random dead person thread

[sailor]

ever hear some almost famous person has died, want to tell the world, but know it's not worthy of a new thread? what to do??

post it here. for example:

jason rae (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=7&entry_id=25154), husband of black earl stalking victim corinne baily rae, found dead of suspected drug overdose.

you're all welcome.

[Fallon]

Corinne Baily Rae... so hot.

[PapaBear]

Here's one for you...

PITTSBURGH - Vicki Van Meter, who made headlines in the 1990s for piloting a plane across the country at age 11 and from the U.S. to Europe at age 12, has died, an apparent suicide. She was 26 (http://www.bostonherald.com/news/obituaries/general/view.bg?articleid=1082030&srvc=rss).

http://multimedia.heraldinteractive.com/images/a2d957e306_vicki.jpg

Van Meter was celebrated in 1993 and 1994 when she made her cross-country and trans-Atlantic flights accompanied only by a flight instructor. Her instructors said she was at the controls during the entirety of both trips.

[ChrisTheCop]

Here's one for you...



http://multimedia.heraldinteractive.com/images/a2d957e306_vicki.jpg

Youd kill yourself too if your thumbs up looked like that.

[Heather 8]

Corinne Baily Rae... so hot.

And so suddenly available.

[mendyweiss]

This Just In.
Al Copeland,Founder of Popeyes Chicken Dead.
Popeyes, The Best Tasting And Worst For You Fried Chicken !!
Love That Chicken From Popeyes

[sailor]

former mlb pitcher geremi gonzalez (http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3412801) killed by lightning.

[Heather 8]

J.R. Simplot (http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jZ0sUT_Rb7pOw-m-3KK5UPA2ddkwD90T75NG0), the man credited with creating frozen french fries (and the McDonald's french fry), dead at 99.

[tele7]

Cheri Oteri's Dad was murdered a few weeks back.

http://news.bostonherald.com/track/star_tracks/view.bg?articleid=1090358&srvc=home&position=recent

[Judge Smails]

Thelma Keane, the inspiration for the Mommy character in the long-running "Family Circus" comic created by her husband, Bil Keane, has died. She was 82. (http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jrvfCIM3cadbpT03gMygt3vK3ttQD90T07481)

http://media.ebaumsworld.com/picture/hyperlite4rydin/familycircus.jpg

[WhistlePig]

Jim Hager, one of the Hager twins from Hee Haw died in early May. My brother and I used to love making fun of their "side plackets" (the big round side flaps of hair that cover the ears.)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/03/AR2008050301883.html

http://www.talentondisplay.com/HeeHawpix.jpg

[SatCam]

This thread is moderately sad
:unsure:

[ahhdurr]

sydney pollack ... face!

[watson]

sydney pollack ... face!

god speed

[Furtherman]

former mlb pitcher geremi gonzalez (http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3412801) killed by lightning.

First of all, great idea for a thread sailor!

Second of all, from your article...

Ozzie Guillen, a fellow Venezuelan, expressed his feeling before a game in Cleveland.

"It's sad," Guillen said. "A lot of people are going to be shocked. He was a good man. He had a lot of ups and downs in his career. He was 33. It was so early in his life to die. I wish the best to his family. The news went around the country pretty fast."

Only one person was actually shocked.

[Judge Smails]

Earle H. Hagen, who co-wrote the jazz classic "Harlem Nocturne" and composed memorable themes for "The Andy Griffith Show," "I Spy," "The Mod Squad" and other TV shows, has died. He was 88 (http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jKvh_x24Q1zRZaby7S-8OZ9KHIfAD90UD2NG0)


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[PapaBear]

LOVE Harlem Nocturne!

Back in the 80's, I had a compilation LP from IRS Records. There was a version of Harlem Nocturne on it done buy the Lounge Lizards.

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[Slumbag]

Xzibit's 11 day old son died.

From his blog:
AS you all know I told shared with you the announcment of my newborn son Xavier Kingston Joiner on may 15th and also informed you that he was born prematurly. well this week was extremly difficult for him because his lungs were not strong enough to handle regular oxygen on his own. Xavier passed away this morning at 3:30am and I must tell you this, It is unatural for a parent to bury a child. I am telling you this because of the same reason I tell you when im having great times, life is too short to be fake. Hold on to your kids if you have them, protect them and show them you love them everyday you wake up and see them, dont take a second you get to hug them teach them and care for them for granted. You can have all the material wealth in the universe but it is NOTHING compared to having your family. I am thankful for all of my blessings and im not one to question God's perfect plan, so I leave you with great love and thanks for the love that was sent earlier on my pervious blog to my son. Of course I need to take some time and handle my loss, STAY FOCUSED PEOPLE. Its not promised to any of us.

Pretty upsetting.

[sailor]

Xzibit's 11 day old son died.

From his blog:
AS you all know I told shared with you the announcment of my newborn son Xavier Kingston Joiner on may 15th and also informed you that he was born prematurly. well this week was extremly difficult for him because his lungs were not strong enough to handle regular oxygen on his own. Xavier passed away this morning at 3:30am and I must tell you this, It is unatural for a parent to bury a child. I am telling you this because of the same reason I tell you when im having great times, life is too short to be fake. Hold on to your kids if you have them, protect them and show them you love them everyday you wake up and see them, dont take a second you get to hug them teach them and care for them for granted. You can have all the material wealth in the universe but it is NOTHING compared to having your family. I am thankful for all of my blessings and im not one to question God's perfect plan, so I leave you with great love and thanks for the love that was sent earlier on my pervious blog to my son. Of course I need to take some time and handle my loss, STAY FOCUSED PEOPLE. Its not promised to any of us.

Pretty upsetting.

that really sucks. :(

[DiabloSammich]

Never mind. Scooped.

[Reephdweller]

Thomas McHale, a former offensive lineman with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, was found dead in a friend's home Sunday morning. He was 45.


According to the Tampa Tribune's web site, authorities do not believe foul play was involved in McHale's death.


The medical examiner will determine the cause of McHale's death, with the results of toxicology tests taking up to six weeks, the web site reported.


Deputies from the Pasco County Sheriff's Office received a call from an unidentified friend of McHale at 9:19 a.m. Sunday


McHale played for the Buccaneers for six seasons (1987-1992) and had stints with a couple of other teams before retiring in 1995.

[OGC]

Earle H. Hagen, who wrote and whistled the theme song of The Andy Griffith Show, died Monday (http://http://www.cmt.com/news/news-in-brief/1588130/writer-whistler-of-the-andy-griffith-show-theme-dies.jhtml)

[Furtherman]

Earle H. Hagen, who co-wrote the jazz classic "Harlem Nocturne" and composed memorable themes for "The Andy Griffith Show," "I Spy," "The Mod Squad" and other TV shows, has died. He was 88 (http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jKvh_x24Q1zRZaby7S-8OZ9KHIfAD90UD2NG0)[QUOTE]


[QUOTE=richg0404;1738127]Earle H. Hagen, who wrote and whistled the theme song of The Andy Griffith Show, died Monday (http://http://www.cmt.com/news/news-in-brief/1588130/writer-whistler-of-the-andy-griffith-show-theme-dies.jhtml)

He died AGAIN!? Oh Ah-GO-NEE! Agony!

[RAAMONE]

Earle H. Hagen, who wrote and whistled the theme song of The Andy Griffith Show, died Monday (http://http://www.cmt.com/news/news-in-brief/1588130/writer-whistler-of-the-andy-griffith-show-theme-dies.jhtml)

look above




and he even added a video

[OGC]

Damn, I am a non checking fool. Apologies.

[Mullenax]

Robert Rauschenberg, famous pop artist, died recently at 82...but I didn't know about this thread on 5/13/08.
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[nukinfuts]

May, 29th
Comic actor Harvey Korman dies at 81

"Carol Burnett Show" regular won Emmy awards, Golden Globe for work on series

Movies included "Blazing Saddles," "High Anxiety," "History of the World, Part 1"

Daughter: Actor was called "miracle man" because of strong will after surgeries

Director Mel Brooks: "He always made it real, always made it work," AP says

[WhistlePig]

May, 29th
Comic actor Harvey Korman dies at 81

"Carol Burnett Show" regular won Emmy awards, Golden Globe for work on series

Movies included "Blazing Saddles," "High Anxiety," "History of the World, Part 1"

Daughter: Actor was called "miracle man" because of strong will after surgeries

Director Mel Brooks: "He always made it real, always made it work," AP says

Aww, this is sad. I loved Harvey Korman and this means Tim Conway will follow soon.

[watson]

Ernst Stuhlinger, 94, who played a key role in developing America's space program, has died.

Dr. Stuhlinger, who died Sunday, had been in failing health and missed the 50th anniversary of America in space in February. His last public appearance was in December, when he spoke on his 50 years of work in rocket programs, said Ed Buckbee, a former director of the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala.

