RIP Branko Lustig, Auschwitz survivor and producer or co-producer of Schindler's List, Black Hawk Down, American Gangster, Hannibal, and Gladiator
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown
"You'll have to excuse me, I'm not at my best." If you know that lyric, you're about to curse.
RIP John Mann, frontman of Spirit of the West And if you don't know that lyric, well...
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown
RIP Shelley Morrison - never a big star, but always a solid character actress for a half-century
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