Gone but not forgotten, RIP celebrity thread

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Very sad to hear that, but 92 is a good innings I guess.

Without trying to sound insensitive, as that is not my intention, but I always did have a lot of trouble pinpointing Clive Dunn's actual age.

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Lucille Bliss, the voice of Smurfette and Elroy Jetson, passed way at 96

[Reply #682 on:]

Elroy could not have been George's son.

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I also found it disturbing that the teenage daughter had white hair

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RIP Lucille Bliss, voice of Smurfette and other.

http://tv.yahoo.com/news/lucille-bliss--voice-of-smurfette--dies-at-96.html

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RIP Larry hagman

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Who shot him?

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Lucille Bliss died?

RIP Anastasia Tremaine. 

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Is this thread only for TV and movie celebrities? If so, sorry.

But just had to point out, Dave Brubeck died today. Even if you've never heard of him, you've most certainly heard his most famous song.

Now you can finally take five, Mr. Brubeck! Rest in peace.

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Patrick Moore - Astronomer and Gamesmaster

[Reply #690 on:]

Sitar Virtuoso Ravi Shankar

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Patrick Moore - Astronomer and Gamesmaster

Really sad about that one, and Luciille Bliss.

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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/reformed-hitman-who-inspired-wires-403020

RIP Donnie Andrews, the real life inspiration for The Wire's Omar Little

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Jack klugman just passed away at age 90

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Oh no, so soon! I figured he had a few more decades left. 90 is so young!

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RIP Gerry Anderson

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That's upsetting.
A man capable of inspiring successive generations of people. I don't think my love for his shows will ever dim.

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Norman Schwartzkopf

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Stormin' Norman??? He was one of a select few who epitomized the early 90's for me. RIP.

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RIP Robert F Chew, who played Proposition Joe on The Wire

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Former NYC mayor Ed Koch has passed away at 88

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Relevant.

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I am very sad for the passing of Robin Sachs, who had large roles in, among others, Buffy, Galaxy Quest (Sarris), Torchwood, Knight of the Old Republic (Saul Karath) and Mass Effect (Zaeed).

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Country singer Mindy McCready has apparently done herself in.

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That guy from The Good Life died. Apparantly, he did other stuff too. But he'll be remembered as the guy from that show. RIP, that guy whose name I don't actually recall or care enough about to look up.

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RIP form er surgeon general c. everet Koop

http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/25/health/c-everett-koop-dead/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

[Reply #706 on:]

96? Wow, that's a respectable age for a surgeon general to die. But if he had died at 80 or younger, we would not be commenting on it now, because this forum would not exist. Okay, I'll shut up now.

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He must have followed his own advice and avoided those cigarette boxes that may cause cancer.

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RIP Hugo Chavez http://news.yahoo.com/hugo-chavez-fiery-venezuelan-leader-dies-58-220210262.html

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Percy Pringle aka Paul Bearer passed away today.  Sad, I just saw this yesterday, with him talking about how he became Paul Bearer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWXHDKW7PRc

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Richard Griffiths has died aged sixty five

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R.I.P. Phil Ramone and Simpsons writer Don Payne.

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RIP roger ebert

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that's a terrible shame, though the odds had really been stacked against him
It was just this morning that I was reading another report, detailing how his cancer had returned and how that he had to "scale back" his reviews, so this development seems quite sudden.

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Holy shit, I had no idea. He's been kind of an inspiration. Damn.

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I used to really enjoy Siskel & Ebert's TV show.  Where I live they would play it at 11:00 PM on Sunday night.  Back in the day before widespread cable TV it was one of the only good things to watch on Sunday night.  RIP, sir.

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RIP Margaret thatcher

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Annette Funicello also died.  I'm trying to think up a joke involving an obscure, pop culture reference, but it feels like I already have.

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RIP Margaret thatcher

Really? Time to sing the song that I sang about Ronald Reagan's death ...

DING DONG! THE WITCH IS DEAD by The Wizard of Oz Cast
Munchkins
Ding Dong! The Witch is dead. Which old Witch? The Wicked Witch!
Ding Dong! The Wicked Witch is dead.
Wake up - sleepy head, rub your eyes, get out of bed.
Wake up, the Wicked Witch is dead. She's gone where the goblins go,
Below - below - below. Yo-ho, let's open up and sing and ring the bells out.
Ding Dong' the merry-oh, sing it high, sing it low.
Let them know
The Wicked Witch is dead!

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So for balance the BBC asked a former trade unionist from a former mining town in County Durham what he felt with Maggie Thatcher dead. Needless to say he was quite happy The Great Destroyer, who Destroyed Whole Lives and who Destroyed Whole Communities was dead. He even mentioned a woman he knew, local lass, also affected by The Great Destroyer, who Destroyed Whole Lives and who Destroyed Whole Communities; she had a bottle of champaign, on ice, specifically to be opened when Maggie Thatcher was dead. After all, she was The Great Destroyer, who Destroyed Whole Lives and who Destroyed Whole Communities.
As he kept saying.

So it strikes me - hatred is perfectly justifiable, and take away a community's primary reason for being, and what exactly is left, but the way it was conveyed... she closed down the pits 30 years ago, left power 20 years ago, has been in terminal mental decline for the last 10 years, and now she's finally dead. Ta-da! So, what are you going to do now?
Seems to me that in her death she has caused these people a final injustice, by taking away the one thing they had to look forward to...

Sorry that's probably a post for the politics and/or rant thread...