Dr. Stuhlinger served as chief scientist for Wernher von Braun and was among the group of German scientists who moved with him to Huntsville in 1950 when the Army established the Ordnance Missile Laboratories.

Ralph Petroff, who helped lead efforts to restore the Space and Rocket Center's original Saturn 5 rocket, said Dr. Stuhlinger's brilliance was unmatched. In the 1950s, he conceived what would eventually become the Hubble Space Telescope. He also spent years exploring the possibilities of electric propulsion ion engines for deep space travel. - AP

[Judge Smails]

Aww, this is sad. I loved Harvey Korman and this means Tim Conway will follow soon.

Dorf on Deathwatch

[Fallon]

Canucks’ Luc Bourdon killed in motorcycle crash (http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/news?slug=ap-canucks-bourdonkilled&prov=ap&type=lgns)

SHIPPAGAN, New Brunswick (AP)—Luc Bourdon, a promising rookie defenseman with the Vancouver Canucks, was killed Thursday when his motorcycle struck a tractor-trailer in a crash near his hometown. He was 21.

[Gvac]

Don't know if sailor would deem him worth enough of his own death thread or not, but Jim McKay has died.


Jim McKay, 86, a longtime television sports journalist, has died of natural causes in Maryland, according to a statement from the McKay family.

McKay is best known for hosting "ABC's Wide World of Sports" and 12 Olympic Games.

McKay won numerous awards for journalism, including the George Polk Memorial Award and two Emmys -- one for his sports coverage, the other for his news reporting -- for his work at the 1972 Munich Olympics, which were tragically affected by the Black September terrorists' attack on the Israeli athletes in the Olympic Village.

[Jughead]

Oops already posted sorry

[sailor]

Don't know if sailor would deem him worth enough of his own death thread or not, but Jim McKay has died.

well, he's no jim nantz.

[A.J.]

well, he's no jim nantz.

Nantz: a sportscaster unlike any other.

[PapaBear]

Chuck Stobbs; Senators Pitcher in 1950s (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/24/AR2008072403791.html)


As a journeyman left-hander for the woeful Washington Senators of the 1950s, Chuck Stobbs had few moments of shining glory. He won 15 games for the lowly Nats in 1956 but was best known for throwing a pitch that might have traveled farther than any other baseball in big-league history.

On April 17, 1953, in his very first game with the Senators, he gave up a titanic blast to Mickey Mantle of the New York Yankees that soared out of Griffith Stadium and into baseball lore as the longest home run ever hit.
With two outs in the top of the fifth inning and a runner on base, Mr. Stobbs faced Mantle, then 21 and in his third season with the Yankees. Mantle, a switch hitter, was batting right-handed.
Mr. Stobbs's first pitch was low. Mantle hit his second pitch, a chest-high fastball, over the left-center field wall, 391 feet from home plate. The ball flew beyond the final row in the bleachers, 460 feet away, and over a wall 55 feet high. It knocked some black paint off the edge of a National Bohemian beer sign above the wall and kept going.
A press spokesman for the Yankees ran out of the stadium and retrieved the ball from the back yard of a house across the street. He paced off the distance from the outer wall of Griffith Stadium at 105 feet.
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My dad pointed this out to me because he went to the rival high school of Stobbs in Norfolk, Va. He said this guy was one of the most amazing athletes to ever come out of Virginia. He was actually a much better quarterback than he was a pitcher, but he didn't go to college.

http://www.themick.com/Griffithhr.gif

[S0S]

Wendie Jo Sperber (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0818274/)

[sailor]

two more nyc window washers (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26021587/) died last night in another accident.

[Slumbag]

Evan Tanner, dead at 37.

http://ronfez.net/forums/newreply.php?do=newreply&noquote=1&p=1812986
Former Ultimate Fighting Championship middleweight champion Evan Tanner was found dead near Palo Verde, Calif. on Monday. He was 37.


Tanner had trekked into the desert on a journey to “cleanse” himself, according to Douglas Vincitorio of Tanner’s management team. “He went out to the desert to do a ‘cleansing’ as he called it. Kind of like ‘Survivorman.’” These short trips were not new to Tanner, said Vincitorio. It is something that he has done numerous times over the years.

“What we were told is that (Sheriff’s officials who found Tanner) believe his motorcycle had run out of gas, so he went to walk out in like 115- to 118-degree heat,” Vincitorio said. “He was miles away from his camp. That’s where the helicopter found him. Right now, they just think that he succumbed to the heat.”

That sucks.

[MacVittie]

I know he's been pronounced dead, but did they ever find Steve Fossett's body?

[PapaBear]

I know he's been pronounced dead, but did they ever find Steve Fossett's body?
Nope.

[FunkyDrummer]

As a drummer gotta include...

Leading R&B drummer Earl Palmer dies at 84

37 minutes ago

Leading R&B drummer Earl Palmer, best known for his New Orleans recording sessions with the likes of Fats Domino and Little Richard, died on Friday at his home in Los Angeles at age 84, his family said.

Palmer, who died after a lengthy illness, played on hundreds of hits during a career that ran from the 1940s through the 1970s and earned him an induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

His drumming on such hits as Fats Domino's "The Fat Man," Richard's "Tutti Frutti and Smiley Lewis's "I Hear You Knockin"' featured the strong back beat that was his signature and helped transform the lope of rhythm and blues into the full-tilt thrust of rock 'n' roll.

"That song required a strong after-beat throughout the whole piece," Palmer wrote of his work on "The Fat Man" in his 1999 autobiography, "Backbeat -- The Earl Palmer Story."

"With Dixieland you had a strong after-beat only after you got to the shout last chorus," he said. "It was sort of a new approach to rhythm music."

Palmer also played drums on Domino's "I'm Walkin,"' the Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin,"' Ike and Tina Turner's "River Deep, Mountain High," and Sam Cooke's "Twistin' the Night Away."

His handiwork behind the drums was featured as well on a number of popular television themes, including "The Odd Couple," "77 Sunset Strip" and "The Brady Bunch."

In addition to his collaboration with R&B and blues artists in New Orleans, Palmer was a highly sought-after session player for recording stars ranging from Frank Sinatra and Sarah Vaughan to Elvis Costello, Ray Charles, Dizzie Gillespie and Count Basie.

Reuters/Nielsen

and...

Last of Steinways to run piano-maker dies at 93

15 hours ago

NEW YORK (AP) — Henry Z. Steinway, the great-grandson of the founder of the legendary piano-making company his family started in 1853, is dead. He was 93.

Susan Steinway, his daughter, confirmed that her father died on Thursday in Manhattan.

Henry Zeigler Steinway was the last of his family to run the company founded by Henry Engelhard Steinway. He sold it to CBS Corporation in 1977.

Steinway retired at 65, but he continued to visit the Steinway Hall in Manhattan until a few months ago.

President Bush presented Steinway with the National Medal of Arts in 2007.

The handcrafted pianos were the instruments of choice for such greats as Sergei Rachmaninoff, Vladimir Horowitz and Artur Rubinstein.

CBS sold Steinway in 1985 to what was then a band-instrument manufacturer. That company went public in 1998 and is now known as Steinway Musical Instruments.

[Furtherman]

LOS ANGELES (AP) - House Peters Jr., a TV actor who became the original Mr. Clean in Proctor & Gamble's commercials for household cleaners, died Wednesday. He was 92.

Peters died of pneumonia at the Motion Picture and Television Fund Hospital in Los Angeles, said his son, Jon Peters.

The elder Peters' most memorable role came as Mr. Clean - a muscular man with a bald head, a hoop earring and a no-nonsense attitude toward dirt and grime. From the late 1950s and into the early 1960s, Peters Jr. helped advertise the famous household cleaner with the trademark jingle, "Mr. Clean, Mr. Clean."

Peters Jr. played many supporting roles through his career, including working with Roy Rogers and Gene Autry on their television shows. He also appeared in "Perry Mason,""Gunsmoke,""The Twilight Zone" and "Lassie."

"He always played the heavy," Jon Peters said, referring to his father's customary roles as a villain or brawny character. "Even though he wasn't happy about being cast in those roles, he worked really hard at it."

His father's acting career spanned 1935-1967, according to his Web site. He also wrote an autobiography, "Another Side of Hollywood," in which he describes growing up the son of an actress and silent film actor in Beverly Hills. His father, Robert House Peters Sr., has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

[Furtherman]

THAT guy!


http://scifipedia.scifi.com/images/thumb/2/2c/Kim-Chan.jpg/270px-Kim-Chan.jpg

Actor Kim Chan Dies
10 October 2008 9:05 AM, PDT

Chinese actor Kim Chan, who has starred in films alongside Robert De Niro, Jerry Lewis and Jackie Chan, has died.

Kim Chan, born in 1917, passed away on Sunday in Brooklyn, New York.

