Bobby Collins, who played for lots of teams I like, and Leeds.
Briefly misread this as Bootsy and was bummed.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 January 2014 14:49 (ten years ago) link
Russell Johnson of "This Gilligan's Island Earth"
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/gilligans-island-star-russell-johnson-dies-kidney-failure/story?id=21561740
― Ian from Etobicoke (Phil D.), Thursday, 16 January 2014 21:09 (ten years ago) link
RIP, we are never gonna get off the island now
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 January 2014 21:14 (ten years ago) link
remember that Twilight Zone where he failed to save Lincoln?
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 January 2014 21:15 (ten years ago) link
Roger Lloyd Pack :-(
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25762006
― ailsa, Thursday, 16 January 2014 12:20 (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Oh no, RIP Roger
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Thursday, 16 January 2014 13:26 (8 hours ago) Bookmark
i used to work in a bookshop and he used to come in to sell tapes of him reading keats and other romantic poets. they never sold anything. always wanted to say to him if he sold them as keats read in the manner of trigger he'd've had a bestseller.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 16 January 2014 21:49 (ten years ago) link
http://www.tmz.com/2014/01/16/dave-madden-dead-partridge-family-reuben-kincaid/
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 16 January 2014 22:10 (ten years ago) link
Didn't know The Prof. & Mr. Kincaid were still around. RIP guys.
Also from TMZ: http://www.tmz.com/2014/01/16/playboy-playmate-cassandra-lynn-hensley-dead-overdose-od/?adid=hero3
― ...out of that weakness, out of that envy, out of that fear.. (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 16 January 2014 22:14 (ten years ago) link
jeez, terrible day for my childhood sitcom foils, be they straight men or slow burners
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 January 2014 22:21 (ten years ago) link
http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/porter/duneland/chesterton/final-female-oz-munchkin-ruth-duccini-dead-at/article_ff6f20f6-0367-5697-a512-3ff806d3086d.html
There's one left.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 16 January 2014 22:45 (ten years ago) link
I think it's weird that people keep track of the number of living Wizard of Oz munchkins, but whatever.
The last munchkin will reap the reward of a sweetass tontine.
― ...out of that weakness, out of that envy, out of that fear.. (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 16 January 2014 22:51 (ten years ago) link
the entire trove of the Lollipop Guild
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 January 2014 23:05 (ten years ago) link
I'm assuming Danny Partridge must have killed the Professor, just to make sure Reuben didn't get the spotlight for even a day.
― clemenza, Friday, 17 January 2014 00:11 (ten years ago) link
Hiroo Onoda, the last Japanese WW2 soldier to surrender (after three decades in the jungle).http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25772192
― Madchen, Friday, 17 January 2014 08:12 (ten years ago) link
the dude was insane
― nostormo, Friday, 17 January 2014 12:31 (ten years ago) link
he and similar men inspired many pop culture gags, incl an episode of... Gilligan's Island
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 January 2014 12:59 (ten years ago) link
> the last Japanese WW2 soldier to surrender
that article says there was another one found a few months later
"Mr Onoda was one of the last Japanese soldiers to surrender at the end of World War II.
Private Teruo Nakamura, a soldier from Taiwan who served in the Japanese army, was found growing crops alone on the Indonesian island of Morotai in December 1974."
― koogs, Friday, 17 January 2014 14:01 (ten years ago) link
a soldier from Taiwan who served in the Japanese army
not Japanese then
― cis het boy (onimo), Friday, 17 January 2014 14:12 (ten years ago) link
says he was 'from taiwan', doesn't say he was taiwanese. 8)
(and that is a japanese name, not a taiwanese name)
― koogs, Friday, 17 January 2014 14:30 (ten years ago) link
( drat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teruo_Nakamura )
― koogs, Friday, 17 January 2014 14:31 (ten years ago) link
( This article is about the soldier. For the jazz bassist, see Teruo Nakamura (musician). For the golfer, see Teruo Nakamura (golfer). )
― koogs, Friday, 17 January 2014 14:32 (ten years ago) link
Does it honestly matter, Andy?
― Madchen, Friday, 17 January 2014 14:35 (ten years ago) link
"calling out a dude by his real name when shit gets heated" thread, RIP 2010 (iirc)
― cis het boy (onimo), Friday, 17 January 2014 14:37 (ten years ago) link
no, was just interesting reading about it all.
