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RIP Memoriam thread?

#501 User is online   Cyberyeti 

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Posted 2017-January-11, 05:06

A remarkable lady http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13960347
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Posted 2017-January-13, 22:04

William Peter Blatty, author of The Exorcist

The news really spun my head.
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Posted 2017-January-15, 13:02

View PostCyberyeti, on 2017-January-11, 05:06, said:


Indeed. Wow.
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Posted 2017-January-24, 21:37

I was really sorry to hear yesterday that Borko, a yellow on BBO had passed. He was one of the nicest people on BBO and will be sadly missed.Condolences to his family and friends and coworkers on BBO.
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Posted 2017-January-25, 15:05

TV icon Mary Tyler Moore.

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Posted 2017-January-25, 19:09

View Postbarmar, on 2017-January-25, 15:05, said:



She could turn the world on with her smile.
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Posted 2017-January-26, 10:14

And remember, she created the production company that made the show (in the later seasons) plus a huge swath of iconic 70s and 80s TV: MTM Enterprises.

I remembered seeing that cat a lot growing up, but looking at the list: WKRP? Hill Street Blues? The Bob Newhart Show (and Newhart)? St. Elsewhere? Remington Steele? Never mind the eponymous show and the spinoff Rhoda?

An all-rounder, indeed.
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Posted 2017-January-26, 10:18

View PostVampyr, on 2017-January-25, 19:09, said:

She could turn the world on with her smile.

And she had "spunk". Mr. Grant may have hated spunk, but the rest of us loved it.

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Posted 2017-January-27, 18:00

Michael Seamon (miamiwiz).
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Posted 2017-March-18, 18:11

As I was motivatin over the hill
I saw Maybellene in a Coupe De Ville
Cadillac arollin on an open road
Nothin outruns my V8 Ford


See Maybellene
I remember it well. I was 16.

Chuck Berry, dead at 90
Ken
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Posted 2017-March-20, 11:14

View Postkenberg, on 2017-March-18, 18:11, said:

As I was motivatin over the hill
I saw Maybellene in a Coupe De Ville
Cadillac arollin on an open road
Nothin outruns my V8 Ford


See Maybellene
I remember it well. I was 16.

Chuck Berry, dead at 90


I don't mourn but celebrate his music and especially that he lived a rock and roll life and lasted till 90!!!! Gives me hope.
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Posted 2017-April-03, 06:02

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Gilbert Baker, Gay Activist Who Created the Rainbow Flag

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Before a gay pride parade in 1978 in San Francisco, Harvey Milk, a city supervisor and gay rights leader who was assassinated that year, joined others in asking Mr. Baker to create an emblem to represent the movement.

Mr. Baker, with help from volunteers, filled trash cans with dye in the attic of the Gay Community Center in San Francisco and pieced together the first flags, unveiling them in the parade on June 25, 1978.

“We stood there and watched and saw the flags, and their faces lit up,” Mr. Jones said in a phone interview on Friday. “It needed no explanation. People knew immediately that it was our flag.”

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Posted 2017-April-06, 12:51

Don Rickles at age 90.
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Posted 2017-April-13, 06:51

View PostWinstonm, on 2017-April-06, 12:51, said:

Don Rickles at age 90.


So sad, I used to watch Kelly's Heroes every 17th november with my friends, he was hilarious.
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Posted 2017-April-24, 21:36

Robert Pirsig
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Posted 2017-June-10, 06:55

View Postggwhiz, on 2017-February-24, 08:51, said:

President of Iceland would ban pineapple on pizza

http://diply.com/pin...ium=diply-hello

I'm into traditional +olives +bacon (of course)

Another great inventor has passed away: https://www.theguard...za-dies-aged-83

To his credit, he invented the hawaii pizza "just for fun".
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Posted 2017-June-10, 09:07

View PostCyberyeti, on 2017-January-11, 05:06, said:



Thank you very much for this. I had briefly heard of her but I had no idea of the full extent of her extraordinary life.
Ken
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Posted 2017-June-16, 05:35

Charles Thacker. In the 1970s, Mr. Thacker was part of a group that designed the first modern personal computer, the Alto, working out of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, known as PARC.

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Christine Thacker said her father had been especially animated when he talked about work.

“When I was 8 years old, he would read to me from ‘The Feynman Lectures on Physics,’” she said, referring to Richard P. Feynman, the Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist, “and explain to me how bitmap displays render fonts. He’d talk about his work even if we had no idea what it was. Everything he worked on was this great big adventure for him.”

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Posted 2017-June-16, 17:35

View Posty66, on 2017-June-16, 05:35, said:

Charles Thacker. In the 1970s, Mr. Thacker was part of a group that designed the first modern personal computer, the Alto, working out of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, known as PARC.


Her father was Sheldon Cooper?
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Posted 2017-June-20, 06:12

From Dave Phillips' story about the sailors who died in a collision between 2 ships last weekend:

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The seven sailors who died when the destroyer Fitzgerald collided with a container ship last weekend were a snapshot of the nation they served: an immigrant from the Philippines whose father served in the Navy before him; a poor teenager whose Guatemalan family came north eager for opportunity; a native of Vietnam hoping to help his family; a firefighter’s son from a rural crossroads in the rolling green fields of Virginia.

Yeoman Third Class Shingo Douglass, 25, of Oceanside, Calif., was the son of an American Marine father and a Japanese mother. Like many on the destroyer, he liked to listen to metal songs and play video games during his downtime.

While serving as a boatswain’s mate with Mr. Bell, he painted vast portions of the now crippled destroyer, and at first, he said, they were merely bound by shared drudgery. “The day we became friends, we pulled into port in Japan and I heard him talking on his cellphone in Japanese,” Mr. Bell said. “After that he kind of became our tour guide.”

Seaman Douglass would translate kanji and take friends to hole-in-the-wall concert venues where they could see their favorite American metal bands touring Japan.

“He was a stand-up guy, a hard worker and a great friend,” Mr. Bell said.

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