His Hollywood career launched when he began playing characters with some knowledge of Eastern culture, eventually landing what became his most famous roles in Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, and as Lewis' butler in Martin Scorsese's 1982 film The King of Comedy, where he appeared onscreen alongside De Niro.

The actor emigrated to the U.S. from the province of Canton, China as a young boy, discovering his desire to become an entertainer while working in his family's restaurant in the theatre district of Manhattan.

Making his film debut in 1957's A Face in the Crowd, Chan's other notable films included The Fifth Element, Lethal Weapon 4 and Shanghai Knights, where he played the father of famed martial artist and actor Jackie Chan.

[PapaBear]

THAT guy!


http://scifipedia.scifi.com/images/thumb/2/2c/Kim-Chan.jpg/270px-Kim-Chan.jpg

Actor Kim Chan Dies
10 October 2008 9:05 AM, PDT

Chinese actor Kim Chan, who has starred in films alongside Robert De Niro, Jerry Lewis and Jackie Chan, has died.

Kim Chan, born in 1917, passed away on Sunday in Brooklyn, New York.

His Hollywood career launched when he began playing characters with some knowledge of Eastern culture, eventually landing what became his most famous roles in Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, and as Lewis' butler in Martin Scorsese's 1982 film The King of Comedy, where he appeared onscreen alongside De Niro.

The actor emigrated to the U.S. from the province of Canton, China as a young boy, discovering his desire to become an entertainer while working in his family's restaurant in the theatre district of Manhattan.

Making his film debut in 1957's A Face in the Crowd, Chan's other notable films included The Fifth Element, Lethal Weapon 4 and Shanghai Knights, where he played the father of famed martial artist and actor Jackie Chan.
Weird. I just saw parts of Balls of Fury last night.

BTW... Speaking of Asian actors in the news, did you hear about the shoe throwing guy from Austin Powers? (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,435561,00.html)

Joe Son, who played the character Random Task in the first "Austin Powers" movie, has been charged by California authorities in connection with an unsolved 1990 Christmas Eve gang rape.
Son pleaded guilty in May to felony vandalism, which required him to give a DNA sample — which eventually connected him to the rape, police say.

[Bunny™]

I just watched him the other night in Who's The Man?

His teeth were off-putting.

Rest in peace, that old asian guy

[KingGeno]

Yellow Ranger Trini from Might Morphin' Power Rangers Dead (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuy_Trang#Death)
http://myriah18630.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/thuy7.jpg

Trang died at the age of 27 in a car accident on September 3, 2001 near San Francisco, California. She and former actress/model Angela Rockwood-Nguyen, to whom Trang was to be a bridesmaid later that year, were passengers in a car traveling on Interstate 5 between San Francisco and Los Angeles. They were returning from visiting Angela's planned maid of honor when the driver (another of Angela's bridesmaids) of the vehicle she was riding in lost control. The car swerved violently across the road before hitting the roadside rock face and flipping several times before hitting the safety rail and plunging over the bank.

Rockwood-Nguyen, who has claimed both that she was[1] and was not[2] wearing a seat belt in different interviews, survived despite being thrown out of the vehicle through a window before its final impact; as a result, however, she is now quadriplegic. Trang, who was believed not to have worn a seat belt, died from the injuries she sustained. The driver did not suffer any lasting injuries but it has not been confirmed whether she was wearing a seatbelt or not.

The episode "Circuit Unsure" of Power Rangers: Time Force was dedicated to her memory.

Trang was cremated a week later on September 10, 2001; her ashes are interred at Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier, California.

Died right before her wedding. Sucks.

[FunkyDrummer]

LINK (http://undercover.com.au/News-Story.aspx?id=6528)
Original Marilyn Manson Bass Player ODs

by Paul Cashmere - October 11 2008
photo by Ros O'Gorman

Gidget Gein (aka Brad Stewart), the original bass player for Marilyn Manson, has died from a drug overdose at his Burbank home.

Stewart was with the original Manson band but kicked out and was replaced by Twiggy Ramirez because of his drug use at the time.

He went on to form The Dali Gaggers after Manson.

Stewart used the Marilyn Manson format of ‘Actress name’ ‘Serial killer’ name to come up with Gidget Gein. Gidget was from the Sally Field TV character of the 60s, Gein was named after killer Ed Gein.

Stewart’s death has been confirmed by the LA coroner's office.

[sailor]

Yellow Ranger Trini from Might Morphin' Power Rangers Dead (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuy_Trang#Death)
http://myriah18630.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/thuy7.jpg



Died right before her wedding. Sucks.

the dead gal was just a bridesmaid, not the bride.

[PapaBear]

Johnny Slash

http://epguides.com/SquarePegs/cast.jpg

AKA Dr David Marcus

http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/en/images/f/f7/David_marcus.jpg

Died an AIDS related death in 1989.

[PapaBear]

Mothers of Invention drummer Jimmy Carl Black dies (http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gWECoT9A2TwAEr0SfYsUO8q9pEtwD948QSK80)


He was playing in the Soul Giants in Los Angeles in 1964 when the group recruited Zappa.
"He joined the band and three days later he took it over," Black once said.
Zappa changed the group's name and, according to Black, boasted that "if you guys learn my music, I'll make you rich and famous."
"He took care of half of that promise, because I'm damn sure I didn't get rich," Black recalled.
He credited Zappa, who died in 1993, with introducing him to modern classical music and teaching him complex rhythms.
Black appeared on Mothers albums including "Freak Out," "Cruising with Ruben and the Jets" and "Burnt Weenie Sandwich." He played trumpet as well as drumming on the 1968 album "We're Only In It for the Money," and also introduced his catchphrase: "Hi boys and girls, I'm Jimmy Carl Black, I'm the Indian of the group."

[Furtherman]

The engineer and deep-sea explorer Jacques Piccard (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/06/switzerland), who has died aged 86, made many contributions to the development of deep-sea exploration and marine conservation, but he will be best remembered for one remarkable feat: on January 26 1960, in the bathyscaphe Trieste, he and Lieutenant Don Walsh of the US navy reached the bottom of the Challenger Deep, east of the Philippine Islands. At 10,900 metres (35,761 feet), located in the Mariana Trench, this is the deepest point on the globe.

[sailor]

The engineer and deep-sea explorer Jacques Piccard (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/06/switzerland), who has died aged 86, made many contributions to the development of deep-sea exploration and marine conservation, but he will be best remembered for one remarkable feat: on January 26 1960, in the bathyscaphe Trieste, he and Lieutenant Don Walsh of the US navy reached the bottom of the Challenger Deep, east of the Philippine Islands. At 10,900 metres (35,761 feet), located in the Mariana Trench, this is the deepest point on the globe.

jaguar shark got him?

[FunkyDrummer]

R.I.P. :down:

Detroit Rocker Nathaniel Mayer Dies At 64
http://www.billboard.com/billboard/photos/art/m/mayer_nathaniel_02l.gif
November 04, 2008 , 4:10 PM ET
Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.

Veteran Detroit soul/rock artist Nathaniel Mayer died Saturday (Nov. 1) in his hometown after a series of strokes. He was 64.

Mayer is best known for the 1962 hit "Village of Love," which he recorded for local label Fortune Records. But he vanished from the music scene in the late 1960s, and save for a one-off 1980 single, did not return to active duty until 2002, when he began performing again.

In 2004, Mayer released "I Just Want To Be Held" via Fat Possum Records. Another new album, "Why Don't You Give It To Me," appeared in 2007 via Alive Records, with assistance from members of the Black Keys, Dirtbombs, the Sights and Outrageous Cherry.

[FunkyDrummer]

:down:
Tony Reedus, 49, top jazz drummer
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
BY ZAN STEWART
Star-Ledger Staff

A man with a big heart and a big beat, drummer Tony Reedus cared for other people the way he cared about making a band swing.

"He was true blue, he'd do anything for you," said pianist Mulgrew Miller, who knew Mr. Reedus as a youth in Memphis, where the drummer was born, and later employed him in his trio in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

"He was supersensitive," said his wife, violinist Jenise Grice-Reedus. "He'd see a person who was sad and would go talk to that person, and would have another friend for life."

"He was a funny guy," said organist and pianist Mike LeDonne, with whom Mr. Reedus regularly performed. "Just a sweetheart, that's what Tony Reedus was, and great to work with."

Mr. Reedus died Sunday of a pulmonary embolism en route by ambulance to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in the Richmond Hill section of Queens. He had collapsed at John F. Kennedy International Airport after getting off an American Airlines flight from Bologna, Italy, where he had been performing with LeDonne. He was 49.

Mr. Reedus lived in Irvington with his wife and their 5-year-old daughter, Cameron. He had been troubled with undetermined gastrointestinal issues since August.

A superb musician, Mr. Reedus picked up the drums when he was 13 and broke into the upper echelon of jazz just seven years later, performing and recording with innovative trumpeter Woody Shaw. In a story in The Star-Ledger in 2006, he likened joining Shaw to a baseball player "going from single-A to the Show."