― koogs, Friday, 17 January 2014 14:37 (ten years ago) link
the brainwash effect of an extreme disciplinary culture
― nostormo, Friday, 17 January 2014 14:41 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2014/01/16/travis-jackson-points-drummer-and-windian-records-founder-killed-in-collision/
punky and garage-rock sounds drummer and label owner
― curmudgeon, Friday, 17 January 2014 15:06 (ten years ago) link
Lord McAlpine: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25792289
― ailsa, Saturday, 18 January 2014 12:38 (ten years ago) link
I'm not sure I can believe that until Sally Bercow tweets about it.
― Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Saturday, 18 January 2014 12:45 (ten years ago) link
Ha, I expect there are a million twitterers with their fingers poised thinking "hmmm, can I?".
― ailsa, Saturday, 18 January 2014 12:46 (ten years ago) link
A "dedicated supporter of Margaret Thatcher and the Tory party". RIP out of the question then.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Saturday, 18 January 2014 14:06 (ten years ago) link
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/72372000/jpg/_72372821_komla-foa.jpg
Komla Dumor, BBC news presenter, 41 heart attack, unexpected.
― Mark G, Saturday, 18 January 2014 21:39 (ten years ago) link
Claudio Abbado:
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jan/20/conductor-claudio-abbado-dies-aged-80
One of the best Italian conductors of the modern era.
― Ramnaresh Samhain (ShariVari), Monday, 20 January 2014 12:09 (ten years ago) link
Steven Fromholz:
http://www.austin360.com/weblogs/austin-music-source/2014/jan/19/steven-fromholz-ground-breaking-austin-songwriter-/
― ...out of that weakness, out of that envy, out of that fear.. (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 20 January 2014 18:05 (ten years ago) link
Former NY Congressman Otis Pike
He went to school with my grandmother, and his daughter was my mother's classmate.
― tokyo rosemary, Monday, 20 January 2014 21:07 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2014/01/23/alexandros-alexi-petersen-gentleman-scholar-and-punk-rocker/
Killed in Kabul, Afghanistan in a Taliban attack on a restaurant
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 23 January 2014 23:10 (ten years ago) link
This one is more for Chicago folks than anybody...
http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2014/01/rip-luis-alcala.html
Luis Alcala, founder and proprietor of the Midwest's largest Western wear emporium, Alcala's Ropa Para Caballeros.
― "Turkey In The Straw" coming from someplace in the clouds (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 27 January 2014 20:52 (ten years ago) link
RIP Señor Alcala. I used to live around the block from his store.
― kate78, Monday, 27 January 2014 22:08 (ten years ago) link
I've been to Chicago a lot but never was at Alcala's until the last time, that place ruled so much. Someday I'll buy a full ensemble - boots, hat, cowboy suit, scorpion belt buckle, the works.
― joygoat, Monday, 27 January 2014 22:11 (ten years ago) link
The scorpion belt buckle may be the single most indelible image of that amazing place.
― "Turkey In The Straw" coming from someplace in the clouds (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 27 January 2014 23:34 (ten years ago) link
A scorpion is on their logo and their sign.
― kate78, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 00:06 (ten years ago) link
Oh man I forgot about that, of course. Doesn't the tail move back and forth?
― "Turkey In The Straw" coming from someplace in the clouds (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 01:22 (ten years ago) link
pete seeger
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/arts/music/pete-seeger-songwriter-and-champion-of-folk-music-dies-at-94.html?_r=0
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 06:48 (ten years ago) link
fuck
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 06:57 (ten years ago) link
94 though... that's a hell of a run.
― the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music (stevie), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 07:15 (ten years ago) link
I don't know that 94 ever calls for "fuck."
Saw him with Arlo G at Carnegie Hall once -- and also on the subway, with his guitar and a bass-fiddle sideman.
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 12:15 (ten years ago) link
i can say fuck if I want to, what are you the fuck police wait nvm
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 14:52 (ten years ago) link
Luis Avalos, whom is you are old enough you knew on the Electric Company. http://www.latimes.com/obituaries/la-me-passings-20140128,0,7327295.story#axzz2rioIStVx
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 19:08 (ten years ago) link
aw
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 20:54 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dlgiritpmfo
Que en paz descanse
― Wild Mountain Armagideon Thyme (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 20:56 (ten years ago) link
(Psst: wrong show, wrong Luis.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c53Tz2981KQ
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 21:36 (ten years ago) link