"It was music on such a high level," said Mr. Reedus.

He played on Shaw's albums "United" (Columbia) and "Master of the Art" (Elektra/Musician).

Mr. Reedus also played and recorded with such masters as trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, vibraphonist Milt Jackson, saxophonist Benny Golson, and guitarist Dave Stryker. Mr. Reedus also was a leader who made three solo albums.

Mr. Reedus was noted for his all-around drum kit acumen -- in particular, his ride cymbal beat. "He had a real wide beat, and his feel on the cymbal was unique," said Stryker, whose organ trio included Mr. Reedus for several years. "He felt great to play with, just really swinging, dancing."

Of the importance of that beat, Mr. Reedus said in 2006, "It's a heavy feeling that makes people want to pat their feet, sway back and forth. When people come to see you play, they want to escape, they want to feel good. Music is a celebration of life that comes from the heart."

Mr. Reedus returned to college in the middle of his career, earning a B.A. in music from Rutgers University-New Brunswick in 2005. "The day he graduated was one of the happiest days of his life," said Grice-Reedus, who plays with the Garden State Philharmonic and the Plainfield Symphony and leads the Ebony String Quartet.

Another was the birth of his daughter. "He loved being a father, being married," said Stryker.

Linda Grice, Mr. Reedus' mother-in-law, said: "He loved his family; he took good care of my daughter and my granddaughter."

Mr. Reedus' survivors include his brothers Chris and Keith, both of Memphis.

A visitation will be held Sunday at 2 p.m., with services at 4 p.m., at the Prospect Presbyterian Church, 646 Prospect St., Maplewood. More information is available by calling (973) 763-8955 or visiting the church's website (prospectchurch.org).

[Furtherman]

Macaulay Culkin's Sister Killed in Traffic Accident
By Ken Lee

Originally posted Thursday December 11, 2008 11:30 AM EST

Macaulay Culkin's sister, Dakota, was struck and killed by a car in Los Angeles this week, police confirm.

The 29-year-old stepped in front of a car in West L.A. just before 11 p.m. on Tuesday and was rushed to UCLA hospital with massive head trauma, according to LAPD spokesman Richard French. She died the following day.

"The driver stopped, rendered aid, and identified himself as required by law," said French. "Detectives determined that the driver was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol and that no crime was committed."

Macaulay Culkin, 28, has five other siblings: Shane, 32, Kieran, 26, Quinn, 24, Christian, 21, and Rory, 19.

"This is a terrible tragic accident," said the actor's rep, Michelle Bega. "We ask that the media respect the family's privacy during this difficult time."

The accident was first reported by TMZ.com.

[IMSlacker]

Former Astros Closer Dave Smith dead at 53 (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/6170450.html)

[sailor]

jeff travolta (http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE50145920090102), 16 year old son of john.

[IMSlacker]

jeff travolta (http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE50145920090102), 16 year old son of john.

Oh, wow. How awful. And his name was actually Jett.

[cougarjake13]

was john a jets fan ??


maybe favres play led him to te seizure and ultimately his untimely death



can you live with that brett ?? travoltas kid death is now on your conscience

[sailor]

Oh, wow. How awful. And his name was actually Jett.

eww. i re-read the article and i still read it as jeff. i refuse to accept that.

[FunkyDrummer]

Joe Ades - Union Square Peeler Guy

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/02/03/nyregion/03ades_600.JPG

February 3, 2009
His Stage, the Street; His Rapier, a Peeler
By JAMES BARRON

Somehow, Joe Ades got people’s attention as the crowds swirled by at the Union Square Greenmarket, on their way to eyeing and buying the produce. He was the white-haired man with the British accent, the expensive European suits and shirts — the man selling the $5 peeler. For carrots. Or potatoes.

“He talked constantly,” said Clover Vail, an artist.

“He was very excited about carrots,” said Sara Mason, a merchandise assistant at Barnes & Noble.

“He made it look really fun,” said Julie Worden, who dances with the Mark Morris Dance Company.

“The voice — you couldn’t help but notice it,” said Gordon Crandall, a mathematician who teaches at La Guardia Community College.

His was a particular kind of street theater in a city that delights in in-your-face characters who are, and are not, what they seem. For he was the sidewalk pitchman with the Upper East Side apartment. The sidewalk pitchman who was a regular at expensive East Side restaurants, where no one believed his answer to the “So what do you do?” question: “I sell potato peelers on the street.” Mr. Ades (pronounced AH-dess) died on Sunday at 75, said his daughter, Ruth Ades Laurent of Manhattan. She said he never talked about how many peelers he sold in a year, or how many carrots he had sliced up during demonstrations. She said he stashed his inventory in what had been the maid’s room of the apartment.

There were those at the Greenmarket who had heard the spiel, and heard the whispers. “Supposedly his wife is mega-mega-rich — we’ve done fashion shoots in that building,” said Rose-Marie Swift, a makeup artist, as she shopped at the Greenmarket on Monday.

The facts? He was a widower. The apartment had been his wife’s — his fourth wife’s. And besides Ms. Laurent, he is survived by two sons, Sam, of Sydney, Australia, and David, of Byron Bay, Australia; two brothers, Dennis, of Toronto, and Andre, of Sydney; a sister, Vida, of Toronto; and three granddaughters.

He had been selling things during his fourth marriage, and his third, his second and his first. David Hughes, the operations manager at the Greenmarket, said that Mr. Ades had been a fixture on the edges of the market for years. (He stayed on the fringes because he never obtained a permit to do business there, and if he staked out a spot too close to the vendors, someone would complain and security guards would be alerted.)

First he sold children’s books, Mr. Hughes said. “Then he moved into potato peelers,” he said. “He told me books were too heavy to carry around.” The Greenmarket was not his only open-air stage; he had places near Radio City Music Hall and in Brooklyn that he liked, Ms. Laurent said.

She said that he had learned the tricks of salesmanship as a teenager in Manchester, England. “He’d sold all kinds of things from when he was 15 and saw the old-time English grafters, I guess here you’d call them pitchmen,” Ms. Laurent said.

He sold linens, textiles, jewelry and toys, and broadened his inventory when he went to Australia in the 1970s. “We had a huge truck that we sold off the back of,” recalled Ms. Laurent, who worked with him, selling clock radios, cassette players and electrical appliances along with other household goods.

He followed Ms. Laurent to the United States. “One of his marriages, I guess his third marriage, had broken up,” she said. Making the rounds of state fairs, she said, “he discovered the peeler — someone was selling the peeler and he saw it as a fantastic item for the street.

“He loved the street more than anything.”

It helped that he had a voice like a radio announcer’s. “His voice really carried,” Mr. Hughes said. “Joe would say to me, ‘You have to not be afraid to talk to yourself out loud.’ He said that once he started talking out loud, somebody would stop, and once he had one, he’d have a crowd, and once he had a crowd, he’d sell peelers.”

Like an actor, he had a sense of pacing and timing. Ms. Laurent said that the peeler would slice “practically anything” but that he limited his repertory to carrots and potatoes when selling on the street.

Ms. Laurent said she sometimes went to look for him at the end of the day, but he would have packed up and left after selling out. She could tell where he had been.

“He cleaned up really well,” she said, “but still there were these little shreds of carrots that said, ‘I was here.’ ”

[WampusCrandle]

Horton Foote (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0285210/), 2 Oscar winning screenwriter, and Pulitzer prize winner, dead.

http://www.courant.com/entertainment/stage/hc-hortonfooteobit.artmar05,0,6022937.story

[WampusCrandle]

Died after a stroke, she was 65. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/15/sammy-davis-jrs-widow-die_n_175044.html) She was a dancer and actress, but well-known as the wife of Sammy Davis Jr.

[WampusCrandle]

Oscar nominated actress dead at 85 (http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0715210/). Nominated for best supporting actress in Marty (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048356/).

http://cache.boston.com/resize/bonzai-fba/Globe_Photo/2008/02/11/1202778855_1173/539w.jpg

[Judge Smails]

Wow! First Natasha Richardson, now Betsy Blair. Who's next?

Thoughts and prayers.

[Dude!]

this is really really shocking news
Friday will be a national day of mourning

[DiabloSammich]

Ahh Betsy Blair. We hardly knew ye.




Seriously. I have no clue who she is.

[Misteriosa]

I saw marty for the first time about a month ago. she was great in that film. :`(

[WampusCrandle]

Oscar winning actress, Celeste Holm, dead at 92. (http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0715873/) she won her best supporting Oscar for Gentleman's Agreement (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039416/) - which was based on my town. she was also nominated for two more Oscars, both supporting, for Come to the Stable (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041257/) and All About Eve (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042192/).

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/4/41/20070510004225!Celeste_Holm_in_Gentleman's_Agreeme nt_trailer.jpg

[burrben]

it is not a good time to be famous


rip

[OGC]

And the triad is complete.

[Dude!]

Oscar winning actress, Celeste Holm, dead at 92. (http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0715873/) she won her best supporting Oscar for Gentleman's Agreement (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039416/) - which was based on my town. she was also nominated for two more Oscars, both supporting, for Come to the Stable (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041257/) and All About Eve (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042192/).

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/4/41/20070510004225!Celeste_Holm_in_Gentleman's_Agreeme nt_trailer.jpg


she looks exceptionally good for 92
must have had a really great plastic surgeon

[JohnGacysCrawlSpace]

who?

[A.J.]

She wasn't a dog.

[CountryBob]

Finally! Been waiting on this one.

[topless_mike]

Wow! First Natasha Richardson, now Betsy Blair. Who's next?

Thoughts and prayers.

Celeste Holm (http://www.ronfez.net/forums/showthread.php?t=78906)

[WampusCrandle]

ex QB of the Lions, the Falcons, and Fez's Buccaneers, William "Jeff" Komlo, died in a car accident in Greece, 52 (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gze2xopZj14EcEBvY60EmpT3sQfwD971QGE00).

[led37zep]

You've become a merchant of death.

[Dougie Brootal]

You've become a merchant of death.

become?

[cougarjake13]

ex QB of the Lions, the Falcons, and Fez's Buccaneers, William "Jeff" Komlo, died in a car accident in Greece, 52 (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gze2xopZj14EcEBvY60EmpT3sQfwD971QGE00).




who ??

[disneyspy]

if this is the ex detroit lions QB,good

[sailor]

who ??

some random dead person (http://ronfez.net/forums/showthread.php?t=68223)

[cougarjake13]

some random dead person (http://ronfez.net/forums/showthread.php?t=68223)

gotcha

[WampusCrandle]

Baseball Hall of Famer, third basemen of the White/ Red Sox, Detroit Tigers, Orioles, and Philadelphia Athletics, and broadcaster, George Kell, dead at 86 (http://www.arktimes.com/blogs/arkansasblog/2009/03/george_kell_dies.aspx).

http://www.hollywoodcollectibles.com/autographed/memorabilia/sports/collectibles/authentic/Baseball/Cards/george_kell_card.jpg

[Misteriosa]

Wampus Crandle = Angelus Mortis

[WampusCrandle]

Wampus Crandle = Angelus Mortis

awww schucks! thanks for the compliment! :happy:

[mikeyboy]

Wampus Crandle = Angelus Mortis

Who did he play for?

[Devo37]

First George Weber (http://ronfez.net/forums/showthread.php?t=78975)now George Kell. I suspect this is the work of a serial killer.

[disneyspy]

my favorite sport announcer of all time,hope he touches em all. that foul tip was caught by a youngster from pickford,michigan

[WampusCrandle]

Harry Harris, 86, has died from a blood disorder, myelodysplasia (http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/tv%20director%20harris%20dead%20at%2086_1098641). Was the Emmy Award winning tv director of the show Fame, and Steve McQueen's Wanted: Dead or Alive.

[razorboy]

He was one of my Pop's favorites growing up. R.I.P.

[burrben]

is it necessary to announce every death?

rip btw

[led37zep]

is it necessary to announce every death?

rip btw

This makes him happy. Let him have his fun.


Kill on Wampus...Kill on!

[WampusCrandle]

This makes him happy. Let him have his fun.


Kill on Wampus...Kill on!

Thank you. I have needs. I must bring all news dealing with entertainment to the .net community.

[disneyspy]

i just realized i was thinkin of ernie harwell,wampus you better not kill him

[Hottub]

Secretly hoping it was Harry Harrison. Take Rod Lundy and Cousin Brucie to hell with you.

http://www.fadingad.com/043.jpg

[razorboy]

i just realized i was thinkin of ernie harwell,wampus you better not kill him

I love listening to Harwell broadcast. I remeber listening to him do the CBS game of the week quite a while back. I still love when he'll hop on a TV broadcast and call a couple of innings.

[cougarjake13]

who ??

[WampusCrandle]

the Mexican boxer dies of cancer at 74. (http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=531156) he was in the 1952 Olympics and held the world bantamweight title for 2 years.

http://www.elporvenir.com.mx/upload/foto/19/2/5/raton.jpg
http://pro.corbis.com/images/U1277851INP.jpg?size=67&uid=%7B0DE3AD85-F83A-45D4-B302-1733BCA45FBF%7D

[WampusCrandle]

Dead of a heart attack at 76, Johnny Blanchard (http://www.seattlepi.com/scorecard/mlbnews.asp?articleID=256961) played for the Yankees as a backup catcher, pinch hitter and outfielder.

http://www.vintagecardtraders.com/virtual/60leaf/60leaf-089.jpg

[disneyspy]

this is gettin rediculous,random dead person thread woulda been better

[WampusCrandle]

this is gettin rediculous,random dead person thread woulda been better

i love to bring up-to-date news to the people.

[Don Stugots]

Thanks WC, you updates are keeping informed of what going on out there while I tend to my family.

[disneyspy]

wampus reminds me of when my senile grandfather used to read the obituaries to me

[WampusCrandle]

Thanks WC, you updates are keeping informed of what going on out there while I tend to my family.

wampus reminds me of when my senile grandfather used to read the obituaries to me

its nice to know that i have become part of your families .... i think i need a place to sleep and a little cash - can some family help me out?

[JPMNICK]

his brother tully is going to be inconsolable

[Don Stugots]

his brother tully is going to be inconsolable

I'll have to call him to inform him. I don't think he can post on his cellphone.

[outlawfrank]

In 1949 he won the batting title while playing with Detroit. His .3429 edged out Ted Williams .3427, preventing Williams from winning the Triple Crown. Way to go George!

[JPMNICK]

I'll have to call him to inform him. I don't think he can post on his cellphone.

i was hoping he would stop by and say something nice

[Don Stugots]

Wait for it....

[King Hippos Bandaid]

.net member Tully must be inconsolable

[Tully Blanchard]

I Am Inconsolable.

He Was Taken In The Prime Of His Life.

[WampusCrandle]

Duke University professor dead at 94 of heart failure (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postmortem/2009/03/john_hope_franklin_dies.html?hpid=news-col-blog). He was part of a team of scholars that assisted Thurgood Marshall to win "Brown v. Board of Edu."

[TooLowBrow]

Duke University professor dead at 94 of heart failure (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postmortem/2009/03/john_hope_franklin_dies.html?hpid=news-col-blog). He was part of a team of scholars that assisted Thurgood Marshall to win "Brown v. Board of Edu."

he's history

[Judge Smails]

http://www.chevroncars.com/learn/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/tired-yawn.jpg

[epo]

Duke University professor dead at 94 of heart failure (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postmortem/2009/03/john_hope_franklin_dies.html?hpid=news-col-blog). He was part of a team of scholars that assisted Thurgood Marshall to win "Brown v. Board of Edu."

Brown v. Board of Education.

Or as the Blowhard would call it.....the beginning of the end.

[WampusCrandle]

Brown v. Board of Education.

Or as the Blowhard would call it.....the beginning of the end.

or Anthony

[torker]

Hope Joe Franklin not dead.
http://www.blackribbonmovie.com/Index%20Photos/joe.jpg

[epo]

or Anthony

Touche

[cougarjake13]

who ??

[WampusCrandle]

Motown famous drummer dies at 74. (http://music-mix.ew.com/2009/03/uriel-jones.html) He has played in Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, in Stevie Wonder’s “For Once In My Life” and toured with Marvin Gaye.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Music/Pix/pictures/2009/3/25/1237979408206/Motown-drummer-Uriel-Jone-002.jpg

[Marc with a c]

my life is exactly the same as it was before reading that.

[WampusCrandle]

my life is exactly the same as it was before reading that.

i know, i know .... we are all reeling from the tragedy :down:

[burrben]

wampus crandle = bearer of bad news

[Fallon]

You should just use one shit thread for people nobody knows.

[WampusCrandle]

can't we all just respect all the dead people i bring to the good people of .net?

[burrben]

can't we all just respect all the dead people i bring to the good people of .net?

no

[WampusCrandle]

no

this just in ..... WampusCrandle - DEAD (of a broken heart)

[burrben]

this just in ..... WampusCrandle - DEAD (of a broken heart)

:down:

[Marc with a c]

:down:

he's not dead. if he was dead how would he post that?

don't fall for his bullshit.

[PapaBear]

You should just use one shit thread for people nobody knows.
Fallon's new favorite poster.... SAILOR! (http://ronfez.net/forums/showthread.php?t=68223&highlight=random+dead+person)

BTW... Where do I sign up for the automated "People I've never heard of death watch" notifications? Do they come directly to your phone, or just your email?:bye:

[sailor]

Fallon's new favorite poster.... SAILOR! (http://ronfez.net/forums/showthread.php?t=68223&highlight=random+dead+person)

BTW... Where do I sign up for the automated "People I've never heard of death watch" notifications? Do they come directly to your phone, or just your email?:bye:

i don't think that'll ever catch on. everyone thinks their guy is special.

[A.J.]

this is gettin rediculous,random dead person thread woulda been better

Which we have. (http://www.ronfez.net/forums/showthread.php?t=68223&highlight=random+dead)

[sailor]

Which we have. (http://www.ronfez.net/forums/showthread.php?t=68223&highlight=random+dead)

"ever hear some almost famous person has died, want to tell the world, but know it's not worthy of a new thread?" yeah. exactly.

[WampusCrandle]

Country singer, Dan Seals, has died of cancer at 61 (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hUShzZk4fJKFgqg9G8qIANrhrxzwD975Q0703).

http://entimg.msn.com/img/prov_ap/200_80/pic200/drP000/P085/p08539yevau.jpg

[OGC]

Another candidate for the generic -DEAD thread.

[Don Stugots]

So sad, I am sure Seal is heartbroken.

[KingGeno]

So sad, I am sure Seal is heartbroken.

he himself said that we are never gonna survive.......unless.......we get a little crazy. how true.

[burrben]

country music will never be the same

[A.J.]

USE THIS THREAD (http://www.ronfez.net/forums/showthread.php?t=68223&highlight=random+dead)

[WampusCrandle]

Gold medal winner in the 1988 Olympics, Giovanni Parisi, has died in a car accident at 41 (http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i9H3z-Zr_8bwMi-SCbnaRX9xkhTg) in Italy.

http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/495814.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=17A4AD9FDB9CF193CEF9A2866663FA432BE6DBE0A7E70E6B 284831B75F48EF45

[underdog]

I hope I get you on April 1st.

[WampusCrandle]

Skier Shane McConkey, 39, has died in a base jumping accident (http://espn.go.com/action/freeskiing/blog?post=4018726), while filming a movie in Italy.

http://www.lat34.com/_/Photo/200xNone/shane_mcconkey_200x300.jpg

[monkfish]

He left behind a 3 year old daughter.

[A.J.]

USE THIS THREAD. (http://www.ronfez.net/forums/showthread.php?t=68223&highlight=random)

[A.J.]

USE THIS THREAD. (http://www.ronfez.net/forums/showthread.php?t=68223&highlight=random)

[Don Stugots]

His brother Phil was said to be heartbroken over the news

[WampusCrandle]

Boston's legendary radio host, Larry Glick, died during open heart surgery, at 87. (http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/03/larry_glick_rad.html?p1=Well_MostPop_Emailed7)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2247/2234177756_c7e49edb22.jpg
TGIF - am I right or am I right! :happy:

[Furtherman]

Was the surgeon a 17 year old crazy knife lovin' satanist?

[Don Stugots]

Jiminy may never get over this.

[OGC]

Boston's legendary radio host, Larry Glick, died during open heart surgery, at 87. (http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/03/larry_glick_rad.html?p1=Well_MostPop_Emailed7)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2247/2234177756_c7e49edb22.jpg
TGIF - am I right or am I right! :happy:

I loved listening to Larry Glick overnights back in the 70's.

I really am old.

[A.J.]

USE THIS THREAD. (http://www.ronfez.net/forums/showthread.php?t=68223&highlight=random)

[WampusCrandle]

Thanks WC, you updates are keeping informed of what going on out there while I tend to my family.

USE THIS THREAD. (http://www.ronfez.net/forums/showthread.php?t=68223&highlight=random)

i will for now on! thanks!

[WampusCrandle]

NBC newsman Irving R. Levine dies at 86 (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h-fQ-HruUlzJZ0n-m0Y6cTnc4F_wD976IDA01) from complications of prostate cancer. :bye:

http://www.havelshouseofhistory.com/Levine,%20Irving%20R.jpg

[WampusCrandle]

Head of oldest sect of Tibetan Buddhism has died in India at 77 (http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?article=Head+of+oldest+sect+of+Tibeta n+Buddhism+passes+away&id=24307); he was the 11th in the Palyul lineage of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism.

http://www.palyulcanada.org/penor2.jpg

what a funny hat - i want one!

death strikes again! :king:

[OGC]

What a cheery thread this promises to be.

[WampusCrandle]

What a cheery thread this promises to be.


oh yeah, i'm gonna like this thread.

[WampusCrandle]

the college football player was found dead at 21 (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/6347180.html), in a white SUV, with a gun shot to the head. the weapon can't be found.

have a good weekend, everybody! :king:

[IMSlacker]

the college football player was found dead at 21 (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/6347180.html), in a white SUV, with a gun shot to the head. the weapon can't be found.

have a good weekend, everybody! :king:

The list of suspects should start and end with Mean Joe Green.

[sailor]

Gold medal winner in the 1988 Olympics, Giovanni Parisi, has died in a car accident at 41 (http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i9H3z-Zr_8bwMi-SCbnaRX9xkhTg) in Italy.

http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/495814.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=17A4AD9FDB9CF193CEF9A2866663FA432BE6DBE0A7E70E6B 284831B75F48EF45

shit, i was just watching him on a friends re-run the other day. never knew he'd been a world class athlete.

[WampusCrandle]

shit, i was just watching him on a friends re-run the other day. never knew he'd been a world class athlete.

and now he is dead :king:

[WampusCrandle]

the ex-president, Janet Jagan, has died at 86, of an abdominal aneurism (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gFxNEZGkIe3OUTq3AdEeaAJjNlpwD976SRIG0).

http://www.gina.gov.gy/photo/jjagan.jpg

[WampusCrandle]

Thought I would mix up the obits with some animals. Race horse, Alysheba, 25, was euthanized (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=am.pwUrf5sN8&refer=us). haha, stoopid horse.


http://www.hhlou.com/alysheb3.jpg

[WampusCrandle]

the unfortunate passing of Arnold Meri, Hero of the Soviets and honored with the Medal of Honor and Order of Honor, at 89 (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hT-5epitJECqM_6w7alcrnB9ecawD97768RG3). His trial, being persecuted for crimes against humanity/ creating a small genocide in Estonia (251 deported to a small island, almost 50 died). Thankfully, his trial has ceased immediately. He will be missed. :glurps:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/Arnold_meri_05.jpg

[sailor]

sure ya want to go with the awkward triple-honor there?

[WampusCrandle]

sure ya want to go with the awkward triple-honor there?

i will miss him - a single candle is lit in his honor - FUCK ESTONIA

[WampusCrandle]

Qannik, 8, has died from an infection at the Tacoma, WA zoo (http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420ap_wa_beluga_dies.html?source=mypi). whoop-a-dee-do!

[PapaBear]

Please don't tell me we're going to have to start a "Random Dead "Non Person" Mammal" thread.

[WampusCrandle]

the gorilla, Alpha,48, has been euthanized after she had kidney failure at a Chicago zoo (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jWT29kjt53Yz8OhGbSz9KVW-bEdwD976O2N80). in a related event, a chimp, 9, in another Chicago zoo has died.

[WampusCrandle]

Please don't tell me we're going to have to start a "Random Dead "Non Person" Mammal" thread.

dont worry, i see that a human will be dead in the near future!

[WampusCrandle]

Steve Back, 79, has died of cancer (http://news-briefs.ew.com/2009/03/authorproducer.html). he was the producer that gave the green light to Raging Bull and Annie Hall.

http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/authphoto_330/1123_bach_steven.jpg

[WampusCrandle]

Archbishop Earl Paulk, 81, has died from complications from cancer (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hPKlzgBlHChmg3NdrSTG4VhIPSuQD977LMDO0). He was the American founder of Chapel Hill Harvester Church, one of the first independent megachurches (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megachurch) in the country. he has also been in a few sex scandals with the younglings.


http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0czR0lwdkm7ud/340x.jpg

[cougarjake13]

is that his pedophile mugshot ??

[WampusCrandle]

is that his pedophile mugshot ??

i have no idea. i think that is a freeze shot of the cam from his coffin

[cougarjake13]

i didnt even read the text in your post when i made my comment

he just loooked pedophilish in that pic

[Houston]

Moet's mother-in-law?

[sailor]

Moet's mother-in-law?

maybe too soon, but damn funny joke there.

[PapaBear]

I'm surprised Wampus hasn't mentioned Lou Saban. Unless he has his own thread. I haven't checked yet.

[WampusCrandle]

I'm surprised Wampus hasn't mentioned Lou Saban. Unless he has his own thread. I haven't checked yet.

sorry im a little late, i was in morning classes

Lou Saban, NFL coach and player, is dead at 87 of heart problems and "falling". (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gDNM7xbbYWZmmsKIzWXyXGUHVDJQD9787M900)

http://www.geocities.com/bflobuzrd_2000/saban.jpg

[WampusCrandle]

Helen Levitt has died at 95 in her sleep (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/arts/design/30levitt.html?hpw). she was a world renowned American photographer of the 20th Century.

one of her most famous pictures:
http://etrafta.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/flashbulb_helenlevitt.jpg

[WampusCrandle]

Angel actor, Andy Hallett, is dead of heart failure at 33 (http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/watch_with_kristin/b106789_Angel_Star_Andy_Hallett_Dies_of_Heart_Fail ure.html). so sad, so young.

http://www.reviewgraveyard.com/Interview/03-05-07_AndyHallet1.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/86/LorneAngel.jpg/250px-LorneAngel.jpg

[WampusCrandle]

Assemblyman and surgeon Eric Munoz dies at 61 from a ruptured aorta. (http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-13/123847304289840.xml&coll=1)

http://www.njvoterinfo.org/images/Legislature/munoz.jpg

[WampusCrandle]

actor, Morton Hale has died at 89 (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0354977/news#ni0728622). He was in Giant (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049261/), with James Dean and starred in Home on the Range (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038612/), with Robert Blake. He was also known as the Singing Cowboy.

http://members.tripod.com/makeitsomarketing/PICMONTEHALE38FORBLOG.jpg

[cougarjake13]

buncha nobodies

[WampusCrandle]

buncha nobodies

and now they will n ever bother you again

[MacVittie]

http://www.vintagecardtraders.org/virtual/52topps/52topps-385.jpg


"In 1949, he received his first coaching assignment, as an aide to Durocher with the New York Giants. He was a member of two National League championship clubs (1951, 1954) and one World Series (1954) title team through 1955. According to author Joshua Prager in his 2006 book The Echoing Green, Franks played a critical role in the Giants' Bobby Thomson's famous pennant-winning home run in the 1951 NL playoffs -- Baseball's Shot Heard Round The World. According to Prager, Franks was stationed in the Giants' center-field clubhouse at the Polo Grounds, their home field, stealing the opposing catcher's signs through a telescope and relaying them through second-string catcher Sal Yvars (who was stationed in the bullpen) to the Giants' coaches and hitters. When asked where he was when Bobby Thomson hit his home run, Franks said, in 1996, that he was "doing something for Durocher" at the time."

[WampusCrandle]

damn, MacVittie, you beat me to a death!

[WampusCrandle]

Tom Braden, former CIA operative became columnist and talk show co-host, has died at 92 (http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-thomas-braden4-2009apr04,0,6736553.story) of natural causes.

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2009-04/45966339.jpg

[WampusCrandle]

Lou Perryman, 67, has been murdered after being car jacked (http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/sns-ap-actor-slain,0,1658232.story). He was in Boys Don't Cry, Poltergeist, and The Blues Brothers (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0675178/).

http://media.decider.com/assets/images/articles/article/26183/shooting-match_fix_jpg_595x325_crop_upscale_q85_jpg_595x325 _crop_upscale_q85.jpg
Lou Perryman is wearing the cowboy hat.

[WampusCrandle]

Artist, author, and founding director of the National Museum of American Art, David Winfield Scott has died at 92 of multiple organ failure. (http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/obituaries/bal-md.ob.scott05apr05,0,5179899.story)

[WampusCrandle]

Swiss ballet star Eva Evdokimova-Gregori has died from complications of cancer at 60 (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2282921/news#ni0736507). she was prima ballerina at the Berlin Opera Ballet.

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[WampusCrandle]

Child actor turned 70s gay porn star, Jack Wrangler, has died from a lung disease at 62. (http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0738451/) He leaves behind his wife of 33 years, actress and singer, Margaret Whiting (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0926014/), 84.

http://www.collider.com/uploads/imageGallery/Wrangler_Anatomy/wrangler_anatomy_of_an_icon_movie_image.jpg

[PapaBear]

A porn star married someone 22 years older than him?

[WampusCrandle]

Bruce Snyder, whose 20-year career as a college football coach included an unbeaten regular season at Arizona State University, died Monday (http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-bruce-snyder14-2009apr14,0,852084.story). He was 69.

[MacVittie]

meh, he wouldn't even win the bronze for people who died April 13, 2009.

[Judge Smails]

This just in: Coach Bruce Snyder is currently getting a Blumpkin from Earl's grandmother.

[Devo37]

holy christ! Harry Kalas, Mark Fidrych, Marilyn Chambers, now this guy (that i have no idea who he is).

i think they're doing it to get out of paying their 2008 taxes! DAMN YOU, OBAMA!!!

[cougarjake13]

rip buddays

[WampusCrandle]

the director (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0534613/) of Hells Angels '69 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064415/) has died from complications of pneumonia (http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0746829/). He was 82.

[WampusCrandle]

actress, Maxine Cooper (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0178253/), has past away in her LA home, at 84 (http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0747606/). She is best known for her being the secretary in Kiss Me Deadly.

[WampusCrandle]

the movie producer (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0737127/) has died at the age of 95. (http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0747362/)

[WampusCrandle]

the grandson of Sigmund Freud has died at the age of 84 (http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0748603/). He leaves behind a wife of 59 years, 5 children, and 17 grandchildren.

[WampusCrandle]

award winning French writer, Maurice Druon has died after suffering cardiovascular problems. (http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0748606/) He wrote the novel Les Grandes Families, which won the The Goncourt Prize. He also served as France's Minister of Cultural Affairs in '73-'74.

[WampusCrandle]

author of Empire of the Sun and Crash, J.G. Ballard has died after a long illness at 78.
(http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0752097/)

http://www.nndb.com/people/727/000023658/J_G_Ballard.gif

i loved Empire of the Sun.

[WampusCrandle]

author of Empire of the Sun and Crash, J.G. Ballard has died after a long illness at 78.
(http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0752097/)

http://www.nndb.com/people/727/000023658/J_G_Ballard.gif

i loved Empire of the Sun.

REALLY?!?!?!?!

i thought he was famous enough for his own thread!

[razorboy]

Wow. Unless I'm going blind, Wampus missed one. Mr. Inside, Doc Blanchard dies. (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iXgmyken_qyHJFNoZqbjplsgakowD97M0O600)

[biozombie]

REALLY?!?!?!?!

i thought he was famous enough for his own thread!

Same here, just for the book Crash alone. Great book, decent movie.

[WampusCrandle]

Wow. Unless I'm going blind, Wampus missed one. Mr. Inside, Doc Blanchard dies. (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iXgmyken_qyHJFNoZqbjplsgakowD97M0O600)

i did, my lack luster performance in the death department should be evidence enough to kill myself. thanks razor.

[WampusCrandle]

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist, Jimmy Breslin, daughter, Kelly, has died while choking. (http://www.themoneytimes.com/20090422/jimmy-breslins-daughter-kelly-dead-44-id-1064786.html)

[underdog]

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist, Jimmy Breslin, daughter, Kelly, has died while chocking. (http://www.themoneytimes.com/20090422/jimmy-breslins-daughter-kelly-dead-44-id-1064786.html)

Was she run over by a truck?

Chocking :

http://www.softsmart.com/popup/PopupPix9/Chocks.jpg

[Drunky McBetidont]

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist, Jimmy Breslin, daughter, Kelly, has died while chocking. (http://www.themoneytimes.com/20090422/jimmy-breslins-daughter-kelly-dead-44-id-1064786.html)

i swear ronnie interviewed him in the last couple years.

[PapaBear]

Michael Landon's eldest son, Mark. (http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1611124/20090512/story.jhtml)

The only reason I mention this is because his age intrigued me. He was 60, which is only 12 years younger than Daddy Landon. Turns out he and his little brother were adopted by Michael at the age of seven. But it's still weird. A 19 year old adopting a 7 year old?

[Judge Smails]

Spiderman 3 actress Lucy Gordon commits suicide in Paris (http://sify.com/movies/hollywood/fullstory.php?id=14889308)

[Kris10]

Spiderman 3 actress Lucy Gordon commits suicide in Paris (http://sify.com/movies/hollywood/fullstory.php?id=14889308)
wow 29 yrs old. sad.

[WampusCrandle]

Spiderman 3 actress Lucy Gordon commits suicide in Paris (http://sify.com/movies/hollywood/fullstory.php?id=14889308)

sad. and she was so pretty.

http://www.foxnews.com/images/533235/0_61_gordon_320.jpg

I was trying to find her part in the movie, and it seemed that she really didn't have a big part. I always find it odd when a small celebrity dies, the media says they were a star. She wasn't the star in Spiderman 3, not even close. they should have mentioned her in Perfume.

[thepaulo]

Dennis McLellan
10:04 AM PDT, June 29, 2009
Fred Travalena, the master impressionist and singer whose broad repertoire of voices ranged from Jack Nicholson to Sammy Davis Jr. to Bugs Bunny, has died. He was 66.

Travalena, who began being treated for an aggressive form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2002 and saw the disease return last July after going into remission in 2003, died Sunday at his home in Encino, according to his publicist, Roger Neal. Travalena also was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2003 but had been in complete remission since

Dubbed "The Man of a Thousand Faces" and "Mr. Everybody," Travalena emerged on the national stage as an impressionist in the early 1970s.

Over the next three decades, he was a headliner in Las Vegas, Reno and Atlantic City, performed in concerts around the country, appeared on "The Tonight Show" and other talk shows and starred in his own specials, such as "The Many Faces of Fred Travalena" and "Comedy in the Oval Office."

The boyish-faced entertainer is said to have had a repertoire of more than 360 celebrity, political and cartoon-character voices, including Clint Eastwood, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Joe Pesci, Robert De Niro, Henry Kissinger, Donald Rumsfeld, Johnny Mathis, Bruce Springsteen and Luciano Pavarotti.


"I've known impressionists who have reached a wall where they can't do any more [voices]," Travalena told the Omaha World Herald in 1996. "I don't have that problem, thank God."

In one part of his act, Travalena physically and vocally "morphed" into all of the U.S. presidents, from John F. Kennedy up to George W. Bush.

He also was known to sing "Have I Told You Lately" in various voices, including Kermit the Frog ("Have I told you lately that I love you"), Katharine Hepburn ("Have I told you there's no one else above you") and Frank Sinatra ("You fill my heart with gladness . . . ")

The imaginative entertainer even did Sinatra imitating Boy George.

Of Italian and Irish heritage, Travalena was born Oct. 6, 1942, in the Bronx, N.Y., and grew up on Long Island.

When it came to impressions, he had an early role model: his father, a onetime entertainer who sang and performed comedy and impressions.

"He got me doing church shows when I was just a little kid," Travalena recalled in a 1998 interview on "The Crier Report" on Fox News Network. "I used to do an impression of [singer] Johnny Ray."

In school, he said, he learned to deal with bullies by imitating a Martian voice or Porky Pig. And he found he could deflect a teacher's question of why he didn't do his homework by making her laugh with his impression of Crazy Guggenheim, the goofy character played on TV by Frank Fontaine during Jackie Gleason's "Joe the Bartender" sketches.

During a stint in the Army's Special Services, Travalena won the All-Army Entertainment Award for best singer and once impersonated President Lyndon Johnson's voice on the base theater's answering machine to announce the movies and show times.

Although he told the New York Times in 1989 that he was "headed for the commercial art field," Travalena said: "That wasn't getting me up in the morning, and I couldn't get show business out of my mind."

At one point after launching his career as a singer, he and his singer wife, Lois, were performing together at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington, D.C.

As recounted in a 1989 New York Times story, Lois surprised her husband by spontaneously asking the audience, "How'd you like to hear Fred do impressions?"

He went on to impersonate Dean Martin, Paul Lynde, Jim Nabors and Presidents Kennedy and Johnson.

"People liked it," he later said.

Travalena reportedly was performing at a resort hotel in the Catskills when impressionist Rich Little was in the audience. After the show, Little congratulated Travalena and later recommended him for a spot in British celebrity journalist David Frost's show at the Riviera in Las Vegas.

[biozombie]

I thought this was going to be about Ryan Reynolds...

[thepaulo]

I think paying tribute is important but I know we can't start a thread for every dead celebrity. Nobody did one for Harve Presnell and I really liked him. He played a lot of fancy dans when he wa young but when he got old he played crusty cusses. You remember Fargo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harve_Presnell

[lleeder]

He was the highlight of Paint Your Wagon.

[thepaulo]

He was the highlight of Paint Your Wagon.

And that's saying something.

[El Mudo]

Britain's final World War 1 soldier has gone west (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090725/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_obit_patch)


http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090725/capt.c3340ce81fcb4a3194eb8fe903f29cf2.britain_obit _patch_lon808.jpg?x=400&y=288&q=85&sig=nO1MkNNtr6UPBzhSoqky0w--

Thats the end of quite a remarkable era...and still...Frank Buckles (our last survivor) soldiers on

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

[lleeder]

wasnt he dead already?

[razorboy]

Remember when he dressed up like a clown and helped those kids with cancer?

[Gvac]

Remember when he dressed up like a clown and helped those kids with cancer?

You are a truly awful human being for making me laugh that hard at someone's death.

[El Mudo]

wasnt he dead already?

Nope....that was the world's oldest man (http://www.ronfez.net/forums/showthread.php?t=82378)

[Melrapuo]

Nope....that was the world's oldest man (http://www.ronfez.net/forums/showthread.php?t=82378)

Actually he as the second-to-last WWI vet to die. Damn, WWI vets just droppin' like flies these days.

[El Mudo]

Actually he as the second-to-last WWI vet to die. Damn, WWI vets just droppin' like flies these days.

According to Wikipedia, there are only 3 left worldwide...our guy, one in Canada, one in Australia. There's one unverified claim as well, and a guy in Poland who served in the Polish/Soviet War in the early 20s (he counts as a World War One "era" veteran).

[boosterp]

RIP sir.

[razorboy]

You are a truly awful human being for making me laugh that hard at someone's death.

I'm just doing my job.

[Chigworthy]

Harry Partch died in 1974
http://www.corporeal.com/instbro/images/inst05.jpg

[Sue_Bender]

Here's Radiohead's (recently released on the recently deceased) tribute to him...

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[STC-Dub]

Sort of sad but he did live to live to 111.

[hanso]

Harry Patch.....Hhhmmm..

[razorboy]

Harry Patch.....Hhhmmm..

A hairy patch can work.


Depends on the chick.

[realmenhatelife]

Dr Klopeck from The Burbs, also the head nazi in the Blues Brothers

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/16/obit.henry.gibson/index.html

[jauble]

Dr Klopeck from The Burbs, also the head nazi in the Blues Brothers

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/16/obit.henry.gibson/index.html

Fuck, those are two movies I loved (the burbs was always a family vacation movie growing up). Godspeed.

Also, first Michael Jackson and now Klopeck. Corey Feldman curse?

[PapaBear]

Kind of shame to post this in the "random" thread. I was never a huge folk fan, but I loved Puff the Magic Dragon as a kid. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8260210.stm)

[thepaulo]

Dr Klopeck from The Burbs, also the head nazi in the Blues Brothers

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/16/obit.henry.gibson/index.html

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002099/

He was greay in Magnolia

also had a great running bit as the crazy judge on Bosyon Legal

[thepaulo]

Dr Klopeck from The Burbs, also the head nazi in the Blues Brothers

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/16/obit.henry.gibson/index.html

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002099/

He was great in Magnolia

also had a great running bit as the crazy judge on Bosyon Legal

[El Mudo]

Chicago had Abe Froman....the District had Ben Ali


Link (http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/08/ben-ali-king-of-the-half-smoke-is-dead-at-82/)

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/10/08/dining/bens.480.jpg


Starvin' for a half smoke

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Half_smoke_with_chips.jpg/800px-Half_smoke_with_chips.jpg

[smiler grogan]

I was just in DC a few ago and the last thing we did was grab a bunch of food at Bens. God bless his delicious soul.

[TheMojoPin]

Oh man, the Chili Bowl is outstanding. I totally forgot about it but now I'm missing it bad.

[thepaulo]

I thought it would be inappropriate to start a Boyzone thread....
now if it was N'Sync or backstreet Boys, that's a different story

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/10/12/boyzone.gately.death/

[Aggie]

:glurps:

Have one for me, AJ!! Such fond memories.

[A.J.]

I might just do that.

[high fly]

http://www.rays-place.com/census/va-warwick-1782.htm

He's now doing schtick in heaven...

[PapaBear]

Interesting link...

Warwick County
Virginia
1782 Tax list
<table border="0"> <tbody><tr> <td> <script src="http://www.qksz.net/1e-dr0a" type="text/javascript" language="javascript"></script>

</td> </tr> </tbody></table>
<table border="0" width="80%"> <tbody><tr> <td width="100%"> The Census forms for Va were burned by the British in the war of 1812. In the absence of these the Census Bureau published early tax list for VA in place of the census records in 1908. The tax list below comes from that book. All page numbers below are for the page in the 1908 book from the Census Bureau, not the original tax list. If a page number has a hyphen and another number that is the column number in the book. That was added to some to make it easier for you to find the name if you look it up in the book. All effort was made to keep the spelling the same with no corrections so check all variations of the spelling of the surnames that you are looking
</td></tr></tbody></table>

RIP, Soupy.

[STC-Dub]

I used to watch the reruns of his show when I was a kid. Sad news.

[Ponyboy]

Soupy Sales is gone. Died last night at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx.

I loved that man. I grew up with him as a kid. Never missed him on tv.

I met him many years ago outside of Katz's deli in Manhattan. What a gentleman. Took a few minutes of his day to talk to a perfect stranger and he made my day!!

I will miss you Soupy...Keep them laughing up there!!